Roy Schestowitz

• "Wondering if/when this is going to hit Federal Cyber Security Services Consulting." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jh5vv8xz    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 04:41:51

• "Yea, because it's much better to get your propaganda from the state-run media. Take a look outside the fake news and you might find out what's really going on around you" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jh8wnjm9    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 04:42:38

• "US is 37 trillion in debt and a bloody mess from lowering school standards, to the ridiculous fire in LA, to the astronauts stuck in space, to the Boeing planes falling apart, the US is going to break apart i wonder what the previous middle class is going to do and who they are going to hold accountable" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhhb7e3p    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 04:44:54

• Linus Torvalds offers to build guitar effects pedal for kernel developer https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/linus_torvalds_guitar_pedal_offer/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 04:58:26

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1174.jpg    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:04:16

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1524.jpg    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:04:21

• 🔤SpellBinding: AHORTWY Wordo: STOAS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-01-14.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:05:04

• "I've continued on my journey with the ocarina, trying to play it for a few minutes every day. This turns out to be more like once every two or three days, due to the busyness at home." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250113-0.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:06:39

• "I think I learned a few things lately (or at least formed opinions). Programming language fundamentals change so seldom, I thought it would be fun to order this post in the order I first learned the languages even if this is a bit arbitrary." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/dbane/gemlog/2025-01-13.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:07:28

• "I've implemented a card and dice game called Fill! that is closely related to Farkle! I'm looking for feedback and any identified bugs. Since it is new, I can't guarantee tournament points will remain for this month if I need to completely reset the game." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/gritty/23826    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:08:14

• "HTML soon became my primary document format. I used word processor software for documents that required more than what HTML offered, but nearly everything else I wrote was done as HTML; in fact I soon started writing drafts of papers in HTML and then imported the HTML into a word processor for the final edit." gemini://jdcard.com/blog/2023-12-06T19-40.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:09:50

• "I have some random bits that come out as fragmented thoughts, these are some of those, as I can recall them." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2455    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:10:48

• "What would you want to see in a desktop GUI Gemini client? What do you wish your favorite client did, that it doesn't do, and why?" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Geminispace/23771    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:11:45

• FSF 29k short of target    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:15:50

• transition away from fossil fuels https://greenparty.org.uk/2025/01/10/greens-urge-faster-transition-away-from-fossil-fuels/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:18:00

• Loneliness and social isolation https://theconversation.com/loneliness-and-social-isolation-are-linked-to-specific-proteins-new-research-245416    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:18:23

• Amazon is ending remote work https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-ends-remote-work-1.7422614    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:19:49

• Recent Strike at Amazon https://jacobin.com/2025/01/amazon-teamsters-strike-holidays-numbers/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:20:09

• Diversity Programs https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-01-10/meta-to-end-diversity-programs-ahead-of-trump-inauguration    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:20:26

• U.S. banks abandon Mark Carney climate initiative https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/carney-esg-climate-finance-1.7428281    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:25:44

• Why people hate and cannot trust Microsoft https://www.maketecheasier.com/microsoft-bing-spoofs-google-makeover/ https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337117/microsoft-bing-search-results-google-design-trick    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:26:17

• Microsoft’s Recent History of Dirty Tricks With Edge https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/28/23702274/microsoft-edge-developer-bing-ai-chatbot-advertisement-google-bard    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:26:53

• GAFAM for cheeto insurrection by convicted felon https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:27:21

• Fish Shell Is Reborn Again As A RUST Rewrite!! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ioFvq38MNOE    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:28:46

• Correcting The Record On The Ghostty Terminal https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=XiTYYMqrYnU    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:29:08

• BackBox Linux 9 Quick Overview https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=z6IwkSpzGb4    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:30:16

• 9 BIG UPDATES in Elementary OS 8 That Will Make You Want To SWITCH https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=vq4khKB9ZrI    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:31:17

• Check out these 3 distros to keep an eye on in 2025 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=YkCRzVl0gPc    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:35:24

• Ghostty is a Fast and Feature-Rich Terminal https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=zbFwf8tjrWk    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:36:31

• Warehouse Makes Flatpaks Even Easier To Use https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=XONP03uMq08    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:36:47

• Linus Tech Tips Takes Another Crack At Linux Gaming https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=UjSik8kQRH8    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:37:12

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 Quick Overview https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=khyyKPBffTQ    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:37:45

• Arch Linux Is Objectively The Best Distro https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=xSyUvkpHv6M    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:38:19

• Nobara Project 41 overview https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=oOifqt8Iy3Y    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:38:50

• Ranking Linux Distributions for 2025 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=N0Gmcz2CywE    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:39:39

• One Xorg Developer Tried To Revive Development https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=k75A7Wne22w    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:40:13

• Siduction...This Linux Distro Keeps Shining On https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=JtW1faCVVCQ    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:40:25

• Bringing KDE 1 Back To Life in 2025!! https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=IwuFhaWwmAw    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:40:41

• What Linus got wrong (and right) about Linux Gaming in 2025 https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ebmp2FIrTlE    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:41:07

• Linux changed in 2024, but 2025 will be MUCH BIGGER https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=bwRzDUw4qBg    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:41:20

• The ACTUAL State of Linux Gaming https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=0toWysEA3vs    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:41:42

• GNU/Linux now over 5% in Bosnia And Herzegovina? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bosnia-and-herzegovina/#monthly-200902-202501 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/bosnia-and-herzegovina/#monthly-200902-202501    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:43:21

• They used to cover GNU/Linux every day https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/operating-system-choose-next-pc/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:44:30

• new threat to freedom of expression https://bianet.org/haber/is-rtuks-pressure-on-newspapers-for-youtube-licenses-new-threat-to-freedom-of-expression-303511    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:46:41

• Alpine 3.18.11, 3.19.6, 3.20.5 and 3.21.2 released https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.18.11-3.19.6-3.20.5-3.21.2-released.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:47:32

• Alpine 3.18.10, 3.19.5 and 3.20.4 released https://alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3.18.10-3.19.5-3.20.4-released.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:49:19

• Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (1/2025): A New Year and Phosh 0.44.0 https://linmob.net/weekly-update-01-2025/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:52:09

• Steam On Linux Ends 2024 With Small Marketshare Boost, AMD Linux CPU Use Near 74% https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/01/05/0251206/steam-on-linux-ends-2024-with-small-marketshare-boost-amd-linux-cpu-use-near-74    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:52:26

• iophk: apropos javascript and wasted electricity, there are some stats about how much electricity each wasted clock cycle costs at scale in this presentation from the 38C3: "Opt Green: Coordinating a Windows 10-to-Linux upcycling campaign across Free Software communities worldwide - media.ccc.de" https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-opt-green-coordinating-a-windows-10-to-linux-upcycling-campaign-across-free-software-communities-worldwide    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 05:56:20

• Social media ‘soft girls’ depend on men for money – but Sweden once used state ‘influencers’ to urge women to get jobs https://theconversation.com/social-media-soft-girls-depend-on-men-for-money-but-sweden-once-used-state-influencers-to-urge-women-to-get-jobs-246810    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:01:39

• How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who created the first password on the internet https://theconversation.com/how-britain-got-its-first-internet-connection-by-the-late-pioneer-who-created-the-first-password-on-the-internet-45404    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:01:57

• misinformation https://theconversation.com/what-metas-move-to-community-moderation-could-mean-for-misinformation-247016    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:02:30

• Saudi Arabia Presses Florida Man to Give up US Citizenship Over Critical Tweets, Family Says https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-07/saudi-arabia-presses-florida-man-to-give-up-us-citizenship-over-critical-tweets-family-says    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:28:07

• Killed journalists https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/journalist-tolhildan-the-turkish-state-s-target-is-syria-77291 https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/farewell-to-journalists-nazim-dastan-and-cihan-bilgin-martyred-in-rojava-77288    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:47:34

• 118 journalists detained, 26 imprisoned in Turkey in 2024 https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/dfg-report-118-journalists-detained-26-imprisoned-in-turkey-in-2024-77260    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:48:31

• 'Right to Hope' https://anfenglishmobile.com/human-rights/lawyer-deniz-turkey-does-not-recognize-the-right-to-hope-77263    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:48:52

• Enterprise Linux Security Episode 105 - Buckets of Fun https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=KpdgCuXrmAk    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:54:04

• Partly a Windows mindset, as back doors are presumed to exist https://www.maketecheasier.com/what-firewalls-do-security/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:54:55

• "You will notice the iso/module size increase which is mostly down to kernel, mesa, llvm, pipewire and software generally trending bigger." https://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?t=11532&p=101487#p101487    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:59:16

• CRUX 3.8-rc3 is out    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 06:59:31

• Tails 6.11 https://tails.net/news/version_6.11/index.en.html "In Tails 6.10 or earlier, an attacker who has already taken control of an application in Tails could then exploit a vulnerability in Tails Upgrader to install a malicious upgrade and permanently take control of your Tails."    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:01:02

• Endless 6.0.5 is out https://www.endlessos.org/blog    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:02:50

• Pop!_OS 24.04-alpha5 and Venom 20250108 also out    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:03:14

• 2025: The Year of COSMIC — Alpha 5 Released! https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-5-released    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:03:49

• Debian-Edu 12.9.0 was released alongside Debian 12.9.0    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:05:06

• This week in PSC (175) https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2025/01/this-week-in-psc-175-2025-01-09.html"    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:09:58

• enshittification https://www.dw.com/en/over-a-third-of-deutsche-bahn-long-distance-trains-late/a-71215006    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:11:11

