Roy Schestowitz

• FSF made it, now at over 301k US dollars as new year starts in Boston.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:06:03

• "The Debian Project released today the first alpha version of the installer for the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series, due for release next year." https://9to5linux.com/debian-13-trixie-installer-alpha-released-with-linux-6-12-lts-riscv64-support    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:08:57

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1511.jpg    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:20:39

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1161.jpg    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:20:46

• A preference for deterministic tools over probabilistic tools gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2024/12/31.1    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:22:03

• "Warning: This isn't a happy or positive post." gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2024/12/31/end-of-2024/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:22:45

• "A few times now, I've provided resolutions for people who can't be bothered to decide on them for themselves." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-01-01_Another_new_year__more_auto_generated_resolutions.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:23:45

• "This being a nation of Mammon—John McCarthy's marketing term for "I need a grant", AI, has grown to "Microsoft and OpenAI Tie AGI to a $100 Billion Profit Goal"—we'll need a price for electricity. And we may need some notion of the water level in the dam. Think of these values as senses, much like how skin signals temperature: okay, too hot, too cold." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/01/01/fsm.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:24:21

• "Not too long ago I wanted to buy some Perry Rhodan ebooks. Who is Perry Rhodan? It's a series of dime novels going back to the sixties. Shortly before the landing on the moon, this German series of A5 booklets, each more or less 60 pages long, started to appear." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2024-12-31-perry    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:25:24

• "my first goal was more mindful computer use. I'm not quite where I want to be yet with this - for example, I'm writing this post during a plane flight home after the holidays, and I instinctively hit my hotkey to open firefox in spite of there not being any wifi to browse the web." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2024-12-31.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:26:02

• "It's been an interesting year for me. I hope for you too. My career and personal life trajectory changed significantly this year. I hope it was for the better. There are many unknowns, as I have to find a new place to live, integrate in another social mesh." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2436    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:26:48

• "I'm sitting here pondering about what to write. I still had an unfinished phlog entry from mid September stored here that I will never finish. I do not only suck at writing, but I always feel like there is nothing to write about. Nothing ever happens in my life or at least nothing worth mentioning." gopher://sdfeu.org:70/0/users/glaciurso/phlog/2024-12-31__Pervigilium_Anni_Novi.md    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:27:54

• Soon To Be New Year gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20241231.txt "Of course, New Year enables us to reflect."    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:29:08

• I have a PGP key now gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/i-have-a-pgp-key-now.txt    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:29:46

• "I finally bit the bullet and did this, and it wasn't half as bad as I expected! I'm happy to see ed25519 seems widely supported these days, and I was astonished to receive an encrypted email only a few days after my key became available via WKD/autocrypt thanks to Posteo's support for these things, before I had put the key up on any of my spaces" gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/i-have-a-pgp-key-now.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:31:35

• [music] 2024-12-31 gemini://bogbody.smol.pub/music-2024-12-31 "australians know there's this all-night tv music program called rage that runs on friday & saturday nights"    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:33:08

• "End of year looms and I'm catching a quiet moment before the next meal among friendly faces. Let's reflect." gemini://lierre.smol.pub/retrospective-1    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:33:44

• "Recently, I finally managed to finish reading On the Road by Jack Kerouac and wow did it take a lot of effort to make that happen. Usually when I'm not feeling a book I just stop, but I decided to soldier on here because it's gotten so much praise and been put on so many pedestals over the years." gemini://pennywhether.xyz/articles/Books/on-the-road.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:34:24

• "NNCP (Node to Node Copy) is a set of Unix utilities for store-and-forward file exchange and remote command execution. It is a spiritual successor to UUCP." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/NNCP/23375    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:35:27

• "I had a professor who taught (among many other things) the algorithms and data structures course. He showed us FSMs in that class and was like: his is a secret weapon. Especially for solving text processing problems in a language like C." gemini://station.martinrue.com/lucifer_jehovah_smith/a4cc82fd34af453aa4cf89e7aa9c1cc9    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:36:59

• FSM = flying spaghetti monster, finite state machine    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:37:43

• ""That’s most of us in the company." in what proportion? also who is actually doing the work?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1weq2rws    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:42:04

• "I would look at IBM business partners, large IBM customers and competitors" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1wczir85    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:42:48

• "Just curious...who at IBM is actually responsible for the badge readers? Do the real estate people manage them as part of the buildings and facilities, or do the security people manage them? They all seem pretty dysfunctional, whoever they are." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1wfs0utp    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:43:12

• "So why not choose a fictional plasticine dog? He's more real than any "AI", or any tepid human who defers to one. I'd like to nominate Gromit as an unlikely hacker hero. [...] Gromit the dog is what Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and all those screwball US billionaires would like to be, but never will." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/gromit/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:44:47

• FSF fund raiser now at 302k. It still says "by Dec 31".    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:45:51

• 2024 ended with GNU/Linux at +0.5% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200902-202412    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:46:25

• That's nonsense, they count it wrong. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/31/tech-layoffs-drop-42-2024-industry-rebounds/ consider for instance RTO: https://techrights.org/n/2024/11/01/R_T_O_is_Another_Name_or_Acronym_for_Voluntary_Layoffs.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:47:46

• Microsoft MSN: Microsoft decides diversity ‘no longer business critical’, claims sacked manager    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:48:49

• Microsoft "also laid off about 650 employees from its gaming division in September and an undisclosed number of employees in July." https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2024/12/31/tech-layoffs-roundup-2024-seattle-microsoft.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 06:50:40

• 7331 pages/articles in Techrights since moving to the new system in late Sept. 2023    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:42:46

• "Generative AI Still Needs to Prove its Usefulness" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/12/30/1321215    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:44:11

• "Readers' letters: Elon Musk is no Jimmy Carter" https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/letters/readers-letters-elon-musk-is-no-jimmy-carter-4926364    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:44:56

• "Migrants Arrested in Killing of Mexican Immigration Agent" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/world/americas/mexico-us-border-migration-officer-killed.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:45:14

• "Eerie times: Panama marks canal handover anniversary in shadow of Trump threat" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2263497.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:45:21

