Roy Schestowitz

• https://nazi.compare/en/ and https://danielpocock.com now back online. After about a day...    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 05:44:08

• NBC News cuts about 40 staffers as layoffs hit news media    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 05:52:14

• Bridgestone announces a tire plant closure in Tennessee with 700 layoffs and other reductions. https://www.barchart.com/story/news/30600535/bridgestone-announces-a-tire-plant-closure-in-tennessee-with-700-layoffs-and-other-reductions    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 05:53:13

• How Mexico City’s Chinese immigrants created a culinary wonderland of their own ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/food/chinese-food-in-mexico-city-delicious/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 05:56:08

• Possible cuts for Army, DoD civilian workforce reduction under Convicted Felon defense advisors ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/01/possible-cuts-for-army-dod-civilian-workforce-reduction-under-trump-defense-advisors/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 05:56:42

• "withdraw one of every five U.S. soldiers now stationed in Europe" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/23/trump-reportedly-plans-to-cut-u-s-troops-in-europe-by-20-percent | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 05:57:09

• "Home Made Laptop" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/this-home-made-laptop-raises-the-bar/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 05:57:47

• "Electric Converted Tractor" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/an-electric-converted-tractor-can-farm/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 05:58:28

• KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta Release ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.2.91/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 05:59:35

• Ruqola 2.4.1 ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/01/23/ruqola-2.4.1/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 05:59:52

• “Canadians: you’re fired and Good Riddance!!” https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jherz9d3    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:00:44

• "the standards have/are being reduced to get others in this has been going on since globalism for cheap labor and cheap votes; standards are what makes things great spartans did not become famous because they were fat, lazy, and klutzy; remind me what standards does India have" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jj8gp8jp    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:03:01

• "I’ve know 2 Fellows in the last 8 years who were forced out. As another commenter mentioned, they were ‘asked to retire’. In both cases I just think they weren’t towing the line of the new leadership and in both cases I believe the Fellows were in the right. Last year we axed a bunch of DEs and debanded some others, but again they are pretending that they left voluntarily."    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:03:27

• iophk: "Putin is playng the US against Denmark, both NATO, over Greenland probably to draw attention and resources away from Bornholm. Additionally there is no provision in the treaty for what happens when NATO members are in armed conflict with each other. The US no longer has a viable military anyway due to the 'appointment' of Hegeseth. The effects will soon be felt."    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:21:50

• Using a Raspberry Pi as Access Point with DietPi ☞ https://peppe8o.com/procedure-to-use-raspberry-pi-as-access-point/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:36:36

• A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/les-pigeons    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:36:50

• International Calligraphy Festival of Kerala 2024 ☞ https://rajeeshknambiar.wordpress.com/2025/01/23/international-calligraphy-festival-of-kerala-2024/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:37:20

• Top Contributors of 2024 ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/top-contributors-of-2024    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:41:14

• Qt Creator 15.0.1 released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-15.0.1-released    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:41:28

• RectangularShadow: Fast rectangle shadows in Qt 6.9 ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/rectangularshadow-fast-rectangle-shadows-in-qt-6.9    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:41:55

• US Navy operations risk inflaming China tensions, study says ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/01/22/us-china-freedom-of-navigation/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:42:44

• Stephen Harper’s firm behind spy tech used in ‘dystopian’ Greek refugee camps ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/stephen-harper-firm-tech-greek-refugee-camps/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:43:08

• FDA-Approved Nasal Spray For Depression Is First Of Its Kind ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/fda-approved-nasal-spray-for-depression-is-first-of-its-kind    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:43:28

• Increased Toxicity Risk Identified For Children With Autism, ADHD ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/increased-toxicity-risk-identified-for-children-with-autism-adhd    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:43:37

• The Roblox Dilemma: Can You Keep Your Kids Safe in The Metaverse? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-roblox-dilemma-can-you-keep-your-kids-safe-in-the-metaverse    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:43:56

• Record-Shattering 20,000 Mph Winds Detected on Wild Alien Planet ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/record-shattering-20000-mph-winds-detected-on-wild-alien-planet    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:44:17

• ESA's Plan to Reach Zero Space Debris Calls For Global Collaboration ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/esas-plan-to-reach-zero-space-debris-calls-for-global-collaboration    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:44:29

• New Kind of Planet Unlike Anything in Our Solar System Discovered ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-kind-of-planet-unlike-anything-in-our-solar-system-discovered    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:44:52

• Journalist denies stalking George Osborne ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalist-lydia-suffield-denies-george-osborne-stalking-charges-crown-court/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:45:46

• 2025 journalism job cuts tracked: CNN, Dotdash Meredith, WaPo, WSJ and London Live among January layoffs ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/journalism-job-cuts-2025-tracked/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:46:14

• WTH? pressgazette is against promoting SLOP! https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/why-synthetic-market-research-is-an-untapped-ai-goldmine-for-news-publishers/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/21/Paywalls_Bots_Spam_and_Spyware_is_Future_of_the_Media_According.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Why_is_UK_Press_Gazette_Jingoistic_About_Plagiarists_and_LLM_Sl.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:47:36

• And this is absolutely DUMB OUTSOURCING. That should not be promoted by any sane people. https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters/biggest-substack-newsletters-2025/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:48:37

• Substack is just a bubble that will implode. Than all "subscribers" lost. What's to gain by going to Substack?    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:49:14

• (Then)    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:49:26

• Then again, it's the same pundits who said "Follow us in Nazi Twitter" for almost 2 decade. How did that work out?    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:50:08

• pressgazette promotes SLOP. Unbelievable! Then they wonder why media is dying... https://pressgazette.co.uk/author/paulhood/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:51:47

• Couples and Wedding Vendors Devastated by California Fires Show Up for Each Other ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/style/california-fires-weddings-couples-vendors.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:57:33

• Amazon is quitting Quebec to ‘shock and awe’ workers worldwide ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/amazon-quitting-quebec-shock-and-awe-workers-worldwide/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:58:30

• Fast vs. Slow Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://danielmiessler.com/blog/fast-vs-slow-ai    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:58:49

• Did META make you ‘force follow’ The Insurrectionist and JD Vance on Facebook? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250123-did-meta-make-you-force-follow-donald-trump-and-jd-vance    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 06:59:02

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:00:41

• "Duke is the development codename for Debian 15." https://wiki.debian.org/DebianDuke    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:00:48

• "Web Crawlers" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/trap-naughty-web-crawlers-in-digestive-juices-with-nepenthes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:08:13

• Endoskeleton ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/laser-cut-metal-endoskeleton-beefs-up-3d-prints/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:08:31

• Connection for a Cause: One Woman’s Journey of Digital Empowerment ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/01/connection-for-a-cause-one-womans-journey-of-digital-empowerment/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:08:55

• Revolutionising Land Defence Tactical DF ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/company-zones/alaris-antennas/revolutionising-land-defence-tactical-df/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:09:15

• Fighting deepfakes: what’s next after legislation? ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/fighting-deepfakes-whats-next-after-legislation/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:09:38

• "Hey Hi (AI) agents" is MEANINGLESS!! Just a buzzword. "GenAI" and prior BS ran out of steam. What next? "Hey Hi (AI) CLOWN"? "SUPERINTELLIGENCE"? Well, SCAM Altman has tried this already. This is SO INFANTILE!!! The children now huddle around the convicted felon, parroting buzzwords in search of BAILOUTS.    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:11:18

• One of them, MElon, is doing Hitler salutes "for lols" (and governments worldwide CONTINUE to use his social control media like nothing happened... even after he vigorously promoted a Nazi Party in Germany)    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:12:16

• Hey Hi (AI) will be remembered a joke a decade from now because AI or ML is like 60 years old, this "Hey Hi (AI)" hype wave is just hype. Remember "IoT" hype?    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:13:38

• Nobody even SAYS "IoT" anymore. What happened? Well, only the LEXICON changed, the MARKETING terms.    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:14:31

• Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) !!! Just rebrand everything as "Hey Hi (AI)"! Look ma, IT IS GROWING!! https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/business/23.01.2025-latvias-use-of-ai-in-business-doubled-in-a-year.a584321/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:15:11

• Of course the media isn't just complicit in this hype, it profits for creating the hype    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:15:39

• So the solution might be to abandon such press. Let it fail.    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:15:59

• What Prince Harry’s Settlement Means for Him and for Britain’s Royal Family ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/world/europe/prince-harry-murdoch-trial-royals.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:16:24

• Planned obsolescence ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/after-18-years-blu-ray-media-production-draws-to-a-close-sony-shuts-its-last-factory-in-feb    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 07:16:59

• U.S. Security Contractors Going to Gaza to Oversee Truce, Officials Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/world/middleeast/gaza-us-contractors.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:24:06

• Dictator Vows to Declassify Files on Assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/us/politics/trump-declassify-jfk-mlk-assassinations.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:24:15

• US active duty troops beginning to arrive in Texas and San Diego to support border security ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2025/01/23/trump-border-troops-arrive/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:24:29

• Chinese hackers compromise South Korean VPN — malicious code found inside NSIS installer ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/chinese-hackers-compromise-south-korean-vpn-malicious-code-found-inside-nsis-installer    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:24:42

