Roy Schestowitz

• FSF Blogs: Announcing the winner of the FSF 40 Anniversary Logo Contest ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-40-logo-winner    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:04:15

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, February 7, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-02-07-irc    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:04:27

• It’s not a bicycle ☞ https://rubenerd.com/its-not-a-bicycle/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:08:33

• Dictator tariffs: French and German leaders emphasise Europe's unity against threats ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250122-trump-tariffs-french-and-german-leaders-emphasise-europe-s-unity-against-threats    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:09:26

• Red Hat Offers DRM, TPM, and Backed Doored 'Confidential' Containers (CoCo) for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (Proprietary Spyware) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/22/Red_Hat_Offers_DRM_TPM_and_Backed_Doored_Confidential_Container.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:10:01

• "Boeing took nearly $3 billion hit in Q4 related to strike, layoffs and troubled government programs"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:11:12

• "Microsoft is planning job cuts soon, and the company is taking a harder look at underperforming employees as part of the reductions, according to two people familiar with the plans." https://www.businessinsider.com/recent-company-layoffs-laying-off-workers-2025#microsoft-is-planning-an-unspecified-number-of-cuts-9    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:12:09

• "Sainsbury’s Cuts 3,000 Jobs as Grocer Seeks Cost Savings"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:12:48

• "After Losing $127M In 9 Months, Layoffs Expected At Endeavor Health"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:13:15

• REI CEO announces surprise retirement https://mynorthwest.com/local/rei-ceo-announces-surprise-retirement/4032438    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:14:00

• Embedding Android Activities with Full Qt Quick Features ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qtaa-textured-activityview    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:18:36

• Las Vegas hotel workers union reaches tentative deal with casino to end longest strike in decades ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2025/01/22/las-vegas-hotel-workers-union-deal/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:19:39

• Magnitude 5.9 offshore quake strikes central Philippines ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/magnitude-5-9-offshore-quake-strikes-central-philippines    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:19:53

• For the new Congress, an Hey Hi (AI) proposal from the last Congress ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/01/for-the-new-congress-an-ai-proposal-from-the-last-congress/ buzzwords instead of substance, basing policies based on lies from charlatans and their scams    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:21:08

• Public Knowledge Responds to Reports of Convicted Felon White House Threatening Independent Government Watchdog ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-responds-to-reports-of-trump-white-house-threatening-independent-government-watchdog/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:21:37

• Trump's Executive Orders Promoting Sex Discrimination, Explained ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/trumps-executive-orders-promoting-sex-discrimination-explained    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:22:33

• EDRi-gram, 22 January 2025 ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-22-january-2025/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:22:51

• California man sexually assaulted employee handing out free samples at Costco: report ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/california-man-sexually-assaulted-employee-handing-out-free-samples-at-costco-report/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:23:17

• Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn pushes buzzwords and vapourware at Davos; so Microsoft is writing policies based on lies ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250122-davos-2025-ai-will-push-70-of-job-skills-to-change-by-2030-according-to-linkedin-report    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:24:25

• Indonesia fines Surveillance Giant Google $16.7m for unfair business practices ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-fines-google-16-7-million-for-unfair-business-practices    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:25:10

• An Introduction to Kubernetes Observability ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/social-facebook/an-introduction-to-kubernetes-observability/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:25:55

• Monitor GCC compile time ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/01/22/monitor-gcc-compile-time    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:27:00

• Thailand denies it plans to send 48 Uyghurs held in detention centres back to China ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/22/thailand-denies-it-plans-to-send-48-uyghurs-held-in-detention-centres-back-to-china/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:27:52

• Libya police chief arrested in Italy following ICC warrant over war crimes allegations ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/libya-police-chief-arrested-in-italy-following-icc-warrant-over-war-crimes-allegations/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:28:43

• UN urges Thailand to halt deportation of Uyghurs to China over human rights concerns ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/un-urges-thailand-to-halt-deportation-of-uyghurs-to-china-over-human-rights-concerns/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:29:02

• "Check The Clock" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/what-day-is-it-again-check-the-clock/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:29:42

• "Electric Vehicle Charging Heats Up" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/electric-vehicle-charging-heats-up/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:30:17

• News UK admits ‘unlawful activities’ at Sun in settlement apology to Prince Harry ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/prince-harry-sun-settlement/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:30:58

• Ribbon Microphone ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/a-ribbon-microphone-is-harder-than-you-think/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:31:21

• ‘Revenge of the Tipping Point’ might be a page turner, but it probably isn’t science ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/books/revenge-of-the-tipping-point-might-be-a-page-turner-but-it-probably-isnt-science/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:31:59

• Targeting One Enzyme May Prevent Obesity-Induced Heart Disease, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/targeting-one-enzyme-may-prevent-obesity-induced-heart-disease-study-suggests    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:33:54

• Processed Red Meat Linked With Up to 13% Higher Dementia Risk ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/decades-long-study-links-red-meat-to-up-to-13-higher-dementia-risk    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:34:03

• Hidden Danger of Recreational Xanax Use: Here's What You Need to Know ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-danger-of-recreational-xanax-use-heres-what-you-need-to-know    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:34:14

• Scientists Confirm The Universe Is Expanding Too Fast ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-confirm-the-universe-is-expanding-too-fast    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:34:48

• Earth's Largest Organism Slowly Being Eaten, Scientist Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-largest-organism-slowly-being-eaten-scientist-says    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:34:54

• China to Plant 'Flapping' Flag on Moon: A Lunar First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/china-to-plant-flapping-flag-on-moon-a-lunar-first    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:35:05

• We've Been Wrong About What Causes Sunburn, Scientists Discover ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/weve-been-wrong-about-what-causes-sunburn-scientists-discover    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:35:19

• Our Relationship With Fire Is Creating The Burning Equivalent of an Ice Age ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/our-relationship-with-fire-is-creating-the-burning-equivalent-of-an-ice-age    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:35:26

• Puppet fork OpenVox makes first release ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1005781/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:36:20

• Wasting time fusing in a criminal company https://www.qt.io/blog/windows-app-sdk-support    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:37:24

• China's second-largest foundry hires former defective chip maker Intel executive to lead advanced node development ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinas-second-largest-foundry-hires-former-intel-executive-to-lead-advanced-node-development    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:38:31

• Trolls in comments about IBM layoffs https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jherz9d3    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:40:27

• "I was shocked to learn that some great ones where suddenly gone. But unsure if they were laid off or left voluntarily. Either way, bad for IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jj8gp8jp    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:40:56

• N.D. family claims in lawsuit that Mayo Clinic, 2 surgeons permanently paralyzed daughter ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2025/01/22/n-d-family-claims-in-lawsuit-that-mayo-clinic-2-surgeons-permanently-paralyzed-daughter/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:42:35

• Partial Victory for Prince Harry as Murdoch’s U.K. Tabloids Admit Unlawful Activities ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/world/europe/prince-harry-murdoch-lawsuit.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:42:49

• Why Is Israel Targeting Jenin, West Bank? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/world/middleeast/why-israel-targeting-jenin.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:43:01

• Update MinIO to account for proprietary trap AWS SDK changes ☞ https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/update-minio/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:43:46

• Why Years of Canadian Digital Policy Is Either Dead (Prorogation) or Likely to Die (Trump) ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/01/why-years-of-canadian-digital-policy-is-either-dead-prorogation-or-likely-to-die-trump/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:45:06

• Politicians to look at loopholes in Latvia's vape restriction law ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/22.01.2025-politicians-to-look-at-loopholes-in-latvias-vape-restriction-law.a584645/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:45:36

• We can bearly believe it: Latvia's paws-ibly oldest ursids turn 30 ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/environment/22.01.2025-we-can-bearly-believe-it-latvias-paws-ibly-oldest-ursids-turn-30.a584703/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:46:08

• SA defence industry can meet majority of SANDF requirements ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/sa-defence-industry-can-meet-majority-of-sandf-requirements/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:46:38

• Taiwan’s record budget cuts raise concerns over defense readiness ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/22/china-taiwan-budget-cut-defense/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:46:52

• Colombia reissues arrest warrants for guerrilla leaders amid violence surge ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250123-colombia-guerrilla-leaders-violence    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:47:07

• Recalibrating coastal West Africa’s response to violent extremism ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/recalibrating-coastal-west-africas-response-to-violent-extremism/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:47:20

• Accelerating OpenSSF Adoption: Unlocking Scorecard Insights with a Centralized Dashboard ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/01/22/accelerating-openssf-adoption-unlocking-scorecard-insights-with-a-centralized-dashboard/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:48:22

• The Quad foreign ministers joint statement: short and sweet ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-quad-foreign-ministers-joint-statement-short-and-sweet/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:49:21

• DoD moves to improve maritime security in contested Southeast Asia ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/01/dod-moves-to-improve-maritime-security-in-contested-southeast-asia/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:49:47

• DHS head orders in-person work ‘to the maximum extent’ ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/01/dhs-head-orders-in-person-work-to-the-maximum-extent/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:50:37

• Baltic and Nordic parliamentary speakers offer encouragement to Armenia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/22.01.2025-baltic-and-nordic-parliamentary-speakers-offer-encouragement-to-armenia.a584650/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:51:01

• The only blog that covered it: "In October it will mark 40 years since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded by Richard Stallman. In marking forty years of supporting the free software movement, they have been running a logo contest to memorialize the milestone." https://www.phoronix.com/news/Free-Software-FSF-40-Year-Logo    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:52:41

• Maker resurrects Toshiba T1000 with a Raspberry Pi 4 and a slew of upgrades ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/maker-resurrects-toshiba-t1000-with-a-raspberry-pi-4-and-a-slew-of-upgrades    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:53:30

• Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison ☞ https://www.the-diy-life.com/raspberry-pi-drag-race-pi-1-to-pi-5-performance-comparison/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:54:10

• Jonathan McDowell: Christmas Movies ☞ https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2025/01/christmas-films.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:55:36

• Why You Might Suddenly Be Following Convicted Felon on Instagram and Facebook (Farcebook) ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/technology/personaltech/trump-instagram-facebook.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:56:23

• "DIY Drones Deliver The Goods With Printed Release" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/diy-drones-deliver-the-goods-with-printed-release/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:57:00

• Amazon Closes Operations in Quebec, Laying off 1,700 Workers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/technology/amazon-quebec-closures.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:57:21

• "This overwhelming support from the community makes the FSF stronger and all its staff feel empowered and motivated to take on our fortieth year of promoting computer user freedom." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/we-surpassed-our-year-end-goal-of-400-000-usd-thanks-to-you | Source: FSF    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 01:57:49

• Public Knowledge President and CEO Chris Lewis To Testify Before House Energy and Commerce on America’s Wireless Leadership ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-president-and-ceo-chris-lewis-to-testify-before-house-energy-and-commerce-on-strengthening-americas-wireless-leadership/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:02:54

• Because circular financing is fraud? https://www.drydeadfish.co.uk/microsoft-is-no-longer-openais-exclusive-cloud-provider/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/19/FTC_Realises_Microsoft_Buying_Fake_Clients_to_Fake_Revenue_Micr.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:03:42

• Apple close to deal to lift Indonesian iPhone ban, minister says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/apple-close-to-deal-to-lift-indonesian-iphone-ban-minister-says    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:05:52

• This ‘modular server room’ is an interesting scale POC ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/01/23/this-modular-server-room-is-an-interesting-scale-poc/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:10:29

• Guardian management agrees deal with staff over Observer sale dispute ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardian-management-agrees-deal-with-staff-over-observer-sale-dispute/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:11:09

• schneier's senior moment: cannot distinguish between chatbots/LLMs and HEY HI. This is NOT intelligence but a form of worthless plagiarism. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/ai-will-write-complex-laws.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:12:46

• schneier also helped promote fake encryption for EFF (where he is) http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/09/The_EFF_Should_Know_Better_But_It_Is_Promoting_Mass_Surveillanc.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:13:37

• Social control media ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/filipino-tourist-hit-by-train-in-taiwan-while-posing-for-a-photo-now-faces-fine    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:15:41

• Rocky Start for the USPTO under President Convicted Felon and Director Stewart ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/01/president-director-stewart.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:17:55

• [Meme] The 'Garbage in, Garbage Out' Patent Office ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/22/Meme_The_Garbage_in_Garbage_Out_Patent_Office.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:18:44

• UPC is illegal and those "judges" are industry operatives appointed to run a kangaroo court in violation of constitutions; this site, JUVE, was paid to actively promote and lie for this illegality, which will harm the EU's credibility ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/life-as-technical-judge-at-the-upc/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:20:02

