Roy Schestowitz

• "I made a resolution to not travel much this year. I made a similar resolution last year, but still up going to ICFP. This year it looks like I will also not fulfil my goal, but at least I won't be going on expensive transatlantic trips." gopher://sigkill.dk:70/0/phlog/2025-01-28.md    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 00:51:18

• In space I am at home gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-01-28-space.txt    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 00:52:22

• Timey Wimey Watch Adventures gemini://erick.is/posts/2025-01-28-timey-wimey-watch-adventures.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 00:53:23

• Devlog 4 gemini://sporiff.dev/2025/01/28/devlog_4/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 00:55:03

• UNCHARITABLE THOUGHTS gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-01-29Uncharitable_Thoughts.txt    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 00:56:28

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1189.jpg    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 00:57:34

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1539.jpg    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 00:57:42

• “How do you plan to use your degree to further your career goals and life plans? Why did you choose the University of [redacted] to pursue this field of study?” gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2474    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 00:58:54

• "i am superjcup, i have been a wrestling fan since 2016, and i am going to write a few match reviews, but document my experiences going to wrestling shows. i've been to one this year as of writing this (january 28th, 2025)" gemini://superjcup.smol.pub/introduction    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 01:00:16

• gemini://bosque-protector.com/tinylog.gmi   

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 01:00:59

• "Just started a thing called storygaming. And added the first scene of my first "storygame"." gemini://bosque-protector.com/tinylog.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 01:01:05

• "I found a nifty plugin that makes it possible to use Telescope to insert file paths. It does it by way of Telescope actions and I couldn’t figure out how the hell to actually invoke the damn thing. Eventually I got it, and I prefer it now for making links in Markdown or just grabbing file paths." gemini://thatit.be/2025-01-23-20-10-19.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 01:02:20

• Next up in Techrights (belately): EPO leaks    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 02:14:52

• But for maximal effect they will be split and some parts delayed a bit    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 02:15:09

• Ubisoft’s Internal Memo Says Recent Layoffs is Due to “More Efficient Operating Models” https://insider-gaming.com/ubisoft-layoffs-memo-to-staff/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:22:16

• Dauntless Studio Phoenix Labs Laying Off Majority Of Its Staff https://gamerant.com/dauntless-studio-phoenix-labs-layoffs/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:22:37

• It’s time for the Xbox to fade away https://sherwood.news/tech/microsoft-xbox-time-to-fade-away/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:23:25

• Ubisoft confirms 185 layoffs as it closes former DJ Hero studio and downsizes others https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ubisoft-confirms-185-layoffs-as-it-closes-former-dj-hero-studio-and-downsizes-others/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:23:50

• "There is some panic about AI in the western hemisphere. The west is waking up in shock that the brown people are smart too. The recent DeepSeek release is shocking the west in many ways." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjmph5bx Just an excuse to blame China for what was ALWAYS a bubble/scam https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:25:10

• New Debian Developers and Maintainers (November and December 2024) https://bits.debian.org/2025/01/new-developers-2024-12.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:28:11

• "The anyon_e is a new open-source laptop with a high-resolution AMOLED display that should be suitable for casual gaming. The notes also sports an aluminum chassis and is equipped with a 60Wh battery." https://www.notebookcheck.net/Anyon_e-open-source-laptop-features-4K-AMOLED-metal-chassis-and-Ubuntu.953099.0.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:29:20

• Facebook removing Linux discussions as security threats https://boingboing.net/2025/01/27/facebook-marking-linux-discussion-as-security-threats.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:29:38

• "If there's no obvious bias to these content removals, that things are disappearing from Facebook in odd and changing ways contradicts the rhetoric about less censorship. If anything, it suggests that the platform is experimenting with new controls on what users can discuss and share."    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:30:07

• "DistroWatch is one of the largest affected organizations." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:30:30

• Facebook calls Linux «a cybersecurity threat» and bans people who mention the OS https://itc.ua/en/news/facebook-calls-linux-a-cybersecurity-threat-and-bans-people-who-mention-the-os/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:30:50

• "Facebook has lifted a temporary ban preventing users from posting links to popular OS comparison site Distrowatch – after going so far as to lock the account of the site's editor." https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/facebook_blocks_distrowatch/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:31:48

• "Facebook is reportedly removing posts which share links to DistroWatch" https://www.techradar.com/pro/facebook-is-blocking-linux-topics-and-channels-with-no-apparent-reason    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 03:32:20

• COVID-19: Negative vaccine efficacy https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sKkKGK6wsF8    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 04:21:29

• mRNA children's trial suspended https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AVNMEfot9fQ    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 04:22:25

• re:publica 2012 - Appelbaum & Kleiner - Resisting the Surveillance State and its network effects https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=Y3h46EbqhPo    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 05:45:55

• Manlaughter by businesses https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/22/death-miners-south-africa-government-failure https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-21/rescue-camera-gave-officials-a-view-of-hundreds-of-miners-in-south-africa-trapped-in-shaft    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 05:53:36

• Piracy... the REAL Piracy    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 05:54:03

• Not food for US dollar and euro https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/21/brics-expands-to-54-6-of-world-population-by-adding-nigeria-africas-most-populous-country/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 05:54:30

• Piracy... the REAL Piracy https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/piracy-slightly-down-in-2024-imb-warns-against-complacency/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 05:55:01

• Funny thing; aside from Mastodon being developed using proprietary software controlled by Microsoft, it has Russian developers. One is in Saint Petersburg, Russia.    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:05:19

• They even boast about using proprietary Microsoft/NSA compilers, such as GitHub Actions. Several of them seem to reject the concept of gender.    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:07:41

• At least one uses Microsoft tools extensively (TypeScript)    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:08:43

• Mastodon was a response to Nazi Twitter, and not because it was proprietary    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:09:09

• At least NONE of them (for those who have a real name) signed rms-open-letter    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:09:59

• Nowadays the concept of "toxic masculinity" seems almost synonymous with the belief that masculinity exists and more extreme or radical extensions of that presume men are guilty just for being men. Sort of like Catholics assert every baby born - male or female - is sinful and must repent. This is a sick and counterproductive ideology.    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:16:13

• When you appease extremists you unwittingly encourage their behaviour and enable it to spread, begetting bigger problems that appeasement cannot cope with (it no longer scales)    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:17:10

• News and Links Digest (publ. 2025-01-28) gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250128-0.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:40:57

• So Close, Yet So Far gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2025/01/28/home-repairs/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:42:22

• "This post is a two-for-one: first, a hot take on what Canada's response to Trump's tariff threats should look like, and second, a quick guide on how to 'buy Canadian' most effectively." gemini://gemini.patatas.ca/posts/made-in-canada.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:42:51

• "So the gist of the above is that the use of gold is nonsense, just as much "arabian" music packaged for Western audiences is likewise. Both work, in that you can gate around Baldur or kick back with some fine Zimmerman, but neither are representative currencies nor music of the source cultures." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/01/29/offkilter.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 06:43:30

• Canada's immigration department cutting roughly 3,300 jobs over 3 years https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ircc-immigration-citizenship-canada-job-cuts-1.7436881    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:35:43

• prices declining? https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-cpi-december-2024-1.7436956    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:39:17

• Low demand? https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.6620356    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:39:51

• union https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/amazon-warehouse-closures-quebec-1.7438078    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:40:24

• my passion for animals prevailed https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/a-dog-bite-to-my-face-almost-ended-my-veterinary-career-yet-my-passion-for-animals-prevailed-1.7367408    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:40:53

• Dynamite production in China seems like risky stuff to national security https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/canadian-retailers-china-1.7433398    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:42:02

• 'blacklist' for Sikhs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/india-deportation-foreign-interference-1.7432226    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:42:34

• Gig workers [sic] (serfs) https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/gig-worker-distracted-driving-1.7435466    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:43:02

• salmonella https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/mini-pastries-salmonella-outbreak-1.7435691    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:43:50

• Endangered bird may be making a comeback on N.B. shores https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/piping-plovers-population-fledglings-pairs-kouchibouguac-nb-birds-1.7432265    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:44:20

• What the Air Quality Index doesn’t tell us about the air https://www.vox.com/climate/395597/air-quality-index-los-angeles-wildfire-smoke-safe    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:45:17

• What Cheeto Mussolini's EPA pick, Lee Zeldin, would mean for climate https://www.dw.com/en/what-trump-s-epa-pick-lee-zeldin-would-mean-for-climate/a-70773017    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:46:40

• Not Gore https://www.truthdig.com/articles/did-americas-first-climate-president-have-an-impact/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:47:11

• I can never ever fly https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/395173/climate-change-flying-air-travel-emissions-ethics    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:47:54

• What did Cheeto Mussolini just do to the environment? https://www.vox.com/climate/395897/trump-executive-orders-climate-paris-agreement-oil-gas    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:48:41

• But tax cuts to oligarchs who bought him https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/michigans-ev-transition-limbo-trump-halts-climate-spending    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:49:43

• Air Quality Index https://www.vox.com/climate/23769186/bad-air-quality-index-wildfires-pollution    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:50:18

• Canadian wildfires https://www.vox.com/climate/2023/6/7/23752822/air-quality-smoke-wildfires-canada-2023    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:51:10

• How food waste apps can help the climate and save you money https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-food-waste-apps-1.7439246    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:52:24

