Roy Schestowitz

• Nautilus Biotechnology lays off 16% of workforce, plans release of commercial platform in 2026 https://www.geekwire.com/2025/nautilus-biotechnology-layoffs-16-of-workforce-plans-release-of-commercial-platform-in-2026/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:23:55

• Microsoft Infosys layoffs escalate https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/newsletters/tech-top-5/infosys-layoffs-escalate-nvidias-profit-soars/articleshow/118606323.cms    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:24:01

• Starbucks corporate layoffs leave a bitter taste in Washington state https://www.kuow.org/stories/starbucks-corporate-layoffs-leave-a-bitter-taste-in-washington-state    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:24:28

• Google just had layoffs, and Googlers are using a Google Doc to track who got cut https://www.businessinsider.com/google-layoffs-job-cuts-document-impacted-teams-2025-2    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:24:52

• Report discovers nearly 30,000 tech sector layoffs already in 2025 https://technode.global/2025/02/27/report-discovers-nearly-30000-tech-sector-layoffs-already-in-2025/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:25:14

• "Raise your hand if your insurance premiums went up this year. Mine did, by almost 10%, and with no changes to coverage and doing nothing more than standard annual check-ups last year." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmyjj33q    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:28:15

• "You know they’re just going to hop on a super yacht and disappear with their ill-gotten lucre when the time comes. There will be no accountability. These people are, for all intents and purposes, hitmen for the oligarchy and are being knighted for it. Where is the outrage?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmr1wn7e    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:29:50

• winter drought https://www.dw.com/en/how-can-cyprus-cope-with-winter-drought/a-71685145    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:32:05

• South Sudan https://www.dw.com/en/heat-wave-forces-south-sudan-to-close-schools-for-two-weeks/a-71698826    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:32:30

• two major airports https://www.dw.com/en/germany-verdi-union-calls-strikes-at-two-major-airports/a-71706525    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:32:51

• Fact check: How Elon Musk is meddling in German elections https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-elon-musk-is-meddling-in-german-elections/a-71676473    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:33:37

• flag maker sees sales rise amid U.S. tariff threats https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-canada-flag-maker-1.7459075    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:34:49

• Lithuania among EU leaders in terms of women in science ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2496956/lithuania-among-eu-leaders-in-terms-of-women-in-science    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:36:23

• Ditch the grind, find your why: The science of intentional living ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/ditch-the-grind-find-your-why-the-science-of-intentional-living/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:36:39

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Ends Global Health Research Program ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/health/usaid-global-health-surveys.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:37:04

• Stanford health experts voice concerns over falling vaccination rates amid RFK Jr.’s health secretary appointment ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/02/26/stanford-health-experts-voice-concerns-over-falling-vaccination-rates-amid-rfk-jr-s-health-secretary-appointment/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:37:19

• Flu incidence continues to rise in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/26.02.2025-flu-incidence-continues-to-rise-in-latvia.a589465/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:37:42

• "I guess no layoff this week, since it’s Thursday, layoffs don’t happen on Fridays, and no one has posted about any pink slip this weekend." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jn2hy3cd    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:44:45

• unmarked residential school graves https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/funding-ends-for-national-advisory-committee-on-residential-school-missing-children-1.7460534    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:53:59

• "This really summarizes the entire "controversy", doesn't it? They're Rust enthusiasts first, kernel enthusiasts a distant last place. Thats why they need to be kept out, to be gatekeeped, to protect the kernel." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/02/26/0210231#1394593    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:55:16

• "Oil tends to loosen the rust bindings on the rusty bits you intend to remove. From what I understand, that's exactly what the rust enthusiasts are complaining about. They don't want the rust modules removed."    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:55:55

• Next comes PRIVATISATION https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pearson-update-crash-1.7461708 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/what-we-know-so-far-pearson-airport-plane-crash-1.7461520    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:56:56

• injures 18 at Toronto airport https://www.dw.com/en/canada-plane-crash-injures-18-at-toronto-airport/a-71645160    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:58:04

• Self-service wedding cash kiosks spark debate in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/self-service-wedding-cash-kiosks-spark-debate-in-south-korea    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 03:59:45

• South Korea’s Yoon floated martial law plans over drinks, new book reveals ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-yoon-floated-martial-law-plans-over-drinks-new-book-reveals    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:00:03

• ‘Joyful’ South Koreans hope rise in births will continue ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/joyful-south-koreans-hope-rising-births-will-continue    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:00:24

• New book says Kim Jong Un was named North Korea’s heir at age 8 ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/26/north-korea-kim-jong-un-heir-at-age-8/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:00:37

• CBC/Radio-Canada overhaul and a major funding hike https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/heritage-minister-cbc-radio-canada-1.7463926    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:02:27

• Malaysia jails Israeli for seven years on firearms offences ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-jails-israeli-for-seven-years-on-firearms-offences    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:07:43

