Roy Schestowitz

• "A rough inventory of our personal computing hardware, inspired by ew0k's "How Many Computer's do you Have?"" gemini://dnhome.uk/~dave/mission_log/2022-08-20-re-how-many-computers.gmi    

posted Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 23:49:32

• People publicly giving a tech inventory of what's inside their home is very, very poor "Sec". You're inviting intrusion, digital and physical.    

posted Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 23:50:59

• Wireplumber Takes Pipewire To The Next Level! - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Zv1P6-kUn0c | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/Zv1P6-kUn0c    

posted Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 23:54:13

• What Is a Login Shell in Linux? ⚓ https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-login-shells-explained/ ䷉ Source: makeuseof | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.makeuseof.com/linux-login-shells-explained/    

posted Saturday, August 20, 2022 at 23:57:37

• #Techrights Bulletin for Saturday, August 20, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 06:21:39

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

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 06:21:45

• Re: Anglophone Deficiencies gemini://eph.smol.pub/1660965775    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 06:25:17

• "Pretty much all except one main character has been introduced, with the pink hair girl being the what I'd describe as the 1st main character (have fun with me describing them by their hair colour/characteristics)." gemini://cyi1341.smol.pub/random15    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 06:26:58

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D329.jpg    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 06:27:25

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D680.jpg    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 06:27:38

• A Licence is Not a Virus gemini://malinfreeborn.com/gen/viral_licencing.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 06:28:21

• "...be careful not to fall into a trap of mistaking social media engagement from the actual community-seeking that you need." gemini://degrowther.smol.pub/20220820_social_media    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 06:29:58

• "I've made some more progress on my calendar program (currently called Horus). I've added code to locally calculate the sunrise, sunset, solar noon, dusk, and dawn of a date given a location (longitude and latitude) and timezone." gemini://auragem.space/~krixano/20220820.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 06:30:49

• Using Microsoft systemd to become a slave of Microsoft gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/on-demand-minecraft-with-systemd.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 06:32:06

• [Old] "Evaluating DDS, MQTT, and ZeroMQ Under Different IoT Traffic Conditions" ☛ http://www.dre.vanderbilt.edu/~gokhale/WWW/papers/M4IoT2020.pdf |    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:09:58

• "To sum up this response post; Martijn has his reasons for leaving and we should all respect those." ☛ https://www.pine64.org/2022/08/18/a-response-to-martijns-blog/ | Source: Pine64    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:10:46

• "Any Ghost publication with comments enabled displays a commenting area at the bottom of each post, where members are prompted to start or join the conversation by subscribing or signing in." ☛ https://ghost.org/changelog/native-comments/ |    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:11:17

• "Even without exposing a VoIP service, there is always a trickle of SIP traffic, probing if something is listening." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/28950 | Source: SANS    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:11:42

• "Superconductors are the key to lossless current flow." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2022-08-superconducting-diode-external-magnetic-field.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:12:17

• "In all of the non-nutritive sweetener groups, but in none of the controls" ☛ https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/themes/themes/health-a-wellbeing/22059-calorie-free-sweeteners-affect-microbiome-and-glycemic-response-study.html | Source: Helsinki Times    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:12:56

• "The reality, a new study suggests, is that we simply don’t have a good grip on how games affect our well-being, if at all." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/20/1058328/we-may-never-fully-know-how-video-games-affect-our-well-being/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:13:07

• "Want to learn more about the bees that call Luxembourg city home? The Ville de Luxembourg has created a bee walking trail" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/science-and-environment/a/1950301.html | Source: RTL    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:13:20

• PFAS ☛ https://www.salon.com/2022/08/20/how-to-destroy-a-forever-chemical-scientists-are-discovering-ways-to-eliminate-pfas_partner/ | Source: Salon    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:13:49

• "I navigate London on a bicycle for the sole reason that it is the fastest way to travel." ☛ https://mitxela.com/projects/jack_sparrow_compass | Source: Mixterla    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:14:48

• [Old] "An air compressor forces high-pressure air at a rate of 30 liters per minute into an ionization chamber in the device" ☛ https://spectrum.ieee.org/plasma-jet | Source: IEEE    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:14:52

• [Old] "Plasma-based thrusters are usually thought of as a potential form of spacecraft propulsion." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/new-electric-jet-engine-actually-works-inside-the-atmosphere | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:14:57

• estonia https://news.err.ee/1608690646/estonian-leaders-neighbors-mark-1991-restoration-of-estonian-independence    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:15:40

• kushner https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/books/review-breaking-history-jared-kushner.html    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:15:49

• Ukraine https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/zaradi-peremogi-she-potribno-borotisya-ale-ukrayinci-vzhe-mo-77181    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:15:59

• Democracy https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://larsegeland.com/2022/08/19/jeg-sier-opp-jobben-i-protest-mot-en-imkompetent-og-udemokratisk-beslutning/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:16:22

