Roy Schestowitz

• What Jack Smith Didn’t Say about the January 6 Investigation ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/15/what-jack-smith-didnt-say-about-the-january-6-investigation/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 05:35:34

• New digital daily newspaper for London set to launch ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/new-digital-daily-newspaper-for-london-set-to-launch/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 05:35:52

• Newsflation: Online news subscriptions in UK stay level as print cover prices surge ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/uk-digital-news-subscriptions-cost-2025/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 05:36:16

• RMS talk is tonight https://stallman.org/talks.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 05:43:18

• "you missed the sarcasm in the emails. Granite 3.1 is the AI vaporware that will replace us all." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhpaexjq    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 05:52:17

• "As a previous hiring manager, ghost job postings are a big issue at IBM. Months of begging, paperwork and endless hurdles only to get a posting that accounting never was going to allow to happen." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhkng8c9    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 05:53:20

• "Most of the cuts will happen in the Space Exploration department." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jhnsc2qe    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 05:54:34

• Red Hat-sponsored puff pieces from a Red Hat-sponsored "news" site (B2B)☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/15/red-hat-releases-openshift-virtualization-tools-multicloud-traffic-management/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:00:39

• US Dementia Cases to Double by 2060, According to New Study ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/us-dementia-cases-to-double-by-2060-according-to-new-study    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:01:48

• Octopus Arms Are Controlled by a Nervous System That's Like No Other ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/octopus-arms-are-controlled-by-a-nervous-system-thats-like-no-other    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:01:58

• Expert Explains Why a Glass of Milk Each Day Could Slash Cancer Risk ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/expert-explains-why-a-glass-of-milk-each-day-could-slash-cancer-risk    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:02:10

• Nanoparticles Reverse Parkinson's in Mice by Healing Damaged Dopamine Cells ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nanoparticles-reverse-parkinsons-in-mice-by-healing-damaged-dopamine-cells    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:02:17

• Dietary Supplement Shown to Reduce Aggression by Up to 28% ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dietary-supplement-shown-to-reduce-aggression-by-up-to-28    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:02:28

• Weight Isn't The Ultimate Predictor of Early Death – But Something Else Is ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/weight-isnt-the-ultimate-predictor-of-early-death-but-something-else-is    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:05:29

• string-timing-safe-equal, a new Node package ☞ https://evanhahn.com/string-timing-safe-equal/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:06:03

• So he's pushing Rust as "security" but uses an OS with back doors. Ha. https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/macbook-thunderbolt-migration/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:07:44

• Understanding and Identifying Scams: Digitally Empowering Older Adults in Mexico ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/01/digitally-empowering-older-adults-in-mexico/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:08:10

• A humble berry at the heart of a virtuous cycle ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2025/0115/serviceberry-robin-wall-kimmerer    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:09:20

• Razer settles 'deceptive' marketing FTC lawsuit for over $1 million — 6,764 Zephyr mask buyers to get full refunds ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/wearable-tech/razer-settles-deceptive-marketing-ftc-lawsuit-for-over-usd1-million-6-764-zephyr-mask-buyers-to-get-full-refunds    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:09:47

• Drake Files Massive Defamation Suit Against Universal Music Group Over ‘Not Like Us’: ‘UMG’s Greed Yielded Real World Consequences’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/15/drake-universal-music-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:10:33

• Many Syrians Want Justice for Regime Crimes. Others Want Revenge. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/world/middleeast/syria-justice-revenge-assad-crimes.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:10:52

• China Deploys Security to Try to Reassure a Country on Edge ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/world/asia/china-mass-killings-security.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:11:02

• Japan foreign minister ‘gravely concerned’ about maritime tensions escalating ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/japan-foreign-minister-gravely-concerned-about-maritime-tensions-escalating    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:13:27

• South Korea’s Yoon spends first night behind bars, still guarded by Presidential Security Service ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-president-behind-bars-yoon-stays-silent-still-guarded-by-presidential-security-service    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:13:54

• Lithuania’s Public Security Service starts protecting LitPol Link infrastructure ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2460630/lithuania-s-public-security-service-starts-protecting-litpol-link-infrastructure    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:14:04

• Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrested ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/impeached-south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeol-arrested/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:14:45

• Keeping the spotlight on Africa’s child soldiers ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/keeping-the-spotlight-on-africas-child-soldiers/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:15:21

• US places new set of export restrictions on advanced chips ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/15/us-places-new-set-export-restrictions-advanced-chips/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:16:20

• US recovers $31 million in Social Security payments to dead people ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/01/us-recovers-31-million-in-social-security-payments-to-dead-people/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:17:32

• Forest buyback important for national security, says Latvian PM ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/15.01.2025-forest-buyback-important-for-national-security-says-latvian-pm.a583753/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:17:53

• Windows TCO ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_262    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:18:48

• Windows TCO ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_25_263    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:18:59

• Scrubbing ZFS pools auomation on FreeBSD gopher://box.matto.nl/0/scrubbing-zfs-pools-auomation-on-freebsd.txt    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:20:30

• On Foot Standard 1: 1,000,000 steps in 100 days gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~spring/phlog/2025-01-16__On_Foot_1.txt    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:21:00

• "In dreams, I walk with you. In dreams, I talk to you. In dreams, you're mine, all of the time. We're together in dreams, in dreams" gemini://subphase.xyz/users/flow/gemlog/42-indreams.gmi    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:21:52

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1177.jpg    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:22:19

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1527.jpg    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:22:24

• Happy Together: The Laughing Prince: A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales (1921) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/fillmore-the-laughing-prince    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:23:35

• Raspberry Pi powers this Meshtastic network BBS ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-powers-this-meshtastic-network-bbs "VeggieVampire has put together some games you can play on a Raspberry Pi Meshtastic network bulletin board system (BBS)."    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:24:14

• "Raspberry Pi’s new microcontroller, the RP2350, has a small section of memory that is meant for storing secrets." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/15/all-the-attacks-on-the-rp2350/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:24:26

• FDA Finally Outlaws Red Food Dye Banned Around The World ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/fda-finally-outlaws-red-food-dye-banned-around-the-world    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:25:00

• 'Hackers stole my account and Fashion Company Apple won't give it back' ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/my-id-was-stolen-and-apple-refuses-to-give-it-back-andLp1Y8P4xf    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:25:50

• Neuropsychologists Explain The Science Behind Apple's Severance ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/neuropsychologists-explain-the-science-behind-apples-severance    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:26:30

• Libvirt v11.0.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1005203/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:27:00

• Microsoft 365 apps crash on backdoored Windows Server after Office update ☞ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-apps-crash-on-windows-server-after-office-update/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:27:35

• Six vulnerabilities discovered in rsync ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1005129/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:28:06

• Phishing False Alarm ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/phishing-false-alarm.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:28:56

• Hong Kong off-duty policeman tries to grab gun from colleague after arrest for alleged upskirting ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/16/hong-kong-off-duty-policeman-tries-to-grab-gun-from-colleague-after-arrest-for-alleged-upskirting/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:29:45