• Malaysia pension fund EPF scrutinised over up to $212m ‘losses’ in airport privatisation deal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-pension-fund-epf-under-scrutiny-over-s212m-losses-in-mahb-privatisation-deal    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:07:59

• Malaysia yet to finalise MH370 search contract, as ship heads to new zone ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/malaysia-yet-to-finalise-mh370-search-contract-as-ship-heads-to-new-zone    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:08:28

• New search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 underway 11 years after mystery disappearance ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/02/26/world-news/new-search-for-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-underway-11-years-after-mystery-disappearance/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:08:35

• Terrorist Entities https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-20/canada-lists-7-criminal-organizations-as-terrorist-entities-minister-says    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:09:26

• Walmart slapped higher prices on 1L milk cartons than permitted by Manitoba law https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/walmart-overcharging-one-litre-milk-cartons-manitoba-1.7462302    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:10:00

• e-buses https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ebus-ottawa-canada-usa-tariff-1.7459686    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:13:07

• Sask. women find chat room sharing their intimate or sexualized images without consent https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/intimate-images-shared-discord-chatroom-saskatchewan-1.7459977    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:14:38

• Ford slashes manager stock bonuses to cut costs, boost performance https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/ford-slashes-manager-stock-bonuses-1.7461830    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:15:28

• US cuts to science and technology could fast-track China’s tech dominance ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/us-cuts-to-science-and-technology-could-fast-track-chinas-tech-dominance/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:15:53

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s New Crackdown on China Is Just Beginning ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/trump-china-crackdown.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:16:04

• Wit and light win the day against China ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0226/Wit-and-light-win-the-day-against-China    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:16:27

• China says Taiwan seeks to give away chip industry to US ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-taiwan-seeks-to-give-away-chip-industry-to-us    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:17:03

• How China plans to Convicted Felon-proof its economy as top lawmakers meet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-china-plans-to-trump-proof-its-economy-as-top-lawmakers-meet    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:20:38

• China holds ‘shooting’ drills off Taiwan’s coast, vows ‘reunification’ push ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-holds-shooting-drills-off-taiwans-coast-vows-reunification-push    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:20:55

• New Zealand’s foreign minister raises concerns over China’s Tasman Sea drills on Beijing visit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/new-zealands-foreign-minister-raises-concerns-over-chinas-tasman-sea-drills-on-beijing-visit    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:21:06

• S’pore, other nodes in high-tech sectors face collateral damage as US tightens rules on chips ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/spore-other-nodes-in-high-tech-sectors-face-collateral-damage-as-us-tightens-rules-on-chips    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:21:29

• China's mature chips to make up 28% of world production, creating oversupply — Western companies express concern for their survival ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinas-mature-chips-to-make-up-28-percent-of-world-production-creating-oversupply-western-companies-express-concern-for-their-survival    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:21:49

• China accuses Taiwan of giving away chip industry to the US as a 'souvenir' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-accuses-taiwan-of-giving-away-chip-industry-to-the-us-as-a-souvenir    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:22:09

• Chinese, Philippine social control media users at odds over claim on Palawan ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/02/26/china-philippines-south-china-sea-palawan-zheng-he/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:22:28

• Hong Kong to cut 10,000 civil service jobs, freeze pay amid deficit ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/26/china-hong-kong-budget-deficit/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:22:53

• China sets up live-fire exercise zone near Taiwan ‘without warning’ ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/02/26/china-navy-taiwan-live-fire-exercise-kaohsiung/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:23:16

• Myanmar military bombs insurgents attacking key Chinese investment area ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/02/26/rakine-aa-kyaukpyu-china/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:24:02

• Freedom on the wane around the world: report ☞ https://rfa.org/english/asia/2025/02/26/asia-freedom-house-annual-report-2025/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:24:17

• Malaysia calls for ASEAN defense industries to become inter-linked ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/02/26/philippines-malaysia-asean-unity-threats/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:24:42

• Officials in China’s Hunan ban online doctors from using Hey Hi (AI) prescriptions ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/26/china-hunan-ai-ban-medical-prescribing/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:25:06

• China’s Pooh-tin Jinping urges ‘calm’ response to challenges ahead of key meeting ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/26/chinas-xi-jinping-urges-calm-response-to-challenges-ahead-of-key-meeting/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:25:40

• “KnuckleBall” ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/26/too-smooth-football-and-the-knuckleball-problem/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:27:37

• Want A Truck With A Short Bed And A Long Camper Shell? ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/26/want-a-truck-with-a-short-bed-and-a-long-camper-shell/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:28:31

• Building A DIY Muon Tomography Device For About $100 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/26/building-a-diy-muon-tomography-device-for-about-100/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:29:03

• District Heat Pump Systems Save Money And Gas Utilities ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/26/district-heat-pump-systems-save-money-and-gas-utilities/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:29:24

• Watch: Intuitive Machines Launches For Historic Second Soft Touchdown on The Moon ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-live-intuitive-machines-launches-for-historic-second-soft-moon-touchdown    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:34:09

