Roy Schestowitz

• "“Loss and damage” refers to unavoidable suffering caused by climate change" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/09/forget-moral-arguments-a-loss-and-damage-fund-is-a-win-for-americans/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:39:40

• NES ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/12/09/ultimate-game-and-watch-has-support-for-nes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:41:44

• Schools ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/the-right-has-expanded-its-dark-money-strategy-for-dominating-school-boards/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:42:22

• GDPR ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/promising-new-gdpr-ruling-against-targeted-ads | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:43:14

• eIDAS ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/eidas-20-sets-dangerous-precedent-web-security | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:43:20

• EFF continues to cover European issues BUT NEVER EVER EPO!!! Blind spot. Corruption OK with EFF.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:43:54

• elections ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/supreme-court-appears-split-on-whether-to-allow-partisan-control-of-elections/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:44:20

• Brittney Griner ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/9/viktor_bout_merchant_of_death | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:44:41

• Brittney Griner ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/9/brittney_griner_freedom_russia_prisoner_swap | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:44:46

• antitrust ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/federal-officials-sue-to-stop-microsoft-merger-in-major-antitrust-move/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:45:01

• Military gets everything ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/house-passes-858-billion-military-spending-bill/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:45:51

• Been 2 years already ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/jan-6-committee-considering-criminal-referrals-for-trump-4-others-report/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:46:06

• latvia ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/12/09/fired-tv-rain-host-alexey-korostelev-banned-from-entering-latvia | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:46:18

• cop15 ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/cop15-biodiversity-summit-highlights-deadly-us-attitude-toward-world | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:47:04

• pandemic ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/final-house-covid-panel-report-exposes-reckless-trump-pandemic-response | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:47:17

• greenwashing ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/house-report-big-oil-greenwashing-shows-big-tobacco-playbook-all-over-again | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:47:35

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D778.jpg    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:48:13

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D439.jpg    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:48:17

• "The capsule has been running continuously for several months without any hitches, so I'm declaring that this initial release version (v0.2.2) is Bug-Free™️." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-12_gmcapsule-on-pypi.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:48:49

• Dragonflight: Fun New Expansion, Same Toxic Community gemini://pennywhether.xyz/articles/Videogames/PCGames/dragonflight.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:49:31

• Death March Culture gemini://thrig.me/blog/2022/12/10/death-march-culture.gmi "For context, a death march is one of those lovely 80+ hour work-weeks to grind out some bit of software or the other, and the associated grind out some of those involved, by way of burn-out"    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:51:20

• on fixing search engines gemini://tilde.town/~dzwdz/b/2022-12-10-search-engines.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:52:09

• fascism ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/09/apprentice-trumps-celebrity-presidency-and-road-american-fascism | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:52:44

• yemen ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/09/war-over-if-you-want-it-us-can-end-its-complicity-horrendous-yemen-war-today | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:52:56

• Sanders ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/70-lawmakers-tell-biden-you-can-and-you-must-provide-rail-workers-paid-sick-leave | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:53:11

• Sanders ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/nyt-staffers-strike-sanders-calls-new-ways-empower-workers-battling-industry-giants | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:53:15

• antitrust ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/advocates-call-schumer-take-historic-opportunity-pass-antitrust-bills | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:53:36

• lancet ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/racism-poses-public-health-threat-millions-worldwide-lancet-studies | Source: Common Dreams http://techrights.org/2010/09/07/simon-chapman-on-gates-slim/ http://techrights.org/2011/01/10/lancet-gates-exxon-mobil/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:54:05

• bolsonaro ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/lula-sues-bolsonaro-abuse-power-and-baseless-attacks-brazils-voting-system | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:54:24

• Guantánamo Bay ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/09/guantanamo-will-americas-forever-prison-finally-close-bidens-watch | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:55:10

• health ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/09/voters-want-health-care-listen-them | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:55:29

• "I bark and I bark, but I never feel like I effect real change" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/09/when-will-we-give-peace-budget-it-deserves | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:55:43

• Kevin McCarthy ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/kevin-mccarthy-constitution/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:55:57

• Medicare ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/its-time-to-end-the-medicare-advantage-scam/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:56:24

• "Much has been made, since the days of the ancients, of art’s desire to imitate lived experience—an absurd expectation" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/margo-jefferson-nervous-system/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:58:49

• Democrats ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-midterms-culture-majority/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:59:06

• politics ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/at-the-end-of-the-day/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:59:17

• People’s Park ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/defending-peoples-park/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:59:27

• Condemning the company’s high fees and poor service ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/ticketmaster-live-nation-pearl-jam-taylor-swift/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 00:59:47

• "State legislatures across the country put a target on the backs of LGBTQ people this year" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/respect-for-marriage-act-precedent-civil-rights/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:00:08

• Todd Miller ☛ https://thedissenter.org/unauthorized-disclosure-todd-miller/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:00:28

• Tux Machines no longer impeded productivity-wise by this job http://techrights.org/wiki/Sirius_Open_Source   

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:01:37

• "dozens of US municipalities and states have attempted to sue fossil fuel corporations" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/municipalities-in-puerto-rico-sue-fossil-fuel-giants-under-organized-crime-law/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:01:53

• wokeness ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/sight-sounds-wokeness-furor-signifies-little/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:02:10

• ukraine ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/what-the-us-corporate-media-is-not-covering-in-the-russia-ukraine-conflict/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:02:30

• pesticides and cancer ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/09/pesticide-industry-science-denial-monsanto-glyphosate-cancer/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:06:20

• pesticides ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/09/eu-farming-reforms-pesticides-targets-in-peril-lobbyists-exploit-ukraine-war/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:06:31

• "gypsies" ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2022/12/09/they-only-think-of-the-gypsies-when-its-time-to-vote | Source: Telex (Hungary)    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:06:48

• Orban ☛ https://telex.hu/english/2022/12/09/hungarian-parliament-rejects-pressurising-of-german-and-dutch-parliament-in-declaration | Source: Telex (Hungary)    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:06:59

• The oil runs the courts ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2022/12/9/us_case_against_mbs_khashoggi_murder | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:07:28

• contempt ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/doj-asks-federal-judge-to-hold-trumps-legal-team-in-contempt-of-court/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:07:47

• Vintage Amplifier ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/12/09/clean-slate-is-a-vintage-amplifier-inspired-pc/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:08:13

• Michigan ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/indignation-michigan-judge-drops-flint-water-charges-against-gop-ex-gov-snyder | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:09:40

• "Big Oil disinformation" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/09/congressional-report-proves-big-oil-always-saw-gas-destination-not-bridge | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:10:05

• "The same day when the Russian president hosted a press briefing on the results his Bishkek visit" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/12/09/putin-sighs-but-comments-on-the-beastly-yashin-sentence-i-consider-meddling-in-the-work-of-the-courts-absolutely-impermissible | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:10:35

• Orin. "For someone who is vulnerable to intimidation by NYC glamor and superiority" ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/09/restoring-the-commons-takes-your-highness-and-mine/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:10:42

• "Central banks' unwavering determination to increase interest rates is truly remarkable." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/09/higher-interest-rates-only-brought-more-pain | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:11:10

• No, it is NEVER free. You might temporarily not pay, but Microsoft will rip you off. Free and freedom is LibreOffice among others. https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-microsoft-word-for-free/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:13:01

• EU destroys Meta, Huge Mint 21.1 Beta, Mac GPU support: Linux - Open Source News - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=hRfxJHW2EqA | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/hRfxJHW2EqA    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:13:46

• Fedora 37 Vs Zorin OS 16.2 | Which is the Best Linux Distro? (For 2022) - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=8FWFAZnJ5tI | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/8FWFAZnJ5tI    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:14:54

• "I've you've dug around your Linux file system you may have seen a Lost+Found folder but what is and why does it actually exist?" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IryGf_QBnlE    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:15:42

• What Is The Fork Bomb? How Does It Work? - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wIsGXkxXZzE | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/wIsGXkxXZzE    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:16:26

• Is Your Car Infotainment System Safe? - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=A5qKaEtuYS0 | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/A5qKaEtuYS0    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:17:27

• Best of 2022: Ansible and automation | Red Hat Developer ⚓ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/12/09/best-2022-ansible-and-automation ䷉ Source: XDA | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/12/09/best-2022-ansible-and-automation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:21:31

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Videos: Fork Bombs, Lost+Found, Fedora 37 Vs Zorin OS 16.2, More ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Videos_Fork_Bombs_Lost_Found_Fedora_37_Vs_Zorin_OS_16_2_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Videos_Fork_Bombs_Lost_Found_Fedora_37_Vs_Zorin_OS_16_2_More.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:22:05

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Puppy Linux 22.12 ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Puppy_Linux_22_12.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Puppy_Linux_22_12.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:27:33

• This is proprietary software that Microsoft uses to spy on users; why put this in a "Linux" site? https://www.how2shout.com/linux/remove-trailing-spaces-automatically-in-visual-code-studio/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:28:44

• Again, why are sites labeled Linux promoting Microsoft's proprietary software? https://www.how2shout.com/linux/how-to-open-visual-studio-code-new-tab-in-new-window/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:29:28

• CERN and Fermilab Opt For AlmaLinux as Standard for Big Science ⚓ https://linuxiac.com/cern-and-fermilab-opt-for-almalinux-as-standard-for-big-science/ ䷉ Source: Linuxiac | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//linuxiac.com/cern-and-fermilab-opt-for-almalinux-as-standard-for-big-science/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:30:25

• Cassandra 4.1 promises dev guardrails and pluggable storage - El Reg ⚓ https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/09/cassandra_41_promises_dev_guardrails/ ䷉ Source: The Register UK | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.theregister.com/2022/12/09/cassandra_41_promises_dev_guardrails/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:37:27

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:37:43

• Deepin releases 20.8 with a new "Deepin home" app http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/09/Deepin_20_8_is_officially_released.shtml    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:39:47

• "We are pleased to announce that ScummVM now supports Adibou 2, a popular educational game developed by Coktel Vision in 1996." https://www.scummvm.org/news/20221210/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:40:50

• "I uploaded a new set of artworks to have greeting cards ready on my Redbubble shop." https://www.davidrevoy.com/article946/greeting-cards    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:41:20