• Hong Kong police arrest beautician, 32, for allegedly luring 2 women to SE Asia in human trafficking scam ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/16/hong-kong-police-arrest-beautician-32-for-allegedly-luring-2-women-to-se-asia-in-human-trafficking-scam/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:29:56

• The Curious Case of a 12-Year-Old Netgear Router Vulnerability, (Wed, Jan 15th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31592    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:30:28

• Explainer: What to know about the arrest of South Korea’s impeached President Yoon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/explainer-what-to-know-about-the-arrest-of-south-koreas-impeached-president-yoon    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:30:52

• Austin failed to tell Congress or the White House about his health problems as required, report says ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/01/austin-failed-to-tell-congress-or-the-white-house-about-his-health-problems-as-required-report-says/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:33:09

• Mozambique inauguration: new president vows 'unity' amid protests ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20250115-mozambique-inauguration-new-president-vows-unity-amid-protests    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:33:23

• Tiptoeing around China: Australia’s framework for technology vendor review ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-technology-vendor-review-framework-tiptoes-around-china/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:33:54

• Law enforcement action deletes PlugX malware from thousands of machines ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/plugx-malware-mustang-panda-doj-takedown/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:34:29

• Easy Daedalus Bluetooth fix ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202501/easy-daedalus-bluetooth-fix.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:34:46

• Easy Daedalus package version bumps ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202501/easy-daedalus-package-version-bumps.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:35:09

• "Lifesaving HIV treatments. Cures for hepatitis C. New tuberculosis regimens and a vaccine for RSV." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/nih-niaid-trump-kennedy-bhattacharya-vaccines-research | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:35:55

• "Throughout evolution, the concept of powered flight has evolved and refined itself multiple times across both dinosaurs (birds), mammals (bats) and insects." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/15/avian-inspired-drones-how-studying-birds-of-prey-brings-more-efficient-drones-closer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:36:38

• Amazon vs. MicroStrategy ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/amazon-vs-microstrategy/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:37:20

• Fix description field in pkg db ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202501/fix-description-field-in-pkg-db.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:38:02

• EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.5.5 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202501/easyos-daedalus-series-version-655-released.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:38:16

• LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.01: Free GNU/Linux Course, ListMonk, File Descriptors and More ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-01/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:39:24

• Notepad Next 0.10 Brings Better Bookmark Operations ☞ https://linuxiac.com/notepad-next-0-10-code-editor-released/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:39:48

• Bottles 51.18 Released with Enhanced User Experience ☞ https://linuxiac.com/bottles-51-18-released-with-enhanced-user-experience/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:40:16

• Linux Mint 22.1 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1005165/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:41:35

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1005163/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 06:42:09

• Moment – Matrix client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/moment-matrix-client/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:02:40

• 21 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux System Profilers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/systemprofilers/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:02:48

• Rsync package in Ubuntu distros updated to fix remote code execution bugs, download now ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/rsync-package-in-ubuntu-distros-updated-to-fix-remote-code-execution-bugs-download-now/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:02:55

• PCLinuxOS Recent Updates ☞ https://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=5894    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:03:28

• So Fentanylware (TikTok) is now being served by the ACLU. A censorship platform, which is what Fentanylware (TikTok) is, is being framed as "free speech". UNBELIEVABLE! ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/banning-tiktok-is-unconstitutional-the-supreme-court-must-step-in    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:06:29

• Americans being censored (in the US) by a large Chinese company connected to the Chinese government is now "free speech"    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:07:37

• iophk: ACLU helps aim the CCP's weapon more precisely at US youth, especially Gen A.    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:08:15

• High-Interest Tribal Lenders ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/states-tribal-lenders-high-interest-rates | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:09:11

• Guardianship ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-guardianship-investigation-letitia-james-nygs | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:09:35

• State Dept. ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/biden-blinken-state-department-israel-gaza-human-rights-horrors | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:10:12

• Linux Mint 22.1 ISOs approved, here's how to download them now ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-mint-221-isos-approved-heres-how-to-download-it-now/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:10:53

• Don Marti: How this site uses Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://blog.zgp.org/ai/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:12:33

• Giving a platform to a Microsoft shill who lies for Microsoft, helps Microsoft violate the GPL, and tries to censor critics ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/15/floss-weekly-episode-816-open-source-ai/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:14:02

• "LLM-generated sites are a refinement of an existing business model by infringing sites and their Big Tech enablers." https://blog.zgp.org/ai/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:15:53

• A Direct Conversion Receiver Anyone Can Build ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/15/a-direct-conversion-receiver-anyone-can-build/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:16:28

• How the Blazes in L.A. Got Swept into the Culture War ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-the-blazes-in-la-got-swept-into-the-culture-war    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:16:52

• New Obesity Definition Shifts Focus From BMI – Here's The Science Behind It ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-obesity-definition-shifts-focus-from-bmi-heres-the-science-behind-it    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:17:14

• Record 36.8 million tourists visited Japan in 2024 in return to pre-Covid-19 boom ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/record-36-8-million-tourists-visited-japan-in-2024-in-return-to-pre-covid-boom    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:17:48

• Hong Kong police to roll out rapid testing device for ‘space oil’ ahead of February ban ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/16/hong-kong-police-to-roll-out-rapid-testing-device-for-space-oil-ahead-of-february-ban/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:18:19

• Write Down Your Thoughts in a Digital Journal on Your Phone ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/personaltech/how-to-journal-on-your-phone.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:18:55

• TikTok Says U.S. Employees Will Have Jobs Even if the App Is Banned ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/business/tiktok-bytedance-ban-jobs.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:19:14

• What are your thoughts on the Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/01/what-thoughts-tiktok.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:19:34

• What Happened When an Extremely Offline Person Tried Fentanylware (TikTok) ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/what-happened-when-an-extremely-offline-person-tried-tiktok    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:19:51

• Trump adviser says president-elect is exploring options to “preserve” Fentanylware (TikTok) ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2025/01/15/trump-exploring-options-tiktok/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:19:59

• Xiaohongshu: the Chinese app taking the US by storm ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/15/xiaohongshu-the-chinese-app-taking-the-us-by-storm/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:20:26

• The RedNote Exodus Is Real — American Teens Flock to New Chinese-Owned App Ahead of Imminent Fentanylware (TikTok) Shutdown ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/15/renote-exodus-real-americans-leave-tiktok/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:20:45

• "Those devices are heavily promoted on Fentanylware (TikTok)" ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/security-flaws-found-in-tiny-phones-promoted-to-children/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:21:16

• "Updated: Fentanylware (TikTok) plans to make its popular social control media app inaccessible in the U.S. on Jan. 19" ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/15/report-tiktok-plans-shut-app-us-ahead-ban/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:21:52

• TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN & Co surrender Europeans’ data to authoritarian China ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/tiktok-aliexpress-shein-co-surrender-europeans-data-authoritarian-china    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:22:15