• LA fires cast light on climate change insurance crisis https://www.dw.com/en/la-fires-cast-light-on-climate-change-insurance-crisis/a-71396879    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:53:09

• insurance crisis https://www.dw.com/en/can-the-climate-change-fueled-insurance-crisis-be-fixed/a-71396879    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:53:28

• Rural areas are harder hit by climate change. These communities are rising to the challenge https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/climate-change-rural-canada-1.7439426    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:53:54

• "John Gilmore is a philanthropist, computer engineer, entrepreneur, civil libertarian, and nonprofit board member. He is a pioneer with thirty years of experience in the computer industry, including applications programming, systems programming, language implementation, management, and investment." https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:56:49

• In other words, he did so much more the the losers who attack him online and libel him. "He was the fifth employee at Sun Microsystems, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a cypherpunk privacy activist. He co-designed the DHCP protocol that your phone or laptop uses daily to get its Internet address." https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:56:58

• "He also contributed decades and more than $12 million to improving United States drug laws. Gilmore has served as a member of many nonprofit and for-profit boards for four decades." https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/ so now a bunch of DRUG addicts try to portray HIM as a drug problem. Projection.    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:57:22

• And when FSF was born gnu emacs was already 10. It just needed the right licence. Back then problems were different; engineers created things rather than bribe the mainstream media to masturbate over buzzwords like clown computing and "hey hi"    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 07:59:57

• Even the Git repos of many people are NOT git repos but lousy SOCIAL CONTROL MEDIA ACCOUNT S with "likes" (distracting from the tasks which actually matter). Microsoft saw the "addiction" and took over it.    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:01:07

• This is what happens when/because 1) universities became dependent on tuition fees from intl' students ~30 years ago. 2) rising nationalism, see (1). 3) degrees are no longer associated with career prospects. https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2025-01-28/400-members-of-staff-could-lose-jobs-at-wales-biggest-university    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:05:34

• Cheeto Mussolini Invents https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/donald-trump-invents-an-energy-emergency    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:10:06

• Europe Posts Record Year for Clean Energy Use as Cheeto Mussolini Pulls US Toward Fossil Fuels https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-01-22/europe-posts-record-year-for-clean-energy-use-as-trump-pulls-us-toward-fossil-fuels    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:10:27

• South Korea to Shrink Biomass Energy Subsidies After Criticism Over Link to Deforestation https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-01-21/south-korea-to-shrink-biomass-energy-subsidies-after-criticism-over-link-to-deforestation    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:14:39

• Cheeto Mussolini turns his sights to solar https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/you-know-what-else-people-dont-like-trump-turns-his-sights-to-solar/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:16:03

• Cheeto Mussolini’s ‘energy emergency’ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/trumps-energy-emergency-this-week-in-cleantech/ the emergency is propping up the Ponzi schemes of his sponsors http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/Meme_Don_t_Worry_They_Say_There_s_7_Trillion_Dollars_Waiting_at.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:16:34

• Germany 1930s https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-inauguration-speech-threatened-new-depths-of-state-cruelty/ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-makes-frightening-far-right-promises-in-inauguration-speech/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:19:22

• But this time the US oligarchs don't fund this in Germany but in their home country    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:19:46

• to keep getting richer they will convert the "middle class" into gig "workers"...    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:20:22

• And then gaslight their victims by saying unemployment isn't about concentration of power and capital but SOMETHING SOMETHING HEY HI ERA    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:21:17

• Jim Acosta leaves CNN, so MElon and armed "bros" can better "inform" the public    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:22:23

• In Red US, who needs education anyway? https://bronx.news12.com/east-orange-parents-demand-answers-from-school-board-following-teacher-layoffs    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:23:13

• Who needs climate anyway? WE HAVE ECONOMY!!!    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:23:53

• Bartering is a human invention. Money is a later human invention. Ponzi scheme is stupid humans' invention (governed by a senile bigot) http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/Meme_Don_t_Worry_They_Say_There_s_7_Trillion_Dollars_Waiting_at.shtml so basically the monetary system is rapidly becoming a major scam, obsolete but justifies economic warfare    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:26:13

• Wherein the richest people are just the most "successful" pyramid scheme buildings. Or people who mooch off taxpayers, using money that does not even exist and will never exist (debt).    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:27:17

• And since you cannot meaningfully "spend" 100 billions (euros/dollars/yuan) your "currency" becomes status symbols, not money https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:28:07

• Or some space rockets    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:28:19

• Rockets on a journey to nowhere as there's no other planets humans can inhabit    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:28:39

• "among the many wacky executive orders that President Trump has issued in his first few days in office, one of them is straight up retro. I'm referring, of course, to the executive order directing the pentagon to develop a next-generation missile defense shield." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/canfood/phlog/2025-01-28    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:36:50

• "Today it's an early devlog. I've been awake for a few hours now applying for jobs and I realized that I've been massively overcomplicating a core feature of this app." gemini://sporiff.dev/2025/01/29/devlog_5/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 08:38:01

• surveillance COZ SAFETY https://www.projectcensored.org/fires-frontlines-surveillance/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 09:03:55

• Censorship is imposed in his favour now: Cheeto Mussolini Issues Order to End Censorship https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/22/trump-issues-order-to-end-censorship/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 09:06:27

• From #MeToo to Misdirection https://www.projectcensored.org/from-metoo-to-misdirection-media-misogny    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 09:08:05

• Censoring Posts From Abortion Pill Providers https://truthout.org/articles/instagram-facebook-under-fire-for-censoring-posts-from-abortion-pill-providers/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 09:11:28

• 2025-01-18: what comes next? Nationalist education comes to USA https://www.dw.com/en/syria-nationalist-education-dropped-but-what-comes-next/a-71325772    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 09:15:44

• Bribes https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-01-22/saudi-crown-prince-seeks-600-billion-investment-push-with-u-s https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-01-23/saudi-crown-prince-says-kingdom-intends-to-invest-600-billion-in-us-during-call-with-trump    

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

• oilpatch https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/oilpatch-trump-tariffs-1.7437638    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 09:17:53

• District of North Vancouver exits Nazi Twitter https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/north-vancouver-x-exit-1.7438498    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 09:18:33

• hopefully exit from Nazi Twitter will be like some event where everyone just looks at the exit but only joins the rest of the exiters when joining the group is a cover (from backlash, like abuse from MElon cultists and retribution in public-shaming "tweets"). Hopefully ALL public accounts (police, municipality, politicians are bracing to quit).    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 09:21:25

• "Seems like the upcoming Linux kernel 6.14 release is going to be a nice one for gamers on Linux / Steam Deck, as the NTSYNC code has now been properly merged in ready" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ntsync-for-proton-wine-now-in-linux-kernel-6-14-that-should-make-many-steamos-users-happy/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:24:53

• "Valve released another smaller Steam Client Beta update for Desktop / Steam Deck, with a little tweak for in-game notifications amongst some other bug fixes." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/steam-steam-deck-beta-update-will-no-longer-bug-friends-in-game-when-you-reconnect/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:25:13

• "Techland are celebrating 10 years of Dying Light with a number of announcements, like a graphics update to the original, a few events and some big discounts." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/dying-light-is-getting-a-free-graphical-update-plus-dying-light-2-will-get-a-new-game-mode/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:25:36

• "Releasing with Linux support on March 4, Two Point Museum has a brand new trailer to showcase Museum Management and more." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-latest-two-point-museum-trailer-shows-off-museum-management/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:25:58

• "Rosewater from Grundislav Games and publisher Application Systems Heidelberg has a brand new trailer and they've revealed the release date is now set for March 27th. [...] Rosewater will have Linux support at release." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/wild-west-point-click-adventure-rosewater-set-for-release-in-march-with-a-new-trailer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

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

• "Nova Drift from developer Chimeric is a very well-received rogue-lite space shooter that released back in 2024, and the dev continues working on it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/popular-rogue-lite-space-shooter-nova-drift-gets-updated-for-steam-deck-verification/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:30:22

• "While working on Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone, developer The Farm 51 have gone back and further enhanced Chernobylite Complete Edition to bring some Steam Deck improvements." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/survival-horror-chernobylite-updated-for-better-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:31:18

• "Back in 2020 the strategy game Antimatter sure looked exciting during the Kickstarter, with the developer steadily building up all the promised features." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-new-trailer-for-sandbox-strategy-game-antimatter-shows-off-the-epic-scale/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:31:46

• "A Nintendo lawsuit filed last November targeted video gamer Jesse Keighin, aka EveryGameGuru." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/nintendo-piracy-lawsuit-defendant-makes-dire-situation-even-worse-250128/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:35:11

• "he use of copyrighted material in training large language models (LLMs) has sparked legal battles and takedown notices." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/llm-taken-down-following-legal-pressure-from-anti-piracy-group-250128/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:35:19

• RMS is NOT "open source" https://www.instagram.com/elbruzteknoloji/p/DFXC-ezsDuN/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:36:50

• rms talks not online though, not full rms talk anyway    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:50:45

• "Discover the Raspberry Pi Foundation's approach to translating and localising computing content for learners across the world." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/translating-educational-content-four-key-principles/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:52:43

• "The Arch Linux Results Are In, It's Really The Best" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/the-arch-linux-results-are-in,-it's:a    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:53:28