• WHAT is this HEY THING??? Chatbots??? If you mean LLM, do not say "AI". Plus, they don't replace people. Managers are lied to... into TRYING to do so. https://www.tecmint.com/jobs-ai-cant-take-over/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:46:54

• "combines powerful performance with a compact form factor for a variety of demanding use cases." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-orion-o6-ai-board-with-up-to-64gb-ram-dual-5gbe-ports-and-pcie-gen4-expansion/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:47:50

• "This month, Sipeed unveiled the NanoKVM-USB, described as a compact and low-cost device designed to simplify the operation and management of multiple systems." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/nanokvm-usb-4k-hdmi-loopback-usb-3-0-and-integrated-keyboard-mouse-control/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:48:22

• "Anti-piracy coalition ACE wraps up a transformative and successful year. Despite major shifts in leadership, the MPA-backed coalition of media companies secured key victories, including the high-profile takedown of the Fmovies piracy network." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/ace-wraps-up-transformative-year-with-a-fresh-list-of-pirate-site-targets-241231/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:49:05

• "School Voucher Program" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/arizona-private-school-vouchers-no-transparency | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:49:31

• "He’s merely the most familiar cultural artifact to enter the public domain on Wednesday." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-12-31/column-a-faulkner-classic-and-popeye-enter-the-public-domain-as-copyright-gets-more-confusing | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:52:26

• "Anthropic will maintain its already implemented Guardrails in its current AI models and product offerings. With respect to new large language models and new product offerings that are introduced in the future" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/31/anthropic-copyright-guardrails/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:52:36

• "We also like things we own better – but now we rent our music. As soon as we stop paying, it will disappear." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/31/listening-without-a-streaming-subscription/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:52:55

• "Music fans approach the year’s end with excitement, awaiting Spotify’s reveal of the top artists and songs that individual users have listened to over the past 12 months." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/31/gwyneth-paltrow-questions-her-spotify-wrapped-results/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:53:31

• "The sight of Mr. Carter, then 95, bandaged but undaunted, and his wife, Rosalynn, helping to screw together front porches that October underscored their importance as Habitat’s longtime public faces." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/us/jimmy-carter-habitat-for-humanity.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:54:27

• "Hibatullah Akhundzada, the leader of the Taliban, ordered that buildings should not have windows looking into places where a woman could be sitting or standing." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/south-asia/taliban-window-ban-women-home-b2672070.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:54:41

• "On reclaiming power in 2021, the Taliban said it would take a more moderate approach towards women than it had prior to the US removing it from power." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/un-taliban-ban-on-afghan-women-in-ngos-absolutely-wrong/a-71189247 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:54:54

• "Christmas miracle" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/12/31/christmas-miracle-saves-small-town-nebraska-newspapers/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:55:50

• "He is the fourth person to be charged for sedition under the homegrown security law." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/12/31/case-of-man-accused-of-sedition-under-hong-kongs-article-23-security-law-adjourned-to-await-landmark-appeal/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:57:10

• [Old] "What the complaint reveals is Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of global censorship of topics deemed sensitive or critical of Beijing" ☛ https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/12/22/how-zoom-violated-its-own-terms-service-access-chinas-market | Source: HRW    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:57:23

• "In the heart of the post-truth era lies a fundamental shift in how people form their beliefs." ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/12/31/the-truth-in-crisis-navigating-the-post-truth-age/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:57:46

• "This talk will show some incidents with the election software in The Netherlands: how the software failed" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-how-election-software-can-fail | Source: CCC    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 07:58:14

• "South African-born CEO" ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/trump-bragging-to-friends-elon-musk-renting-cottage-from-him-at-2k-a-night/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 08:05:39

• "Don't expect anything to change anytime soon" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2024/12/31/elon-musk-headlines-bezos-zuckerberg | Source: Axios    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 08:06:00

• "The essence of successful bullshit is that it should be both plausible and presented authoritatively." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2024/12/self-own.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 08:06:15

• "Carter also made a point to not enrich himself before" ☛ https://thehill.com/opinion/5060618-jimmy-carter-christian-example/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 08:06:32

• "Following the intrusion, the White House emphasized the inadequacy of voluntary cybersecurity measures against nation-state" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/30/att_verizon_confirm_salt_typhoon_breach/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 08:06:48

• "To achieve our goal we need both Individual and Corporate sponsorship of the foundation." ☛ https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/campaign2024.html | Source: The OpenBSD Foundation    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 08:10:02

• "The disastrous crash of a Boeing 737-800 in South Korea over the weekend, which killed 179 of the 181 people onboard" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/31/second_jeju_air_mechanical_issues/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 08:10:56

• "In his single term in the Oval Office" ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5060237-jimmy-carter-energy-environmental-legacy/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 08:11:16

• "We’re conditioned to believe we must buy continuously." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/30/mindset-of-more/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 08:12:08

• Software livre, sociedade livre | Richard Stallman https://yewtu.be/watch?v=iZoztGftvz0    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:18:32

• "Highest-level national security documents reveal tough-minded, detail-oriented president" ☛ https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/2024-12-29/jimmy-carter-declassified-obituary | Source: The National Security Archive    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:19:13

• "Curious over a series of high-profile failures at Boeing followed by a glut of whistleblower reports" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/31/faa_whistleblower_complaints/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:19:26

• "We hired private investigator and did second autopsy to throw light on cause of death" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-mother-murder-claims | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:19:44

• Who the HECK would trust the WHOLE (or any of the) aviation industry after it wrongly blamed "bird" for a shitty plane killing almost everyone onboard? Don't trust them. They lie. They just don't want to compensate the families of the dead. It can bankrupt whole AIRLINES like Jeju Air. Honesty is dying. We also saw that in 2021 with experimental vaccines.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:40:13

• So nowadays, any time Boeing or an air control tower or an airline tells you the cause of some crash (e.g. "turbulence"), be sceptical. Those people lie for financial reasons. It's like the infiltrated FDA issuing approvals for the industry the panel COMES FROM! The institutional corruption and regulatory capture is far too great.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:42:09

