Roy Schestowitz

• Microsoft's Surprising Layoffs: No Severance, Instant Benefits Termination https://opentools.ai/news/microsofts-surprising-layoffs-no-severance-instant-benefits-termination    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:31:55

• MS Reductions In Force https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjyvqkfx "US corporate trend......?"    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:33:02

• Microsoft down 6%, layoffs https://www.hpbl.co.in/news/microsoft-stock-under-pressure-should-you-buy-amid-slowdown-in-cloud-growth-and-openai-challenges/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:40:14

• revokes health benefits https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/microsoft-cuts-jobs-over-performance-revokes-health-benefits-report-9810218/ thank you for your service, now drop dead; "revokes health benefits" of workers    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:41:56

• Ubisoft to Shut Down Leamington Studio in Cost-Cutting Move https://www.indiependent.co.uk/ubisoft-to-shut-down-leamington-studio-in-cost-cutting-move/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:42:30

• Microsoft Takes Aggressive Approach with Performance-Based Layoffs, Some Employees Receive No Severance https://www.hpbl.co.in/news/microsoft-takes-aggressive-approach-with-performance-based-layoffs-some-employees-receive-no-severance/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:43:03

• "impacted employees losing access to systems, buildings, and benefits" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/microsoft-layoffs-go-harder-termination-effective-immediately-with-no-severance-pay-and-/articleshow/117781629.cms    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:45:31

• Microsoft Layoffs: Satya Nadella’s company fires employees with immediate effect, denies severance pay https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/microsoft-layoffs-satya-nadellas-company-fires-employees-with-immediate-effect-denies-severance-pay-11738377574062.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:45:46

• Microsoft Starts Cutting Low Performers With Brusque Termination Letters https://www.inc.com/kit-eaton/microsoft-starts-cutting-low-performers-with-brusque-termination-letters/91141717    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:46:40

• Microsoft Adopts Tough Stance on Layoffs: No Severance Pay, Immediate Termination https://liveindia.tv/business/microsoft-adopts-tough-stance-on-layoffs-no-severance-pay-immediate-termination/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:47:06

• Michael Meeks: 2025-01-29 Wednesday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-01-29.html Michael Meeks: 2025-01-30 Thursday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-01-30.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:49:08

• FOSDEM around the corner    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:49:23

• Exiled citizen journalist Teacher Li still a target for Beijing ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/29/china-mr-li-is-not-your-teacher-interview/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:49:59

• The Munich-Based EPO is Still Using a Platform That Promotes the Far Right and Rehabilitates Nazism ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/29/The_Munich_Based_EPO_is_Still_Using_a_Platform_That_Promotes_th.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:50:11

• FluidNC-compatible CNC controller supports 6 stepper drivers, web-based configuration ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/30/fluidnc-compatible-cnc-controller-supports-6-stepper-drivers-web-based-configuration/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:51:09

• Who Is Syria’s New Interim President? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/europe/syria-president-ahmed-al-shara.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:51:31

• Lives ruined, no ‘traitors’ found: the cost of baseless reporting on Chinese interference ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/no-traitors-cost-of-baseless-reporting-chinese-interference/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:54:50

• Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan opens new photography exhibition in İstanbul ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/director-nuri-bilge-ceylan-opens-new-photography-exhibition-in-istanbul-304113    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:55:09

• Interactive exhibition shows 400 years of Liepāja's history ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/history/30.01.2025-interactive-exhibition-shows-400-years-of-liepajas-history.a585775/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:55:21

• Major job cuts at Mail titles in final stage of digital-first transition ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/mail-double-digit-job-cuts-online-print-newsroom/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:55:36

• Digital Paint Mixing ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/digital-paint-mixing-has-been-greatly-improved-with-1930s-math/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:56:04

• "A few days ago I mentioned the rsync-based backup script I use to copy data from the server to the laptop. My actual backup script is different, however." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-01-31-backup    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 03:56:52

• "happy new year (in lunar and gregorian calendar) gemspace!" gemini://a.rusty-haiku.dev/posts/2025-01-31-uptime-re-re-re.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:02:55

• "though is not efficient, the above involving several forks and pipes and some poorly written regular expressions." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/02/01/on-netmasks.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:03:35

• "Corporations are not a single entity, so it could be that the cloud team sees potential where the AI department only finds the Great Satan." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/02/01/twoheads.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:04:07

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1542.jpg    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:06:05

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1192.jpg    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:06:11

• Analog Computer Progress Report gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250131-0.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:07:00

• "It's fresh news that DeepSeek, a Chinese startup, released a reasoning LLM comparable in performances to the best offering from OpenAI while spending just $6 million to train it. All the math and all the technical details the company leveraged to build the model are in the related whitepaper you can find on ArXiv." gemini://gemini.abiscuola.com/gemlog/biggerai.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:08:29

• Pause on U.S. Funding Spreads Fear of H.I.V. Spike Across Africa ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/africa/africa-trump-hiv-pepfar-aid.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:21:35

• FDA Approves Journavx Drug to Treat Pain Without Addiction Risk ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/health/fda-journavx-suzetrigine-vertex-opioids.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:21:43

• Takeaways From Day 2 of RFK Jr.’s Confirmation Hearings ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/politics/rfk-jr-confirmation-takeaways.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:21:52

• Uganda confirms Ebola outbreak caused death of Kampala hospital nurse ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250130-uganda-confirms-ebola-outbreak-caused-death-of-kampala-hospital-nurse    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:21:59

• Stanford nurses enter contract negotiations with Stanford Health Care, children’s hospital ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/01/29/stanford-nurses-contract-negotiations/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:22:16

• FDA approves painkiller designed to eliminate the risk of addiction associated with opioids ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/health/fda-approves-painkiller-designed-to-eliminate-the-risk-of-addiction-associated-with-opioids/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:23:04

• ‘Open the door, open the door!’: How dozens fled an inferno on a plane in South Korea’s Busan airport ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/open-the-door-open-the-door-how-dozens-fled-an-inferno-on-a-plane    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:23:38

• Joint probe to begin into Air Busan fire at South Korean airport amid speculation over cause ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/probe-begins-into-air-busan-fire-at-south-korea-airport-with-speculations-over-cause    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:23:47

• Malaysian police arrest 5 after 2 cars ram into crowd outside KL nightclub ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vehicles-ram-into-crowd-outside-kl-nightclub-malaysian-police-on-the-hunt-for-drivers    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:29:50

• Malaysia petrol dealers seek fines for foreign vehicles that pump subsidised RON95 petrol ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-petrol-dealers-seek-fines-for-foreign-vehicles-that-pump-subsidised-ron95-petrol    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:30:11

• Thousands evacuated as heavy rain hits Malaysian states ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thousands-evacuated-as-heavy-rains-hit-malaysian-states    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:30:44

• Philippines president Marcos plans to meet Convicted Felon to discuss immigration policy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-president-marcos-plans-to-meet-trump-to-discuss-immigration-policy    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:31:25

• Thousands of ‘Terrorism Suspects’ on ‘Shanghai List’ Include Uyghur Children, Elderly ☞ https://rfa.org/english/special-reports/shanghai-list/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:31:35

• The Insurrectionist’s commerce pick signals hawkish China stance ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/30/us-president-donald-trumps-commerce-pick-signals-hawkish-china-stance/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:31:53

• ‘Masculine strength, feminine grace’: Shantou’s Chinese lion dance troupe shrugs off patriarchal past ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/31/masculine-strength-feminine-grace-shantous-chinese-lion-dance-troupe-shrugs-off-patriarchal-past/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:33:07

• Could’ve seen it coming: ASPI’s tech tracker had picked up China’s Hey Hi (AI) strength ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/deepseek-challenges-the-supremacy-of-us-tech-companies-in-ai/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:34:02

• "unofficial Chechen embassy" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/30/ramzan-kadyrov-s-cousin-owns-a-luxury-villa-in-dubai-that-serves-as-an-unofficial-chechen-embassy-istories | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:34:23

• Faking Revenue Increase by Buying Your Own Products and Services (Through Scams and Scammers Like Scam Altman) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/30/Faking_Revenue_Increase_by_Buying_Your_Own_Products_and_Service.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:35:26

• The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised $422,000 (Another $22k in the Two Weeks After Campaign Ended), Proving That Truth and Justice Tend to Find a Way ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/30/The_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raised_422_000_Another_22k_in_.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:35:50

• [Meme] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Critics Because Its Message is Effective ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/Meme_The_Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Has_Critics_Because_Its_M.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:36:01

• The Difference a Decade (and GAFAM Money) Makes ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/The_Difference_a_Decade_and_GAFAM_Money_Makes.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:36:10

• The Sheer Irony of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Proxy Accusing Others of 'Stealing' ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/The_Sheer_Irony_of_Microsoft_Proxy_Accusing_Others_of_Stealing.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:36:25

• Microsoft's Debt Surged by More Than 6,000,000,000 Dollars in Just 3 Months ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/Microsoft_s_Debt_Surged_by_More_Than_6_000_000_000_Dollars_in_J.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:40:19

• The Corporate Media Pretends That Facebook (Farcebook) ("Meta") Has Performed Well, But Its Debt Doubles Every 2 Years Despite Mass Layoffs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/The_Corporate_Media_Pretends_That_Facebook_Meta_Has_Performed_W.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:40:27

• Microsoft Mass Layoffs Without Severance Pay Reported Hours After Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Reported Weak Numbers and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Stock Fell (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/30/Microsoft_Mass_Layoffs_Without_Severance_Pay_Reported_Hours_Aft.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:41:05

• ACMER P3 48W laser engraver review with ACMER AP220 Smoke Air Purifier, LightBurn software, MKSLaser app ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/30/acmer-p3-48w-laser-engraver-review-with-acmer-ap220-smoke-air-purifier-lightburn-software-mkslaser-app/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:43:36

• iPhone sales miss ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/30/apple-reports-record-quarterly-revenue-despite-iphone-sales-miss/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:44:44

• Apple’s Revenue Increases 4 Percent Despite Slowing iPhone Sales ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/technology/apple-quarterly-earnings-profit.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:44:52

• Fact-checking and quality control is not censorship. Try to explain that to Trump voters.    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:46:27

• Microsoft investigates Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 outage affecting users, admins ☞ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-investigates-microsoft-365-outage-affecting-users-admins/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:46:37

• Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Pluton firmware ... so Intel needs to die. ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Partner-Security-Engine    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:47:04

• This agency has a Microsoft mole in it ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/fcc-chairman-carr-moves-to-weaponize-agency-against-public-media/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:48:00

• Follow-up on Peterson v. Minerva: LIFT OUR VOICES Amicus Brief ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/01/follow-peterson-minerva.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:49:18

• Federal Circuit Outcomes from the Past Four Years ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/01/federal-circuit-outcomes.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 04:58:32

• UPC is totally illegal; they need to go further and arrest the people who brought about this corruption, including EPO management, but now the corruption has spread to the EU, so this is considered acceptable ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/01/30/will-the-upc-get-its-long-arm-slapped-by-the-wto/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:00:17

• Kagame talks tough on SA involvement in the DRC ahead of SADC meeting ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/kagame-talks-tough-on-sa-involvement-in-the-drc-ahead-of-sadc-meeting/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:01:13

• As Musk amps up his support for the far right, Europe pushes back ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0130/elon-musk-far-right-europe-twitter-x quit Twitter, for STARTERS    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:02:17

• Musk’s Ex-Twitter Takeover Offers Convicted Felon a Blueprint ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/technology/musk-doge-x-playbook.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:02:26

• Why did so many Twitter addicts take 3 YEARS to quit? Did they really need to wait till Nazi salutes and fervent promotion of neonazis by the site's owner? Is that how strong the addiction was?    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:03:26

• Consumers sue Amazon over alleged tracking of sensitive data ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/consumers-sue-amazon-over-alleged-tracking-of-sensitive-data/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:04:02

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/30/amazon-music-price-increases-january-2025/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:04:26

• Some content on RFA Vietnamese’s Facebook (Farcebook) page suddenly disappears ☞ https://rfa.org/english/vietnam/2025/01/30/vietnam-content-disappears-facebook/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:16:23