• "Medical device for open heart surgery ends certified repair program" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/medical-device-for-open-heart-surgery:c    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:54:24

• "Intent vs Results" https://idiomdrottning.org/intent-vs-result    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:54:41

• "Analysis = Facts + Interpretation | Seth's Blog" https://seths.blog/2025/01/analysis-facts-interpretation/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:54:54

• "Trump pauses on grants, aid leaves federal cyber programs in state of confusion" https://cyberscoop.com/trump-pause-grants-aid-federal-cyber-programs/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:55:18

• iophk: so as to exclude real press from limited physical space, and to run out the clock at press conferences by talking to their shills instead of the press https://www.voanews.com/a/white-house-to-open-media-access-to-podcasters-influencers/7953761.html ("White House to open media access to podcasters, influencers")    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:57:05

• "Cheeto threatens 100% tariff on Taiwan’s microchip industry – Radio Free Asia" https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/28/china-trump-taiwan-microchip-tariffs/ way to attack ally like Taiwan’s companies    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:58:22

• Does Xi tell Cheeto what policies to adopt? Is he that CRISPY?    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:59:27

• "‘How do you even f—?” In Russia’s anti-queer crackdown, police have spent years raiding nightclubs, private parties, and medical institutions. Now, the authorities have the data for another Great Terror." https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/29/how-do-you-even-f    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 10:59:46

• The EU's new censorship bureaucracy | "EU:s nya censur-byråkrati" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/01/28/eus-nya-censur-byrakrati/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:03:56

• "Why Trump pardoned Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht" https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/397113/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-drugs-nick-bilton-pardon    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:04:09

• "Will the Supreme Court rule that any laws still apply to Donald Trump?" https://www.vox.com/scotus/397104/supreme-court-donald-trump-lawlessness "No one knows if the Supreme Court will enforce the law against Trump."    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:05:03

• "Trump Tries to Seize the 'Power of the Purse’" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/01/trump-executive-order-spending-congress/681484/ “It’s an illegal executive order, and it’s stealing,” “It essentially makes the president into a king.”    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:06:56

• "What Trump's Funding Freeze Could Mean for Universities, Nonprofits and More" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-01-28/what-trumps-funding-freeze-could-mean-for-universities-nonprofits-and-more    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:07:12

• "Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/financial-management/2025/01/trump-is-pausing-federal-loans-and-grants-as-his-administration-reviews-spending/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:13:26

• "White House Caught With Pants Down As Medicaid Funding Portals Go Down" https://futurism.com/neoscope/white-house-medicaid-portals    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:13:39

• "Cheeto White House tries to clarify confusion over abrupt federal assistance freeze" https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-white-house-clarify-confusion-abrupt-federal-assistance/story?id=118184086    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:13:56

• "Trump orders freeze on government programs worth billions a year" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-01-28/trump-orders-freeze-on-government-programs-worth-billions-a-year.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:14:18

• Microsoft has put all its hype tokens in this scan of a "company": "Former Intel CEO Says After Seeing DeepSeek, He's Done With OpenAI" https://futurism.com/former-intel-ceo-deekseek-openai http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:15:43

• Microsoft layoffs. "Is Las Colinas safe? Any word?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjqwg5rc    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:16:51

• Car dealership exposed to hacker attack - sends warnings to its customers | "Bilforhandler udsat for hackerangreb - sender advarsler til sine kunder | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/artikel/bilforhandler-udsat-hackerangreb-sender-advarsler-til-sine-kunder    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:17:34

• DeepSick [sic] hype does NOT change the fact that chatbots/LLMs lack a SOLID use case.    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:18:13

• "surveillance as a service" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/01/28/surveillance-as-a-service/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:19:38

• "Last week, Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term as President of the United States." ☛ https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2025/01/29/amusing-factionalism-in-the-maha-universe/ |    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:20:25

• "Copyright law affects everything we do on the [Internet]" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/dont-make-copyright-law-smoke-filled-rooms | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:23:54

• "improperly targeted speakers to hold the notice abuser accountable" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/what-proponents-digital-replica-laws-can-learn-digital-millennium-copyright-act | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:24:19

• Old: Software Patent ☛ https://www.datamation.com/open-source/eben-moglen-speaks-the-gpl-today/ |    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:24:50

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2590352/hours-long-unskippable-ads-spotted-on-youtube-whats-going-on.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:25:33

• "landlords can force bulk [Internet] service on residents" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/599513/fcc-bulk-billing-proposal-ended-isp-apartment-carr | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:26:40

• "FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appointed more FCC leadership positions on Friday. This is after naming six acting bureau chiefs and the acting general counsel and managing director earlier in the week." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/carr-appoints-additional-agency-leaders/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:26:56

• "If Project 2025 is a guide, the agency will be gutted under Trump: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/cisa-under-trump.html | Source: Bruce Schneier http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/25/CISA_Has_a_Microsoft_Conflict_of_Interest_Problem_CISA_Cannot_A.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:27:17

• "This post explores the characteristics of various traffic models using synthetic data and offers an overview of traffic patterns. We’ll generate and analyse time series data to highlight the fundamental properties of different traffic models." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/01/29/network-traffic-modelling-approaches/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:29:25

• "Of course Biden was infinitely better for unions and workers than the alternative scenario of Trump winning in 2020. That is common sense, a question not even worth dwelling on." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confirmed-unions-squandered-the-biden | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:29:47

• "A new book by the Dalai Lama documents for the first time in detail the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader’s 70-year struggle with China to secure a future for the Tibetan people." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/01/27/tibet-dalai-lama-new-book/ | Source: RFA    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:30:07

• "Sannet’s case is far from unique in the conservative" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/chechnya-ingushetia-north-caucasus--russia-child-custody-divorce/33290769.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:31:03

• "The evidence brought against Kurdish journalist Safiye Alagaş consists of her professional journalism and does not support accusations that she was a member of a terrorist organization" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/01/kurdish-journalist-sentenced-to-6-years-3-months-on-terrorism-charges-in-turkey/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:32:28

• "The amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) were previously approved by the National Assembly and now await the president’s signature to become law." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/01/free-speech-fears-mount-as-pakistans-senate-approves-bill-criminalizing-false-news/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:32:50

• "Facebook is banning posts that mention various Linux-related topics, sites, or groups." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-linux-topics-as-cybersecurity-threats-posts-and-users-being-blocked | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:33:45

• "Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek’s answers about the Hong Kong protests in 2019, Taiwan’s status and other topics echo Beijing’s party line, according to test questions posed by HKFP." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/28/lets-talk-about-something-else-chinas-ai-chatbot-deepseek-answers-questions-on-hong-kong-tiananmen-crackdown/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:34:34

• "The new Law 14 requires us to program activities held mainly in French" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-public-library-english-book-club-law-14-1.7443547 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:36:12

• "Some of this went on the back burner, mostly due to courts recognizing the inherent unconstitutionality of these laws and acts." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/28/trumps-dept-of-education-rolls-back-anti-book-ban-guidance-says-bring-on-the-censorship/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:36:39

• "The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced that it is rescinding all past guidance issued against the removal of books and will no longer employ a coordinator to investigate instances of unlawful book removals." ☛ https://abcnews.go.com/US/department-education-dismisses-book-ban-investigations-ends-guidance/story?id=118098825 | Source: ABC    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:37:55

• "The lawsuits, generally, have not gone well." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/28/nuness-slapp-suit-over-forgotten-esquire-farm-story-crashes-again/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:39:16

• "there's no truth" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-ap-southern-california-sacramento-truth-social-b2688036.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:41:27

• "did not provide details" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/california/articles/2025-01-28/california-water-regulators-deny-trumps-claim-that-us-military-turned-on-the-water-in-the-state | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:48:31

• "threatens to challenge America’s AI giants" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/27/chinese-deepseek-ai-has-sparked-a-1-trillion-panic/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:49:07

• Under the false assumption that LLMs are ANYTHING but a PASSING FED!!    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:49:40

• "MAGAMeta Is Paying Fentanylware (TikTok) Influencers" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/28/meta-tiktok-influencers-contracts/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:55:17

• "Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul Pelosi has cashed in to the tune of $38 million" ☛ https://futurism.com/nancy-pelosis-husband-sold-nvidia-stocks-before-crash-chinese-ai | Source: Futurism https://techrights.org/n/2024/07/16/Possibly_Worse_Than_Bribes_US_Politicians_and_Lawmakers_Who_Are.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:56:14

• "You might remember that Sonos was the golden child of “smart,” [Internet]-connected home hardware a decade or so ago." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/28/sonos-executives-pay-the-price-for-companys-shitty-anti-consumer-policies/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:58:43

• "where AI regulations are often more nascent" ☛ https://restofworld.org/2025/global-ai-regulation-big-tech/ | Source: Rest of World    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:59:22

• "Someone dug up a 2008 post from Google’s public policy blog where the then-global director of the sector talks about this very issue" ☛ https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2025/google-maps-gulf-of-mexico-us/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 11:59:44

• "The timing couldn’t be worse for the nation to lose its top cybersecurity cop." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-jen-easterly-cisa-cybersecurity/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:00:25

• "A Fork in the Road" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-twitter-playbook-federal-government/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:02:05

• "That's rattled tech stocks in AI-adjacent industries" ☛ https://futurism.com/energy-stocks-deepseek-power | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:04:30