• iophk: RedNote is likely even worse as far as censorship, manipulation, and influence go    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:22:54

• How to keep Linux optimized (and save time) with Stacer https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-keep-linux-optimized-and-save-time-with-stacer/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:30:39

• "Linux Mint's latest upgrade is available. Explore more about it before you try it out!" https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-mint-22-1-features/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:31:08

• Linux on macOS https://liliputing.com/lilbits-emulating-x86-windows-and-linux-on-macos-apples-2025-plans-leaked-and-microsoft-really-wants-you-to-stop-using-windows-10/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:32:03

• "There does seem to be another caveat with the release, in that it only works if the application you're using goes through PulseAudio. If the app has been updated to go direct to PipeWire it may not work yet. But hey, this is great progress." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/discord-screen-sharing-with-audio-on-linux-wayland-is-officially-here/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:32:37

• 4 Ways to Change the Default Text Editor on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/change-the-default-text-editor-on-linux/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:33:09

• "In this Linux tip, we take a look at the iostat command – a command that provides stats on IO activity." https://www.networkworld.com/video/3803310/how-to-use-the-iostat-command.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:35:51

• "Let me show you how to install Arch Linux without losing your mind." https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-install-arch-linux-without-losing-your-mind/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:36:36

• Remember These 5 apt Clean Up Utilities for Your Next Spring Cleaning https://www.howtogeek.com/remember-these-apt-clean-up-utilities-for-your-next-spring-cleaning/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:37:13

• "Thankfully, you can once again get back to the Library page of a game that is downloading which Valve forgot to add when they revamped the currently downloading item, along with an option on all games in your Downloads to have a View in Library option in the right click menu (nice!)." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/jan-14th-steam-beta-fixes-linux-issues-a-steam-deck-wifi-crash-view-in-library-added-to-downloads-page/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:37:45

• "Flatpak 1.16 has landed with much-needed improvements. Let's take a quick look!" https://news.itsfoss.com/flatpak-1-16-linux/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:38:12

• "Despite the fact that it's only a point release in the Mint 22 series, it is still a substantial update. It comes with new power modes, Night Light integrated into the settings, Cinnamon 6.4, new artwork, and other improvements." https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-mint-221-isos-approved-heres-how-to-download-it-now/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:38:31

• "The wait is finally over as the Linux Mint team has published the final ISO images of the Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” release, which are available for download from the official mirrors." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-1-xia-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:38:48

• OSI = the Roman Empire helps the Microsoft empire, but that would be "racist" because bringing up vicious imperialism is "racist" against Italians    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 07:47:24

• "A fresh update to Proton Experimental arrived for SteamOS Steam Deck / Linux gamers with some necessary fixes for various games." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/proton-experimental-gets-fixes-for-marvel-rivals-sea-of-thieves-and-stalker-2/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:32:30

• "If you want to make backups of your game saves, the free and open source tool Ludusavi is an essential item to put in your toolbox." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/game-save-data-backup-tool-ludusavi-v028-brings-new-features/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:32:41

• "Tiny Glade is a gorgeous and relaxing diorama builder about doodling castles and all sorts all over the screen, it's seriously impressive and they've announced work is ongoing for improving it on Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/popular-diorama-builder-tiny-glade-is-getting-better-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:32:54

• Smalltalk and nonsense only in Fedora "DEI". This initiative is a zombie. https://app.element.io/#/room/#dei:fedoraproject.org    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:34:34

• "FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH from Square Enix arrives on January 23rd, and thankfully the developers have already managed to get it Steam Deck Verified ahead of the release." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth-gets-steam-deck-verified-ahead-of-release/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:34:52

• "KillPixel Games, one of the dev teams responsible for WRATH: Aeon of Ruin, have announced their next game with THREAT VECTOR. Seems it will have Linux support like WRATH too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/threat-vector-is-an-action-sci-fi-horror-fps-coming-from-killpixel-games/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:35:51

• "Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" has now been released bringing with it many improvements to the desktop, along with enhancements to all the software that powers it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/linux-mint-221-xia-is-out-now-with-improved-wayland-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:40:35

• "Placeholder Gameworks who made Death & Taxes just released Broken Alliance into Early Access with Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/broken-alliance-from-the-death-taxes-dev-is-now-in-early-access-a-love-letter-to-heroes-of-might-and-magic/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:43:28

• "With a style that's a fair bit similar to Minecraft with an expansive universe seen in the likes of No Mans Sky, the recently announced Cubic Odyssey from Atypical Games and Gaijin Network Ltd looks pretty darn fun." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/cubic-odyssey-announced-as-a-fusion-of-minecraft-and-no-mans-sky/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:43:43

• "Today, January 16th 2025, NVIDIA have revealed multiple security flaws in their GPU drivers, so it's time to get updating again. There's a mixture of issues that affect both Linux and Windows." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/nvidia-release-new-gpu-driver-updates-for-linux-and-windows-after-announcing-security-issues/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:44:36

• iophk: misframes the question as one of speech and not of maniuplation and influence while misrepresenting the service as a communications medium https://www.telesurenglish.net/tiktok-plans-total-closure-in-the-u-s-if-prohibition-does-not-stop/ (Russian propaganda site: "TikTok Plans Total Closure in the U.S. if Prohibition Does Not Stop")    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:46:58

• iophk: misrepresents influence and manipulation as 'mere' surveillance [and] # spins surveillance as quite acceptable https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2267574.html ("'Take my data': US 'TikTok refugees' flock to alternative Chinese app")    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:47:30

• iophk: mistakes disinformation and manipulation for information and communication https://kansasreflector.com/2025/01/15/tiktok-ban-poised-to-disrupt-information-ecosystem-livelihood-of-millions-of-users/ ("TikTok ban poised to disrupt information ecosystem, livelihood of millions of users")    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:47:57

• "Nebraska lawmakers adopt resolution honoring former President Jimmy Carter" https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/01/15/nebraska-lawmakers-adopt-resolution-honoring-former-president-jimmy-carter/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:48:12

• "A man of truth: Jimmy Carter on the American oligarchy - Alternet.org" https://www.alternet.org/jimmy-carter-oligarchy/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:48:23

• "Indonesian Women and Virginity: Requestioning Structural Challenges and Human Rights" https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/01/16/indonesian-women-and-virginity-requestioning-structural-challenges-and-human-rights/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:48:36

• iophk: this plan will kickstart BRICS https://www.axios.com/2025/01/14/trump-external-revenue-service-ers-tariffs ("Trump promises "External Revenue Service" to collect tariffs")    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:49:37

• "Italy’s Meloni to leverage strong ties with Trump — but as president whisperer or Trojan horse?" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/giorgia-meloni-ap-italy-trump-europe-b2680562.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:49:48

• "Vim shortcuts for spell check" https://www.ncartron.org/vim-shortcuts-for-spell-check.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:50:06

• "Blog - c’t Open Source Spotlight interview with Neal" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2025/01/13/202501-ct-interview/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:50:18