• Finland's prime minister takes a drug test after criticism over her partying ⚓ https://text.npr.org/1118538831 ䷉ Source: text | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//text.npr.org/1118538831    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:16:35

• "I started thinking about screenshots after Jim Hall wrote an article listing GNOME screenshots, GIMP, and Firefox as the ways he often takes screenshots" ☛ https://opensource.com/article/22/8/favorite-screenshot-tool-linux | Source: OpenSource.com    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:17:20

• "I have been using Proxmox for a couple months now. Currently, I am hosting multiple Proxmox containers and virtual machines in my Proxmox server" ☛ https://ostechnix.com/move-proxmox-containers-vms-to-different-disk/ | Source: OSTechNix    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:17:49

• "The ESP32 module found in the IoT Redboard is the ESP32-D0WD-V3 which features a dual-core Xtensa LX6 MCU." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/sparkfuns-iot-redboard-features-r3-form-factor-and-supports-freertos/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:18:22

• The Web is not improving; it’s only getting worse over time and people are rightly bitter about it, so we can recommend going back to basics or even defecting to Gemini http://techrights.org/2022/08/20/www-farce/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:25:44

• NewsWaffle is taken to the next level; people can stay abreast of news from all around the world (in any language) without leaving their Gemini client http://techrights.org/2022/08/20/news-services-in-gemini/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:26:00

• In spite of relentless censorship attempts, Debian wrestles with the Streisand Effect as more people find themselves needing to confront uncomfortable communications http://techrights.org/2022/08/21/debian-private-gossip/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:26:14

• Fear-mongering and FUD tactics are used to oversell or overcharge for use or some particular piece of software; some packagers and maintainers aren’t too happy about this… http://techrights.org/2022/08/21/agpl-fud-not-good-for-business/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:26:26

• 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (New Entry): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Today_in_Techrights.gmi   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:26:40

• ">What does this mean for our interactions with gulls? Well, we can reduce unwanted encounters by disposing of our food waste properly" ☛ https://theconversation.com/why-you-should-have-more-sympathy-for-seagulls-and-how-to-stop-them-stealing-your-chips-186979 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:29:38

• [Old] "Later this year, on 15 November 2022, the world population is projected to reach 8 billion. Seventy years ago, in 1952, it stood at 2.5" ☛ https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/global-population-will-soon-reach-8-billion-then-what | Source: UN    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:29:59

• [Old] "This year’s World Population Day falls during a milestone yea" ☛ https://reliefweb.int/report/world/world-population-reach-8-billion-15-november-2022-enarzh |    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:30:03

• [Old] "China has the world’s largest population (1.426 billion), but India (1.417 billion) is expected to claim this title next year." ☛ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/07/21/global-population-projected-to-exceed-8-billion-in-2022-half-live-in-just-seven-countries/ | Source: Pew Reseach Center    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:30:07

• Afghan judge in hiding ☛ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/afghan-judge-in-hiding-is-refused-entry-to-uk-ftjpqxw0r | Source: The Sunday Times UK    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:33:39

• "Going forward, the video giant will add a watermark icon to YouTube Shorts videos that creators download to share elsewhere, like on TikTok" ☛ https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/youtube-shorts-watermark-videos-tiktok-1235345578/ | Source: Variety    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:33:56

• "At first glance their position appears insurmountable. Already dominant, in recent years the firms have been boosted by a covid-induced rise" ☛ https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2022/08/17/can-the-visa-mastercard-duopoly-be-broken | Source: The Economist    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:34:25

• UFC Copyright Lawsuit ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/new-ufc-copyright-lawsuit-rejects-fair-use-defense-for-documentary-makers-220820/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:35:16

• EFF hypocrisy ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/tracking-ubiquitous-within-nonprofits-it-doesnt-have-be | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:35:46

• Corporate Media ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-media-stays-silent-as-us-air-strikes-kill-at-least-20-in-somalia/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:36:15

• Is Crypto Really Going To Crash? (Yes) ☛ https://robertreich.org/post/693127450696335360 | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:41:16

• Tlaib: American politician, working for another country ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/tlaib-biden-must-hold-israel-accountable-for-raid-on-palestine-rights-groups/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:41:44

• Europe ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/europe-is-trying-to-solve-its-energy-crisis-with-fossil-fuel-projects-in-africa/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:42:00

• Abortion ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/20/kansas-shows-abortion-rights-can-win-red-states | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:42:35

• Abortion ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/abortion-remains-legal-in-michigan-after-court-extends-block-on-1931-ban/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:42:40

• Batteries Get Tiny ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/08/20/batteries-get-tiny/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:43:14

• "The Paspberry Pi Pico is what you might call the board of the moment, thanks to its combination of affordability, features, and continued availabilit" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/08/20/picostepseq-is-small-but-perfectly-formed/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:43:36

• 500 Junk Capacitor ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/08/20/building-a-spot-welder-from-500-junk-capacitors/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:43:59