• Extreme Heat Can Accelerate Aging, New Research Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/extreme-heat-can-accelerate-aging-new-research-finds    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:34:18

• "the company’s stock is down more than 9% in after-hours trading." https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/26/pure-storage-tops-fourth-quarter-earnings-expectations/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:35:22

• Qt Design Studio 4.7 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-design-studio-4.7-released    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:36:34

• Rights groups urge Kenya government to end abductions and renditions ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/rights-groups-urge-kenya-government-to-end-abductions-and-renditions/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:37:34

• University of Austin was founded on free speech. How’s its first year? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2025/0226/university-of-austin-free-speech    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:39:03

• Social media platforms censor journalists’ accounts at Turkey’s request ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/social-media-platforms-censor-journalists-accounts-at-turkeys-request-304929    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:39:28

• US-born Eileen Gu’s US$6.6m training budget censored on Chinese internet ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/26/us-born-eileen-gus-us6-6m-training-budget-censored-on-chinese-internet/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:39:40

• Windows = waste of time, Peter ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/collecting-actove-roles-logs-centrally-using-syslog-ng-windows-agent/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:41:55

• Firefox Developer Experience: WebDriver BiDi Becomes the Default for Cypress with Firefox ☞ https://fxdx.dev/webdriver-bidi-becomes-the-default-for-cypress-in-firefox/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:42:23

• Philippine gaming chief says Thailand casino push a ‘big threat’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippine-gaming-chief-says-thailand-casino-push-a-big-threat    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:44:43

• For military staff across Europe, wargaming is all the rage ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250226-military-staff-across-europe-wargaming-all-the-rage-conflict-scenarios-simulation-military    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:46:19

• Critical infrastructure: The rising ransomware victim ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/02/critical-infrastructure-the-rising-ransomware-victim/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:48:03

• HYPE: "fell more than 5% in late trading today after the artificial intelligence software maker" https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/26/c3-ai-reports-strong-revenue-growth-forecast-disappoints-investors/ https://medium.com/@alvarodmn39/baidus-ceo-believes-99-of-ai-companies-won-t-survive-after-the-bubble-bursts-595d7dc8bc6c    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:48:47

• TTABlog Test: Are Educational Services for Incarcerated Individuals Related to Legal Services Under Section 2(d)? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/02/ttablog-test-are-educational-services.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:49:15

• Not if people who do NOT want to have kids are FORCED to have some ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/is-america-destined-for-a-future-without-children    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:50:23

• FLOSS Weekly Episode ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/26/floss-weekly-episode-822-nand2tetris/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:51:14

• ‘Day of Reckoning’: Trial Over Greenpeace’s Role in Pipeline Protest Begins ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/climate/greenpeace-lawsuit-dakota-access-pipeline-energy-transfer.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:54:27

• EU proposes to scrap sustainability reporting laws for businesses ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/eu-proposes-to-scrap-sustainability-reporting-laws-for-businesses/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:55:06

• A Westless world ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/a-westless-world/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:56:05

• EXPLAINED: Why is China so worried about food security? ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/26/china-food-security-agricultural-policy-explained/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:56:17

• A dive into the Rockchip Bootloader ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/a-dive-into-the-rockchip-bootloader/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:56:44

• Dihydroxyacetone Man orders suspension of security clearance of DC law firm lawyers aiding former US special counsel ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-orders-suspension-of-security-clearance-of-dc-law-firm-lawyers-aiding-former-us-special-counsel/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:57:41

• 'We don't intend to stay' in Gaza, Israeli FM Sa'ar says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20250226-we-don-t-intend-to-stay-in-gaza-israeli-fm-sa-ar-says    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:58:16

• Hamas hands over dead hostages as Palestinians leave Israeli prison ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250226-hamas-hands-over-four-hostage-bodies-to-red-cross-says-israeli-official    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:58:24

• Just name-dropping buzzwords, hype ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-cybersecurity-jcdc-playbook-op-ed/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 04:59:09

• UPC is illegal and unconstitutional, but this publisher, JUVE, was paid to promote for this illegality and it's still at it ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/upc-hears-first-main-trial-concerning-second-medical-use/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:01:40

• MAF Holdings entity, Weple IP, streaming patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/26/maf-holdings-entity-weple-ip-streaming-content-patent-challenged    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:01:53

• $8,000 awarded for AutoConnect Holdings vehicle patents prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/26/6000-awarded-for-autoconnect-holdings-vehicle-patents-prior-art    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:02:11

• Ascend Innovations entity, Byteweavr, validation patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/25/ascend-innovations-entity-byteweavr-validation-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:02:38

• BrowserKey security patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/25/browserkey-security-patent-challenged    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:03:09

• The EPO is just breaking the law every day at this point ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/02/26/ok-computer-the-epos-new-generative-ai-legal-interactive-platform/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:03:44