• UPC is illegal. JUVE knows it's illegal, but it makes money trying to legitimise this totally unlawful construct, which accompanies EU and EPO corruption, not law. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/an-overview-of-all-75-technically-qualified-upc-judges/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:21:05

• Submission to the UN’s call for input on the application of digital technologies in the administration of justice ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/01/submission-to-the-uns-call-for-input-on-the-application-of-digital-technologies-in-the-administration-of-justice/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:22:37

• "By and large, our clothes don’t actively move." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/robotic-dress-uses-simple-techniques-to-combine-3d-printed-parts-with-fabric/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:23:18

• A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1005332/ paywall.    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:23:58

• "The computer mouse is a wonderful invention, but for the past few months I've been working to use mine as little as possible for productivity and ergonomic reasons. It should not be surprising that there are quite a few open-source applications, utilities, and configuration options that are either designed to or incidentally assist in creating a keyboard-driven desktop."    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:24:03

• You Can't Trust Hackers, and Other Data Breach Verification Tales ☞ https://www.troyhunt.com/you-cant-trust-hackers-and-other-data-breach-verification-tales/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:24:48

• University Housing and its semester of censorship and institutional regress ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-eds/university-housing-and-its-semester-of-censorship-and-institutional-regress/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:25:45

• ‘Severe’ bug in ChatGPT’s API could be used to DDoS websites ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ddos-openai-chatgpt-api-vulnerability-microsoft/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:26:07

• Reports Indicate FCC Chairman Carr Plans To Reopen Complaints Against Broadcasters, Jeopardizing Press Freedom ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/reports-indicate-fcc-chairman-carr-plans-to-reopen-complaints-against-broadcasters-jeopardizing-press-freedom/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:26:47

• u-blox RUBY-W2 is a family of Wi-Fi 7 automotive-grade modules for infotainment and telematics applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/22/u-blox-ruby-w2-wi-fi-7-automotive-grade-modules-for-infotainment-and-telematics-applications/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:29:09

• Indonesia rescuers search for survivors after deadly landslide in Central Java ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/indonesia-rescuers-search-for-13-missing-after-deadly-landslide-in-central-java    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:29:47

• How to Update MySQL Client on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS GNU/Linux ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-update-mysql-client-on-ubuntu-24-04-lts-linux/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:30:18

• CC Launches its 2025-2028 Strategic Plan ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2025/01/22/cc-launches-its-2025-2028-strategic-plan/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:31:21

• Dictator Warns Putin For Third Time To End 'Ridiculous' Ukraine War ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-trump-russia-ukraine-sanctions-negotiations/33284355.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:31:39

• U.K. Warns Putin: 'We See You' After Ship Chased From British Waters ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/britain-russia-putin-healey-shadow-fleet-baltic-/33285376.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:31:47

• Zelenskiy Says 200,000-Strong Peace Force Would Be Needed To Back Any Cease-Fire Deal ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskiy-trump-putin-russia-ukraine-peacekeepers-davos/33285741.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:31:59

• ‘We see you’, UK warns Putin as Royal Navy tracks Russian ‘spy ship’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250122-uk-minister-warns-putin-as-royal-navy-tracks-russian-spy-ship    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:32:09

• Queclink WR310 – A compact 5G and WiFi 6 industrial cellular router with four GbE ports, GNSS, and RS232 and RS485 interfaces ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/22/queclink-wr310-a-compact-5g-and-wifi-6-industrial-cellular-router-with-four-gbe-ports-gnss-and-rs232-and-rs485-interfaces/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:32:41

• "5½ years in prison for essentially doing their job, something that did not happen even in the Soviet times." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/navalny-lawyers-get-jail-time-for-doing-their-job-/7945345.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:33:15

• mintCast 453 – Nice Rack, Joe! ☞ https://mintcast.org/453-nice-rack-joe/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:34:17

• "This week, Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch chat with Stefano Zacchiroli about Debian and Software Heritage" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/22/floss-weekly-episode-817-incompatible-with-reality/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:34:58

• "will go to Russia to interview Putin" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/23/u-s-podcaster-lex-fridman-says-he-will-go-to-russia-to-interview-putin | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:35:25

• Pluralistic: Keir Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his "first buddy" (22 Jan 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/autocrats-of-trade/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:36:38

• Of Note: The Misguided, Infiltrated, Weakened Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Now Operating at a Loss of Over a Million Dollars ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/22/Of_Note_The_Misguided_Infiltrated_Weakened_Electronic_Frontier_.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:36:52

• Banned or not? What’s next for Fentanylware (TikTok) in the US. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0122/tiktok-ban-rednote-trump-china    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:37:53

• ST Picks: Could Fentanylware (TikTok) become China’s bargaining chip with the US? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/st-picks-could-tiktok-become-chinas-bargaining-chip-with-the-us    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:38:01

• Is MrBeast Buying TikTok? YouTuber Confirms ‘Official Offer’ Amid New Mandatory-Sale Countdown ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/22/mrbeast-tiktok-official-offer/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:38:29

• TikTok Still Missing on Apple’s App Store, Surveillance Giant Google Play as ‘App Rot’ Begins — No More Downloads, Updates, In-App Purchases, or Bug Fixes ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/22/tiktok-still-missing-on-apples-app-store-google-play/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:38:43

• Dictator downplays concerns over China using Fentanylware (TikTok) for surveillance, calls it an app for ‘young kids watching crazy videos’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/01/22/us-news/trump-downplays-china-using-tiktok-to-spy-on-kids-watching-crazy-videos/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:38:56

• "According to Vitalik Buterin, his journey with Ubuntu started in 2009 using Parallels Desktop on a MacBook, influenced by @ch402." https://blockchain.news/flashnews/vitalik-buterin-on-early-adoption-of-ubuntu-and-linux-influence    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:41:53

• "The newest stable release brings a sweet bouquet1 of new features, drivers, and improvements, expands architecture coverage, and fixes bugs — a vintage that proves Wine truly does get better with age." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/wine-10-0-new-features    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:43:07

• Wine 10.0 brings Arm Windows apps to Linux, still is not an emulator https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/01/wine-10-0-released-adding-linux-compatibility-for-arm-windows-apps/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:56:04

• "There are plenty of reasons to quit using Windows 10 and switch over to Linux, but it's easy to become overwhelmed with the many different Linux distributions out there. To help you transition, I put together a short list of Linux distros that are similar to Windows 10." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-linux-distributions-are-the-most-similar-to-windows-10/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:57:04

• "Linux kernel 6.13 is here, but don't get too excited. It's not a biggie and, given the timing, probably won't appear in many familiar distro" https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/kernel_613/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:57:38

• Changing Linux code could cut data center energy use by 30%, researchers claim https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/changing-linux-code-could-cut-data-center-energy-use-by-30-researchers-claim/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:58:55

• "Bundles over 6000 changes into one stable release, including ARM64EC support" https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/wine-10-0-the-latest-windows-compatibility-layer-for-linux-has-a-stable-release    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:59:19

• "If you want to breathe life back into a slow or aging computer, Linux Lite 7.0 is a lightweight (and easy to install) distribution I highly recommend." https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-lightweight-linux-distro-is-the-easiest-way-to-revive-your-old-computer-how-it-works/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 02:59:42

• Social engineering attack https://www.scworld.com/news/fake-homebrew-site-leverages-google-ads-to-target-macos-linux-devices    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:00:17

• "This is a fork of Wayland's Weston compositor with some "additional advanced features". It all sounds pretty exciting when you look at what AMD developer Shashank Sharma noted on the GitLab Wiki page with these being the primary goals" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/amd-reveals-amdgpu-composition-stack-a-fork-of-waylands-weston-compositor-for-advancing-the-linux-desktop/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:00:44

• "One of the most complicated aspects of Linux gaming is the question of compatibility. If you want to find out whether your favorite games will run on Linux, here are some resources that can provide an easy answer." https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-to-check-if-a-game-will-run-on-linux/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:01:09

• "Tired of manually copying files between operating systems or relying on cloud storage? Here's how I use Syncthing to seamlessly sync files between my Windows and Linux machines without compromising privacy or dealing with storage limits." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-tool-automatically-syncs-files-between-my-linux-and-windows-pc/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:02:27

• "Archinstall, the menu-based installer for the Arch Linux distribution, has been updated today to version 3.0.2 as a hefty release bringing numerous improvements and support for the Wayfire compositor." https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-installer-archinstall-gets-support-for-the-wayfire-wayland-compositor    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:02:52

• "This shift to Linux has been crucial in his development as a technologist, impacting Ethereum's infrastructure choices, which are relevant for traders analyzing the technical robustness of Ethereum's blockchain network." https://blockchain.news/flashnews/vitalik-buterin-s-transition-to-linux-and-its-impact-on-ethereum-development    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:03:35

• Vitalik Buterin's Early Experience with Linux Influences Ethereum Development https://blockchain.news/flashnews/vitalik-buterin-s-early-experience-with-linux-influences-ethereum-development    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:04:04

• VMware is a GPL violation (Linux), not "Linux-Based Hypervisors" per se https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-wire-news-releases-pmn/rimini-street-announces-rimini-protect-advanced-hypervisor-security-for-vmware-nutanix-and-all-other-linux-based-hypervisors-powered-by-vali-cyber-to-safeguard-against-ransomware-and http://techrights.org/o/2020/04/28/openwashing-vmware-after-gpl-abuses/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:05:59

• How to Install Software on Ubuntu: A Beginner's Guide to Snap and APT https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-install-software-on-ubuntu-a-beginners-guide-to-snap-and-apt/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:37:26

• "So I have a couple of Mastodon "bots" (automated accounts). They do not do much. They just watch for never version of various software and post if a new version appears." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/r0/journal.txt    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:43:37

• "Social" Control Media is Unsatisfying gemini://asquare.srht.site/gemlog/socmedia_satisfaction.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:44:46

• "Perhaps it was doomed regardless. The combination of human-induced hydrological changes and the introduction of invasive species that have outcompeted native fish have been devastating for the smelt" gemini://arcanesciences.com/gemlog/25-01-23/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:46:23

• "A small Perl script (92 lines of code) that copies drafts from ~/tmp into the blog directory, along with any local files mentioned in the *.gmi file. Then there are two "plugin" scripts that rebuild the index files (Perl, 65 lines) and generate the Atom feed (C, 243 lines)" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/01/23/blogch.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:47:12

• "A small Perl script (92 lines of code) that copies drafts from ~/tmp into the blog directory, along with any local files mentioned in the gmi file. Then there are two "plugin" scripts that rebuild the index files (Perl, 65 lines) and generate the Atom feed (C, 243 lines)" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/01/23/blogch.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:48:51

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1184.jpg    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:49:36

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1534.jpg    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:49:42

• V60 gemini://entrecafeses.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-01-23.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:50:14

• "In a way, I've got to hand it to the Elon Musks and Mark Zuckerbergs of the world—sometimes all it takes is someone doing the Sieg Heil on national television for it to really click with people that maybe this isn't the best place for you to be laying the groundwork of your social movement." gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/2025-01-23.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:51:04

• "For a while I just appended new graphs and data to the last post on this topic. This time around I feel it's worse. There are so many bots that I can't even do the WHOIS lookup any more." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-01-23-bots-devouring-the-web    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:51:59

• "At the start of the SECO project[1], we had the idea that we would sample leaf traits across our field sites to help constrain models of carbon cycle processes." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/johngodlee/posts/2025-01-22-seco_leaf_traits.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:52:52

• [Old] "After two and a half rewrites, I finally finished my Gemini implementation in Hugo. The rewrites were mostly me realizing I could have done something differently and better but the template was already too convoluted to try and fix." gemini://cap.swan.quest/p/entry220226172834.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 03:54:19

• CNN boss defends sweeping layoffs as panicked staffers react to TV bloodbath https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14319413/amp/cnn-boss-mark-thompson-defends-layoffs-staffers-react-bloodbath.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:11:32

• 'Flubbed Completely': A Company Mistakenly Sent a Picture of Cartoon Duck to Employees When Laying Them Off https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/payment-processor-stripe-lays-off-employees-via-cartoon-duck/486029    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:12:03

• Africa: GNU/Linux near all-time high, Windows falling fast https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/africa/#monthly-200902-202501    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:13:15

• Windows below 15% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share//all/africa/#monthly-202501-202501-map    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:13:44

• RMS speaks in India in 3 days (Monday)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:25:16

• It seems like a VERY corporate thing, separating projects from their founders. It's all about grabbing recognition, power and capital from them.    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:25:59