• Then there's this https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/31/faa_whistleblower_complaints/?faa_sucks!    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:43:18

• USA was imitated by China but now it imitates China, including the corruption    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:44:35

• superpower means super-corrupt, also in Putin's Russia. Anything Putin doesn't like is "terrorism" or "false" or...    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:45:19

• If Bill Gates and his class just start murdering people to cover things up, then we must arrest Bill Gates and his class ... but they control the law enforcement and court systems. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bill-gates-jeffrey-epstein-pbs-newshour-interview/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:47:02

• Suchir might be another Shane Todd https://yewtu.be/watch?v=q8IruXIaeOg https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ERzY8Y5oPo4 https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4wRL2Xm6IyE    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:48:05

• Society is getting darker and darker, even the EU. Billionaires make ALL the important decisions. The rest of the public? Don't matter! GASLIGHT THEM! GET ON WITH THE PROGRAM, LAZY! https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-transparency-not-from-the-european-commission    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:51:32

• That can also be seen in Linux Foundation, where Microsoft and Bill Gates make decisions, not Linus Torvalds http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/New_IRS_Filing_Shows_That_the_Most_Dominant_Company_in_the_Linu.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:52:35

• In case it's not obvious yet, Microsoft is NOT a "software company". Microsoft is a LOT more like a crime syndicate. Just look who RUNS that company. As Microsoft corrupts and bribes a lot of the media, more so these days, nobody in the media has the "guts" (permission) to say so.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:55:33

• Overpopulation ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51219669/the-world-population-will-be-809-billion-on-new-years-day-after-a-71-million-increase-in-2024 | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:57:05

• Overpopulation\ "The incoming generation beta — people born between 2025 and 2039" ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/a-new-generation-is-born-today-who-is-generation-beta/8i8z6dxuu | Source: SBS    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:57:14

• Death in Singapore probe becomes political https://yewtu.be/watch?v=KvoTw_CCFOw is "OpenAI" the next one?    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:58:07

• Or, put another way, is Microsoft OpenAI murdering people? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=pw_TD6pVJJE https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Lt8_UCQgeH8    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:58:44

• How far would SCAM Altman go? Covering up the scam? https://yewtu.be/watch?v=-akgEP6whbU    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 09:59:34

• "shadow fleet" = covert war, too ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5243302 | Source: NPR    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:00:58

• "almost a hundred kilometers" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/finnish-investigators-discover-anchor-drag-marks-of-almost-a-hundred-kilometers-in-undersea-cable-damage-case-anchor-is-allegedly-missing-from-detained-tanker | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:01:30

• So the tanker dropped the anchor, literally. Dropped it for good. Cut off. Only after dragging it like 100KM on the ocean/sea floor to maximaise damage to infra assets. An anchor does not drag itself. It needs a boat to do the movement. Russia opened a new era of "anchor warware".    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:03:28

• Stubb does not want to say it out loud (as if that would cause further escalation), but this is war. Russia already started its war on Finland and smaller nations nearby, even Sweden. Russia's first attack on Ukraine was also "quiet" and "calm" (2014, Crimea). Putin tests the water... with anchors. ☛ https://therecord.media/finland-suspects-identified-alleged-russian-spy-ship | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:06:21

• So it's already as clear as daylight that Putin would not stop in Ukraine. Russia wants USSR (and more) back.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:07:22

• Putin already got a demented person bossed by a nazi scheduled to take over USA in 19 days    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:08:15

• "Elon Musk wants weak Europe" ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/01/501_389462.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:09:02

• "Carter's leadership on democracy issues remains a north star for the center, Carroll said." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-12-31/jimmy-carter-sought-to-expand-democracy-worldwide-long-after-he-left-the-white-house | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:09:28

• "Islamic State militants took control of large areas of eastern Syria and western Iraq in 2014" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/france-strikes-islamic-state-targets-in-syria-/7919586.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:09:38

• "His comments come days after the German government accused the billionaire of trying to influence its February election." ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/international/5061336-german-chancellor-musk-influence/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:10:06

• Why are ANY public orgs in Europe (political, police, courts etc.) STILL using X.com (Twitter) for ANYTHING? They need to JUSTIFY such an abomination.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:10:54

• [Old] "The population of England & Wales stands at 59.60 million; the Muslim population is 3.87 million, or 6.5 % of the total" ☛ https://mcb.org.uk/2021-census-as-uk-population-grows-so-do-british-muslim-communities/ | Source: MCB    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:11:33

• "Court Sides With State Over Pennsylvania County's Handling of Voting Machines After 2020 Election" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-12-31/court-sides-with-state-over-pennsylvania-countys-handling-of-voting-machines-after-2020-election | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:12:14

• "Iran provided U.S.-designated terrorist groups in Iraq, including Kataib Hezbollah, Harakat al-Nujaba and Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, with training, funding, logistical support, weapons and operational influence." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/ayatollah-khamenei-falsely-denies-existence-of-iran-s-proxy-military-forces/7918697.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:12:51

• "one of the worst implementation tasks" ☛ https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/rsa-keygen-bench/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:13:44

• Western regimes: China kills journalists and Russia kills dissenters and whistleblowers. Western regimes do not? They do too, the press under an average Western regime is good at covering some of those up and making nice-sounding excuses.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:15:37

• "On 23 October 2019 peaceful activist Frank van der Linde found out the Dutch Police was associating him with terrorism to other countries' law enforcement." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-police-2-0-peaceful-activism-is-terrorism-and-fakenews-are-facts | Source: CCC    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:15:42

• "So, with all of that preface … it doesn’t make me jump for joy that my pick for this year’s winner for Best Feature Article is a Times story. But it is a deserving one that made a real impact." ☛ https://tedium.co/2024/12/30/nytimes-auto-data-privacy-best-feature-article-2024/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:15:55

• "State programs that rely on RIBridges include Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program known as SNAP, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/rhode-islanders-data-was-leaked-from-a-cyberattack-on-state-health-benefits-website/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:16:18