• "Hello everyone, I wanted to know if the slides used by Richard Stallman at TedX[1] were public and usable. " https://www.reddit.com/r/gnu/comments/1izape8/are_richard_stallmans_slides_at_tedx_public/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:05:32

• "Did you miss the 180th #nexawednesday with Dr. Richard Stallman (Founder of the Free Software Foundation, Founder and development leader of the GNU operating system)?" https://www.instagram.com/nexa_center/p/DGlLjIbCsWB/?img_index=5    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:06:14

• At least five killed as Russia bombs Ukraine’s Kostiantynivka ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/26/at-least-five-killed-as-russia-bombs-ukraine-s-kostiantynivka | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:14:16

• "The U.S. and Ukraine have finalized a natural resources deal. Here are its key terms." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/26/the-u-s-and-ukraine-have-finalized-a-natural-resources-deal-here-are-its-key-terms | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:14:29

• "Top Zelensky advisor Mykhailo Podolyak on dealing with Trump" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/26/ukraine-will-not-accept-any-ultimatums | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:15:15

• "rare earth" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/26/trump-vows-again-to-get-our-money-back-in-rare-earth-deal-with-ukraine-without-offering-any-security-guarantees | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:15:28

• "Ukrainian constitutional law prohibits the imminent ceasefire promised by Donald Trump" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/27/trump-s-illegal-ceasefire-plan | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:15:49

• How the Houthis’ strikes on US MQ-9 Reaper drones serve a wider regional agenda ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/houthi-strikes-on-us-mq9-reaper-drones/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:16:22

• Syria's Promise: Will new masters of Damascus deliver unity and justice? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250226-syria-s-promise-will-new-masters-of-damascus-deliver-unity-and-justice    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:16:43

• US appeals court strikes down provisions of Arizona laws requiring proof of citizenship to vote ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/us-appeals-court-strikes-down-provisions-of-arizona-laws-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-to-vote/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:16:59

• Hey Hi (AI) HYPE https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/27/halliday-proactive-ai-smart-glasses-feature-invisible-display-real-time-translation-and-hands-free-control/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:20:03

• Silicon Labs MG26 development kits and SoCs are now available for Matter and multiprotocol Smart Home applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/26/silicon-labs-mg26-development-kits-and-socs-are-now-available-for-matter-and-multiprotocol-smart-home-applications/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:20:29

• South Koreans Are Having More Babies After Years of Decline ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/world/asia/south-korea-babies-birthrate.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:20:48

• Exercise the brain, logout of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/exercise-the-brain-logout-of-chatgpt/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:21:25

• LLMs are NOT "AI" https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/26/amazon-debuts-llm-powered-alexa-expanded-automation-features/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:23:01

• And they will NOT do your work for you. SLOP is mostly wasting people's time.    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:23:22

• Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/technology/amazon-alexa-plus-generative-ai.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:23:44

• Signal deprivation is one thing. Signal "zone-flooding" is what LLM SLOP leads to. It is NOT about efficiency. Unless you want pizza with GLUE in it.    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:24:35

• Raspberry Pi powers custom cyberdeck inspired music player ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-powers-custom-cyberdeck-inspired-music-player    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:25:35

• The Web is full of the "RAH RAH RAH I AM HEY HI EXPERT, HIRE ME!!" bros    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:26:06

• Git 2.49-rc0 Released    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:26:23

• The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly’s Glimpses of the Future (1888) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/glimpses-of-the-future    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:27:10

• The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fashion, Politics, and Identity in Mughal South Asia ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-emperors-new-clothes    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:27:19

• Sartorial Codes: Tiny Cryptic #3 ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/02/tiny-cryptic-3    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:27:26

• Ouch. SPAM. again...... https://fossforce.com/2025/02/foss-force-deals-of-the-week-lenovo-memory-card-mini-laptop-keyboard-and-a-portable-laptop-monitor/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:27:49

• South Korea's policy push springs to life as world's lowest birthrate rises ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-koreas-policy-push-springs-to-life-as-worlds-lowest-birthrate-rises    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:28:04

• ‘The Future of Everything’ podcast makes science more relatable ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/02/25/the-future-of-everything-podcast-makes-science-more-relatable/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:28:24

• 2019 Week 6 Deaths in England and Wales: 11,660. Same Week in 2025: Over 13,000. ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/02/26/2019-week-6-deaths-in-england-and-wales/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:28:56

• TikTok is Rapidly Losing Users to Reels and Shorts — At Least According to This Q4 Study ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/26/tiktok-losing-users-to-reels-shorts/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:29:37

• Influencers Call These Medical Tests Lifesaving. Here’s What You May Not Know. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/well/instagram-tiktok-medical-tests.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:29:44

• Security questions raised in Daugavpils after incident at playground ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/26.02.2025-security-questions-raised-in-daugavpils-after-incident-at-playground.a589330/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:30:11