• Illegal Surveillance of Assange's Visitors ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/mike-pompeo-and-cia-sued-for-illegal-surveillance-of-assanges-visitors/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:44:22

• Burma ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/21/the-burma-front/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:44:47

• Z80 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/08/20/z80-single-board-computer-looks-like-it-could-have-been-a-killer-product/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:45:07

• Tribal Nations Are Under Threat ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/20/tribal-nations-are-under-threat-native-families-right-stay-together-stake-supreme | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:45:42

• Inflation Reduction Act ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/20/four-reasons-democrats-inflation-reduction-act-doesnt-live-hype | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:46:20

• Manchin ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/20/activists-arrested-seattle-protest-pushing-murray-reject-dirty-manchin-deal | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:47:39

• "Do you ever get a project stuck in your mind? An idea so good you just keep thinking about it?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/08/20/dream-projects-face-reality/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:48:57

• "When we came up with the cyberdeck contest, we figured we would see all kinds of builds, and so far, y’all haven’t disappointed us. Take for instance this tidy but post-apocalyptic build by [facelessloser]." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/08/20/2022-cyberdeck-contest-extruded-rig-exudes-coolness/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:50:22

• Calls Mount for Release of Saudi Woman Facing 34 Years in Prison Over Tweets ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/20/calls-mount-release-saudi-woman-facing-34-years-prison-over-tweets | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:51:25

• "The United States has crossed a threshold after decades of intrepid attempts to build political will for climate action." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/20/investments-projects-over-people-equity-point-view-inflation-reduction-act | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:52:23

• "We’re used to the idea of a macropad, a small extension keyboard for your computer whose keys can be programmed to the functions of your choice." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/08/20/deepdeck-going-beyond-the-macro-pad/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:52:51

• 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (New Entry): What Is a Login Shell in Linux? ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/What_Is_a_Login_Shell_in_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/What_Is_a_Login_Shell_in_Linux.gmi   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 07:54:14

• According to new ZDNet, SJVN is "BA English and history, cum laude; MA history, magna cum laude; and Ph.D. ABD history, summa cum laude."    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 08:13:51

• 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (New Entry): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Android_Leftovers.gmi   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 08:49:02

• From Selftests to KUnit - Maíra Canal ⚓ https://mairacanal.github.io/from-selftests-to-KUnit/ ䷉ Source: mairacanal | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//mairacanal.github.io/from-selftests-to-KUnit/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 09:10:02

• Does the Linux Kernel need software engineering? - Maíra Canal ⚓ https://mairacanal.github.io/does-the-linux-kernel-need-software-engineering/ ䷉ Source: mairacanal | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//mairacanal.github.io/does-the-linux-kernel-need-software-engineering/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 09:10:39

• ➲𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): August ISO refresh - Let’s meet Colorizer ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/August_ISO_refresh_x2d_Let_s_meet_Colorizer.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 09:15:01

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): MariaDB buys geospacial specialist CubeWerx ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/MariaDB_buys_geospacial_specialist_CubeWerx.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/MariaDB_buys_geospacial_specialist_CubeWerx.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 09:20:34

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Maíra Canal on Linux Kernel Development ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Maira_Canal_on_Linux_Kernel_Development.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Maira_Canal_on_Linux_Kernel_Development.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 09:29:58

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kaisen Linux Rolling 2.2RC1 changelog ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Kaisen_Linux_Rolling_2_2RC1_changelog.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Kaisen_Linux_Rolling_2_2RC1_changelog.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 09:33:17

• DRM. Garbage. Use something ELSE. https://www.maketecheasier.com/fix-spotify-web-player-not-working/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 09:36:03

• CNS shilling Windows junk again :/ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/08/21/making-a-diy-10-1-inch-all-in-one-pc-out-of-amr5-ryzen-5-gaming-mini-pc/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 09:39:38

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Crow Translate is an Amazing Open-source Translation App for Linux and Windows ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Crow_Translate_is_an_Amazing_Open_source_Translation_App_for_Li.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Crow_Translate_is_an_Amazing_Open_source_Translation_App_for_Li.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 09:40:35

• John Been selling a course in using GNU/Linux https://www.reallinuxuser.com/my-first-course-available-now-zorin-os-linux-for-the-rest-of-us/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 10:11:45

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Let's Try Gnome Boxes ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Let_s_Try_Gnome_Boxes.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Let_s_Try_Gnome_Boxes.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 10:11:54

• "We cover events and user groups that are running in Kosovo. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series." https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-kosovo/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 10:12:43

• "I was also struck by how one-to-one computing became less about this grassroots movement of these two teachers, and more about what the EdTech companies were promising." https://criticaledtech.com/2022/08/17/techno-scepticism-in-the-classroom-an-interview-with-marie-heath/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 10:14:28

• "My fellow Americans…if I may call you that? I've only been a US citizen for five weeks" https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/16/do-stuff-talk-about-it/#under-a-bushel    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 10:15:30