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (UPDATED): Deepin 20.8 is officially released! (UPDATED) ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/09/Deepin_20_8_is_officially_released.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/09/Deepin_20_8_is_officially_released.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:43:37

• Delhi HC permits SnTHostings to respond to CERT-In’s reply ⚓ https://internetfreedom.in/delhi-hc-permits-snthostings-to-file-a-rejoinder-to-the-cert-ins-defense-of-the-2022-directions/ ䷉ Source: Internet Freedom Foundation    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:44:49

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 12 Best Free and Open Source Linux System Profilers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/12_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_System_Profilers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/12_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_System_Profilers.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:44:59

• "The SLOB allocator adds maintenance burden and stands in the way of API improvements. Deprecate it by renaming the config option (to make users notice) to CONFIG_SLOB_DEPRECATED with updated help text. SLUB should be used instead as SLAB will be the next on the removal list." https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/8f81dbc0-da85-dff7-4a88-c0c4639649c1@suse.cz/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:46:33

• Software patents breaking the Web https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1178058#c183    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:46:57

• "To use PolyGerrit, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings, and then refresh this page." The 'web'... PROPRIETARY programs https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/4081749    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 01:47:36

• Meson Release 1.0.0 (in development) https://mesonbuild.com/Release-notes-for-1-0-0.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:01:13

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Trisquel 11 on NV41PZ: First impressions ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Trisquel_11_on_NV41PZ_First_impressions.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Trisquel_11_on_NV41PZ_First_impressions.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:01:35

• a simple semi-space collector -- wingolog https://wingolog.org/archives/2022/12/10/a-simple-semi-space-collector    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:03:30

• Losca: Running Cockpit inside ALP ⚓ https://losca.blogspot.com/2022/12/running-cockpit-inside-alp.html ䷉ Source: Timo's openSUSE Posts | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//losca.blogspot.com/2022/12/running-cockpit-inside-alp.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:04:31

• Why don't Canonical and Red Hat advertise GNU/Linux to these users? Sucking up to Microsoft? https://www.ghacks.net/2022/12/10/windows-7-and-8-1-support-ends-next-month/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:06:53

• Piggybacking the "Linux" brand to make a shopping page https://www.hindustantimes.com/shop-now/electronics/8-best-linux-smart-tvs-101670687649537.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:08:06

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): mesa 22.2.5 ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/mesa_22_2_5.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/mesa_22_2_5.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:09:58

• Perl Weekly Challenge 194: Digital Clock and Frequency Equalizer https://blogs.perl.org/users/laurent_r/2022/12/perl-weekly-challenge-194-digital-clock-and-frequency-equalizer.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:10:54

• Day 11: Santa CL::AWS - Raku Advent Calendar ⚓ https://raku-advent.blog/2022/12/11/day-11-santa-claws/ ䷉ Source: Rakulang | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//raku-advent.blog/2022/12/11/day-11-santa-claws/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:11:28

• curl sighting: Silk Road | daniel.haxx.se ⚓ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/10/curl-sighting-silk-road/ ䷉ Source: Daniel Stenberg | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/12/10/curl-sighting-silk-road/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:12:12

• "I attempted to update my Mageia desktop yesterday and, although almost everything went well, I got this error message telling me that imagemagick could not update because "nothing provided lib64raw20"." http://mandrivachronicles.blogspot.com/2022/12/missing-package-in-mageia-8.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:13:40

• "Like each month, have a look at the work funded by Freexian’s Debian LTS offering." https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2022-10/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:14:14

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:24:16

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/today_s_leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/today_s_leftovers.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:24:24

• New Laptop gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20221127.txt "So I have bought a new laptop. This is a bit unusual for me"    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:29:02

• "In the repository README, shown on the PyPI package info page, I've added instructions how to run the server via systemd for a smoother admin experience. You can still launch `gmcapsuled` directly as before, too." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-12_gmcapsule-on-pypi.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:31:32

• LF eerily quiet this past month. http://techrights.org/wiki/Linux_Foundation#December_2022    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:41:26

• RMS on BitCoin (before the crush, or the bubble imploding) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Qza-qbpGeik    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:45:35

• EmacsConf 2022: Emacs development updates - John Wiegley https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Jy5hGMTiQnw    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:48:22

• Richard Stallman about GNU/Linux (Right version) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=m21pITXGtrI it has become a meme    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:49:39

• Snowden, Privacy, and Martyrs https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IT8hh0swY9k    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:54:13

• They intentionally omit the words "like GNU" when quoting Linux Torvalds https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WfObKIB47uY    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:57:14

• SPREADING the lie Linux Foundation was founded in 2000 (no, 2007) and says "Open Source Movement" even though Open Source was a corporate attack on the real movement, "Free software" https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WfObKIB47uY    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 02:59:09

• Microsoft. Hours ago: "During layoffs, visa holders should be deported first" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jTBhjA6#replies    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 03:13:11

• The Linux Foundation is inspired by its biggest sponsors http://techrights.org/2022/12/10/linux-foundation-and-the-holocaust/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 03:30:00

• New page about a new RMS talk http://techrights.org/2022/12/10/gnu-emacs-and-its-purpose/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 03:30:21

• "Longtermism is an ethical stance which gives priority to improving the long-term future. It is an important concept in effective altruism and serves as a primary motivation for efforts to reduce existential risks to humanity." https://eponymouspickle.blogspot.com/2022/12/longtermism.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 03:31:19

• CORPORATE MEDIA (AP): unemployment is ULTRA-low! LOL! Keep on lying to the peasants. https://michaelwest.com.au/ultra-low-unemployment-to-hold-firm/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 03:31:59

• Why would anyone sane want to PAY Elon Musk? https://chrishannah.me/twitter-blue-will-cost-more-on-an-iphone/ "I'm not sure how this will play out. Especially as to some, Twitter isn't even a place to be for free, let alone pay for it."    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 03:33:40

• "Consider this tale of I/O and performance. We’ll start with blocking I/O, explore io_uring and kqueue, and take home an event loop very similar to some software you may find familiar." https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/a-friendly-abstraction-over-iouring-and-kqueue/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 03:39:41

• British banks: in the name of being "green" we stopped sending you important information and statements etc. But we keep bombarding you with MARKETING spam (like loan offers). FOR THAT we do have budget!    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 03:56:00

• Almost for sure there will be over 2250 active Gemini capsules by year's end gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi end of last year there were about 1,600.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:01:18

• #Techrights Bulletin for Saturday, December 10, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:06:02

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

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:06:09

• They still print papers for imposters who claim to be financial gurus https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-financial-times-has-been-printing-an-obvious-error-on-its-market-data-page-for-18-months-and-nobody-else-seems-to-have-noticed    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:16:38

• "Here’s one way to compare five generations of social software along the five dimensions named in the title of this post." https://blog.jonudell.net/2022/11/28/autonomy-packet-size-friction-fanout-and-velocity/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:17:15

• Nuclear Waste: What Do We Do With It? http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/11/nuclear-waste-what-do-we-do-with-it.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:29:41

• "The %F directive represents the date %Y-%m-%d and is present as a GNU extension. It does not seem to be part of the original POSIX specification." https://gerikson.com/blog/comp/Parsing-RFC3339-with-strptime.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:30:26

• "With the collapse of Twitter, we are seeing this oscillation in spectacular fashion in a new domain: social networking." http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2022/11/27/homebrew-social-networking/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:31:37

• Hottest topic in Twitter this past month: the problems of Twitter    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:31:42

• There's a saying that any kind of attention -- even negative -- is beneficial. No, NOT when you run companies like Tesla and Starlink. Investors are watching and they're displeased. Tesla lost almost HALF of its value in just 3 months.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:35:08

• Sampling For Managers https://two-wrongs.com/underrated-technique-sampling    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:35:19

• "Musk has absolutely no idea what he’s doing" http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2022/11/05/twitter-when-the-wall-came-down/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:35:56

• NOT "FOSS", no connection to Linux https://www.fosslinux.com/91253/how-to-screen-share-on-discord.htm minutes old; lots more of the same lately. Many "Linux" sites cover totally unrelated things, some have turned into spamfarms    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:41:42

• Twitter peaked around 2014 or 2015    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:42:17

• The WWW has turned into a tool of consumption. The standards were modified accordingly. The WWW used to be about information and sharing. There's "no profit in that..."    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:43:46

• "I was watching a video about setting up a Teleguard BBS in 2021(22?), and found it fascinating. One of the rules a mod/admin would implement, is to require the members of a BBS to post every so often." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1223    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:43:51

• 'Linux' Foundation: Microsoft+IBM? Latest annual report: "OpenSSF General Manager Brian Behlendorf, second from right,    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:47:21

• 'Linux' Foundation: Microsoft+IBM? Latest annual report: "OpenSSF General Manager Brian Behlendorf, second from right, appears alongside executives from the Linux Foundation, IBM and Microsoft."    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:47:33

• 'Linux' Foundation's mentions Microsoft more than a dozen times. Logos, too!    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 04:49:22

• "Professionals seem naturally to imagine a high bar for what is worth writing about. I think that's misguided. This article is not criticism of folks with these beliefs, but rather encouragement for folks looking for a reason to write." http://notes.eatonphil.com/is-it-worth-writing-about.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:06:59

• "The #30DayMapChallenge is a month-long mapping, cartography, and data visualization challenge aimed at the spatial community. Here are the things I've learnt from participating in the challenge for a second time." https://nrennie.rbind.io/blog/2022-11-30-30-day-map-challenge-2022/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:08:44

• "This Dockerfile starts by using rocker/r-ver:4.1 as a basis." https://www.brodrigues.co/blog/2022-11-30-pipelines-as/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:09:58

• Spreading a Passion for R with the Münster Community in Germany - R Consortium ⚓ https://www.r-consortium.org/blog/2022/11/29/spreading-a-passion-for-r-with-the-munster-community ䷉ Source: Linux Foundation | http://techrights.org/2022/10/26/r-foundation-and-linux-foundation/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:15:09

• How to Calculate Ratios in R - Data Science Tutorials ⚓ https://datasciencetut.com/how-to-calculate-ratios-in-r/ ䷉ Source: Data Science Tutorials | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//datasciencetut.com/how-to-calculate-ratios-in-r/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:15:53