• Reform doesn’t come easily to the agency that guards the nuclear weapons stockpile ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/02/reform-doesnt-come-easily-to-the-agency-that-guards-the-nuclear-weapons-stockpile/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:30:26

• New Anubis Ransomware Could Pose Major Threat to Organizations ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-ransomware-anubis-could-pose-major-threat-to-organizations/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:30:50

• 3.3 Million People Impacted by DISA Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/3-3-million-people-impacted-by-disa-data-breach/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:31:52

• OpenSSF Newsletter – February 2025 ☞ https://openssf.org/newsletter/2025/02/26/openssf-newsletter-february-2025/ OpenSSF is a front group for fake security though http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:32:21

• Cyber workforce legislation vote gives rise to partisan rift on House Homeland Security Committee ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/cyber-workforce-legislation-partisan-rift-house-homeland-security-committee/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:32:39

• Karen Evans steps into a leading federal cyber position: executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/karen-evans-steps-into-a-leading-federal-cyber-position-executive-assistant-director-for-cybersecurity-at-cisa/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:32:59

• A major cybersecurity law is expiring soon — and advocates are prepping to push Congress for renewal ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/cybersecurity-information-sharing-law-expiring-congress-renewal/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:33:14

• "Seriously tough times in the gaming industry, with even more publishers pulling back and closing studios. Now Warner Bros. have confirmed they've closed multiple studios." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/wb-close-f-e-a-r-and-shadow-of-mordor-dev-monolith-productions-and-other-studios/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:36:13

• "With the news that WB have closed up Monolith Productions and other studios, GOG have announced they're speeding up bringing F.E.A.R. to their Preservation Program." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/gog-adding-f-e-a-r-to-their-preservation-program-with-monolith-games-on-sale/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:37:14

• "Valve have done a little adjustment to the display of Steam Daily Deals to show more games. They also now give developers some more stats, and gave us all a bit of an overview." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/valve-updates-the-steam-daily-deals-program-and-gives-some-stats/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:37:23

• "Fallen Aces from Trey Powell, Jason Bond and New Blood Interactive looks awesome and now it should be even better." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fallen-aces-the-crime-noir-fps-is-now-steam-deck-verified-with-the-wheels-of-steel-update/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:38:05

• "Following on from the 570.86.16 Beta that was released on January 30th, NVIDIA have today put up a new stable driver release with 570.124.04." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/nvidia-stable-driver-570-124-04-released-for-linux-with-vrr-for-multiple-displays-and-various-bug-fixes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:38:22

• "GOG's special Preservation Program, where they ensure games are kept up to date and continue working on modern systems, has expanded with 11 LEGO games now included." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/gog-preservation-program-expands-to-add-11-lego-games/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:38:35

• "Tom the Dancing Bug: When FDR denounced Poland for starting a war with Germany" https://boingboing.net/2025/02/26/tom-the-dancing-bug-when-fdr-denounced-poland-for-starting-a-war-with-germany.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:40:44

• "How boy slaves are being dressed as girls and forced to dance for leering Taliban men... before being raped: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS reveals horrifying tribal custom flourishing in Afghanistan | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14439633/How-boy-slaves-dressed-girls-forced-dance-leering-Taliban-men-raped-DAVID-PATRIKARAKOS-lifts-lid-horrifying-tribal-custom-flourishing-Afghanistan-abandoned-West.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:40:54

• "Elon Musk's AI-bola and Marco Rubio's Very Busy Month" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/27/elon-musks-ai-bola-and-marco-rubios-very-busy-month/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:41:06

• "Rheinmetall, Germany's largest arms company, is converting civilian sites for military technology" https://digit.site36.net/2025/02/25/rheinmetall-germanys-largest-arms-company-is-converting-civilian-sites-for-military-technology/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:41:20

• "Meta-Studie: Mythos Desinformation?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/meta-studie-mythos-desinformation/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:41:33

• "Bernie Sanders Is Sending a Piercing Message About Musk and the Oligarchy" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/bernie-sanders-elon-musk-oligarchy-speech/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:41:44

• "Andrew Tate, who faces rape and trafficking charges in Romania, has left for the U.S" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-02-27/andrew-tate-leaves-romania-for-the-us-travel-ban-lifted    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:41:59

• Esptein's home. "Internet celebrity Andrew Tate leaves Romania for Florida, source says" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/internet-celebrity-andrew-tate-leaves-romania-for-florida-source-says-101740655908765.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:42:17

• "Services Collapsing as USAID Cuts Health Contracts Worldwide" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-27/services-collapsing-as-usaid-cuts-health-contracts-worldwide    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:42:26

• "World Boxing promises 'fair playing field' for women" https://www.dw.com/en/aiming-for-la-olympics-world-boxing-promises-fair-playing-field-for-women/a-71765202    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:42:49

• "Promise Mascot Agency from Kaizen Game Works is confirmed for launch on April 10th" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/promise-mascot-agency-releases-april-10-and-is-steam-deck-ready-with-a-demo-up/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:43:10