• "everyone who is anyone in the U.S. energy industry" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/energy-environment/chevron-power-plant-ai.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:05:12

• "OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank" Ponzi ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110599/ais-energy-obsession-gets-a-reality-check/ | Source: MIT Technology Review http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/Meme_Don_t_Worry_They_Say_There_s_7_Trillion_Dollars_Waiting_at.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:06:47

• "Take the Planetary Boundaries framework, one of the most recognized global indicators of humanity’s transgression of critical ecological thresholds" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/28/we-need-a-data-revolution-to-avert-climate-disaster/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:07:16

• "American Oversight filed multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-opens-investigation-into-mass-firings-of-inspectors-general-by-trump-administration/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:08:36

• "public-inbox spawned around three main ideas: [...]" ☛ https://public-inbox.org/README.html |    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:09:03

• GNU essays. "Introduction by Lawrence Lessig" http://gnu.ist.utl.pt/philosophy/fsfs/rms-essays.pdf    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:25:49

• "Drug through the Streets" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/28/confirming-kash-patel-will-get-senators-drug-through-the-streets/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:32:38

• "allies need to focus on strengthening defences in the Arctic" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250128-danish-pm-marshals-european-support-against-trump-s-threats-to-greenland | Source: France24    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:33:09

• "Denmark's Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said in a statement." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250128/denmark-announces-15-billion-kroner-arctic-security-plan | Source: The Local DK    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 12:33:36

• "The Bagarmossen explosion is the 30th explosion in Sweden since the turn of the year. The previous record for the most explosions in a single month was 22." ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250128/two-held-after-sweden-records-30th-explosion-since-the-turn-of-the-year | Source: The Local SE    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:06:31

• "The incident is being investigated as försök till grov allmänfarlig ödeläggelse, or literally 'attempted gross devastation endangering the public'." ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250128/residents-told-to-stay-indoors-after-suspicious-objects-found-in-southern-stockholm | Source: The Local SE    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:07:04

• "The ministerial brief from the Department of Defence said “strengthening cyber defence capabilities” and “securing critical infrastructure” were key matters on the EU agenda." ☛ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41563492.html | Source: Irish Examiner    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:07:44

• "assess that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0128/Hamas-controls-Gaza-Israel | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:08:42

• "This post covers best practices for using KDFs" ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/01/28/best-practices-for-key-derivation/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:10:25

• "When the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in 2018" ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-day-only-13-cases-eu-dpas-result-fine | Source: NYOB    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:14:25

• "In light of this, privacy protection on the Internet is way more important today than it was when the Data Privacy Day was introduced in 2008" ☛ https://threema.ch/en/blog/posts/dpd25 | Source: Threema GmbH    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:14:51

• "The bill is similar to the state's previous attempts to require age verification on social media platforms" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51239299/why-utahns-might-need-to-show-id-in-order-to-download-apps | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:15:17

• "Records obtained by EFF also included numerous cases of other forms of database abuse in 2023" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/california-police-misused-state-databases-more-7000-times-2023 | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:17:29

• "Filed by two anonymous federal employees in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/opm-email-federal-workforce-lawsuit-server-privacy-security/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:17:56

• "As you may have noticed, the tech world is full of news about TikTok, its ban, its reprieve and possible sale" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/tiktok-aliexpress-shein-temu-wechat-and-xiaomi-hit-with-gdpr-complaints-over-personal-data-transfers-to-china/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:19:09

• "New Gmail war crime spotted in the wild" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/01/new-gmail-war-crime-spotted-in-the-wild/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:22:17

• Social Control Media ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/the-problem-with-content-moderation-is-unsurprisingly-scale | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:27:14

• "Deepseek, a new AI startup run by a Chinese hedge fund, allegedly created a new open weights model called R1 that beats OpenAI's best model in every metric." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-deepseek-r1-on-raspberry-pi | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:28:33

• "LinkedIn has removed at least two accounts that were created for AI “co-workers” whose profile images said they were “#OpenToWork.”" ☛ https://www.404media.co/linkedin-ai-coworkers-marketeam-open-to-work/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:28:56

• "The base model is never released directly, for two reasons. First, it’s typically too large and too expensive to serve to users." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/ai-lab-structure/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:29:17

• "To begin with, it’s important to note that AI was never a proprietary technology in itself. The underlying code of all AI companies was always open source" ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/28/yanis-varoufakis-on-cloud-capital-vs-ai-deepseek-technofeudalism-capitalism-and-the-new-cold-war/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:31:00

• "The Onion once again posted an article in which a portion of the artwork came from an AI-generated Shutterstock image." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-onion-deletes-second-ai-slop | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:31:33

• "When the box is in drop-off mode, it remains unlocked so that delivery personnel can deposit packages into it." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-pico-secure-delivery-box-helps-protect-your-packages | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:34:11

• "The Apple Watch is great at two things: telling you things you already know (you were active enough today)" ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/ive-stopped-wearing-my-apple-watch-kurzgesagt-did-this-great-video-on-exercise-that-annoyingly | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:35:35

• "Let’s explore the challenges that drove three teams to leave DynamoDB." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/why-teams-are-ditching-dynamodb/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:36:01

• FOMO ☛ https://bjhess.com/posts/fomo-machines | Source: Barry Hess    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:36:33

• [Old] "But then came the announcements from Apple and Microsoft of their operating systems going past 11 or to 11 respectively" ☛ https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-impending-doom-of-your-operating.html | Source: BSDly    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:39:31

• "Oh yeah, it's true, I have a Nintendo Switch and I have been playing Ridge Racer on my PSP for like 8 hours in a couple days" ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/it's-psp-season/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:39:58

• iophk: the kakistocracy entrenches https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/the_us_governments_new_cio/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:40:25

• The Zemlin effect: you hire someone 10 levels below the qualifications required. Then, he'd do anything for sponsors to keep the job, can be lied to without challenge, will speak in buzzwords.    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:41:43

• [Old] "Joe Janes, an assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan" ☛ https://quod.lib.umich.edu/j/jep/3336451.0003.205?view=text;rgn=main | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:42:06

• "The IPL uses the connecting power of the Internet to link users and service providers in exciting new configurations, extending far beyond the walls of traditional public libraries to secure the best services for its global network of users" ☛ https://news.umich.edu/information-superhighway-adds-a-new-stop-internet-public-library/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:44:28

• "Daniel collated a list of programming quotes, though they could easily apply to so many endeavours. I hadn’t heard of these: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/various-programming-quotes/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:45:00

• "Most scholars would say that a good teacher does three key things: They establish strong, caring teacher-student relationships; challenge students to think, reason, and communicate their ideas; and convey subject matter accurately and clearly." ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/01/what-makes-a-good-teacher/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:45:21

• "In other words, by switching from a naïve analysis to an intention-to-treat analysis" ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/intention-to-treat-experiments | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:46:09

• "I’ve stepped away from an all digital productivity system and onto a good old paper notebook." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2025/01/28/finding-your-own-productivity-system/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:54:57

• "Like the memorable scene from the Big Lebowski" ☛ https://louplummer.lol/there-are-rules/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:55:14

• "I wrote a similar article last year, Blogging and Me, in which I answered interview questions from People and Blogs. I reused some of that article for this challenge. But mostly new and original content." ☛ https://jeffbridgforth.com/blog-questions-challenge/ | Source: Jeff Bridgforth    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:55:40

• "Is the [Internet], at its core, a marketplace or a Third Place?" ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 13:56:01

• LF bringing in money from companies like Microsoft (to sink the money into projects) is NOT an achievement! It's a sale, a sell-off, a sellout. The function of today's LF has nothing whatsoever to do with Linux. It's openwashing, outsourcing to Microsoft (GitHub), and selling influence to GAFAM+IBM OVER various FOSS projects/communities. LF = corporate pimp.    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:05:41

• "This never felt right — it’s just a simple animation! Turns out, the solution was quite easy." ☛ https://medienbaecker.com/articles/animate-native-lazy-loading | Source: Thomas Günther    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:06:16

• "The problem is, apps being addictive isn’t just a one-off phenomenon, with an increasingly saturated market" ☛ https://blog.viditb.com/designing-distraction-free-computers/ | Source: Vidit Bhargava    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:06:41

• "Just as with people, we place a great degree of trust in software, and different pieces of software place a great degree of trust in each other." ☛ https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2024/can_we_retain_the_benefits_of_transitive_dependencies_without_undermining_security.html | Source: Lawrence Tratt    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:07:28

• "there are three different types" ☛ https://www.openmymind.net/In-Zig-Whats-a-Writer/ | Source: Karl Seguin    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:07:50

• Open Data ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-gulf-of-america-order-maps/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:08:47

• Jamie Love (James Packard Love) is still around, but getting old (about 75) and barely visible anymore. We need him in the fight against patents and mobsters like Bill Gates.    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:11:47

• Knowledge Ecology International is barely even visible anymore    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:12:48

• "In 1996, Love worked with Richard Stallman to create the Union for the Public Domain, which focused its attention on defeating a proposal at a WIPO diplomatic conference to adopt a treaty for the protection of non-copyrighted elements of databases."    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:13:23