• SA defence minister in DR Congo where security is “deteriorating” ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/sa-defence-minister-in-dr-congo-where-security-is-deteriorating/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:25:05

• South African private security industry faces scrutiny over firearm losses ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/south-african-private-security-industry-faces-scrutiny-over-firearm-losses/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:25:23

• Top UN body hears Africa is world terrorism epicentre ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/top-un-body-hears-africa-is-world-terrorism-epicentre/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:25:38

• OpenSSF Newsletter – January 2025 ☞ https://openssf.org/newsletter/2025/01/23/openssf-newsletter-january-2025/ A part-time Microsoft megaphone and lobby http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:26:38

• A better way to ensure public safety and security from drones ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/a-better-way-to-ensure-public-safety-and-security-from-drones/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:27:01

• NEW: American Oversight Warns Musk and Federal Agencies Against Violating the Federal Records Act ☞ https://americanoversight.org/new-american-oversight-warns-musk-and-federal-agencies-against-violating-the-federal-records-act/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:27:21

• Windows TCO ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/23/sentinelone-report-highlights-shared-tactics-hellcat-morpheus-ransomware-groups/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:28:00

• MAIWO K2024 USB4 M.2 enclosure takes up to four M.2 NVMe SSD, serves as a 1-to-3 SSD duplicator ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/23/maiwo-k2024-usb4-m2-enclosure-four-m-2-nvme-ssd-ssd-duplicator/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:30:39

• Cincoze DC-1300 is a stackable embedded computer powered by defective chip maker Intel Processor N97 or Core i3-N305 Alder Lake-N SoC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/23/cincoze-dc-1300-is-a-stackable-embedded-computer-powered-by-intel-processor-n97-or-core-i3-n305-alder-lake-n-soc/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:31:15

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.0.14 on CRAN: Calendar Updates ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/01/23#qlcal-r_0.0.14    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:32:13

• Presidents ‘are not kings’: Convicted Felon faces legal headwinds to birthright citizenship order ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250123-trump-faces-legal-headwinds-challenge-birthright-citizenship-immigration    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:32:39

• SteamOS Alternative Bazzite Adds Legion Go S Support ☞ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/01/23/bazzite-now-supports-the-lenovo-legion-go-s/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:32:59

• "Atari Cabinet 3D Printed" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/23/a-second-rare-atari-cabinet-3d-printed/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:33:16

• BSD Now 595: Arc: the Triumph ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/595    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:33:54

• [Meme] Reliable Sources (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/23/Meme_Reliable_Sources.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:34:48

• Playing digital audio files on a Hi-Fi? ☞ https://rubenerd.com/a-hifi-component-with-a-hard-drive/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:38:44

• SECO’s SMARC-QCS5430 SMARC SoM and devkit feature Qualcomm QCS5430 SoC for Edge Hey Hi (AI) and 5G applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/23/seco-smarc-qcs5430-smarc-som-and-devkit-feature-qualcomm-qcs5430-aiot-soc-for-edge-ai-and-5g-applications/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:39:20

• Trump, Seeking To Coax Putin Into Peace Talks, Calls On OPEC To Boost Output ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-coax-putin-peace-talks-opec-boost-output-/33286713.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:39:44

• 'We still really need to investigate and learn from' local and global response to Covid-19 pandemic ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250123-we-still-really-need-to-investigate-and-learn-from-local-and-global-response-to-covid-19-pandemic    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:40:09

• CMA opens investigations into Fashion Company Apple and Surveillance Giant Google over mobile practices ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/23/cma-opens-investigations-apple-google-mobile-practices/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:40:57

• Impact of scanning on authoritative nameservers ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/01/24/impact-of-scanning-on-authoritative-nameservers/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:41:24

• Microsoft-connected front group brings up "close call with the xz Utils backdoor" (used by Microsoft employee to distract from US government rebuke against Microsoft) ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/01/23/predictions-for-open-source-security-in-2025-ai-state-actors-and-supply-chains/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:43:23

• Linux Foundation is not interested in real security http://techrights.org/o/2022/10/12/jim-zemlin-applauding-bill-gates/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:44:14

• Qt riding mindless hype waves and does not mind GPL violations, either ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/more-time-for-coding-with-the-qt-ai-assistant http://techrights.org/o/2023/02/10/copilot-in-court/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:45:27

• In 1991, after a 28-hour coding spree, the efforts of John Carmack 'Doomed' us all ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/in-1991-after-a-28-hour-coding-spree-the-efforts-of-john-carmack-doomed-us-all    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:45:54

• Mexican banks brace for impact of the US designating cartels as terrorists ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexican-banks-impact-us-cartels-terrorists/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:46:45

• █████ https://www.france24.com/en/rss ██████████████████████ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:11:01 GMT ███████ The Covid Backlash: Convicted Felon targets UN World Health Organization    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:51:20

• The Covid Backlash: Convicted Felon targets UN World Health Organization ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250123-the-covid-backlash-trump-targets-un-world-health-organization    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:51:31

• UK Circling the Drain – Crisis what Crisis? ☞ https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/23/uk-circling-the-drain-crisis-what-crisis/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:51:58

• In the Fentanylware (TikTok) Show ‘Famehungry,’ All the World’s an Audience ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/theater/tiktok-theater-famehungry-louise-orwin.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:53:07

• TikTok Is 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 Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:53:27

• The Fentanylware (TikTok) Buyout Derby Begins—MrBeast, Frank McCourt, and ‘Non-Sale’ Option Emerge ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/23/tiktok-buyout-derby-begins-2025/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 08:53:59

• What a pile of nonsense, "the open source way" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-open-source-critical-future-ai    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:00:51

• https://www.infoworld.com/article/3803427/red-hat-offers-openshift-virtualization-engine-kubernetes-connectivity-link.html   

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:01:38

• Red Hat offers OpenShift Virtualization Engine, Kubernetes Connectivity Link https://www.infoworld.com/article/3803427/red-hat-offers-openshift-virtualization-engine-kubernetes-connectivity-link.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:01:44

• "leading provider of open source solutions" it claims https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-introduces-kubernetes-native-connectivity-management-red-hat-connectivity-link    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:02:28

• But RHEL is now proprietary    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:02:40

• JavaScript bloat (proprietary also) https://www.redhat.com/en/summit    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:03:14

• Platinum sponsor Microsoft https://events.experiences.redhat.com/widget/redhat/sum24/sponsorlisting    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:04:52

• HI   

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:05:52

• Buzzwords CIRCUS: "In this new era of AI, Microsoft Azure powers all aspects of Microsoft Cloud..." NEW ERA OF HEY HI, according to pusher of HEY HI    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:06:01

• "Recent updates to THE FINALS ended up breaking it on Linux / Steam Deck, but Valve have pushed out a new update to Proton Hotfix to get it working again." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/proton-hotfix-updated-to-get-the-finals-working-again-on-linux-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:23:57

• "Sad news for NVIDIA GPU owners on Linux who want to play FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH, which just released on Steam yesterday as it appears broken. Works on Linux for those with an AMD GPU like the Steam Deck though." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth-broken-on-linux-with-nvidia-gpus-but-works-with-amd-gpus-like-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:24:10

• "id Software and Bethesda Softworks have revealed more gameplay for DOOM: The Dark Ages, plus it's now set for release on May 15th." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/doom-the-dark-ages-launches-may-15-with-a-new-trailer-and-developer-video/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:24:25

• "Necesse is an impressive open-world base-building survival and adventure game from developer Fair Games ApS" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/base-building-survival-game-necesse-gets-a-big-update-and-free-weekend/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:25:26

• "Returning to Origins - by John Ganz - Unpopular Front" https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/returning-to-origins    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:25:41

• "It’s Time to Stand Up Against Trump 2.0" https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/trump-peoples-march/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:26:04

• "A Night Outside a DC Jail With the January 6 Insurrectionist Fan Club" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/january-6-pardons-washington-dc-inauguration-trump/#    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:26:30

• "The World War II destroyer escort that fought like a battleship" https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2025/01/24/the-world-war-ii-destroyer-escort-that-fought-like-a-battleship/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:26:52

• "Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer to rework Saudi Arabia's national anthem in modernisation effort - The Times of India" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/oscar-winning-composer-hans-zimmer-to-rework-saudi-arabias-national-anthem-in-modernisation-effort/articleshow/117521015.cms    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:27:44

• "Ukraine Is Running Out of People - A Demographic Catastrophe - DER SPIEGEL" https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/a-demographic-catastrophe-ukraine-is-running-out-of-people-a-473554ea-ddfd-49db-bf40-b482387b26aa#ref=rss    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:28:00

• "Saudi Foreign Minister visits Syria" https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/01/24/saudi-foreign-minister-visits-syria/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:28:11

• "Why India must distance itself from Lukashenka’s Belarus" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/01/24/why-india-must-distance-itself-from-lukashenkas-belarus/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:28:29

• "Finland rolling out e-divorce platform" https://yle.fi/a/74-20139207    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:28:41