• [Old] "In a statement late Friday, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan admitted to mistakenly routing calls via China." ☛ https://www.businessinsider.com/china-zoom-data-2020-4 | Source: Business Insider    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:16:55

• "As of this writing, nearly 139 million U.S. residents live in states with age verification laws on the books that specifically target adult entertainment platforms like Pornhub.com or xHamster.com." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/30/41-percent-of-americans-live-under-age-verification-laws-targeting-porn/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:17:19

• "The payments are the result of a class action settlement with the social media company Meta." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/are-those-36-29-direct-deposits-from-facebook-legit-1.7420533 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:17:31

• "Now, in 2024, it is precisely 10 years after Rowhammer was discovered." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-ten-years-of-rowhammer-a-retrospect-and-path-to-the-future | Source: CCC    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:18:12

• "This post features me discussing SPHINCS+, which is a PQC algorithm for digital signatures." ☛ https://er4hn.info/blog/2023.12.16-sphincs_plus-step-by-step/ | Source: Ethan Rahn    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:18:30

• Windows TCO: "BeyondTrust" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2024/12/treasury-says-chinese-hackers-remotely-accessed-several-workstations-and-unclassified-documents/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:24:44

• Windows TCO: "third-party cybersecurity service provider BeyondTrust" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51219786/us-treasury-says-chinese-hackers-stole-documents-in-major-incident | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:25:01

• Windows TCO and Windows Bot Nets... "would often bypass their own IT department" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2024/12/rogue-two-your-it-sprawl-is-about-to-expand-to-space/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:25:26

• Windows TCO: "The department was notified Dec. 8 by a third-party software provider, BeyondTrust" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/12/30/treasury-hack-china-national-security/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:25:55

• "It is difficult to backtest these kinds of ai, because we only want to give them the information they would have had if they had made the forecast on a particular date" ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/the-making-of-a-forecasting-bot | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:28:49

• "I don’t believe in it to replace our jobs wholesale, whether real jobs or the virtual factory floor of unpaid content creators." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2024/12/30/algorithmic-timeline-endgame.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:29:09

• "The city of Turku has closed its account on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20134325 | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:29:36

• "AI slop generation is flooding the web, and people are feeling like that’s what Google wants in the sense that that’s what seems to work for SEO." ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2024/12/30/watching-google-search-in-2025/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:30:03

• "I was a casual user until the 23 October release (informally “Claude 3.6”)" ☛ https://borretti.me/article/how-i-use-claude | Source: Fernando Borretti    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:33:08

• "capacity to produce lots of mediocre work very quickly" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/optimize-for-authentic-voices-in-a-sea-of-ai-search-spam/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:33:29

• "Gen AI is going to cost three to five times that of traditional systems do the same thing" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/12/31/gen-ai-hype-analyzing-tactical-cio-approach-cubeconversations/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:34:02

• Has the gen Hey Hi (AI) hype bubble burst? Analyzing the tactical CIO approach   

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:34:53

• "The FBI and other US federal agencies rang in 2024 boasting about disrupting a Chinese botnet composed of "hundreds" of outdated routers intent on breaking into US critical infrastructure facilities. Spoiler alert: the botnet is back. " ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/31/china_cyber_intrusions_2024/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:35:41

• "addictive feeds" ☛ https://epic.org/judge-allows-california-regulation-of-addictive-feeds-to-go-into-effect/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:37:14

• "In other words, we stop noticing what was always there. Here’s how you can change that." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/happiness-habituation-experiment-in-living/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:38:38

• "Their doctors are left to walk a tightrope trying to convince insurers that patients are making enough progress" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/mental-health-insurance-denials-patient-progress | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:40:46

• "The team used a deep learning AI model to assess brain age from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/these-habits-can-keep-your-brain-looking-young-at-70 | Source: Science Alert    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:41:34

• "The AI system, developed by scientists at the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust" ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5060679-artificial-intelligence-heart-disease-symptoms/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:43:53

• "Judge Tania D'Amelio criticized the popular short video app for its negligence" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/venezuela-fines-tiktok-over-deadly-viral-challenges/a-71188236 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:45:03

• "The addiction of children and adolescents to social media is a real epidemic of our time" ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1257577/the-social-media-trap/ | Source: Greece    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:45:29

• "I work full-time as a software engineer and I’m the primary homeschooling parent for my children." ☛ https://heyloura.com/2024/12/30/its-that-time-of-the.html | Source: Loura    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:46:49

• "Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect." ☛ https://allenpike.com/2024/an-unreasonable-amount-of-time | Source: Allen Pike    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:47:00

• "The authors came by their number after examining scientific papers about human feats of speed" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-speed-of-human-thought-is-far-slower-than-the-average-wi-fi-study-suggests-180985752/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:48:37

• "People tend to talk in a little circle and then move around over time." ☛ https://notes.eatonphil.com/2024-12-31-how-i-run-a-coffee-club.html | Source: Phil Eaton    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:49:06

• "They are all about owning your websites and have been a consistent source of inspiration for my personal site." ☛ https://mattcool.tech/posts/indieweb-is-cool/ | Source: Matt Cool    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:49:28

• "I ask myself the question What should I make next? often." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2024/12/31/questions-on-my-mind/ | Source: James G    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:50:38

• "This site launched in the tilde directory of my ISP on December 31, 1995" ☛ https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/29-years-of-blogging.html | Source: Chris O'Donnnell    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:50:49

• "They don’t care that these networks" ☛ https://daniel.industries/2024/12/30/the-ghost-of-somebodys-kpis-are-rattling-their-chains-in-my-forest/ | Source: Daniel Miller    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:51:07

• "(looks like I had enough notes for an upcoming event to do A-Z this year…)" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/predictions-for-2025/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:52:48

• "Thus began a decadelong search for old Ukrainian recipes, lost food-preparation practices" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2024/1230/ukraine-cuisine-russia-identity-culture | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:53:34

• "justices also vacated a district court ruling that rejected claims the state’s criminal gambling statutes were unconstitutional" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2024/12/30/kansas-supreme-court-skill-gaming-company-lacks-standing-in-lawsuit-against-state-regulators/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:54:25