• RFA should focus on its OWN Web site, NOT some social control media GAMES.    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:16:50

• St. Paul man charged with sexually assaulting 71-year-old woman he befriended on Facebook (Farcebook) ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2025/01/30/st-paul-man-charged-sexually-assault-woman-71/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:19:41

• Feb 1-2: Meet us at FOSDEM! ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/feb-1-2-meet-us-at-fosdem    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:20:14

• Qt Creator 16 Beta released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-16-beta-released    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:20:25

• Build your own smart pet feeder with the Arduino Plug and Make Kit ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/01/30/build-your-own-smart-pet-feeder-with-the-arduino-plug-and-make-kit/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:22:19

• More Illegal Patents at the EPO, Legality of Granted European Patents No Longer Matters to the Office ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/29/More_Illegal_Patents_at_the_EPO_Legality_of_Granted_European_Pa.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:22:42

• How the EPO Pressures Staff Into Minting More Monopolies (Patents), Even Illegal Ones That Harm Europe and Ultimately Dismantle the Rule of Law ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/29/How_the_EPO_Pressures_Staff_Into_Minting_More_Monopolies_Patent.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:34:18

• Dictator Administration Faces Security Balancing Act in Borderless Cyber Landscape ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/trump-administration-faces-security-balancing-act-in-borderless-cyber-landscape/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:35:09

• Justice Department Sues to Block $14 Billion Juniper Buyout by Hewlett Packard Enterprise ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/justice-department-sues-to-block-14-billion-juniper-buyout-by-hewlett-packard-enterprise/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:35:22

• VMware Patches High-Risk Flaws in Oft-Targeted Aria Operations Products ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vmware-patches-high-risk-flaws-in-oft-targeted-aria-operations-products/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:35:40

• US Cyber Agency’s Future Role in Elections Remains Murky Under the Convicted Felon Administration ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-cyber-agencys-future-role-in-elections-remains-murky-under-the-trump-administration/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:36:24

• $2,000 awarded for AutoConnect vehicle patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/1/30/2000-awarded-for-autoconnect-vehicle-patent-prior-art    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:36:53

• TeamViewer Patches High-Severity Vulnerability in backdoored Windows Applications ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/teamviewer-patches-high-severity-vulnerability-in-windows-applications/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:37:30

• Sensitive DeepSeek database exposed to the public, cybersecurity firm Wiz reveals ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/30/sensitive-deepseek-database-exposed-public-cybersecurity-firm-wiz-reveals/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:37:59

• $2,000 awarded for Avant Technologies wireless patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/1/30/2000-awarded-for-avant-technologies-wireless-patent-prior-art    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:39:14

• Wiz researchers find sensitive DeepSeek data exposed to internet ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/deepseek-ai-security-issues-wiz-research/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:40:10

• 10 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Speed Reading Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-linux-speed-reading-tools/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:41:15

• mlterm – multi lingual terminal emulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mlterm-multi-lingual-terminal-emulator/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:41:32

• Acronym Decoder – explains acronyms and abbreviations ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/acronym-decoder-explains-acronyms-abbreviations/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:41:57

• Armbian – GNU/Linux for ARM development boards ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/armbian-linux-arm-development-boards/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:42:32

• Picocrypt – small and secure encryption tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/picocrypt-small-secure-encryption-tool/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:42:45

• Evisum – Enlightenment system monitor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/evisum-enlightenment-system-monitor/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:43:26

• halp – CLI tool to get help with CLI tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/halp-cli-tool-help/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:43:34

• Ement.el – Matrix client for Emacs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ement-el-matrix-client-emacs/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:43:47

• Email protocols: What is the difference between SMTP, POP3, and IMAP? ☞ https://www.linuxcloudvps.com/blog/email-protocols-smtp-pop3-imap/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:44:15

• ! Avi Alkalay ¡: Ensuring health of your NAS hard drives with SMART ☞ https://avi.alkalay.net/2025/01/smart-health-hdd.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:44:59

• Facebook labels GNU/Linux as “cybersecurity threat” ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/videos/facebook-labels-linux-as-cybersecurity-threat/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:45:29

• Daniel Lange: Printing labels with the DYMO LabelWriter Wireless (and LabelWriter 5xx) on Debian GNU/Linux ☞ https://daniel-lange.com/archives/190-Printing-labels-with-the-DYMO-LabelWriter-Wireless-and-LabelWriter-5xx-on-Debian-Linux.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:46:26

• Ubuntu Command-Line Mastery: The Essential Guide for Power Users ☞ https://net2.com/ubuntu-command-line-mastery-the-essential-guide-for-power-users/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:46:44

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1006978/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:46:57

• The Insurrectionist Regime is availing this notion that anyone who does not support the regime is "dumb" or "inapt". This is very dangerous as a message, as it makes society divided along the lines of "loyalists" and "dangerous enemies".    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:49:38

• GNU C Library 2.41 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1007024/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:50:16

• Privacy on macOS vs Linux: Which OS Protects Your Data Better? ☞ https://linuxstans.com/privacy-macos-vs-linux/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:51:01

• High Tide is a Promising New GNU/Linux TIDAL Client ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/high-tide-native-tidal-client-linux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:51:51

• Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU: The Role of Compression Algorithms in ZRAM ☞ https://hamradio.my/2025/01/the-role-of-compression-algorithms-in-zram/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:52:03

• Fatigue, burnout? https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Wireless-Maintainer-2025 see http://techrights.org/o/2020/08/22/linux-bloat-meme/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:53:23

• MOST of the Linux developers CANNOT comprehend Linux anymore. It's in a "FOREIGN LANGUAGE" to them. http://techrights.org/o/2022/09/21/going-rusty-faster/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:54:02

• GAFAM to the RESCUE, said Sheela 'Microsoft' Zemlin http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/New_IRS_Filing_Shows_That_the_Most_Dominant_Company_in_the_Linu.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:55:10

• GNU Artanis: GNU Artanis 1.2.2 release notes ☞ https://artanis.dev/blog/1.2.2-release.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:56:04

• GNU Artanis: How to write a plugin for GNU Artanis ☞ https://artanis.dev/blog/plugins-in-artanis.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:56:22

• How to Block IPs in Nginx / WordPress Login Page ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/01/block-ips-nginx-wordpress-login/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:56:41

• Stuart Langridge: Forty Nine ☞ https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2025/01/30/forty-nine/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:57:37

• Creating the ecomyca article on Wikipedia ☞ https://rubenerd.com/creating-the-ecomyca-article-on-wikipedia/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:58:02

• Wait, it’s the 31st of January!? ☞ https://rubenerd.com/wait-its-the-31st-of-january/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:58:25

• mesa 25.0.0-rc1 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2025-January/226458.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 05:59:18

• Mozilla Thunderbird: VIDEO: The Thunderbird Mobile Team ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/01/video-the-thunderbird-mobile-team/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 06:00:18

• ‘The Voice’ alum Ryan Whyte Maloney’s fiancée witnessed fatal gunshot that ended singer’s life: police report ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/01/30/entertainment/voice-alum-ryan-whyte-maloneys-fiancee-witnessed-fatal-gunshot-report/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 06:58:28

• Week 2 2019: England and Wales 12,609 deaths. Week 2 2025: England and Wales 14,416 deaths. ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/01/30/england-and-wales-2025/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 06:58:49

• MS MSN: "Microsoft Layoffs: No Severance, No Healthcare"... like a VERY POOR company    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 07:21:59

• "Right now, users who visit the Thunderbird website and hit the giant download get the latest Extended Support Release (ESR) build by default. It gets one major feature update a year plus smaller bug fix and security updates issued in-between." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/thunderbird-release-channel-becomes-default-march    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:01:50

• Windows vs. Linux: What’s the Difference for Everyday Users? https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-vs-linux-whats-the-difference-for-everyday-users/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:03:08

• "The updated version of DOOM + DOOM II that bundles them together with enhancements from id Software / Nightdive Studios, Bethesda just got Update #2 with more improvements for playing with mods." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/doom-doom-ii-adds-multiplayer-mod-support-but-its-broken-on-steam-deck-linux/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:04:50

• "Facebook's parent company, Meta, has blocked posts mentioning Linux, citing cybersecurity concerns. Meta confirmed after manual review that Linux is on the list of cybersecurity-related topics, and it will seemingly remain so until further notice." https://www.notebookcheck.net/Facebook-censors-Linux-posts-calls-FOSS-project-cybersecurity-threat-with-mysterious-inconsistency.953999.0.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:05:19

• "GParted 1.7 and GParted Live 1.7 have been released today for this open-source and free partition manager that lets you resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss." https://9to5linux.com/gparted-live-1-7-launches-with-experimental-bcachefs-support-linux-6-12-lts    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:11:28

• CyberArk reveals centralised authentication for Linux IAM https://securitybrief.co.nz/story/cyberark-reveals-centralised-authentication-for-linux-iam    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:11:57

• Watch out Nvidia, a Linux leak revealing three new Intel Arc Battlemage GPUs may challenge the RTX 5000 series https://www.techradar.com/computing/gpu/watch-out-nvidia-a-linux-leak-revealing-three-new-intel-arc-battlemage-gpus-may-challenge-the-rtx-5000-series    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:12:17

• "NVIDIA published today the beta version of the upcoming NVIDIA 570 graphics driver for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems promising several new features and performance improvements." https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-570-linux-graphics-driver-promises-vrr-support-on-multi-monitor-setups    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:13:53

• "Windows, macOS, Android and iOS all have official TIDAL apps, and there is feature-compete web player accessible through any modern browser on any modern OS (Linux included)." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/01/high-tide-native-tidal-client-linux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:15:31

• "Android’s Linux Terminal is an all-in-one app that downloads, configures, runs, and interfaces with an instance of the Debian distribution running in a virtual machine." https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom-3521804/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:16:12

• "'Discussions of Linux are allowed on our services,' insists the social media giant." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-admits-that-the-linux-topic-crackdown-was-in-error-and-has-been-fixed    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:17:08

• "The Civ 7 requirements for PC, Mac, and Steam Deck have finally been revealed. In general, you'll need to know the minimum and recommended specs to work out whether your setup can run the game." https://www.techradar.com/gaming/civ-7-requirements    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:18:09

• Mini PC with Linux: System76 Meerkat updated with up to Intel Core Ultra 7 CPU and 96 GB of memory https://www.notebookcheck.net/Mini-PC-with-Linux-System76-Meerkat-updated-with-up-to-Intel-Core-Ultra-7-CPU-and-96-GB-of-memory.954445.0.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:18:36

• How to Change the Default Text Editor on Linux https://www.techloy.com/how-to-change-the-default-text-editor-on-linux/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:19:52

• What Do You Use to Stream Music on Linux? https://www.howtogeek.com/thread/what-do-you-use-to-stream-on-linux/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:20:18

• Three new Intel Arc Battlemage gaming GPUs could be inbound, hints Linux leak https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/battlemage-new-graphics-cards    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:20:42

• EIS Data Recovery Software Expands Support to macOS and Linux https://www.openpr.com/news/3842673/eis-data-recovery-software-expands-support-to-macos-and-linux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:21:57

• SPAM https://news.itsfoss.com/humble-bundle-linux-professional/ see also http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/03/It_s_FOSS_No_It_s_SPAM.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:22:35

• Three new PCI IDs for Arc Battlemage series added to Intel’s Linux kernel driver https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/joao-silva/three-new-pci-ids-for-arc-battlemage-series-added-to-intels-linux-kernel-driver/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:22:57

• Everything is Spam on Facebook Unless It is Paid Post (or Actual Spam) https://news.itsfoss.com/facebook-ban-fiasco/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:23:47

• New SystemBC RAT Attack Linux Systems to Hack Corporate Infrastructure https://cybersecuritynews.com/new-systembc-rat-attack-linux-systems/ OK, but how does that get there in the first place?    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:25:18

• Misusing the word "Linux" for hype https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/01/29/ai-needs-its-linux-oumi-comes-out-of-stealth-with-an-open-source-vision/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:26:17