• How many German government orgs STILL use his platform, in effect making him the "boss" of Germany's official communications? https://www.dw.com/en/germany-scholz-uneasy-over-musk-s-support-for-far-right-afd/a-71215302    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:12:22

• HEY Hi is all hype https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/01/10/Photo-Noise-Reduction    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:13:06

• COVID-19 Wasn’t Tackled and Mass Mortality Was Just ‘Covered Up’, Based on ONS (UK Government) Data https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/01/08/2024-mass-mortality/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:14:10

• Manchester City Council: Less Than 10% of Households Choose ‘Digital’ or ‘Smart’ Over Paper, Help Us Change This to Leave You Without Paper Trail https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/01/09/without-paper-trail/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:14:24

• 'Apple Copycat' https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dell-defends-against-apple-copycat-claims-naming-new-computers-pro-max-are-not-exclusive-one-1729962    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:15:01

• LLM slop has hit Apple hard https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/01/apple-intelligence-summaries-might-get-warning-labels-thats-not-enough/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/23/Apple_s_LLM_Slop_Told_Us_Luigi_Mangione_Had_Shot_Himself_BetaNe.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:15:52

• Embarrassing BBC News Summarization Mistakes https://daringfireball.net/2025/01/bbc_news_apple_intelligence_notification_summaries    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:16:10

• That's what spying is: data collection https://www.vox.com/culture/393839/apple-siri-lawsuit-settlement-is-my-phone-spying-on-me    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:16:50

• Facebook never invented anything, ever https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-apple-innovation/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:18:10

• Apple pays to hide under a rock https://jacobin.com/2025/01/apple-tech-privacy-ai-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:18:59

• While Tim Crook gives money to Trump and visits him in his private home https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-01-11/apples-board-recommends-shareholders-vote-against-proposal-to-eliminate-diversity-programs    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 07:20:03

• "We recently had the exciting news that Valve plans to expand SteamOS onto more devices, starting with supporting more handhelds, which caused plenty of people to be curious about the future of the popular SteamOS-like Bazzite Linux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/even-with-steamos-coming-to-more-systems-bazzite-has-no-plans-to-go-anywhere/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:36:17

• "NonSteamLaunchers gained popularity as one of the go-to solutions for installing more stores directly on Steam Deck" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/nonsteamlaunchers-tool-for-installing-popular-game-stores-working-on-better-desktop-linux-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:36:28

• "Own a PlayStation and someone is hogging the TV? Stream it to another device like a Steam Deck or Desktop PC with the cross-platform open source chiaki-ng project. I used to use this a fair bit with my now-retired PlayStation 4 and it really is a fantastic project." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/open-source-playstation-remote-play-app-chiaki-ng-v194-has-lots-of-improvements/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:37:38

• "GemRB is a game engine remake of Infinity Engine used in games like Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn and Icewind Dale 2." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/icewind-dale-2-completable-in-infinity-engine-remake-gemrb-plus-baldurs-gate-ii-enhanced-edition-now-playable/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:38:13

• "For people who love their retro gaming and want a Linux distribution that's simple to use and fully featured, Batocera is a popular choice and a big new release is out with version 41." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/retro-gaming-linux-distro-batocera-v41-brings-expanded-wine-support-better-multi-screen-new-hardware-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:39:18

• "After waiting quite a while on it and some rewrites, it looks like the NTSYNC driver code to help Windows games running on Linux will be pulled in and enabled in the Linux kernel." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ntsync-driver-for-improving-windows-games-on-linux-with-wine-proton-should-finally-land-in-linux-kernel-614/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:40:00

• "The Steam Deck with SteamOS (and other devices that will ship with SteamOS) use a locked-down filesystem, so installing extra software is a little different. Here's what you need to know in a simple to understand guide." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-install-extra-software-apps-and-games-on-steamos-and-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:46:11

• "Infiltration Still A Big Issue" https://thenorthlines.com/infiltration-still-a-big-issue/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:46:42

• "Kauna fjernede videoer af selvmord og overgreb på Facebook: Jeg ofrede livet for at I kunne leve i sikkerhed | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/artikel/kauna-fjernede-videoer-af-selvmord-og-overgreb-paa-facebook-jeg-ofrede-livet-i-kunne-leve-i    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:46:51

• "German Router Maker is Latest Company to Inadvertently Clarify the LGPL License" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/01/12/1455259    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:47:05

• "Russia's influence in Africa may weaken after Assad's fall" https://www.dw.com/en/russias-influence-in-africa-may-weaken-after-assads-fall/a-71229827    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:47:16

• "Build up your game collection with a fresh Fanatical Diamond Collection Bundle, giving you a build your own deal to save monies. You can pick 3 + Games for £5.00 each, 5 + Games for £4.60 each or 7 + Games for £4.50 each" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/fanaticals-diamond-collection-for-january-2025-offers-up-16-games-with-good-linux-steam-deck-compatibility/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:47:41

• "Developer ITEM42 recently announced DEFICIT and it's not often I feel I really need a game after seeing a trailer but DEFICIT looks juicy. Not a whole lot has been revealed just yet since it's a fresh announcement." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/deficit-is-an-exciting-looking-new-fps-with-chaotic-close-quarters-combat/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:48:42

• "The 51st US state? How Canada might take on Donald Trump" https://www.dw.com/en/the-51st-us-state-how-canada-might-take-on-donald-trump/a-71255993    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:49:01

• "Saudi Arabia To Host Arab and Western Ministers Meeting on Transition in Syria - teleSUR English" https://www.telesurenglish.net/saudi-arabia-to-host-arab-and-western-ministers-meeting-on-transition-in-syria/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:49:16

• "Kids Can't Use Computers... and This is Why It Should Worry You (2013)" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/01/11/1411215    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:49:27

• "Debian 12.9, actualización de mantenimiento para ‘Bookworm’" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.muylinux.com/2025/01/13/debian-12-9/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:49:39

• "Zambia : Founding Fathers of Zambia and Their Successive Leaders: A Comparative Analysis" https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/01/13/founding-fathers-of-zambia-and-their-successive-leaders-a-comparative-analysis/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:49:50

• "Martin Karplus, pioneering figure in theoretical chemistry, dies at 94" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/01/martin-karplus-pioneering-figure-in-theoretical-chemistry-dies-at-94/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:50:01

• "Developer Philip Rebohle has released DXVK version 2.5.3 bringing more improvements for this tool that translates Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 to Vulkan. DXVK is included as part of Valve's Proton." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/dxvk-v2-5-3-released-with-more-improvements-for-windows-games-on-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:50:31

• "Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 45: Free as in Beer" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/building-a-retro-linux-gaming-computer-part-45-free-as-in-beer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:51:40

• "Technologies and frameworks we use in our design studio" https://piccalil.li/blog/technologies-and-frameworks-we-use-in-our-design-studio/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 08:54:25

• iophk: even the verge chases the red herring of surveillance to lead attention away from the influence and manipulation that surveillance makes possible https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24343063/tiktok-ban-goodbye-chinese-spy-trend ("‘Goodbye to my Chinese spy’ might be the last great TikTok trend")    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:09:02

• "With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’" https://www.wired.com/story/red-note-tiktok-xiaohongshu/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:09:42

• "Russian forces bypass key stronghold to cut off supplies to Ukrainians" https://www.voanews.com/a/russian-forces-bypass-key-stronghold-to-cut-off-supplies-to-ukrainians-/7935592.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:09:58

• "Meta Zuckerberg Trump" https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2025/01/195_390107.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:10:19

• "US designates extreme right-wing 'Terrorgram' network as terrorist group" https://www.voanews.com/a/us-designates-extreme-right-wing-terrorgram-network-as-terrorist-group/7935044.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:10:31

• "FBI warns of potential ISIS-inspired attacks similar to New Orleans tragedy | World News" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/fbi-warns-of-potential-isis-inspired-attacks-similar-to-new-orleans-tragedy/articleshow/117220941.cms    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:10:43

• "Salesforce has several ads for engineers on Indeed — but these appear to be “ghost” jobs just to collect resumes or pretend there are no US applicants for positions they want a cheap H1B for." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/12/ai-agents-mean-salesforce-wont-hire-software-engineers-in-2025-apparently/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:58:02

• "I guess you can call it "back on my bullshit", but I'm giving social media another try. I had a Mastodon instance a while back and when I looked at the cost of running my own (I am never not running my own." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/i-guess-you-can-call-it-back-on-my-bullshit-but-im-giving-social-media-another-try-i-had-a | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:03:42

• "The price rises have been flagged in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan and Thailand." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/m365_price_rises_asia_test/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:04:59

• "LLMs are, in one sense, all the same. Everybody uses the same foundation models, and the handful that are there, are trained in a way that makes their default writing styles very similar." ☛ https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2025/llm-interactions | Source: Ruud van Asseldonk    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:05:17

• "Look no further than a video circulating on social that shows a Waymo cab struggling to decipher the hand signals of a construction worker, juddering to a halt and refusing to turn left." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/waymo-self-driving-taxi-construction-worker-hand-signals | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:05:34

• "nonsensical AI graphics claiming to depict corn kernels' quest through the human digestive tract." ☛ https://futurism.com/google-image-corn-ai-slop | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:06:09

• "Elon Musk claims human-generated data for AI models is running out. This shortage could force a reliance on synthetic data, which may lower AI accuracy and reliability." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/tech-companies-are-turning-to-synthetic-data-to-train-ai-models-but-theres-a-hidden-cost/articleshow/117189568.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:07:24