• "s with most things in cryptography, though, it’s hard to get everything right" https://blog.trailofbits.com/2022/11/29/specialized-zero-knowledge-proof-failures/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:20:08

• "The 8086 die under a microscope, with main functional blocks labeled. This photo shows the chip's single metal layer; the polysilicon and silicon are underneath" http://www.righto.com/2022/11/how-8086-processors-microcode-engine.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:20:58

• "Snippet for when you’re using Circe and want to define custom Jackson serializers/deserializers from Circe’s codec definitions." https://alexn.org/blog/2022/11/29/custom-jackson-json-serializer-deserializer-from-circe/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:22:55

• Doctorow: All the books I reviewed in 2022 https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/01/bookishness/#2022-in-review    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:27:26

• The cheese grater that saved Christmas - Xe Iaso ⚓ https://xeiaso.net/blog/joker-sans-twilight-sparkle-cheese-grater ䷉ Source: Xe's Blog | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//xeiaso.net/blog/joker-sans-twilight-sparkle-cheese-grater    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:28:50

• "Axios is one of the most popular JavaScript libraries to perform HTTP requests. Axios interceptors are powerful mechanisms built into Axios for making changes to requests and responses in a non-intrusive way." https://geshan.com.np/blog/2022/12/axios-interceptors/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:30:05

• "As I come up on the end of my batch at Recurse Center, I've been doing some reflecting on my time here. One of the standout themes is how much I've learned through struggling with other people." https://ntietz.com/blog/rc-week-11-recap/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:31:53

• "Gameboy Doctor currently only supports Blargg’s cpu_instrs test ROMs because these are the most useful for initial debugging. It should be relatively easy to support other test ROMs, although small timing differences that don’t affect the successful running of the emulator may cause divergences in CPU states between otherwise well-functioning emulators." https://robertheaton.com/gameboy-doctor/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:32:36

• "This is the premise behind my idea of the "shitty technology adoption curve": if you want to do something horrible to people with technology, you must first inflict it on people without social power and then work your way slowly up the privilege gradient, smoothing the tech's rough edges by sanding them against the human bodies of people who can't fight back." https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/02/not-what-it-does/#who-it-does-it-to    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:34:22

• "Tasks.org is a free open-source to-do list manager, and reminder for android devices. It comes with a straightforward interface for almost any sort of users, and include a dozen of useful productivity booster features." https://medevel.com/task-org/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:37:59

• GoToSocial, Raspberry Pi went nuts, Famous Criminal book club and DRM hardware and more - A Trendy Talk - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=pV8A9mrBgik | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/pV8A9mrBgik    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:47:00

• QuiteRSS has FAR more features and runs on many plaforms https://medevel.com/netnewswire/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:48:51

• Social control media can seem like OUTSOURCED RSS feed reader (Web-based or "app") that MANIPULATES your lists for advertisers' benefit. ABANDON social control media. Use the REAL thing. Really Simple Syndication.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:50:36

• macOS is proprietary; you cannot exercise freedom with these: https://medevel.com/12-task-ms-for-macos/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:51:28

• Sirius Open Source did have some major clients, did promote Open Source, and even did reasonably OK. But that's the distant past. Now it's just pretending. http://techrights.org/wiki/Sirius_Open_Source#Reports    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:53:38

• Pay Sirius Coporation, Get GAFAM Instead https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/12/11/sirius-open-source-gafam/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:53:56

• In the name of ‘cost-savings’, Sirius ‘Open Source’ outsourced many of its operations to proprietary software that does not even work properly http://techrights.org/2022/12/11/meme-outsourcing-cloud/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:54:13

• RMS in 1984 https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/rms-at-first-hackers-conference-1984.webm    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 07:56:36

• Question for commissioner Sinkevicius in the ENVI committee https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fojK9nhBSJY by father of Linus Torvalds 12 days ago, about the packaging and packaging waste regulation.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:03:11

• Sirius ‘Open Source’ has adopted shoddy practices that impede audits, undermine security, and subvert proper inspection of the network; outsourcing is not security, and “clown computing” is more like an “acceptable” security breach http://techrights.org/2022/12/11/sirius-open-source-not-secure/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:03:40

• Linus Torvalds: "Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons"    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:05:31

• "In all previous posts about cascade layers I’ve used named layers in the demos" ☛ https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2022/100daysof-day55/ | Source: Manuel Matuzovic    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:28:55

• "What if you could host your own instant messaging service for you and your friends" ☛ https://マリウス.com/run-your-own-instant-messaging-service-on-freebsd/ |    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:28:59

• [Old] "I'll use a random Linux machine with a SSH server as reference" ☛ https://ittavern.com/ssh-server-hardening/ |    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:29:04

• "This post hopefully will help you to get started with tmux." ☛ https://ittavern.com/getting-started-with-tmux/ |    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:30:17

• "I’m trying out a new system based on these components: [...]" ☛ https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10439-music-playing-both-whole-house-and-mobile | Source: John Goerzen    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:30:27

• "I loaded up this title with buzzwords." ☛ https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10435-building-an-asynchronous-internet-optional-instant-messaging-system | Source: John Goerzen    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:30:59

• "Recently I ran across a Python program we're interested in" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/UbuntuPackagesGoodEnough | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:32:43

• "Replacements for these are much cheaper than I thought" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/the-patch-in-my-commdoore-1541-was-official/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:37:08

• "This one could potentially fit in the restoration series as this is around a problem I found" ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/12/09/acorn-riscpc-upgrades-part-3/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:37:17

• "One of the modifications that you can do to a ThinkPad T430 laptop is changing the CPU" ☛ https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/12/09/changing-cpu-in-a-laptop/ | Source: Herman Õunapuu    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:37:22

• "Outsourcing assumes that some other companies are in fact security-oriented and respecting of privacy. They’re neither." http://techrights.org/2022/12/11/sirius-open-source-not-secure/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:38:00

• Earlier this month this video was published. It’s entitled “Microsoft Still HATES Linux & Open Source”. http://techrights.org/2022/12/11/microsoft-still-hates-linux-opinion/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:38:31

• You get a company that's now an AWS account (it sold away its OWN servers) and instead of self-hosted Asterisk, as before, it's some bloody Gulag account ("Voice") https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/12/11/sirius-open-source-gafam/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 08:39:29

• "ActivityPub, WebFinger, and Mastodon are getting some attention because of chaos at Twitter" ☛ https://macwright.com/2022/12/09/activitypub.html | Source: Tom MacWright    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:00:14

• "Let me say it up front: breaking up end-to-end-encrypted HTTPS connections is bad." ☛ https://palant.info/2022/12/08/common-pitfalls-of-breaking-up-https-connections/ | Source: Wladimir Palant    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:01:48

• "RSS is more than plumbing, just as blogging is more than advertising. It’s a shame one of the world’s largest blog hosting platforms misses this potential." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/another-lacklustre-pitch-for-rss/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:02:01

• "A couple of years ago I found a way to unify those ingredients: Run the script inside the database." ☛ https://blog.jonudell.net/2022/12/09/when-your-database-is-an-http-client/ | Source: Jon Udell    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:03:12

• "Where are the users? Most assuredly, they are here on our planet, but where on Earth are they?" ☛ https://yottadb.com/where-are-the-users/ | Source: YottaDB    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:03:17

• "Thanks to Volodymyr’s efforts, GoAWK version 1.21.0 includes the code coverage feature." ☛ https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk-coverage/ | Source: Ben Hoyt    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:04:53

• [Old] "In Icon, values, not variables, are typed. Built-in data types include numerics, character sets" ☛ https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/icon/intro.htm |    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:04:59

• "This is a 5x5 grid, and every number denotes the height of a tree." ☛ https://fasterthanli.me/series/advent-of-code-2022/part-8 | Source: Amos Wenger    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:05:05

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:09:27

• "How do you call a variable that refers to a filename without its extension?" ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2022/12/08/what-s-the-term-for-a-filename-without-its-extension/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:09:41

• "The drawback to doing this is that causes your application code to lose cohesion." ☛ https://www.codewithjason.com/keep-test-code-and-application-code-separate/ | Source: Jason Swett    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:09:58

• "As generative AI becomes more advanced, it's likely that we will see an increase in spam that is difficult to distinguish from human-generated content." ☛ https://matt-rickard.com/spam-filtering-ai | Source: Matt Rickard    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:10:04

• "That doesn't look half bad, I thought. It could make for smaller diffs in some cases." ☛ https://boston.conman.org//2022/12/08.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:11:04

• "We ended up writing a short debugging manifesto to start the zine with" ☛ https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/12/08/a-debugging-manifesto/ | Source: Julia Evans    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:11:09

• [Old] "To kick off the Chapel blog and gain some experience with the site during this month’s “soft launch”" ☛ https://chapel-lang.org/blog/posts/aoc2022-day00-intro/ |    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:11:14

• "Recently I read Itamar Turner-Trauring's It’s time to stop using Python 3.7" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/PythonUpgradesAndDeprectation | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 09:11:40

• "Carmakers say that electric vehicles generate more electromagnetic interference than gas-powered cars" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/business/media/am-radio-cars.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:06:26

• Science ☛ https://www.economist.com/obituary/2022/12/08/jay-pasachoff-travelled-the-world-to-catch-the-moon-eclipsing-the-sun | Source: The Economist    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:06:42

• Before Beer Became Lager ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/07/science/beer-yeast-lager.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:07:06

• "EU Interior Ministers today discussed the proposal to automatically search all private correspondence for suspected content (so-called „chat control“)." ☛ https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-mass-surveillance-proposal-will-let-children-down/ | Source: Patrick Breyer    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:10:17

• "Most of the public sector banks have installed their core banking system more than 15 years ago much before the advent of smart phones." ☛ https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/business-analytics/banks-need-to-upgrade-pre-mobile-era-core-banking/96124598 | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:10:32

• "A Justice Department (DOJ) release states that 35-year-old Ronald Sandlin from Millington, Tenn." ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/3770123-capitol-rioter-who-assaulted-officers-during-attack-sentenced-to-more-than-5-years/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:10:57

• "Since at least 2013, the Nigerian Army has run a secret, systematic and illegal abortion programme" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/nigeria-military-abortions/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:13:33