• "From the developer: "Fallacy Quiz is a game for Windows and Linux, that tests your ability to identify misleading or incorrect reasoning, also known as fallacies."" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/put-your-thinking-cap-on-for-fallacy-quiz-a-game-that-will-test-your-reasoning-skills/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:27:03

• "These changes have now been published as part of the 6.13 kernel release, making their way to the public." https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/29/linux_kernel_tweak/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 08:27:21

• A 1962 Test Gear Teardown ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/a-1962-test-gear-teardown/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:01:57

• Retrotechtacular ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/retrotechtacular-the-tyranny-of-large-numbers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:02:13

• Comparing Adhesives For Gluing PETG Prints ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/comparing-adhesives-for-gluing-petg-prints/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:09:39

• "Copper Candle Burns Forever…" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/copper-candle-burns-forever-just-add-fuel/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:26:03

• "Engineered Muscle Tissue" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/patching-up-failing-hearts-with-engineered-muscle-tissue/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:26:29

• Doomsday Clock Moves to 89 Seconds From Midnight, The Closest Ever ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/doomsday-clock-moves-to-89-seconds-from-midnight-the-closest-ever    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:27:00

• Luddite Teens Still Don’t Want Your Likes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/style/luddite-teens-reunion.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:27:21

• press gazette boosting SLOP again https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/ai-personalisation-news-publishers/ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/21/Paywalls_Bots_Spam_and_Spyware_is_Future_of_the_Media_According.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Why_is_UK_Press_Gazette_Jingoistic_About_Plagiarists_and_LLM_Sl.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:29:33

• The UK's Press Gazette Has No Credibility Anymore http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/The_UK_s_Press_Gazette_Has_No_Credibility_Anymore_It_Celebrates.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:29:47

• Channel 4 chief says Gen Z media habits causing ‘immense issues’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/channel-4-chief-says-gen-z-news-media-habits-causing-immense-issues/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:30:08

• Five Thai hostages released by Hamas ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250130-who-are-the-five-thai-hostages-released-by-hamas    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:30:48

• Justice Department sues to block HPE’s $14B Juniper acquisition ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/30/justice-department-sues-block-hpes-14b-juniper-acquisition/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:35:02

• Mouse Created With Two Fathers And No Mother Survives to Adulthood ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mouse-created-with-two-fathers-and-no-mother-survives-to-adulthood    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:35:49

• Giant Radio Galaxy Could Hold 30 Milky Ways, Astronomers Say ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-radio-galaxy-could-hold-30-milky-ways-astronomers-say    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:36:03

• Could We Use Gravitational Waves For Space Communication? Scientists Are Exploring ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/could-we-use-gravitational-waves-for-space-communication-scientists-are-exploring    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:36:45

• Caffeine in Your Blood Could Affect Body Fat And Diabetes Risk, Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/caffeine-in-your-blood-could-affect-body-fat-and-diabetes-risk-study-reveals    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:37:06

• NASA Captures 'Most Intense Volcanic Eruption Ever' on Jupiter's Moon Io ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-captures-most-intense-volcanic-eruption-ever-on-jupiters-moon-io    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:37:27

• World's Space Agencies Say Asteroid Has 1.3% Chance of Hitting Earth in 2032 ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-space-agencies-say-asteroid-has-1-3-chance-of-hitting-earth-in-2032    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:38:16

• Samsung’s stock falls on fears of weakness in memory chip markets ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/30/samsungs-stock-falls-fears-weakness-memory-chip-markets/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:39:39

• Thunderbird moving to monthly updates in March ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1006917/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:40:47

• Noel Clarke loses bid to get Guardian libel defence thrown out ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/noel-clarke-guardian-libel-defence-thrown-out-fails/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:41:25

• Giving (or Getting) The Finger ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/30/forgotten-internet-giving-or-getting-the-finger/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:42:05

• Fostering Digital Literacy in Nicaragua ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/01/fostering-digital-literacy-in-nicaragua/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:43:04

• ‘Her Opening Line Was a Home Run’: The Best and Worst Moments From the Tulsi Gabbard Hearing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/opinion/tulsi-gabbard-senate-hearing.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:43:46

• Gabbard’s Hearing Turns Tense Over Snowden Questions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/politics/tulsi-gabbard-confirmation-hearing-intelligence.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:43:55

• Intel cancels Falcon Shores GPU for Hey Hi (AI) workloads — Jaguar Shores to be successor ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intel-cancels-falcon-shores-gpu-for-ai-workloads-jaguar-shores-to-be-successor    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:44:14

• Why artificial intelligence [hype] could cause the lights to dim ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/01/why-artificial-intelligence-could-cause-the-lights-to-dim/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:44:59

• Paramount in Settlement Talks With Convicted Felon Over ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/media/paramount-trump-cbs-news-settlement.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:45:22

• US federal employee union sues over Convicted Felon administration plan to fire, reclassify government employees ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/unions-representing-us-government-employees-file-lawsuit-over-trump-administration-plan-to-fire-reclassify-federal-workers/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:45:56

• Ticketmaster Settles Class-Action Litigation in Canada Over ‘Drip Pricing’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/30/ticketmaster-settles-class-action-litigation-in-canada/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:46:17

• Parliament to investigate deadly Bolu ski resort fire as report finds major safety flaws ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/parliament-to-investigate-deadly-bolu-ski-resort-fire-as-report-finds-major-safety-flaws-304101    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:46:46

• Alpha Omega 2024 Annual Report ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/01/29/alpha-omega-2024-annual-report/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:47:17

• Security at ISIS Camps in Syria Threatened by U.S. Funding Freeze ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/middleeast/us-funding-freeze-isis-camps-syria.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:47:33

• Dictator taps the military for immigration crackdown. Are there limits to using troops? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/0130/guantanamo-bay-military-border    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:47:41

• China’s spy agency warns people not to ‘endanger national security’ during holidays ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/30/china-lunar-new-year-security/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:47:52

• Dictator signs executive order authorizing Guantanamo Bay Migrant Operations Center to reach full capacity ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/trump-signs-executive-order-authorizing-guantanamo-bay-migrant-operations-center-to-reach-full-capacity/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:48:14

• Dictator signs new law requiring detention of illegal immigrants charged with theft ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/trump-signs-new-law-requiring-detention-of-illegal-immigrants-charged-with-theft/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:48:30

• South China Sea: Philippines arrests five more Chinese for ‘spying’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/31/south-china-sea-philippines-arrests-five-more-chinese-for-spying/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:48:45

• DARPA wants to create ‘self-healing’ firmware that can respond and recover from cyberattacks ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/darpa-redc-bus-cybersecurity-firmware/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:49:21

• Impressive line-up of speakers set to lead discussions at Public-Private Partnerships for Defence & Security Conference ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/impressive-line-up-of-speakers-set-to-lead-discussions-at-public-private-partnerships-for-defence-security-conference/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:49:51

• "Remote Work Program Faces Potential Rapid Dismantling Under New Federal Guidelines" https://suepo.org/discover_the_latest_headlines_january_2025_press_articles/d-48761 similar to EPO    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:50:14

• Rohit Chopra of CFPB Expected Convicted Felon to Fire Him Right Away, but He’s Hanging On ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/trump-rohit-chopra-cfpb.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:50:40

• Latvian central bank urges home owners to think about switching mortgages ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/30.01.2025-latvian-central-bank-urges-home-owners-to-think-about-switching-mortgages.a585833/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:50:53

• Best DeepSeek Jailbreak Prompts to Access the Hidden Treasure ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/deepseek-jailbreak-prompts    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:51:20

• DeepSeek Locked Down Public Database Access That Exposed Chat History ☞ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/deepseek-wiz-research-database-leak/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:51:52

• In the blink of an Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://rfa.org/english/cartoons/2025/01/30/deepseek-ai-chinese/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:52:19

• Ai2 releases Tülu 3, a fully open-source model that bests DeepSeek v3, GPT-4o with novel post-training approach ☞ https://venturebeat.com/ai/ai2-releases-tulu-3-a-fully-open-source-model-that-bests-deepseek-v3-gpt-4o-with-novel-post-training-approach/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:52:28

• Google owes UK news industry £2.2bn from 2023 alone, claims new research ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-owes-uk-news-industry-2-2bn-from-2023-alone-claims-new-research/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:53:09

• Tulsi Gabbard tussles with senators over Snowden, surveillance ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/tulsi-gabbard-director-national-intelligence-section-702-snowden/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:53:25

• TTAB Reverses Section 2(d) Refusal of "12 & Design" for Cosmetics Due to Third-Party Registration Evidence ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/01/ttab-reverses-section-2d-refusal-of-12.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:53:53

• USCO Elaborates on Hey Hi (AI) Copyright Rules In Sweeping Report — But Stops Short of Recommending ‘A Change in the Law’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/30/ai-copyrights-usco-report/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:54:25

• When will they remove the Microsoft mole in their ranks though? ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-welcomes-new-senior-policy-advocate-patrick-gallaher-to-bolster-advocacy-efforts/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:55:07

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 2 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-4-beta-2/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:55:19

• To deal with Russia, first understand what Putin wants ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/to-deal-with-russia-first-understand-what-putin-wants/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:55:41

• 400 million downloads, and counting… ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/01/30/400-million-downloads-and-counting/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:56:24

• Debian GNU/Linux Leaves X.com ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-linux-doubles-down-on-wokeness    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:56:57

• How to Setup a Radius Server on Ubuntu Server 24.04​ ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-setup-a-radius-server-on-ubuntu-server-24-04/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:57:58

• "School Voucher Programs" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/school-voucher-management-classwallet-odyssey-merit-student-first | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 09:59:35

• Italy blocks DeepSeek over data privacy concerns ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250130-italy-blocks-deepseek-over-data-privacy-concerns    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:02:05

• Windows Exploitation Tricks: Trapping Virtual Memory Access (2025 Update) ☞ https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/01/windows-exploitation-tricks-trapping.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:03:42

• FBI nominee Kash Patel gets questions on cybercrime investigations, Silk Road founder, surveillance powers ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/fbi-nominee-kash-patel-cybercrime-silk-road-surveillance-powers/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:24:18

• Trump Tax Cuts ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-tax-cuts-congress-republicans-plan-slash-benefits | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:25:36

• "Omit DEI Efforts in Science" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/vera-rubin-astronomer-dei-trump | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:26:00

• When it comes to LLM slop about "Linux", the strategy is to keep naming Serial Sloppers and this way others won't follow. We want to discourage the practice of using slop for 'articles', if not universally, then at least in the domain of Free software and tech in general.    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:28:25

• How Convicted Felon’s Federal-Aid Fiasco Is Testing the Separation of Powers ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-trumps-federal-aid-fiasco-is-testing-the-separation-of-powers    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:29:31

• “No, really”: American PMCs in Gaza ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/podcast/no-really-american-pmcs-in-gaza/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:30:16

• Linux Support for backdoored Windows ‘Copilot Key’ Brings Potential Security Risks ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/01/linux-support-for-windows-copilot-key-brings-potential-security-risks/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:31:10

• Open Letter Urges EU to Not Be Bullied By Convicted Felon and His Tech Bros on Cyber Issues ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/01/open-letter-urges-eu-to-not-be-bullied-by-trump-and-his-tech-bros-on-cyber-issues/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:31:49

• Seoul tourism recovers to pre-pandemic level ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-tourism-recovers-to-pre-pandemic-level    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:32:30

• Patent Filing Trends 2024– Market Share Shifts Continue as Firms Face Ongoing Challenges ☞ https://blog.patentology.com.au/2025/01/patent-filing-trends-2024-market-share.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:33:23

• South Korea's webtoon comics have readers hooked ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20250130-south-korea-s-webtoon-comics-have-readers-hooked    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:34:03

• Democracies should learn the Fentanylware (TikTok) lesson and restrict risky apps from day one ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/democracies-should-learn-the-tiktok-lesson-and-restrict-risky-apps-from-day-one/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:37:07

• Father Slays New York Girl, 14, in Fentanylware (TikTok) ‘Honor Killing’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/asia/pakistan-new-york-honor-killing.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:37:16