• "So I try to consume most of my content through RSS, blogs, and human-created content" ☛ https://matanabudy.com/what-about-staying-connected-through-social-media/ | Source: Matan Abudy    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:07:57

• "half of Australian" ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/the-tiktok-trend-thats-left-australian-cancer-researchers-disturbed/ve2r5019o | Source: SBS    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:08:14

• "The data the researchers point to, encapsulating the past 50 to 75 years, is alarming." ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/children-dying-chemicals-plastics | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:08:45

• "Jonson said the technology allows swarms of drones of different sizes to form and then solve tasks autonomously." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-13/sweden-to-test-new-drone-swarm-technology-defence-minister-says | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:09:13

• "he simplest preventive is to turn down the intensity before you walk away from your computer." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/01/12/screen-saver-history/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:09:43

• "Universal Kids, the youth-oriented network that began life as the preschool-centric PBS Kids Sprout" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/universal-kids-shut-down-march-cable-network-nbcu-1236273553/ | Source: Variety    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:13:32

• "Within one month's time, I went from a child walking in a line to the lunchroom" ☛ https://louplummer.lol/how-do-you-know-when-it-s-over/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:13:54

• "I like that idea. So in the same spirit I write my 2024 recap in mid-january." ☛ https://jupe.studio/2025/01/13/A-Year-of-Indie-Consulting-Year-Two/ | Source: Julian Peters    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:14:29

• "It’s okay to not know, and it’s okay to not make a move when you don’t know." ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/its-okay-to-not-know-and-its-okay-to-wait | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:14:54

• "In the trailer, Holmes’ rising cries of “Four—eleven—seventeen—thirty—two the day before” quickly establish a haunting tone." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/28-years-later-sere-boots-poem/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:15:14

• "What exactly is quantum computing, and how close are we to seeing them enter wide use?" ☛ https://theconversation.com/were-getting-closer-to-having-practical-quantum-computers-heres-what-they-will-be-used-for-246274 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:20:48

• "Mountains, or non-axisymmetric deformations of rotating neutron stars, efficiently radiate gravitational waves." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-01-neutron-star-mountains-ripples-space.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:21:02

• "a coalition of 28 organizations that support scientific integrity sent an open letter to 99 U.S. Senators" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/over-25000-scientists-science-supporters-and-28-organizations-that-support-scientific-integrity-implore-members-of-congress-to-defend-science-facts-and-transparency | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:21:13

• "I dub this a classic reverse sunk cost fallacy." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/working-with-what-youve-got/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:22:35

• "Maybe the idea of discovery on the web was originally idealistic and well-intended" ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/2025/01/13/we-need-to-stop-talking.html | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:25:58

• "The first blog post is easy" ☛ https://rknight.me/blog/on-transient-slash-pages/ | Source: Rob Knight    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:26:16

• "I’d love to hear your thoughts on naming communities. Find me in your preferred channel by clicking on the links in the footer." ☛ https://mattcool.tech/posts/naming-community-for-brands/ | Source: Matt Cool    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:26:53

• "This principle gets in the way of something I want to do" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/wanting-it-badly/#is-not-enough | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:27:56

• "It kinda worked, I guess? Then the Internet came along and broke everything and we've never figured it out since." ☛ https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2025/01/13.html | Source: DNA Lounge    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:28:12

• "The Turkish state and its proxies have been bombing the vicinity of the Tishrin Dam daily, using drones and fighter jets." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/no-water-supply-to-euphrates-canton-as-turkish-attacks-on-tishrin-dam-continue-77401 | Source: ANF News    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:33:22

• "I’ve been using the web in some form for over 20 years - granted" ☛ https://lewisdale.dev/post/the-web-is-exhausting/ | Source: Lewis Dale    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:33:35

• "Music is one of my greatest passions. I spend tens of thousands of minutes each year listening to and discovering new music." ☛ https://contino.com/blog/music-questions-challenge | Source: Andrea Contino    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:34:06

• "I always find coming back from the Christmas break (or any break for that matter) challenging." ☛ https://www.david-smith.org/blog/2025/01/10/accomplish-one-thing/ | Source: David Smith    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:34:39

• "My site launched on 31 December 1995. Even way back then, I was trying to add something to the site weekly." ☛ https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/blogging-about-blogging-25.html | Source: Chris O'Donnnell    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:35:07

• "I hope your 2025 has kicked off with a bang. Here are a few fun things I found this week on the web." ☛ https://thenewsprint.co/2025/01/12/the-sunday-edition-011225/ | Source: The Newsprint    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:35:36

• "But there’s something else implicit in the question." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/using-rss-over-json-feeds/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:37:18

• "As there was quite some feedback, I’ll share a bit more context here." ☛ https://th0mas.nl/2025/01/12/tetris-in-a-pdf/ | Source: Thomas Rinsma    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:37:25

• "If you use a unix based operating system like macOS or Linux" ☛ https://syntackle.com/blog/nvm-node-issue-command-not-found/ | Source: Murtuzaali Surti    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:38:00

• "Hell is my little shell scripting language which is a thin layer over Haskell, using its syntax" ☛ https://chrisdone.com/posts/hell-year-in-review-2025/ | Source: Chris Done    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:38:17

• "Let's say we want to aggregate the number of likes on a post relative to the post's creation time" ☛ https://jmduke.com/posts/post/django-extract-epoch/ | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:38:47

• "We have a long standing Django web application that these days runs under Python 3 and a more modern version of Django." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/DjangoModWsgiUbuntu2404Mystery | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:38:55

• "Write a script to return all even 3-digits integers that can be formed using the integers in the given list." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/delete-even.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:39:13

• "Clang provides a few options to generate timing report. Among them, -ftime-report and -ftime-trace can be used to analyze the performance of Clang's internal passes." ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/2025-01-12-understanding-and-improving-clang-ftime-report | Source: MaskRay    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:39:38

• "I first came across the idea of ‘data gap mapping’ when a client engaged our team to develop a composite index to improve how they monitored national economic, political and social risks." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/identifying-data-gaps-with-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:40:13

• "I gathered together examples of people who have been infected with the pace-layer mindworm who were applying the same layered thinking to other areas: [...]" ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/13/tech-pace-layering/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:40:29

• "A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and definitely not about computer ergonomics) requires me to use MIDI. And to do custom handling of it." ☛ https://ntietz.com/blog/beginning-rust-midi-gui/ | Source: Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:41:12

• "I adore simplicity. Especially composable simplicity." ☛ https://chshersh.com/blog/2025-01-06-the-most-elegant-configuration-language.html |    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:41:41

• "Which is why it was included in the "unresolved questions" section on the gen blocks RFC." ☛ https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/gen-auto-trait-problem/ | Source: Yoshua Wuyts    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:42:19

• How To Install AnyDesk on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-anydesk-centos-stream-10/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:46:00

• How To Install OpenRGB on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-openrgb-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:46:20

• Modern Web Browsers as Web Censorship Software ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Modern_Web_Browsers_as_Web_Censorship_Software.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:47:22

• How To Install Amarok Music Player on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-amarok-music-player-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:47:36

• How To Install SQLite on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-sqlite-centos-stream-10/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:49:01

• How To Install Elasticsearch on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-elasticsearch-centos-stream-10/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:49:16

• USD 28k left for FSF to raise    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:50:34

• How To Install OrangeHRM on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-orangehrm-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:50:43

• How To Install Concrete CMS on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-concrete-cms-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:50:51

• How To Install ProcessWire on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-processwire-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:50:59

• "Yes, it’s true. Another year passed. And with it another CCC." ☛ https://bitboxer.de/2025/01/13/38c3/ | Source: Bodo Tasche    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:55:57

• "Eventually those libraries will be made Jekyll runtime dependencies and when a new version of Jekyll is released with this change" ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2025/01/12/running-jekyll-on-ruby-3-4/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:56:38

• "Compiling queries also makes it easier to integrate external functions, foreign data wrappers" ☛ https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-missing-tier-for-query-compilers/ | Source: Jamie Brandon    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 12:57:28

• "My freelance web dev was always driven by the fact that not that many people have both expertise in ebook standards" ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/interim-5/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:03:15

• "Happy New Year Thunderbirders! With a productive December and a good rest now behind us, the team is ready for an amazing year." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-december-2024/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:04:14

• "So, what is the user experience like running your own instance? It's been flawless." ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/a-month-of-hosting-my-single-user-instance/ | Source: Brandon    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:04:23

• "oh, getting a modern terminal experience isn’t that hard, you just need to…." ☛ https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/01/11/getting-a-modern-terminal-setup/ | Source: Julia Evans    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:04:30

• New €148 million EU humanitarian aid package for Ukraine ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_244    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:04:52

• Zelensky says he discussed idea of Western troops in Ukraine with Macron ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250113-zelensky-says-he-discussed-idea-of-western-troops-in-ukraine-with-macron    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:05:28

• GNU/Linux still very high there http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/16/GNU_Linux_at_New_Highs_in_Bosnia_And_Herzegovina.shtml https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bosnia-and-herzegovina/#monthly-200902-202501    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:08:53

• Serbia students protest for civil rights in front of Supreme Court ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/serbia-students-protest-for-civil-rights-in-front-of-supreme-court/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:09:38

• Slovak Prime Minister Criticizes End Of Russian Gas Transit, Demands Meeting With Zelenskiy ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/slovakia-fico-zelenskiy-dialogue-gas-transit-russia-open-letter-war/33274337.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:09:47

• Former world heavyweight champion Fury announces retirement from boxing – again ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250113-former-world-heavyweight-champion-fury-retires-from-boxing    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:10:12