• Denmark is 100 percent dependent on Microsoft: Now Trump threatens the agreement that makes it legal to use| "Danmark er 100 procent afhængig af Microsoft: Nu truer Trump den aftale, der gør det lovligt at bruge | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/artikel/danmark-er-100-procent-afhaengig-af-microsoft-nu-truer-trump-den-aftale-der-goer-det-lovligt-bruge    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:29:55

• Not a bad word about the hero Svend Foyn | "Ikke et ondt ord om helten Svend Foyn | Lars Egelands blogg" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://larsegeland.com/2025/01/24/ikke-et-ondt-ord-om-helten-svend-foyn/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:30:53

• "Trump Is Trying to Destroy Public Health in America" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-nih-pause-public-health/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:31:21

• "Trump’s All-Out Assault on American Democracy Has Begun" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-assault-american-democracy/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:31:30

• "Donald Trump’s call with Danish PM over Greenland went ‘very badly:’ Financial Times" https://www.semafor.com/article/01/24/2025/donald-trumps-call-with-danish-pm-went-very-badly-financial-times    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:31:44

• "Hegseth confirmed as Trump’s defense secretary in tie-breaking vote despite turmoil over his conduct" https://www.lonestarlive.com/nation-world/2025/01/hegseth-confirmed-as-trumps-defense-secretary-in-tie-breaking-vote-despite-turmoil-over-his-conduct.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:33:17

• "Hegseth confirmed as Trump's defense secretary in tie-breaking vote" https://www.ksl.com/article/51237029/hegseth-confirmed-as-trumps-defense-secretary-in-tie-breaking-vote    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:33:29

• "Trump administration says 'Gulf of America' name change now official" https://www.ksl.com/article/51237081/trump-administration-says-gulf-of-america-name-change-now-official    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:34:01

• Demanding more and more censorship: "Enough" https://www.manton.org/2025/01/23/enough.html "There was concern that Micro.blog is not a safe place for LGBTQ+ people"    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:36:22

• "Palworld developer Pocketpair have recently revealed a fresh roadmap of what's to come for the popular monster catching survival game." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/palworld-gets-a-roadmap-including-co-op-crossplay-world-transfers-for-pals-and-an-ending/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:36:49

• "Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for January 24th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/games-to-claim-from-prime-gaming-jan-24-edition-round-up-for-steamos-linux-and-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:37:45

• "Former QST Columnist, Dr. Emil Pocock, W3EP, Silent Key" http://www.arrl.org/news/view/former-qst-columnist-dr-emil-pocock-w3ep-silent-key    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:38:29

• "The Nexus team continue building up their newer cross-platform open source Nexus Mods App that will eventually replace Vortex. Version 0.7.2 was released recently further expanding what you can do with it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/cross-platform-nexus-mods-app-v0-7-2-improves-the-ui-adds-bannerlord-software-extender-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:41:09

• "two dictators": "Interview: Trump would like to resume personal diplomacy with Kim Jong Un – Radio Free Asia" https://www.rfa.org/english/korea/2025/01/24/north-korea-fleitz-interview-trump/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:41:33

• "Fed Up With Alcoholic Husbands, 2 Women Leave Home, Marry Each Other In UP" https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/fed-up-with-alcoholic-husbands-2-women-leave-home-marry-each-other-in-up-7553720    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:41:50

• "Putin says full-scale war against Ukraine might not have happened if Trump’s ‘2020 victory hadn’t been stolen’" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/24/putin-says-full-scale-war-against-ukraine-might-not-have-happened-if-trump-had-been-president-in-2022    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:42:12

• "‘He looked at our marriage certificate and said I could wipe myself with it’ How dozens of queer Russian refugees seeking freedom and safety in the U.S. instead found themselves behind bars" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/24/he-looked-at-our-marriage-certificate-and-said-i-could-wipe-myself-with-it    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:42:31

• "For puzzle word game fans, this is quite a unique one! Horizons: The End Of Words is an open-world space-exploration word game." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/horizons-the-end-of-words-is-a-clever-space-exploration-word-game-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:42:45

• "Airships: Lost Flotilla is a steampunk themed auto-shooter just released from David Stark, an offshoot of their other game Airships: Conquer the Skies and it's simply great." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/airships-lost-flotilla-is-a-perfect-time-killer-where-you-can-make-some-ridiculous-ships/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:42:54

• "Anthony Fauci Stripped of Government Security Protection" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/politics/fauci-security-protection.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:43:20

• "Trump strips security from Fauci, Bolton, Pompeo: Tracker" https://www.axios.com/2025/01/24/trump-fauci-bolton-pompeo-security-tracker    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:43:35

• "Based on my own investigations into really bad behavior in my web server logs, there's something that got into 2.7.0 that causes dumb things to happen." ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/12/12/pleroma/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:51:48

• "Some accessibility improvements are invisible to the sighted eye. One of my favorite lessons learned last year was all about invisible headings in HTML landmarks" ☛ https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2025/01/24/add-headings-to-html-landmarks/ | Source: Marijke Luttekes    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:51:57

• When a dictator removes government protection from a person it can be interpreted by followers and violent mobs of this dictator as, "kill this person for me, I'll make it easier for you"    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:53:03

• "I wanted a number of items, centered horizontally in a container" ☛ https://benfrain.com/center-items-in-a-container-and-make-then-left-aligned-when-they-overflow/ | Source: Ben Frain    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:53:16

• "During the 2025-01-22 OpenZFS Production User Call, ‘atomic operations’ was mentioned with respect to previous blog post, might be expected." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/01/24/is-deleting-empty-snapshots-faster/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:53:28

• "Unfortunately, the default keymap table in atkbd does not map scancode 0x6e (F23) and so the key combination does not work even if userspace is ready to handle it." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/copilot_key_linux/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:55:38

• "WINE 10 is even more mature than it sounds. However, we fear that you may well have had your fill of vinological wordplay and it's probably turning bitter. This version improves the handling of multiple areas" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/wine_turns_10/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 09:56:16

• "New analysis by repair advocates underscores need for enforcement, further state progress to ensure people can fix their stuff" ☛ https://pirg.org/edfund/media-center/new-report-the-state-of-right-to-repair/ | Source: PIRG    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:00:41

• "The US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has released a report on the state of Right to Repair." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/pirg_reports_progress/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:01:05

• "Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is a portrait orientation touchscreen LCD display designed for interactive projects like tablets, entertainment systems, and information dashboards." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/getting-started-with-raspberry-pi-touch-display-2/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

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

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/kubernetes_windows_nodes_bug/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:06:13

• "SQL could be improved somewhat by introducing composable query fragments with statically-typed interfaces." ☛ https://borretti.me/article/composable-sql | Source: Fernando Borretti    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:07:59

• "The goal of code in many ways should be to be written in a way that it does not need updates. It should eventually achieve some level of stability. In the Rust ecosystem stable code is punished." ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/24/build-it-yourself/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:08:07

• "Vivaldi has taken another slow step toward providing better sync options for users with the ability to push a tab to another device, plus a new weather widget in Vivaldi 7.1." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2587044/vivaldi-7-1-sets-its-sync-sights-on-tabs.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:09:49

• "According to the updated roadmap, the Transition and Toolchain Freeze will start on March 15, 2025 (Milestone 1)." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-freeze-begins-in-march-debian-15-codename-revealed/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:17:52

• ">We're back to classic Cybershow banter for this episode, with extra beats and fresh cuts." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=38 | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:19:41

• Budapest ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/01/24/jared-kushner-could-join-grand-budapest-project | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:34:47

• Immigrants ☛ https://fair.org/home/silky-shah-on-the-attack-on-immigrants/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:35:10

• Tracking Trump's Threats From Day One ☛ https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-weekly-tracking-trumps-threats-from-day-one/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 10:36:50

• The Drunken Plagiarists https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3711675&doi=10.1145%2F3711675    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:01:21

• "The cloud is all about distribution. One of the reasons the cloud is so powerful is because it lets software run in several places at once." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/10-reasons-get-started-enterprise-linux-2025 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:03:20

• "Accelerating skills" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-academy-day-accelerating-skills-and-innovation-across-indonesia | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:04:22

• "When you choose a Linux to bring into your business or your personal career development" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-2025-making-linux-do-more | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:05:22

• "how to set up and test that this integration" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/sending-alerts-pagerduty | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:05:47

• KDE: Snaps bug fixes and Kubuntu: Noble updates ☞ https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-snaps-bug-fixes-and-kubuntu-noble-updates/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:12:22

• Debian 13 Freeze Begins in March, Debian 15 Codename Revealed ☞ https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-freeze-begins-in-march-debian-15-codename-revealed/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:16:52

• Ubuntu 24.04.2 Arrives Feb 13 with Linux Kernel 6.11 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/ubuntu-24-04-2-release-date    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:22:23

• Grml – bootable live system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/grml-bootable-live-system/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:23:45

• GNU Guix: Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 2) ☞ https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2025/guix-user-and-contributor-survey-2024-the-results-part-2//    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:24:09

• Rumour of I.C.B.M. 'Bloodbath' in Clown Computing (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/24/Rumour_of_IBM_Bloodbath_in_Clown_Computing.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:24:44

• Agama Releasing version 11 ☞ https://agama-project.github.io/blog/2025/01/21/Agama-11    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:35:20

• Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/04 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2025/01/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2025-04/    

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

• dde-api-proxy: Authentication Bypass in Deepin D-Bus Proxy Service (CVE-2025-23222) ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2025/01/24/dde-api-proxy-privilege-escalation.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:36:52

• FSF Blogs: Llama 3.1 Community License is not a free software license ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/llama-3-1-community-license-is-not-a-free-software-license    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:41:27

• good to see gnu/fsf flexing muscles against openwashing by GAFAM. Where are the frauds (Zemlins) when it comes to this? Where?? Taking bribes from GAFAM.    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:42:18

• Proprietary: "And so, I tried. I encountered many a snag." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/davinci-resolve-ubuntu-24-04.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:43:17

• This Week in GNOME: #184 Upcoming Freeze ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/01/twig-184/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:44:10

• Freespire – Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/freespire-ubuntu-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:46:22

• Ubuntu Cinnamon – community-driven GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ubuntu-cinnamon-community-driven-linux-distribution/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:47:00

• "City of London Police formed the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit over a decade ago." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/pipcu-utilizes-uk-ipos-surplus-millions-to-wage-war-on-iptv-pirates-250124/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:55:41

• "The change was not communicated in the social media giant’s terms of service or privacy policy before it was made." ☛ https://therecord.media/linkedin-lawsuit-private-messages-ai-training | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:55:49

• "This includes deactivating the ability to add new reviews for businesses found to be using fake reviews, and deleting all existing reviews for at least six months if they repeatedly engage in suspicious review activity." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24350932/google-cma-cracks-down-fake-reviews-uk-businesses | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:58:02

• "In other words, it's possible to corruptly enforce the law against the guilty." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/24/enforcement-priorities/#enemies-lists | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:58:13

• "What the funders get is being allowed to run their companies free of antitrust laws and other regulatory constraints. It’s for America!" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/24/openai-launches-operator-agent-stargate-money-will-go-only-to-openai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 11:58:40

• GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-48-alpha-is-now-available-for-public-testing-heres-whats-new    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:01:17

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) patay ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/sony-pulls-plug-on-blu-ray-end-of-an-era/258213/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:03:35

• Planned obsolescence and Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2588333/no-sonys-blu-ray-exit-doesnt-spell-the-end-for-physical-media.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:03:52

• "A recent U.S. appellate court ruling blocking the reinstatement of net neutrality raises alarms in the security alarm industry, as stakeholders worry about the potential impact on internet traffic reliability and competition." ☛ https://www.securityinfowatch.com/alarms-monitoring/article/55260012/court-decision-to-block-net-neutrality-rules-sparks-alarm-industry-concerns |    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:06:34

• "In reaction, Stanford Law professor Barbara van Schewick–who feared 5G network slicing" ☛ https://broadbandbreakfast.com/law-prof-van-schewick-calls-net-neutrality-ruling-a-radical-decision-2/ | Source: Broadband Breakfast    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:07:13

• "Another net neutrality autopsy has rolled in following the Federal Communications Commission’s recent defeat in a landmark net neutrality case." ☛ https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/press/law-prof-van-schewick-calls-net-neutrality-ruling-a-radical-decision/ | Source: Stanford University    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:07:36

• "We’ve talked repeatedly how one way to boost lagging U.S. broadband competition is the support of “open access” fiber networks that allow numerous ISPs to compete over a centralized fiber network." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/24/atts-support-of-open-access-fiber-competition-is-a-head-fake-community-owned-isp-says/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:08:01

• "Witnesses told members of Congress yesterday that to ensure America’s continued leadership in wireless technology" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/congress-told-moving-forward-with-a-spectrum-gameplan-is-critical/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:08:20

• "Iraq's parliament has passed a controversial set of amendments to its civil status law, effectively legalising child marriage for girls as young as nine." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/childhood-stolen-iraqs-shocking-amendments-allow-girls-young-nine-marry-1730482 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:09:10

• "On the flip side, the national security advisor is also a member of the country's royal family, which has an abysmal track record when it comes to human rights abuses" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/trump-ai-stargate-uae-human-rights | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:09:27

• "The union said its Ankara representatives attempted to meet with school officials after receiving no response to their initial communications." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/union-representatives-assaulted-at-ankara-private-school-for-protesting-illegal-classes-303904 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:10:08

• "Hatathlie reported to the Council that she received a call about a case involving a Navajo citizen who was detained for nine hours." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/01/24/reports-of-navajo-people-being-detained-in-immigration-sweeps-sparks-concern-from-tribal-leaders/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:10:37

• "In a special edition, we focus on how Afghanistan under the Taliban, has literally become hell on earth for women and girls. [...]" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-51/20250124-taking-on-the-taliban-the-need-to-end-gender-apartheid-in-afghanistan | Source: France24    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:10:57

• "The BİA Media Monitoring Report reveals that at least 25 journalists and five media outlets were attacked in 2024" ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/the-government-made-journalists-lives-a-living-hell-in-2024-303924 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:12:14

• "CNN’s shift mirrors a larger transformation in the corporate media." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/cnn-surrender-trump-corporate-media/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:12:39

• "More than 150 days have passed since then, and the married couple remains jailed in the South Asian country on accusations that their legal team rejects as politically motivated." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/legal-team-files-un-complaint-over-jailed-bangladeshi-journalists-/7949488.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:13:11

• "Guerrero, deputy editor of Facebook-based news outlet Global Mexico, regularly published news stories about crime, violence, and politics in México state." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/01/mexican-journalist-under-federal-protection-shot-dead/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:13:39

• "Journalists and rights groups in Pakistan on Friday said a new law tightening social media controls in the country would curb press freedom." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-journalists-slam-new-law-regulating-social-media/a-71400150 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:13:53

• "Opposition leaders in Turkey have criticised the legislation as a way to stifle journalism and free speech, arguing that it could be used to target journalists or individuals who report on suspected data breaches or cybersecurity vulnerabilities" ☛ https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/new-law-could-mean-prison-reporting-data-leaks | Source: Tripwire    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:14:57

• "The knife attack came five years after the Al-Qaeda-linked attack on Charlie Hebdo's Paris offices." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/man-gets-30-years-for-attack-outside-charlie-hebdo-offices/a-71393010 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:15:19

• "pleasant speech is protected at Stanford University" ☛ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/01/21/only-pleasant-speech-is-protected-at-stanford-university/ | Source: Stanford University    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:15:56

• "This was never true. As multiple studies and reports found, social media companies bent over backwards to provide more favorable rules to conservative nonsense peddlers (even as the public clamored for the platforms to take down more disinformation)." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/24/brendan-carr-trumps-free-speech-warrior-wastes-no-time-violating-trumps-new-free-speech-executive-order/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:16:18

• "In Syria, where nearly 14 years of civil war silenced countless voices, Ronak Ahmad has been resilient." ☛ https://dawnmena.org/the-sculptor-in-damascus-who-fears-for-her-art-in-the-new-syria/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:16:48

• "took place publicly, were followed by a number of people and were also broadcast to a wider circle by being filmed and broadcast live on Facebook" ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250124/denmark-files-first-desecration-case-under-new-quran-law | Source: The Local DK    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:17:05

• "Propaganda tools" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/24/propaganda-tools-not-social-programs | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:27:14

• "the intentional creation and dissemination of false and/or deceptive information" ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/01/25/why-is-it-hard-to-conquer-disinformation/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:27:29

• "Microsoft's flagship UK "Experience Centre" storefront in London will close its doors next month" ☛ https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-is-shutting-down-its-flagship-retail-storefront-in-the-uk-cuts-lease-short-in-the-heart-of-london | Source: Windows Central    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:28:42

• "The store originally opened in July 2019, just months before the pandemic lockdowns began. Microsoft then quickly transitioned it to an “experience center” alongside closing its stores in the US in 2020." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24350954/microsoft-store-london-uk-experience-center-closing | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:29:27

• "Scam Altman has once again put himself in a position of power—this time by sidling up to President Trump." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/openai-stargate-maga/681421/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:29:58

• "Trump Showing Love to Scam Altman" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/trump-altman-musk-fury | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:30:14

• "Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/lawmaker-meta-copyright-cases/?_sp=99852b3f-674a-4c06-a40d-262dd4d86af4.1737668958369 | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:30:42

• "It turns out users aren't the only ones fleeing Meta." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/meta-ai-lawyer-quits | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:31:38

• "Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that banks are preparing a coordinated move to sell off some of the $13 billion in debt they loaned Musk to finance the deal." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24351317/elon-musk-x-twitter-bank-debt-stagnant-growth | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:32:02

• "Democrats…have suggested" ☛ https://fair.org/home/for-elite-media-oligarch-is-just-a-partisan-claim/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:32:18

• "Mimesis is a term with an undeniably classical pedigree. Originally a Greek word, it has been used in aesthetic or artistic theory to refer to the attempt to imitate or reproduce reality since Plato and Aristotle." https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mimesis    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:51:39

• "I still find this one of the craziest things on these islands." ☛ https://maique.eu/posts/money-talks | Source: Micro Maique    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:52:49

• "The total damage is about £8k." ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/01/24/what-happens-when-a-storm-hits-a-solar-farm/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:54:02