• "Canada responds to Trump's tariff talk with retaliatory threat" https://thehill.com/business/5090216-canada-retaliatory-tariff-trump-trudeau/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:50:29

• "China's Vice President Han Zheng to Attend Trump Inauguration" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-16/chinas-vice-president-han-zheng-to-attend-trump-inauguration    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:50:40

• "Trump selects Dearborn Muslim cleric for inauguration prayer - mlive.com" https://www.mlive.com/politics/2025/01/trump-selects-dearborn-muslim-cleric-for-inauguration-prayer.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:50:56

• "Eric Adams Heads to Mar-a-Lago to Meet With Trump" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/nyregion/eric-adams-trump-mar-a-lago.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:51:13

• "Nancy Pelosi Is Skipping Trump’s Inauguration" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/nancy-pelosi-trump-inauguration.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:51:21

• "Saudi Arabia’s state oil company pivots to lithium mining" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/16/2025/saudi-arabias-state-oil-company-pivots-to-lithium-mining    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:51:38

• Keep Drew away from children at FOSDEM or he might get a hard-on https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html ("No billionaires at FOSDEM") https://dmpwn.info/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:52:29

• "LAPD Arrests Everyone Who Lost Home In Fire - The Onion" https://theonion.com/lapd-arrests-everyone-who-lost-home-in-fire/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:52:50

• "What Tiktokers should do if there’s a ban, according to former Vine stars" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/16/vine-tiktok-ban-creators-advice/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:53:01

• "President Biden Farewell Address to the Nation" https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=pGZRQ00kN0    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:53:48

• iophk: mike masnick carries water for the CCP https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/bidens-tiktok-flip-flop-president-rushes-to-undo-ban-he-championed-as-backlash-grows/ ("Biden’s TikTok Flip-Flop: President Rushes To Undo Ban He Championed As Backlash Grows")    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:54:24

• "Systemic Risk Reporting: A System in Crisis?" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/systemic-risk-reporting-system-crisis    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:54:37

• "The Idea That China Growing Wealthier Is a Threat to Us Is Wacky" ☛ https://fair.org/home/the-idea-that-china-growing-wealthier-is-a-threat-to-us-is-wacky/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:58:54

• "Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients face fines if a delinquent toll fee remains unpaid." ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/chinese-innovations-spawn-wave-of-toll-phishing-via-sms/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:59:22

• "Poppy Playtime is a massively popular horror game released by the indie studio Mob Entertainment." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/poppy-playtime-sues-google-for-failing-to-remove-copyright-infringing-scam-apps-250116/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 08:59:56

• "The point is that the NHL is the pro-sports version of our curmudgeonly uncle that hates modernity and all this new-fangled techno-gizmos the young whipper-snappers are always staring at instead of going outside and playing with a stick or something." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/the-nhl-just-cant-get-social-media-right/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:04:56

• "Ochester met with two lawyers, one of whom compared his predicament to being trapped in a box" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/david-bowie-lost-recording-found-young-americans/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:05:17

• "Mangione's activity on the site had nothing to do with the allegations against him; like many other users of Stack Overflow, he was looking for advice on things like iOS constraints for creating in-app buttons" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/01/16/stack-exchange-accused-of-violating-creative-commons-to-hide-luigi-mangiones-code-tips.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:05:26

• Patents ☛ https://fedscoop.com/uspto-releases-ai-strategic-plan/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:07:57

• "Petition on EU Linux Operating System in Public Administrations" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/01/16/1024248    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:08:48

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/cable-tv-decline-streaming-cord-cutting-1234710007/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:10:02

• "To give you some idea of the context in which it was written, unless you are over 70" ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2025/01/a-prophet-of-web.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:10:54

• "Unfortunately, this plan isn’t available to new users" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/starlink-touts-usd9-a-month-5gb-data-cap-plan-to-australian-users-marketed-as-a-backup-option | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:11:01

• "in a sign of the potential risks for India in legitimizing the Taliban" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0116/Hearing-Afghan-women | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:11:33

• "Belarus state TV has aired a propaganda program parading imprisoned RFE/RL journalist Ihar Losik, who has not been heard from in nearly two years." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/ihar-losik-rferl-belarus-/33277082.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:13:45

• "The price of digital news subscriptions in the UK have remained fairly stable over the last year as prices charged for print newspapers have skyrocketed, Press Gazette analysis reveals." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/uk-digital-news-subscriptions-cost-2025/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:13:50

• "a senior member of the "For Georgia” party" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/33277486.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:14:29

• "What makes the ABC case so troubling is that, as craven a display of preemptive obeisance as it was, it was hardly singular." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/media-capitulation-to-trump/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:14:53

• "President Joe Biden was repeatedly warned that prosecuting WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange under the Espionage Act posed an existential threat to investigative reporting by criminalizing routine journalistic conduct that the First Amendment has long protected." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/rights-orgs-demand-biden-pardon-assange | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:14:59

• "Neither side is right, as my colleagues and I wrote in an amicus brief filed in the case." ☛ https://epic.org/in-free-speech-coalition-v-paxton-the-supreme-court-should-preserve-legislatures-power-to-protect-kids-online/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:16:09

• "The damage follows a widespread [Internet] outage on Tuesday that impacted telecom providers and platforms such as Google, WhatsApp and TikTok across the country." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/15/cable-damage-slows-internet-for-millions-of-customers-across-russia-a87625 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:16:31

• "Life Freedom movement in Iran" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-15/mohammad-rasoulof-the-iranian-filmmaker-persecuted-by-the-regime.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:17:31

• "relies on the West's self-censorship" [...] "So the people who were born here, are the ones who are least assimilated because they are the ones who are most exposed to the radicalisation that is happening within these mosques and within these Islamic Centres." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2025/01/16/planet-normal-islamists-in-the-west/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:17:52

• "Let me just start by repeating the same thing I say every time social media platform moderation comes up: Meta is a private company that creates products that they themselves own — they are not public goods or utilities." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/meta-moderation-and-whose-freedoms-come-first/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:18:27

• "The arrest of Mougheeth and Serag marks a dangerous escalation by Egyptian authorities to silence anyone daring to expose their repression" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/01/egypt-arrests-journalist-wife-of-jailed-cartoonist-after-interview/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:18:44

• "Al-Shehab, a women's rights activist and mother of two, was arrested in January 2021 and sentenced for merely expressing support for dissidents online." ☛ https://dawnmena.org/groups-call-for-unconditional-release-of-saudi-activist-salma-al-shehab-after-sentence-reduction/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:19:12

• "In other last-minute moves by the Biden Administration" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/biden-cybersecurity-order-ambitious-plan/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:25:40

• "In response to some outcry over inaccurate summaries" ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2579807/apple-intelligence-notification-summaries-are-changing-in-ios-18-3.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:26:09

• "One year ago, in the 2024 Global Risks Report" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-01-disinformation-rife.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:26:30

• "The company said its Columbus plant could eventually produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems and weapons each year." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/technology/anduril-factory-columbus-ohio.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:27:05