• All those years Techrights insisted social control media was toxic and harmful to society on many levels. All those warnings aged well. In hindsight, those were not trivial to predict, either. We now have ACTUAL courts and ACTUAL police departments issuing official communications in a platform run by a Hail Hitler-saluting nazi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:53:27

• Enjoy your poo-soaked bed, social control media useds [sic] (serfs)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:54:09

• There is NO solution to it other than ABANDONMENT. Same for alcohol and cigarettes. Saying things like "in moderation" is like advising cancer... "in moderate doses"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:55:07

• aka "unsafe at ANY speed"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:55:35

• How can Western society now undo the harm caused by outsourcing virtually every government branch and department to social control media owned and controlled by US oligarchs and sometimes the Chinese Community Party?    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:56:35

• (Communist Party)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:56:47

• Mastodon will never be the solution because it's like "killing to make a point that killing is wrong". Mastodon is the wrong way. More and more people find out... and lose interest. http://techrights.org/n/2024/09/07/No_Mastodon_is_Not_Growing_Social_Control_Media_is_Generally_Wa.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:58:11

• Mastodon is not free speech either, it's just some ego trip of some admin http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2017/11/21/mastodon-free-speech/ http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2017/11/23/mastodon-is-oppressive/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:58:29

• "Roy Schestowitz reports being censored ("shadowbanned") by Twitter for posting about Twitter censorship. This kind of censorship is not obvious to the one being censored." https://stallman.org/twitter.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 04:59:10

• Maybe by year's end Gulagboy will receive a 6-figure bill from us, not a 6-figure salary.    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 05:01:05

• "There are 4283 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 2921 of them." -Lupa. New all time high?    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:25:27

• [Old] A Call for a Gemini Without TLS gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-02-13.notls.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:27:56

• Footage Shows Dozens of Dead Miners Trapped After South Africa Police Raid https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-13/footage-shows-dozens-of-dead-miners-trapped-after-south-africa-police-raid    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:39:11

• It's MINE! -MElon Musk, mining spoiled brat turned nazi. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/south-africa-miners-dead-1.7431955 https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-14/south-african-police-118-illegal-miners-extracted-from-stilfontein-mine-36-of-those-dead    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:41:33

• This is the MElon TRump industry in South Africa https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-16/why-did-87-miners-die-trapped-underground-in-south-africa-as-police-tried-to-force-their-surrender https://www.dw.com/en/south-african-rescue-efforts-end-at-abandoned-mine-shaft/a-71316497    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:43:16

• They don't care if it's illegal, they only care about money. The "GIMME GIMME" culture of MElon TRump. https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/interpol-operation-clamps-down-on-illegal-mining-in-west-africa/ https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/09/25/553496462/trump-s-friends-are-going-to-africa-to-get-rich-that-s-not-a-bad-idea    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:44:45

• ‘After’ COVID-19 Thousands More Lives Are Lost Every Month in Britain (Even in 2025) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/01/16/covid-19-2025/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:45:27

• The kangaroo courts stacked with patent maximalists of the regime http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/01/bloody-good-outcome-for-impossible.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:46:15

• Kangaroo courts, controlled by a corrupt official who used white-collar crime to rise to power http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/01/epitope-claims-stand-firm-board-of.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:47:41

• Ahead of Cheeto Mussolini presidency, U.S. banks abandon Mark Carney climate initiative https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/carney-esg-climate-finance-1.7428281    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:48:21

• 4 of Canada's biggest banks leave Mark Carney-led climate initiative https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-banks-leave-net-zero-banking-alliance-1.7435273    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:48:54

• Delay Some US Paychecks https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/capital-one-banking-outage-could-delay-some-us-paychecks-when-will-it-fixed-1730255    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:49:24

• Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too) https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/08/recent-and-not-so-recent-changes-in.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:50:19

• A Suitably Bizarre Start of the Year 2025 https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-suitably-bizarre-start-of-year-2025.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:50:27

• Fuzzing-harness for sntrup761 broken on Ubuntu 24 LTS https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3774    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:51:34

• Instead of donating to help end crime Microsoft "donates" (bribe) to facilitate more crime https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:52:18

• Just let it die instead https://fossforce.com/2025/01/tuxcare-stops-microsoft-from-killing-net-6-0/ more need to move OFF it it    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:52:50

• You know it's a criminal company when... https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/6/24337117/microsoft-bing-search-results-google-design-trick    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:53:23

• Microsoft's Brad Smith is just a "less successful" Donald Trump. Breaking the law? "THAT IS JUST YOUR OPINION!!!"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:54:07

• LLMs do NOT work and cannot SUMMARISE text https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/apple-news-summaries-fake-headlines-1.7434136    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 06:55:00

• https://nazi.compare/ has gone offline. What happened?    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 07:04:42

• https://danielpocock.com/ also offline, so nothing "personal" against nazi.compare apparently. Maybe technical issue.    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 07:40:27

• No Microsoft bribes this year (they stopped years ago) https://archive.fosdem.org/2024/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 08:17:15

• Apple 'woke' https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-15/apple-s-tim-cook-plans-to-join-other-ceos-at-trump-inauguration    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:13:32

• Thai Resort Island Phuket Grapples With Growing Garbage Crisis https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-15/thai-resort-island-phuket-grapples-with-growing-garbage-crisis    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:14:24

• Cheeto Mussolini flanked by GAFAM Empire https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-01-15/apple-google-ceos-to-join-tech-leaders-at-trump-inauguration-media-reports-say    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:14:57

• Facebook Haven’t Invented Anything Great in a While https://9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-apple-innovation/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:15:59

• Indonesia blocking sales of Apple's new iPhone https://www.dw.com/en/why-is-indonesia-blocking-sales-of-apple-s-new-iphone/a-71292617    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:16:24

• Big Finance Oligarchy https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/11/how-to-reclaim-americas-democracy-from-the-big-finance-oligarchy/ Stop paying those who pay the Dictator, including GAFAM    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:18:10

• via YouTube or a tube? https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/15/sperm-donor-550-kids-sued-trying-contact-children-via-youtube    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:20:08

• They now treat their own work like a pile of trash https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/youtubers-rake-thousands-dollars-selling-unused-footage-ai-companies-including-openai-1730236    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:20:53

• CISA ought to tell them to move away from such software with back doors https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/15/cisa-releases-microsoft-expanded-cloud-logs-implementation-playbook    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:27:21

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

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:28:20

• Groklaw is still offline, so people might wonder if PJ is no longer alive and was the sole domain controller. She's not young. https://www.cnet.com/culture/groklaw-privacy-spat-ends-linux-business-news-column/ https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/sco-bloodhounds-search-for-groklaw-author http://freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/enough_is_enough/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:44:41

• Can pensions disappear like insurance claims get denied? https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/why-ibm-is-paying-2-7-billion-to-this-us-based-insurance-company/articleshow/113293274.cms Google News is bumping up this article today, treating it as new    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:48:17

• IBM: we put people's pensions on the roulette of insurance companies    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:49:31

• "Extremely OK Games, creators of the popular platformer Celeste" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-devs-of-celeste-have-cancelled-their-follow-up-game-earthblade/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:52:24

• "it's been pointed out some clearly top selling games vanished from the last week." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/steam-deck-sales-drop-hard-following-the-nintendo-switch-2-announcement/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:52:52

• "One missed earlier this week while I was running around Wales, Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 6.13." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/linux-kernel-613-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:53:04

• "GE-Proton (formerly Proton-GE) is a compatibility layer to run Windows games on Linux platforms like SteamOS / Steam Deck that can at times give you better game compatibility than Valve's official Proton. Here's how to install it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-install-ge-proton-on-steam-deck-steamos-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:57:27

• "If you love classic point and click adventures then Splittown might be your next destination, as it's just arrived on Steam." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/90s-classics-inspired-adventure-splittown-arrives-on-steam-and-looks-great/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 09:57:41

• "Palworld developer Pocketpair are not slowing down, as they just launched their own video game publisher with Pocketpair Publishing." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/palworld-developer-pocketpair-launches-pocketpair-publishing/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:01:57

• "Paradox Interactive have announced that a big free Stellaris 4.0 update is coming later this year, and it's going to overhaul quite a lot." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/paradox-announce-stellaris-40-will-be-a-big-overhaul-sometime-in-q2-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:02:29

• "Adventures of a Cat in Space sounds like an exciting one to keep on your radar." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/adventures-of-a-cat-in-space-is-an-upcoming-musical-adventure-starring-arthur-darvill/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:13:02

• "it's coming with Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/linux-fascinates-and-terrifies-the-dev-of-dead-letter-dept-but-theyre-supporting-it-anyway/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:14:14

• "The devs of art of rally, Funselektor Labs along with Strelka Games have announced over the hill, a new offroading exploration sim where you can bring a friend along for the ride." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/over-the-hill-is-an-offroading-exploration-game-announced-by-the-art-of-rally-devs/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:15:19

• "Bay 12 Games and Kitfox Games have announced today that Adventure Mode for Dwarf Fortress is now officially out for everyone. No more Beta needed." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/adventure-mode-for-dwarf-fortress-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:16:21

• " ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/gdc-2025-survey-shows-pc-game-development-growing-with-lots-interested-in-valves-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:17:28

• "The latest Game Developers Conference (GDC) survey has been released, and it gives a rather glowing overview of how great things are for PC gamers with lots of developers working on games" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/gdc-2025-survey-shows-pc-game-development-growing-with-lots-interested-in-valves-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:17:41

• "Valve updated Proton Experimental for January 22nd with a bunch more fixes for gamers on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/proton-experimental-updated-with-fixes-for-battlenet-atelier-resleriana-dirt-rally-2-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:18:15

• "'Sly Lives!' Review: Questlove's Sly Stone Doc Is Dazzling, Definitive" https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/sly-lives-aka-the-burden-of-black-genius-review-questloves-sly-stone-1236283306/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:23:57

• "Trump compares political opponents to 'vermin' who he will 'root out,' alarming historians" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-compares-political-opponents-vermin-root-alarming-historians/story?id=104847748    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:24:21

• "Bishop Mariann Budde tells NPR 'I won't apologize' for sermon addressing Trump" https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5270918    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:24:33

• "After 106 years, Black South African WWI troops honored with memorial" https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/01/23/after-106-years-black-south-african-wwi-troops-honored-with-memorial/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:24:47

• windows tco "Politiet nedlægger 50 it-stillinger: It-udgifter presser budgettet | Version2"https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/artikel/politiet-nedlaegger-50-it-stillinger-it-udgifter-presser-budgettet »Dyr it …«    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:25:08

• "Barry Goldberg Dead: Musician Who Played With Dylan at Newport Was 83" https://variety.com/2025/music/news/barry-goldberg-dead-blues-keyboardist-bob-dylan-newport-electric-flag-1236282797/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:25:55

• Should the Petroleum Fund finance nuclear weapons? | "Skal Oljefondet finansiere atomvåpen? | Lars Egelands blogg" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://larsegeland.com/2025/01/23/skal-oljefondet-finansiere-atomvapen/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:26:28

• MElon TRump targets SCAM Sam Altman over past tweet opposing Trump’s election as US president https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musk-targets-openai-boss-sam-altman-over-past-tweet-opposing-trumps-election-as-us-president/articleshow/117474532.cms    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:27:06

• "Islamic flags tied to streetlight poles in Chikodi Karnataka Mistaken for Pakistani Flags" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/fact-check/islamic-flags-tied-to-streetlight-poles-in-chikodi-karnataka-mistaken-for-pakistani-flags-1856114    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:27:23

• "Linux supera el 5% de cuota de mercado, según PornHub" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.muylinux.com/2025/01/23/linux-5-cuota-de-mercado/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:28:58

• "The Need for a Strategic Fact Reserve" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/01/21/0030206    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:29:22

• iophk: unreliable, therefore unsafe https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/technology/openai-operator-launch.html ("OpenAI Unveils New Agent Tool ‘Operator’")    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:30:36

• iophk: truthdig "propagates lies asserting "no evidence"" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/whats-missing-from-the-tiktok-ban-circus/ ("What’s Missing from the TikTok Ban Circus - Truthdig") see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49826155 "useful idiots" = truthdig    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:31:32

• "The Bishop Who Spoke Truth to Trump Was Doing Her Job" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mariann-budde-trump-sermon-reaction/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:31:50

• "2,000-year-old Greek statue found dumped near trash cans in Thessaloniki" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/23/greek-statue-thessaloniki-trash/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:32:11