• "No TikToks on the premises." ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/country-club-etiquette-adjustments-for-gen-z    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:37:50

• $25 Billion for TikTok? Latest Bids Feature Roblox CEO & Employer.com Founder—But Radio Silence from ByteDance ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/30/25-billion-for-tiktok-latest-bids-feature-roblox-ceo/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:38:27

• "For those who love numbers and statistics, this represents a substantial leap from the 20 million lines recorded in mid-2015" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-surpasses-40-million-lines/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:46:56

• "I saw to my story of being hit by an alarming well prepared phish spammer" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/UnauthenticatedSMTPTradeoffs | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:49:16

• [Old] "Most likely, you believe that code like this is the fastest way to shard data" ☛ https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/the-ram-myth/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:49:26

• "Ever since we started in 2017" ☛ https://gamehistory.org/vghf-library-launch/ | Source: Video Game History Foundation Inc    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:49:58

• "The rumours were true, EA have re-released the classics. The Sims Legacy Collection and The Sims 2 Legacy Collection are live on Steam now. Both include a bunch of previously released DLC for each game." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-sims-and-the-sims-2-officially-return-with-a-legacy-collection-for-each/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:51:00

• "Player First Games / Warner Bros. Games have announced that the Super Smash Bros.-like game MultiVersus is officially closing." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/warner-bros-platform-fighter-multiversus-goes-offline-for-good-in-may/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:53:44

• "MangoHud is a performance overlay you can use on Desktop Linux, and it's what powers the built-in overlay on Steam Deck. A new release candidate is now available for testing for an upcoming stable release with version 0.8.0-rc1." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/linux-performance-overlay-mangohud-0-8-0-rc1-out-now-for-testing-with-intel-gpu-support-and-lots-of-improvements/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:54:16

• "Mohawk Games have announced the Old World - Wrath of Gods is coming on March 4, which has some big new features and content, plus they've hit a nice sales milestone." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/calamities-are-coming-to-old-world-in-the-wrath-of-gods-dlc-plus-they-hit-a-big-sales-milestone/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 10:59:45

• "Originally released in 2022, Hush Fin Games have upgraded the free game Those Who Crawl" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/free-tense-horror-game-those-who-crawl-about-exploring-shrinking-caves-added-linux-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:00:13

• "Even though FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH is rated as Steam Deck Verified, it did launch with some problems on Linux / Steam Deck but Valve's Proton developers are moving quickly to improve it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth-should-work-better-on-linux-steam-deck-with-the-latest-proton-hotfix/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:12:17

• "Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for January 31st, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/games-to-claim-from-prime-gaming-jan-3-edition-round-up-for-steamos-linux-and-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:12:43

• "The Spell Brigade is a popular survivor-like with online co-op for up to 4 players, it's sold well and the developers continue making big improvements to it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/the-spell-brigade-gets-lots-of-gameplay-improvements-plus-a-ui-update-for-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:12:53

• "In this guide, we’ll walk you through the steps to make your USB drive mount automatically at boot on a Linux system." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/mount-usb-drive-on-linux-startup/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:28:07

• "The Adafruit CLUE is a development board with a built-in display, multiple sensors, and Bluetooth Low Energy connectivity." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/adafruit-clue-a-sensor-packed-nrf52840-development-board-in-a-microbit-form-factor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:29:43

• "Bernie Sanders calls out Robert Kennedy Jr. for his 'troubling response' to key question - Raw Story" https://www.rawstory.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-on-autism-vaccines/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:30:18

• "Hamek receives MLU contract for Norwegian multi-purpose tug Harstad" https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/sea/hamek-receives-mlu-contract-for-norwegian-multi-purpose-tug-harstad    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:31:11

• "Meet the Guy Who Reportedly Told Trump to Buy Greenland – Mother Jones" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/why-buy-greenland-trump-annex-ronald-lauder-manifest-destiny/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:31:56

• "Three questions about the future of US climate tech under Trump" https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/30/1110644/three-questions-climate-tech/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:32:23

• "The Crypto President Has Arrived, and the Grift Is Booming" https://jacobin.com/2025/01/trump-crypto-memecoins-bitcoin-deregulation/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:32:57

• "Democracy or dictatorship? Elon Musk’s salute foresees a grave future for American politics" https://observer.case.edu/democracy-or-dictatorship-elon-musks-salute-foresees-a-grave-future-for-american-politics/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:39:09

• "Trump Inauguration Funded by Big Tech, Big Oil, Big Pharma, and [Cryptocurrency]" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-inauguration-donors-big-oil-big-pharma-big-tech-crypto-1235252214/ http://techrights.org/o/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:39:28

• no content: missing reasons for strikes https://yle.fi/a/74-20140689 ("Union threatens to extend industrial strikes; grocery walkouts set for late February")    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:39:59

• "Nearly half of Danes see US as threat and 78% oppose Greenland sale, poll shows" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/31/nearly-half-of-danes-see-us-as-threat-and-78-oppose-greenland-sale-poll-shows    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:40:16

• "Prince Andrew was in contact with Jeffrey Epstein longer than he claimed" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/01/31/prince-andrew-contact-jeffrey-epstein-longer-email/ "Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein with Melania Trump and Gwendolyn Beck at Donald Trump’s Florida home in 2000"    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:40:51

• "Deepseek and the Strawberry" https://www.provos.org/p/deepseek-and-the-strawberry/ https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/how+the+mighty+have+fallen iophk: poor ol' Niels    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:41:36

• Case censored https://polisen.se/aktuellt/nyheter/2023/augusti/luftburen-kamerabevakning-pa-norra-faladen-i-lund/ https://polisen.se/aktuellt/handelser/2023/september/19/19-september-2116-misshandel-lund/ https://polisen.se/aktuellt/handelser/2023/september/16/16-september-0129-ran-lund/ e.g. https://web.archive.org/web/20231116135646/https://polisen.se/aktuellt/handelser/2023/september/16/16-september-0129-ran-lund/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:42:27

• iophk: "the cruelty /is/ the point, not an unintended side effect" https://www.vox.com/donald-trump/397751/the-logoff-trump-rubio-foreign-aid-freeze-deadly ("Trump’s deadly foreign aid freeze, explained")    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:43:06

• "CDC scrubs research databases referencing sexual orientation and gender identity" https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-01-31/cdc-scrubs-research-databases-referencing-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:43:25

• "On Trump's orders, officials released water from two California dams" https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-31/trump-california-dams-opened-up iophk: he fucked up their water management, the result will be severe shortages later this year    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:43:52

• "American Oversight Warns of Patel’s Dangerous Nomination Ahead of Senate Judiciary Hearing - American Oversight" https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-warns-of-patels-dangerous-nomination-ahead-of-senate-judiciary-hearing/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:44:15

• "DoD revokes funds for troops seeking out-of-state abortions" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-travel-policy-abortions/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:47:39

• "Vets group blasts Trump plane crash comments as ‘shameful’" https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2025/01/31/vets-group-blasts-trump-plane-crash-comments-as-shameful/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:47:48

• iophk: Penske Media Corporation carries water for islamists https://variety.com/2025/film/awards/journalist-sarah-hagi-discovered-karla-sofia-gascon-tweets-1236293396/ ("Journalist Who Discovered Karla Sofia Gascon's Tweets Speaks Out")    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:48:20

• "Trump Broke the Federal Email System and Government Employees Got Blasted With Astonishingly Vulgar Messages" https://futurism.com/the-byte/trump-email-system    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:48:54

• "Donald Trump blames FAA diversity hiring for deadly air disaster in Washington" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/trump-blames-faa-diversity-hiring-for-deadly-air-disaster-in-washington-101738381192878.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:49:04

• "Quran burner Salwan Momika killed in Sweden" https://www.dw.com/en/quran-burner-salwan-momika-killed-in-sweden/a-71454446    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:49:30

• iophk: omits mention that the mining companies are foreign https://www.thelocal.se/20250131/human-rights-group-say-green-energy-projects-threaten-sami-in-norway-and-sweden ("Human rights group say green energy projects threaten Sami in Norway and Sweden")    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:49:38

• "Billionaire Election-Buyin" ☛ https://fair.org/home/david-kass-on-billionaire-election-buying/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:50:46

• "Because There Was Economic Insecurity" ☛ https://fair.org/home/because-there-was-economic-insecurity-immigrants-became-an-easy-scapegoat/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:51:08

• Gabbard ☛ https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-weekly-tulsi-gabbards-national-security-sin-kash-patels-enemies-list/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:51:26

• "Musi's initial attempt to force Apple to reinstate its music app to the App Store has failed." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/court-rejects-musis-bid-to-force-apple-to-reinstate-its-music-app-250131/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:52:06

• "The future of AI innovation may hinge on the outcome of a global copyright debate." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-libraries-are-forbidden-fruit-for-ai-companies-but-at-what-cost-250131/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:52:24

• "There's no ideal time to promote a blocking system that by design restricts freedom" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/fadpa-mpa-export-only-site-blocking-primed-for-full-strength-u-s-launch-250201/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:52:39

• Mandelson ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/31/peter-mandelson-ambassador-pr-firm-global-counsel-lobbied-new-government-on-behalf-of-shell/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:55:13

• dnc and protesters ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/31/climate-defiance-protesters-blockade-dnc-party-meeting-demand-democrats-put-workers-and-climate-first/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:55:39

• "It’s been a long time since I’ve written much about the one area where even quacks, cranks, and antivaxxers can’t argue" ☛ https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2025/01/31/is-it-safe-to-watch-dcis-rather-than-remove-it/ |    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:56:43

• "A large part of the conversation revolved around US President Donald Trump's recent claims that he wants to "buy" the vast Arctic territory." ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/01/31/hungarian-foreign-minister-says-european-politicians-dont-take-trumps-greenland-demands-seriously | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 11:58:28

• "Manipulaters" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/fbi-dutch-police-disrupt-manipulaters-phishing-gang/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:04:42

• "platform engineering was introduced to help build robust infrastructure and automate repetitive tasks" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/strategic-importance-platform-engineering-modern-software-development | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:06:50

• "Jawwy by stc, a digital mobile service provider and part of stc Group" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/elevating-jawwy-telco-architecture-path-excellence-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:06:58

• Linux Kernel Surpasses 40 Million Lines ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-surpasses-40-million-lines/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:09:33

• Adafruit CLUE: A Sensor-Packed nRF52840 Development Board in a micro:bit Form Factor ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/adafruit-clue-a-sensor-packed-nrf52840-development-board-in-a-microbit-form-factor/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:10:05

• How to Mount a USB Drive Every Time GNU/Linux Boots Up ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/mount-usb-drive-on-linux-startup/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:10:37

• The Servo Blog: Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations ☞ https://servo.org/blog/2025/01/31/servo-in-2024/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:16:48

• Online publishing revenue trends: Audio rising, video stalls, data is golden ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/online-publishing-revenue-trends-audio-rising-video-stalls-data-is-golden/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:17:45

• [Old] "These two ideas are related. In his seminal 1975 work, Brooks argued that “second systems” are almost always" ☛ https://erikaker.com/posts/ba331206-1741-4b03-88b6-2d2baa33cf2d | Source: Erik Aker    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:21:00

• "Null pointers look simple on the surface, and that’s why they’re so dangerous." ☛ https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-null-pointers/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:21:15

• "Thrilled to announce a new package: zigg. It arrived on CRAN today after a few days of review in the ‘newbies’ queue." ☛ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/01/31/#zigg_0.0.1 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:21:44

• "Recently I read Steinar H. Gunderson's Migrating away from bcachefs (via)" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/DistributionPackagingIssues | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:22:10

• "Much software is now provided as a service, and is typically deployed continuously (CD, continuous deployment)" ☛ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/on-long-term-software-development/ | Source: Bert Hubert    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:22:25

• "Project archival is not deletion: archiving a project does not remove it from the index, and does not prevent users from installing it." ☛ https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-01-30-archival/ | Source: Python Package Index    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:22:40

• "In the previous post, we broadened our view and learned about the sameness of business and IT." ☛ https://www.ufried.com/blog/road_to_resilience_9/ | Source: Uwe Friedrichsen    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:23:04