• Calling everything "HEY HI" https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/ai-understand-human-goals    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 10:24:11

• Artificial neuron swaps dopamine with rat brain cells like a real one | New Scientist ⚓ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2332554-artificial-neuron-swaps-dopamine-with-rat-brain-cells-like-a-real-one/ ䷉ Source: newscientist    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 10:24:43

• Rebranding militarism/murder as "HEY HI" https://spectrum.ieee.org/marc-raibert-boston-dynamics-instutute    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 10:25:16

• "I love the robots. Sometimes you find one that's got stuck so you help it and it says 'thank you'." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62007675    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 10:26:39

• Quantum annealing can beat classical computing in limited cases ⚓ https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0816-quantum-annealing ䷉ Source: discover | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//discover.lanl.gov/news/0816-quantum-annealing    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:49:15

• Stanford and NVIDIA researchers shrink VR headsets to regular glasses https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/stanford-and-nvidia-researchers-shrink-vr-headsets-to-regular-glasses    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:50:02

• Xiaomi Builds a Humanoid Robot for Some Reason https://spectrum.ieee.org/humanoid-robot-xiaomi-cyberone    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:50:43

• New network visualization tool maps information spread https://cnets.indiana.edu/blog/2022/07/27/new-network-visualization-tool-maps-information-spread/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:51:19

• CCNY-based team scripts breakthrough quantum algorithm https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/ccny-based-team-scripts-breakthrough-quantum-algorithm    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:51:49

• China Breaks Record for Quantum Memory Entanglement Distance https://www.tomshardware.com/news/record-on-quantum-entanglement-at-a-distance-broken-pulling-in-the-timeline-for-a-quantum-internet "Two quantum memories were entangled while 12.5 km apart."    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:53:24

• "The device senses and wirelessly transmits signals related to pulse, sweat, and ultraviolet exposure, without bulky chips or batteries." https://news.mit.edu/2022/sensor-electronic-chipless-0818    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:54:59

• "A new device, which doesn’t rely on immunosuppressing drugs, may assist efforts to develop an artificial pancreas to treat diabetes." https://news.mit.edu/2022/design-prevents-buildup-scar-tissue-around-medical-implants-0805    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:57:04

• "The longer version of this is in How we handle Ubuntu LTS versions." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OurSlowServerTurnover    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 11:58:50

• Disk drive SMART attributes can go backward and otherwise be volatile https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SMARTAttributesVolatile    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:00:12

• Bootstrapping An {ojs} Quarto Document With An Observable Notebook | R-bloggers ⚓ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/08/bootstrapping-an-ojs-quarto-document-with-an-observable-notebook/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.r-bloggers.com/2022/08/bootstrapping-an-ojs-quarto-document-with-an-observable-notebook/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:28:23

• "Data science is described as a “dying field” that will soon be supplanted by positions like data engineering and ML operations in some articles, while it is described as being replaced by tools like AutoML in others." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/08/is-data-science-a-dying-profession/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:29:49

• The Image Model | Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers ⚓ https://www.sicpers.info/2022/08/the-image-model/ ䷉ Source: SICP | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.sicpers.info/2022/08/the-image-model/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:30:26

• More disposable garbage: Matter is almost here, so should you upgrade devices now or later? - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis ⚓ https://staceyoniot.com/matter-is-almost-here-so-should-you-upgrade-devices-now-or-later/ ䷉ Source: Stacey on IoT    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:31:42

• "service that literally ships shit with a public promise of multiple kinds of animal shit whilst data that proves only horse shit was ever shipped, a promise of 100% anonymity whilst the data set clearly shows both shit-senders and shit-receivers" https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-309/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:34:17

• "That we travel more slowly, which is to say more humanely, and which will enable us to cut down on the greenhouse gas per unit of distance." ⚓ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/08/16/Slow-travel ䷉ Source: Tim Bray | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/08/16/Slow-travel    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:35:25

• "When we use it, it depletes a bit. When we’re distracted it quickly drains. And when we’re alone with our thoughts it replenishes." ⚓ https://danielmiessler.com/blog/creativity-comes-from-idleness/ ䷉ Source: Daniel Miessler | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//danielmiessler.com/blog/creativity-comes-from-idleness/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:36:23

• The names of disk drive SMART attributes are kind of made up (sadly) ⚓ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SMARTAttributeNamesMadeUp ䷉ Source: uni Toronto | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SMARTAttributeNamesMadeUp    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:37:06

• "What if everyone — individuals, companies, etc., — surfaced their outbound links in an open, accessible way which could then be aggregated in one source for querying?" ⚓ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/well-known-links-resource/ ䷉ Source: Jim Nielsen | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/well-known-links-resource/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:39:05

• The Australian Commodore 64 - LinuxJedi’s /dev/null ⚓ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/08/19/the-australian-commodore-64/ ䷉ Source: Andrew Hutchings | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/08/19/the-australian-commodore-64/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:40:01