• "Saudi launches $3.4B program to get rid of unproductive government workers" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/22/2025/saudi-launches-34b-program-to-get-rid-of-unproductive-government-workers    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:32:24

• "Trump nominee who helped write Project 2025 attacked by Senate Dems as 'dangerous'" https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/01/23/dc/trump-nominee-who-helped-write-project-2025-attacked-by-senate-dems-as-dangerous/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:32:39

• Bribe for control https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/politics/trump-us-saudi-arabia-investment-trade.html ("Saudi Arabia Says It Will Increase U.S. Trade and Investment by $600 Billion")    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:33:05

• "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Second Trump term 'billionaire feeding frenzy,' 'kiss a-- race'" https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5102687-ocasio-cortez-second-trump-term-billionaire-feeding-frenzy-kiss-a-race/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:33:21

• "Grover Cleveland’s Warning for Trump" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/01/grover-clevelands-warning-for-trump/681425/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:33:47

• "Trump Pardons Ulbricht, Betraying His Demand That Drug Dealers Deserve Death" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/23/trump-pardons-ulbricht-betraying-his-demand-that-drug-dealers-deserve-death/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:34:02

• Mental Health ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/mississippi-law-mental-health-jailings-data | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:34:44

• TikTok is AGAINST Free Speech, it's not even remotely "Free Speech" ☛ https://fair.org/home/trump-vow-to-save-tiktok-no-reprieve-for-free-speech/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:35:26

• Normalising nazism ☛ https://fair.org/home/musks-nazi-salute-becomes-awkward-gesture-in-exuberant-speech/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:36:07

• "Discover how the Raspberry Pi Foundation Certificate in Applied Computing will help tackle the digital divide." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/addressing-the-digital-skills-gap/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:36:44

• Wolves ☛ https://therevelator.org/books-about-wolves/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:37:14

• Climate Uncertainty"" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/23/the-coming-climate-uncertainty-conundrum/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:37:47

• "Zero Tolerance" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/23/albertas-zero-tolerance-enforcement-strategy-doesnt-apply-to-polluters/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:38:04

• "The icebreaker Aiviq is a gas guzzler with a troubled history" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/aiviq-icebreaker-military-coast-guard | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:44:21

• "If hacking on consumer hardware is about figuring out what it can do, and pushing it in directions that the manufacturer never dared to dream" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/shellcode-over-midi-bad-apple-on-a-psr-e433-kinda/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:45:03

• TIL British courts have begun outsourcing to India. More revenue for them, fewer expenses.    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:49:58

• And if that's not bad enough, they have no clue what they are doing.    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 10:50:48

• "It was around this time that IBM made their famous announcement that they were going to invest a billion US dollars into “Linux”. They may have also said “Open Source”" ☛ https://www.lpi.org/blog/2023/07/30/ibm-red-hat-and-free-software-an-old-maddogs-view/ |    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:08:00

• "The French Supreme Court has confirmed that Société Générale rightfully terminated a payment processing agreement with file-hosting service 1fichier." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/supreme-court-bank-can-terminate-contract-over-lacking-anti-piracy-measures-250123/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:08:10

• "The new investigations will examine whether Apple or Google's mobile operating systems" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/uk-watchdog-targets-apple-google-mobile-ecosystems-with-new-digital-market-powers/7947387.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:08:58

• "The Competition and Markets Authority said it launched separate investigations to determine whether the mobile ecosystems controlled by Apple and Google should be given “strategic market status” that would mandate changes in the companies' practices." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/google-ap-apple-competition-and-markets-authority-london-b2685023.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:09:12

• "The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching Strategic Market Status (SMS) investigations into both Apple and Google, probing the duo's control of their respective mobile ecosystems." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/cma_google_apple_mobile/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:09:40

• "The only way to truly billionaire-proof the [Internet] is to a) abolish billionaires and b) abolish the system that allows people to become billionaires." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/23/defense-in-depth/#self-marginalization | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:34:48

• "Hawkins broke from decades of precedent before the start of the session by banning reporters from a press box area where they could take notes and photos, interact with staff and write their stories." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/01/23/kansas-house-speaker-says-he-restricted-press-access-to-give-staff-better-seats/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:36:06

• "I don't feel there's a need to apologize for a request for mercy." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5270918 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:36:49

• "taking steps to halt the spread" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/bullshit-reporting-the-intercepts-story-about-government-policing-disinfo-is-absolute-garbage/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:37:28

• "From artificial intelligence-generated images of the famous Hollywood sign surrounded by fire to baseless rumors that firefighters were using women’s handbags full of water to douse the flames, misinformation has been rampant." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/01/23/in-times-of-crisis-states-have-few-tools-to-fight-misinformation/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:38:16

• "There's little doubt that this so-called ‘reform’ will result in the Vietnamese people getting even less real news" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/vietnam-s-media-restructuring-will-lead-to-more-propaganda-critics-warn/7947621.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:38:43

• "Musk speaks like a man who believes his own insane conspiratorial guff, because he does." ☛ https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41555305.html | Source: Irish Examiner    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:39:32

• "The fake pro-gamer who runs the biggest shithole on The Internet just did a Nazi salute live on TV, which one TV network edited out." ☛ https://www.tommyp.org/blog/this-used-to-be-a-utopia/ | Source: Tommy Palmer    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:39:47

• "Elon Musk, the world's richest man, standing behind a podium bearing the Seal of the President of the United States, on Monday twice gave what scholars, journalists and rights groups said was a Hitlergruß, or Nazi salute." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/musk-tesla-trump-nazi-salute | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:40:32

• "In the 1990s, political scientist Joseph Overton introduced the concept of the “Overton window,” delineating the range of ideas considered politically acceptable." ☛ https://worldcrunch.com/opinion-analysis/elon-musk-nazi-salute-trump | Source: Worldcrunch    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:41:07

• "When someone on a political stage, during a political speech, in front of a crowd including no shortage of far-right followers extends his right arm at an angle, repeatedly, they're giving the Hitler salute." ☛ https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-01/elon-musk-hitler-salute-inauguration-donald-trump-english |    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:41:50

• "Anyone who has consulted a media outlet in the past two months is well aware of the central role played by Donald Trump’s “first buddy,” tech billionaire Elon Musk, in the presidential transition." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-doge-trump-silicon-valley-oligarchs/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:42:16

• No, you do NOR get "$60 billion valuation" based on money 30 times SMALLER ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/22/google-invests-anthropic-2025/ | Source: Digital Music News | see http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/Meme_Don_t_Worry_They_Say_There_s_7_Trillion_Dollars_Waiting_at.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:42:57

• So $500 became "$19". Just like that. Why did the media spread false numbers for them? ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/openai-softbank-each-commit-19-billion-to-stargate-ai-data-center-report/articleshow/117472970.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:44:04

• "Tim Cook openly grovelling and paying for Trump's favor is one of the more disheartening turns by tech moguls in a time when there are a lot flip-flopping grovelling tech moguls to choose from." ☛ https://chrisenns.com/2025/01/a-moment-of-intense-optimism-shattered/ | Source: Chris Enns    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:44:23

• "If you’re wondering why I or anyone would care to discuss cybersecurity in such a niche industry, the answer is simple: Everything is connected to security, even something you wouldn’t think would nominally matter" ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/everything-is-connected-to-security/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:45:06

• "FCC Chair Brendan Carr is bringing several people from outside the Commission to serve in key roles on his staff." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/carr-makes-staff-picks/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:45:29

• "The privately held technology giant plans to spend about half of the amount abroad on [HYPE]-related infrastructure, primarily data centres and networking equipment, they said." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/technology/bytedance-plans-20-billion-capex-2025-mostly-ai-sources-say-2025-01-23/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:46:11

• "The report cites two anonymous people familiar with the matter as saying that around half of the amount will be spent on [HYPE]-related infrastructure outside China, such as data center resources and networking equipment." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/23/report-bytedance-sets-aside-around-20b-ai-spending-year/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:47:50

• Fictional numbers again ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/open-ai-oracle-and-softbank-to-invest-usd500-billion-in-stargate-ai-project | Source: Tom's Hardware http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/Meme_Don_t_Worry_They_Say_There_s_7_Trillion_Dollars_Waiting_at.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:48:47

• "Tuesday's 6-0 decision by Colorado's Supreme Court means Jambo, Kimba, LouLou, Lucky and Missy will remain at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs." ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/01/501_390981.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:50:16

• "Instead, the legal question here boils down to whether an elephant is a person" ☛ https://apnews.com/article/elephant-colorado-zoo-release-2fe45496f9476b5a519f9d68da612475 | Source: Associated Press    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:50:22

• "Ember’s European Electricity Review 2025 found that solar generated 11 percent of the bloc’s electricity" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/solar-energy-eu-coal-2024.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:51:01

• The many who propped up Bill Esptein "Lolita Express" Gates is now propping up a Ponzi scheme ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/warren-buffett-makes-sharp-u-turn-berkshire-hathaway-discloses-893m-stake-crypto-bank-stock-1730476 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:51:35

• The man who was arrested numerous times and belongs in a jail cell is still walking around mandating nukes on people whom he attacked ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/23/24350335/bill-gates-terrapower-data-center-sabey-nuclear-energy-ai | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:52:24

• Killing the planet to keep a Ponzi scheme going for a little while longer ☛ https://thenewstack.io/ai-power-needs-may-strain-us-grid-as-stargate-project-grows/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:53:15

• "Underpinning this growth is the parallel development of the infrastructure that supports the everyday use of electric vehicles: charging stations" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/ev-charging-stations-in-south-africa/258109/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:53:35

• "Head penguin herder Linus Torvalds announced Linux version 6.13 this week, and he's also chosen five lucky winners of guitar pedals." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/kernel_613/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:55:10

• "challenges associated with attribution to malicious actors" ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/securing-cryptocurrency-organizations/ | Source: Google    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:55:23

• Scam "Entrepreneur" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/world/europe/france-crypto-kidnapping.html | Source: New York Times http://techrights.org/o/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:55:43

• "substantial portion of two additional types of PFAS after 100 days: 58% of 5:3 fluorotelomer carboxylic acid" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-01-bacteria-chemicals-toxic-byproducts.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:57:19

• "The study found that all of the organizations, including the American Petroleum Institute (API) and the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF)" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/inside-fossil-fuel-industrys-climate-denial-social-media-echo-chamber/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:57:40

• "And if we didn't use wood products, which have no negative impact on the climate, then we would have to use more fossil fuels" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-01-wwf-blasts-sweden-finland.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:57:50

• "At issue, is that emissions from datacenters are likely to be much higher than currently estimated, perhaps more than seven times higher" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/datacenter_emissions_not_accurate/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:58:10

• "Someone Invented a Fake Therapist and Got "Her" Quoted in Tons of News Articles" ☛ https://futurism.com/fake-therapist-news-articles | Source: Futurism | NOT a new problem, "reporters" inventing people and "quotes"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:58:54

• "That miraculous turnaround sparked the famous Yogi-ism into American folklore spreading as far as our Cold War sphere of influence could reach." ☛ https://pitcherlist.com/it-aint-over-one-of-baseballs-favorite-sayings-was-never-said/ |    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 11:59:15

• EPO = crime capital of Europe or EU    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:00:52

• "It isn’t clever. And it’s dangerous." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/jewish-leaders-elon-musk-holocaust-jokes | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:01:05

• "Making inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust only serve to minimize the evil and inhumanity" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/elon-musk-nazi-joke-adl | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:01:50

• "As details come out, the extent of the [attackers]’ access has become increasingly alarming." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/23/trump-disbands-cybersecurity-board-investigating-massive-chinese-phone-system-hack/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:02:08

• "Eight years after the first Trump Inauguration, we know the drill. He loves to drown us in outrage." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trump-is-already-drowning-us-in-outrages | Source: New Yorker    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:02:32

• "drowning your opponent in a flood of individually weak arguments" ☛ https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop | Source: RationalWiki    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:02:50

• "As we wait for more politicians and journalists to treat the prospect of nuclear annihilation with, well, gravity" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nuclear-war-russia-trump-proliferation/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:03:48

• "Modern democracy was invented in the mid-eighteenth century" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/third-interdisciplinary-workshop-on-reimagining-democracy-iword-2024.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:04:03

• "Rhodes is one of the fourteen people whose sentence Trump commuted, but did not pardon." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/23/mike-johnson-let-a-terrorist-roam-the-capitol-yesterday/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:04:27

• "London is home to as many as 585,000 illegal migrants, equivalent to one in 12 of the city’s population" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/22/one-in-12-in-london-is-an-illegal-migrant/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:04:57