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: zigg 0.0.1 on CRAN: New Package! ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/01/31#zigg_0.0.1    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:23:30

• "You are given an array of positive integers, @ints." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/elementary-odd.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:24:25

• Command Line Interface (CLI) for techtonique.net’s API ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/command-line-interface-cli-for-techtonique-nets-api/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:25:29

• "We live in a world where sometimes 180 to 300 words don’t really convey what we want to say." ☛ https://mandarismoore.com/2025/01/30/a-brief-note-about-longform.html | Source: Mandaris Moore    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:27:00

• "I've seen the blog question challenge going around recently among folks I follow and bacardi55 was kind enough to tag me to participate." ☛ https://coryd.dev/posts/2025/blog-questions-and-whatnot/ | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:27:13

• "Williams was accompanied by fellow astronaut, Butch Wilmore, on her ninth spacewalk." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/31/abandoned_astro_takes_recordbreaking_ninth/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:27:43

• "Over the decades, though, dioramas have become dusty museum pieces themselves." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/science-museum-dioramas-displays | Source: Science News    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:28:12

• "Being illegitimate, the young Leonardo was only permitted an elementary education in reading, writing and arithmetic." ☛ https://theconversation.com/leonardo-da-vincis-incredible-studies-of-human-anatomy-still-dont-get-the-recognition-they-deserve-248708 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:28:28

• "In 2014, when ABC News asked him if he’d ever come back to tech, Myspace Tom humbly demurred. “Why aren’t more tech people like MySpace Tom?” asked a 2020 Cracked article." ☛ https://linksiwouldgchatyou.substack.com/p/ground-control-to-myspace-tom | Source: Caitlin Dewey    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:29:08

• "This week went to Glasgow for Annabel Campbell's debut novel launch." ☛ https://andregarzia.com/2025/01/went-to-a-book-launch-this-week.html | Source: Andre Alves Garzia    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:29:34

• "This is the 75th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Donny Truong and his blog, visualgui.com" ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-donny-truong | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:30:02

• "Proponents of measures that would divert public resources to private schools often claim that public school advocates do not believe in choice." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/01/31/nebraskans-want-and-support-strong-public-schools/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:30:21

• "That is, until I saw a bookshelf for sale in a second-hand furniture store last week." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/01/31/organising-my-bookshelf/ | Source: James G    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:30:38

• "In the study, researchers analyzed 175 placentas collected at both term and preterm, or under 37 weeks of pregnancy" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/microplastics-placentas-premature-births.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:31:53

• "In an already permissive environment, Kennedy’s confirmation could signal to supplement manufacturers that anything goes, Cohen said." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/patent-medicine-supplements-rfk-trump/681515/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:32:01

• "This may sound like science fiction. But many other insurances, e.g. car insurances, already build on automated data being shared with them." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/01/31/will-big-data-lift-the-veil-of-ignorance/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:32:13

• "This all leads us to the thorny issue of Windows 10." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/31/microsoft_defines_what_it_means/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:33:03

• "All five have patches available. Broadcom's security advisory doesn't note any in-the-wild exploits, yet." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/vmware_infomration_disclosure_flaws/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:33:26

• "A new set of critical vulnerabilities has been identified in Contec Health’s CMS8000 Patient Monitor" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/vulnerabilities-in-cms8000-patient-monitor/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:33:34

• "The hysteria comes on top of a growing unease that more investment is being funneled into AI development" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/31/deepseek_implications/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:34:16

• "But DeepSeek’s innovations are not the only takeaway here." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/31/1110740/how-deepseek-ripped-up-the-ai-playbook-and-why-everyones-going-to-follow-it/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:34:26

• "Today, security researchers from Cisco and the University of Pennsylvania are publishing findings" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/deepseeks-ai-jailbreak-prompt-injection-attacks/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:34:56

• "It turns out that DeepSeek left a database completely open to the [Internet] without authentication" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/31/deepseek-leaves-glaring-security-hole-exposing-user-data-italy-blocks-deepseek/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:35:49

• "According to the designer, it’s possible for this pattern to repeat for “months” if it isn’t caught" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2592071/one-rebels-malicious-tar-pit-trap-is-driving-ai-scrapers-insane.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:36:51

• "Nepenthes works by generating a page with around a dozen links that all link back to themselves." ☛ https://www.heise.de/en/news/Nepenthes-a-tarpit-for-AI-web-crawlers-10256257.html | Source: Heise    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:37:22

• "The notice warned that there is evidence of “actors” who are “already using DeepSeek" ☛ https://www.telesurenglish.net/u-s-congressional-staff-banned-from-using-deepseek/ | Source: teleSUR    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:37:33

• "So it’s time to slow that negativity spigot down. It’s time tamp down the FOMO." ☛ https://bjhess.com/posts/socials-free-february | Source: Barry Hess    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:38:08

• "It’s a sad situation." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/news/2025/01/texas-man-under-investigation-for-using-infant-as-makeshift-snow-scraper-for-tiktok.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:38:33

• "There are many people out there that don’t realise just how much micro.blog can do" ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/2025/01/31/micro-social-reading-and-books.html | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:38:58

• "I recently learned from Allen Downey’s blog that Our World in Data is providing API access to their data." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/downloading-datasets-from-our-world-in-data-in-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:39:54

• "Last night, scientists began to hear cryptic and foreboding warnings from colleagues: Go to the CDC website" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/01/cdc-dei-scientific-data/681531/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:40:21

• Windows TCO: "The blood bank said it identified suspicious activity on its network on January 26" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/new-york-blood-bank-hit-by-ransomware/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:42:07

• Windows TCO: "The bill, whose 2024 companion in the upper chamber came from Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and James Lankford, R-Okla." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/federal-contractors-vulnerability-disclosure-policies-house-bill/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:42:18

• Windows TCO: "The industrial sector was the most targeted overall in 2024" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/31/banner_year_for_ransomware_gangs/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:42:36

• Openwashing ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2272881.html | Source: RTL    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:43:03

• "What typically happens is that the victim receives an email that purports to be from a Chinese domain name registrar." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/cn_domain_scam.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:44:01

• "Goes to show you how fast this [new comms system] was cobbled together – no security or screening on this address" ☛ https://www.mediaite.com/politics/13000-federal-employees-receive-abusive-email-in-comms-system-exploit-tired-of-working-for-a-complete-cnt/ | Source: Mediaite    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:44:15

• "Yesterday, we achieved a great victory before the Grenoble administrative court!" ☛ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2025/01/31/justice-finally-finds-briefcam-unlawful/ | Source: La Quadature Du Net    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:45:30

• "The request for information appears to have been looking for data brokers" ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2025/01/31/ice-is-swiftly-expanding-its-sprawling-surveillance-apparatus/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:45:46

• "serious violations of GDPR regulations" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/deepseek-app-blocked-in-italy-after-privacy-complaint-under-eus-gdpr-irish-data-protection-commission-also-investigating/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:45:54

• "The law would allow wiretapping for crimes that carry a prison sentence longer than four years" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/sweden-pm-accelerates-law-allowing-wiretapping-children-to-combat-organized-crime/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:46:11

• "This in and of itself isn’t inherently a bad thing, despite the infosec truisms about never doing exactly that." ☛ https://soatok.blog/2025/01/31/hell-is-overconfident-developers-writing-encryption-code/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:47:34

• "Many of the things Trump has done in the past two weeks will have long-term reverberations." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/tech-24/20250131-tiktok-limbo-us-congress-stays-quiet-as-trump-breaks-its-law | Source: France24    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:49:24

• "TikTok is mostly back to its original traffic levels in the US" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/01/31/tiktok-traffic-largely-back-to-normal-in-the-us/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:49:37

• "zero Constitutional authority " ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/elons-twitter-destruction-playbook-hits-the-us-government-and-its-even-more-dangerous/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:49:56

• "Okemos is a community 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of the Ann Arbor campus." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-01-31/the-university-of-michigan-has-suspended-a-pro-palestinian-group-for-2-years | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:50:53

• "The Trump administration on Wednesday issued guidance suggesting that international students" ☛ https://www.chronicle.com/article/trump-threatens-to-deport-international-students-and-scholars-who-protested-the-war-in-gaza | Source: Chronicle Of Higher Education    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:51:36

• "On Wednesday, Salwan Momika, 38, known for repeatedly burning the Koran, was gunned down in his Stockholm apartment." ☛ https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2007829/panic-sweden-31-bombings-rock | Source: Express    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:52:21

• [Old] "In a marked contrast, Finland avoided such a situation, as it still has controversial blasphemy laws in place." ☛ https://nris.journal.fi/issue/download/10844/2209 | Source: Nordic Review of International Studies    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:52:46

• [Old] "As regards the level of gun homicide, the rate in Sweden ranks very high in relation to other European countries" ☛ https://bra.se/download/18.47bb43da192711ebb376b48/1732000833289/2021_8_Gun_homicide_in_Sweden_and_other_European_countries.pdf | Source: BRÅ    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:53:21

• "The police are calling it an 'escalation of violence', Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson a 'national crisis'" ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250131/whats-behind-the-latest-spate-of-bombings-in-sweden | Source: The Local SE    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:53:43

• "We shouldn't really see these events in isolation, but as part of a bigger picture." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/eu-top-diplomat-sabotage-is-on-the-rise-in-europe/a-71462838 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:54:14

• "The investigation will continue, but we see no reason for the ship to remain in Tromso any longer" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/norway-releases-cargo-ship-in-baltic-cable-sabotage-probe/a-71477546 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:54:50

• "police said in the statement." ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/02/501_391302.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:56:24

• "The ship is the second to be seized in the past week in connection with the damaging of the cable." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/norway-seizes-ship-suspected-baltic-cable-damage-case/33298493.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:57:01

• "The Norway-flagged Silver Dania was sailing between St. Petersburg and Murmansk when Norwegian police stopped" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/01/31/norway-seizes-russian-crewed-ship-over-suspected-cable-damage-a87817 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:59:06

• "They were acting on a request from the Latvian authorities and on an order issued in Norwegian courts" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/world/europe/norway-russia-ship-baltic-undersea-cable.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:59:19

• "Police in Norway have seized a ship suspected of sabotaging a communications cable running between Sweden and Latvia." ☛ https://therecord.media/norway-seizes-ship-suspected-sabotage | Source: The Record    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 12:59:42

• "Based on a legal request from Latvian authorities, as well as a ruling from Nord-Troms and Senja District Court i Norway" ☛ https://www.politiet.no/aktuelt-tall-og-fakta/aktuelt/nyheter/2025/01/31/troms2/ | Source: Norway    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:00:05

• "Since the election, according to the report" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-sketchy-us-treasury | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:00:15

• "The world is no stranger to asymmetric tactics being used to intimidate, to control" ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/02/01/china-is-winning-the-world-is-losing-u-s-is-struggling-to-counter-chinas-asymmetric-tactics/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:00:34

• Overpopulation ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-31/trump-california-dams-opened-up | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:01:03

• "We’ve also worked to reduce the environmental impact of our manufacturing and shipping." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/sustainable-solutions-with-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:01:57

• "With every new administration comes a host of small style changes to government sites" ☛ https://futurism.com/trump-climate-change-government-websites | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:04:07

• "The directive from USDA’s office of communications, whose authenticity was validated by three people" ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/usda-climate-change-websites-00201826 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:04:16

• "Reflecting the Trump administration’s priorities" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/01/trumps-epa-has-deleted-all-web-references-to-climate-change/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:13:08

• "The long-held assumption was that the next AI wave would require massive data center expansion to satisfy increasing demand." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/what-does-chinas-deepseek-mean-for-ais-energy-and-water-use/a-71459557 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:13:20

• "Elluswamy, to his credit, handled the interruption diplomatically by teasing that Tesla will be releasing a "baby" version of FSD" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-admits-fsd-hardware | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:14:01

• "Trump passed an executive order freezing all new hires of already chronically understaffed air traffic controllers" ☛ https://futurism.com/trump-airliner-crash-woke | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:14:25