• "Last week, however, we received a Flutter application where the script wouldn’t work anymore." ⚓ https://blog.nviso.eu/2022/08/18/intercept-flutter-traffic-on-ios-and-android-http-https-dio-pinning/ ䷉ Source: NVISO Labs | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.nviso.eu/2022/08/18/intercept-flutter-traffic-on-ios-and-android-http-https-dio-pinning/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:41:07

• "JavaScript’s “double equals” operator, ==, is typically discouraged." ⚓ https://evanhahn.com/re-implementing-javascript-double-equals-in-javascript/ ䷉ Source: Evan Hahn | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//evanhahn.com/re-implementing-javascript-double-equals-in-javascript/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:42:10

• Use Node built-ins to test small projects ⚓ https://evanhahn.com/use-node-builtins-to-test-small-projects/ ䷉ Source: Evan Hahn | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//evanhahn.com/use-node-builtins-to-test-small-projects/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:43:07

• "Go is under more or less continuous development (although the pace and nature of changes is different near releases)." ⚓ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoDevelopmentTipResources ䷉ Source: uni Toronto | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoDevelopmentTipResources    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:44:02

• r300: merge ALU instructions writing different channels of the same destination using the constant swizzles (!17560) · Merge requests · Mesa / mesa · GitLab ⚓ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/17560    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:51:18

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Cloud Hypervisor v26.0 Released! ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Cloud_Hypervisor_v26_0_Released.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Cloud_Hypervisor_v26_0_Released.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:55:16

• Somehow my email in emacs/wl shows right justified. Seems like some emails are detected as RTL language for some reason. Now how do I configure this..." https://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2022-Aug-21.html.en ䷉ ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2022-Aug-21.html.en    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 12:56:12

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:08:56

• A guide to swiftly managing your Kubernetes resources using K9s - Earthly Blog ⚓ https://earthly.dev/blog/managing-k8s-with-k9s/ ䷉ Source: Earthly | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//earthly.dev/blog/managing-k8s-with-k9s/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:10:51

• Re: “The web is a harsh manager” - Jim Nielsen’s Blog ⚓ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/re-web-harsh-manager/ ䷉ Source: Jim Nielsen | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/re-web-harsh-manager/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:12:27

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I love my GPD Micro PC ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/I_love_my_GPD_Micro_PC.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/I_love_my_GPD_Micro_PC.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:18:05

• C parser gemini://tozip.chickenkiller.com/2022-08-21-c-parser.gmi "Antimony describes itself as "a bullshit-free (©) programming language that gets out of your way"."    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:30:42

• Migrating Neovim config to Lua gemini://blog.schmidhuberj.de/2022/08/21/migrating-neovim-config-to-lua/ "While I was at it, I also split up my config into many smaller files"    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:31:52

• "I can relate 100% with them. I'm like a squirrel chasing new nuts every 5 seconds, almost as if the nuts I catch rot by the touch. It's completely irrational to take on so many things simultaneously, and yet, here we are." gemini://siiky.srht.site/kB45oC/re-brain_fart.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:33:20

• "I just modified my gmi->md script to rewrite gemini:// links to the Gemini Portal. With only 8 new (readable) lines the HTTPS/HTML version of the capsule became that much user friendlier" gemini://siiky.srht.site/meta/portal.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:34:39

• Very disappointing that Debian lacks bearssl in the repo and gmni too. Alpine is better than Debian in this regard. I cannot even compile it.    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:48:39

• Tradeoffs in API Design ⚓ https://matt-rickard.com/tradeoffs-in-api-design ䷉ Source: Matt Rickard | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//matt-rickard.com/tradeoffs-in-api-design    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:52:07

• "Earlier this week I watched Alex Chan's Sans I/O programming talk. In the talk, Alex argues the importance of separating I/O and program logic, with reference to a situation where his team was unable to use already-available parsing libraries for BagIt data because said libraries depended on local access to a file." https://jamesg.blog/2022/08/05/io-and-logic/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:53:07

• "The most common approach to finding ways to improve a static analysis tool is to find bugs in code that the tool should have been able to find, then determine the improvements that the tool needs to find such bugs." ⚓ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/08/17/using-mutants-to-improve-slither/ ䷉ Source: Trail Of Bits | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.trailofbits.com/2022/08/17/using-mutants-to-improve-slither/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:54:25

• "The most common approach to finding ways to improve a static analysis tool is to find bugs in code that the tool should have been able to find" ⚓ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/08/17/using-mutants-to-improve-slither/ ䷉ Source: Trail Of Bits | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.trailofbits.com/2022/08/17/using-mutants-to-improve-slither/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:54:41

• "Not obvious development process is hard to document. I wanted to make changes to the nix program, but I didn't know how to try them." ⚓ https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-08-19-hacking-on-nix.html ䷉ Source: Data Swamp | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-08-19-hacking-on-nix.html    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:55:53