• "latest portion of uncovered information regarding Twitter’s content moderation pre-Musk" ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3770483-american-author-michael-shellenberger-releases-twitter-files-part-4/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:17:01

• "The cause of the leak, which occurred in Kansas about 20 miles (32 km) south of a key junction in Steele City, Nebraska" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/keystone-pipeline-shut-after-oil-spill-into-kansas-creek-2022-12-08/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:17:28

• "An estimated 14,000 barrels of oil spilled into a creek in Washington County, Kan." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/us/keystone-pipeline-oil-leak-kansas.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:17:40

• "confirmed release of oil" ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/08/economy/oil-prices-rise-after-keystone-pipeline-leak/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:17:53

• "This is going to be months, maybe even years before we get the full handle on this disaster and know the extent of the damage and get it all cleaned up" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/keystone-pipeline-1.6680590 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:18:33

• "largest in pipeline’s history" ☛ https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/keystone-oil-spill-in-kansas-is-largest-in-pipelines-history-federal-data-shows | Source: PBS    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:19:06

• "The IT industry business model is built on a range of environmentally unsustainable practices – such as the extraction of rare minerals and metals" ☛ https://criticaledtech.com/2022/12/10/resisting-the-environmental-costs-of-ai/ | Source: Neil Selwyn    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:54:39

• "In this Tuscan town, some cooks have rediscovered the energy-saving cooking box, a tool their grandparents used during World War II." ☛ https://text.npr.org/1140042621 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:54:44

• "Or, in this modern age, you could use your money to buy a bitcoin, or even multiple bitcoins" ☛ https://www.salon.com/2022/12/10/why-in-the-hell-did-we-need-cryptocurrency-the-collapse-of-ftx-and-sbf-explained-sort-of/ | Source: Salon    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:54:53

• "Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has agreed to testify before the House Committee on Financial Services" ☛ https://news.bitcoin.com/ftx-co-founder-sam-bankman-fried-agrees-to-testify-before-us-congress/ | Source: Bitcoin    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 10:55:27

• "They also argued that Musk’s comments saying that he wanted to prioritize keeping employees who were in engineering-related roles cannot explain the disparity." ☛ https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3770262-former-twitter-employees-file-class-action-lawsuit-alleging-company-targeted-women-in-layoffs/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:00:33

• "Musk recently attributed a "massive drop in revenue" to civil rights organizations" ☛ https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/social-media/twitter-will-delete-1-5-billion-accounts-to-free-up-space-elon-musk/96109494 | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:01:11

• "It's one thing to offset the commission that Apple take" ☛ https://chrishannah.me/twitter-blue-will-cost-more-on-an-iphone/ | Source: Chris Hannah    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:01:36

• "Today the ministers of the 27 Member States agreed on a general approach" ☛ https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/ai-act-eu-governments-open-door-for-biometric-mass-surveillance-in-public-spaces/ | Source: Patrick Breyer    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:02:30

• "However, subscribers won’t automatically get the blue check-mark." ☛ https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/twitter-blue-relaunch-blue-check-mark-imposters-1235456618/ | Source: Variety    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:04:09

• "I never found out what they wanted" ☛ https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/12/02/i-thought-id-been-hacked-it-turned-out-id-been-fired-tales-of-a-twitter-engineer | Source: The Economist    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:04:36

• Censorship ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-government-indicates-execution-of-protesters-will-continue-/6869943.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:06:01

• Esmaspäev ☛ https://news.err.ee/1608813067/estonian-tabloid-press-celebrates-100th-anniversary | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhääling    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:08:51

• "Dr. Kligman would die in 2010 at the age of 93." ☛ https://quillette.com/2022/12/10/the-philadelphia-experiments/ | Source: Quillette    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:09:14

• Russian ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63929130 | Source: BBC    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:10:38

• "Russia’s oldest civil rights groups, Memorial" ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/international/3770228-russian-nobel-peace-prize-winner-says-authorities-ordered-him-to-decline-award/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:10:56

• Memorial ☛ https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/europe/russian-nobel-peace-prize-winner-says-kremlin-ordered-him-to-decline-award-articleshow.html | Source: India    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:11:21

• "I tried to explain to them that DRM always fails; you can't make data which can't be copied." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/you-cant-screenshot-or-right-click-this-image/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:12:00

• Monopolies ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/technology/lina-khan-ftc-microsoft-activision.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:12:54

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:13:49

• "Everybody turned their backs on us" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/12/10/everybody-turned-their-backs-on-us | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:19:18

• Odesa ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2022/12/10/odesa-is-without-electricity-after-russian-drone-attack | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:19:36

• Lisp ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/12/10/lisp-runs-this-microcontroller-pendant/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:26:53

• FIFA ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-govt-seizes-domains-of-popular-sports-streaming-piracy-sites-221210/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:28:24

• "Video effects and mixing are done digitally today, but it wasn’t always so." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/12/10/old-school-video-switching-levels-up-with-modern-usb-control/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:29:10

• Like everyone else https://neritam.wordpress.com/2022/12/10/once-upon-a-time-the-us-taxed-the-rich/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:29:33

• The limited utility of the phrase “GNU/Linux” - Seirdy ⚓ https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/12/09/limited-utility-gnu-linux/ ䷉ Source: Rohan Kumar | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//seirdy.one/posts/2022/12/09/limited-utility-gnu-linux/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:29:58

• old: "Luck, timing and opportunities will come your way. You need to make the most of them." https://jacobsmedia.com/rich-homberg-the-5-things-todays-radio-personalities-can-learn-from-j-p-mccarthy/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:57:57

• chris seaton https://chrisseaton.com/ https://snbc13.com/chris-seaton-shopify-senior-researcher-died-from-apparent-suicide-death-obituary/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:58:47

• sharia https://www.thenation.com/article/society/respect-for-marriage-act-precedent-civil-rights/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:59:11

• GNU/Linux https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/what-is-something-*new*-you-have-learned-about-linux-within-the-past-7-days-4175688500/page24.html#349    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 11:59:31

• Manchester lacks the power to change its fortunes | The Economist ⚓ https://www.economist.com/britain/2022/12/08/manchester-lacks-the-power-to-change-its-fortunes ䷉ Source: The Economist | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.economist.com/britain/2022/12/08/manchester-lacks-the-power-to-change-its-fortunes    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:00:00

• adobe https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/adobe-lays-off-100-employees-says-not-doing-company-wide-layoffs/96124543    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:00:13

• zerobot https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/zerobot-weaponizes-numerous-flaws-iot-devices    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:04:03

• Crap on top of shit (how "slack" is pronounced) https://itwire.com/business-it-news/business-software/slack-and-salesforce-announce-new-sales-cloud-for-slack-for-faster-closing-and-stronger-relationships.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:04:42

• Nobel Peace Prize Winners Blast Putin's Invasion of Ukraine ⚓ https://www.voanews.com/a/6870729.html ䷉ Source: VOA News | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.voanews.com/a/6870729.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:04:59

• There have been 50,000 alleged war crimes in Ukraine. We worked to solve one https://text.npr.org/1138710652    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:05:27

• "Need some turn-based tactics for the weekend?" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/the-tactician039s-bundle-is-a-great-deal-with-gears-tactics-mechanicus-hard-west-a-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:06:07

• "More quick fixes from Valve for the Steam Deck this weekend" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/steam-deck-client-beta-fixes-up-new-big-picture-mode-overlay-sizing/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:06:13

• Fossil Files: My .Emacs ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/12/10/fossil-files-my-emacs/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:07:21

• "[Mikhail] released a handy GUI editor/generator tool for the Flipper Zero multipurpose hacker tool" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/12/10/flipper-zero-hacker-tool-gets-ui-editor-for-custom-apps/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:08:21

• marine life ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/10/red-list-calls-out-perfect-storm-unsustainable-human-activity-decimating-marine-life | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:09:18

• arizona ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/10/following-trumps-lead-kari-lake-files-suit-reverse-loss-arizona-governors-race | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:09:59

• warmongers ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/10/mainstream-ukraine-coverage-dominated-warmongers | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:10:47

• inflation ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/10/tax-superprofits-win-inflation-battle-and-defend-human-rights | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:11:05

• Musk ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/10/megalomaniacal-narcissistic-tyranny-mars-elon-musk | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:11:24

• "The EBOX-58 from ICOP is an industrial Mini-PC equipped with Braswell Series low-power processors from Intel." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/fanless-mini-pc-supports-legacy-and-modern-operating-systems/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:12:58

• "The PCMan File Manager, or PCManFM for short, is a fast and lightweight file manager that's full of features." ☛ https://opensource.com/article/22/12/linux-file-manager-pcmanfm | Source: OpenSource.com    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:13:32

• mercola ☛ https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2022/12/10/projection-thy-name-is-joe-mercola-and-aseem-malhotra/ |    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:13:53

• assange ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/10/former-cia-directors-institute-hosts-event-on-the-assange-case-and-madness-ensues/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:14:11

• "conservation" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/10/human-rights-day-stand-maasai-end-fortress-conservation | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:24:19

• "was pressured by the Kremlin to decline" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/10/russian-authorities-told-rights-group-reject-nobel-peace-prize-says-leader | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:24:41

• "voter suppression" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/10/people-power-overcomes-voter-suppression-georgia-senate-runoff | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:25:08

• Who's struggling the most? ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/10/congress-needs-help-struggling-families-more-corporations | Source: Common Dreams    

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

• Indianapolis ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/10/letting-go-rope-eviction-court | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:28:03

• Alaa Abd El-Fattah ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/11/how-alaa-abd-el-fattah-connects-everything/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:28:29

• affluence ☛ https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/11/imagining-public-affluence-redesigning-cities-and-reclaiming-public-space/ | Source: Counter Punch    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:28:51

• peace ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/10/taking-peace-out-of-the-nobel-peace-prize/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:30:00

• Peru ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/10/perus-oligarchy-overthrows-president-castillo/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:30:23

• "Holding the increase in the global average temperature" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2022/12/11/15-2c-history-temperature-target-climate-paris-agreement/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:31:00

• snyder ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/michigan-judge-drops-flint-water-charges-against-ex-gov-snyder-sparking-outrage/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:31:25

• sanders ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/as-nyt-staffers-strike-sanders-calls-to-empower-workers-battling-media-giants/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:32:18