• "The Cosa Mesa, California-based defense technology company plans to begin construction of what it’s calling “Arsenal 1” as soon as state and local approvals are secured." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/industry/2025/01/16/anduril-to-build-arsenal-1-autonomous-weapons-plant-in-central-ohio/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:27:26

• "Dubbed Arsenal-1, Anduril claims the planned five million square foot (464,000 square meter) facility is intended to produce tens of thousands of autonomous military systems a year." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/anduril_auto_weapon_factory/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:27:50

• "The beaver, in this goofy metaphor, is American capitalism." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/looting-season-in-america | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:28:14

• "Biden appeared to take aim at billionaire Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who have thrown their support behind Donald Trump following his election win." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/joe-biden-warns-against-rising-oligarchy-in-final-speech/a-71304362 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:28:35

• "Stanford law professor Mark Lemley, a partner at Lex Lumina, is withdrawing from the Kadrey v. Meta case over Meta training its Llama LLM on copyrighted material." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/15/meta-ai-case-lawyer-quits-after-mark-zuckerbergs-neo-nazi-madness-llama-depositions-unsealed/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:29:17

• "Non-profit governance is not a magic bullet, but if the organization is led by level-headed folks who understand that their decisions have real-world consequences, Mastodon may just be okay." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2025/01/mastodon-moving-assests-to-a-non-profit-organization/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:29:35

• "But it is unclear whether the Trump administration, intent on deregulation even while it vows to take on China in particular, will keep the overhauled cybersecurity rules." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/biden-trump-cybersecurity.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:30:06

• "As principal director of the NRO, a position he’s held since 2020, Meink oversees the spy agency’s day-to-day operations." ☛ https://www.airforcetimes.com/air/2025/01/16/trump-picks-intel-community-official-as-next-air-force-secretary/ | Source: Air Force Times    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:31:15

• "The release did not provide additional details on Quemada’s dismissal. The Navy uses the “loss of confidence” statement as a blanket term when relieving commanding officers." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2025/01/16/navy-relieves-co-of-naval-information-warfare-training-group-norfolk/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:34:46

• "The CEO of Epic Games, the maker of Fortnite, is sounding off on his fellow tech executives for falling in line behind Donald Trump." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/epic-fortnite-ceo-trump | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:34:58

• "On December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards” introduced by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in 2003." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/platforms-systematically-removed-a-user-because-he-made-most-wanted-ceo-playing-cards/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:35:14

• "On December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards” introduced by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/platforms-systematically-removed-a-user-because-he-made-most-wanted-ceo-playing-cards/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:35:46

• "On December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “Most-wanted Iraqi playing cards” ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/platforms-systematically-removed-a-user-because-he-made-most-wanted-ceo-playing-cards/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:35:58

• "The EO directs the federal agencies, particularly DoD and DoE" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/biden-signs-order-to-bolster-energy-resources-for-ai-data-centers/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:37:38

• "Tier IV is on a mission to develop open source Level 4 autonomous software for self-driving vehicles." ☛ https://blog.system76.com/post/thelio-astra-tier-iv/ | Source: System76    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:37:47

• Public transport ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/public-transport-fares-go-up-by-35-in-istanbul-303644 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:37:56

• "Over the last 30 years, Earth has experienced an uptick in both frequency and intensity of these punishing" ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/extrem-megadroughts-rise-worldwide-fire | Source: Science News    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:38:56

• "A decade ago, I had the privilege of attending and reporting from COP21 in Paris" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/01/16/weve-officially-passed-the-1-5-global-warming-limit-weve-been-warned-about-for-years.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:39:07

• "The planet has moved a major step closer to warming more than 1.5C, new data shows" ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd7575x8yq5o | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:39:22

• "The research found that almost everywhere on the planet has experienced between 31% and 66% more whiplash events" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/15/climate-whiplash-events-increasing-exponentially-around-world | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:39:48

• "Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024" ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/like-dystopian-sci-fi-film-earth-records-hottest-year-ever-in-2024-breaches-1-5c-threshold/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:40:28

• "Eighteen years in the making, congestion pricing has proven a tough sell." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/congestion-pricing-set-to-cut-traffic-raise-1b-year-for-new-york-transit-trump-vows-to-axe-it/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:40:46

• "On the passing of Mark Discordia, a ’90s video game fan who got a troll’s welcome to the internet." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/01/15/mark-discordia-nintendo-power-remembrance/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:41:56

• "The Swedish Armed Forces just announced a new AI-powered drone swarm that makes it easy for a non-drone pilot to operate." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/swedish-armys-new-ai-drone-swarm-technology-can-control-up-to-100-devices | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:43:21

• "First it was Pete Hegseth who said it, followed 24 hours later by Pam Bondi." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/16/if-you-cant-stand-the-hypotheticals-get-out-of-the-cabinet/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:43:33

• "Mark Zuckerberg can see the finish line. He is so close to getting what he has wanted for years." ☛ https://www.404media.co/a-tiktok-ban-is-a-gift-to-meta-and-instagram/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:43:46

• "The big picture: It's not immediately clear what action Trump could take if the U.S. Supreme Court were to uphold a bipartisan law that would, unless sold to a U.S. firm, ban the popular video app that's owned by Chinese company ByteDance." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/01/16/trump-tiktok-ban | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:44:03

• "However, this afternoon came news that President-elect Trump may suspend the ban for 60 to 90 days. So the fate of TikTok remains in flux." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/15/report-tiktok-plans-shut-app-us-ahead-ban/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:44:16

• "If the ruling enforces the ban, TikTok could meet the same fate it faced in countries like India, where the app was blocked and users received alerts declaring it unavailable" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/rednote-gains-ground-as-tiktok-nears-potential-shutdown-1854185 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:44:43

• "Such impromptu cultural exchanges were taking place all across RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu, as the app surged to the top of US download rankings this week." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/us-tiktok-ban-users-chinese-app-rednote/257681/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:45:36

• "The justices indicate in advance when they will hand down opinions, but Thursday’s update was highly unusual." ☛ https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5090359-supreme-court-opinions-friday-tiktok/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:45:52

• "The legality of such a move is unclear and is thrown further into doubt by the fact that the Supreme Court is poised to rule on a request by the company to overturn the law." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-team-might-step-in-to-save-tiktok-from-pending-us-ban-/7940010.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:46:09

• The Make-Poohtin-Great-Again EO ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/us/politics/trump-tiktok-executive-order.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:46:55

• "The absence of a clear plan ahead of the ban has sent Congress, the White House and possibly federal enforcers into unknown territory." ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/16/with-72-hours-to-go-tiktok-ban-sends-washington-scrambling-00198713 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:47:12

• "We didn’t pull the rug out from under TikTok, and we didn’t ban it" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/01/16/dc/u-s-senate-gop-blocks-lifeline-for-tiktok-though-ceo-will-sit-with-trump-at-inaugural/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:47:32