• "La Quimera is an upcoming story-driven FPS set in dystopian future Latin America. Developed by Reburn, formerly known as 4A Games Ukraine. As a big fan of the Metro series, I'm keen to seen what a bunch of their team can do with this new setting." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/metro-devs-4a-games-ukraine-rebrand-as-reburn-and-reveal-futuristic-sci-fi-shooter-la-quimera/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:43:20

• "‘Extermination of Entire Nations’: Scientist Maria Vyushkova Counts Russia’s Indigenous War Dead - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/25/extermination-of-entire-nations-scientist-maria-vyushkova-counts-russias-indigenous-war-dead-a88090    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:43:34

• "The changing face of Lent" https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/food-drink/2025/02/the-changing-face-of-lent    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:44:07

• "Russian milibloggers condemn Vladimir Putin’s ‘rare earth’ mining offer to Donald Trump" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/27/rare-earth-precious-partnership    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:44:41

• "The European Commission is headed to India. Here’s what to know about the landmark visit." https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-european-commission-is-headed-to-india-heres-what-to-know-about-the-landmark-visit/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:44:58

• "Trump administration to cut 92% of USAID foreign aid contracts" https://www.axios.com/2025/02/27/trump-administration-to-cut-92-of-usaid-foreign-aid-contracts    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:45:08

• "As far as publicity stunts and indie dev anniversary celebrations go, this is both clever and quite amusing. The puzzle game A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build from Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends will change price every hour on itch.io. Not on other stores though, as only itch supports doing this." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/to-mark-10-years-this-indie-game-changes-price-every-hour-to-londons-temperature/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:45:27

• "I can't quite believe it either. Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Command & Conquer Renegade and Command & Conquer Generals (inc. Zero Hour) have their code officially open sourced." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/ea-just-open-sourced-command-conquer-red-alert-renegade-and-generals/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:45:41

• "North Korea Has Sent More Troops To Russia, Says South Korean Intelligence" https://www.rferl.org/a/north-korea-troops-ukraine-russia-kursk/33329798.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:47:49

• "Veterans groups raise alarm over VA firings" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/veterans-affairs-firings-concerns/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:48:02

• "Exclusive: RFE/RL Obtains Copy Of U.S.-Ukraine Minerals Deal" https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-us-natural-resources-deal-reconstruction-fund/33329059.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:48:08

• (paywall) "Cheeto White House Builds Its Own Lapdog Press Corps" https://thedissenter.org/trump-white-house-builds-its-own-lapdog-press-corps/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:48:46

• "It Looks an Awful Lot Like Elon Musk Is Awarding a Huge Government Contract to SpaceX" https://futurism.com/elon-musk-faa-spacex-contract    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:48:58

• "Real Life Is Now "Don't Look Up" as Trump Pulls Support for Any Research About the Climate" https://futurism.com/trump-pulls-funds-research-climate    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:49:12

• "Out of Office - jarunmb.com" https://jarunmb.com/posts/out-of-office "Funny, sad, and mostly true. I thought it kinda appropriate considering my last 24 hours…"    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:49:44

• "DOGE’s [sic] ‘god-tier’ access to CFPB data opens door to market manipulation, experts say | The Record from Recorded Future News" https://therecord.media/doge-access-cfpb-data-market    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:49:53

• "Tate brothers, who face human trafficking charges in Romania, arrive in US" https://www.voanews.com/a/andrew-tate-accused-of-rape-trafficking-in-romania-leaves-for-us/7990115.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:50:00

• "What Elon Musk Is Doing to the Government" https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/what-elon-musk-is-doing-to-the-government    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:50:13

• "Andrew Tate: What do conservatives think about him?" https://www.vox.com/politics/401844/trump-andrew-tate-release-splintering-republicanmaga-american-right-manosphere    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:50:19

• Boon of Biodiversity on the Border ☛ https://therevelator.org/protect-otay-mountain/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:51:28

• "Nanostructured metamaterials have shown a lot of promise in what they can do in the lab, but often have fatal stress concentration factors that limit their applications. Researchers have now found a strong, lightweight nanostructured carbon." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/ai-helps-researchers-discover-new-structural-materials/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:55:02

• "war-on-drugs" ☛ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/warondrugslaw/ | Source: La Quadature Du Net    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:55:23

• "Self-Folding 3D Prints" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/thermorphs-self-folding-3d-prints/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:57:41

• "Experience AI resources are helping educators teach AI to 11-14 year olds. Explore the impact of our free resources and find out how to get involved" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/experience-ai-the-story-so-far/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:58:34

• "Hatred towards criticism of Israel" ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2025/02/27/hatred-towards-criticism-of-israel-idf-spokesman-arye-shalicar-attacks-german-journalists-for-days-now/ | Source: Site36    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:59:40