• "Tesla's revenue remains high, with total sales equaling $97.7 billion for 2024, a one percent increase from last year." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/tesla-profits-falling-off-cliff | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:14:50

• "very experienced" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/land/2025/01/30/top-army-aviators-were-on-routine-flight-when-helo-collided-with-jet/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:15:44

• "WIRED asked two experts in crypto forensics to analyze these early TRUMP trades." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trumpcoin-biggest-backers/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:16:05

• "It said members of its large whale disentanglement team were mobilised from across the UK" ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/rescuers-manage-to-free-humpback-whale-caught-in-rope-off-skye-4969647 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:27:30

• "The number of tigers grew from an estimated 1,706 tigers in 2010 to around 3,682 in 2022" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/environment/study-finds-india-doubled-its-tiger-population-in-a-decade-and-credits-conservation-efforts-1857894 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:28:15

• "today’s Republican Party" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trumps-racist-rants-conceal-the-rights-air-safety-failures/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:29:30

• "The technocracy was difficult to resist directly, but Roszak offered a modest proposal: [...]" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/silicon-valley-tech-trump-technocracy/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:31:14

• "Meta arguably had more to lose by winning this one." ☛ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/meta-settles-a-dollar25-million-trump-lawsuit-because-it-had-more-to-lose-by-winning | Source: Vanity Fair    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:31:40

• "The parties have reached an agreement to settle the named plaintiffs’ individual claims and resolve this matter" ☛ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/01/29/meta-donald-trump-2021-lawsuit-settlement/78033271007/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:31:49

• "The settlement does not require Meta to admit wrongdoing, Stone said." ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/meta-agrees-pay-25-million-settle-trump-lawsuit-rcna189918 | Source: NBC    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:32:33

• "In July 2021, Trump sued Meta and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg for "censoring" his social media account after the Jan. 6 [insurrection]" ☛ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/meta-agrees-pay-25-million-settle-lawsuit-president/story?id=118242529 | Source: ABC    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:33:02

• "It’s the latest instance of a large corporation settling litigation with the president" ☛ https://apnews.com/article/trump-meta-settlement-zuckerberg-capitol-riot-9939e52679364080c983e0cab739b805 | Source: Associated Press    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:33:32

• "Meta has agreed to pay $25m to settle a lawsuit with Donald Trump." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/29/meta-trump-settlement-25-million | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:34:26

• "Meta also made a $1 million donation to Trump’s inaugural committee" ☛ https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/meta-agrees-pay-25-million-settle-lawsuit-trump-118243449 | Source: ABC    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:34:51

• "As things stand, any individual making more than $61,600 is taxed $3,911 plus 7.15% of excess over that amount." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/01/31/remind-me-again-why-we-cant-raise-taxes-on-millionaires/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:35:21

• "It startled me to realize that I was no different from my friends and family that I judged." ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/i-am-just-as-ignorant/ | Source: Brandon    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:35:39

• "Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg sought to reassure his workforce on Wednesday that the social media giant’s values haven’t changed" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/01/30/meta-policy-shifts-mark-zuckerberg/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:36:36

• "I want to be clear, after the last several years" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/mark-zuckerberg-defends-embrace-of-donald-trump-administration/articleshow/117777159.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:36:52

• "This speculation is unfounded. The American Airlines passenger plane involved in the collision was not manufactured by Boeing." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/factcheck/2025/01/31/fact-check-washington-dc-plane-crash-boeing-atc-budget/ | Source: RFA    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:38:51

• "As Reinhart points out, the Times didn’t just soften his criticism" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/la-times-flips-anti-rfk-jr-op-ed-into-pro-kennedy-propaganda/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:39:13

• "Since the Chinese company’s chatbot surged in popularity" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/technology/deepseek-chinese-propaganda.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:39:27

• "As tensions flared between Somalia and Ethiopia last year, social media became a breeding ground for misinformation." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/fact-checkers-in-ethiopia-take-on-disinformation-amid-rising-tensions/7956133.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:39:46

• "The video went viral by Jan. 24, spilling over to other social media platforms and even news outlets." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-s-make-peace-or-die-message-to-putin-is-deepfake-yet-it-fooled-russians-/7956477.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:39:53

• "free speech absolutism" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/the-faux-free-speech-warriors-attacking-free-speech/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:44:14

• "According to the exile-based watchdog group Afghanistan Journalists Center, Saeedi was arrested for his work criticizing the Taliban, including a screenplay he wrote about a girl denied an education by Taliban authorities." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/01/taliban-sentences-afghan-journalist-sayed-rahim-saeedi-to-3-years-in-prison/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:44:22

• "To figure out how this censorship works on a technical level, WIRED tested DeepSeek-R1 on its own app, a version of the app hosted on a third-party platform called Together AI, and another version hosted on a WIRED computer, using the application Ollama." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-censorship/ | Source: Wired    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:44:29

• "But critics say the law is designed to quash dissent in the South Asian country, where independent media have faced growing censorship in recent years." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-electronic-crimes-act-peca-social-media-cesorship/33297599.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:44:34

• "The M23 rebel group’s assault on the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s eastern city of Goma has brought familiar dangers for Congolese journalists" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/01/journalists-covering-eastern-drc-conflict-face-death-threats-censorship/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:45:08

• "Suat Toktaş’ arrest and the detaining of the other Halk TV personnel is a political move by Turkish authorities to silence critical voices" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/01/turkish-journalist-suat-toktas-arrested-following-broadcast/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:45:20

• "Journalists provide information about evacuation routes, document alleged Russian war crimes and troop movements, and counter Moscow’s propaganda." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/us-aid-freeze-spells-uncertain-future-for-international-media/7958494.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:45:30

• "foreign agents" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-foreign-agent-list-current-time-rferl-journalists-rights/33298804.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:45:48

• "collective bargaining process" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2025/01/usps-letter-carrier-union-members-reject-tentative-contract-deal/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:46:14

• "That the coming-home began eight decades ago had not occurred to me." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-31/japanese-americans-returned-home-from-prison-camps-to-one-of-the-countrys-greatest-swindles | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:47:06

• "You know what they might be better off signing? Union cards." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/tech-workers-should-unionize | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:47:21

• "Because this is a topic where the righteous side has been effectively losing for my entire lifetime" ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dark-times-are-coming | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:47:29

• "On Jan. 13, the University of Michigan announced the creation of the Digital Accessibility Strategic Initiative" ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/administration/umich-unveils-digital-accessibility-initiative-to-expand-online-access/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:49:04

• "Friends pointed me to a great tutorial: Come To The Light-dark() Side at CSS Tricks. So this morning, I set to." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/more-accessibility-fun | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:49:46

• "This isn’t the same at workplaces, as ICE officers can enter and detain people if they have direct permission from a businesses’ owner." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ice-raid-know-your-rights-1235251381/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:50:23

• "Interview transcript: [...]" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/01/a-court-squashes-net-neutrality-what-next-for-the-fcc/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:51:32

• "Biden's FCC unanimously passed a rules banning landlords from accepting kickbacks to force all their tenants to use one ISP" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/31/the-blood-speech/#dudeface-from-chiapas | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:51:43

• "rump’s hand-chosen courts are already hard at work dismantling everything from net neutrality to financial aid for low-income broadband" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/the-trump-fcc-makes-it-easier-for-your-landlord-and-your-isp-to-collude-to-rip-you-off/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:51:55

• "You know how so many things, from modern laptops and phones are sealed boxes where swapping a battery can void a warranty?" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/right-to-repair-farm-equipment/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:55:13

• "From the consumer perspective, streaming video services are objectively worse than they were a decade ago." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2587114/to-save-on-streaming-tv-switch-services-constantly.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:55:42

• "Specifically, the Department of Justice is worried about consolidation within the wireless LAN (WLAN) market" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/30/hpes_acquisition_juniper/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:56:16

• "Regulators in Britain and the European Union cleared the deal this summer." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/business/dealbook/hpe-juniper-deal-blocked.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:56:33

• "Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT-Madras) a few years ago had committed to filing ‘One Patent a day’." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/one-patent-a-day-drives-research-at-iit-madras/articleshow/117746768.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:57:45

• "As news of DeepSeek played havoc with the tech stock market, OpenAI pressed its hanky to its nose and released a statement" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/31/tech-bros-deepseek-china-sam-altman-openai | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:58:54

• "software spies on users or is full of bugs" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/copyright-civil-liberties-nightmare | Source: EFF    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:59:15

• "common among AI developers but is prohibited by OpenAI’s terms of service" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/deepseek-vs-chatgpt-fuels-debate-over-ai-building-blocks/7958031.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 13:59:41

• "Below are just a few of the historical and cultural works that entered the public domain in 2025." ☛ https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2025/01/lifecycle-of-copyright-1929-works-in-the-public-domain/ | Source: LOC    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:00:21

• "The sum total of their evidence is that OpenAI’s web API got hammered from China a couple of times last year" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/01/30/deepseek-impact-openai-complains-deepseek-stole-the-data-that-openai-stole-first/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:00:42

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

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:02:39

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

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:02:55

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

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:03:12

• TrueNAS SCALE 24.10.2 Delivers Improved Stability and Enhanced Features ☞ https://linuxiac.com/truenas-scale-24-10-2-released/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:03:44

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

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:03:59

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

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:04:14

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

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:04:31

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

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:04:42

• Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1007252/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:05:29

• "iXsystems released the second update in the TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 series, version 24.10.2, a robust Linux-based enterprise network-attached storage that bets on the ZFS filesystem and supports containerized applications and virtualization." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/truenas-scale-24-10-2-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:14:18

• Damn Small GNU/Linux – GNU/Linux distro for older hardware ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/damn-small-linux-linux-distro-older-hardware/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:14:50

• LF India will accelerate the growth of open source culture in the region ☞ https://tfir.io/lf-india-will-accelerate-the-growth-of-open-source-culture-in-the-region/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:15:04

• Says Clickfraud spamnil, having been paid to relay every lie from Zemlin    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:15:27

• More like colonialism by GAFAM, misusing the brand "Linux"    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:15:44

• Slopwatch: Fake Articles About "Linux" and More (Latest Roundup Featuring BetaNews, Janus Atienza, and Brittany Day From Guardian Digital, Inc) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/Slopwatch_Fake_Articles_About_Linux_and_More_Latest_Roundup_Fea.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:15:54

• Clickfraud spamnil: come, Jim Zemlin, I will show you where the village keeps the key to the gates    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:16:44

• This Week in GNOME: #185 Adwaita Sans ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/01/twig-185/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:16:49

• GParted Live 1.7 Launches with Experimental Bcachefs Support, GNU/Linux 6.12 LTS ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gparted-live-1-7-launches-with-experimental-bcachefs-support-linux-6-12-lts    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:17:26

• How to Install DeepSeek R1 Locally on GNU/Linux ☞ https://itsfoss.com/install-deepseek-r1-locally-linux/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:21:28

• Windows is not FOSS; seems weird for this site... ☞ https://itsfoss.com/emacs-as-terminal-multiplexer-windows/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:22:03

• Ed-itando gemini://bosque-protector.com/codigo/ed-itando.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:23:48

• "I really wish 2025 brings good things to all of us." gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/chals/phlog/01-01-25    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:24:33

• 🔤SpellBinding: BCEHIWT Wordo: BUNNY gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-01.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:25:07

• "There is high demand for explosives in Europe, with only one plant now producing TNT." https://yle.fi/a/74-20140784    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:30:18

• "DjangoCon Europe is an international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework" ☛ https://www.paulox.net/2025/04/23/djangocon-europe-2025/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:47:25

• "JuliaHub and the Julia community have grown at a tremendous pace in recent years" ☛ https://info.juliahub.com/blog/julia-juliahub-advancing-innovation-and-growth | Source: Julia Programming Language    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:47:33

• "Changes with immediate effect: [...]" ☛ https://lists.asiabsdcon.org/pipermail/announce/2025-January/000046.html | Source: AsiaBSDCon    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:47:45

• "The Grim Reaper is here now, with Manifest V3’s full implementation all but complete." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2595287/ublock-origin-is-dead-for-chrome-but-its-successor-still-lives-on.html | Source: PC World    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:48:04