• "In 1997, Love worked with Ralph Nader to push the U.S. Department of Justice to bring an antitrust case against Microsoft for anti-competitive conduct relating to web browsers and other software products running on Windows. Nader and Love later asked several computer manufacturers to offer consumers the choice of Linux" -GatesPedia/Pedophile    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:14:02

• Love pretty much disappeared a decade ago when his wife got cancer https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jan/26/big-pharmas-worst-nightmare    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:16:04

• "Ress’s fight for survival shifted Love’s perspective, he explained to me over a pint of lager on a chill evening in London last spring. He had spent years focusing on drugs that were just coming to the end of their patent life – drugs that were by that time almost two decades old. But better cancer drugs are being developed every year"    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:17:02

• "For the sake of women like his wife, Love realised he needed to be working on access to new drugs, not just the ones coming to the end of their patent protection."    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:17:51

• "Jamie Love has never worked in healthcare. His crusade for access to medicines developed out of an early recognition that the drive for profit of big corporations was harming the poor. After graduating from high school, Love left his home town of Bellevue, across the lake from Seattle, and went to Alaska to work in the fisheries"    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:18:44

• "Love had been working on the question of what constitutes a fair cost for medicines, on and off, since 1991. But the moment that would shape Love’s career came in the spring of 1994, when he got an invitation from Fabiana Jorge, a lobbyist for the Argentinian generic drug industry."    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:19:13

• "Prizes should be funded by governments and or employers – the same entities that pay for health insurance or public health programmes now. At some point, a shift from prices to prizes would require new thinking about the trade framework, moving from agreements about intellectual property rights to agreements about funding R&D, including but not limited to prizes." https://msfaccess.org/prize-fund-model-interview-keis-james-love    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:20:26

• [Old] "Free Software Matters: Enforcing the GPL, I" ☛ https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-12.html |    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:23:09

• "So, to some extent, I would say, avoidance of the tragedy of the commons in our world depends upon the structuring of the commons. Institutions alone, as I also pointed out earlier in this conversation however, commons resources need active management." ☛ https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/moglen-harvard-speech-2004.en.html | Source: GNU    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:23:37

• "Just as importantly, DeepSeek was released as fully open source, under a very permissive [sic] MIT License, so any other company could replicate the model." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/icymi-deepseek-is-an-open-source-success-story/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:24:26

• Watch out, DeepSeek (DeepSick) staff http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/01/Mother_of_OpenAI_Whistleblower_Says_Her_Son_Was_Murdered_He_Acc.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/15/Meme_Well_He_s_Dead_So_Bill_Gates_Tells_the_Media_Which_He_Pays.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:25:13

• The term "permissive [sic] MIT License" is misleading. It is non-reciprocal. ☛ https://linuxiac.com/microsoft-launches-an-open-source-documentdb-database/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:26:21

• "The second philosophy for the production of software in commons is embodied in the GNU General Public License of the Free Software Foundation, known universally throughout the world by another three-letter abbreviation, GPL" ☛ https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/maine-speech.html |    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:27:18

• "It’s rare to see competitors in the security space unite behind a single cause." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/opengrep-static-analysis-security-tool-semgrep-open-source/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:28:04

• "Opengrep is a fork of Semgrep's open source static code analysis engine, created in response to Semgrep's December 13th, 2024 announcement that moved critical features behind their commercial license." ☛ https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/everything-you-need-to-know-about-opengrep |    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:29:34

• "In a previous post I wrote about how to secure Jekyll with SSL locally." ☛ https://claytonerrington.com/blog/securing-11ty-with-ssl-locally/ | Source: Clayton Errington    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:46:18

• "Vector databases, however, being databases, can do more than just store and retrieve vectors." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/why-vector-databases-are-here-to-stay-in-the-ai-age/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:46:45

• "Our commitment to Opengrep ensures that its static code analysis engine and rules remain accessible to everyone." ☛ https://www.opengrep.dev/ |    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:47:40

• "I've been using a hosted Plex instance for my media consumption for a bit now and while I've been happy with it" ☛ https://coryd.dev/posts/2025/migrating-from-plex-to-jellyfin-for-music | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:47:48

• "On 15 January 2025, Namex achieved a major milestone by surpassing one terabit of Internet network traffic" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/01/28/ixp-steps-into-the-terabit-era/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:51:23

• "Several of my most popular apps make use of the main system log" ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/01/28/please-dont-delete-your-logs/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:51:37

• AG Proiects Debian and Ubuntu Linux repositories ☛ https://docs.sipthor.net//w/debian_package_repositories/ |    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:51:49

• It does not run on Linux, it fakes it with Drawbridge ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/install-sql-server-on-red-hat-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:54:00

• Something seems to have gone wrong with this site because it calls Windows "Linux" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/rsync-files-between-linux-and-windows/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 14:54:53

• Putin says peace talks with Ukraine possible, but not with Zelensky ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250128-putin-says-talks-with-ukraine-possible-but-not-with-zelensky    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:04:42

• Ukrainian drones and missiles target Putin’s war machine inside Russia ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukrainian-drones-and-missiles-target-putins-war-machine-inside-russia/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:05:04

• Survey suggests support for Ukraine remains strong in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/28.01.2025-survey-suggests-support-for-ukraine-remains-strong-in-latvia.a585468/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:07:40

• 'War must end, Ukraine couldn't agree more: The question is what do we mean by just, lasting peace?' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250128-fran%C3%A7ois-picard-welcomes-former-ukrainian-foreign-minister-dmytro-kuleba    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:08:05

• Ukraine Anti-Corruption Agency Launches Probe Into Defense Chief Umerov ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-defense-minister-klimenkov-fired-reforms-procurement/33292053.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:08:47

• Zelenskiy Presses Ukraine's Cause With Gathered World Leaders In Poland ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-zelenskiy-macron-poland-auschwitz/33291354.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:09:02

• Slovakia's Fico to discuss gas transit with European Commission on Thursday ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/slovakias-fico-to-discuss-gas-transit-with-european-commission-on-thursday    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:09:16

• An identity that upends dictators ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0128/An-identity-that-upends-dictators    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:09:30

• Chastened by Past Wars, Kremlin Tries to Elevate Its Veterans ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/europe/russia-ukraine-veterans.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:35:36

• Many Ukrainian Aid Groups Stop Work After Convicted Felon’s Halt on Foreign Assistance ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/europe/ukraine-trump-aid-freeze.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:36:08

• Africans ‘Trapped’ Working in Russian Drone Factories ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/01/africans-trapped-working-in-russian-drone-factories/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=africans-trapped-working-in-russian-drone-factories    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:36:31

• Commission proposes tariffs on remaining agricultural products and on fertilisers from Russia and Belarus ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_340    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:40:03

• European Union Sanctions Russian Nationals for Hacking Estonia ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/european-union-sanctions-russian-nationals-for-hacking-estonia/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:42:38

• Ungrateful Russians apprehensive about budding biometric paradise ☞ https://off-guardian.org/2025/01/28/ungrateful-russians-apprehensive-about-budding-biometric-paradise/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:43:30

• Lithuania’s deputy minister of finance steps down over disloyalty allegations ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2471854/lithuania-s-deputy-minister-of-finance-steps-down-over-disloyalty-allegations    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:44:07

• Sanction evaders will be fined and shamed, assures Lithuania’s intelligence chief ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2471552/sanction-evaders-will-be-fined-and-shamed-assures-lithuania-s-intelligence-chief    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:45:01

• Russian social control media account could stop Lithuanian vice-minister’s security clearance ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2471393/russian-social-media-account-could-stop-lithuanian-vice-minister-s-security-clearance    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:45:44

• No more Western haute couture? Russian designers say no problem. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0128/russia-sanctions-fashion-industry-economy    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:46:10

• Russian Envoys Arrive in Syria for First Time Since al-Assad Fell ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/europe/russia-syria.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:46:35

• "proposal to exempt pregnant women and single fathers from pre-trial detention" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/28/russian-government-commission-supports-justice-ministry-proposal-to-exempt-pregnant-women-and-single-fathers-from-pre-trial-detention | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:47:03

• "dissolution of prominent transgender rights organization founded in 2007" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/28/russian-authorities-seek-dissolution-of-prominent-transgender-rights-organization-founded-in-2007 | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:47:36

• "arrested in Stockholm" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/28/man-arrested-in-stockholm-for-attempting-to-drive-onto-russian-embassy-grounds | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:48:45

• Mediterranean ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/28/russia-removes-military-equipment-from-syria-s-tartus-its-only-naval-base-in-the-mediterranean | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:49:20

• "super-rich only grow richer" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/28/the-end-of-the-war-will-herald-far-more-challenges-for-the-regime-than-the-war-itself | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:49:42

• LNG ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/28/russia-s-lng-exports-hit-record-high-in-2024-with-over-half-going-to-europe | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:52:04

• "No one gives a damn" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/28/no-one-gives-a-damn | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:52:47

• Discovery, Injury, and Diligence: Reconciling Subjective and Objective Copyright Limitations Standards Post-Warner Chappell ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/01/reconciling-subjective-limitations.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:53:50

• Playboi Carti Faces ‘Kelly K’ Copyright Infringement Lawsuit from Alleged Contributor Blakk Soul ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/28/playboi-carti-lawsuit-kelly-k/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:54:01

• Weekly recap — 26 January 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/01/week-recap-26-jan-2025/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:54:28