• "Racial profiling almost doubled" ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2025/02/27/racial-profiling-almost-doubled-left-party-calls-to-unjustified-checks-at-german-borders/ | Source: Site36    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 05:59:51

• Missouri GOP Seeks Control Over St. Louis Police Department ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/st-louis-police-missouri-gop-control-tishaura-jones-civil-war | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:00:16

• "How Cambridge Analytica Used Intimate Data to Exploit Gun Owners’ Private Lives" ☛ https://projects.propublica.org/gun-owners-cambridge-analytica-data-psychological-profiles-privacy/ |    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:00:42

• Digital Restrictions (DRM): "But as anyone familar with DRM and locked stores will attest, there’s usually no such thing as “ownership” on these platforms" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/selling-our-kindles/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:47:10

• "I’ve been covering telecom long enough I can tell you exactly how this is going to play out." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/the-trump-admin-thinks-affordable-fiber-broadband-is-woke/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:47:41

• "RDAP has been offered by ICANN-accredited registrars and gTLDs since 2019." ☛ https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-update-launching-rdap-sunsetting-whois-27-01-2025-en | Source: ICANN    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:47:54

• "Senate Bill 137 would allow police to sell or give guns seized through civil forfeiture to any of the more than 1,200 licensed federal firearms dealers in the state." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/02/27/kansas-police-could-sell-give-away-guns-seized-without-criminal-convictions-under-senate-bill/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:51:13

• "In 2021 and 2022, I interviewed twenty-five rural postal workers" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/02/usps-rural-areas-services-privatization/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:51:31

• "Reports of the use of Starlink at Tai Chang are not a one-off—criminals running multibillion-dollar empires across Southeast Asia appear to be widely using the satellite [Internet] network." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-scam-compounds/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:51:48

• "Bill: But there's one thing that hasn't changed over 50 years, something that is so important to tell you kids who are new to this movement: [...]" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/02/26/shut-the-f%e2%98%a0ck-up-funny-but-helpful-psa-explains-what-to-say-to-cops-who-want-to-talk-to-you.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:52:07

• "the billionaire founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post" ☛ https://www.mediaite.com/news/jeff-bezos-announces-resignation-of-washington-post-opinion-editor-over-new-editorial-mandate-in-stunning-statement/ | Source: Mediaite http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/25/The_Fall_of_Corporate_Media_Controlled_by_Oligarchs_Who_Boost_o.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:53:22

• "Say what you will about Bezos. But don’t fail to recognize that he is a savvy oligarch who—like his seat mate at Donald Trump’s inauguration" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeff-bezos-washington-post-changes-opinion/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:53:55

• "Carr has also made it clear that will use the FCC to attack dissent. Ars Technica reported: [..." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/fccs-knives-are-out-for-first-amendment/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:54:21

• "Carr has instead embraced Trump's view that broadcasters should be punished for supposed anti-conservative bias." ☛ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/trumps-fcc-chair-can-hassle-the-living-daylights-out-of-news-broadcasters/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:54:58

• "FCC Are Waging War On The Media." ☛ https://deadline.com/2025/02/donald-trump-fcc-media-war-1236289209/ | Source: Deadline    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:56:33

• "The New York Times today employs around 100 journalists in London, up from around 70 two years ago and triple the number that worked there in 2016" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/new-york-times-london-uk-adrienne-carter/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:56:59

• "On February 25, Ukrainian-born Barabash, a film critic for the independent outlet Republic, was detained and charged with spreading “fake” news." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/02/russia-puts-journalist-under-house-arrest-for-fake-news-about-ukraine-war/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:57:41

• "Palina Pitkevich’s detention is yet another grim reminder that President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s government is the worst jailer of journalists in Europe and Central Asia" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/02/belarusian-journalist-palina-pitkevichs-extremism-trial-set-to-open/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:58:03

• "convicted under Article 331 of the penal code" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/02/vietnamese-journalist-truong-huy-san-sentenced-to-30-months-in-prison/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:58:25

• "PEN America denounced his indictment and called for his immediate release, emphasizing that silencing a journalist undermines society's right to truth and accountability." ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/02/journalist-huy-duc-sentenced-to-30-months-in-prison-for-abusing-democratic-freedoms/ |    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:58:48

• "misinformation and disinformation are challenges for society, but what is being observed" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/cybercrime-laws-risk-steady-criminalization-of-journalists-analysts-warn/7989674.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 06:59:52

• "abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/vietnam-jails-leading-journalist-over-facebook-posts/7989811.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:00:24

• "It’s a familiar playbook. When Donald Trump receives backlash from the public or the press for some action he’s taken" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/trump-white-house-announces-that-it-will-decide-who-gets-to-cover-the-administration/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:00:55

• "Fast forward to this week, when credentialed AP News reporters were barred from several press events in the White House." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/the-real-gulf-of-america-is-between-the-news-outlets-that-cover-this-administration/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:01:12