• Ukraine Must Be In Position Of Strength Before Beginning Peace Talks, NATO Chief Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33274485.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:12:46

• Ukraine Gaining 'Useful' Intel From Captured North Korean Soldiers, Kyiv Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/korea-ukraine-russia-prisoners-zelenskiy-kursk/33273965.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:13:15

• South Korea says 300 North Korean soldiers killed fighting Ukraine ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-says-300-north-korean-soldiers-killed-fighting-ukraine    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:13:32

• Russia and Ukraine Battle Inside Kursk, With Waves of Tanks, Drones and North Koreans ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/world/europe/russia-ukraine-kursk-north-korea.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:13:44

• Troops Detained in Ukraine Give Rare Glimpse Into North Korea’s Military ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/world/asia/north-korea-ukraine-russia-troops.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:13:56

• "Heavy losses all around As the new year begins, Russia and Ukraine are locked in bloody battles in the Kursk region, while Moscow pushes forward in Donbas" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/13/heavy-losses-all-around | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:14:38

• "Fire at Russian oil depot sparked by Ukrainian drone strike extinguished after five days" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/13/fire-at-russian-oil-depot-sparked-by-ukrainian-drone-strike-extinguished-after-five-days-governor-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:15:00

• Russian citizen detained for illegally crossing Latvian border ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/13.01.2025-russian-citizen-detained-for-illegally-crossing-latvian-border.a583381/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:15:17

• Fancy Bear spotted using real Kazak government documents in spearpishing campaign ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/fancy-bear-kazakhstan-russia-sekoia/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:15:39

• Biden administration announces new rules to govern HEY HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII's global spread ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250113-biden-administration-announces-new-rules-to-govern-ai-s-global-spread    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:18:20

• Biden Says U.S. Stronger Versus Russia, China As He Prepares To Depart ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33274462.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:18:44

• "rant at bird rescue volunteers" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/13/russian-official-goes-on-expletive-filled-rant-at-bird-rescue-volunteers | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:19:16

• "new U.S. sanctions" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/13/russian-oil-tankers-stuck-idling-off-chinese-coast-after-new-u-s-sanctions | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:21:32

• "help developing nuclear program" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/13/iran-sending-covert-missions-to-russia-for-nuclear-support-the-times | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:22:10

• "Moldova’s former reintegration minister, Alexandru Flenchea, explains what losing Russian gas means for breakaway Transnistria" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/14/little-pieces-in-a-big-game | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:22:45

• "success in weakening Russia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/14/i-m-the-only-one-that-s-stood-in-the-center-of-kyiv | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:23:15

• "In the wrong hands Millions of users gave their data to an American ‘travel assistant’ app. Then its creator sold it to a Russian businessman with close ties to Putin." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/13/millions-of-users-gave-their-data-to-an-american-travel-assistant-app-then-its-creator-sold-it-to-a-russian-businessman-with-close-ties-to-putin | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:23:48

• "president’s grip on current events" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/14/i-feel-so-sorry-for-putin | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:24:27

• Biden Aides Warned Putin as Russia’s Shadow War Threatened Air Disaster ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/us/politics/russia-putin-airplane-shadow-war.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:25:14

• Containerizing workloads on image mode for RHEL ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/01/13/containerizing-workloads-image-mode-rhel    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:26:45

• Destination Linux 402: Our 2025 GNU/Linux Predictions & CES 2025 ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/402    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:27:48

• Late Night [GNU/]Linux – Episode 316 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-316/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:28:33

• Microsoft layoffs. "is X day 15th?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhhx4mej    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:30:23

• " I doubt if anybody from the Fred Brooks era still has influence over the modern IBM. The current management went against Brooks' writings in "The Mythical Man-Month" when they were seduced by the numbers. They thought (and still do) that they could fire some highly paid and highly accomplished engineers (who happened to be in the west) for masses of cheap labor (who happen to be in the east). They saw those magical ratios of 7 to 1, 8 to 1, 12 to 1, and went native."    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:31:42

• "When I was RA I spoke to the team lead in India and told me how much he made annually They were able to hire 7 in India and have money left over and my co worker on the UNIX side making more then me they were able to hire 8 in India and have money left over." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhhb7e3p    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:33:36

• "Yet no businesses are created in India. You think an entrepreneur in India would take advantage of this incredibly cheap and talented labor. Not to mention these workers then could own a piece of that company. It would probably greatly benefit their community too. Something doesn't add up here." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhhb7e3p    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:33:41

• " I doubt if anybody from the Fred Brooks era still has influence over the modern IBM. The current management went against Brooks' writings in "The Mythical Man-Month" when they were seduced by the numbers." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhhb7e3p    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:33:52

• "They thought (and still do) that they could fire some highly paid and highly accomplished engineers (who happened to be in the west) for masses of cheap labor (who happen to be in the east). They saw those magical ratios of 7 to 1, 8 to 1, 12 to 1, and went native." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhhb7e3p    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:33:57

• " It didn't work in the 1960s when Brooks managed OS/360, and it doesn't work today. There's a cool scene in a James Bond movie (I won't mention the name to avoid the auto censor) where Bond is in the back of an auto rickshaw racing through some Indian street." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhhb7e3p    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:34:02

• "He tosses rupees out the back onto the street to avoid the as-----n who is chasing him, and the locals all pile into the street to collect the free money. That's where IBM is at today...it's nothing more than a money grab. No more, no less. I wouldn't expect it to accomplish much beyond that." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhhb7e3p    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:34:06

• "The iPhone slipped a point to 18% market share in 2024, according to Counterpoint Research data." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/iphone-lost-ground-to-android-in-2024/257535/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:35:33

• "Recording things in 3D is no longer relegated to the world of professional videographers." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/maker-builds-a-raspberry-pi-5-powered-stereoscopic-3d-video-camera | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:36:43

• "Drone owners face a tough decision when their equipment is damaged: is it worth repairing, or should you invest in a brand-new model? " ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2025/01/13/drone-repair/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:37:12

• "Apple Inc. users are facing new security risks after a security researcher successfully hacked Apple’s proprietary ACE3 USB-C controller, a critical component responsible for managing charging and data transfer on Apple’s latest devices." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/12/apple-devices-risk-security-researcher-hacks-ace3-usb-c-controller/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:39:18

• "This month we report on some news concerning the PineVox, what the community have been up to with their PineNotes and the brand-new 1.15 InfiniTime update." ☛ https://pine64.org/2025/01/11/january_2025/ | Source: Pine64    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:39:32

• "A vehicle’s wheel diameter has a dramatic effect on several aspects of performance." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/01/13/this-robot-can-dynamically-change-its-wheel-diameter-to-suit-the-terrain/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:39:56

• "The job of the flight controller is directing power from the supercapacitors to the motors (brushed DC motors, in this case) in a very precise manner." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/01/12/this-maker-designed-a-custom-flight-controller-for-his-supercapacitor-powered-drone/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:40:34

• "It was embarrassingly recently when I realised the PlayStation 3 (and 4) had hard drives." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/installing-an-ssd-in-a-playstation-3/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:41:03

• Maker designs custom Raspberry Pi 5 case using CNC machined aluminum for the ultimate cooling ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/maker-designs-custom-raspberry-pi-5-case-using-cnc-machined-aluminum-for-the-ultimate-cooling    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:41:39

• "Hack Chat With Eben Upton" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/13/raspberry-pi-hack-chat-with-eben-upton/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:41:56

• "MX Linux has officially released MX Linux 23.5 “Libretto,” marking the fifth refresh of the MX-23 series" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/mx-linux-23-5-brings-debian-12-9-and-xfce-4-20/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:42:34

• "Last few months I played with FreeBSD and my Rock64 embedded boards [1] [2]." ☛ https://simonevellei.com/blog/posts/running-nats-on-a-freebsd-jail/ |    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:43:55

• [Old] "Dive into the reality behind FreeBSD with this article debunking widespread myths." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/debunking-common-myths-about-freebsd-2/ | Source: Klara    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:44:04

• "Porting FreeBSD to run on the PinePhone Pro." ☛ https://codeberg.org/Honeyguide/freebsd-pinephonepro | Source: Codeberg    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:44:11

• "PF was written from scratch to replace a subsystem that it turned out was illegal to use in an open source context." ☛ https://nxdomain.no/~peter/recent-and-not-so-recent_changes_in_openbsd_that_make_life_better.html | Source: Peter N M Hansteen    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:44:19

• "one of the oldest" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/enlightenment-0-27-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:46:39

• "Two years ago, Twitch streamer albrot discovered a bug in the code for crossing rivers" ☛ https://moral.net.au/writing/2025/01/11/waiting_for_oregon/ |    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:47:22

• "In this article, we’ll unravel the mystery of hidden files in Linux." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/hidden-files-in-linux-explained/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:48:08

• "One of the innovations that the V7 Bourne shell introduced was built in shell wildcard globbing" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/EtcGlobHistory | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:49:27

• "I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/view-transition-name-gotchas/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:49:37

• "Something cool about template areas is that you can use different areas per breakpoint on the same element: you can add and omit areas in specific layouts." ☛ https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2025/01/12/conditional-css-grid-template-areas/ | Source: Marijke Luttekes    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:50:06

• "In this article I'm going to review the steps you need to take to obtain an A+ SSL security rating for your website, as mine has." ☛ https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/using-free-let-s-encrypt-ssl-certificates-in-2025 | Source: Miguel Grinberg    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:50:11

• "I realize this precludes access to robots.txt but — at this point — I simply don't care." ☛ https://coryd.dev/posts/2025/403ing-ai-crawlers | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:50:20