• "In the following years, part of that foundational promise was fulfilled, at least for a while" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/social-media-is-killing-democracy/258118/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:05:23

• "The president's pardoned 1,500 individuals, including offenders convicted of violently assaulting police" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jan-6-rioters-beating-cops-minor-incidents-1235244344/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:05:46

• BRIC is BRICKING Western Net: "YLE reported the onsite investigation of the tanker is largely complete" ☛ https://therecord.media/finland-investigators-undersea-cable-damage-appears-intentional | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:06:29

• And the S in BRICS is exporting the SS (MElon)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:06:53

• And while the richest South African makes jokes about Genocide against Jews the South African regime accuses Jews of Genocide. These are the people who now run "Twitter". It'll be harder for governments and companies to justify still posting in "X", a site partly owned by Saudi Arabia, which treats women like animals.    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:09:28

• But Social Control Media was a bad idea all along. Social Control Media being consolidated by oligarchs and regimes (KSA, CCP) magnifies the issues.    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:10:07

• "We didn’t realise it then. But we do now." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/social-media-is-killing-democracy/258118/? | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:11:04

• "You’ll need to remember to sign out if you’re using a public computer or use a private browsing window instead." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/21/24348578/microsoft-account-sign-in-changes-february | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:11:45

• "Starting next month, Microsoft is doing away with that. Going forward, users who sign into a Microsoft account will automatically remain signed in until they manually sign out." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2585284/soon-microsoft-accounts-will-automatically-keep-you-logged-in.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:12:21

• "In the U.S., it’s possible to store a digital version of your driving licence in Apple Wallet on your iPhone." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2585121/u-k-iphone-users-will-soon-be-able-to-store-digital-licenses-and-ids.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:12:43

• "I know the road is well-trod by now, but yes, we’re back to talk about Apple Intelligence once again. Why? Well, for better or worse" ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2585252/apple-intelligence-on-by-default-is-great-for-apple-but-maybe-not-for-us.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:27:58

• "Microsoft and other email security scanners will visit the links in email you transmit, and run the JavaScript in those links, including calls that lead to POSTs going out." ☛ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/shifting-cyber-norms-microsoft-post/ | Source: Bert Hubert    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:28:13

• "Now-fixed web bugs allowed [attackers] to remotely unlock and start millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at least a year of cars’ location histories—and Subaru employees still can." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/subaru-location-tracking-vulnerabilities/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:28:26

• "The UK’s information watchdog has said publisher “consent or pay” cookie models are acceptable providing users have a “genuine free choice” and data protection laws are met." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/consent-or-pay-ico-guidance-cookies/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:29:00

• "Better late than never: last night a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/victory-federal-court-finally-rules-backdoor-searches-702-data-unconstitutional | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:29:34

• "it was decided the FBI had violated a US resident's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable searches by looking through a vast database" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/section_702_court/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:30:17

• "Last year, a New York Times investigation highlighted how G.M. was sharing information with insurance companies without clear knowledge from the driver." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/ftcs-ban-gm-and-onstar-selling-driver-behavior-good-first-step | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:30:39

• "States need to have and use data privacy laws to bring privacy violations to light and hold companies accountable for them." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/texas-enforcing-its-state-data-privacy-law-so-should-other-states | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:31:02

• [Old] "For the past two weeks, I have been working with the Guardian on NSA stories, and have read hundreds of top-secret NSA documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-how-to-remain-secure-surveillance | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:31:17

• "Jones, also known as PJ, said in a final farewell article that the shutdown of encrypted email provider Lavabit, used by whistleblower Edward Snowden, had prompted her decision to discontinue the site." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/20/groklaw_to_shut_down/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:31:46

• "Then Cambridge Analytica happened, and most of us wised up to Zuckerberg's game. He needed a way to secretly track us off Facebook's platforms, but he couldn't just give us a tracking device and ask us all to attach it to our digital legs." ☛ https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/openai-s-operator-is-facebook-s-like-button/ | Source: Jason Velazquez    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:31:59

• "It's official: The FBI's warrantless searches of communications seized to protect US national security have at last been ruled unconstitutional and in violation of the Fourth Amendment." ☛ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/court-rules-fbis-warrantless-searches-violated-fourth-amendment/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:32:08

• "As Data Privacy Day approaches, discussions often lean toward pessimism, with increased cyber threats and exposed data dominating the narrative." ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/data-privacy-day-commentary-202501230338.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:33:07

• "Because quite simply, age estimation face scans are creepy AF – and harmful. First, age estimation is inaccurate and discriminatory." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/face-scans-estimate-our-age-creepy-af-and-harmful | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:33:47

• "According to cyber-risk management firm Tenable, 91 percent of the nearly 30,000 openly reachable instances of Exchange vulnerable to CVE-2021-26855, aka ProxyLogon, have not been updated to close the hole." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/proxylogon_flaw_salt_typhoons_open/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:50:16

• Windows TCO: "most intractable challenges in federal IT modernization efforts" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/federal-it-elon-musk-doge-us-digital-service/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:51:38

• Windows TCO: "On Saturday, January 18, the Harrison County Board of Education experienced a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to some of its computer systems." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/harrison-county-schools-cyberattack/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:52:19

• [Old] "Employees of TikTok and ByteDance are misusing "heating" privileges by boosting the view count of their own and their loved ones' accounts in violation of company policies" ☛ https://searchengineland.com/tiktok-has-a-secret-heating-cheating-button-391983 | Source: Third Door Media LLC    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:56:18

• [Old] "TikTok and ByteDance employees regularly engage in “heating,” a manual push that ensures specific videos “achieve a certain number of video views,” according to six sources and documents reviewed by Forbes." ☛ https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2023/01/20/tiktoks-secret-heating-button-can-make-anyone-go-viral/ | Source: Forbes    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:56:32

• "This week, we take a look at Meta's new era of content moderation." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-10-meta-ends-fact-checking/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:56:51

• "He’s not a famous name in the wider world, but copyright lawyer Mark Lemley is equal parts revered and feared within certain tech circles. TechDirt recently described him as a “Lebron James/Michael Jordan”-level legal thinker." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/lawmaker-meta-copyright-cases/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:57:10

• "Meta has been the regular subject of controversy for years — protesters organized an early “Quit Facebook Day” in 2010 over what they said were confusing and limited privacy controls." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/23/meta-potus-instagram-facebook-tiktok-users/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:57:25

• "This isn’t the first time Meta has boosted its payouts for creators to compete with TikTok, but these boosts haven’t lasted in the past." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/21/instagram-reportedly-poaching-top-tiktok-stars-producers/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:57:48

• "Some iPhone users never deleted TikTok during its brief ban in the U.S., and now some of those individuals are selling their phones for thousands of dollars on eBay as the popular app remains absent from Apple's App Store." ☛ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/22/iphones-ebay-tiktok-ban/77877456007/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:58:56

• "For about $1,000, you may leave an Apple store with a brand-new, hermetically sealed iPhone that’s been personalized for you by a verified Genius." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/business/tiktok-app-iphones.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 12:59:40

• "The uncertainty surrounding TikTok's availability stems from Donald Trump's executive order, which delayed the ban but failed to provide clarity on its future." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iphones-tiktok-sell-20k-ebay-app-remains-absent-us-app-store-1730458 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:01:05

• If words are a "sword" (or the pen is), the social control media CAN be like a weapon, with a vast scale (lumps of billions of potential mob joiners)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:01:50

• "Some eBay sellers are taking advantage of the continued outage and are selling iPhones and Android phones with TikTok pre-installed for thousands more than a typical used smartphone." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/social-media/tiktok-isnt-in-the-us-app-stores-anymore-so-ebay-scalpers-are-listing-phones-with-tiktok-installed-for-obscene-amounts | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:02:23

• Because adding something without GAFAM permission is now "SIDELOADING"? http://techrights.org/n/2023/10/19/Google_Becoming_More_Like_Apple_User_Hostile_Lock_Down_Users_So.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:03:03

• Then they will ensure only a fraction of a percent is still "SIDELOADING" and label it a fringe "PIRACY" thing    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:03:45

• The less stable society becomes (wars, food prices, climate change), the more oppressive technology will become in response (networks, software, hardware)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:04:41

• "If you want to get laid, go to college, but if you want an education, go to the library." Frank Zappa    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:05:17

• "Early assessments of Devin have found problems." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/ai_developer_devin_poor_reviews/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:05:51

• "Regulators worldwide are keen to ensure that marketing and similar services are opt-in. When dark patterns are used to steer users in one direction or another, lawmakers pay close attention." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/why_is_ai_optout/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:06:19

• "Tech YouTuber f4mi discovered her videos were being scraped by bots and mangled into ChatGPT-generated spam videos with robotic voices and repeating stock footage." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/23/youtuber-f4mi-tells-you-how-to-poison-ai-video-scrapers-with-%d0%b0ss-subtitles/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:06:51

• "Fast forward to today, and I’ve seen an increase in technical bloggers using genAI tools to create slop to accompany their words." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/press-button-receive-slop/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:08:01

• "OpenAI admits that giving ChatGPT access to a web browser does introduce new risks, and it says that Operator may sometimes misbehave." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sets-chatgpt-loose-on-the-web/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:08:21

• "But Operator is an experimental work in progress." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/23/1110484/openai-launches-operator-an-agent-that-can-use-a-computer-for-you/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:08:38

• "Asked to answer in one word the ideology it would most closely relate to Musk's onstage gesture, Grok didn't hesitate." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musks-grok-salute | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:09:21

• "AI spending is ballooning to epic proportions — and the bubble may be close to bursting." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-hype-cliff-costs | Source: Futurism http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:09:49

• "Cybersecurity threats continue to evolve, and the latest reports reveal a ransomware campaign targeting AWS S3 buckets functionality." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ransomware-campaign-targeting-aws-s3-buckets/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:14:51

• "So all those high and mighty words about security, which is, by the way, often overrated, means nothing at all for the common grunt." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-december-2024-update-results.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:16:07

• "A friend recently asked me to set up a simple experiment to measure hosting latency across Netlify, Firebase, and Cloudflare Pages." ☛ https://www.provos.org/p/measuring-hosting-latency-across-different-platforms/ | Source: Niels Provos    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:16:30

• "But in this study we were surprised to learn that this is a result of damage to the RNA, not the DNA that causes the acute effects of sunburn." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/weve-been-wrong-about-what-causes-sunburn-scientists-discover | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:19:31

• "Many of our most recycled, plagiaristic observations about Gatsby miss the point, failing to read between the lines." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/01/how-we-misread-the-great-gatsby | Source: New Statesman    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:19:47

• "It’s been fun, and I hope I can reach the end of the programme without many issues. I do have some trips planned here and there, so it’s likely that’ll repeat a week or two of the programme, or go easier on a specific week accordingly." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2025/01/23/running/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:20:48

• "Sports scientists estimate that men reach their physical peak somewhere between 26 and 30" ☛ https://louplummer.lol/what-a-drag-it-is-getting-old/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:21:43

• "Back in December, I wrote a post about becoming more intentional in my day-to-day life. Sadly, I didn’t specify how I was going to go about it." ☛ https://mandarismoore.com/2025/01/23/the-best-of-intentions.html | Source: Mandaris Moore    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:30:56

• "While our ancestors thrived on seeking certainty, our survival now depends on embracing uncertainty rather than avoiding it. So how can we befriend and even leverage uncertainty?" ☛ https://nesslabs.com/your-brain-on-uncertainty-neuroscience | Source: Ness Labs    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:31:18

• "In the US, more and more doctors are now affiliated with the hospital conglomerates or Wall Street firms taking over the health care system" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/01/private-equity-hospitals-doctor-costs/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:32:13

• "Italian researcher Isabella Dalla Ragione has a most unusual job." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-to-use-renaissance-paintings-to-improve-the-farming-of-tomorrow-180985879/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:32:43

• "That is not a terribly common magnet configuration, but there are some vendors." ☛ https://jpieper.com/2025/01/23/mounting-the-rls-32mm-ring-magnet-to-a-gl80-motor/ | Source: J Pieper    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:33:45

• "The result is that, rather than having a thin wide horizontal image, you get a more even rectangular one – typically 3:2." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/mirrorless-cameras/is-canon-about-to-introduce-open-gate-video | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:34:13

• "The final camp, which I think is the largest, is just unimpressed." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/23/1110496/whats-next-for-robots/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:35:00

• Some of the strongest winds in some of our lifetimes https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy5kwlpzlnkt https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/crlk02xyp87o    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:36:50