• "For the athletes competing, like three-time NBA champion and podcast host Danny Green" ☛ https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/392362/legal-sports-betting-online-addiction | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:54:42

• "First and foremost, I want to say a heartfelt thank you!" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/wishing-to-all-our-dear-readers-a-bright-2025/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:55:32

• "As 2024 draws close, it’s time for my annual year in review reflection." ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/year-in-review-2024/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:57:12

• "The principle goes like this: Web servers keep logs, typically generated by Apache." ☛ https://heliomass.com/posts/2429-state-of-the-blog-2024/ | Source: Heliomass    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:57:34

• "My anti-resolution1 for 2025 is to take a break from online discourse, including writing on this blog." ☛ https://derekkedziora.com/blog/a-sabbatical-from-the-internet-anti-resolution | Source: Derek Kędziora    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:58:19

• "In September during some rather heavy rain we forgot to bring our awning in and it snapped off it's brackets." ☛ https://rknight.me/blog/just-2024-things-i-didnt-get-the-year-wrong-this-time/ | Source: Rob Knight    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 10:58:28

• "hat are the chances that three different hosts" ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2024/12/31/pf-states-limit-reached/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:01:49

• Removing unused crypto algorithms mainly makes it easier to test for me."" ☛ https://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2024-December/452338.html | Source: DragonFly BSD    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:03:06

• end of year tasks... getting fewer and fewer each year, owing to automation    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:17:56

• Automation is NOT "HEY HI". Automation ... is Automation.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:18:25

• Will "Automation" replace human workers? Yes! It has done so for CENTURIES already. NOTHING to do with Machine Learning.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:19:13

• "chatbots" or LLMs are NOWHERE as revolutionary as the PONZI SCHEME built around them    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:19:58

• How to Install Snipe-IT on Ubuntu 24.04 ☞ https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-snipe-it-on-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:28:14

• "I’ve been having a ton of fun fiddling with Tailscale1 over the past few days. While setting it up on a server, I came across this shell script2 that configures the ufw firewall on Linux to ensure direct communication across different nodes in my tailnet." ☛ https://rednafi.com/misc/run_single_instance/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:28:38

• "Many of the initial examples and use cases for anchor positioning are simplifying existing possibilities, and – don’t misunderstand me – anchor positioning will simplify how dropdown menus are implemented significantly." ☛ https://www.oddbird.net/2024/11/18/anchor-position-yearbook/ | Source: OddBird    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:28:53

• "In zpool replace, you can read about a drive which was giving errors and which I replaced." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2024/12/30/playing-around-with-a-failing-drive/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:29:26

• "This talks gives a behind the scenes on how the infrastructure side of the event is done." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-38c3-infrastructure-review | Source: CCC    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:29:35

• How To Install Prometheus on Rocky GNU/Linux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-prometheus-rocky-linux-9/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:31:11

• How To Install InfluxDB on Fedora 41 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-influxdb-fedora-41/ "InfluxDB is a powerful open-source time-series database designed for handling high volumes of timestamped data."    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:31:36

• Quick howto for systemd-inhibit ☞ https://foursixnine.io//blog/systemd/linux/hacks/2024/12/31/quickhowtoforsystemdinhibit.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:32:22

• How To Install VLC Media Player on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-vlc-media-player-centos-stream-10/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:33:18

• How To Install WebERP on Fedora 41 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-weberp-fedora-41/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:33:42

• How To Install Wine on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-wine-centos-stream-10/ "In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Wine on CentOS Stream 10."    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:34:20

• How To Install ionCube PHP Encoder on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ioncube-php-encoder-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:35:53

• Dead Internet Theory is Facebook's New Business Model ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/dead-internet-theory-is-facebooks    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:36:03

• How To Install Telnet on Rocky GNU/Linux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-telnet-rocky-linux-9/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:36:25

• How To Install Seafile on Fedora 41 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-seafile-fedora-41/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:37:27

• Anon: By merging, there ends up being far less accountability and much more waste and less service: https://yle.fi/a/74-20134365    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:48:26

• their "savings" will always be someone's loss, just like in the context of "modern" so-called 'tech'    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:52:01

• "In this talk I want to give you an overview about the minimal steps you should take to prepare your code for publication. Covering what belongs into a repository, how to make your code sharable and which license to pick." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-basics-of-software-publication | Source: CCC    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:52:36

• "Jim shares his journey from organizing Ruby conferences to founding and growing ElixirConf into the community cornerstone it is today." ☛ https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s13-e10-elixirconf-horizon-elixir-deployment-jim-freeze/ | Source: SmartLogic    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:53:05

• "When a nerdy dad and 14-year-old music-playing son join forces and start experimenting with music and code, some nice things can happen." ☛ https://webtechie.be/post/2024-12-31-java-advent-virtual-threads-midi/ | Source: Frank Delporte    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:53:23

• "A navigation mesh is a data structure used to aid in pathfinding around obstacles. Originally used for video games and robotics, we can also apply the concept of this navigational mesh to the movement of animals through landscape, using methods such as FEEMS." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/12/generating-a-triangular-navigation-mesh-from-h3-hexagons-in-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:54:10

• "One of my goals for 2025 is to build a complete game. Complete as in, you can buy it on Steam or the App Store for $2.99 or so." ☛ https://healeycodes.com/building-game-prototypes-with-love | Source: Andrew Healey    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:54:26

• "conducted a groundbreaking study of 4,063 pilots. " ☛ https://andrewstiefel.com/myth-average-user/ | Source: Andrew Stiefel    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:54:54

• "Regular readers of my blog will be aware that SQL is an excellent tool for graphics. You can use it to draw snowflakes, fractals, ray-traced 3D pictures, and many other things." ☛ https://explainextended.com/2024/12/31/happy-new-year-16/ | Source: Explain Extended    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:55:54

• "People born after 2000" = the people sent to the next international wars, as the first wave of conscripts. What a bright future awaits...    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 11:57:17