• "AI's continued growth" is a bubble though ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/build_bigger_ai_datacenters/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:54:39

• "pledging an initial $100 billion" of money that does not exist ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/pentagon/2025/01/24/power-generation-challenges-could-overshadow-stargate-ai-initiative/ | Source: C4ISRNET http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:55:26

• "The operational capacity stood at 1,110 MW IT as of 2024, reflecting a CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 22 per cent since 2014." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/data-centre-market-continues-to-grow-191-mw-it-capacity-addition-in-2024-report/articleshow/117524254.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:56:02

• "capacity additions hit a record" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/01/22/2025/solar-overtakes-coal-for-the-first-time-in-eu | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:56:18

• "taking to comply with the Trump administration’s policies against diversity, equity, and inclusion on the agency’s GitHub" ☛ https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administration-scrubbing-government-web-pages-in-real-time/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:57:10

• "I’m angry right now, and I’ve decided to write anyway." ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/23/john-kiriakou-pardon-me-for-being-angry/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:57:28

• "the Guccifer 2.0 persona altered some of the documents stolen from the DNC and misrepresented others and Yevgeniy Prigozhin’s trolls engaged in outright fabrication" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/24/embarrassingly-wrong-the-ongoing-misinformation-campaign-about-the-hunter-biden-hard-drive/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 12:58:29

• "In Germany, few have heard of him. But Küsel's story has now been immortalized in a book written by writer and journalist Sebastian Christ, who himself only heard of Küsel by accident while talking to the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in 2003." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/otto-k%C3%BCsel-the-thief-who-saved-lives-in-auschwitz/a-71400370 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:00:10

• Overpopulation ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-24/malibu-water-capacity-upgrades-palisades-fire | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:03:06

• "I Prosecuted the Capitol [Insurrectionists]." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/opinion/trump-pardon-jan-6-capitol.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:04:20

• "“Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol Police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation,” Hemphill said Wednesday." ☛ https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5106056-jason-riddle-january-6-trump-pardons/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:05:19

• "By granting blanket clemency to the January 6 insurrectionists, the president has unleashed violent, and loyal, paramilitaries" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/dangerous-trump-paramilitary-alliance/681449/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:06:22

• "The vessel entered the Kattegat sea overnight ahead of Friday, according to the report." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250124/denmark-places-navy-vessel-close-to-russian-ship-in-kattegat-sea | Source: The Local DK    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:06:39

• "It was Donald Trump Jr., not Barron, who called Zelenskyy a weirdo on social media." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/factcheck/2025/01/24/afcl-trump-barro-mock-zelenskyy/ | Source: RFA    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:07:26

• "fight the commercial arm of fascism" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/musk-nazi-salute-german-gigafactory | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:09:02

• "The officials said it’s not yet clear how many more service members would get tapped in the near future" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/01/24/us-troops-arriving-in-texas-california-to-support-border-security/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:10:39

• "Naser Zazai, 29, had planned to reunite with his mother and brother in the United States this week after fleeing Afghanistan" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-24/afghans-stranded-in-mexico-under-trump-immigration-crackdown-face-bleak-choices | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:11:01

• "What this means in the political realm is that social media is no longer just a tool for politicians to get out their message" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/the-big-tech-takeover-of-american-politics | Source: New Yorker    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:11:25

• "The unquenchable demand for gold spurred a mass migration and fueled the genocide of Native communities" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-discovery-of-gold-on-this-date-in-1848-at-sutters-creek-kicked-off-the-california-gold-rush-and-transformed-america-180985858/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:12:01

• "Elon Musk’s Nazi trolling exposes the collapse of America’s guardrails against some of history’s foulest ideas." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/396535/elon-musk-nazi-salute-trump-inauguration | Source: Vox    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:12:32

• "Ntekereze and Ashtor were arrested by the FBI, who found evidence of a “laptop farm” at Ashtor’s home during a raid." ☛ https://therecord.media/doj-indicts-americans-for-running-laptop-farm-north-korea-scheme | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:12:56

• "Biden White House and Justice Department officials rejected those requests" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/23/tiktok-ban-biden-trump-bytedance/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:13:46

• "Welcome back! The Pentagon is wasting no time responding to President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the southern border." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-rundown-border-dei-afghanistan/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:14:03

• "Google is announcing a variety of classroom and accessibility-focused ChromeOS features today, and one of the standouts is being able to control your computer with your head and facial expressions." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/22/24348966/google-chromeos-face-control-chromebooks-classroom-features-laptops | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:16:06

• "The feature, which was originally announced in December as Face Control, is aimed specifically at people with motor impairments who’d otherwise have trouble controlling a mouse cursor on screen" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2586642/you-can-now-control-chromebooks-using-head-tilts-and-face-gestures.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:16:23

• "Stallman's reasoning wasn't flawed (at least, not in the respect you state). Corporations are simply a group of humans. I don't think there's a good argument to be made that humans should have a right to X, but suddenly lose that right when they get together as a group." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42759024    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:17:31

• "This attitude—that someone making money off my freely published work is somehow hurting me—was, I think, best captured by the inimitable Matt Mullenweg in his response to DHH" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42759024    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:18:23

• "Corporations are effectively unkillable, for starters. No corporate charter has been revoked since the 19th c. iirc. Corporations cannot be jailed, for another, and extend their limited liability protection to the people under their umbrella. So corporations have way more latitude to commit crimes and escape punishment than a human."    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:18:52

• "The complaint has come from the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), which has written to EU enforcement authorities about concerns that Meta's latest pay-or-consent policy might be infringing laws and fall foul of the Digital Markets Act (DMA.)" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/metas_payorconsent_model_under_fire/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:19:14

• "Hugh Grant has called for the U.K. police to open a new criminal investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers." ☛ https://variety.com/2025/biz/global/hugh-grant-police-investigation-rupert-murdoch-uk-prince-harry-1236284489/ | Source: Variety    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:19:34

• "The European Union's investigation against social control media platform X under the EU's Digital Services Act is ongoing and a decision in the case has not yet been taken" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eus-investigation-against-x-under-dsa-ongoing-no-decision-taken-yet/articleshow/117522608.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:20:09

• "The statement accused Meta of using ambiguous terms and confusing interfaces that do not allow users to consent freely to data collection." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/beuc-metas-revised-subscription-model-may-breach-eu-consumer-protection-laws/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:20:44

• "should not be used as the sole basis for any decision" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/police-artificial-intelligence-facial-recognition/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:21:17

• "The Detroit PD has made this sort of thing its unofficial brand." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/24/cops-are-still-bypassing-facial-recognition-controls-to-build-cases-based-on-bad-matches/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:21:55

• "Hidden text salting is a simple yet effective technique for bypassing email parsers, confusing spam filters, and evading detection engines that rely on keywords." ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/seasoning-email-threats-with-hidden-text-salting/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:22:55

• "One of the hardest applications to create securely is webmail." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31620 | Source: SANS    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:23:03

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

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 13:25:53

• "Those numbers don't add up to 100%, obviously, because some people had multiple major reasons for not voting. I think it would surprise some people that apathy toward the outcome is close to the bottom on that list." gemini://the-brannons.com/nonvoters/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:01:32

• "I'm not giving up on Linux, but on that particular hardware, it's just not a problem I can really solve with satisfaction." gopher://gopher.prismdragon.net:70/0/phlog/2025-01-24_frustrations.txt    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:03:05

• "As mentioned in a previous post, I'm trying to dive into analog computing and differential equations. I would like to have the Analog Thing kit, but I cannot afford the $500 price tag right now." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250124-0.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:04:30

• "There are a significant number of pictographs around where I live. Not like Southwest numbers, but there are still quite a few. Some are well-hidden in the middle of nowhere, and others are quite close to "civilization"." gemini://gem.sdf.org/beej/blog/2025-01-24-pictographs.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:06:07

• 🔤SpellBinding: TEGIKNC Wordo: DROPS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-01-25.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:06:56

• Books of 2024 gemini://cwave.site/gemlog/2025-01-25.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:07:32

• "Lately I've been deep in a pit of despair about the internet and the world - and not really for the reasons you'd think, either. Everything, every word, has been watered down to the point of absolute meaninglessness. Every discussion on every topic has devolved into quips, one-liners, mantras, and absolute garbage hiding in a cloak of academic language." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2472    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:08:38

• Devlog 1 gemini://sporiff.dev/2025/01/25/devlog_1/ "So I decided to go back to programming and see if I can improve my skills enough to find work. The market isn't much better for programmers (well, junior/mid-level programmers), but it is slightly better."    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:09:24

• "I'll be posting an update to Farkle today with two requested features: die-value selection input (vs position), and enable/disable of the logo and points table to assist smaller screens. If nothing breaks this should be up today..." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/farkle/24344    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:10:59

• TECNOCRACIA gemini://deivisdiaz.flounder.online/Tecnocracia.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:13:06

• "Because the new web has been killed by all the companies wanting to centralize and control it, and AI will fill the void with fake users and fake comments. I could have created a site on any WordPress host but I don't want to encourage the bad practices that led us to this situation." gemini://0d15ea5e.smol.pub/1737795356    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:15:21