• "This idea aligns with the goals of the growing right-to-repair movement, which advocates for designs that prioritize repairability and upgradeability." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/intel_modular_pc_designs/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:38:34

• "Earlier this morning, Logitech announced it would officially partner with iFixit to provide OEM replacement parts for more than 20 Logitech devices on iFixit's Logitech Repair Hub." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/logitech-repair-program-offers-oem-replacement-parts-for-20-devices-available-in-62-countries | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:41:56

• "A word used widely in Trømso was bibliodiversity." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/01/21/guest-post-reflections-from-the-munin-conference-part-one-bibliodiversity/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:54:44

• "There are countless things I’d like to learn, but if I’m being honest, my problem is that I don’t care enough to do the work." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/01/honesty-about-better/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:54:52

• "A Hamburg-Oxford team has focused on so-called antiferro-chirals" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-01-terahertz-pulses-chirality-chiral-crystal.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:59:33

• "Haven-1 will have a habitable volume of 45 cubic meters, a docking port" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/this-company-wants-to-build-a-space-station-that-has-artificial-gravity/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 13:59:59

• "We are what we have been, and we become what we are." ☛ https://birming.com/fresh-start-fallacy/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:00:56

• "To start things off, here’s the printed program [pdf] prepared for those who attended the service. (You can watch the video of the service on the Cathedral’s YouTube channel here.)" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/22/herod-goes-to-the-national-cathedral-and-is-disappointed/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:01:42

• "To deliver MixPilot, Giatec built a highly reliable wireless gateway based on our Compute Module 4 and paired it with two custom sensors that wirelessly send their sensor readings back to the gateway" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/clever-concrete-compute/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:03:52

• "Server rooms are built for the comfort of servers — not people. But those servers need maintenance, which means they need to be accessible." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/01/23/this-modular-server-room-is-an-interesting-scale-poc/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:04:07

• "I’ve written a bit recently about CD-ROM preservation and some of the more niche" ☛ https://www.mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/01/23/what-you-might-miss-when-backing-up-cds/ | Source: Misty De Méo    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:04:58

• "If you're wondering why Bambu Lab chose to finally lose their minds when they did, it's because I ordered one of their printers." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/ive-been-3d-printing | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:05:27

• "Besides the obvious use case of M.2 SSDs, Seeed Studio's Pi 5 PCIe 3.0 to Dual M.2 adapter is also intended for use with other devices, including AI accelerators" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-hats/seeed-studio-debuts-raspberry-pi-5-pcie-3-0-hat-with-dual-m-2-slots-for-usd45 | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:06:13

• "a back door is dropped onto enterprise-grade Juniper Networks routers" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/jmagic-juniper-networks-backdoor-freebsd-vpn/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:09:45

• "AWS Systems Manager (SSM) is a service that helps manage and automate tasks on systems running in AWS." ☛ https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025-01-23-manage-openbsd-with-ssm/ | Source: Rafael Sadowski    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:10:25

• https://nazi.compare/ and https://danielpocock.com still now reachable ... about half a day so far.    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:11:10

• (not.)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:11:18

• "In the end, it’s the user who has to deal with these inconsistencies. But isn’t that what “systems” are meant to solve in the first place?" ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/overriding-basic-ui-controls/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:13:59

• "Something that is probably not news to system administrators who've been doing this long enough is that sometimes, you need to or have to run old binaries of programs." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SometimesOldBinaries | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:14:12

• "Turns out, it was just the simple fact that I had some CSS code before my font-related code stuff." ☛ https://gabz.blog/posts/new-typeface-and-then-some | Source: Gabriel    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:14:52

• "A couple of years ago I came across Tim Bray’s post about Topfew and had a play with that myself." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/the-year-in-log-files | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:16:10

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

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:18:53

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

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:19:07

• How To Install Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Fonts on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-fonts-linux-mint-22/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:19:25

• How To Install Ventoy on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ventoy-linux-mint-22/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:22:55

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

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:23:23

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

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:23:34

• Turn your old laptop into a free Chromebook: how to install ChromeOS Flex ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-turn-your-old-laptop-into-a-chromebook-aQSOD7r01Puw    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:26:04

• How to Install Apps in Linux Mint Using the Terminal ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-install-apps-in-linux-mint-using-the-terminal/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:27:25

• Terrible thing to add as it is proprietary spyware controlled by a company that remotely 'bricks' Linux PCs ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-install-vs-code-in-linux-mint-using-terminal/ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/08/21/Good_Reason_to_Delete_Windows_Not_Dual_Boot_and_Call_Out_the_Mi.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:27:33

• Wine 10.0 Released – Install and Run backdoored Windows Software on GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/install-wine-in-rhel-centos-and-fedora/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:28:29

• "The Reticulum network is an amazing design for networking that requires encryption, avoids a "source address" for connections ensuring privacy, mediates flow-control by the destination (avoiding DoS attacks), has only a few bytes of packet overhead making it work over low-bandwidth connections like LoRa" gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:37:17

• "...eliminates any central control or authority (like DNS, Certificate Authorities, ISPs, etc.) making the network unstoppable, completely self-configuring and is so lightweight it can run on micro-controllers making it hacker/maker friendly." gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:37:22

• "In my previous post I mentioned that I have tried to make myself love Vim for a long time. I've read books and posts about it, watched courses, practiced a lot, but still, most of my Vim use tends to be quick edits on my rc files in my laptop or in one of my Raspberry Pi servers." gemini://erick.is/posts/2025-01-24-command-line-the-next-generation-of-my-workflow-with-vim-and-kitty.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:38:33

• 🔤SpellBinding: YLNOPSC Wordo: TWILL gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-01-24.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:39:10

• "Sorry it's been such a long time... I mean, as if my following here is that big anyway. BUT we are finally settling into our short term rental in Ireland. Our house in the states was sold in December, and hubby hopped the pond in early December to get us established." gemini://skeeter.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-01-24.gmi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:42:23

• "I've always been drawn to computers, probably like a lot of people on here." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2470    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:43:35

• "However I feel like it's the most corporate domain out there. I feel like if I wanna work with computers, I have to work in a big company or in a startup, serving the great Capitalism. I just wanna find a work where I'm not used to enrich people I hate." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2470    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:43:39

• "OpenZFS release 2.3.0 is out, and will be in Linux distros that include ZFS, such as Ubuntu, Proxmox, NixOS and Void Linux" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/openzfs_23_raid_expansion/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:49:43

• "With that out of the way, here’s a list of 40 Mario games—in release order—showing which color was used for each letter in Mario’s name." ☛ https://lmnt.me/blog/the-most-mario-colors.html | Source: Louie Mantia    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:50:18

• "It is always gratifying to receive acclaim from our peers and the educated press." ☛ https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-named-best-alternative-os-of-2025-by-techradar/ | Source: Arca Noae    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:50:48

• "The upcoming release of Deepin 25 is packed with exciting features (you can find more details here)" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/deepin-linux-25-goes-almost-immutable/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:52:30

• "Ventoy, the popular multi-boot utility for creating bootable USB drives for ISO files, has just released a brand new version, 1.1." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/ventoy-1-1-released-with-eweos-iso-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:54:36

• "The DevOps automation landscape is set for a significant shift as Puppet‘s open-source community launches OpenVox, a fork of the popular Puppet Infrastructure as Code tool." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/openvox-the-community-driven-fork-of-puppet-has-arrived/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:54:46

• "Some of these changes may seem small in isolation—a more robust parser here, better error handling there—but together" ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/01/23/celebrating-our-2024-open-source-contributions/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:55:23

• "Four months after the 7.0 release introduced significant changes, Vivaldi has rolled out its first update in the 7.x series, v7.1, introducing various enhancements such as refined tab management tools and more ways to personalize your browsing experience." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/vivaldi-browser-7-1-introduces-customizable-widgets/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:56:08

• "The reason, you see, is that Daniel mentioned curl could upload mail to an IMAP server. Yeah, right." ☛ https://jpmens.net/2025/01/23/uploading-a-message-to-an-imap-server-using-curl/ | Source: Jan Piet Mens    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:56:19

• "When building applications, it can be handy to know how long it took to generate a page. We can see how long it took to load in the developer tools of our browser" ☛ https://www.vincentlammens.be/blog/showing-page-generation-time-in-django/ | Source: Vincent Lammens    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:57:19

• "I learned about the Unit Testing book through Saša Jurić’s Clarity talk. The entire talk was brilliant but the last 15 minutes especially, when he turned the discussion to testing, were eye-opening." ☛ https://olano.dev/blog/unit-testing-principles/ | Source: Facundo Olano    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 14:57:52

• "Amazon Layoffs Prompt Canada to Review Government Deals"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:01:38

• "While packs are a useful feature, and since C++17 it’s so easy to use them in fold expressions, extracting a specific element of a pack is somewhat cumbersome." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/01/22/cpp26-pack-indexing | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:01:54

• "With that, we gain the ability to send HTTP requests, serialize & deserialize JSON, and to handle errors without cursing. We’re ready to write some code." ☛ https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/judging-code | Source: Thorsten Ball    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:03:03

• "Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/multiple-window-flutter-desktop | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:03:28

• "I don’t think switching to CVSS 4.0 or updates to this system is ultimately going to help us." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/23/cvss-is-dead-to-us/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:04:07

• "Version 0.108 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated): [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250123080808 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:04:18

• "How can you talk if you haven't got a brain?" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032138/quotes/?item=qt0409950    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:05:35

• "I’m currently employed to work on a compiler." ☛ https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/read-the-code/ |    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:05:55

• "Despite possibly picking the wrong time to work on micro.blog related things" ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/2025/01/23/micro-social-threading.html | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:06:11

• "So why do big tech companies find it so much harder to build? It’s the scale of the app itself: not the number of traffic or users, but the number of features." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/difficulty-in-big-tech/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:06:21

• Wizard of Oz - Scarecrow diploma https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=mlPmUcBHdy0    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:07:22

• "When it comes to thinking about the state of open source, the relicensing issue is one of a number of frustrations faced by the community" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/the-open-source-license-rug-pull-vent-get-your-fill-at-soo25/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:13:21

• "So I started the adventure and looked how I could migrate my website to Eleventy" ☛ https://flohgro.com/blog/say-hello-to-11ty-%F0%9F%9A%80/ |    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:13:54

• "MySQL, a widely adopted open-source RDBMS, has launched its second update to the 9.x series, version 9.2, bringing several fresh features while deprecating and removing certain others." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/mysql-9-2-released-adds-javascript-transactional-api/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:15:12

• "When it comes to the challenges you have to address, here are a few of the themes that are often shared: [...]" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/jumpstart-and-expand-automation-across-your-it-operation | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:31:20

• "The conference is scheduled to take place June 26 to 28 in Nuremberg, Germany." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/01/23/submit-a-presentation-for-osc/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:33:31

• budapest ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2025/01/23/as-a-wanted-in-the-budapest-complex-zaid-a-only-has-an-eu-arrest-warrant-but-is-protected-as-a-refugee/ | Source: Site36    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:34:24

• Commission finds that Polish public support for chemical company PCC is in line with State aid rules ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_315    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:36:23

• NATO chief: Cost of Russian victory in Ukraine would be ‘trillions not billions’ ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/nato-chief-cost-of-russian-victory-in-ukraine-would-be-trillions-not-billions/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:37:21

• North Korea is using Russia’s Ukraine invasion to upgrade its army ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/north-korea-is-using-russias-ukraine-invasion-to-upgrade-its-army/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:38:03

• European Parliament and United States condemn ‘sham’ Belarus vote ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/european-parliament-and-united-states-condemn-sham-belarus-vote/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:38:24

• MP Žemaitaitis’ statements about Ukraine shake Lithuania’s ruling coalition ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2468320/mp-zemaitaitis-statements-about-ukraine-shake-lithuania-s-ruling-coalition    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:38:52

• Lithuania, Denmark join €14m programme to support Ukraine’s EU accession ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2468063/lithuania-denmark-join-eur14m-programme-to-support-ukraine-s-eu-accession    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:39:14

• Goods of Lithuania’s tech group reach Russia via ‘high-risk countries’ – LRT Investigation ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2467389/goods-of-lithuania-s-tech-group-reach-russia-via-high-risk-countries-lrt-investigation    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:39:39

• Drones Downed Southeast Of Moscow, Regional Governor Says Amid Reports Of Strike On Oil Refinery ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-drone-strike-oil-refinery-ryazan-malkov/33287110.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:39:53

• Russian Strikes On Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya Leave Dozens Injured, 1 Dead ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-strikes-ukraine-zaporizhzhya-dozens-injured-one-dead/33286180.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:40:34