• "The Biden administration doesn't plan to take action that forces TikTok to immediately go dark for U.S. users on Sunday, an administration official told ABC News." ☛ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-administration-leave-trump-implement-tiktok-ban/story?id=117753133 | Source: ABC    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:47:46

• "But don’t get too excited just yet." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24345461/biden-punts-tiktok-ban-trump | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:48:38

• "Mathew Ingram wrote a great piece calling this week’s proceedings a slide into “even stupider” territory, which could refer to just about anything" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/tiktok-saga-even-stupider/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:48:47

• Gulagboy's lawyer is taking money from criminals who suffocate women in order to bully and terrorise their victims and those who report on the crimes    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:49:06

• "Given the timing of when it goes into effect over a holiday weekend a day before inauguration, it will be up to the next administration to implement" ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5090896-biden-wont-enforce-tiktok-ban-reports/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:49:19

• "indifference to truth and honor and the rule of law has a way of catching up with a country." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/01/jack-smith-report-trump/681328/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:49:40

• "Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/biden_oligopoly_ai/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:50:00

• "The free press is crumbling" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/01/16/dc/in-farewell-speech-to-nation-biden-warns-of-threat-of-extreme-wealth-power-and-influence/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:50:17

• [Old] "nominations for president or to elect the president." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jimmy-carter-u-s-is-an-oligarchy-with-unlimited-political-bribery-63262/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:50:33

• "As we remember the long, distinguished life of President Jimmy Carter we ought to acknowledge not only his incredible accomplishments but some of his serious and prescient warnings." ☛ https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/01/09/remember-jimmy-carters-warning-about-oligarchs | Source: Chicago Sun Times    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:50:45

• "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/15/joe-biden-farewell-address-trump-oligarchy-america | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:50:59

• "I am concerned about the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a few wealthy people" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/biden-farewell-address-trump-oligarchs-ai/33277470.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:51:17

• "The Constitution’s framers were obsessed with the quality of American public officials." ☛ https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-constitution-of-kakistocracy | Source: The Lawfare Institute    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 09:51:37

• "Texas is one of nearly 20 US states to institute such a requirement, which critics argue violates First Amendment free speech rights." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/entertainment/news/a/2267566.html | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 14:46:00

• "a commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on an internet website, including a social media platform" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-01-15/porn-access-debate-comes-before-the-conservative-majority-supreme-court.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 14:46:14

• iophk: Will they also deprogram Microsoft resellers and Microsoft boosters? https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/17/netherlands-launch-aid-center-cult-victims ("Netherlands to launch aid center for cult victims")    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:02:20

• "I was particularly glad to see this paper, but this exact topic has been very much on my mind this past few months." ☛ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/01/17/lets-talk-about-ai-and-end-to-end-encryption/ | Source: Cryptography Engineering    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:02:36

• "GM monitored and sold people’s precise geolocation data and driver behavior information, sometimes as often as every three seconds" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24345470/gm-banned-selling-driving-data-insurance-ftc | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:05:47

• "The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday announced a settlement agreement with General Motors and its OnStar subsidiary that requires the automaker to stop sharing millions of customers’ sensitive geolocation data with consumer reporting agencies" ☛ https://therecord.media/ftc-gm-settlement-5-year-ban-selling-driver-data | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:06:22

• "“The roll-out of age-verification is likely to create new cybersecurity risks. This could take the form of more scam porn sites that will trick users into handing over personal data to ‘verify their age’." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/age-verification-proposals-could-expose-people-to-exploitation/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:29:09

• "Today, noyb has filed GDPR complaints against TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat and Xiaomi for unlawful data transfers to China." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/tiktok-aliexpress-shein-co-surrender-europeans-data-authoritarian-china | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:29:30

• The Truth of the Matter: Scammers Targeting Truth Social Users ☞ https://www.netcraft.com/blog/truth-social-scam-threat-review/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:31:54

• 'Shafted': French comedy series sends up toxic masculinity ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20250116-shafted-french-comedy-series-sends-up-toxic-masculinity    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:32:09

• "You should have this question in your mind. What if it breaks your site? Or worse, what if it’s poorly maintained and becomes a security nightmare?" ☛ https://remkusdevries.com/how-to-tell-if-a-wordpress-plugin-can-be-trusted/ | Source: Remkus de Vries    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:32:48

• "Mercenaries are paid far better than their counterparts in national armed forces." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/what-mercenaries-can-teach-us-about-climate-fuelled-disaster-responses/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:33:27

• "As wildfires ravage Los Angeles, engulfing over 12,000 homes and claiming 24 lives thus far" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/outrage-la-millionaires-pay-10000-daily-private-firefighters-protect-their-homes-1730137 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:33:48

• Windows TCO: "The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cisa-microsoft-playbook-enables-cloud-logs/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:36:30

• Windows TCO: "The healthcare sector has witnessed a rise in cyberattacks in recent years." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/eu-action-plan-to-protect-healthcare-infra/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:36:41

• Windows TCO: "The incident is the latest large-scale data breach in the U.S." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/01/15/school-software-provider-is-target-of-major-hack-of-personal-data/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:36:47

• 399k raised by FSF. 400k by day's end. https://my.fsf.org/donate SFC trying to 'crash' this achievement. http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/17/Software_Freedom_Conservancy_Inc_SFC_Makes_It_Obvious_It_s_Just.shtml Did Karen Sander's mom and Brad's dad "donate" to the SFC to help fake it?    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:40:11

• Richard Stallman's talks are still on. One starts in 1.5 hours: https://stallman.org/talks.html one Monday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2ssHf97rvo    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:42:11

• "human performance enhancement, brain-machine interfaces, biologically inspired synthetic materials and possibly biological weapons" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/us-imposes-export-controls-on-biotech-equipment-over-ai-security-concerns/7938147.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:48:49

• "This is bizarre. The people creating music are musicians." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/14/people-dont-enjoy-making-music-says-ai-music-ceo-being-sued-for-stealing-music/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:49:12

• "Today I added an infinite-nonsense honeypot to my web site just to fuck with LLM scrapers, based on a "spicy autocomplete" program I wrote about 30 years ago." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/01/exterminate-all-rational-ai-scrapers/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:49:27

• "Medium seems to suffer from another problem: AI-generated content and fake account for fake engagement to generate revenues." ☛ https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/13/the-medium-mirage.html | Source: Numeric Citizen    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:49:44

• "HN user nomad-nigiri asks: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/16/hacker-news-are-there-any-real-examples-of-ai-agents-doing-work-the-answer-may-not-surprise-you/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:50:02

• "Because these pitfalls are common, if you’ve worked on any AI product, you’ve probably seen them before." ☛ https://huyenchip.com//2025/01/16/ai-engineering-pitfalls.html | Source: Chip Huyen    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:50:13

• "The UK government plans to crack down on explicit deepfakes, in which images or videos of people are blended with pornographic material using artificial intelligence (AI) to make it look like an authentic piece of content." ☛ https://theconversation.com/deepfakes-of-children-how-the-government-can-get-to-grips-with-them-247265 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:50:24