• "Andrew K. Pace, ARL executive director" ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/lockss-co-founders-honored-with-2025-paul-evan-peters-award | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:48:36

• "Part of the award is the opportunity to make an extended presentation to open the meeting." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2025/01/paul-evan-peters-award.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:49:18

• [Old] "LOCKSS 2.0 is a containerized application orchestrated by Kubernetes" ☛ https://www.lockss.org/about/software | Source: LOCKSS Program    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:49:27

• "While what "doing research" looks like will vary wildly from project to project" ☛ https://atthis.link/blog/2025/01356.html | Source: At This Link    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:49:41

• "When the Minimal Phone was first announced this time last year, you might have been forgiven for thinking it was vaporware" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/603891/minimal-phone-company-indiegogo-e-ink-qwerty-keyboard-shipping | Source: The Verge    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:50:02

• "I said this many times before, and I'll say it again." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-task-manager-icons-only-selective-grouping.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:50:46

• Political Science Department launches their first Spanish-language discussion section ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/political-science-department-launches-their-first-spanish-language-discussion-section/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:52:15

• Distinguished University Professors present research on sustainability and social justice ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/distinguished-university-professors-present-research-on-sustainability-and-social-justice/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:53:09

• New York Doctor Indicted in Louisiana for Sending Abortion Pills There ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/health/abortion-louisiana-new-york-prosecution-shield-law.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:53:50

• CDC Web Pages and Data Vanish Following Convicted Felon’s DEI and Gender Orders ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/health/trump-cdc-dei-gender.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 14:58:33

• Faculty course on student mental health now available ☞ https://record.umich.edu/articles/faculty-course-on-student-mental-health-now-available/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 15:06:46

• Troops can no longer have their travel costs covered to access reproductive care ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/01/troops-can-no-longer-have-their-travel-costs-covered-to-access-reproductive-care/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 15:18:51

• 3 articles that are long in the making today    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 15:28:27

• Slopwatch will become a "regular" feature    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:31:39

• South Korea to begin on-site investigation of burnt Air Busan plane ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/investigators-cautious-of-jet-fuel-still-aboard-wrecked-south-korean-plane    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:32:23

• PCLinuxOS Screenshot Showcase https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202502/page12.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:35:55

• Wiki Pick: How To Change Program Icon https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202502/page03.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:36:30

• ICYMI: Six Security Vulnerabilities Found In rsync https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202502/page01.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:36:57

• "About a week after the New Year, we got hit with round #1 of the arctic fronts. That one dumped about 10” (25.4 cm) of snow on us here where I live in the Kansas City area. Meemaw, by contrast, barely got any." https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202502/editorial.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:37:51

• Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:39:46

• Could A New Style Calculator Be In Your Future? https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202502/page07.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:42:01

• "Twitter, it seems, is in a lot of trouble. In an email leaked to the Wall Street Journal, Musk admits that, "our user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we’re barely breaking even."" gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/2-01.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:48:52

• "To see all of them and be able to select the one you're interested in you'd have to write an index and put it into that directory. Even having it being generated is pretty annoying, right?" gemini://hideout.cyber-cave.org/gabbro-devlog/0-1-2.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:49:37

• You keep an eye on Heterodox Technology, don’t you? gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:50:29

• TouchOSC native Linux touch support arrives; demo on SteamDeck https://cdm.link/touchosc-native-linux/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 16:57:55

• Dead project https://liliputing.com/lilbits-apple-scraps-an-ar-glasses-project-linux-app-support-for-android-and-ayaneos-handheld-gaming-pc-with-modular-controllers/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:00:46

• Proprietary https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/01/31/cyberark-identity-bridge/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:04:33

• Using Lynis for Linux Security Audits (Video Tutorial) https://www.itprotoday.com/linux-os/using-lynix-for-linux-security-audits-video-tutorial-    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:05:30

• GAFAM in "Linux" clothing in Europe (where GAFAM is not based) https://tech.eu/2025/01/31/linux-foundation-europe-and-openssf-launch-initiative-for-eu-cyber-resilience-act-compliance/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:06:41

• "Both of those have been merged into VKD3D-Proton, and a new Proton Hotfix update has been made available, which Valve have now set as the default for FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth-should-work-better-on-linux-steam-deck-with-the-latest-proton-hotfix/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:07:11

• "More about it: "​As you progressed through the cave tunnels, they slowly tightened until you could not even stand. Now, as you crawl, you wonder if you are not alone in the darkness." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/free-tense-horror-game-those-who-crawl-about-exploring-shrinking-caves-added-linux-steam-deck-support/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:07:35

• "I'll use the Steam Deck Rating from Valve (steam deck verified Verified, steam deck playable Playable, steam deck unsupported Unsupported and steam deck not rated Not Rated), plus the ProtonDB rating to help you decide on what to play." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/games-to-claim-from-prime-gaming-jan-3-edition-round-up-for-steamos-linux-and-steam-deck/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:07:57

• AMD RDNA 4 GPUs to buck trend by getting near-perfect launch-day Linux support https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-RDNA-4-GPUs-to-buck-trend-by-getting-near-perfect-launch-day-Linux-support.955105.0.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:08:24

• "Who would've thought Doom could run on the upcoming Android 16's Linux Terminal?" https://news.itsfoss.com/android-16-linux-terminal-doom/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:09:16

• Dictator freeze on foreign aid stuns Belarus opposition, NGOs in Vilnius ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2473656/trump-freeze-on-foreign-aid-stuns-belarus-opposition-ngos-in-vilnius    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:10:50

• birthrate ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/31/russian-education-ministry-official-calls-for-bringing-back-school-discos-to-boost-country-s-birthrate | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:13:04

• "childfree propaganda" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/cards/russia-has-started-taking-dna-samples-from-people-charged-with-misdemeanors-like-participating-in-unsanctioned-protests-and-promoting-childfree-propaganda | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:13:38

• "Russian figure skaters killed" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/31/the-world-of-sports-has-suffered-a-great-loss | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:28:12

• Mediazona ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/31/we-ll-send-you-home-in-a-body-bag | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:28:41

• "Finnish nuclear power plant turns away high school student on field trip because of his Russian citizenship" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/31/finnish-nuclear-power-plant-turns-away-high-school-student-on-field-trip-because-of-his-russian-citizenship | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:28:58

• Kremlin Chokes YouTube Service, but Russians Find Ways Around It ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/world/europe/russia-youtube.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:30:04

• Japan scrambles jets as Russian bombers fly over high seas ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-scrambles-jets-as-russian-bombers-fly-over-high-seas    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:30:22

• Investigation Begins Into Plane Crash That Killed Russian-Born Skaters ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/world-champion-skaters-nauman-shishkova-passengers-washington-plane-crash/33296224.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:30:43

• Lithuanian minister rejects idea that EU resume Russian gas purchases ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2474818/lithuanian-minister-rejects-idea-that-eu-resume-russian-gas-purchases    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:31:03

• The 'Linux' Foundation on global regulations and sanctions ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1007272/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/02/Even_Worse_Than_Racism_at_the_Linux_Foundation.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:31:31

• Daniel Lange: Seagate old hard disks sold as new, smartmontools v7.4 for Debian Bullseye and Bookworm ☞ https://daniel-lange.com/archives/191-Seagate-old-hard-disks-sold-as-new,-smartmontools-v7.4-for-Debian-Bullseye-and-Bookworm.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:32:50

• "This provocatively named article by Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries and Joe Slater bring is an excellent primer to better understanding how LLMs work and what to expect from them." https://gwolf.org/2025/01/chatgpt-is-bullshit.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:34:45

• LibreOffice QA Team: Fixing a bug in three days ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/01/31/libreoffice-qa-team-fixing-a-bug-in-three-days/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:35:40

• 'Linux' Foundation Makes Statement About Banning Russian Programmers (3 Months Late) ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linux-foundation-makes-statement    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:36:06

• Norway seizes ship suspected of involvement in Latvian cable damage ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/31.01.2025-norway-seizes-ship-suspected-of-involvement-in-latvian-cable-damage.a585997/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:37:14

• 9 Clownflare Tunnels Alternatives for Self-Hosters ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/cloudflare-tunnels-alternative/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:37:59

• Remi Collet: 🎲 PHP version 8.3.17RC1 and 8.4.4RC2 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2025/01/31/%F0%9F%8E%B2-PHP-version-8.3.17RC1-and-8.4.4RC2    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:38:19

• Cockpit Project: Cockpit 332 ☞ https://cockpit-project.org//blog/cockpit-332.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:38:49

• GAFAM in "Linux" clothing in Europe (where GAFAM is not based ☞ https://openssf.org/press-release/2025/01/31/linux-foundation-europe-and-openssf-launch-initiative-to-prepare-maintainers-manufacturers-and-open-source-stewards-for-global-cybersecurity-legislation/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:39:24

• agg – asciinema gif generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/agg-asciinema-gif-generator/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:40:13

• Ohkami – intuitive and declarative web framework ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ohkami-intuitive-and-declarative-web-framework/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:40:22

• xfce4-taskmanager – monitor system resources ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xfce4-taskmanager-monitor-system-resources/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:40:29

• 5 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Matrix Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-matrix-clients/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:41:17

• Of Note: 'Linux' Foundation Has Already Let Linux.com Rot for About 4 Months (No Activity) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/Of_Note_Linux_Foundation_Has_Already_Let_Linux_com_Rot_for_Abou.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:41:44

• Another Slew of Fake Articles About 'Linux' and 'Security' From Brittany Day at linuxsecurity.com (Spamfarm/Slopfarm) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/30/Another_Slew_of_Fake_Articles_About_Linux_and_Security_From_Bri.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:41:59

• 21 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Graphical Calculators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/calculators/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:42:10

• 8 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Git Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-text-based-git-clients/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:42:18

• apt vs snap ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/01/31/apt-vs-snap/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:44:43

• UP Squared 7100 fanless SBC Review – Part 1: Unboxing and first boot to Ubuntu Pro 24.04 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/31/up-squared-7100-fanless-sbc-review-unboxing-first-boot-to-ubuntu-pro-24-04/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:45:02

• Your favourite doesn’t have to be the best ☞ https://rubenerd.com/your-favourite-doesnt-have-to-be-the-best/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:45:24

• Microsoft Staff Explains How Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Swindled Employees and Avoided Paying Out Severance Pay (Microsoft Hasn't Much Money Left in the Bank) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/Microsoft_Staff_Explains_How_Microsoft_Swindled_Employees_and_A.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:46:23

• Static Site Generators (SSGs) Pay Off: Vastly Faster Sites, Much Smaller Hosting Bills ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/Static_Site_Generators_SSGs_Pay_Off_Vastly_Faster_Sites_Much_Sm.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:46:35

• "Not one of us" by Dr. Andy Farnell ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/Not_one_of_us_by_Dr_Andy_Farnell.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:46:43

• IBM: Many Thousands of Layoffs in 2025 ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/30/IBM_Many_Thousands_of_Layoffs_in_2025.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:46:51

• Microsoft Mass Layoffs Without Severance Pay Reported Hours After Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Reported Weak Numbers and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Stock Fell ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/30/Microsoft_Mass_Layoffs_Without_Severance_Pay_Reported_Hours_Aft.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:47:04

• December/January in KDE Itinerary ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/01/31/kde-itinerary-december-january-2025.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:47:56

• Mozilla Performance Blog: Performance Testing Newsletter (Q4 Edition) ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/2025/01/31/performance-testing-newsletter-q4-edition-2/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:48:41

• Surveillance by Facebook ("Meta") sold to people as "protection" ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/whatsapp-says-it-disrupted-spyware-campaign-aimed-at-reporters-civil-society/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:49:39

• RightsCon 2025, Taipei and online ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/event/rightscon-2025/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:50:01

• Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/05 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2025/01/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2025-05/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:50:43

• The issue isn't the cost but the generation of lies ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/deepseek-may-be-cheap-ai-but-australian-companies-should-beware/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:51:42

• U.S. Considers Sending Israel 24,000 Assault Rifles Held Back Under Biden ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/us-israel-assault-rifles.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:52:47