• kirchner ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2022/12/10/judicial-coup-in-argentina-corrupt-judges-conspire-with-media-oligarch-to-ban-cristina-kirchner-from-office/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:39:01

• debt ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/student-debt-relief-opponent-runs-to-chair-education-committee-for-gop/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:39:45

• Crypto ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/crypto-industry-ally-joins-house-gop-leadership-nixing-hopes-for-reform/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:40:55

• Privacy ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/privacy-mental-health-journalism-kids-families | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:43:07

• "We feature a lot of clocks here at Hackaday" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/12/10/retro-alarm-clock-with-nixies-is-thoroughly-modern-inside/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:43:36

• "Stingrays have an elegant, undulating swimming motion that can be hypnotic." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/12/10/gaze-upon-the-swimming-mechanical-stingray-made-with-lego/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:44:06

• "HEY HI" hype ☛ https://hackaday.com/2022/12/10/a-vm-in-an-ai/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:44:19

• Microsofters https://winbuzzer.com/2022/12/02/linux-gains-greater-intel-alder-lake-hybrid-performance-as-windows-11-struggles-xcxwbn/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:55:13

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Simplify your Linux PC with the PCManFM file manager ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Simplify_your_Linux_PC_with_the_PCManFM_file_manager.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Simplify_your_Linux_PC_with_the_PCManFM_file_manager.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:55:29

• [GIT PULL] Compute Express Link (CXL) for 6.2 ⚓ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6395383a608a5_4962d294e9@dwillia2-mobl3.amr.corp.intel.com.notmuch/T/#u ䷉ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lore.kernel.org/lkml/6395383a608a5_4962d294e9@dwillia2-mobl3.amr.corp.intel.com.notmuch/T/#u    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:56:10

• "The Fifth Elephant is the 24th Discworld and fifth Watch novel, and largely assumes you know who the main characters are. This is not a good place to start." https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/reviews/books/0-06-228013-9.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:05:28

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KaOS 2022.12 ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/KaOS_2022_12.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/KaOS_2022_12.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:06:18

• Google's Dart language soon won't take null for an answer - El Reg ⚓ https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/09/google_dart_null_safety/ ䷉ Source: The Register UK | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.theregister.com/2022/12/09/google_dart_null_safety/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:18:43

• Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/12/06/rackspace-ransomware/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:20:44

• But it is proprietary software Microsoft uses to spy on developers and users; it's also being vertically integrated with proprietary GitHub to push people into traps that attack Git, attack GPL, and so on https://www.how2shout.com/linux/how-to-use-visual-studio-code-as-default-editor-for-git/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:23:40

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/today_s_howtos.1.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:24:24

• [GIT PULL] Rust for 6.2 - ojeda ⚓ https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20221211005609.270457-1-ojeda@kernel.org/ ䷉ Source: Linux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20221211005609.270457-1-ojeda@kernel.org/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:25:36

• [GIT PULL] sound updates for 6.2-rc1 - Takashi Iwai ⚓ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87fsdq80nm.wl-tiwai@suse.de/ ䷉ Source: SUSE | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lore.kernel.org/lkml/87fsdq80nm.wl-tiwai@suse.de/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:25:41

• "We cover events and user groups that are running in the US state of New York. This article forms part of our Linux Around The World series." https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-usa-new-york/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:30:04

• FOSS Weekly #27 - Thunderbird Android, open-source keyboard, Apple drivers in Asahi, and more | FOSS Weekly ⚓ https://fossweekly.beehiiv.com/p/foss-weekly-27-thunderbird-android-open-source-keyboard-apple-drivers-in-asahi-and-more ䷉ Source: FOSS Weekly    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:41:48

• "Alif Semiconductor E5 single and E7 dual-core Fusion processors can run Linux on the Cortex-A32 core, and target security, AI/ML, graphics, and imaging applications such as building automation, EV charging station, PoS, robotics, home appliances, and HMI control panel." https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/12/11/alif-ensemble-cortex-a32-cortex-m55-chips-feature-ethos-u55-ai-accelerator/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:47:09

• Ambar: Libre Document Search Engine for Office, Text and PDF Documents ⚓ https://medevel.com/ambar/ ䷉ Source: Medevel | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//medevel.com/ambar/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:55:10

• Task Coach Is a Multi-platform Task Manager ⚓ https://medevel.com/task-coach/ ䷉ Source: Medevel | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//medevel.com/task-coach/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 13:57:15

• [RFC PATCH 0/9] Intel SPEC CTRL virtualization support - Zhang Chen ⚓ https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221210160046.2608762-1-chen.zhang@intel.com/ ䷉ Source: Thread in kernel.org | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221210160046.2608762-1-chen.zhang@intel.com/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:09:49

• "It is built on top of Node.js technologies, Electron, and using Marked library to parse Markdown, Showdown library, CodeMirror, and highlight.js." https://medevel.com/markdownify-2/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:17:45

• Lighting: A Low-code and Admin Dashboard for Django ⚓ https://medevel.com/lighting-django-low-code/ ䷉ Source: Medevel | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//medevel.com/lighting-django-low-code/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:18:56

• Vikunja: Boost Your Project Management To The Next Level ⚓ https://medevel.com/vikunja/ ䷉ Source: Medevel | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//medevel.com/vikunja/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:20:58

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Programming_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Programming_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:44:48

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:44:58

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Hardware: Low-Cost, Retro, and Linux ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Hardware_Low_Cost_Retro_and_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Hardware_Low_Cost_Retro_and_Linux.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:45:11

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Videos: Raspberry Pi, DRM, Emacs, and More ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Videos_Raspberry_Pi_DRM_Emacs_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Videos_Raspberry_Pi_DRM_Emacs_and_More.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:45:22

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:45:31

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KaOS 2022.12 Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.0, Improved ZFS Installation, and Plasma 6 Preview ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/KaOS_2022_12_Is_Out_with_Linux_Kernel_6_0_Improved_ZFS_Installa.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/KaOS_2022_12_Is_Out_with_Linux_Kernel_6_0_Improved_ZFS_Installa.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:45:41

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/today_s_leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/today_s_leftovers.1.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:45:49

• Fanatical misogynists controlled Twitter before October. A DIFFERENT TYPE of fanatical misogynists will control Twitter under Musk.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 14:49:59

• Announcing GNUnet++, experimental high level GNUnet C++ wrapper gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2022/12-11-announcing-gnunetpp-experimental-high-level-gnunet-cpp-wrapper.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:00:48

• "I seem to be following my normal pattern of blogging for a bit, and then forgetting to update it for months at a time cos I don't think I have anything fun, interesting or blog worthy to report." gemini://gem.pwarren.id.au/gemlog/2022-12-10.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:01:32

• "it all started when i wanted to find a cli based pgp utility that was simpler than gnupg. i've been using gnupg off and on for years and if you have tried it, you'd know too how terrible the user experience is." gemini://xoc3.io/blog/2022-12-11    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:02:11

• Winter gopher://sdfeu.org:70/0/users/glaciurso/phlog/2022-12-11__Winter.md    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:03:09

• 🔤SpellBinding: YCEORTB Wordo: DUELS gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2022-12-11.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:04:05

• "The stunning collapse of FTX, one of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, has not only shaken the crypto world but called into question the future of blockchain and digital assets." https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/12/law-bytes-podcast-episode-149/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:16:56

• Windows only? SERIOUSLY? https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/flarevm-open-to-public    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:17:35

• "Northern Ireland vaccination data are missing for 2 December 2022 to 5 December 2022 because of a failure in our automated processes." Windows or Microsoft EXCEL? AGAIN? https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/whatsnew/record/b52fea51-bc04-44d1-95ed-deab16c4f01a    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:19:08

• "Variants data has not been updated this week due to a technical issue" https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/whatsnew/record/8202532a-e21b-4921-8835-b7c0169244ad Mictosoft WINDOWS again???    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:19:30

• "data cleaning"???? https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/whatsnew/record/a4e2ebca-ad9a-467d-9e55-87019f651818 see https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/05/ministers-accused-of-putting-lives-at-risk-with-covid-data-error https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/05/how-excel-may-have-caused-loss-of-16000-covid-tests-in-england https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21502141/uk-missing-coronavirus-cases-excel-spreadsheet-error    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:21:03

• Why you should never use Microsoft Excel to count https://theconversation.com/why-you-should-never-use-microsoft-excel-to-count-coronavirus-cases-147681    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:21:59

• Understanding the NHS Test and Trace Excel Error https://www.influentialsoftware.com/how-an-nhs-test-and-trace-excel-error-lost-16000-covid-19-cases/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:22:14

• NHS: we are transparent! We give you COVID-19 data in PROPRIETARY Microsoft formats. Hail Microsoft!    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:22:42

• Mike Malone is Founder of Smallstep, the automated certificate management platform for DevOps teams. Their certificate management project, also called smallstep, has 5K stars on GitHub and provides a private certificate authority and ACME server for secure automated certificate management. Smallstep has raised $26M from investors including Boldstart and StepStone Group. In this episode, we discuss the importance of staying lean before achieving PMF, where to draw the line on free open source vs. paid product, his learnings as an engineer-turned-founder & more! YouTube version of the episode here   

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:24:07

• E67: Automated Certificate Management with Smallstep by Open Source Startup Podcast ⚓ https://anchor.fm/ossstartuppodcast/episodes/E67-Automated-Certificate-Management-with-Smallstep-e1s10lg ䷉ Source: Open Source Startup Podcast    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:24:14

• "Graham McNicoll & Jeremy Dorn are Co-founders of GrowthBook, the open source feature flagging and experimentation platform out of YC." https://anchor.fm/ossstartuppodcast/episodes/E66-Open-Source-Feature-Flagging--Experimentation-with-GrowthBook-e1rplfo    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:24:57

• NHS latest: "Because of ongoing data cleaning and reallocation of booster doses as autumn 2022 booster doses, the number of booster doses in Wales has decreased compared to last week". They only count how many people OVER FIFTY take these (because many turn that experimental stuff down). Most _old_ people turn that down, too. COVID-19 vaccine boosters: we only tested them on ANIMALS.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:26:48

• COVID-19 moderns booster: we didn't test them on humans, but we administer them to millions of humans. The latter group is still part of the experiment. Have clinical trials been generally abolished? Is this the "new normal"? With legal waivers and all? "We tested on animals, time for full rollout"    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:29:16