• "“Collapse occurs, and can only occur, in a power vacuum,” anthropologist Joseph Tainter writes in The Collapse of Complex Societies." https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/we-are-not-the-first-civilization    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:57:23

• "The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic (1), according to a United Nations report" https://www.who.int/news/item/06-07-2022-un-report--global-hunger-numbers-rose-to-as-many-as-828-million-in-2021    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:58:22

• "He talks about how Tim Berners-Lee had a Next computer, but the Next computer was a machine that cost thousands of dollars and not everyone had thousands of dollars to spend on a computer (then or now, really)." ⚓ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/web-diversity/ ䷉ Source: Jim Nielsen | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/web-diversity/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 13:59:41

• "My lifelong activism aimed at achieving social justice." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/08/a-new-approach-to-fairness-in-machine-learning/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 14:29:57

• "R Consortium recently talked to Allan Miller with the East Bay R Language Enthusiasts Group about the group’s history and success in environmental and health industries." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/08/from-novice-to-industry-professionals-the-east-bay-r-enthusiasts-welcomes-everyone/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 14:36:43

• Manjaro and EndeavourOS are like Ding Dongs and Zingers - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=p5FU5m_THGU | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/p5FU5m_THGU    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 15:47:21

• 210: GNOME, KDE, LibreOffice, Android 13, DEF CON, Krita, Spider-Man and more Linux news! https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-210/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 15:48:06

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Videos/Shows: This Week in Linux, DistroTube, and GNU World Order ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Videos_Shows_This_Week_in_Linux_DistroTube_and_GNU_World_Order.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Videos_Shows_This_Week_in_Linux_DistroTube_and_GNU_World_Order.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 15:53:31

• I have complicated feelings about TDD • Buttondown ⚓ https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/i-have-complicated-feelings-about-tdd-8403/ ䷉ Source: Buttondown | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/i-have-complicated-feelings-about-tdd-8403/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 15:54:54

• "I’ve shown my husband and my child how I can see everything that they ask Alexa in the app, something few people might realize that Alexa shares with the app owner." https://staceyoniot.com/can-the-ftc-restore-our-faith-in-technology/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 15:57:23

• "Australia prides itself on freedom of expression, yet we have the most draconian laws in the Western world. How can we uphold a free press when defamation law is having a chilling effect on our media and threatens to undermine the very foundations of investigative journalism?" https://michaelwest.com.au/so-sue-me-canberra-writers-festival/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 15:58:32

• 1966 Children about future - neritam ⚓ https://neritam.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/1966-children-about-future/ ䷉ Source: Neritam    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 15:58:53

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): BTW, You Should Use Arch. And why you should consider using Linux… ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/BTW_You_Should_Use_Arch_And_why_you_should_consider_using_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/BTW_You_Should_Use_Arch_And_why_you_should_consider_using_Linux.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 16:09:16

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): risiOS Review: A Friendly Fedora Spin with Distinctive Features ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/risiOS_Review_A_Friendly_Fedora_Spin_with_Distinctive_Features.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/risiOS_Review_A_Friendly_Fedora_Spin_with_Distinctive_Features.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 16:14:00

• "Large tech and finance companies have been doing this lately: 1. Announcing workers must return to the office full time, or face dismissal. 2. Reporting a loss, or lower than expected profits, and will need to cut staff. If only they had a convenient excuse. 3. (Bonus): Complaining about staff retention." https://rubenerd.com/wfh-being-used-to-dismiss-staff/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 16:17:29

• How the HECK can theguardian publish this while BAGGING BRIBES FROM BILL GATES to tell us to worship that Famous Criminal??? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/24/britain-rich-poor-strike-breaking-government-grenfell-tower    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 16:20:54

• "I made the decision to visit DEFCON this year with some friends, which turned out to be an absolute blast. Here are some pictures of cool stuff that we took during our time there." ⚓ https://blog.bithole.dev/blogposts/dc30/ ䷉ Source: Adriaan Zhang | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.bithole.dev/blogposts/dc30/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 16:21:56

• Rubenerd: Former Australian Prime Minister Morrison’s secret portfolios ⚓ https://rubenerd.com/former-australian-prime-minister-morrisons-secret-portfolios/ ䷉ Source: Ruben Schade | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//rubenerd.com/former-australian-prime-minister-morrisons-secret-portfolios/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 16:22:35

• "I am excited that these commands exist. All this time, I have been holding down arrow keys to navigate on the command line. I wonder what other shortcuts the terminal has that I can use!" https://jamesg.blog/2022/08/17/terminal-shortcuts/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 16:26:38

• "If you open a plain HTML document with no CSS and you focus an interactive element like a button, link, or textarea, you’ll see that by default browsers use the outline property to highlight these elements." ⚓ https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/focus-outline/ ䷉ Source: Manuel Matuzovic | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/focus-outline/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 16:28:19