• "IBM still has a cloud presence ?? I thought it was laid off and put to rest years ago ....." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjcjv4yb    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:19:30

• How To Install Lazygit on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lazygit-debian-12/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:22:29

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

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:22:44

• How To Install MEAN Stack on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mean-stack-manjaro/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:22:56

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

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:25:51

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

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:28:33

• How To Install Vivaldi Browser on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-vivaldi-browser-debian-12/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:28:53

• How To Install Apache Tomcat on Fedora 41 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-tomcat-fedora-41/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:29:26

• How to Resolve Unmet Dependencies Error on Ubuntu ☞ https://net2.com/how-to-solve-unmet-dependencies-error-on-ubuntu/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:30:25

• How to Safely Automate the Removal of Old GNU/Linux Kernels on Fedora ☞ https://www.linuxtechmore.com/2025/01/how-to-safely-automate-the-removal-of-old-linux-kernels-on-fedora.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:30:33

• Oh, gosh, do not instruct people to add proprietary spyware of Microsoft to GNU/Linux, teach them viable alternatives to it (many exist) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-visual-studio-code-on-arch-linux/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:32:24

• Social Control Media https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-comment-on-social-media    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:34:00

• Techrights in 0.036 Seconds (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/24/Techrights_in_0_036_Seconds.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:50:31

• Mozilla Localization (L10N): L10n report: January 2025 Edition ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2025/01/24/l10n-report-january-2025-edition/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:53:57

• Shipping anxiety ☞ https://rubenerd.com/shipping-anxiety/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:54:15

• "The ESP32-S3-LCD-2 is a compact development board based on the ESP32-S3R8 processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-s3-development-board-with-2-inch-display-camera-interface-and-6-axis-imu/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:54:38

• "The Super Watchdog HAT with UPS Battery Backup provides power management and reliability for mission-critical Raspberry Pi applications." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/super-watchdog-raspberry-pi-hat-with-battery-backup-gains-multi-chemistry-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:55:15

• "Clementine is a modified version of the legendary player KDE Amarok" ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/01/how-to-install-clementine-music-player-on-ubuntu-2404.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:56:05

• "Picture the following scenarios: [...]" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/install-openvpn-in-rhel/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 14:56:25

• "The uncertainty about whether the app will return to app stores has caused some people who never removed the app to view their phones like golden tickets" ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/3000-for-a-used-iphone-in-us-if-it-has-tiktok-maybe/articleshow/117539517.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:00:32

• "As a result, some entrepreneurial spirits are selling phones and tablets that have TikTok — and other apps from its parent company ByteDance, such as Lemon8 and video editor CapCut." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-01-24/people-are-hawking-tiktok-loaded-phones-for-thousands-on-ebay-facebook | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:00:43

• "It would now seem that the photographic community is ready to return to a past flame: Flickr." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/social-media/instagram-is-dead-for-photographers-and-tiktoks-future-is-uncertain-so-people-are-flocking-back-to-an-old-faithful-platform | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:01:08

• The irony of this page being all broken https://rsf.org/en/ranking#    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:02:07

• and yet worse, that page links to only one social control media account: NAZI TWITTER https://x.com/RSF_en what sort of serious org for protecting reporters accepts MElon TRump as its boss?    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:04:49

• Sweden ranked high, just do not criticise Islam (or lose your head) https://yle.fi/a/74-20086870 https://rsf.org/en/index?year=2024    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:07:33

• "TikTok currently is the fastest growing social media platform with over 1 billion active monthly users of which the majority is from generation Z." ☛ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358233121_An_Empirical_Investigation_of_Personalization_Factors_on_TikTok | Source: Research Gate    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:09:07

• "TikTok’s massive user base is a testament to its addictive nature. The key to keeping users engaged? It’s powerful algorithms. These algorithms drive the recommendation system, constantly feeding users a stream of content tailored to their interests." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/what-makes-tiktoks-algorithms-so-effective/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:09:32

• "Federal prosecutors in California announced this week a 25-count indictment of Alexander Beckman and his wife Valerie Lau Beckman" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/ai_startup_founder_wife_indicted/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:11:32

• "The generative Artificial Intelligence chatbot fell over on Thursday" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/chatgpt_has_a_thursday_lie/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:11:52

• "Writing about the current state of Apple Intelligence yesterday, I mentioned how utterly stupid and laughably wrong Siri is when asked the simple question" ☛ https://daringfireball.net/2025/01/siri_is_super_dumb_and_getting_dumber | Source: John Gruber    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:12:32

• "Three reasons why I might not upgrade my iPhone 15 Pro Max this year, as expected." ☛ https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/01/24/voting-with-my-money.html | Source: Numeric Citizen    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:12:58

• "Approval was last night granted for a mega datacenter in Hertfordshire, close to London's M25 orbital motorway, clearing the way for construction to begin." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/24/uk_mega_datacenter_approved/ | Source: The Register UK    

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

• "T2’s press service told Kommersant that the company had not observed any issues with mobile service availability. MTS declined to comment." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/24/russian-mobile-operators-and-internet-services-hit-by-major-outage | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:13:24

• "Then you are to take the PGP SIGNATURE and enter that in the input box and confirm the key with the returned signature." ☛ https://claytonerrington.com/blog/adding-gpg-to-codeberg-from-windows/ | Source: Clayton Errington    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:13:52

• "if approved by the House and Senate and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/01/23/clock-may-be-expiring-on-attempt-to-permanently-shift-kansas-to-standard-time/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:14:23

• "Kodak has reopened its film manufacturing factory after a planned shutdown to improve its manufacturing equipment." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/film-cameras/kodak-shares-surprising-statistics-on-the-rise-of-film-as-factory-reopens-after-shutdown | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:14:53

• "This is the 74th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-ava | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:18:23

• "Many of the country’s publishing houses – from textbook-publishing giants to boutique operations specializing in culture – are keeping busy." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0123/ukraine-russia-books-publishing-culture | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:18:41

• "It’s hard to overstate the role of HHS, and the NIH in particular, in funding universities." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/01/trump-nih-pause-higher-ed/681468/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:19:04

• "Incentive structures are common in the workplace, whether intentional or not." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/poorly-designed-rewards-crush-improvement-efforts/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:19:17

• "At the conclusion of the 1983 excavation the bone, together with other artefacts recovered from the cave, was placed in the University of the Witwatersrand's Archaeology Department storerooms." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-oldest-arrow-poison-found-in-ancient-bone-from-7000-years-ago | Source: Science Alert    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:20:09

• "According to the NOAA forecast, NASA predicts the geomagnetic storm to hit a peak 5.33 KP index between 3:00 and 6:00 UT on January 25" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/astrophotography/get-your-cameras-ready-the-northern-lights-could-reach-several-us-states-tonight | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:20:33

• "The most famous version of this problem is to resolve 12 coins in 3 weighings; this is an instance of the special case where …, which is the maximum number of coins that can be resolved in … weighings." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/dysons-algorithm-the-general-case/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:21:09

• "During my 20+ years as a blogger, I've launched and shut down more projects than I can remember. I start something and I'm super excited for a while. Then I get bored, quit, and start something new." ☛ https://birming.com/stealth-blogging/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:25:32

• "Here's the thing. The customer is always right. If people aren't going to your establishment because they don't like it - you can't force them." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/01/whats-the-point-of-a-pub/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:26:09

• "During the confrontation, the dude toppled to the ground and his penis attached to the ice." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2025/01/24/man-penis-stuck-icy-sidewalk-pants-fall-fight-alberta-canada/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:27:13

• "Tasks are also added at any time of the day - so I need to carry this list with me, so that I can complete it on time and refer to it regularly." ☛ https://blog.lyokolux.space/posts/2025-01-24-efficient-todo-list/ | Source: Lykolux    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:28:16

• "When I first started blogging, I questioned what content belongs here." ☛ https://dolzhenko.me/blog/2025/01/home-needs-no-theme/ | Source: Dmitry Dolzhenko    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:29:49

• "To make it easier, let's differentiate between three levels of ease when it comes to adding a website to RSS: Easy, medium, and hard." ☛ https://joeyehand.com/blog/2025/01/15/i-ditched-the-algorithm-for-rssand-you-should-too/#setup |    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:30:30

• "I've made a couple of changes to the way that RSS works on this site. It's all very minor, but I thought it was worth mentioning" ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/rss-feed-changes | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:30:44

• "Unfortunately, many funding bodies still see gold open access as an acceptable way to achieve open access’s goals" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/24/india-spends-715-million-on-the-wrong-kind-of-open-access-journals/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:37:02

• "Not only does it deny users their freedom" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/llama-3-1-community-license-is-not-a-free-software-license | Source: FSF    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:38:24

• "At 5m32s I presented what I think is the best version yet of my selfish personal argument for why it makes sense to default to releasing code as Open Source: [...] " ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/selfish-open-source/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:38:32

• "This has to happen. If this doesn’t happen, we’re not coming back" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-24/ex-paradise-mayor-offers-advice-to-los-angeles-recovery-wildfires | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:38:47

• "The two-day program includes an afternoon of hands-on workshops, followed by a full day of engaging conference talks." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/shiny-in-production-2025/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:41:07