• BIScience: Collecting browsing history under false pretenses ☞ https://palant.info/2025/01/13/biscience-collecting-browsing-history-under-false-pretenses/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 13:51:32

• Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, December 2024 (by Roberto C. Sánchez) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2024-12/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:01:57

• Rakudo Weekly 2025.02 Ditana ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/01/13/2025-02-ditana/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:02:43

• MX GNU/Linux 23.5 Released with Xfce 4.20 and GNU/Linux 6.12 LTS, Based on Debian 12.9 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-23-5-released-with-xfce-4-20-and-linux-kernel-6-12-lts-based-on-debian-12-9    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:05:47

• DXVK 2.5.3 Brings Improvements for Far Cry 5, Max Payne 3, and Other Games ☞ https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-2-5-3-brings-improvements-for-far-cry-5-max-payne-3-and-other-games    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:05:54

• openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Offers Wayland Support for the LXQt Desktop ☞ https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-tumbleweed-now-offers-wayland-support-for-the-lxqt-desktop    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:06:01

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: January 12th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-january-12th-2025    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:06:14

• OpenZFS 2.3 Is Out with GNU/Linux 6.12 Support, RAIDZ Expansion, Fast Dedup, and More ☞ https://9to5linux.com/openzfs-2-3-is-out-with-linux-6-12-support-raidz-expansion-fast-dedup-and-more    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:06:22

• OSGeoLive – GNU/Linux distribution focusing on geospatial software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/osgeolive-linux-distribution-geospatial-software/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:10:44

• F3OS – Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/f3os-debian-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:11:07

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Cisco Modeling Labs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-cisco-modeling-labs/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:11:33

• Niri 25.1 Debuts with Revamped Release Numbering ☞ https://linuxiac.com/niri-25-1-debuts-with-revamped-release-numbering/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:12:10

• "Radxa recently launched the Cubie A5E, a compact single-board computer measuring just 56 mm x 69 mm." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/cubie-a5e-with-4k-video-support-and-m-2-nvme-ssd-now-available-for-preorder/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:16:28

• "This support is to be considered experimental at this point, and for most users, is likely not ready for daily driving." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/01/13/LXQt-Wayland-support-is-now-here/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:17:20

• How to Install LXD on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-lxd-lxc-containers-from-scratch/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:17:51

• "Backups - Intro to Ubuntu Backup Utility" ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/01/backups-intro-to-ubuntu-backup-utility.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:18:18

• "we’ll explore six standout distros that embrace Plasma" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/kde-plasma-linux-distros/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:18:59

• "On Linux, you have several tools and methods to achieve this seamlessly and this guide will walk you through the process of converting .MD files to .PDF" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/convert-md-to-pdf-on-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:19:38

• ""Spaces in filenames or folder names can quickly become a frustrating challenge, especially when you’re working from the command line ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/linux-move-files-with-spaces/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:21:18

• Mindless hype from Red Hat these days ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/11-red-hat-ai-videos-you-may-have-missed | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:22:27

• "In this new form factor, the OpenStack control services such as keystone, nova, glance and neutron that were once deployed as standalone containers" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openstack-services-on-openshift-rethinking-storage-design-pod-based-architectures | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:22:36

• "MicroShift" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-image-mode-means-users-rhel-edge | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:22:42

• After a Naming Contest, Cardea Joins the Celestial Ranks as a Quasi-Moon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/science/space/quasi-moon-radiolab-iau.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:23:40

• How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/health/polio-vaccine-outbreaks.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:27:11

• U-M develops new blood test for head and neck cancer ☞ https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/first-its-kind-blood-test-head-and-neck-cancer    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:27:24

• Her POV: ‘Madeline’s Madeline’ artfully breaks down the parent-child bond ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/01/12/her-pov-madelines-madeline/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:27:51

• From the Community | Stanford may defund a pillar of mental health on campus. We need your help to save it. ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/01/12/stanford-may-defund-the-bridge/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:28:34

• Stanford students release Sharotonin, a new app to gamify mental health ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/01/12/mental-health-gamified/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:28:56

• App themselves cause mental issues https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/surveillance-tech-is-changing-our-behaviour-and-our-brains/articleshow/117222344.cms    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:29:35

• Signatures collected to abolish new pharmacy service fee ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/13.01.2025-signatures-collected-to-abolish-new-pharmacy-service-fee.a583423/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:29:49

• With South Korea in Crisis, Eight Justices Will Decide President’s Fate ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/world/asia/south-korea-yoon-court-impeachment.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:30:20

• South Korea plans to overhaul airport structures after fatal Jeju Air crash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-plans-to-overhaul-airport-localizers-after-fatal-jeju-air-crash    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:30:50

• Impeachment trial of South Korean President Yoon over failed martial law bid to begin ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/impeachment-trial-of-south-korean-president-yoon-to-begin    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:31:04

• North Korea fires suspected short-range ballistic missiles ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-fires-missile-off-east-coast-says-south-korea-military    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:31:16

• South Korea, Japan stress importance of trilateral ties with US ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/01/13/south-korea-japan-finance-ministers/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:31:31

• North Korea conducts missile tests days before Trump takes office ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/01/14/north-missile-test/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:31:40

• North Korea fires several suspected short-range ballistic missiles ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250114-north-korea-short-range-ballistic-missiles    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:32:03

• USD 27.5k left for FSF to raise    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:33:31

• Malaysia government to seek gag order on ex-PM Najib house arrest bid ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-government-to-seek-gag-order-on-ex-pm-najib-house-arrest-bid    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:34:12

• Candidates of national exam in Sarawak transported to school by civil defence force due to flood ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/candidates-of-national-exam-in-sarawak-transported-by-malaysias-civil-defence-force-due-to-flood    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:35:00

• Malaysian grandmother cleans bean sprouts for $3 daily to raise 9 grandkids ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-grandmother-cleans-bean-sprouts-for-3-daily-to-raise-9-grandkids    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:36:01

• China's coastal water temperatures hit record high in 2024 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-coastal-water-temperatures-hit-record-high-in-2024    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:36:31

• Japan, Philippines, US vow to deepen cooperation in face of China’s behaviour ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/japan-philippines-us-vow-to-deepen-cooperation-manila-says    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:37:12

• Chinese military delegation to visit Japan in mid-January ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinese-military-delegation-to-visit-japan-in-mid-january    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:37:29

• Philippines files protest over Beijing’s ‘escalatory actions’ in South China Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-files-protest-over-beijings-escalatory-actions-in-south-china-sea    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:37:40

• Indian PM Modi opens strategic tunnel to China border zones ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/indian-pm-opens-strategic-tunnel-to-china-border-zones    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:38:02

• China planning to extend visa-free entry to more countries ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-is-planning-to-extend-visa-free-entry-to-more-countries    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:38:13

• US, Canadian warships conduct joint drills in South China Sea ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/01/13/us-canada-drills/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:38:45

• Thailand urged not to deport 48 Uyghurs to China ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/13/thailand-uyghurs-china-deportation/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:39:24

• Chinese rights lawyer Xie Yang ‘won’t bow' despite 3 years of pretrial detention ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/13/china-rights-lawyer-xie-yang-wont-bow/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:39:46

• Hong Kong officials in bid to rescue Myanmar scam park victims ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/13/china-hong-kong-myanmar-kk-park-scam-victims/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:40:09

• Firefox Nightly: Key Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 174 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/01/13/key-improvements-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-174/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:41:10

• Chinese university applies for undersea cable cutter patent monopoly — device developed by coastal university located across the sea from Taiwan ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/chinese-university-applies-for-undersea-cable-cutter-patent-device-developed-by-coastal-university-located-across-the-sea-from-taiwan    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:43:48

• The Unified Patent Court is illegal and unconstitutional; it was created by and for the litigation industry by breaking all the rules. Its sheer illegality destabilises and delegitimises the EU. ☞ https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/01/13/examining-potential-counterclaim-gap-unified-patent-court/id=184966/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:46:30

• Brazil: Understanding the New Bioinputs Regulation and Patent Landscape ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/01/13/brazil-understanding-the-new-bioinputs-regulation-and-patent-landscape/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:47:26

• Federal Circuit: State Law Conversion Claim Preempted Where Pleading Seeks Patent-Like Protection ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/01/conversion-preempted-protection.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:47:42

• The Word About the Upcoming Talk by Richard Stallman - Scheduled for Friday This Week - Has Spread ("The Cost of Freedom," Lausanne, Switzerland) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/The_Word_About_the_Upcoming_Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_Scheduled_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:48:48

• Microsoft Front Group Starts the Year by Championing Underage (or Child) Labour (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Microsoft_Front_Group_Starts_the_Year_by_Championing_Underage_o.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:48:56

• [Meme] Being High on Drugs Isn't Happiness (Likewise, Being a "Star" in Social Control Media is Temporary) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/12/Meme_Being_High_on_Drugs_Isn_t_Happiness_Likewise_Being_a_Star_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:50:38

• Andy Wingo: an annoying failure mode of copying nurseries ☞ https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/01/13/an-annoying-failure-mode-of-copying-nurseries    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:51:14

• Microsoft Appears to Have Fallen to Only 15% in Maldives ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Microsoft_Appears_to_Have_Fallen_to_Only_15_in_Maldives.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:51:28

• Chatbots Are Not Data-Driven, They're Human-Censored and Rely on Wage Slaves (and Sometimes Unpaid Volunteers) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Chatbots_Are_Not_Data_Driven_They_re_Human_Censored_and_Rely_on.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 14:51:37