• "GitHub’s crackdown is incomplete, as the code—along with others taken down by the developer site—also persists in other repositories on the platform." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/githubs-deepfake-porn-crackdown-still-isnt-working/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:51:04

• "On Wednesday, January 15, 2025, a threat actor named “Belsen Group” published a trove of Fortinet FortiGate firewall data on the dark web" ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/fortinet-firewalls-hit-with-new-zero-day-attack,-older-data-leak.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:51:28

• "Single-page applications (SPAs) are popular due to their dynamic and user-friendly interfaces, but they can also introduce security risks." ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/single-page-applications-vulnerable/ | Source: Google    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:51:36

• "Whether or not service members should be allowed to grow beards has long been debated." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marines-beards-commandant/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:59:34

• "The “gig” model of labor popularized by Uber has found a new sector to upend: health care." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-uber-model-comes-for-nursing/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:59:45

• "watch the destruction in Los Angeles through the prism of our fractured social-media ecosystem" ☛ https://blog.ayjay.org/you-dont-have-to-be-there/ | Source: Alan Jacobs    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 15:59:57

• "forever chemicals." ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/3m-firefighting-foam-pfas-forever-chemicals.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:00:06

• "Rules for the export of chip production equipment will once again be tightened, the Minister of Foreign Trade, Reinette Klever" ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/15/restrictions-chip-machine-exportations-dutch-companies-asml-asmi | Source: NL Times    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:02:44

• "The moteus line of brushless controllers all have an integrated “on-axis” magnetic encoder." ☛ https://jpieper.com/2025/01/09/low-cost-off-axis-encoders-for-moteus-a-beginning/ | Source: J Pieper    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:02:57

• "Low Power mode can have significant effects on performance, power and energy use in CPU cores of some Apple silicon chips that support it." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/01/16/how-low-power-mode-controls-cpu-cores/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:03:17

• "L1 cache capacity per SM reportedly remains the same on GB202 as is on AD102, featuring 128 kB of capacity per SM." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidias-rtx-5090-5080-reportedly-have-the-same-l1-cache-size-per-sm-compared-to-rtx-4090-4080 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:03:49

• "So I’m asking a lot of questions out loud here:" ☛ https://robinrendle.com/notes/work/ | Source: Robin Rendle    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:05:13

• "Sesame Street" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/TV/2025/0115/sesame-street-tv-children-big-bird | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:05:18

• "India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully docked a pair of satellites" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/isro_spadex_satellite_docking_succeeds/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:06:36

• "DNA extracted from 57 individuals buried in a 2,000-year-old cemetery" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-discover-celtic-society-where-men-left-home-to-join-their-brides-community-180985857/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:06:44

• "Among the large kin group, who lived before and after the Romans launched their invasion in AD 43" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/iron-age-dna-reveals-women-dominated-pre-roman-britain | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:06:53

• "I have been thinking a lot creativity. What does creativity mean to me?" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/01/16/creative-questions-challenge/ | Source: James G    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:13:29

• "Walnut Hills is a fenced off area known on Google Maps" ☛ https://chrisglass.com/2025/01/16/the-big-boy-graveyard/ | Source: Chris Glass    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:13:52

• "These social machines are tireless in their effort to addict you." ☛ https://bjhess.com/posts/how-to-be-here | Source: Barry Hess    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:14:13

• "I don't believe I was tagged by anyone but wanted to join in as it seemed like a fun writing challenge." ☛ https://www.benji.dog/articles/blog-questions-challenge/ | Source: Benji Encalada Mora    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:14:38

• "Sometimes it surprises me how things that I consider essential in my life" ☛ https://blakewatson.com/journal/things-i-got-from-specific-people/ | Source: Blake Watson    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:14:57

• "David Lynch, a painter turned avant-garde filmmaker whose fame" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/movies/david-lynch-dead.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:15:48

• "But the person that monster used to be might have created beautiful things, good things, worthy things." ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/when-you-love-something-made-by-a-terrible-person | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:16:15

• "Topical URLs like these “slash pages” don’t have to be static pages. They could be tag listing pages." ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2025/01/16/the-garden-vs-the-river/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:16:34

• "It’s hard to blame the modern podcaster. Interviewing is a dying art, even in broadcast." ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/interim-4/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:25:02

• "Back to observability: Overall, I’m excited to see how the observability product offerings get refined" ☛ https://hazelweakly.me/blog/the-future-of-observability-observability-3-0/ | Source: Hazel Weakly    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:25:15

• "One of my proudest accomplishments was writing a response to all the 50 blog prompts by Lou Plummer." ☛ https://mandarismoore.com/2025/01/09/blogging-retrospective.html | Source: Mandaris Moore    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:25:45

• "Around 2017, I started taking notes on the design and web dev stuff I was learning." ☛ https://harrycresswell.com/writing/blog-questions-challenge/ | Source: Harry Cresswell    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:25:56

• "We use mod_wsgi to host our Django application" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/ModWsgiHowAppsRun | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:26:29

• "The beauty of Perl lies in its backward compatibility." ☛ https://www.perl.com/geolytica-powered-by-perl/ | Source: Perl    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:27:29

• "The number 2025 has quite a few numeric properties" ☛ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/01/06/2025-01/ | Source: Rakulang    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:27:35

• "Reading that, I had left myself enough clues to solve the problem again without great difficulty" ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/comments-plugin-fixed-again | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:29:13

• "This year I was finalizing and publishing one of my own research projects." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/my-experience-of-getting-codechecked/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 16:29:27

• "While “Whip It” is Devo’s best-known song" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/theme-songs-devo-ridiculousness-big-bang-theory-abbott-elementary-1235233087/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:10:45

• "Mitchell is right that a comprehensive decision like that doesn’t exist yet." ☛ https://writing.kemitchell.com/2025/01/16/Provisional-Guidance-LLM-Code | Source: Kyle E Mitchell    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:11:03

• "On Tuesday January 21st 2025, at 16:00 CET (15:00 UTC) I will do a presentation titled as per above." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/16/presentation-curl-from-start-to-end/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:11:54

• "After taking some time off for the holidays" ☛ https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/monthly-update-22/ | Source: Krita    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:13:59

• "I want to build software that empowers people and doesn’t make them feel pressured." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/01/16/next-decade-of-the-web-tools/ | Source: James G    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:14:06

• "Anytime SFC is mentioned, there should be a short paragraph distancing it from the SFLC and contrasting the good work that the SFLC does in contrast to the SFC" -iophk    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:23:43

• SFC is AGAINST SFLC http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/01/Addendum_What_the_Software_Freedom_Law_Center_SFLC_Really_Is.shtml    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:24:14

• "A lot of people my age went from the 8bit era to the 16bit era and then PCs. I took a very different route and, as such, I want to build a machine compatible with what I would have had in the 90s" ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/486-pc-build/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:29:25

• "Two beastly System76 computers are in the spotlight at conferences this month." ☛ https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-workstations-ces-covesa/ | Source: System76    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:29:36