• "Many of us bury our heads in the sand. But it reminds me of something I learned more than forty years ago" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/free-software-is-powerful-because-of-you | Source: FSF    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 12:00:10

• "It's the last day of the first year of archipylago and I wanted to take a moment to say a few words." ☛ https://archipylago.dev/blog/thanks-for-2024/ | Source: Archipylago    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 12:01:53

• "Coolify helps minimize the amount of headache self-hosting can be, and I’m very excited to have it" ☛ https://quakkels.com/posts/202412_01_goodbye_github_pages_hello_coolify/ | Source: Brandon Quakkelaar    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 12:02:37

• "What used to be “just” a folder" ☛ https://json.blog/2024/12/31/transmit-is-awesome-google-drive.html | Source: Jason Becker    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 12:05:14

• "As 2024 closes and we begin to publish updates from all of our teams" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/successes-and-awards-for-fsf-board-members-in-2024 | Source: FSF    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 12:05:56

• "Machine-in-the-Middle (MitM) attackers aim to overhear and manipulate network traffic." ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-how-roaming-agreements-enable-5g-mitm-attacks | Source: CCC    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 12:08:36

• "Regarding hardware support, armel, and i386 remain in the Debian archive but will no longer have dedicated installer builds" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-alpha-installer-debuts-with-improved-partitioning-and-localization/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 12:10:01

• Louis-Philippe Véronneau: 2024 — A Musical Retrospective ☞ https://veronneau.org/2024-a-musical-retrospective.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 12:18:04

• Months after Boeing apparently MURDERED its biggest whistleblower we see Boeing planes whose wheels stop working. Those layoffs are well deserved. https://www.inc.com/reuters/boeing-will-lay-off-over-2500-workers-amid-turnaround-effort/91021043    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 12:32:40

• Boeing has long been a murderous company, even if one just counts its military half. Very bad year for whistleblowers, that's what 2024 was.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 12:33:27

• 🔤SpellBinding — ACDIVUT Wordo: LEAVE gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2025-01-01.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 13:16:44

• LIGHTING UP A NEW YEAR gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-01-01Lighting_Up_a_New_Year.txt    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 13:18:36

• Don't support the FSF, say Peter Bright and Drew DeVault    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 13:19:15

• Books read in 2024 gopher://box.matto.nl/0/books-read-in-2024.txt "In 2024 I read a relative small amount of books."    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 13:19:58

• "Badge readers are usually part of IBM CIO NW infrastructure." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1wfs0utp    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 13:49:35

• "Am I the only one who didn't get the memo... or my December Fidelity issued IBM PENSION CHECK?? Pebble-On-The-Fl-Beach" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1utXXZvD    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 13:51:32

• Worth debating now that insurance companies have their CEOs fatally shot for denying claims of people (whose money they hold).    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 13:52:15

• Amazon, IBM and Microsoft are top users of H-1B visas    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 13:53:26

• They lay off the domestic workforce, saying those people are "reductant", but then bring people to replace them    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 13:55:34

• Don Marti: predictions for 2025 ☞ https://blog.zgp.org/predictions-for-2025/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 14:20:24

• "Over a month after its previous 6.2.4 release" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-2-5-released-next-stop-plasma-6-3/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 14:54:51

• "In the tech circles I follow, there are a number of people who are firmly in what I could call a 'text mode' camp" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/WindowsAndMouseForMe | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 14:55:14

• nigeria https://www.dw.com/en/nigeria-steps-up-fight-against-illegal-oil-trade/a-70976756    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 14:56:41

• FSF raised another 6k or so in t he first half day of 2025, i.e. after deadline    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 15:00:56

• mozambique https://www.dw.com/en/mozambique-top-court-confirms-disputed-frelimo-election-victory/a-71147364    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 15:06:57

• Why would anyone call a file explorer that? ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/transgender-minimalistic-terminal-file-explorer/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 15:08:28

• Accessible-Coconut – GNU/Linux distro dedicated to accessibility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/accessible-coconut-linux-distro-accessibility/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 15:09:01

• Good Gains for Android for GNU/Linux in New Zealand This Year ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/Good_Gains_for_Android_for_GNU_Linux_in_New_Zealand_This_Year.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 15:10:52

• Brittany Day Unleashes Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Propaganda About Linux, Likely Generated by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft LLM to Strategically Googlebomb a Topic ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/31/Brittany_Day_Unleashes_Microsoft_Propaganda_About_Linux_Likely_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 15:10:58

• Even the Microsoft boosters say "happy new year!" this way https://betanews.com/2024/12/31/microsoft-issues-critical-net-installer-warning-to-developers/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 15:37:52

• "One of the longest running jokes in our sphere is that the coming year will finally be the year of “Linux on the Desktop.”" https://hackaday.com/2024/12/31/why-2025-will-not-be-the-year-of-linux-on-the-desktop/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 15:45:46

• The Steam snap is now much better for gaming https://www.xda-developers.com/thread/steam-snap-is-much-better/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 15:48:07

• "Microsoft ... at the forefront of this [mass layoffs] trend" https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/year-ender-2024-the-year-that-saw-big-tech-job-cuts-surge/amp_articleshow/116855673.cms    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 15:52:37

• Has a SPECIAL section for Microsoft, but NOT for IBM or Amazon. What does that say? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-OSS-Linux-2024    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:03:23

• KDE Plasma 6.2.5 Released as the Last Update in the Series with More Bug Fixes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-2-5-released-as-the-last-update-in-the-series-with-more-bug-fixes    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:04:05

• Debian 13 “Trixie” Installer Alpha Released with Linux 6.12 LTS, RISCV64 Support ☞ https://9to5linux.com/debian-13-trixie-installer-alpha-released-with-linux-6-12-lts-riscv64-support    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:04:43

• www-zh-cn @ Savannah: Summary 2024 ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10710    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:08:27

• This Year in Linux, the Top GNU/Linux News of 2024 ☞ https://thisweekinlinux.com/tyil-2024    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:09:29

• "Informative video about Nick Fuentes covering the racism, anti-semitism, misogyny, and how he is clearly in denial about being gay" ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2024/12/31/links-december-2024/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:10:13