• Aaron Swartz Died 12 Years Ago After a Vicious Government Campaign to Stop Him ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Aaron_Swartz_Died_12_Years_Ago_After_a_Vicious_Government_Campa.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:00:03

• Preserving Deleted Articles About Famous Criminal Bill Gates Talking Like a Drug Dealer About Computer Users ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Preserving_Deleted_Articles_About_Bill_Gates_Talking_Like_a_Dru.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:00:13

• Record Lows for backdoored Windows (Microsoft) in Botswana ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Record_Lows_for_Windows_Microsoft_in_Botswana.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:00:22

• The Free Software Foundation Reaches 370k Dollars in Funding, Due Date is January 17th When Richard Stallman is Guest of Honour in Lausanne (Switzerland) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/The_Free_Software_Foundation_Reaches_370k_Dollars_in_Funding_Du.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:00:32

• Microsoft is Tight With Money: It's About the Salaries ('Cost' of the Workers) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Microsoft_is_Tight_With_Money_It_s_About_the_Salaries_Cost_of_t.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:13:07

• Two Weeks From Now Dr. Richard Stallman Speaks at The Summit of Future 2025 (India) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Two_Weeks_From_Now_Dr_Richard_Stallman_Speaks_at_The_Summit_of_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:13:16

• [Meme] What Free Speech Ought to Mean ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Meme_What_Free_Speech_Ought_to_Mean.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:13:25

• [Meme] Ex-Twitter ("X") Has Been Grooming Radicals Since 2022 ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Meme_Twitter_X_Has_Been_Grooming_Radicals_Since_2022.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:13:47

• Angola: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows Falls Below 10% ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/13/Angola_Microsoft_Windows_Falls_Below_10.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:14:08

• The ACLU’s Historic Fight for Our Freedoms ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/the-aclus-historic-fight-for-our-freedoms    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:20:41

• French PM to lay out pension deal for budget support in key policy speech ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250114-french-pm-to-lay-out-pension-deal-for-budget-support-in-key-policy-speech    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:21:11

• Biden says US is 'stronger' on world stage in farewell speech ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250113-biden-says-america-stronger-on-world-stage-in-farewell-speech    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:21:24

• █████ https://www.technologyreview.com/feed/ ██████████████████████ Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:00:00 +0000 ███████ Mark Zuckerberg and the power of the media    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:21:45

• "Zuckerberg—whose previous self-acknowledged mistakes include the Cambridge Analytica" ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/13/1109954/mark-zuckerberg-and-the-power-of-the-media/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:22:08

• Destabilising the world, FOR PROFIT, with the far right. That's GAFAM.    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:22:33

• Biden Will Deliver Final Foreign Policy Speech on Monday ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/us/politics/biden-foreign-policy-speech.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:22:44

• RIP Bill Gianopoulos ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1004996/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:34:49

• Mozilla Thunderbird: Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – December 2024 ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/01/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-december-2024/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:36:33

• Snake game port is only 56 bytes big and and fits in a QR code ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/snake-game-port-is-only-56-bytes-big-and-and-fits-in-a-qr-code    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:37:17

• Review of SMARTHON Smart City IoT Starter Kit for BillBC Micro:bit ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/13/review-smarthon-smart-city-iot-starter-kit-for-bbc-microbit/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:41:17

• Morse Micro MM8108 WiFi HaLow SoC supports up to 43.33 Mbps transfer rate, improves range and power efficiency ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/14/morse-micro-mm8108-wifi-halow-soc-supports-up-to-43-33-mbps-transfer-rate-improves-range-and-power-efficiency/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:44:01

• 'Syrian above all': The Alawite community refuses to pay for Assad's crimes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250113-syrian-above-all-the-alawite-community-refuses-to-pay-for-assad-crimes    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:44:15

• Hikvision Password Reset Brute Forcing, (Mon, Jan 13th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31586    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:44:36

• "Today I had the chance to visit the data center where many of our supercomputing nodes and storage are housed." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jebug29/log/2025-01/13-2131    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:45:59

• "This blog post is an introduction to the smartphone and security oriented operating system GrapheneOS." gopher://dataswamp.org:70/1/~solene/article-intro-to-grapheneos    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:46:43

• "Data Duplicator" gemini://moribundo.flounder.online/blog/056_comando_dd.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:48:48

• Takao Fujiwara: IBus 1.5.32 plan ☞ https://desktopi18n.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/ibus-1-5-32-plan/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:50:32

• How networking technology enables cheating in online exams ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/01/14/how-networking-technology-enables-cheating-in-online-exams/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:51:09

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1004962/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 15:51:45

• iophk: "This is important, but I am not sure of an angle which makes it relevant to TR" https://techcentral.co.za/iphone-lost-ground-to-android-in-2024/257535/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 16:51:10

• "In the late 60's/early 70's, I worked at the ASDD Mohansic Lab in Yorktown. On Christmas Eve they'd play music on the PA system and the lab manager, Hal Martin, would come around to wish us a Merry Christmas and send us home. Later, when I worked in Kingston, it was too big for Bo Evans to walk around, but we knew enough to leave when the music started." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jgz1xj3r    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 18:01:45

• "Meta notified employees Tuesday that it plans to lay off the lowest-performing 5% of its staff, or roughly 3600 people." https://www.axios.com/2025/01/14/meta-layoffs-2025-employees-low-perfomers    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 18:02:49

• Godfall Devs latest victims of industry layoffs, among three studios to shut down in 2025 https://www.notebookcheck.net/Godfall-Devs-latest-victims-of-industry-layoffs-among-three-studios-to-shut-down-in-2025.946879.0.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 18:04:51

• Gazprom faces mass layoffs amid escalating financial losses    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 18:05:50

• Losing for hype https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/elon-musk-gets-us-government-support-in-what-he-called-illegal-conversion-from-microsoft-and-chatgpt-maker-openai/articleshow/117156759.cms    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 18:06:24

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 18:08:15

• Spinning BUSINESS FAILURE as "HEY HI success" https://www.latestly.com/technology/meta-layoffs-coming-in-2025-mark-zuckerbergs-company-to-cut-mid-level-engineers-roles-to-save-millions-to-continue-coding-automation-with-ai-says-report-6563245.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 18:08:20

• "Please add your elevator pitches to < https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Examples_of_free_software_elevator_pitches >. Happy hacking, Miriam" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-01/msg00005.html    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:06:12

• "Continuing the adventure to provide a dungeon for an adventurer to adventure in, consider the problem of linking up two arbitrary (and hopefully unique) points with some sort of passage." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/01/14/twistier-passages.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:33:10

• "Lots of people are bailing on mainstream social media sites for various reasons.Recent exodi include those from big players Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok." gemini://gem.sdf.org/beej/blog/2025-01-14-smallinternet.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:34:08

• How to create system restore points on Linux with Timeshift - and why you should https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-create-system-restore-points-on-linux-with-timeshift-and-why-you-should/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:38:14

• "If you need a lightning-fast, portable Linux distribution to run on aging hardware or spin up a quick server, 4MLinux is a great option." https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-portable-lightweight-linux-distro-has-an-old-school-feel/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:38:49

• "Torvalds therefore expects version 6.13 to debut next week, meaning it will arrive after his preferred seven release candidates and without delays caused by the usual holiday-    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:40:22

• "Torvalds therefore expects version 6.13 to debut next week, meaning it will arrive after his preferred seven release candidates and without delays caused by the usual holiday- period slowdown." https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/linus_torvalds_guitar_pedal_offer/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:40:36

• "Why would someone use it on Windows? Especially for older games, it can end up giving a nice performance increase on modern hardware. Don't you just love open source? Everyone can benefit!" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/dxvk-v2-5-3-released-with-more-improvements-for-windows-games-on-linux/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:40:58

• "This is the fifth stable update for MX Linux 23 “Libretto” and it’s based on the Debian GNU/Linux 12.9 “Bookworm” repositories." https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-23-5-released-with-xfce-4-20-and-linux-kernel-6-12-lts-based-on-debian-12-9    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:41:22

• A happy Linus Torvalds is offering to build a guitar pedal for one lucky Linux dev https://www.neowin.net/news/a-happy-linus-torvalds-is-offering-to-build-a-guitar-pedal-for-one-lucky-linux-dev/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:41:58

• How To Use AppArmor to Lock Down Linux Applications https://www.itprotoday.com/linux-os/how-to-use-apparmor-to-lock-down-linux-applications    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:43:01

• Mastodon para Obsidian gemini://elpamplina.duckdns.org/programacion/tutorial-plugin-obsidian.gmi    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:44:01

• But LINUX is also "PC" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/new-video-games-on-playstation-5-xbox-x/s-pc-mac-linux-release-date-check-features/articleshow/117210117.cms    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:45:57

• "Using ratings from Valve on Steam Deck Verified, plus each is a Steam link if you need more info first on each of them." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/fanaticals-diamond-collection-for-january-2025-offers-up-16-games-with-good-linux-steam-deck-compatibility/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:46:21

• "It works for the likes of Amazon Games, Battle.net, EA App, Epic Games, GOG Galaxy, Rockstar Games Launcher, Ubisoft Connect and plenty more." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/nonsteamlaunchers-tool-for-installing-popular-game-stores-working-on-better-desktop-linux-support/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:46:41

• "Well, there you have it, the future of Bazzite continues to be bright. So you can use it without worries." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/even-with-steamos-coming-to-more-systems-bazzite-has-no-plans-to-go-anywhere/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:47:16

• Red Hat Achieves Functional Safety Certification for In-Vehicle Operating System https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/38950-red-hat-achieves-functional-safety-certification-for-in-vehicle-operating-system    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 19:47:51