• Philippines arrests 100 suspects in online scam farm raid ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-arrests-100-suspects-in-online-scam-farm-raid    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:53:04

• Kushal Das: Pixelfed on Docker ☞ https://kushaldas.in/posts/pixelfed-on-docker.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:53:40

• Josef Strzibny: Setting up Clownflare R2 buckets for Active Storage ☞ https://nts.strzibny.name/rails-cloudflare-r2-activestorage/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:54:01

• Recent cases of watering hole attacks: Part 1 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/01/31/recent-cases-of-watering-hole-attacks-part-1/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:54:31

• Recent cases of watering hole attacks: Part 2 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/01/31/recent-cases-of-watering-hole-attacks-part-2/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:54:39

• Libya rescues 263 illegal immigrants from abusive group in Al-Wahat ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/01/libya-rescues-263-illegal-immigrants-from-abusive-group-in-al-wahat/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:55:09

• Fedora Community Blog: Infra and RelEng Update – Week 05 2025 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/infra-and-releng-update-week-05-2025/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 17:55:36

• Visitor ban for South Korea’s Yoon to be lifted, lawyers expected to seek bail ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/visitor-ban-for-south-koreas-yoon-to-be-lifted-lawyers-mull-bail-request    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:29:00

• "They say they respect robots.txt, so there is no need to worry about the tarpits, since they are excluded by robots.txt. They gave away the lie with that remark." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/01/30/2217217#1391154    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:34:45

• S. Korea voices regret after Japan’s Unesco report again fails to reflect forced labour ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korea-voices-regret-after-japans-unesco-report-again-fails-to-reflect-forced-labour    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:35:49

• we moved to static months after llm scrapers became very annoying, it's HARD to block them all    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:36:49

• South Korean researchers develop two-litre ammonia engine ☞ https://www.h2-view.com/story/south-korean-researchers-develop-two-litre-ammonia-engine/2120871.article/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:36:57

• Malaysia petrol dealers seek penalties for foreigners who buy subsidised fuel ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-petrol-dealers-seek-fines-for-foreign-vehicles-that-pump-subsidised-ron95-petrol    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:37:20

• New Malaysia border agency to oversee all checkpoints nationwide to improve efficiency ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/new-malaysia-border-agency-to-oversee-all-checkpoints-nationwide-to-improve-efficiency    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:37:43

• Adapting to the climate crisis will require societal transformation, not least in China and Hong Kong ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/01/31/adapting-to-the-climate-crisis-will-require-societal-transformation-not-least-in-china-and-hong-kong/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:38:39

• Philippines’ Marcos seeks reassurances from Convicted Felon over alliance ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-marcos-seeks-reassurances-from-trump-over-alliance    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:39:28

• South China Sea: Massive chunk of coral reef destroyed by island-building rivals ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/01/31/south-china-sea-environment-reef-damage/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:41:50

• How does DeepSeek answer sensitive questions about China? ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/01/31/china-deepseek-sensitive-questions/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:42:04

• EU once again asks to suspend WTO case over China’s trade with Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2474709/eu-once-again-asks-to-suspend-wto-case-over-china-s-trade-with-lithuania    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:42:22

• US charges former Fed official with spying for China ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/01/us-charges-former-fed-official-with-spying-for-china/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:42:51

• Melanie Hart testifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on China’s malign influence ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/testimony/melanie-hart-testifies-to-the-senate-foreign-relations-committee-on-chinas-malign-influence/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:43:20

• "replace the mighty U.S. Dollar" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/31/trump-threatens-100-percent-tariffs-on-brics-countries-over-efforts-to-replace-the-mighty-u-s-dollar | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:43:44

• North Koreans 'defending' Putin ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/31/north-korean-forces-pulled-back-from-front-lines-after-heavy-losses-nyt | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:44:17

• "Norwegian police arrest ship suspected of involvement in damaging cable between Latvia and Sweden" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/31/norwegian-police-arrest-ship-suspected-of-involvement-in-damaging-cable-between-latvia-and-sweden | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:44:41

• 3D Printing ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/31/winter-proof-and-improve-your-resin-3d-printing/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:45:18

• The foreign aid freeze poses risks to US interests in Syria ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/the-foreign-aid-freeze-poses-risks-to-us-interests-in-syria/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:45:45

• DeepSeek Data Leak: Million Records Stolen, Users at Risk ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/deepseek-data-leak    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:46:21

• Hell Is Overconfident Developers Writing Encryption Code ☞ https://soatok.blog/2025/01/31/hell-is-overconfident-developers-writing-encryption-code/ "Overconfident developers that choose to write their own cryptography code have plagued the information security industry since before it was even an industry."    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:46:59

• ST Picks: The rise of pineapple farming in Sarawak ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/st-picks-the-rise-of-pineapple-farming-in-sarawak    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:47:36

• Death of Lee’s pineapple juice, once served in homes every CNY, signals tough times for Johor farmers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/with-johors-pineapple-farms-feeling-the-squeeze-sarawak-may-be-the-new-frontier-for-the-fruit    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:47:45

• Silicon Labs unveils low-cost BG22L BLE 5.4 and BG24L BLE 6.0 SoCs ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/31/silicon-labs-bg22l-ble-5-4-bg24l-ble-6-0-socs/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:48:21

• SparkFun Digi X-ON LoRaWAN development kit combines Digi HX15 gateway with RP2350 IoT node and environmental sensors module ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/31/sparkfun-digi-x-on-lorawan-development-kit-combines-digi-hx15-gateway-with-rp2350-iot-node-and-environmental-sensors-module/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:48:48

• Azure Can’t Make Up For On Premises Profit Decline At Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/29/azure-cant-make-up-for-on-premise-profit-decline-at-microsoft/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:49:24

• ""IBM is a great company to work for." Huh, we invented time travel. When do you plan on coming back from the 20th century?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjwfnagq    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:54:13

• "got non pip but low rating -needs growth or something- for the first time ever in cloud, i was hoping for severance soon since i figure they will make it impossible to get to RSU vest date" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jjcjv4yb    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:55:00

• Brodboost-C is a USB Type-C breadboard power supply board with adjustable 3.3V to 5V voltage (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/01/31/brodboost-c-usb-type-c-breadboard-power-supply-board/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:56:24

• Even the US government can fall victim to cryptojacking ☞ https://fedscoop.com/cryptojacking-federal-government-agencies-usaid/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:56:59

• Microsoft stock slumps more than 6% on disappointing revenue outlook ☞ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/microsoft-stock-slumps-on-disappointing-revenue-outlook.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 21:58:28

• TTABlog Test: Which of These Three Section 2(d) Refusals Was/Were Overturned on Appeal? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/01/ttablog-test-which-of-these-three.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:00:04

• How measuring vaccine hesitancy could help health professionals tackle it ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/31/1110705/measuring-vaccine-hesitancy/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:01:15

• No, "Meta" is in trouble, this is BAD reporting https://siliconangle.com/2025/01/29/meta-crushes-wall-streets-profit-targets-zuckerberg-dismisses-deepseek-threat/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/31/The_Corporate_Media_Pretends_That_Facebook_Meta_Has_Performed_W.shtml    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:02:16

• Mark Kapo-berg Agrees to Turn Meta [Back] into a Pogrom Machine ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/30/mark-zuckerberg-agrees-to-turn-meta-back-into-a-pogrom-machine/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:03:08

• "Facebook (Farcebook) parent company Meta Platforms Inc." Yeah, play along with the rebrand... instead of REMINDING people WHY it changed names. They try to escape something...    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:03:52

• Facebook (Farcebook) Said to Explore Incorporating in a Different State ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/technology/meta-incorporation-delaware.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:04:37

• Replacement UPS on order ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202501/replacement-ups-on-order.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:05:16

• Fix again snapshots saving /var ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202501/fix-again-snapshots-saving-var.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:05:57

• Army Withholds Identity of Helicopter Pilot Killed in Crash ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/army-helicopter-crew.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:09:11

• More Russian translations ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202501/more-russian-translations.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:11:05

• Dictator Again Says He Wants To Talk With Putin About Ending War In Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-putin-talks-zelenskiy-zelenskyy-war-/33299246.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:13:20

• $5,000 awarded in first-ever Cloud-Native Heroes Challenge on PATROLL ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/1/31/5000-awarded-first-cloud-native-heroes-challenge    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:13:45

• Pocket Computer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/31/ancient-pocket-computer-gets-a-usb-c-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:14:08

• Latvian company named in investigation of illegal 'blood birch' trade ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/31.01.2025-latvian-company-named-in-investigation-of-illegal-blood-birch-trade.a585945/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:14:28

• Re:Baltica examines Baltic emigrants turned Kremlin propagandists ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/media/31.01.2025-rebaltica-examines-baltic-emigrants-turned-kremlin-propagandists.a585930/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:14:40

• Russia claims village in Ukraine's Donetsk region ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250131-russia-claims-village-in-ukraine-s-donetsk-region    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:14:58

• Lithuanian president ‘sceptical’ about ceasefire in Ukraine war ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2474408/lithuanian-president-sceptical-about-ceasefire-in-ukraine-war    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:15:19

• ‘It’s nice to feel wanted’ – Sun reporter defiant after Russian arrest warrant issued ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/jerome-starkey-russia-arrest-warrant-sun/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:15:49

• Russian Missile Attack Injures 7 In Odesa, Causes Serious Damage To Historic City Center ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-attack-odesa-unesco-historical-center-kiper--zelenskiy-zelenskyy/33299250.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:16:06

• Russian Missile Attack Hits Historic Center Of Odesa ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-odesa-russia-missile-attack-city-center-historic-unesco-site/33298917.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:16:50

• Ukraine Says It Hit Russian Refinery In Volograd ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-hits-russian-refinery-volograd/33298457.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:17:10

• At Least 9 Killed In Russian Drone Strike On Ukraine's Sumy ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/six-killed-russia-attack-shahed-drone-strike-ukraine-sumy/33297198.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:17:26

• Release GCompris 25.0 ☞ https://www.gcompris.net/newsall-en.html#2025-01-30    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:19:39

• North Korean Troops in Russia Taken off Front Lines ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/europe/north-korea-troops-ukraine-russia.html    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:19:52

• "Despite Administration Claims" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-usaid-humanitarian-aid-freeze-ukraine-gaza-sudan | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:20:26

• "2000 Meters to Andriivka" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/31/oscar-winning-ukrainian-filmmaker-mstyslav-chernov-has-a-new-documentary | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:20:44

• Volgograd ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/01/31/fire-breaks-out-at-lukoil-oil-refinery-in-volgograd-after-ukrainian-drone-attack | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:21:01

• "Certain topics are temporarily restricted" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/31/certain-topics-are-temporarily-restricted | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:21:31

• "Around 13,000 people once lived here" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/01/31/around-13-000-people-once-lived-here | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:22:05

• "This release adds a few more applications to the blacklist to stop it appearing and causing issues with them including the Ubisoft Store (UplayWebCore.exe), halloy (IRC client) and Plutonium Launcher (plutonium.exe, plutonium-launcher-win32.exe)." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/linux-performance-overlay-mangohud-0-8-0-rc1-out-now-for-testing-with-intel-gpu-support-and-lots-of-improvements/    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:36:28

• "I'm of the lefter political persuasion in my home country of the United States. And I have some friends who are righter. And we have spirited debates about the current state of affairs." gemini://gem.sdf.org/beej/blog/2025-02-01-pushinglimits.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:39:48

• "There is a certain fondness in getting a reply and having a discussion (I like them a lot), but becoming easily pressured into writing for others, for the demand not what you want, is easy, and I have fallen into that trap more than once and I don't want it to happen again." gemini://altesq.net/log/fuck_engagement.gmi    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:40:35

• "The first reason is the very low CPU and RAM usage. For example, the Qt-powered Kristall client (or browser) [1] uses about 40 MB when displaying midnight.pub and about 50 MB when displaying a gemlog on the Zaibatsu colony of circumlunar.space" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2479    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:41:34

• Quadcopters ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/01/31/why-not-build-your-quadcopter-around-an-evaluation-board/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, February 01, 2025 at 22:43:10