• Maybe in 10 years animals used in COVID-19 boosters experiments (e.g. rats) will study the billions of humans who took the same, calling those humans the "clinical trials".    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:30:40

• Big Cost, Smaller Benefit: Government Modelling Pegs Likely Bill C-18 Revenues at Less Than Half of Parliamentary Budget Officer Estimates https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/12/big-cost-smaller-benefit/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:32:17

• 0030: lsm perf, colorblind concurrency, tracing, evacuating preimp, reading, fixing my shoulders https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0030/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:33:22

• Creating One Unified Calendar of all Data Science Events in the Netherlands - Roel's R-tefacts ⚓ https://blog.rmhogervorst.nl/blog/2022/12/02/creating-one-unified-calendar-of-all-data-science-events-in-the-netherlands/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:35:07

• "Hypothesis Testing in R, A formal statistical test called a hypothesis test is used to confirm or disprove a statistical hypothesis." https://datasciencetut.com/hypothesis-testing-in-r/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:36:27

• Get Your Data On: The Periodogram or Something Else? ⚓ https://www.getyourdataon.com/2022/12/the-periodogram-or-something-else.html ䷉ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.getyourdataon.com/2022/12/the-periodogram-or-something-else.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:37:28

• Terrible! sparkfun outsourced this to SURVEILLANCE... of Microsoft ! https://www.sparkfun.com/news/5496    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:38:37

• "In view of the damning criticism by civil society and the institutions tasked with protecting the fundamental rights of Europeans, nobody is helping children by pursuing a regulation that will invariably fail in the European Court of Justice for violating the Charter of Fundamental Rights." https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-mass-surveillance-proposal-will-let-children-down/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:40:18

• "Thus we sometimes need a fast algorithm to find the midpoint in an interval of integers." https://lemire.me/blog/2022/12/06/fast-midpoint-between-two-integers-without-overflow/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:40:54

• Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT ⚓ https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/ ䷉ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:42:16

• Why being able to partially distrust a Certificate Authority is good ⚓ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/CAPartialDistrustWhyGood ䷉ Source: University of Toronto | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/CAPartialDistrustWhyGood    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:43:16

• Chasing Imperfection | flower.codes ⚓ http://flower.codes/2022/12/07/imperfection.html ䷉ Source: Zach Flower | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?http%3A//flower.codes/2022/12/07/imperfection.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:44:52

• C++ overtakes Java in programming popularity index - El Reg ⚓ https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/10/java_slips_behind_c_in/ ䷉ Source: The Register UK | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.theregister.com/2022/12/10/java_slips_behind_c_in/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:48:48

• "The reasons for Sirius' fall need to be properly documented and lessons hopefully learned by other companies. The sections and articles below are split accordingly, usually in no particular order except chronologically." http://techrights.org/wiki/Sirius_Open_Source    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:49:42

• Arduino has guest-edited a special edition of Elektor Magazine — and we’re giving away the digital copy for only €1 for a limited time | Arduino Blog ⚓ https://blog.arduino.cc/2022/12/11/arduino-has-guest-edited-a-special-edition-of-elektor-magazine-and-were-giving-away-the-digital-copy-for-only-e1-for-a-limited-time/ ䷉ Source: Arduino    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:50:42

• Best Steam Deck Games Released in the Past Week - 2022-12-11 Edition - Boiling Steam ⚓ https://boilingsteam.com/best-steam-deck-games-released-in-the-past-week-2022-12-11-edition/ ䷉ Source: Boiling Steam | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//boilingsteam.com/best-steam-deck-games-released-in-the-past-week-2022-12-11-edition/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:51:44

• "2022 was a fantastic year for all Linux distributions, but some of them were at the forefront of representing FOSS and the power of a community." https://www.makeuseof.com/best-linux-distributions-of-2022/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:54:08

• "geoiplookup is a command-line utility that lets you find the actual geographical location of a website's server." https://www.makeuseof.com/geolocate-ip-addresses-on-linux/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:54:21

• "I'll probably do this again, for mozregression and anything else like this. For mozregression, the experience of not being interrupted by it wanting me to check a new Firefox build is sufficiently appealing that I may use a Fedora VM desktop the next time around even if I'm at work at the time." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/LibvirtForRemoteDesktop    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 15:59:02

• NetBSD 9.3 on FreeBSD bhyve - box.matto.nl ⚓ https://box.matto.nl/netbsd-93-on-freebsd-bhyve.html ䷉ Source: Toolbox Tech | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//box.matto.nl/netbsd-93-on-freebsd-bhyve.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:10:00

• China abandons key parts of zero-Covid strategy after protests - BillBC News ⚓ https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63855508 ䷉ Source: BillBC | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63855508    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:12:50

• "Encryption System" that gives APPLE access to EVERYTHING (along with the US government, which is itself employing "HACKERS") https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-plans-new-encryption-system-to-ward-off-hackers-and-protect-icloud-data-11670435635    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:13:54

• What rich people blow money on (money they don't need and never needed) https://onefoottsunami.com/2022/12/02/the-mickey-mantle-letter/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:15:13

• Installing Quarto-CLI on Linux-arm64 systems ⚓ https://andresrcs.rbind.io/2022/12/09/quarto_arm64/ ䷉ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//andresrcs.rbind.io/2022/12/09/quarto_arm64/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:17:05

• Fake money and Coinbase, which does rob people for political purposes alone. Two very toxic companies propping up Ponzi schemes. https://siliconangle.com/2022/12/01/coinbase-removes-nft-transfers-ios-app-following-dispute-apple/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:17:55

• 12 months later they still use Log4j for FUD https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/sbom-an-up-close-look-at-a-software-bill-of-materials/ Microsoft et al took over the messaging of the 'Linux' Foundation http://techrights.org/2022/10/12/jim-zemlin-applauding-bill-gates/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:19:46

• Stop calling it "HEY HI". It is ROBOTICS. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/10/tired-of-laundry-folding-ai-breaks-the-robot-folding-speed-record/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:20:22

• popsci boosting Microsoft PROPRIETARY garbage, spun as "research" and "HEY HI" https://www.popsci.com/technology/minecraft-ai-research/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:21:19

• Did mark Zuckerberg pay for these puff pieces that rebrand VR/AR (the latter is also a bit of a rebrand)? https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-metaverse-possibilities-future-retail-industry.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:22:03

• Article about Amazon... cites article from a publisher OWNED 100% by Mr. Amazon. Some 'journalism'... https://retailwire.com/discussion/are-ads-causing-shoppers-to-lose-faith-in-amazon-search-results/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:22:57

• "A Cornell team has created an interface that allows users to handwrite and sketch within computer code – a challenge to conventional coding, which typically relies on typing." https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/11/programming-tool-turns-handwriting-computer-code    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:23:47

• Why is ACM running so many Facebook ads/SPAM?? Ridiculous. ACM was not always this corrupt. https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/articles/266968-three-key-takeaways-from-metas-galactica-ai/fulltext    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:24:57

• Mechanical neural networks: Architected materials that learn behaviors https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.abq7278    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:25:43

• All of them run GNU/Linux https://www.hpcwire.com/2022/11/14/frontier-keeps-top-supercomputer-spot-nvidias-h100-debuts-on-list/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:26:40

• How China’s Police Used Phones and Faces to Track Protesters - The New York Times ⚓ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/business/china-protests-surveillance.html ䷉ Source: New York Times https://theintercept.com/2018/09/06/nypd-surveillance-camera-skin-tone-search/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:27:28

• Criminal, insane, and criminally insane. They should arrest Uber executives who gave this the green light and maybe politicians who allowed this to happen. https://www.engadget.com/uber-and-motional-robotaxis-have-arrived-in-las-vegas-110046028.html?src=rss    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:28:39

• Overuse of the term "HEY HI" for hype's sake https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/341332-ai-helps-biotech-labs-generate-the-building-blocks-for-new-drugs    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:29:33

• "Pope Pius XII thought that he should not take sides in the war," says Brown University professor David Kertzer, "and that therefore he should not be criticizing either side of the war, including the Nazis." https://www.npr.org/2020/08/29/907076135/records-from-once-secret-archive-offer-new-clues-into-vatican-response-to-holoca    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:31:44

• "This is the first in a series of short documentaries exploring Martin Luther King through a different lens" https://neritam.wordpress.com/2022/12/07/the-barber-and-the-rev/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:32:07

• “Heist” https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/12/medicare_advantage_program_healthcare_providers_unitedhealth    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:32:31

• [Old] "Research suggests platform designs make us lose track of time spent on them and can heighten conflicts, and then we feel upset with ourselves" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-social-media-makes-people-unhappy-and-simple-ways-to-fix-it/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:34:02

• "Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas — its potential to cause global warming is over 25 times that of carbon dioxide." https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/atmospheric-methane-concentration-at-record-levels-70504    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:35:19

• Blue jeans: An iconic fashion item that’s costing the planet dearly ⚓ https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/blue-jeans-an-iconic-fashion-item-thats-costing-the-planet-dearly/ ䷉ Source: mongabay | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//news.mongabay.com/2022/11/blue-jeans-an-iconic-fashion-item-thats-costing-the-planet-dearly/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:37:01

• Property tax is progressive - neritam ⚓ https://neritam.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/property-tax-is-progressive/ ䷉ Source: Neritam    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:37:45

• The Strike that Started the Red Wave - In These Times ⚓ https://inthesetimes.com/article/chicago-teacher-strike-2012-anniversary-labor-union-education ䷉ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//inthesetimes.com/article/chicago-teacher-strike-2012-anniversary-labor-union-education    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:38:37

• "With “critical race theory” serving as grounds to ban works from Maus to a picture book by Ruby Bridges, the fight to change that may be a long one." https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/10/survivors-are-preserving-the-dark-history-of-native-boarding-schools/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:39:37

• "In light of the conditions that Europe is experiencing, in terms of high energy prices and the repercussions on the industrial sector, like the closure of factories and the high cost of production." https://michael-hudson.com/2022/12/eu-pressures/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:40:26

• "Challenge/response systems like CAPTCHA." https://matt-rickard.com/spam-filtering-ai    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:40:51