• "Leave Some of Them to the Animals" ☛ https://therevelator.org/new-idea-national-parks/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:23:46

• Tennessee ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threats-law-lawsuits | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:24:03

• "Making use of free Wi-Fi offered by pubs, bars, cafés, and other businesses, is now an everyday event for millions of people." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/isp-huffs-and-puffs-then-apologizes-to-3-little-piggies-over-pirate-downloads-250113/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:28:32

• "In Asia, Japan in particular, MissAV is the leading player." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/missav-one-of-the-worlds-largest-pirate-sites-targeted-in-takedown-effort-250113/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:28:42

• Patents: "And not for nothing, Zuckerberg’s claim that the protocol isn’t encrypted is unfounded" ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2574825/go-home-mark-zuckerberg-youre-drunk.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:29:05

• "Apple will appear in court on Monday accused of overcharging UK customers through its App Store." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/13/apple-uk-app-store-class-action-fee-competition-appeal-tribunal | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:29:46

• "US antitrust regulators support Elon Musk's claims against OpenAI and Microsoft" ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/elon-musk-gets-us-government-support-in-what-he-called-illegal-conversion-from-microsoft-and-chatgpt-maker-openai/articleshow/117156759.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:29:53

• "the “race to 5G” was largely just hype by telecoms" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/13/telecoms-glom-onto-ai-hype-cycle-in-a-fruitless-bid-to-make-5g-seem-interesting/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:30:26

• "the Internet has grown at such amazing speed, the deployment of IPv6 continues at a more measured pace." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/01/13/ip-addresses-through-2024/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:30:50

• "As of November last year, three in 10 people taking parental leave were men, a record high and a 20 percent increase from the previous year, according to the Ministry of Employment and Labor on Monday." ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/01/281_390280.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:38:50

• "Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged Muslim leaders not to "legitimize" the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan and instead to "raise their voices" and "use [their] power" against the militant group's curbs on women and girls' education." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/afghan-taliban-pakistan--malala-yousafzai-girls-muslim/33272457.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:39:01

• "Taliban do not see women as human beings. They cloak their crimes in cultural and religious justifications." ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/taliban-dont-regard-women-as-human-beings-malala/articleshow/117181022.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:39:27

• "Across the depots, he said, about 10% of all DI teams are integrated — about the same proportion of female recruits at the depots." ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-military/2025/01/13/in-quiet-shift-marines-allow-mixed-gender-di-teams-to-train-recruits/ | Source: USMC    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:50:54

• "Under her leadership, a battalion of Black women nicknamed the Six Triple Eight (for the 6888th) sorted and sent the mail in three months — about half the time one general predicted." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/01/13/80-years-later-movie-tells-story-of-sc-womans-battalion-during-world-war-ii/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:51:13

• "The blocking of monks was painful for survivors because in Buddhist tradition, prayers and rituals are conducted at the end of each week for the first seven weeks after a person’s death." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/01/13/earthquake-aftermath-monks-prayers-prohibited/ | Source: RFA    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:51:27

• "What is more certain is that, from time to time, every journalist, no matter how well meaning, gets something wrong, or misses the point." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/whats-a-fact-anyway | Source: New Yorker    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:52:30

• "I don’t agree with people who say that the media shouldn’t partner with technology companies." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-12/nicholas-thompson-my-view-on-journalism-is-that-you-shouldnt-create-content-to-please-the-algorithms.html | Source: El País    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:52:46

• "In early September 2024, The Dissenter published a report on what seemed like a glaring example of retaliation against a prisoner for writing about systemic problems in Texas state prisons." ☛ https://thedissenter.org/incarcerated-journalist-now-at-texas-supermax-facility-remains-in-solitary/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:58:37

• "The census covers all countries that have imprisoned journalists globally in 2024, as well as providing background information on each imprisoned journalist." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/01/cpj-to-release-annual-report-of-journalists-imprisoned-globally-2/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:59:13

• "A court in Tajikistan’s southern city of Kulob on January 10 sentenced Ahmad Ibrohim, chief editor of the independent weekly newspaper Payk, to 10 years in prison on charges of bribery, extortion, and extremism." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/01/tajik-journalist-ahmad-ibrohim-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:59:28

• "The acting governor of Russia’s partially occupied Kursk region has prohibited local officials from deleting online comments critical of their performance, state media reported Monday." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/13/kursk-governor-bans-officials-from-censoring-online-criticism-a87597 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 09:59:53

• "a piece depicting the publication’s owner Jeff Bezos as a Trump supplicant among other billionaires such as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong" ☛ https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5079761-ann-telnaes-heroic-stand-censorship/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:00:31

• "It’s a move so brazen, so devoid of compassion, that it almost defies belief." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/13/appeals-court-yes-suing-the-family-of-people-you-killed-in-a-car-crash-for-defamation-is-a-slapp-suit/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:00:40

• "Images and videos purporting to show the historic Hollywood sign engulfed in flames are spreading across X and other social media platforms as wildfires rage through Los Angeles, California." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2266579.html | Source: RTL    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:01:16

• "Union Minister Ashwini Vaisnaw today fact-checked Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg's claim on the results of the 2024 Lok Sabha Elections." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/mark-zuckerberg-on-2024-india-lok-sabha-election-results-union-minister-ashwini-vaisnaw-says-factually-incorrect-7464551 | Source: NDTV    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:01:30

• "We emerged victorious from two world wars. … We have preserved our people. …" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/patriarch-of-russian-orthodoxy-preaches-biblical-battle-between-west-russia-lies-about-wwi-/7935566.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:02:23

• "Today, Public Citizen co-presidents Robert Weissman and Lisa Gilbert sent a letter to Trump transition co-chairs Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon requesting to be appointed as members of the “Department [sic] of Government Efficiency” (DOGE)." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/public-citizen-co-presidents-request-to-join-doge-2670807823 | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:11:06

• "Yet in Tuesday’s announcement, Zuckerberg tries to blame others for the policies he himself instituted and endorsed." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/13/1109954/mark-zuckerberg-and-the-power-of-the-media/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:11:37

• "If the U.S. retreats from open innovation in AI, other nations may “decouple” from U.S. technology, investing in their own infrastructure to build satisfactory AI capabilities or turning to alternatives." ☛ https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5079721-china-ai-open-source-threat/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:12:30

• "Why it matters: After Zuckerberg's embrace of Trump and Trumpism, Silicon Valley is holding its breath to see whether a whole row of tech dominoes is about to fall in the same direction." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/01/11/zuckerberg-trump-pivot-big-tech-maga | Source: Axios    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:13:49

• "Cancel culture is old news. A new political phenomenon has appeared." ☛ https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5079912-conservatives-capitulation-culture/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:15:30

• "That’s the question I’ve been asking sources in and around Meta over the last several days. They all described Meta’s relationship with the outgoing Biden administration as incredibly hostile." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/12/24342138/mark-zuckerberg-meta-want-donald-trump | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:15:42

• "The answer to the first question turned out to be Apple being opposed to using anything licensed under GPL v3, and so it happens that Emacs 22.1 was the last Emacs version licensed under GPL v2.1 A former Apple employee shared the following in a comment on HackerNews: [...]" ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2025/01/12/macos-no-longer-ships-with-emacs/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:15:55

• "That companies need to hire the best candidates to remain competitive should be uncontroversial. Ideally, the U.S. system would reliably provide such workers, but too often it fails to." ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/01/773_390229.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:16:28

• "Certain allied countries and partners will be exempt from the controls, a senior administration official said. Low volume chip orders, such as those placed by universities and research organizations, will also not require a license." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/01/13/2025/us-announces-new-controls-on-artificial-intelligence | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:16:51

• "The rules put various limitations on the number of A.I. chips that companies can send to different countries, essentially dividing the world into three categories." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/us/politics/biden-administration-rules-artificial-intelligence.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:17:58

• "The new regulations will cap the number of AI chips that can be exported to most countries and allow unlimited access to US AI technology for America’s closest allies, while also maintaining a block on exports to China, Russia, Iran and North Korea." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/us-restrict-ai-chip-sales-much-of-world/257573/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:19:00

• "In December, Scam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, donated $1 million to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural fund, joining a number of other tech executives who are working to improve their relationships with Mr. Trump." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/technology/openai-economic-blueprint.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:19:14

• "Though he was trained as a linguist, it’s not especially surprising that Chomsky has become best known for his political opinions." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/noam-chomsky-nathan-robinson-myth-american-idealism/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:19:39

• "Indeed, the essay that made Chomsky’s name was not an esoteric piece on linguistics but rather his 1966 “The Responsibility of Intellectuals,” a manifesto that lambasted those scholars who, Chomsky believed, were more interested in cozying up to power than speaking truth to it."    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:20:09

• "The real 2024 vote, based on the winner-take-all system used by every state except Nebraska and Maine, gave the Republican nominee a victory margin of 312 to 226 over Harris, the Democratic nominee." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/01/13/what-if-all-states-split-their-electoral-college-votes-for-president/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:20:24

• "Two features of Bayesian statistics pop to mind when thinking about election polling: [...]" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/us-presidential-elections-a-bayesian-perspective/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:21:03

• "I’ve had the good fortune to get paid to write open source as part of my job several times." ☛ https://alexgaynor.net/2025/jan/13/challenges-funding-open-source/ | Source: Alex Gaynor    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:32:17

• "Creating an e-commerce API is no small feat. It’s the backbone of a marketplace, connecting users, managing products, processing payments, and keeping everything secure." ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/php-for-e-commerce-apis-the-secret-weapon-for-marketplace-onboarding.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:32:35