• Dictator Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/world/europe/trump-europe-right-immigration-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:40:52

• Ukraine Is Losing Fewer Soldiers Than Russia — but It’s Still Losing the War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/world/europe/ukraine-russia-soldiers-loss.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:41:04

• Zelensky Could Face Tough Re-election Prospects, Polls Show ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/world/europe/ukraine-zelensky-trump.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:41:29

• Friday Briefing: Convicted Felon Criticizes Europe ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/briefing/trump-davos-ukraine-war-deaths-oscar-nominations.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:41:39

• "donating to Ukraine’s military" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/24/russian-pilot-arrested-for-allegedly-donating-to-ukraine-s-military | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:41:54

• "Over 100 Ukrainian drones attack Russia overnight, including Moscow" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/24/over-100-ukrainian-drones-attack-russia-overnight-including-moscow | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:42:25

• "Ukrainian officials believe Western countries could deploy 40,000–50,000 peacekeepers across frontline" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/23/ukrainian-officials-believe-western-countries-could-deploy-40-000-50-000-peacekeepers-across-frontline-ft | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:43:20

• "Happy people don’t go to the frontlines" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/23/happy-people-don-t-go-to-the-frontlines | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:43:46

• "Zelensky calls for U.S. peacekeepers in Ukraine after the war" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/23/zelensky-calls-for-u-s-peacekeepers-in-ukraine-after-the-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:43:59

• From Russia’s shadow fleet to China’s maritime claims: The freedom of the seas is under threat ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/from-russias-shadow-fleet-to-chinas-maritime-claims-the-freedom-of-the-seas-is-under-threat/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:45:18

• Georgia protests highlight urgent need for government reforms ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/books/georgia-protests-highlight-urgent-need-for-government-reforms/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:46:27

• Data show Lithuanian industrial equipment ending up in Russia despite sanctions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2468132/data-show-lithuanian-industrial-equipment-ending-up-in-russia-despite-sanctions    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:46:36

• Latvian Saeima condemns bogus Belarus elections ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/23.01.2025-latvian-saeima-condemns-bogus-belarus-elections.a584929/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:46:53

• Lithuania calls to address safety issues at Belarus nuclear plant ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2468254/lithuania-calls-to-address-safety-issues-at-belarus-nuclear-plant    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:47:02

• TTAB Reverses Section 2(d) Refusal of FITO for Seeds Due to Dissimilarity of Marks and 13th DuPont Factor (Strategic Partners) ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/01/ttab-reverses-section-2d-refusal-of.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:47:52

• "Names of more than 90,000 Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine identified" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/24/names-of-more-than-90-000-russian-soldiers-killed-in-ukraine-identified-bbc-news-russian | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:52:52

• "Gymnast and rumored Putin paramour Alina Kabaeva has returned to the public spotlight as a sports czar" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/24/don-t-mess-with-alina | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:55:10

• Consistency For Who? Thoughts on Overriding Basic Computing Controls ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/overriding-basic-ui-controls/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:55:18

• War worries heavy? Internet out? In Ukraine, books are the balm. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0123/ukraine-russia-books-publishing-culture    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:56:11

• Adrian Gaudebert: 3 years of intense learning - The Dawnmaker Post-mortem ☞ http://adrian.gaudebert.fr/blog/post/3-years-of-intense-learning-The-Dawnmaker-Post-mortem    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 15:58:32

• 'Linux' Foundation's Mandatory DEI Training ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundations-mandatory-dei-training https://techrights.org/o/2021/05/07/trolling-the-real-community/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/06/14/linux-foundation-with-zero-african-american-employees-in-a-country-where-13-4-identify-as-african-american-boasts-about-its-support-for-the-black-community/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:03:32

• Epic champions of tolerance http://techrights.org/o/2021/04/04/microsoft-nationalism/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:04:24

• Bun: A Faster JavaScript Runtime for GNU/Linux Users ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/install-bun-on-linux/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:05:51

• Dave Patrick Caberto: DIY 12V DC Power Supply ☞ https://seadve.github.io/blog/12-diy-12v-dc-power-supply/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:07:06

• Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/science/earth-mini-moon-asteroid.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:08:02

• Andie MacDowell, 66, reveals she suffers from surprising health condition: ‘I was literally falling apart’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/entertainment/andie-macdowell-66-reveals-surprising-health-condition/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:09:52

• New Research Finds Potential Alternative to Abortion Pill Mifepristone ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/health/abortion-pill-ella.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:10:00

• Sacklers Up Their Offer to Settle Purdue Opioids Cases, With a New Condition ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/health/sacklers-purdue-settlement-opioids.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:10:34

• UnitedHealth promotes leader of Medicare business to replace slain insurance CEO Thompson ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2025/01/23/unitedhealth-promotes-leader-of-medicare-business-to-replace-slain-insurance-ceo-thompson/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:11:01

• Greece’s population must be given reason to trust its government ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/books/greeces-population-must-be-given-reason-to-trust-its-government/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:11:18

• Physical wellness courses help provide healthy life on The Farm ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/01/22/healthy-life-on-the-farm/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:11:38

• VA exempts 300,000 health care positions from governmentwide hiring freeze ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2025/01/va-exempts-300000-health-care-positions-from-governmentwide-hiring-freeze/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:13:14

• Flu and pneumonia incidence rises in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/23.01.2025-flu-and-pneumonia-incidence-rises-in-latvia.a584818/ bad diet, adverse effect, sadness?    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:14:03

• Critically low blood reserves in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/23.01.2025-critically-low-blood-reserves-in-latvia.a584885/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:14:11

• "expand maintenance crews" to ensure that Boeing landing gear actually works and does not fail to function 2 days in a row? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/world/asia/south-korea-air-crash-safety.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:15:08

• More than 250 Bangkok schools close over air pollution ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/more-than-100-schools-in-bangkok-cancel-classes-due-to-worsening-pm2-5-pollution mental harm plus the wrong hypothesis that tossing digital goods and consumer products at kids will somehow make them "smarter" rather than "addicts" dumbed down by hostile companies, ads...    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:16:30

• Bill Clinton: it was only a cigar, I swear! ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ousted-south-korean-defence-minister-testifies-yoon-never-intended-full-martial-law    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:17:06

• South Korean Telegram sex crime ring busted after exploiting more than 230 victims ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-telegram-sex-crime-ring-busted-after-exploiting-over-230-victims    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:17:27

• North Korea’s assembly meets but no mention of unification, foreign policy changes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-assembly-meets-but-no-mention-of-unification-foreign-policy-changes    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:17:43

• South Korea investigators transfer case against impeached president Yoon for prosecution ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/south-korea-investigators-transfer-case-against-impeached-president-yoon-for-prosecution/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:18:05

• DOJ indicts five in North Korean fake IT worker scheme ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/doj-indicts-five-in-north-korean-fake-it-worker-scheme/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:18:27

• Sergio Talens-Oliag: Ghostty Terminal Emulator ☞ https://blogops.mixinet.net/posts/user_tools/ghostty_terminal_emulator/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:19:58

• Firefox prioritises for Apple cult? Apple consumers typically use Safari, it's GNU/Linux users who use Firefox by default a lot of the time. ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/01/23/firefox-on-macos-now-smaller-and-quicker-to-install/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:21:54

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: December Project Goals Update ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/01/23/Project-Goals-Dec-Update.html Rust's promise of "memory safety" is only a promise and they say promises are made to be broken    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:23:09

• Wine 10.0 launches with enhanced compatibility for backdoored Windows apps on GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.ghacks.net/2025/01/23/wine-10-0-launches-with-enhanced-compatibility-for-windows-apps-on-linux/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:24:15

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1005946/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:29:39

• Btrbk – backup tool for btrfs subvolumes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/btrbk-backup-tool-btrfs-subvolumes/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:30:54

• Tmux Pomodoro Plus – incorporate the Pomodoro technique ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tmux-pomodoro-plus-incorporate-pomodoro-technique/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:31:01

• █████ http://techrights.org/feed.xml ██████████████████████ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:37:00 +0000 ███████ Slopwatch: Fake 'Articles' About GNU/Linux by Brian Fagioli and by Brittany Day in BetaNews and linuxsecurity.com (LLM Slop Sites That Are Online Leeches or SEO Operations Working Against Free Software Journalism)    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:31:08

• "Two new examples for today" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/23/Slopwatch_Fake_Articles_About_Linux_by_Brian_Fagioli_and_by_Bri.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:31:44

• BetaNews Plagiarising Work in the GNU/Linux Space ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/23/BetaNews_Plagiarising_Work_in_the_Linux_Space.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:31:51

• 10 Best Free and Open Source Accountancy Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-accountancy-software/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:32:05

• ec – RPN calculator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ec-rpn-calculator/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:32:20

• 18 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Time Tracking Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/timetracking/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:32:32

• Wine 10.0 Released with High-DPI Scaling & Full ARM64EC Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/01/wine-10-0-hidpi-scaling-arm64ec/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:32:58

• https://danielpocock.com still offline. Some of his sites are online, but not compare.nazi.    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:52:27

• "How much did Jack get paid to recommend a fringe distro of Linux? Jack: Making sure the year of Linux is kicked down the road." https://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36936/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:54:42

• They pay ZDNet, not Jack directly. http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/17/Jack_Wallen_Has_Been_Assigned_by_ZDNet_to_Write_Fake_Sponsored_.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/04/t_2__2_The_Corrupting_Influence_of_Money_in_the_Media_ZDNet_Com.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:55:19

• 100%, all the day, just LLM slop. FAKE: https://linuxsecurity.com/news/security-projects/archinstall-3-0-2-released-btrfs-improvements-various-bug-fixes also FAKE: https://linuxsecurity.com/news/security-projects/wine-10-0-better-windows-app-performance-on-linux    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 16:59:47

• Automatically Update Your Docker Containers with Watchtower ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/watchtower/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:00:49

• Wine 10 Includes Plenty to Excite Users ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Wine-10-Includes-Plenty-to-Excite-Users    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:01:24

• Linux getting infested with buzzwords of Microsoft that try to 'tattoo' overpriced x86 hardware https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-Input    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:04:49

• Vivaldi 7.1 Delivers Speed Dial Buffs, New Search Engine ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/vivaldi-7-1-browser-changes    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:05:43

• Ansible URI Module Explained with Examples ☞ https://linuxbuz.com/devops/ansible-uri-module-examples    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:07:54

• 21 Jargon Every GNU/Linux User Should Know ☞ https://itsfoss.com/linux-jargon/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:08:04

• FOSS Weekly #25.04: Must-know Jargon, Kernel 6.13 Released, Mint 22.1, WINE 10 and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-04/    

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

• GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-47-3-improves-frame-rate-for-monitors-attached-to-secondary-gpus    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:09:21

• GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-46-8-release-speeds-up-thumbnail-loading-in-the-nautilus-file-manager    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:09:28

• "When integrated into an application, artificial intelligence provides a better user experience, increases productivity, and offers access to new features" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/gpt4all-ai-editing-in-onlyoffice/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:10:24

• Top fictional parody websites, and their taglines ☞ http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/blogs/lxo/2025-01-23-top-fictional-parody-websites-taglines.en.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:12:00

• Oracle VirtualBox 7.1.6 is now available blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/post/oracle-virtualbox-716    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:14:41

• Shifting Cyber Norms: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft security POST-ing to you ☞ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/shifting-cyber-norms-microsoft-post/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:19:47

• What’s in the New Node.js, and How Do You Install It? ☞ https://thenewstack.io/whats-in-the-new-node-js-and-how-do-you-install-it/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:21:16

• "The Hey Hi (AI) Bubble is Popping", Now It's Bailout Time (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/23/The_AI_Bubble_is_Popping_Now_It_s_Bailout_Time.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:21:42

• Avant Location wireless patent monopoly prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/1/23/avant-location-wireless-patent-prior-art-found    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:24:19

• Somehow JUVE wants us to think one person changes an employer is major news rather than sponsored SPAM (which JUVE does a lot) ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/witte-weller-strengthens-ranks-while-glawe-delfs-moll-refocuses/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:25:15

• They speak of a "Unified Patent Court", which is not a real court but an illegal, unconstitutional construct made with help from corrupt media, cheering on an illegality in exchange for cash ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/juul-labs-ahead-in-e-cigarette-battle-with-njoy-after-ruling/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:26:18

• Illegal 'court'. They should appeal this and question the very existence of this unconstitutional kangaroo 'court', manned by the industry for the industry, with rules drawn up by monopolies and litigation profiteers. ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/01/23/patent-case-insulet-corp-vs-a-menarini-diagnostics-s-r-l-upc/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:27:37