• "Vector database growth shows no signs of slowing in the year and years ahead" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/vector-databases-the-foundation-of-ai-agent-innovation/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:41:36

• "In the list of ideas for using Ansible local facts (you might recall I’m a fan of local facts), Fabian mentioned how he populates a .fact file with GeoIP" ☛ https://jpmens.net/2025/01/24/geolocation-in-ansible-local-facts/ | Source: Jan Piet Mens    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:42:28

• "Spell checking for typos in code, documentation, and blog sites can impair searchability, cause confusion, and introduce bugs." ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/typos-cli/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:43:06

• One problem: it's Rust (Microsoft GitHub) and author says "integrate well with GitHub Actions and VS Code"... so it's basically proprietary and spyware on many levels. Seems like keylogger of sorts, with links to Microsoft crap.    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:45:22

• "What happened: not sure. Machine was being accessed remotely via RDP with a Windows 11 box as the client" ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2025/01/25/linux-box-recovery/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:46:24

• Also: fixing typos requires actual comprehension of the text. Automating this is a herculean task, LLMs have nothing to offer here either.    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:47:27

• Stop trying to automate EVERYTHING. Some things need actual humans. Also: seducing clients into serving themselves in the shop isn't efficiency, it's offloading labour to unpaid folks. Blackmailing them into it by removing all tills or making queues very long is assured loss of customers. That's what Sainsburys did. Now: 3000 layoffs.    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:49:19

• Because many people in the UK no bother walking into Sainsburys, knowing that service does not exist or barely exists    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:50:51

• They also suck at tech https://techrights.org/n/2024/03/18/Sainsbury_s_Epic_Downtime_Seems_to_be_Microsoft_s_Fault_and_Mig.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2024/03/20/Sainsbury_s_Lies_to_the_Customers_to_Cover_up_Likely_Microsoft_.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:53:12

• Lubomír Sedlář: Today I Learned: Searching in Vim ☞ https://lubomir.github.io/en/2017-02-15-TIL-vim-search.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:58:58

• Lubomír Sedlář: A compose what? ☞ https://lubomir.github.io/en/2017-07-12-a-compose-what.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 15:59:09

• Lubomír Sedlář: Today I Learned: Handling source tarballs ☞ https://lubomir.github.io/en/2016-12-12-til-working-with-sources.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:00:43

• Lubomír Sedlář: Clickable Pungi logs ☞ https://lubomir.github.io/en/2016-09-25-clickable-pungi-logs.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:01:45

• Fedora Community Blog: Fedora datacenter move later this year (2025 version) ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-datacenter-move-later-this-year-2025-version/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:02:20

• Fedora admits outsourcing to GAFAM in 2020 http://techrights.org/o/2020/08/09/aws-fedoraproject/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:03:23

• And somehow ONLY techrights covered that at the time    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:03:43

• And now Fedora is spoken for by "zlopez", whoever that is. Because all the Fedora leaders left or got sacked, even https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-project-leader-matthew-miller-a-change-of-hats/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:06:11

• "RISC-V is the only hope we have for hardware that isn't pre-pozzed by the "intelligence community"" https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/distributions/1520972-fedora-preparing-for-a-data-center-move-for-more-power-space-for-possible-risc-v    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:10:17

• IBM layoffs at North Carolina https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1v1w4tXV "one near Red Hat's offices in Raleigh, North Carolina." https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-2024-Data-Center-Move    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:12:30

• IBM is as dishonest and as unreliable as F. (No, not "F"edora)    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:13:03

• Including its lies about why it made RHEL proprietary http://techrights.org/o/2023/02/25/video-scale-mojang-and-sjvn/ when someone keeps lying to you all the time you'd be wise to PREsume everything said is a lie, by default    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:13:56

• (wrong link. correct link http://techrights.org/o/2023/06/23/what-ibm-does-to-red-hat/ )    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:14:43

• Myanmar’s Arakan Army confirms torture, execution of POWs in leaked viral video ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/01/24/myanmar-arakan-army-execution-videos/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:20:10

• "The Hey Hi (AI) Bubble is Popping", Now It's Bailout Time ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/23/The_AI_Bubble_is_Popping_Now_It_s_Bailout_Time.shtml    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:20:42

• WATCH: Rinkēvičs in Davos ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/video/24.01.2025-watch-rinkevics-in-davos.a584976/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:21:30

• A President Unleashed, A Sharpie signing spree, Can Gaza's truce hold? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-world-this-week/20250124-a-president-unleashed-a-sharpie-signing-spree-can-gaza-s-truce-hold    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:21:54

• Houthis release Galaxy Leader crew after over a year in captivity ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/houthis-release-galaxy-leader-crew-after-over-a-year-in-captivity/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:22:01

• An EU presidency full of pitfalls: Poland takes the helm amid global turmoil ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20250124-an-eu-presidency-full-of-pitfalls-poland-takes-the-helm-amid-global-turmoil    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:22:14

• Russian Refinery In Flames After Largest Ukrainian Air Attack This Year ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-drone-strike-oil-refinery-ryazan-malkov/33287110.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:22:26

• Dictator Officials Pause Programs to Let In Immigrants, Including Ukrainians ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/us/politics/trump-immigration-pause.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:23:44

• Did Ukraine Kill Its Own by Downing a Russian Plane? A Year Later, It Hasn’t Said. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/world/europe/ukraine-russia-belgorod-plane-pows.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:24:11

• Ukraine Sends Volley of Drones at Russia, Hitting Oil Refinery ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/world/europe/ukraine-russia-oil-drone.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:24:46

• The sources of Russian conduct ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-sources-of-russian-conduct/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:34:25

• Baltic energy systems ready for decoupling from Russia – ministers ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2469216/baltic-energy-systems-ready-for-decoupling-from-russia-ministers    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:34:47

• North Korea ‘accelerating’ preparations for more troops to Kursk: Seoul ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/01/24/north-korea-more-soldiers-russia/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:35:09

• Vietnam, South Korea finalizing $300m howitzer deal: Korean media ☞ https://rfa.org/english/vietnam/2025/01/24/south-korea-howitzer-deal/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:37:11

• Russian tourist charged with murder in Thailand after throwing son off boat claims memory loss ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/russian-tourist-charged-with-murder-in-thailand-after-throwing-son-out-of-boat    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:37:30

• North Korea suspected of preparing to send more troops to Russia, Seoul says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-suspected-of-preparing-to-send-more-troops-to-russia-seoul-says    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:37:44

• Dictator Says He Will Reach Out to North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/world/asia/trump-north-korea-nuclear-talks.html "North Korea’s leader has grown more assertive since their last efforts at diplomacy ended in failure — and now has Russia at his side."    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:41:41

• "He looked at our marriage certificate and said I could wipe myself with it" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/24/he-looked-at-our-marriage-certificate-and-said-i-could-wipe-myself-with-it | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:42:13

• Belarus must end its repression ahead of presidential election: Amnesty International ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/belarus-must-end-its-repression-ahead-of-presidential-election-amnesty-international/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:42:43

• "age-based retirement" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/24/in-2025-almost-no-russians-will-qualify-for-age-based-retirement-here-s-why | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:43:14

• "disarmament" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/24/kremlin-says-russia-is-interested-in-resuming-nuclear-disarmament-talks-with-the-u-s | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:44:10

• Meet Guix at FOSDEM https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2025/meet-guix-at-fosdem-2025/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:50:49

• "2020 victory hadn’t been stolen"... Putler looking to cause conflicts inside USA ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/24/putin-says-full-scale-war-against-ukraine-might-not-have-happened-if-trump-had-been-president-in-2022 | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:51:50

• "Exiled dissident Ilya Yashin is fighting for their release." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/24/they-escape-putin-s-prisons-only-to-end-up-in-america-s | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:52:08

• Fictional numbers (lies) parroted by NY Times to shoulder the "Hey Hi (AI) Push" (Ponzi scheme) ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/technology/meta-data-center.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:53:10

• Jonathan Dowland: FOSDEM 2025 ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/fosdem/2025/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:54:11

• Firefox Nightly: New Year New Tab – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 175 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/01/24/new-year-new-tab-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-175/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:54:49

• Lubomír Sedlář: Introducing entr ☞ https://lubomir.github.io/en/2016-09-05-introducing-entr.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 16:55:33

• BOTH of these 100% SLOP https://linuxsecurity.com/news/security-vulnerabilities/chrome-update-fixes-serious-security-vulns https://linuxsecurity.com/news/security-projects/openzfs-2-3-released-enhancing-linux-security-storage-management    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:31:02

• Sex education Bill ignites firestorm in Christian-majority Philippines ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/sex-education-bill-ignites-firestorm-in-christian-majority-philippines    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:32:12

• The US withdrawal from the WHO will hurt us all ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/24/1110480/us-withdrawal-from-who-will-hurt-us-all/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:32:40

• Performing for nazis ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/24/is-billy-ray-cyrus-okay-inauguration-performance/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:33:29

• Latvian hospitals really need your blood ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/24.01.2025-latvian-hospitals-really-need-your-blood.a585001/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:33:53