• 2024 Cherry-picks ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/2024-cherry-picks/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:55:15

• How To Install BleachBit on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-bleachbit-manjaro/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:56:04

• How To Install Apache Hadoop on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-hadoop-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:56:15

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

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:56:35

• How To Install Ghost on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ghost-manjaro/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 15:56:52

• SPAM disguised as "Linux" article https://www.unixmen.com/white-label-link-building-for-linux-based-websites-saving-time-and-resources/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/17/Even_Technical_Articles_and_HowTos_From_UNIXMen_Nowadays_Seem_t.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:01:14

• Slashdot is Once Again Publishing Lies and Revisionism for Famous Criminal Bill Gates, Citing Microsoft's MSN to Rewrite History and Distract From the Jeffrey Epstein Crimes ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/27/Slashdot_is_Once_Again_Publishing_Lies_and_Revisionism_for_Bill.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:01:43

• Red Hat selling crackpot junk and Ponzi scheme under the guise of "education" and "skills"; what is the goal, teaching kids to cheat? ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/bridging-ai-skills-gap-red-hats-collaboration-teens-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:03:20

• More irrational buzzwords and a circus of sheer hype, not tech ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-it-and-embracing-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:04:00

• Openwashing a scam, a hype, and fake/false marketing. Red Hat stooping low these days. ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ethics-open-and-public-ai-balancing-transparency-and-safety | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:04:45

• They go nowhwere with buzzwords like "edge computing" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/top-5-edge-computing-challenges-solved-red-hat-openshift-observability | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:05:20

• Tucker Carlson ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/28/kremlin-responds-to-tucker-carlson-s-claim-that-biden-administration-tried-to-kill-putin | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:08:13

• DeepSeek may be the best Chinese New Year gift to China this year, but can it sink its US rivals? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/deepseek-may-be-the-best-chinese-new-year-gift-to-china-this-year-but-can-it-sink-its-us-rivals    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:08:40

• "Removed the link to @mastodon.social. Our account was suspended on grounds that are still unclear to us." https://stallmansupport.org/updates.html#2025-01-28    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:09:55

• gw01 – setup photos – very little commentary ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2025/01/28/gw01-setup-photos-very-little-commentary/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:11:33

• DeepSeek's Hey Hi (AI) breakthrough bypasses industry-standard CUDA, uses Nvidia's assembly-like PTX programming instead ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/deepseeks-ai-breakthrough-bypasses-industry-standard-cuda-uses-assembly-like-ptx-programming-instead    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:12:43

• Starbucks to add ‘panic buttons’ in stores to boot loiterers, lingering customers ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/01/28/business/starbucks-to-add-panic-buttons-in-stores-to-boot-loiterers-lingering-customers/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:13:20

• Storm Herminia: French residents rescued from flooded homes by boat ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250128-french-residents-rescued-from-flooded-homes-by-boat-as-storm-herminia-hits-normandy-and-brittany    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:16:43

• Another win for Astellas as Dutch court upholds Xtandi patent monopoly ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/win-for-astellas-hoyng-as-dutch-court-upholds-xtandi-patent/    

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

• How is one person merely changing a job (same job, different employer) considered news unless this is marketing spam from JUVE, as usual? ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/hoyng-rokh-expands-patent-attorney-practice-konig-szynka-partner-hertzsch/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:18:20

• Software Patent: VDPP video stitching patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/1/27/vdpp-video-stitching-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:18:55

• "Patent owner-friendly? I think so." Patents do not have "OWNERS" and this is about an ILLEGAL "court", UPC, which must be abolished as its existence discredits Europe ttp://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-upcs-first-decision-on-infringement.html?showComment=1738098190656#c1669124725087861029 http://techrights.org/wiki/UPC/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:20:25

• USPTO’s Remote Work Program Faces Potential Rapid Dismantling Under New Federal Guidelines ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/01/potential-dismantling-guidelines.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:21:15

• "SuccessFactors" (SAP) Stunts at the EPO Used to Break Laws and Constitutions, Staff Tricked Into Harming Themselves (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/28/SuccessFactors_SAP_Stunts_at_the_EPO_Used_to_Break_Laws_and_Con.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:24:29

• Another Talk by Richard Stallman Tomorrow, This Time in Bengaluru (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/28/Another_Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_Tomorrow_This_Time_in_Bengalur.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:24:37

• [Video] Richard Matthew Stallman (RMS) in India, Talking About Proprietary Software's Dangers Only Yesterday ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/28/Video_Richard_Matthew_Stallman_RMS_in_India_Talking_About_Propr.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:24:46

• Continued Support and Momentum at the Free Software Foundation (FSF) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/28/Continued_Support_and_Momentum_at_the_Free_Software_Foundation_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:25:05

• Richard Stallman Gives Keynote Address in a Few Hours ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/27/Richard_Stallman_Gives_Keynote_Address_in_a_Few_Hours.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:25:15

• The Web, Including Wikipedia, Gets Filled With Lies About Famous Criminal Bill Gates, Added by Famous Criminal Bill Gates and His PR Team ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/29/The_Web_Including_Wikipedia_Gets_Filled_With_Lies_About_Bill_Ga.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:26:02

• IBM Layoffs in 2025: Rumours Say Even Managers Will Get the Axe, Some Via Loopholes Like PIP and/or RTO (Preparations Already Underway) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/27/IBM_Layoffs_in_2025_Rumours_Say_Even_Managers_Will_Get_the_Axe_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:26:10

• Marcus Lundblad: Pre-FOSDEM Maps wrap-up ☞ https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/01/pre-fosdem-maps-wrap-up.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:28:26

• "FOSDEM travel coming up; an introduction to community road building" https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-01-28.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:29:36

• Data Protection Day: Only 1.3% of cases before EU DPAs result in a fine ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/data-protection-day-only-13-cases-eu-dpas-result-fine    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:31:31

• Google Maps to change Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, but only in US ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/google-gulf-of-mexico/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:32:18

• Stupid buzzwords from politicians with straws where a brain should be https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_360    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:33:50

• Doomsday Clock Moves One Second Closer to Catastrophe ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/doomsday-clock-2025.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:34:49

• The Steam Deck Has A Serious Switch 2 Problem ☞ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/01/28/the-steam-deck-suddenly-has-a-serious-switch-2-problem/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:36:21

• Kendrick Lamar, NFL Going Full-Steam Ahead with ‘Not Like Us’ Despite Billion-Dollar Defamation Threats ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/28/kendrick-lamar-nfl-going-full-steam-ahead-with-not-like-us/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:36:58

• Old: Richard Stallman Urges Rejection of Anti-Piracy Web Blocking https://torrentfreak.com/richard-stallman-urges-rejection-of-anti-piracy-web-blocking-110705/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:42:45

• In Seattle, a Meeting of 5,444 Mathematical Minds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/science/mathematics-ai-conference-jmm.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:43:35

• Stradiņš hospital tries to get back on track with construction ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/28.01.2025-stradins-hospital-tries-to-get-back-on-track-with-construction.a585430/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:44:09

• Karan | UnitedHealthcare isn’t just another headline. It’s a wake-up call. ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/01/27/united-healthcare-is-a-wake-up-call/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:44:41

• Countering the dementia epidemic: How Japan is adapting to its ageing population ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250128-countering-the-dementia-epidemic-how-japan-is-adapting-to-its-ageing-population    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:44:57

• With missiles flying in the Middle East, US Navy focuses on mental health ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/0128/military-mental-health-chaplains    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:45:21

• Caroline Kennedy Calls RFK Jr. a ‘Predator’ in Letter to Senators ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/health/caroline-kennedy-rfk-jr-hhs-confirmation.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:46:10

• R.F.K. Jr., in His Own Words: Flu, Diabetes, Autism and More ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/health/rfk-jr-vaccines-autism-video.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:46:19

• Hawaii Governor, a Doctor, Blames R.F.K. Jr. for Measles Deaths in Samoa ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/measles-rfk-jr.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:46:28

• Kansas Is Dealing With Major Tuberculosis Outbreak ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/tuberculosis-outbreak-kansas.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:46:38

• Saving Children’s Eyesight and Their Future in Mozambique ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/health/vision-problems-children-africa-mozambique.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 16:46:47

• 🔤SpellBinding: CEUNOSF Wordo: SICKO gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-01-29.gmi    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 17:43:42

• "When GTD was first published one of the new ideas was to sort your “next actions” list into contexts like “Calls”, “Do at home”, “Errands”, “Do at desk” and so on." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/contexts    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 17:44:27

• "I joined the kickstarter a long time ago and got the device yesterday. The package was nice. It works. The menu looks good – always tricky with a wheel user interface. My 16GiB SD card works, all I had to so was reformat it using a VFAT file-system (whatever the Gnome Disks app suggested)." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-01-29-tangara    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 17:45:30

• match review #1 - aéreo vs villano iii jr. gemini://superjcup.smol.pub/aereo-vs-villano-iii-jr    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 17:46:43

• "I had a few blogs and substacks in mind that I wanted to follow but that was about it. I didn’t realize how helpful having this app would be. The discovery feature led me sites I even wasn't aware of." gemini://sorrel-sour.smol.pub/web-tings-1    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 17:48:21

• i want to return to japan for vacation gemini://x.smol.pub/1738140555 MinceR, is that you?    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 17:49:07