• Using Hugo with Kate ☞ https://redstrate.com/blog/2024/12/using-hugo-with-kate/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:11:12

• LibreArts Weekly recap — 29 December 2024 ☞ https://librearts.org/2024/12/week-recap-29-dec-2024/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:14:03

• SPC monopolies Manufacturing Waiver case ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/12/31/a-christmas-gift-for-the-biosimilar-industry-landmark-judgment-in-spc-manufacturing-waiver-case/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:16:36

• "are still below the 2019 high point at over 350,000." ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/12/patent-grants-2024.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:16:46

• Jimmy Carter on Globalisation of "Tech" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/Jimmy_Carter_on_Globalisation_of_Tech.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:17:18

• [Meme] Getting Banned From Social Control Media 2 Days or Two Weeks Before Leaving Office ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/Meme_Getting_Banned_From_Social_Control_Media_2_Days_or_Two_Wee.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:17:25

• Wishing for a Wikileaks Renaissance in 2025 ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/Wishing_for_a_Wikileaks_Renaissance_in_2025.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:17:45

• A Free Software Foundation (FSF) Led by Dr. Richard Stallman Can Still Raise a Lot of Money ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/A_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Led_by_Dr_Richard_Stallman_Can_S.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:31:34

• Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raises about $50,000 After Saying We Should Put Pressure on Microsoft, Might Exceed $300,000 in Total Before 2025 (Boston Time) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/31/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raises_about_50_000_After_Saying_W.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:31:50

• 2025 Coming. "Lawsuits are temporary. Glory is forever. Go public." ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/31/2025_Coming_Lawsuits_are_temporary_Glory_is_forever_Go_public.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:32:01

• Sophie Herold: This was 2024 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/sophieh/2024/12/31/this-was-2024/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:33:17

• Worst Debian Project Leader, Chris Lamb: Favourites of 2024 ☞ https://chris-lamb.co.uk/posts/favourites-of-2024    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:34:36

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1003856/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:35:34

• "Hungary Loses Out On $1 Billion In EU Funding" https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-denied-1-billion-euros-eu-funding-corruption-allegation/33260399.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:39:19

• "Hungary Loses Out On $1 Billion In EU Funding" https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-denied-1-billion-euros-eu-funding-corruption-allegation/33260399.html Maybe vlad the impaler can make up for that with 1 billion worthless rubles.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:40:32

• CNX Software’s 2024 Year in review, website statistics, and what to expect in 2025 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/31/cnx-software-2024-year-in-review-website-statistics-and-what-to-expect-in-2025/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 16:40:56

• Software Freedom Conservancy Inc (SFC) Lost Revenue and Also Got Rid of "Senior Director of Diversity and Inclusion" (Sage A Sharp, Formerly Known as Sarah Sharp, Who Ran an Ill-Spirited Campaign Against Linus Torvalds, Theodore Tso, and Other Prominent Linux Developers) http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/01/Software_Freedom_Conservancy_Inc_SFC_Lost_Revenue_and_Also_Got_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 17:39:00

• Yes, it IS embarrassing, but NOT fabricated. If truth hurts, then it's journalism/research.    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 17:41:06

• RSS feed added to CyberShow Blog (hours ago) https://cybershow.uk/blog/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 18:11:52

• "Once again solstice has occured and once again the year according to the Georgian calendar increments. I did not list any resolutions in my last entry, so there is no need to evaluate, how I fared, but read on." gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2025/20250101-hello-2025.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 18:26:35

• "Congrats to @smallpatatas on the win! Best of luck to everyone in January." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/farkle/23399    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 18:27:08

• "main focus: making things out-of-the-ordinary. creating memories. overcoming the home-body introvert instincts (reinforced by the partner and generally being covid-conscious) to try and like... make life. seasonal stuff, special occasions, but also Going And Experiencing things, un-gluing from the computer etc." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/newyearthoughts    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 18:27:46

• Promote RSS feeds of decent Web sites to help them bypass social control media (abandon it or never get started)    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 18:31:22

• Why are so many governments in the EU STILL using "X", thinking it's OK to use that to communicate to the public??? https://siliconangle.com/2024/10/25/elon-musk-reportedly-regular-contact-vladimir-putin/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 18:32:21

• End of Year Sleeplessness gopher://gopher.prismdragon.net:70/0/phlog/2024/2024-12-27_sleepless.txt    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 19:49:23

• Cold gopher://gopher.prismdragon.net:70/0/phlog/2024/2024-12-12_cold.txt    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 19:50:10

• Happy New Year gopher://1436.ninja:70/0/Phlog/20250101.md    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 19:51:24

• The old year is finnally over gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2025-01-01-The_old_year_is_finnally_over.txt    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 19:51:54

• "Eat , sleep, train, work, repeat! Count your blessings." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2437    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 19:53:27

• some things i quite enjoyed in 2024 gemini://wampa.smol.pub/some-things-i-quite-enjoyed-in-2024    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 19:54:01

• Chido https://www.dw.com/en/mayotte-france-holds-silence-for-cyclone-chido-victims/a-71144455    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:09:48

• Year-end donations round, 2024 edition ☞ https://rg3.name/202412310952.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:11:10

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:11:40

• Happy New Year 2025 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/12/31/happy-new-year-2025/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:11:45

• TTAB Posts January 2025 Hearing Schedule ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2024/12/ttab-posts-january-2025-hearing-schedule.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:11:57

• "2024 was the hottest year on record for Moscow" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/31/2024-was-the-hottest-year-on-record-for-moscow | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:12:41

• Death row with banknotes on the electric chair: "sign-on bonuses for prisoners joining the army" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/31/russia-ends-sign-on-bonuses-for-prisoners-joining-the-army | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:13:32

• "Secret military files from 2013–2014 show Moscow’s planning for potential war with Japan and South Korea on Russia’s eastern flank" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/31/secret-military-files-from-2013-2014-show-moscow-s-planning-for-potential-war-with-japan-and-south-korea-on-russia-s-eastern-flank | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:13:44