• Bluestar 5.19.2 is out https://sourceforge.net/projects/bluestarlinux/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 16:53:59

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Ubuntu May Drop ’To Do’ App from Default Install ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Ubuntu_May_Drop_To_Do_App_from_Default_Install.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Ubuntu_May_Drop_To_Do_App_from_Default_Install.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 16:58:13

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 17:10:09

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/today_s_leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/today_s_leftovers.1.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 17:11:25

• Why is the cosmos the theme of Gemini? gemini://szczezuja.flounder.online/gemlog/2022-08-21-Why-is-the-cosmos-the-theme-of-Gemini.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 17:23:04

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): THE GAMING ON LINUX GUIDE: #HowTo play anything: Steam, Epic, Ubisoft, Origin, Battle.net, GoG... ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/THE_GAMING_ON_LINUX_GUIDE_How_to_play_anything_Steam_Epic_Ubiso.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/THE_GAMING_ON_LINUX_GUIDE_How_to_play_anything_Steam_Epic_Ubiso.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 18:22:03

• Why Manchester City can't win the Champions League https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CqskvKhA5eA very funny and true    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 18:30:45

• "We put together a list that includes vulnerable XSS and SQL sites too. When we say this word we actually mean ethical hacking and using such sites and apps for testing gives a safe environment to practice the craft legally while staying on the right side of the law." https://dekisoft.com/vulnerable-xss-sql-sites-web-app-testing/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 19:28:15

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Celluloid (Gnome MPV) Now GTK4 + LibAwaita Video Player for Linux ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Celluloid_Gnome_MPV_Now_GTK4_LibAwaita_Video_Player_for_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/Celluloid_Gnome_MPV_Now_GTK4_LibAwaita_Video_Player_for_Linux.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 19:28:49

• "I completed my order of the Steam Deck last week." gopher://sdfeu.org:70/0/users/glaciurso/phlog/2022-08-21__Update.md    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 19:49:04

• "Linux is the second most popular OS after Windows." Windows is not popular. OEMs force many people to use it on PCs. https://dekisoft.com/best-programmable-mechanical-keyboards-linux/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 19:50:28

• How To Install KDE Plasma on Fedora 36 - idroot ⚓ https://idroot.us/install-kde-plasma-fedora-36/ ䷉ Source: ID Root | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//idroot.us/install-kde-plasma-fedora-36/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 19:53:01

• There is already IFF in India, but EFF could be called IFF, i for ignorant or worse. Because they pushed out their best people.    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:17:02

• Xi Jinping’s Radical Secrecy https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2022/08/china-xi-jinping-biography-opacity/671195/?utm_source=feed    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:21:11

• YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech - NetBlocks ⚓ https://netblocks.org/reports/youtube-disrupted-in-pakistan-as-former-pm-khan-streams-speech-XADMq6Bg ䷉ Source: Netblocks | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//netblocks.org/reports/youtube-disrupted-in-pakistan-as-former-pm-khan-streams-speech-XADMq6Bg    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:21:43

• How ’Slaughterhouse-Five’ Became a Repeated Target of Book Burners ⚓ https://reason.com/2022/08/21/slaughterhouse-five/ ䷉ Source: Reason | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//reason.com/2022/08/21/slaughterhouse-five/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:22:43

• How Stalin Toyed With Mikhail Bulgakov ⚓ https://reason.com/2022/08/20/the-master-and-margarita/ ䷉ Source: Reason | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//reason.com/2022/08/20/the-master-and-margarita/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:23:17

• South Carolina Targets Free Speech To Limit Abortion Access ⚓ https://reason.com/2022/08/19/south-carolina-targets-free-speech-in-its-attempt-to-limit-abortion-access/ ䷉ Source: Reason | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//reason.com/2022/08/19/south-carolina-targets-free-speech-in-its-attempt-to-limit-abortion-access/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:24:47

• End Times in Aspen: How to Kill a Newspaper - The Atlantic ⚓ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/aspen-times-newspaper-vladislav-doronin-billionaire-lawsuit/671180/?utm_source=feed ䷉ Source: The Atlantic | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/aspen-times-newspaper-vladislav-doronin-billionaire-lawsuit/671180/?utm_source=feed    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:26:49

• Pro-China pundit's admission to owning a house in California sparks backlash — Radio Free Asia ⚓ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/pundit-usa-house-08182022120956.html ䷉ Source: Verfassungsblog | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.rfa.org/english/news/china/pundit-usa-house-08182022120956.html    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:28:26

• Salman Rushdie’s Stabbing Should Remind Us That Free Speech Is a Nonnegotiable Progressive Value ⚓ https://jacobin.com/2022/08/salman-rushdie-stabbing-free-speech-socialist-politics-progressive-value/ ䷉ Source: Jacobin Magazine | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//jacobin.com/2022/08/salman-rushdie-stabbing-free-speech-socialist-politics-progressive-value/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:29:14