• "I am rooted in a deep nostalgia for myself, I stumble upon bits and pieces of my past and am met with mixed feelings. Why do I struggle so much to retain memories that feel like they should be integral to my personality?" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2475    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 17:49:43

• Podcast Mordiscos Dev gemini://text.eapl.mx/podcast-mordiscos    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 17:50:07

• "The Volla Tablet is a 12.3 inch tablet with a 2560 x 1600 pixel display, a MediaTek Helio G99 processor, 12GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, quad speakers, and support for WiFi, Bluetooth and 4G LTE." https://liliputing.com/volla-tablet-is-now-shipping-google-free-android-tablet-that-can-also-run-ubuntu-touch/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:23:14

• "More open source code in the world is good news, and it means anyone can reuse PebbleOS to build their own smartwatches, or learn from perusing the code how the former Pebble team tackled building a solid real-time OS on such limited hardware." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/google-open-sources-pebble-smartwatch-os-new-watch-planned    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:25:05

• "Take, for example, my own favorite Linux desktop: Linux Mint. I've gotten people in their 70s who wouldn't know a shell command from Excel up and running on Mint without any trouble." https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/windows_10_demise_linux/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:26:42

• "If your computer currently runs Windows 10 but doesn't support Windows 11, you might want to install an OS that will live past 2025, and WattOS is a great option." https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-lightweight-easy-to-use-linux-os-can-save-your-aging-windows-10-pc/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:27:16

• "For plain Wine there's a big performance benefit, but for Valve's Proton it will mostly be around the same. However, we may see some better compatibility in certain games. The performance difference versus plain Wine that were shown off before across different systems" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/ntsync-for-proton-wine-now-in-linux-kernel-6-14-that-should-make-many-steamos-users-happy/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:27:49

• The issue here is VMware (GPL violator, Linux abuser, not "Linux") https://cybersecuritynews.com/akiras-new-linux-ransomware-esxi/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/04/28/openwashing-vmware-after-gpl-abuses/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:29:02

• How to install Perplexity AI's app on Linux (I found an easier way) https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-install-perplexity-ais-app-on-linux-i-found-an-easier-way/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:29:51

• "Version 0.27.0 was released earlier this month, with possibly the shortest description in its release notes that we've seen in any FOSS project" https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/enlightenment_reaches_027/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:30:13

• Automox Launches Real-Time Linux CVE Data to Outpace NVD Delays https://www.manilatimes.net/2025/01/28/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/automox-launches-real-time-linux-cve-data-to-outpace-nvd-delays/2045960    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:30:41

• "Dying Light also has a few in-game events over the next few weeks, along with a free time-limited DLC you can claim on Steam. Dying Light 2 also has some special in-game rewards you can get " https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/dying-light-is-getting-a-free-graphical-update-plus-dying-light-2-will-get-a-new-game-mode/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:31:10

• "Unlike macOS and Windows, the Linux ecosystem is filled with a host of cool distributions, each featuring its own spin on the open-source platform." https://www.xda-developers.com/most-unique-linux-distros-you-need-to-try-out/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:31:31

• Volunteers Needed for LibrePlanet Event in Shiraz, Iran (May 2025) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-01/msg00011.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:34:51

• IBM and the "HEY HI" buzz: "Yes, of course, ["HEY HI"] can be made to serve all of humanity. Will that be allowed to happen? Never under the political and economic systems we have in place for the past few thousand years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjmph5bx    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:36:43

• Richard Stallman: Champion of Free Software https://www.ivoox.com/en/ep-12-richard-stallman-champion-of-free-audios-mp3_rf_138942225_1.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:38:41

• Belgians tonight in Manchester, make-or-break game for Manchester City    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:40:54

• epo leaks to come soon, rms talk will hopefully be recorded and uploaded by somebody. this is an ethical, good person. stop treating him like trash.    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:41:38

• Fire Destroys Air Busan Plane at South Korean Airport ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/asia/busan-plane-fire-south-korea.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:48:14

• Air Busan Airbus plane catches fire at South Korea’s Busan airport ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/air-busan-plane-catches-fire-at-s-koreas-busan-airport-no-casualties    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:48:35

• Nel eyes nuclear hydrogen with alkaline electrolysers under KHNP MOU ☞ https://www.h2-view.com/story/nel-eyes-nuclear-hydrogen-with-alkaline-electrolysers-under-khnp-mou/2120517.article/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:48:51

• North Korea's Kim calls for bolstering nuclear forces this year, KCNA reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-koreas-kim-calls-for-bolstering-nuclear-forces-this-year-kcna-reports    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:49:02

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1006486/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 18:50:48

• Now that LF controls not only the CA system (via LE) but also Chrom-ish browsers, what chance is there that sites that SIGN THEIR OWN CERTS will be respected??? Nada. LF for MONOPOLY!    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:32:42

• Also in software "trust": Fake Security From Linux Foundation and the Monopolies It's Fronting for http://techrights.org/o/2021/03/11/fake-security-brought-by-lf/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:33:06

• LF stands for almost the opposite of what "Linux" (as in GNU, then Linux) stands for    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:33:34

• GNU 1983: tackle monopolies. Linux 1991: tackle Microsoft et al. LF: promote monopolies, prop up Microsoft and GitHub (proprietary). Zemlin and LF = dumpster fire. The people who burn your village because the arsonist paid them to open the gates. https://techrights.org/n/2024/03/17/Jim_Zemlin_Says_Linux_Foundation_Should_Combat_Fraud_Together_W.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:35:24

• Ubuntu is dumping IRC after millions of people dumped Ubuntu. Nice veneer of "modernisation" (bloatware). Go get your "app" and "webapp" and...    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:44:51

• "The answer is simple - recoup the costs by: Mandating presence of Copilot in all possible products and increasing subscription costs for those products. Wait, Profit" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjngsge3 It'll put off users, so the totals go down    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:46:10

• "That's why he's former CEO, and not current" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjrwbs3a for not rebranding GPUs for the latest buzzword and hype wave?    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:47:33

• Bernard Arnault says laid-off Meta staff were 'promoted outwards' — and LVMH's Tiffany is doing the same    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:48:00

• Minnetonka e-commerce company Digital River closing, laying off 122 https://www.startribune.com/digital-river-ecommerce-close-layoff-shut-down-microsoft-online-shop/601213069 "The company survived the dot-com bubble and boasted high-profile clients, including Microsoft."    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:48:46

• Digital River closing headquarters, laying off employees https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2025/01/28/digital-river-shutdown-minnetonka.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:49:14

• Downtime guaranteed https://www.consultancy.uk/news/39266/home-office-and-ibm-to-partner-on-emergency-services-network    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:50:38

• India, China to Resume Direct Flights After Nearly Five Years ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/asia/india-china-direct-flights.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:57:35

• Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/technology/china-deepseek-ai-silicon-valley.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:57:56

• Do DeepSeek’s Hey Hi (AI) Advances Mean US Tech Controls Have Failed? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/economy/deepseek-china-us-chip-controls.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:58:21

• China’s DeepSeek impresses. But is a ‘fast follow’ good enough in AI? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2025/0128/deepseek-china-us-ai    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:58:35

• What does DeepSeek say about the South China Sea? ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/01/28/deepseek-south-china-sea/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:59:28

• China’s DeepSeek has close ties to Beijing ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/28/china-usa-ai-deepseek-government-backing/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 19:59:43

• Dictator threatens 100% tariff on Taiwan’s microchip industry ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/28/china-trump-taiwan-microchip-tariffs/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:00:17

• Moveable feasts: Asia offers many ways – and dates – to celebrate the New Year ☞ https://rfa.org/english/asia/2025/01/28/lunar-new-year-2025-china-korea-vietnam-tibet-laos-cambodia-myanmar/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:00:41

• Senators raise concern about Chinese influence on Panama Canal operations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/senators-raise-concern-about-chinese-influence-on-panama-canal-operations    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:00:49

• Images show China building huge fusion research facility, analysts say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/images-show-china-building-huge-fusion-research-facility-analysts-say    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:01:06

• Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110613/mice-with-two-dads-crispr/ "complex set of experiments by a team in China."    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:01:22

• Thailand denies mistreating detained gambling tycoon wanted by China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/thailand-denies-mistreating-detained-gambling-tycoon-wanted-by-china    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:01:38

• China’s DeepSeek Hey Hi (AI) sends ‘wake-up call’ to Silicon Valley, says The Insurrectionist ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/28/chinas-deepseek-ai-sends-wake-up-call-to-silicon-valley-says-us-president-donald-trump/ "latest DeepSeek model initially received limited attention, overshadowed by the inauguration of Convicted Felon..."    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:02:27

• DeepSeek: Convicted Felon warns of 'wake-up call' as low-cost Chinese Hey Hi (AI) jolts sector ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250128-trump-warns-of-wake-up-call-as-low-cost-chinese-ai-jolts-sector    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:02:45

• What DeepSeek’s breakthrough says (and doesn’t say) about the ‘AI race’ with China ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/what-deepseeks-breakthrough-says-and-doesnt-say-about-the-ai-race-with-china/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:02:59

• Scammers in US (like Scam Altman): OH NOES, THE ARMS RACE!! THE CHINA!!! YOU MUST BAIL US OUT OR ELSE!!    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:04:10