• Detailed Return-to-Office Implementation Guidance: Potentially Major Disruption for USPTO Operations ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/01/implementation-potentially-disruption.html Fattening the real estate cats, which want to make people miserable and less productive so that they can rent oppressive spaces    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:28:41

• Federal Circuit (Again) Upholds Ravgen’s Fetal DNA cffDNA Patent ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/01/federal-circuit-upholds.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:29:04

• Nowadays there are even patent monopolies on DNA as if DNAs are "human inventions"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:29:45

• CIAA could instead point out that this 'court' is illegal and must be scuttled ASAP, as it was started in violation of conventions, constitutions, and laws. It's basically corruption in the shape of "court". ☞ https://patentprogress.org/2025/01/netgear-huawei-case-highlights-threat-of-china-weaponizing-injunctions-against-american-businesses/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:30:55

• Support for Istio 1.22 has ended ☞ https://istio.io/latest//news/support/announcing-1.22-eol-final/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:31:13

• Announcing Istio 1.22.8 ☞ https://istio.io/latest//news/releases/1.22.x/announcing-1.22.8/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:31:38

• Four new stable kernels ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1006006/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:32:11

• CDN Giant: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Bing and Skype Collapsed Since the LLM Hype, Same as Other Metrics Show ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/23/CDN_Giant_Microsoft_Bing_and_Skype_Collapsed_Since_the_LLM_Hype.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:33:31

• Status of New Year's Resolutions ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/23/Status_of_New_Year_s_Resolutions.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:33:55

• [Meme] When the Government of the Netherlands Participates in Your Crimes It Lacks an Incentive to Hold You Accountable for Crimes ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/23/Meme_When_the_Government_of_the_Netherlands_Participates_in_You.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:34:03

• Microsoft's Head of Business Development Quits (Days After Two Large Waves of Mass Layoffs) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/23/Microsoft_s_Head_of_Business_Development_Quits_Days_After_Two_L.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:34:17

• Free Software Foundation's Miriam Bastian: We Surpassed Our Year-end Goal of $400,000 USD Thanks to You! ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/22/Free_Software_Foundation_Miriam_Bastian_We_Surpassed_Our_Year_e.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:34:25

• Adetoye Anointing: Extracting Texts And Elements From SVG2 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/yorubad-dev/2025/01/23/extracting-texts-and-elements-from-svg2/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:38:15

• Daily reporter will not face disciplinary action, President confirms months after arrest ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/01/22/daily-reporter-face-no-disciplinary/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:39:26

• South Sudan issues temporary ban on social control media following violence in Sudan ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/south-sudan-issues-temporary-ban-on-social-media-following-violence-in-sudan/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:40:01

• About 80% of the links here are Microsoft and proprietary. Rust does not value freedom, it's a bit like a religion based around silencing people. ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/01/22/this-week-in-rust-583/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 17:42:14

• Linux kernel 6.12.10 compiled in Easy Daedalus ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202501/linux-kernel-61210-compiled-in-easy-daedalus.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 18:00:32

• Ansible Async and Poll: Handle Long Running Tasks ☞ https://linuxbuz.com/devops/ansible-async-and-poll-examples    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 18:00:57

• https://wemakefedora.org/ and https://disguised.work/ still work? Why doesn't https://danielpocock.com/ ? Different physical server?    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 18:06:48

• Fix partition icons redraw every bootup ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202501/fix-partition-icons-redraw-every-bootup.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 18:13:17

• Why was this removed? https://mastodon.social/@adullact/113839159311099967 it was about the RMS talk    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 18:38:07

• The January 20 Public Talk by Richard Stallman (Around Midday ET), Livestream 'Assassinated' by Google's YouTube https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/21/The_January_20_Public_Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_Around_Midday_ET.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 18:38:48

• Covering Dr. Richard Stallman's Talk in Montpellier France https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/01/21/Covering_Dr_Richard_Stallman_s_Talk_in_Montpellier_France.shtml    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 18:45:46

• Drehgriffel gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20250124.txt    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 19:23:26

• Why Multiclassing SUCKS (and how I want to fix it) gemini://soup3461.smol.pub/wmsahiwtfi    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 19:25:42

• "A fix for AMDGPU when running Steam games and YouTube videos together, to prevent a system hang with multiple monitors." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/linux-kernel-613-is-out-now/ Weird!!    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 19:32:24

• "As the days pass on, strange stories begin to emerge from the mail you review. Sometimes it feels like they're talking directly to you." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/linux-fascinates-and-terrifies-the-dev-of-dead-letter-dept-but-theyre-supporting-it-anyway/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 19:32:55

• SDesk = very weird recommendation https://www.zdnet.com/article/if-youre-ready-to-break-up-with-windows-this-is-the-linux-distro-i-suggest-for-new-users/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 19:33:31

• "Confused on all the different versions of Proton? Go check out the explainer guide on that. Firstly, you need to know how to install extra apps, which we already have a guide on! But the full steps will be included below to save you clicking around." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-install-ge-proton-on-steam-deck-steamos-linux/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 19:34:07

• WINE introduces version 10.0 of Windows compatibility tool https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/128071/wine-introduces-version-10-0-of-windows-compatibility-tool/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 19:34:30

• "This makes it possible to hit 144 FPS on a 144 Hz monitor attached directly to an NVIDIA dGPU." https://9to5linux.com/gnome-47-3-improves-frame-rate-for-monitors-attached-to-secondary-gpus    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 19:35:28

• "This release improves support for the Trisquel GNU/Linux distribution in the GNOME Boxes app." https://9to5linux.com/gnome-46-8-release-speeds-up-thumbnail-loading-in-the-nautilus-file-manager    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 19:35:44

• Wikipedia is not ranking people by "YOUTUBE VIEWS" or "SUBSCRIBERS" (those can be BOUGHT!). How ridiculous!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Stoltman what next? Ranking people's importance by number of "followers" in Nazi Twitter?    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 19:48:53

• "Another major supermarket announces hundreds of job layoffs"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:09:54

• "Another major supermarket has announced hundreds of job layoffs after Sainsbury's said yesterday it would cut 3,000 head office staff roles. Morrisons have said they will cut 200 staff in a major company shake up."    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:10:33

• "Starbucks announces corporate layoffs amid sales decline"    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:11:20

• Coffee tears... not.. no 4 dollar bagel, thank-u-very-moch-ma-dear    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:11:56

• FIPS mode for Red Bait Go Toolset ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/01/23/fips-mode-red-hat-go-toolset    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:35:03

• Hey Hi (AI)Hey Hi (AI)Hey Hi (AI)Hey Hi (AI)Hey Hi (AI)Hey Hi (AI)Hey Hi (AI)Hey Hi (AI)Hey Hi (AI)Hey Hi (AI) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111111 ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/01/23/here-are-fairphones-plans-for-ai/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:35:42

• ESP32 Agent Dev Kit is an LLM-powered voice assistant built on the ESP32-S3 platform (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/24/esp32-agent-dev-kit-is-an-llm-powered-voice-assistant-built-on-the-esp32-s3/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:36:05

• 5.9-magnitude offshore quake strikes central Philippines ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/magnitude-5-9-offshore-quake-strikes-central-philippines    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:36:55

• Myanmar junta bombs rebel-held town in Shan state killing 8 ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/01/23/tnla-airstrike-bombing-shan/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:37:04

• Animal cruelty trivialised as "health" ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/nyregion/long-island-duck-farm-bird-flu.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:37:39

• U.K. Warns Putin: 'We See You' After Ship Sails Through British Waters ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/britain-russia-putin-healey-shadow-fleet-baltic-/33285376.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:38:07

• Dictator Says He Would Meet Putin Immediately To End War In Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskiy-trump-putin-russia-ukraine-peacekeepers-davos/33285741.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:38:14

• Dictator made a deal with Taliban. Then Taliban took over the country. Now the same with Putin in Ukraine?    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:39:07

• LinkedIn Private Messages Leaked for Hey Hi (AI) Training ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/linkedin-private-messages-leaked    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:39:25

• Hong Kong’s privacy watchdog received 2 complaints about alleged journalist harassment last year ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/24/hong-kongs-privacy-watchdog-received-2-complaints-about-alleged-journalist-harassment-last-year/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:40:25

• ECHR rules France violated privacy rights through ‘marital duty’ divorce fault ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/echr-rules-france-violated-privacy-rights-through-marital-duty-divorce-fault/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:40:46

• Red Hat Connectivity Link now generally available ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/01/23/red-hat-connectivity-link-now-generally-available    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:41:32

• Strategies for eliminating Ansible hardcoded credentials ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/01/23/strategies-eliminating-ansible-hardcoded-credentials    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:42:05

• Why UX designers should develop technical expertise ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/01/23/why-ux-designers-should-develop-technical-expertise    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:42:36

• How an Openwashing Chinese Hey Hi (AI) Start-Up DeepSeek Is Competing With Proprietary Chaffbot Company and Surveillance Giant Google ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/technology/deepseek-china-ai-chips.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:45:50

• Microsoft’s Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn sued for disclosing customer information to train Hey Hi (AI) models ☞ https://www.reuters.com/legal/microsofts-linkedin-sued-disclosing-customer-information-train-ai-models-2025-01-22/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:46:30

• Small party in Malaysia’s governing coalition, Amanah, faces uphill task to win Malay-Muslim votes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/small-party-in-malaysias-governing-coalition-amanah-faces-uphill-task-to-win-malay-muslim-votes    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:47:47

• The Dalai Lama Shares Thoughts on China and the Future in a New Book ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/books/dalai-lama-book-voice-for-the-voiceless.html    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:47:55

• Globalization is over. Will Convicted Felon tariffs reset US-China rivalry? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0123/trump-davos-tariffs-economy-china    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:48:13

• China completes testing of Fukushima seawater; no abnormalities found ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-completes-testing-of-fukushima-seawater-no-abnormalities-found    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:48:35

• Intense cold snap may hit China during Chinese New Year travel rush ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/intense-cold-snap-may-hit-china-during-spring-festival-travel-rush    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:48:49

• China says it will work with Netherlands to maintain stable global supply chain ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-it-will-work-with-netherlands-to-maintain-stable-global-supply-chain    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 20:49:07

• Manila to pick venue soon for second South China Sea case against Beijing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-to-pick-venue-soon-for-second-south-china-sea-case-against-beijing    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:09:49

• Will cross-strait tourism restart amid political tensions and blame game between Taiwan and China? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/will-cross-strait-tourism-restart-amid-political-tensions-and-blame-game-between-taiwan-and-china    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:09:55

• Thailand says ‘no policy’ to deport 48 detained Uyghurs to China ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/01/23/thailand-detained-deportation/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:10:07

• EXPLAINED: What are scam parks? ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/23/scam-parks-compounds-cambodia-thailand-myanmar-laos/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:10:23

• Hong Kong police question more members of pollster’s family ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/23/china-hong-kong-police-question-exiled-pollster-family/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:10:50

• Beijing opaque on its travel ban against Rubio ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/23/china-rubio-name-change-travel-ban-sanctions/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:11:03

• Nearly 3 million Chinese restaurants, cafes shut down ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/23/three-million-restaurants-cafes-close/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:11:21

• China lodges ‘solemn representations’ with Afghanistan after mine worker killed in attack ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/23/china-lodges-protest-with-afghanistan-over-killing-of-mine-worker/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:11:51

• Diddy Fires Back With $50 Million Defamation Lawsuit, Says Accusers Lied About Alleged Sexual Assault Videos ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/22/diddy-lawsuit-defamation-january-2025/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:12:27

• Could Ankara and Cairo develop a more effective diplomatic approach to Sudan’s civil war? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/could-ankara-and-cairo-develop-a-more-effective-diplomatic-approach-to-sudans-civil-war/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:44:03

• Syria FM says scrapping sanctions 'key' to country's economic stability ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250123-syria-fm-says-scrapping-sanctions-key-to-country-s-economic-stability    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:44:23

• XSS Attempts via E-Mail, (Thu, Jan 23rd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31620    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:45:13

• 2 staff of polling institute questioned by Hong Kong national security police – reports ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/23/2-staff-of-polling-institute-questioned-by-hong-kong-national-security-police-reports/    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:45:53

• "QR codes are designed with alignment and scaling features" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-qr-code-leads-to-two-websites-but-how/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:46:21

• https://danielpocock.com still offline. About a day now...    

posted Friday, January 24, 2025 at 21:47:35