• "Two years ago, Ian Scott created the picoGUS card that uses ISA sound card emulation using the RaspPi’s Pico’s microcontroller" ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/01/the-picogus-isa-soundcard/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:30:39

• "Keen to change that perception" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/raspberry_pi_awards_prizes_for/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:31:08

• "One of the pleasures of working at Raspberry Pi is getting to see the fantastic things other businesses are achieving with our hardware" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-compute-module-case-studies/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:31:20

• "Linux Mint 22.1 is a long term support release which will be supported until 2029." ☛ https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4793 | Source: Linux Mint    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:32:57

• "Although MX Linux is based on Debian, it is significantly different – for instance" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/debian_12_9_mx_12_5/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:35:15

• "As we shared with you in December, AlmaLinux has released a beta version of its upcoming AlmaLinux 10" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/elevate-opens-almalinux-9-to-10-beta-upgrade-path/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:41:33

• "The biggest piece of news from last month is the arrival of “Iceweasel”" ☛ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-01-13-haiku_activity_contract_report_december_2024/ | Source: HaikuOS    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:42:12

• "Tim goes on to list a lot about why HTML is great: how it can shape-shift across machines, how fault-tolerant it is, etc." ☛ https://robinrendle.com/notes/learnable-by-default/ | Source: Robin Rendle    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:43:15

• "I haven’t figured out how to make ghc consume less memory without changing the code11 I’m thinking of biting the bullet and upgrading the machine to the full 64 gb it can take" ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/limiting-process-memory-with-systemd-run | Source: Chris    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:43:25

• "Now the link is wrapping a container that does not have an accessible name — remember it doesn’t get its name from its contents. It’s a not a text node." ☛ https://adrianroselli.com/2025/01/dont-wrap-figure-in-a-link.html | Source: Adriaan Roselli    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:49:32

• many Americans STRESSED right now over the fate of TikTok is FURTHER evidence of the psychological harms of social control media. People think that WITHOUT THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY they will no longer have "friends"...    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:50:59

• "And with ImageMagick you can apply colour changes." ☛ https://borretti.me/article/adding-colour-to-macos-folder-icons | Source: Fernando Borretti    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:51:41

• "Over the last few months, I have been learning more about web design." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/01/16/learning-about-web-design/ | Source: James G    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:52:04

• "Joomla is flexible and open-source content management for building websites and online publications." ☛ https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-joomla-on-ubuntu-24-04-server/ | Source: HowTo Forge    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:53:33

• TikTok = https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/ "a weapon wielded by the CCP at the minds and culture of Gen A" - iophk    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:54:58

• How to Install NetBox IRM (Infrastructure Resource Modelling Tool) on Ubuntu 24.04 Server ☞ https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-netbox-irm-on-ubuntu-24-04-server/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:57:03

• How to Install Miniconda on Debian 12 ☞ https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-miniconda-on-debian-12/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:57:12

• How to Install Waterfox Browser on Ubuntu 24.04 or 22.04 GNU/Linux ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-install-waterfox-browser-on-ubuntu-24-04-or-22-04-linux/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:58:13

• How to Install Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.unixmen.com/how-to-install-arch-linux/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:58:47

• Why not GNU/Linux? ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-password-protect-a-pdf-file-aOgva9z8e7s9    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 17:59:23

• RMS talking right now https://stallman.org/talks.html    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 18:10:25

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

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:03:54

• How To Install OpenCV on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-opencv-opensuse/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:04:05

• Absolutely terrible idea as this is proprietary spyware controlled by the most hostile company and all user passwords get stolen and passed to the NSA too ☞ https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-edge-fedora-41/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:04:53

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

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:05:15

• How to build your first model using DSS ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/how-to-build-your-first-model-using-dss    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:05:35

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

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:05:49

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

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:06:02

• How To Install Notepad Next on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-notepad-next-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:06:44

• "Since pandemic first started in 2020, I’ve gone from that sixth category to the fourth category." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/fighting-the-screen    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:40:40

• Announcement: Gemsync, Free Gemini Hosting with Syncthing gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202501/20250117-announcement-gemsync-free-gemini-hosting-with-syncthing.gmi    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:41:36

• "ctags(1) is old outdated BSD software, use something else instead, like maybe universal-ctags, or something even more recent? On the other hand, software that ships with the OS may have fewer third-party problems." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/01/17/ctags.gmi    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:43:04

• "I wrote a short hack of Mythic Bastionland by Chris McDowall (a game I love). I think it would be a fun way to play for a one shot, kind of inspired by stuff like Trophy ("play to win... play to lose")." gemini://sdf.org/diggy/posts/2025/01/mythic-bastionland-oath-s-end.gmi    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:44:00

• 🔤SpellBinding: ADMNSUT Wordo: BULK gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-01-17.gmi    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:44:27

• John Perry Barlow gemini://moribundo.flounder.online/hackers/barlow.gmi    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:45:11

• Barlow's EFF would OPPOSE TikTok... and ALL those other bad social control networks. Why? Because TikTok is AGAINST free speech, and anyone with common sense gets that. Also, "old" EFF wasn't funded by Facebook and GAFAM, so there was no stake in saving social control networks from gov. regulations/sanctions.    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:47:38

• Anchoring oneself to the original GOALS is VERY important. http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/11/Free_Software_Foundation_Anchoring_the_FSF_in_its_values.shtml    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:48:15

• Richard Stallman on Meeting Goals of GNU https://techrights.org/o/2014/01/20/goals-of-gnu/    

posted Friday, January 17, 2025 at 19:48:36

• "Let me start by saying this loud and clear: this article doesn’t question the quality of the Decibels audio player. I’m convinced it’s a great piece of software." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-with-yet-another-controversial-decision/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:32:33

• "Our crash infrastructure is comprised of a number of different components." ☛ https://kde.haraldsitter.eu/posts/plasma-crash-course-sentry/ | Source: Harald Sitter    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:33:38

• "Our team is rested and racing" ☛ https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-5-released/ | Source: System76    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:34:46

• GNOME with Yet Another Controversial Decision ☞ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-with-yet-another-controversial-decision/    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:36:05

• 402k https://my.fsf.org/donate    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:44:51

• Dr. Richard Stallman as he delivers his ideas on the future at The Summit of Future 2025. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=y0whrvlZqso    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:45:35

• LOTS of Microsoft layoffs this past week. LOTS.    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:45:56

• And the Microsofters lost to the Schestowitzes in the High Court of Justice this past Tuesday.    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:46:37

• Mass layoffs https://www.gamereactor.eu/report-microsoft-makes-another-round-of-layoffs-including-gaming-1483283/    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:47:08

• Microsoft MSN today: "Microsoft is firing employees in 3 departments, set to take more actions to save costs"    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:47:39

• Trumpsters also https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2025/01/17/more-tech-pink-slips-microsoft-lays-off-employees-from-multiple-divisions-including-gaming/    

posted Saturday, January 18, 2025 at 05:48:32