• Keebin’ With Kristina ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-diy-homing-keys/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:04:16

• "VAX In A Cloud" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/your-vax-in-a-cloud-is-ready/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:05:18

• Social Control Media: "Introducing Blue Rain — the fire hose that is the BlueSky feed, falling semi-cryptically down your screen in Matrix-style letter droplets. Ahh, isn’t that nice?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/its-raining-from-the-bluesky/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:06:17

• Kinetic Sculpture ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/29/cool-kinetic-sculpture-has-tooling-secrets-to-share/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:06:51

• Scientists Confirm a New Strain of Bird Flu Has Emerged in The US ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-confirm-a-new-strain-of-bird-flu-has-emerged-in-the-us    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:07:29

• DeepSeek Is Sending Shockwaves Around The World. Here's Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/deepseek-is-sending-shockwaves-around-the-world-heres-why    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:07:42

• "Reddit strategy." WTH??? Screw Reddit. ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/social_media/metro-reddit-tips-publishers/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:09:55

• Parcae ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/parcae-a-trio-of-spy-satellites/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:10:18

• BBC News digital director Naja Nielsen to exit for Swedish broadcaster ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/bbc-news-digital-director-naja-nielsen/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:10:44

• Daily Star editor Jon Clark to leave amid new digital-first strategy ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/daily-star-editor-jon-clark-ben-rankin-digital/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:11:03

• UMich study uncovers the mechanism behind gold deposit formation ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/umich-study-uncovers-the-mechanism-behind-gold-deposit-formation/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:11:28

• Dolphins forced to survive in shocking conditions at luxury resort — just feet from the ocean: ‘Like jailed criminals’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/01/28/lifestyle/dolphin-habitat-conditions-at-mexico-resort-exposed-by-activists/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:12:40

• "Super-Capacitor Semiconductors" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/transition-metal-dichalcogenides-super-conducting-super-capacitor-semiconductors/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:15:07

• Testing At Scale ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/testing-at-scale/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:15:24

• 'Artificial Sun' Blazes Past 1,000 Seconds in New Fusion Record ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/artificial-sun-blazes-past-1000-seconds-in-new-fusion-record    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:16:12

• This 'Strange' Gas May Hold Promise For Treating Alzheimer's, Study Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-strange-gas-may-hold-promise-for-treating-alzheimers-study-says    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:16:34

• The Most Active Volcano in The Northeast Pacific Is Preparing to Erupt ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-most-active-volcano-in-the-northeast-pacific-is-preparing-to-erupt    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:18:35

• Exercise Doesn't Burn as Many Calories as You Think, Experts Say ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/exercise-doesnt-burn-as-many-calories-as-you-think-experts-say    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:18:59

• DNA Reveals Surprise Twist About Christopher Columbus ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dna-reveals-surprise-twist-about-christopher-columbus    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:19:18

• A Vast Swathe of The Arctic Has Turned Into a Carbon Emitter ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-vast-swathe-of-the-arctic-has-turned-into-a-carbon-emitter    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:20:24

• "Living without a mobile phone? I found surprising that Walker never had a watch on his wrist. But, you don't need to be a 50-year famous star to refuse tech. Richard Stallman also omits the phone. And I read a book about 1-year zero-money survival (UK)." https://x.com/VeroCEG/status/1884353137663774911    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:22:28

• "The 81-year-old actor has revealed that he has no streaming services, has never sent an email, and doesn’t even know what time it is. Perhaps he has found true freedom" https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/28/no-phone-no-watch-no-problem-should-we-all-be-more-like-severances-christopher-walken    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:23:17

• "Many of the most critical open-source projects were launched in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Developers like Linus Torvalds (Linux), Guido van Rossum (Python), and Richard Stallman (GNU) played crucial roles in shaping the modern computing landscape." https://bastakiss.com/blog/open-source-4/the-future-of-open-source-who-will-take-over-508    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:25:27

• QtCS25: May 7-8 Save the Date! ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qtcs25-may-7-8-save-the-date    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:26:40

• How China Is Reacting to DeepSeek Upending the Hey Hi (AI) Race ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/deepseek-china-reaction.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:27:19

• Israel Says 8 of the 26 Hostages That Hamas Is Expected to Release Are Dead ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-hostages-dead-hamas.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:27:57

• How DeepSeek Changed the Hey Hi (AI) Game ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000009951972/how-deepseek-changed-the-ai-game.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:28:08

• How DeepSeek Went From Stock Trader to Hey Hi (AI) Star ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/business/deepseek-owner-china-ai.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:28:23

• Vatican Warns About the Risks of Artificial Intelligence ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/europe/vatican-artificial-intelligence-warning.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:28:51

• Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger loads up on Nvidia stock, says the market's reaction to DeepSeek is wrong ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ex-intel-ceo-pat-gelsinger-loads-up-on-nvidia-stock-says-the-markets-reaction-to-deepseek-is-wrong    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:29:16

• Nvidia loses $589 billion in market cap — broad stock plunge triggered by DeepSeek Hey Hi (AI) release ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-loses-usd589-billion-in-market-cap-broad-stock-plunge-triggered-by-deepseek-ai-release    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:29:30

• Scam Altman said startups with only $10 million were 'totally hopeless' competing with OpenAI, DeepSeek's disruption says otherwise ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-said-startups-with-only-usd10-million-were-totally-hopeless-competing-with-openai-deepseeks-disruption-says-otherwise    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:29:59

• DeepSeek is a modern Sputnik moment for West ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/deepseek-is-a-modern-sputnik-moment-for-west/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:30:15

• DeepSeek launches Janus Pro Hey Hi (AI) image model it claims can outperform DALL-E ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/28/deepseek-launches-janus-pro-ai-image-model-claims-can-outperform-dall-e/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:32:09

• Government approves concept of centralized crisis management in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/28.01.2025-government-approves-concept-of-centralized-crisis-management-in-latvia.a585492/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:32:59

• Puntland Security Forces Recruit Clans in the Fight Against Islamic State Terrorists ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/01/puntland-security-forces-recruit-clans-in-the-fight-against-islamic-state-terrorists    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:35:44

• Niger Junta Unable to Control Rising Extremist Violence ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/01/niger-junta-unable-to-control-rising-extremist-violence/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:36:09

• Faced by Convicted Felon’s Interest in Greenland, Denmark Will Increase Military Spending in Arctic ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/europe/greenland-trump-denmark-security.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:37:25

• Israel Is Urged to Reverse Course on Palestinian Aid Agency Ban ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/world/middleeast/unrwa-israel-un.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:37:34

• U.S. Halt to Foreign Aid Cripples Programs Worldwide ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/politics/trump-rubio-foreign-aid.html    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:37:48

• How Garmin watches reveal your personal data, and what you can do ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/how-garmin-watches-reveal-your-personal-data-and-what-you-can-do/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:38:34

• Vista 10 UP in China, at 11's expense https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/china/#monthly-200902-202501    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:41:29

• Twitter bot farms? https://gs.statcounter.com/social-media-stats/all/china/#monthly-200902-202501    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:42:24

• HRW: pregnant women in Gaza face disproportionate harm amid hostilities ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/hrw-pregnant-women-in-gaza-face-disproportionate-harm-amid-hostilities/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:43:45

• US Quaker groups sue to prevent immigration searches in houses of worship ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/us-quaker-groups-sue-to-prevent-immigration-searches-in-houses-of-worship/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:44:14

• Legoete calls for more SANDF funding amid ‘security lapse’ in the DRC ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/legoete-calls-for-more-sandf-funding-amid-security-lapse-in-the-drc/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:44:40

• The CHANGE DEFAULT PASSWORD Act? ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/routers-modems-national-security-risks-senate-bill/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:45:18

• SonicWall Confirms Exploitation of New SMA Zero-Day ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-confirms-exploitation-of-new-sma-zero-day/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:46:02

• ENGlobal Says Personal Information Accessed in Ransomware Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/englobal-says-personal-information-accessed-in-ransomware-attack/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:46:25

• Too Big, Will Fail (How GNU/Linux Grew Way Too Fat) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/27/Too_Big_Will_Fail_How_Linux_Grew_Way_Too_Fat.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:46:54

• Rhino GNU/Linux Can (and Perhaps Should) Promote Alternatives to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Instead of Preloading Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/27/Rhino_Linux_Can_and_Perhaps_Should_Promotes_Alternatives_to_Mic.shtml    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:47:01

• Firing 10,000 staff cost SAP €2.5 billion - and that EOL deadline's not moving https://www.thestack.technology/sap-layoffs-cost-3-billion-licence-deadline/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:55:58

• "Deepseek proved a point. You don't need the latest Nvidia GPUs to train models. Nice to have, but not needed." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjrwbs3a    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 20:56:49

• DeepSeek Blames Disruption on Cyberattack as Vulnerabilities Emerge ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/deepseek-blames-disruption-on-cyberattack-as-vulnerabilities-emerge/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 21:21:59

• Fake 'money' anyway ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-drain-over-85-million-from-crypto-exchange-phemex/ Fake 'money' anyway http://techrights.org/o/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 21:23:10

• VMware Warns of High-Risk Blind SQL Injection Bug in Avi Load Balancer ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vmware-warns-of-high-risk-blind-sql-injection-bug-in-avi-load-balancer/    

posted Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 21:23:48