• "nobody really uses these data export tools" https://matt-rickard.com/google-takeout-and-data-portability    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:41:23

• Pfizer Lied About Efficacy of the Vaccines It Was Selling, China Takes Different Approach https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/12/11/pfizer-lies/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 16:49:09

• Rather insane for a 'Linux' site to advise GNU/Linux users to give away all their passwords (sent to Microsoft and the NSA) through proprietary software that's in effect a password stealer https://www.debugpoint.com/sync-edge-linux/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:03:32

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/today_s_howtos.2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/today_s_howtos.2.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:07:37

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Debian on the XPS13 Plus (9320) - Life of a Developer ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Debian_on_the_XPS13_Plus_9320_Life_of_a_Developer.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Debian_on_the_XPS13_Plus_9320_Life_of_a_Developer.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:09:22

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Best Steam Deck Games Released in the Past Week - 2022-12-11 Edition ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past_Week_2022_12_11_Edit.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Best_Steam_Deck_Games_Released_in_the_Past_Week_2022_12_11_Edit.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:10:09

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Akvorado: a flow collector, enricher, and visualizer ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Akvorado_a_flow_collector_enricher_and_visualizer.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Akvorado_a_flow_collector_enricher_and_visualizer.gmi ∎    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:11:56

• "Highlights of the week: new releases of Blender, Inkscape, OpenShot, news from GIMP and Ardour." https://librearts.org/2022/12/week-recap-11-dec-2022/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:12:25

• "These companies did so little due diligence that they didn't realize the collateral would be worthless in about 18 months, even if Bitcoin continued moonwards. Below the fold, the details." https://blog.dshr.org/2022/12/foolish-lenders.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:18:37

• The city watch rejects survive their first dungeon • AndreGarzia.com ⚓ https://andregarzia.com/2022/12/The-city-watch-rejects-survive-their-first-dungeon.html ䷉ Source: Andre Alves Garzia | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//andregarzia.com/2022/12/The-city-watch-rejects-survive-their-first-dungeon.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:21:59

• "When you have a potentially complex infrastructure, adding observability helps with easier debugging and performance optimization." https://earthly.dev/blog/running-grafana-in-docker/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:27:53

• Setting the Internet of Things Free -- of Batteries https://cacm.acm.org/news/266377-setting-the-internet-of-things-free-of-batteries/fulltext    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:28:35

• "after a day and a half of nonsense, i started wondering if there are any good pgp replacements. specifically wondering about a more minimalistic approach to the various encryption services pgp provides." gemini://xoc3.io/blog/2022-12-11    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:29:57

• Thinking About Pratical Web3.0 and GNUNet as Infrastructure gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2022/10-24-thinking-about-pratical-web3-and-gnunet-as-infrastructure.gmi    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:30:43

• Building and Managing a Kubernetes Cluster Using Kubeadm - Earthly Blog ⚓ https://earthly.dev/blog/k8cluster-mnging-blding-kubeadm/ ䷉ Source: Earthly | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//earthly.dev/blog/k8cluster-mnging-blding-kubeadm/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:32:24

• This Free-Space Optics System Could Boost Space Comms https://spectrum.ieee.org/free-space-optics    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:33:25

• What? Why? Do astronauts demand too high a salary? https://eponymouspickle.blogspot.com/2022/12/robot-design-may-revolutionize-how-we.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:35:31

• Robot Design May Revolutionize How We Build Things in Space https://scitechdaily.com/new-robot-design-may-revolutionize-how-we-build-things-in-space/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:36:57

• retailwire as megaphone of the waltons, blaming the clients for the price-gouging lunacy https://retailwire.com/discussion/will-persistent-theft-compel-walmart-to-raise-prices-or-close-stores/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:39:07

• New quantum computing feat is a modern twist on a 150-year-old thought experiment | UNSW Newsroom ⚓ https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/new-quantum-computing-feat-modern-twist-150-year-old-thought-experiment ䷉ Source: Courier Newsroom    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:40:22

• "A new approach sheds light on the behavior of turbulent structures that can affect the energy generated during fusion reactions, with implications for reactor design." https://news.mit.edu/2022/fusion-machine-learning-turbulence-1101    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:41:06

• Companies raise the prices. People cannot afford, some shoplift. Companies that raise the price say people began to shoplift, hence the price hikes are "justified". Lies and self-fulfilling prophecies for price-gouging.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:42:54

• It's like punching a cop. You say cops are ultra-violent, but if you punch them, don't expect nothing to happen. Same for stores and cartels that engage in price-gouging or price-fixing, then moan about "shoplifting". You bring that upon yourself to some degree. The cartels are perceived to be well-coordinated and organised ("professional") bandits.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:45:13

• Don't help the raiders (like Waltons) blame the CONSUMERS for price hikes. The oligarchs' media already helps promote this phony narrative, akin to Microsoft blaming the victims of cracking when in fact the holes exploited are Microsoft's own fault.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:46:36

• Apple: made in China/Taiwan. The media will call this "made in USA", even if it's made by foreign company with foreign patents. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/341235-tsmc-to-produce-4nm-chips-at-arizona-fab-in-2024    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:47:32

• "A new computational approach will improve understanding of different states of carbon and guide the search for materials yet to be discovered." https://www.anl.gov/article/scientists-use-machine-learning-to-accelerate-materials-discovery    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:48:21

• MIT also worked on covering up Bill Gates' close ties to child-sex trafficking with bribes to MIR https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/341126-mit-is-working-on-self-assembling-robots    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:49:05

• Spiceworks boosting the frauds from Gartner as if they're experts rather than glorified salespeople who misrepresent what they are https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/innovation/guest-article/why-synthetic-data-is-key-to-paving-the-way-for-smart-cities/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Gartner_Group    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:50:24

• This is not the solution but a way to make more sales of more cars (which still need something like coal to burn, even if far away) https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-ev-transition-explained-2658463735    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:51:36

• Hard to crack hardware | KAUST Discovery ⚓ https://discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/1295/hard-to-crack-hardware ䷉ Source: kaust | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//discovery.kaust.edu.sa/en/article/1295/hard-to-crack-hardware    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:52:50

• Researchers Develop a Scaled-up Spintronic Probabilistic Computer https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/press/scaledup_spintronic_probabilistic_computer.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:54:15

• “She shows up for everything” https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/17/the_rebellious_life_of_mrs_rosa    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:56:23

• "There are a magnitude more frontend developers than backend developers. While one isn’t necessarily “easier” than the other, if a company requires any sort of user-facing software (even internal), it requires frontend engineers." https://matt-rickard.com/the-frontend-ouroboros    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:57:14

• "A few thoughts on how LLMs might (and might not) disrupt Google." https://matt-rickard.com/will-llms-disrupt-google    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 17:59:01

• "The Elo system is based on a simple idea: each player has a numerical rating that represents their skill level, and this rating is adjusted based on the outcome of their games." https://matt-rickard.com/elo-rating    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:00:43

• “We’ll, I’m unemployed so I guess I have some extra time.” https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/employment-change/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:01:56

• "First of all you need to go into the network settings and enable the interface, from there you can insert a static IP and netmask. DHCP was greyed-out for some reason. I’m assuming the ROM doesn’t support it?" https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/12/04/acorn-riscpc-upgrades-part-1/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:03:03

• Publishing a long overdue explainer about a scientific consensus ⚓ https://skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=5527 ䷉ Source: | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=5527    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:04:04

• "News coverage of this summer’s devastating flood in Pakistan has peaked, but the deluge left behind hasn’t subsided: Experts predict the floodwaters could take six months to fully recede." http://www.skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=5539    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:05:34

• "Despite record fossil fuel pollution in 2022, plummeting clean technology costs and backlashes to Russia’s war in Ukraine leave open a path to meeting Paris climate targets." https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/11/how-2022-has-substantially-and-favorably-changed-global-climate-outlook/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:06:35

• That grumpy BSD guy: Harvesting the Noise While it's Fresh, Revisited ⚓ https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/12/that-grumpy-bsd-guy-harvesting-noise.html ䷉ Source: BSDly | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/12/that-grumpy-bsd-guy-harvesting-noise.html    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:09:38

• "My Dad and I visited the so-called 'FM Supertower' in St. Louis, MO twice now, to explore the tower and the supporting infrastructure below." https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/1-million-watts-rf-how-fm-supertower-works    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:10:26

• Ripoff? https://catonmat.net/paid-plans-for-png-jpg-gif-tools    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:11:18

• GIMP is Free software. ImageMagick too. Don't use them as a "service" over the Web. Many downsides to that.    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:12:24

• "Tammy has been building a bunch of slow reveal graphs that really fascinating. I’m particularly amazed at the ones that she and her colleague Bradford Dykes have been building." https://computinged.wordpress.com/2022/12/05/a-workshop-on-slow-reveal-graphs-for-social-studies-teachers/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:13:31

• The Struggle to Wrest Back Control of Our Democracy - neritam ⚓ https://neritam.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/the-struggle-to-wrest-back-control-of-our-democracy/ ䷉ Source: Neritam    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:13:57

• "Post’s fabulous penthouse would find no new takers in this new high-tax era." https://inequality.org/great-divide/tax-the-rich-we-did-that-once/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:15:26

• "Forcibly removed in three stages" https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/12/05/the-cruel-dishonest-and-shameful-story-of-britains-last-colony-may-be-coming-to-an-end/    

posted Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 18:16:04

• We cannot compare the vaccines head-to-head https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/12/11/pfizer-lies/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:30:35

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Android_Leftovers.2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Android_Leftovers.2.gmi ∎    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:31:01

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): OpenShot Video Editor 3.0 ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/OpenShot_Video_Editor_3_0.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/OpenShot_Video_Editor_3_0.gmi ∎   

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:33:26

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This Is the Default Theme of Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/This_Is_the_Default_Theme_of_Debian_GNU_Linux_12_Bookworm.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/This_Is_the_Default_Theme_of_Debian_GNU_Linux_12_Bookworm.gmi ∎    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:33:38

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS Released with Initial Support for the Rust Programming Language ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Linux_Kernel_6_1_LTS_Released_with_Initial_Support_for_the_Rust.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/11/Linux_Kernel_6_1_LTS_Released_with_Initial_Support_for_the_Rust.gmi ∎    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:33:47