• "A new industry report released Monday shows China made big strides last year toward an EV-driven future, as domestic sales of all types of electric vehicles rose by 40% in 2024" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/china-ev-sales-surge-in-2024-foreign-automakers-struggle-in-shifting-market/7935351.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:33:44

• "A federal grand jury has indicted a 51-year-old church pastor on 26 counts of fraud, after allegedly using his position to deceive victims into investing in a cryptocurrency investment scam." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/pastors-dream-crypto-scheme-alleged-to-be-a-multi-million-dollar-scam | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:35:01

• "When I powered on my UPS yesterday, I predicted when it would power off: 24 hours later. To be clear, it’s removing power from the outlets and not sending any notifications to the hosts that it’s about to do so." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/01/12/eaton-5px-removes-power-every-24-hours/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:35:15

• "Ultimately, the Department of Transport prepared these signs for when things really hit the fan. Thankfully, the worst fears of the Cold War never came to pass, and these signs weren’t needed in any major emergency situation." ☛ https://www.theautopian.com/if-you-ever-see-this-speed-sign-youre-probably-going-to-die/ |    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:35:35

• "last year was the hottest year ever recorded" ☛ https://ffrf.org/uncategorized/alarms-go-off-on-climate-change-as-trump-retakes-reins/ | Source: Freedom From Religion Foundation    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:36:04

• "One thousand eight hundred California Guardsmen will support response efforts, including firefighting crews" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/01/14/1800-california-national-guardsmen-activated-for-la-fire-response/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:48:54

• "Trump attempted to revoke California’s waiver authority, an action many states challenged as unlawful." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/01/13/major-legal-brawl-may-decide-what-types-of-cars-americans-can-buy/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:49:18

• "NOAA pegged 2024’s global average surface temperature at 1.46 degrees C above its preindustrial baseline" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-10/2024-hottest-year-ever | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:49:39

• "The environmental impact of the short-haul flights has also been noted as a reason for their discontinuation." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20136618 | Source: YLE    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:51:08

• "This was reflected by the fact that Finland saw a record number of 'hot' days during 2024" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20136452 | Source: YLE    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:51:20

• "The connection between the fire and the Resnicks is not as direct as people think." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/killing-california-for-a-snack/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:52:32

• "They couldn’t plant bananas, taro, tapioca or soursop. You still can’t plant tapioca and eat it here, it’s really bad" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/pacific/2025/01/12/palau-us-wwii-unexploded-ordnance-uxo/ | Source: RFA    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:52:48

• "Our urban water supply is meant to deal more with things like a single house being on fire" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/01/11/fire-hydrants-dry-wildfires-los-angeles | Source: Axios    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:54:30

• "This record-breaking global heat is primarily driven by humanity's ongoing greenhouse gas emissions" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/its-official-2024-declared-hottest-year-on-record-as-world-exceeds-1-5c | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:54:53

• This was just about a year ago https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/scientists-call-mask-up-again-30712694    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:57:31

• "Opinion is free, facts are sacred, and those who herd bits know the facts about the digital world better than most. 2025 is going to need us." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/smut_meta_opinion/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:58:09

• "The key to making sense of the HEY HI action plan is that none of this is any more coherent than any other plan in the HEY HI bubble" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/13/uk-government-plans-to-splurge-billions-on-ai-we-step-through-the-tricky-details/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 10:59:47

• "In this post, I'll describe some cargo cults from 1919 to the present. These cargo cults are completely different from the description of cargo cults you usually find on the internet, which I'll call the "pop-culture cargo cult."" ☛ http://www.righto.com/2025/01/its-time-to-abandon-cargo-cult-metaphor.html | Source: Ken Shirriff    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:00:31

• "Its purpose is to bung public money to large tech companies that are Labour Party and Tony Blair Institute donors. All of this is based on two reports that openly admit they were based on fake data generated with GPT." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/13/uk-government-plans-to-splurge-billions-on-ai-we-step-through-the-tricky-details/    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:01:09

• "As the San Francisco Standard reports, Balaji's mother Poornima Ramarao is not only claiming that her 26-year-old son was killed — as opposed to dying by suicide" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/parents-openai-whistleblower-believe-murdered | Source: Futurism http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/01/Mother_of_OpenAI_Whistleblower_Says_Her_Son_Was_Murdered_He_Acc.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:01:43

• Reminder: The Microsoft Person Who Used OpenAI for En Masse GPL Violations Told the Whistleblower to Kill Herself http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/16/Reminder_The_Microsoft_Person_Who_Used_OpenAI_for_En_Masse_GPL_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:02:00

• "He was very proud of what he was doing — where is the depression?" the grieving mother said. "How do you think it’s suicide? It’s brutal murder. Cold-blooded murder." https://futurism.com/the-byte/parents-openai-whistleblower-believe-murdered    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:03:04

• OpenAI: If OpenAI Survives Another 2 Years, It'll be About 30 Billion Dollars in Cumulative Losses/Debt http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:03:40

• "Well, I think I am hedging my position." ☛ https://mark.hysted.com/posts/hedging-my-social-media-position | Source: Mark Hysted    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:05:57

• "Chinese social media app RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/13/tiktok-users-flock-to-download-rednote-ahead-of-us-ban/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:06:38

• "A Chinese short-form video app called Xiaohongshu is now the top free app in the Apple App Store" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/what-is-rednote-chinese-app-shoots-to-1-with-tiktok-ban-looming-b2678978.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:07:09

• "Most of the [new Xiaohongshu users] are probably in the curiosity phase." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/red-note-tiktok-xiaohongshu/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:07:17

• "That proposal has arrived courtesy of Project Liberty founder Frank McCourt’s The People’s Bid for TikTok" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/13/tiktok-offer-buyout-january-2025/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:07:52

• "We can’t be expected to comment on pure fiction" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/tiktok-elon-musk-sale-china-pure-fiction-1236273557/ | Source: Variety    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:09:09

• "Under one scenario, Musk's social media platform X would take control of TikTok U.S. and run the business together" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-01-13/china-mulls-potential-sale-of-tiktok-us-to-musk-bloomberg-news-reports | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:09:21

• "With TikTok in the U.S. facing being shut down on Jan. 19" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/13/china-reportedly-evaluating-plan-elon-musk-acquire-tiktok-us-operations-but-tiktok-denies/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:09:29

• "Unsurprisingly, though, TikTok opted to include a statement on the Walkerworld 2.0 undertaking from a London-based exec" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/13/tiktok-alan-walker-partnership/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:19:39

• "Some of the justices seemed to acknowledge Congress' national security concerns over TikTok" ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/what-happens-after-tiktok-ban-in-us-and-how-users-will-be-affected-101736771083015.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:19:57

• "national security concerns supersede free [sic] speech [sic] concerns" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/12/supreme-court-justices-tiktok-ban/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:20:27

• "A law that passed Congress with expansive bipartisan support and was signed by President Biden last April requires TikTok to face a ban in the U.S. starting on Jan. 19" ☛ https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5081550-kelly-says-he-is-aware-tiktok-ban-is-controversial-yet-there-is-national-security-risk-to-app/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:21:18

• "Half of U.S. parents believe banning TikTok would enhance children's online safety." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51224335/half-of-us-parents-think-tiktok-ban-would-make-kids-safer-online | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:21:51

• "Their influence and operational model are on the rise." ☛ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/west-africa-could-soon-have-a-jihadist-state-heres-why/ | Source: Defence Web    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:22:15

• "What locals call “the war” has robbed the region of what was a largely peaceful life of fishing and farming." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/world/africa/mozambique-insurgency-cabo-delgado.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:31:05

• "Speaking on the opening day of Sweden’s three-day annual Folk och Försvars (people and defence) conference in Sälen" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/12/swedish-pm-war-peace-armed-forces-enter-baltic | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:31:24

• "Billionaire Elon Musk’s opinions have often landed him in controversy, but that hasn’t stopped him." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/after-helping-trump-win-elon-musk-backs-far-right-causes-in-uk-eu/articleshow/117174658.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:37:58

• "made headlines for its hardline stance" ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/what-you-need-to-know-about-afd-elon-musks-favourite-german-party/articleshow/117207405.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:38:16

• "It is not clear if Europe’s political immune system has the antibodies to defend against these new incursions." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/world/europe/maga-musk-europe-interference.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:38:40

• "The president and the families discussed the U.S. government's continuing efforts to reunite these three Americans" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/biden-speaks-families-taliban-prisoners-release/33273562.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:39:07

• "Investigators discovered that the vessel..." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/01/europe-russia-ukraine-multifront-war/681295/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:39:38

• "Some 35,000 civilians have been killed and more than 2 million have been displaced in the northeastern region" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/farmers-killed-by-islamic-militants-in-northeast-nigeria-official-says/7934904.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:46:34

• "Africa’s Sahel region is experiencing security problems" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/sahel-vacuum-provides-opportunities-for-china-analysts-say/7935372.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:46:52

• "robots are each equipped with 16 cameras" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20136655 | Source: YLE    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:47:20

• Windows TCO: "The government initially warned residents of the ransomware attack on December 19 and said it was working with U.K." ☛ https://therecord.media/turks-and-caicos-recovering-from-ransomware-attack | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:55:43

• Windows TCO: "threat actor using the monikers of Scorpion" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/emerging-funksec-ransomware-developed-using-ai/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:56:03

• Windows TCO: "Halcyon threat hunters say they first spotted this criminal gang in December" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/13/ransomware_crew_abuses_compromised_aws/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, January 14, 2025 at 11:56:18