• "criticised Disneyland for cultural appropriation" ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/mickey-and-minnie-in-hanbok-delivering-chinese-new-year-greetings-set-off-online-comment-war    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:35:25

• South Korea court rejects request to extend Yoon’s detention ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-court-rejects-request-to-extend-yoons-detention    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:36:11

• Hairstyling for arrested South Korean President Yoon not a special favour: Justice Ministry ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hair-styling-for-arrested-president-yoon-not-a-special-favour-justice-ministry    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:36:19

• South Korea prosecutors renew request for longer detention for President Yoon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-prosecutors-renew-request-for-longer-detention-for-impeached-leader    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:36:31

• Cambodian worker in South Korea says passport revoked after online comments ☞ https://rfa.org/english/cambodia/2025/01/24/cambodia-khmer-rouge-draft-law/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:37:05

• ‘Smart balloons’ drop leaflets, loudspeakers into North Korea ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/01/24/north-korea-seoul-leaflet-workshop/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:37:42

• Malaysia customs officials receive $61,000 monthly in bribes from vape smugglers: Anti-graft chief ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/corrupt-malaysia-customs-officials-receive-over-61000-monthly-in-bribes-from-vape-smugglers-anti    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:38:46

• Drug syndicate in Malaysia caught faking official documents, including Singapore driving licences ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/drug-syndicate-in-malaysia-caught-faking-official-documents-including-singapore-driving-licences    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:39:17

• Malaysian anti-graft protest set to pressure Anwar to speed up reforms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-anti-graft-protest-set-to-pressure-anwar-on-reforms    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:39:40

• Bowing to public pressure, Malaysia PM Anwar now says anti-graft rally can go ahead in KL ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bowing-to-public-pressure-malaysia-pm-anwar-now-okays-anti-corruption-rally-in-kl    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:39:51

• Malaysia to reduce highway tolls by half to celebrate CNY ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-reduce-toll-charges-on-expressways-to-usher-in-chinese-new-year    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 17:40:06

• The Drunken Plagiarists: Working with Co-pilots https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3711675    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 19:08:39

• RMS folk-dancing https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=bJFEP_qu3fg    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 19:34:10

• RSS a mano gemini://bosque-protector.com/codigo/rss-facil.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:00:43

• In China, rare dissent over a programme to save on drug costs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/in-china-rare-dissent-over-a-programme-to-save-on-drug-costs    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:02:34

• China Cracks Down on Online Panda Advocacy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/world/asia/pandas-fans-china-washington-dc-national-zoo.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:02:48

• In China, Rare Dissent Over a Program to Save on Drug Costs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/25/business/china-pharma-drugs.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:03:28

• Man in China sentenced to death for fatal stabbing of Japanese boy, Kyodo says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/man-in-china-sentenced-to-death-for-stabbing-death-of-japanese-boy-kyodo-says    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:03:45

• Thailand and China to set up coordination centre to combat scam call networks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/thailand-and-china-to-set-up-coordination-centre-to-combat-scam-call-networks    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:04:06

• "Vivaldi web browser has just released its first major update of the year – a corker it is, too!" https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/vivaldi-7-1-browser-changes    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:04:44

• "Canonical’s Florent Jacquet shares the date on the Ubuntu Developer mailing list today along with a note to developers to be mindful of their package uploads to noble in the coming weeks." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/ubuntu-24-04-2-release-date    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:05:02

• "According to the developer of VKD3D-Proton, the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan translation layer used by Proton, this is an NVIDIA driver bug that has been reported to NVIDIA already. As developer Hans-Kristian Arntzen said on GitHub" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth-broken-on-linux-with-nvidia-gpus-but-works-with-amd-gpus-like-steam-deck/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:05:56

• WTF??? SPAM!!! LF paying off blogs. https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-foundation-deal-january/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:06:19

• "Testing it myself today on Desktop Linux (Kubuntu) and yup, all working just fine again." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/proton-hotfix-updated-to-get-the-finals-working-again-on-linux-steam-deck/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:06:39

• "different since the games are from various stores. Some of the games might also have no ratings right now." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/games-to-claim-from-prime-gaming-jan-24-edition-round-up-for-steamos-linux-and-steam-deck/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:06:59

• "The latest version of OpenZFS offers RAID expansion, plus faster data deduplication donated by iXsystems. The code will be available very soon in the beta of TrueNAS SCALE 25.04." https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/openzfs_23_raid_expansion/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:07:23

• Gambling tycoon abused in Thai jail after saying he spied for China, lawyers say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/gambling-tycoon-abused-in-thai-jail-after-saying-he-spied-for-china-lawyers-say    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:38:00

• Philippines comic book takes battle for South China Sea to children ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-comic-book-takes-battle-for-south-china-sea-to-children    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:38:21

• Convicted Felon’s Executive Orders Rolling Back DEI and Accessibility Efforts, Explained ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/trumps-executive-orders-rolling-back-dei-and-accessibility-efforts-explained    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:39:00

• Federal Judge Partially Dismisses Limp Bizkit’s $200 Million+ Universal Music Lawsuit — Amended Complaint Due by February 3rd ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/24/limp-bizkit-universal-music-lawsuit-partial-dismissal/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:39:35

• Chats – messaging application for mobile and desktop ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chats-simple-messaging-app/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:40:28

• Pix – image viewer and browser ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pix-image-viewer-browser/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:41:49

• Deskflow – keyboard and mouse sharing app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/deskflow-keyboard-mouse/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:42:57

• TEAMGROUP MP44L 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD Review ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/teamgroup-mp44l-2tb-m2-nvme-ssd-review/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:43:58

• astroterm – terminal-based star map ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/astroterm-terminal-based-star-map/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:44:35

• turbo-scanner – port scanner and service detection tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/turbo-scanner-port-scanner-service-detection-tool/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:45:00

• RCalc – RPN calculator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rcalc-rpn-calculator/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:45:55

• 9 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Terminal-Based Port Scanners ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/portscanners/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:46:46

• Input Leap – KVM software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/input-leap-kvm-software/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:47:11

• What is APT Install? A Beginner’s Guide to GNU/Linux Package Management ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/what-is-apt-install-a-beginners-guide-to-linux-package-management/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:47:53

• MediaTek improvements in Linux 6.13 ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mediatek-improvements-in-linux-613.html    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:48:48

• Life pro tip: Oracle GNU/Linux is the best local VM for MacBooks ☞ https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/k8s-dev-mac-oracle-linux/    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 21:50:45

• "I'm just exhausted and what even was 2024; and also I don't have a lot to put on here atm, because I've hardly written any more flash fiction and my minizines have, I think, grown too big file-size-wise." gemini://taichara.smol.pub/not-ded    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 22:09:55

• "I worked in private industry for more than fifteen years, and one of the things I learned early was all the big bullshit ideas by all the big companies roll downhill." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/1-25.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 22:10:53

• "At the heart of the Buddhist tradition, especially Mahayana, is the concept of *upaya* or "skillful means". This principle reflects the Buddha's and Bodhisattvas' ability to adapt their teachings to the needs, capacities and situations of their listeners, and to guide them towards enlightenment." gemini://betulla.cities.yesterweb.org/2025/01/25-upaya.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 22:11:33

• "I use sourcehut pages for both my gemini and website. It is a simple, great service where you don't need to worry about managing a server." gemini://spool-five.com/gemlog/2025-01-25-plaintext_weblog_posts.gmi    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 22:12:13

• "A UK campaign group which fights for the rights of children who have legal problems. For a lot of these children their parents are too messed up or negligent to help them and once in a system whose failings are all too well known then a lifetime of criminality starts to become inevitable." gemini://rrees.smol.pub/nayj    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 22:13:08

• "Gemini feels like a mix of the very old web and the good old web, and that's something I might enjoy. As for "gemtext," despite its limitations, it is a good way to focus on the content itself." gemini://0d15ea5e.smol.pub/0001-first-post    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 22:14:06

• "billy murray, ada jones, arthur collins, byron harlan, the american quartet, jane green, dolly kay, and so many more to be named, and how wonderful it is that i can listen to their tunes at a click of a button, in the comfort of my home!" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2473    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 22:14:36

• "My dream is to sing a song with my guitar in hand, and with that song, I'd hope for happiness." gemini://ame.smol.pub/mudai-guiano    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 22:15:19

• "I struggled to get to STSM after over 20 years at IBM. I present at conferences, publish, mentor, win awards - and all of this in my spare time. I work a very full week trying to convince our resource-constrained execs to make smarter investments and to innovate, however small." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jj8gp8jp    

posted Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 22:17:07

• "[cheeto] might curtail H1 Visas, but that is about it. Most of these mega companies are international in scope and have a footprint all over. Accounting is done in country A, engineering is done in country B, tech in Country C. How can you hold there feet to the fire? Layoffs are layoffs." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jj24gr7t    

posted Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 04:41:02

• "We'll have to see how things go. Certainty is complicated. I think [cheeto] will focus on large employers in manufacturing and key industries." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jj24gr7t    

posted Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 04:41:07

• "You're probably very close to what's really happening. IBM has been "rightsizing" and "strategically downsizing" for so long that there aren't many workers left. That leaves management..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjf4kar7    

posted Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 04:42:34