• The Satanic Panic Is Back, and It’s Bipartisan ⚓ https://reason.com/2022/08/18/the-satanic-panic-is-back-and-its-bipartisan/ ䷉ Source: Reason | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//reason.com/2022/08/18/the-satanic-panic-is-back-and-its-bipartisan/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:29:50

• Free Speech Bastion Substack Fires Editor for Editing a Blog Critical of Substack ⚓ https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d3988/free-speech-bastion-substack-fires-editor-for-editing-a-blog-critical-of-substack ䷉ Source: Wallanag | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.vice.com/en/article/5d3988/free-speech-bastion-substack-fires-editor-for-editing-a-blog-critical-of-substack    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:30:34

• "People have been trying to ban Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird since the 1960s. And since the 1960s, they have largely failed." https://reason.com/2022/08/18/to-kill-a-mockingbird/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:31:24

• The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates - The New York Times ⚓ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/arts/salman-rushdie-free-speech.html ䷉ Source: New York Times | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.nytimes.com/2022/08/15/arts/salman-rushdie-free-speech.html    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:32:21

• Adding Git listing of TuxMachines to its Gemini capsule. This might take a few hours...    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 20:51:06

• Flameshot Not Working On Wlroots & Sway: Here’s The Fix - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6O6WBtchg_c | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/6O6WBtchg_c    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 22:55:26

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KaOS 2022.08 Run Through ⇨ https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/KaOS_2022_08_Run_Through.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/08/21/KaOS_2022_08_Run_Through.gmi ∎   

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 22:55:37

• Internet-connected browsers should NOT do this. Standalone password managers, which are audited, should. https://www.maketecheasier.com/safari-save-passwords-ios/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 22:57:15

• iustin - Note to self: Don't forget Qemu's discard option ⚓ https://k1024.org/posts/2022/2022-08-21-do-not-forget-qemu-unmap/ ䷉ Source: Iustin Pop | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//k1024.org/posts/2022/2022-08-21-do-not-forget-qemu-unmap/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 22:58:09

• ArchLabs 2022.08.21 is out today https://archlabslinux.com/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 22:59:56

• "I still can’t believe we did this for two years; even just a weekend of it left me feeling irritable and tired. My dad used to say the most exhausting thing you can do is nothing, and I’ve really come to understand this of late." https://rubenerd.com/it-sure-felt-like-a-long-weekend/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:20:39

• "Social engineering is a powerful method for hackers to exploit computer systems without the use of malware or computer hacking tools." https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-hackers-use-social-engineering-to-get-passwords-on-facebook/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:22:57

• WSL https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/h_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Feb762d5e-1e1a-44a6-9c9d-e4def71a40f5_768x768.jpeg    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:25:01

• [Old] It is happening here: Massachusetts has a growing neo-Nazi movement https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2022/05/18/it-is-happening-here-massachusetts-has-a-growing-neo-nazi-movement    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:26:47

• BEING A CANADIAN FROM INDIA ⚓ http://tobkes.othellomaster.com/archives/2022/08/21/being-a-canadian/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:36:40

• Phaedrus Leeds: GUADEC 2022 Happenings https://blogs.gnome.org/mwleeds/2022/08/21/guadec-2022-happenings/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:48:01

• The unavailable gadget we badly need to invent https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2022/08/19/the-unavailable-gadget-we-badly-need-to-invent/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:49:30

• Learning OCaml - (think) ⚓ https://batsov.com/articles/2022/08/19/learning-ocaml/ ䷉ Source: Bozhidar Batsov | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//batsov.com/articles/2022/08/19/learning-ocaml/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:50:08

• People of Cook, you can make Josh the comeback kid - Michael West ⚓ https://michaelwest.com.au/people-of-cook-you-can-make-josh-frydenberg-the-comeback-kid/ ䷉ Source: Michael West Media | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//michaelwest.com.au/people-of-cook-you-can-make-josh-frydenberg-the-comeback-kid/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:51:01

• Is this an affront to the constitution, or a lucky break for a bunch of precious people? - Michael West ⚓ https://michaelwest.com.au/is-this-an-affront-to-the-constitution-or-a-lucky-break-for-a-bunch-of-precious-people/ ䷉ Source: Michael West Media    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:51:48

• "The property market is a favourite for money launderers, forcing ordinary Australians to compete with organised crime for their dream home, says investigative author Nathan Lynch." https://michaelwest.com.au/lucky-laundry-review-aml-australia-property-money-laundering/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:52:51

• "Qantas is trying to take over Alliance Airlines, a competitor in the lucrative FIFO market – the flying in and out of mine workers in remote locations. The ACCC is not so sure it’s a good idea, so what’s the scam?" https://michaelwest.com.au/qantas-takeover-of-alliance-airlines-stuttering-on-the-runway-whats-the-scam/    

posted Sunday, August 21, 2022 at 23:53:51