• "checkpoint on Armenian-Iranian border" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/31/russian-border-guards-withdraw-from-sole-checkpoint-on-armenian-iranian-border | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:14:16

• "exit Russia and delete Russian user data" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/31/genealogy-platform-myheritage-will-exit-russia-and-delete-russian-user-data | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:14:45

• U.S. Announces Sanctions Against Russian, Iranian Entities Accused Of Election Interference ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-russia-sanctions-election-interference/33259422.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:14:53

• Suspected Russian spy's case handed over to Lithuanian court ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2450334/suspected-russian-spy-s-case-handed-over-to-lithuanian-court    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:15:07

• Georgia’s ruling party ‘instrumentalises’ conservative values to stay in power, expert says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241231-georgia-s-ruling-party-instrumentalise-conservative-values-to-stay-in-power-expert-says    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:15:14

• US sanctions Russian, Iranian groups for election interference ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/russia-china-sanctions-election-interference/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:15:30

• What about the social control media platforms THEMSELVES? OR their owners? Why are MElon and XiTok off the hook again?    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:16:13

• Kursk ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/31/acting-kursk-governor-calls-residents-demands-for-increased-compensation-for-losses-from-ukraine-s-offensive-not-entirely-fair | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:16:38

• "gas flow to E.U. through Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/31/gazprom-reduces-gas-flow-to-e-u-through-ukraine-full-transit-to-stop-on-new-year-s-day | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:17:01

• "Russian-Ukrainian POW exchange" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/31/2024-ends-with-russian-ukrainian-pow-exchange-the-11th-of-the-year-and-the-59th-of-the-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:17:27

• Russia halts gas exports to Europe via Ukraine, Kyiv hails ‘historic event’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250101-russia-halts-gas-exports-to-europe-via-ukraine-kyiv-hails-historic-event    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:17:45

• On E-Scooters and ATVs, Russian Forces Swarm Ukrainian Positions in the East ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/world/europe/ukraine-russia-attacks-eastern-front.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:18:15

• Russia Suspends Flow of Natural Gas to Europe Through Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/world/europe/russia-ukraine-natural-gas-europe.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:18:33

• Volunteers Race To Clean Oil Covered Coastline After Tanker Accident In Kerch Strait ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/volunteers-race-to-clean-oil-covered-coastline-after-tanker-accident-in-kerch-strait/33259108.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:18:48

• Russian Helicopter Downed By Ukrainian Sea Drone, Says Kyiv ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-crimea-drone-sea-missile-helicopter-strike-military/33259364.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:19:03

• Russian Gas Flow Through Pipeline In Ukraine Ends ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-europe-natural-gas-pipeline-contract/33259466.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:19:25

• U.S. Imposes Sanctions On Russian Judge Who Sentenced War Critic ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-war-dissident-gorinov-mendeleeva-sanctions/33259509.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:19:40

• North Korean soldiers fighting with outdated weapons, Ukrainian sergeant says ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2024/12/31/nkorea-dead-soldiers/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:19:54

• Will the war In Ukraine end in 2025? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2450208/will-the-war-in-ukraine-end-in-2025    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:20:06

• UN experts say Israel has systematically violated international law ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/12/un-experts-condemn-israels-systematic-assault-on-international-law/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:20:42

• Russia and Ukraine exchange hundreds of POWs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241231-russia-and-ukraine-exchange-hundreds-of-pow    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:21:03

• Barrage of Russian missiles and drones hits targets in Kyiv and across Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241231-barrage-of-russian-missiles-drones-hit-multiple-targets-in-ukraine-including-in-kyiv    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:21:35

• 2024: A year marked by violence, wars, elections and the Olympic Games ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241231-2024-a-year-marked-by-wars-elections-and-the-olympic-games    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:22:20

• Pro-Russian hackers target websites of several French cities ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241231-pro-russian-hackers-target-websites-of-several-french-cities    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:22:42

• Europe to end imports of Russian gas via Ukraine on January 1 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241231-russia-s-once-dominant-gas-supplies-to-europe-end-on-january-1    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:23:03

• Steinar H. Gunderson: git.sesse.net goes IPv6-only ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2024-12-31-09-48_git_sesse_net_goes_ipv6_only.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:23:37

• So theage is selling this idea that mass surveillance is good for you https://www.theage.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/banks-are-tracking-your-every-click-it-could-save-you-thousands-20241215-p5kyjq.html    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:25:19

• 2024 a Record Year for Android (Almost 50% "Market Share"), Which is Now Bigger in Europe Than Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/2024_a_Record_Year_for_Android_Almost_50_Market_Share_Which_is_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:26:06

• LineageOS 22.1 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1003862/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:26:40

• New rule for foreign e-commerce sites selling in Mexico takes effect ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/e-commerce-companies-tax-mexico/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:29:11

• Alleged 7-Zip arbitrary code execution exploit leaked to Ex-Twitter — the 7-Zip author claims this exploit not only isn't real but was generated by Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/alleged-7-zip-arbitrary-code-execution-exploit-leaked-to-twitter-the-7-zip-author-claims-this-exploit-not-only-isnt-real-but-was-generated-by-ai    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:29:46

• Vietnamese monk leaves Laos, enters Thailand ☞ https://rfa.org/english/laos/2024/12/31/laos-vietnamese-barefoot-monk-thailand/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:30:17

• Best Free and Open Source Software: November and December 2024 Updates ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-software-november-december-2024-updates/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:32:18

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Spotify Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-text-based-spotify-clients/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:32:24

• faint – extensible TUI fuzzy file explorer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/faint-extensible-tui-fuzzy-file-explorer/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:32:31

• Miriway – Mir based Wayland compositor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/miriway-mir-based-wayland-compositor/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:32:38

• rxfetch – minimal but geeky fetch utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rxfetch-minimal-geeky-fetch-utility/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:32:46

• Spotifatius – simple Spotify CLI ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/spotifatius-simple-spotify-cli/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:32:54

• kpcyrd: 2024 wrapped ☞ https://vulns.xyz/2024/12/2024-wrapped/    

posted Wednesday, January 01, 2025 at 20:33:48