• "Sometimes when you see an elegant algorithm, you think "looks great, I just need it to also do X". Perhaps you are able to build X directly out of what the algorithm gives you; fantastic. Or, perhaps you can alter the algorithm a bit, and it works just as well while also doing X. Sometimes, though, you alter the algorithm and things go pear-shaped." https://wingolog.org/archives/2022/12/11/we-iterate-so-that-you-can-recurse    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:40:32

• Red Hat integrates with proprietary spyware https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/new-slack-integration-red-hat-insights    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:41:53

• Bluetooth to line-in cable. Its cool! (I assume it is actual magic!) - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZdzPhPO2VQE | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/ZdzPhPO2VQE    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:42:43

• Linux Kernel Is More Corporate Than You Think - Invidious ⚓ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Hidn92jKx7M | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://auragem.space/youtube/video/Hidn92jKx7M    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:43:21

• "Before the game, Ukraine suddenly formed a line and sang their national anthem. With pride. In defiance. I think one of them was holding back tears." https://blog.sesse.net/blog/life/2022-12-11-22-27_euic_2022.html    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:53:42

• I2C Communication with Arduino Uno ⚓ https://peppe8o.com/i2c-communication-between-two-arduino-uno-boards/ ䷉ Source: peppe8o | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//peppe8o.com/i2c-communication-between-two-arduino-uno-boards/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:57:01

• Perl, Raku TheWeeklyChallenge TWC 194: Bag Time! https://blogs.perl.org/users/bruce_gray/2022/12/twc-194-bag-time.html    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:58:05

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Shows/Videos: Corporate Linux and More ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/12/Shows_Videos_Corporate_Linux_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/12/Shows_Videos_Corporate_Linux_and_More.gmi ∎    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:59:01

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Embrace the Christmas Season With a Log Fire and Rainstorm in Your Linux Terminal ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/12/Embrace_the_Christmas_Season_With_a_Log_Fire_and_Rainstorm_in_Y.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/12/Embrace_the_Christmas_Season_With_a_Log_Fire_and_Rainstorm_in_Y.gmi ∎    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 00:59:10

• What a disgrace that they have Microsoft, NSA's back doors facilitator, there on the show to talk about "security" https://opensourcesecurity.io/2022/12/11/episode-353-jill-mone-corallo-on-githubs-bug-bounty-program/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:10:25

• 33,000+ DMCA notices sent in an apparent attempt to defend the reputation of an alleged Russian criminal--systematic abuse of the DMCA notice-and-takedown procedure https://www.lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/oligarch-abuse-part-1    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:12:16

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/12/Security.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/12/Security.gmi ∎    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:13:10

• It is absurd that Microsoft, which hates GNU/Linux and Free software SO much, was permitted to have so much control, esp. via GitHub. Then you have frauds like Zemlin (who also married an epic fraud) joining in with this agenda. This is a blunder and a regulatory failure.    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:14:46

• "In which I share my thoughts and complaints on the new 0.5x version of Dwarf Fortress, with an extra addendum helping new players get started with the game." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2022-12-11.gmi    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:17:48

• I made a C REPL linker thingy... gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-12-11.harn.gmi    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:18:20

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/12/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/12/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:22:48

• Yes, Free software does have a "supply chain" issue. It's called Microsoft GitHub and Microsoft NPM. Microsoft works for NSA, i.e. NOT for security. http://techrights.org/2022/02/28/microsoft-github-expose-part-xviii-the-story-of-npm/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:23:44

• New Photonic Chip "Squeezes" More out of Light | www.caltech.edu ⚓ https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/new-photonic-chip-squeezes-more-out-of-light ䷉ Source: | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.caltech.edu/about/news/new-photonic-chip-squeezes-more-out-of-light    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:24:45

• "Wray said the FBI was concerned that the Chinese had the ability to control the app’s recommendation algorithm" https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-director-raises-national-security-concerns-about-tiktok so it's OK when the US does it???    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:25:47

• US cops have already used killer robots for at least 7 years https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/san-francisco-decides-killer-police-robots-arent-such-a-great-idea/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:26:43

• "This is a quick summary about the newly published paper "A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism" by Matthew J. Hornsey and Stephan Lewandowsky. It leverages a thread tweeted by Stephan Lewandowsky shortly after publication as well as a mention in Doug Bostrom's and Marc Kodack's New Research Week #47" http://www.skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=5531    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:28:19

• "A month ago, when the Great Discontinuity happened, I started working on a Steampipe plugin to enable SQL queries against the Mastodon API, along with a companion Steampipe “mod” (suite of dashboards) to display and chart the results of those queries" https://blog.jonudell.net/2022/12/10/browsing-the-fediverse/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:30:00

• "I was determined to write my Mastodon #introduction today. To get started I used the tag search in the dashboard I’m building." https://blog.jonudell.net/2022/12/06/mastodon-steampipe-and-rss/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:30:38

• "If I had to guess - probably it originated with C++." https://batsov.com/articles/2022/12/08/what-s-the-term-for-a-filename-without-its-extension/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:31:13

• "Examples of two, popular A.I. systems — OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft GitHub’s Copilot — and how they can negatively impact the world… plus the highly unethical (and illegal) ways that they are developed." https://lunduke.substack.com/p/evil-ai-made-in-evil-ways-chatgpt    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:32:33

• Microsoft (Stephanie Crater) spreading FUD against JAVA again. "What's the deal with humongous objects in Java?"    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:33:46

• OLD: Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:34:29

• Automagically assimilating NixOS machines into your Tailnet with Terraform - Xe Iaso ⚓ https://xeiaso.net/blog/nix-flakes-terraform ䷉ Source: Xe's Blog | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//xeiaso.net/blog/nix-flakes-terraform    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:36:35

• It is just plagiarism of stuff found online, even when it is copyrighted or copyleft-licensed https://lunduke.substack.com/p/will-ai-like-chatgpt-or-github-copilot    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:37:58

• Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part VII — Nat Friedman, as GitHub CEO, Had a Plan of Defrauding Microsoft Shareholders http://techrights.org/2021/11/22/defrauding-microsoft-shareholders/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:38:34

• "Using an AI well means finding cases where it’s okay to generate incorrect output, and using an AI is more efficient than just doing the thing yourself, including fixing the mistakes." https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/making-chatgpt-useful/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:39:16

• Microsoft's GitHub is the wrong place https://chrishannah.me/foundation-is-becoming-fully-swift-and-open-source/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:41:00

• Guest Post: Collider Rap by Mike Battaglia and GPT-3 http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2022/12/guest-post-collider-rap-by-mike.html    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:41:27

• "This month is pretty packed with releases! A new Pixel Wheels, a new Git Bonsai and two Clyde releases!" https://agateau.com/2022/11-update/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:42:43

• "Does OpenAI know what a limerick is? Obviously any large language model can give you the dictionary definition. But how can we force it to demonstrate its "understanding" of the form?" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/openai-and-the-limits-of-mechanical-poetry/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:43:12

• 2020 "innovation": calling everything "Ops", even chat    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:44:46

• ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Review: OpenBSD 7.2 ⇨ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/12/Review_OpenBSD_7_2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/12/12/Review_OpenBSD_7_2.gmi ∎    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:50:43

• "Provided that Ubuntu's version of the module works, which it seems to, using the Ubuntu packaged version is the easy path." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/UbuntuPackagesGoodEnough    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:55:31

• "Internally the GoFloppy drive is a floppy drive emulator similar to the “Gotek” commonly used in retro hardware. It even uses exactly the same FlashFloppy firmware that is typically found in Gotek drives. But when reverse-engineering the Gotek I made quite a few changes to improve things and went through a few prototypes until I was happy." https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2022/12/04/design-of-the-gofloppy-drive/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:56:14

• Hype and bust: "Although Ericsson’s IoT division brought in $76.9 million in 2021 revenues, the company is pulling the plug. Why sell? Ericsson’s IoT business has been a “key driver” of losses in its enterprise division" https://staceyoniot.com/iot-news-of-the-week-for-dec-9-2022/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:57:56

• This leave out HOW YOU CHARGE THE BATTERIES! "Electric vehicles, often called EVs, are responsible for less global-warming pollution over their life cycle than gas-powered vehicles, despite the fact that battery manufacturing — for the moment — increases the climate impacts of EV production." https://skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=5520    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 01:59:37

• "Then I tried to get my credit, and this time it blew up again, but now it logged what was wrong. I could see this on the dev environment. It was something about calling some function with the wrong number of parameters." https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/02/25k/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 02:00:26

• Ads themselves might not be pure evil, but trying to force/impose them on people who do not want them (that's almost everybody) is unethical. Ads are the opposite of productivity and information. There's usually disinformation.    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 02:01:52

• "When the legalities of the merger were finished in 2008, I too worked for that evil company by extension. By absorbing it instead of killing it, we became them (see also: Collabra). The name was different, but the internal damage was done." https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/04/downfall/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 02:03:11

• The Gulf of Mexico's dead zone - neritam ⚓ https://neritam.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/the-gulf-of-mexicos-dead-zone/ ䷉ Source: Neritam    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 02:03:16

• "Then I decided to go somewhere else that (as far as I could tell) existed because people willingly put their data there." https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/04/downfall/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 02:03:45

• Not working for fanatical misogynists, even by extension https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/10/phase-two-of-life/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 02:04:22

• "Ruby programming language giant and lovely person Chris Seaton passed away last night." https://rubenerd.com/goodbye-chris-seaton/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 02:05:05

• "My team is fully remote, so every Friday we have a team meeting over video to just hang out and talk about stuff. Eventually I’ll make a really great pun, most people will sigh, Kevin Menard will get angry, and Chris would just be straight faced. No reaction from Chris. Every. Single. Time." https://tenderlovemaking.com/2022/12/07/in-memory-of-a-giant.html    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 02:07:05

• "many are now fleeing Twitter due to a surge in climate misinformation, spam and even threats that have upended their relationship with the platform." http://www.skepticalscience.com/news.php?n=5524    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 02:09:30

• "Sometimes I think about the fact that I've made some bad things more reliable so they can go about doing evil more efficiently, quickly, or just at all. It sucks." https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/12/04/downfall/    

posted Monday, December 12, 2022 at 02:10:23