• "San, better-known as “The Winning Side” author Huy Duc, was found guilty under a vaguely worded article of the criminal code. He has been in detention since his arrest on June 7, 2024" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/vietnam/2025/02/27/truong-huy-san-huy-duc-author-jailed/ | Source: RFA    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:01:40

• "He said students of journalism and communication must inculcate knowledge and develop a strong mindset through continuous effort to make their mark in the field" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/challenges-of-journalism-in-the-digital-age-highlighted/article69270593.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:01:59

• "The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission said the vast majority of its operations are funded by fees charged to the companies it regulates" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/canada-regulator-to-impose-fee-on-google-for-online-news-laws-operating-costs/articleshow/118600566.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:05:06

• "Seriously though, an email from Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos to the newspaper's staff is now saying the quiet part out loud: the newspaper will no longer tolerate opinions its billionaire backer disproves of." ☛ https://futurism.com/bezos-washington-post-capitalism | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:06:09

• "The Data Union Strategy should aim to streamline existing data rules, potentially creating a simplified, clearer, and more coherent legal framework for businesses and administrations to share data more seamlessly and at scale" ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14541-European-Data-Union-Strategy_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:36:42

• "A major cybersecurity law is expiring soon" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/cybersecurity-information-sharing-law-expiring-congress-renewal/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:36:58

• Microsoft, which BRIBED Cheeto ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-will-urge-trump-to-overhaul-curbs-on-ai-chip-exports-report/articleshow/118604957.cms | Source: India Times http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/25/Microsoft_Sponsored_Inauguration_as_a_Reminder_to_Boycott_Micro.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:37:35

• "Apple has signed an agreement with Indonesia to invest in the country, paving the way for sales of the iPhone 16 to resume in Southeast Asia’s largest nation." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/apple-reaches-pact-with-indonesia-to-end-iphone-sales-ban-1863619 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:37:45

• "Commenting on the post, one user wrote “Shutting up is only the beginning.” A second user replied “After the Epstein Client List is released, he may very well shut up on his own”." ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/do-you-ever-want-bill-gates-to-shut-up-asks-us-senator-elon-musk-replies-/articleshow/118606545.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:38:00

• "I’m running in the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board of Directors election. I intend to say more next week about why you should vote and what I am bringing to the table. For now I wanted to get the word out about how to vote." ☛ https://openpath.quest/2025/how-to-vote-in-the-2025-osi-election/ | Source: Chad Whitacre    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:38:13

• "It is past time to catch up on this issue, so follow me below the fold." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2025/02/software-liability-us-vs-eu.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:39:17

• "The bill requires a “covered businesses” to provide certain privacy safeguards to “covered minors” on their service." ☛ https://epic.org/documents/epic-written-testimony-to-the-vermont-senate-committee-on-institutions-in-support-of-the-vermont-age-appropriate-design-code-act/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:39:37

• "A downside of adding too much friction is that you might then lack input sources of new material to write about" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/02/27/ss.gmi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:41:04

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1569.jpg    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:41:44

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1219.jpg    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:41:51

• it just works gemini://drmollytov.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-02-28.gmi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:43:13

• "I spent almost the entirety of my adult life creating content on—and for—the web." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/the-cost-of-doing-the-right-thing | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 07:50:21

• "Some cows are just special. Every cow has a distinct personality, and every year I have a couple cows who just love people. As a kid, my sisters and I called these cows the “pets.”" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/02/27/my-cow-friend-buffalo-stood-beside-me-throughout-my-farming-career-now-ive-had-to-say-goodbye/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:38:57

• "“Otters are apex predators (living at the top of the aquatic food chain), and therefore their presence is an indicator of a healthy ecosystem, including enough prey." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/trail-cameras/otters-return-to-the-uk-rare-mammals-spotted-on-trail-camera-in-oxfordshire | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:39:11

• "The central probe agency has also seized multiple hardware crypto wallets, 121 documents, 34 laptops and hard disks, 12 mobile phones and multiple email and instant messaging application dumps, they said." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/gainbitcoin-scam-case-cbi-seizes-cryptocurrencies-worth-over-rs-23-94-crore/articleshow/118582111.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:39:53

• "Pendolino Plus trains will run from the capital to Oulu and Turku." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20146405 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:40:05

• "Europe’s focus on green energy and sustainable infrastructure makes it a crucial region in the global conversation on data centre energy consumption." ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/02/27/the-zero-sum-game-of-digitalization-data-centre-expansion-and-sustainability-dilemma/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:40:17

• "features the billionaire doing his infamous "Sieg Heil" salute and calls Teslas "Swasticars," both serving as allusions to the unelected political wrecker's increasingly far-right politics and activities." ☛ https://futurism.com/tesla-stocks-elon-musk-swasticar | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:40:42

• "As nearly three-quarters of Canadians say non-profit and co-op housing could tackle the country’s deepening housing crisis, experts suggest these solutions could also help combat climate change." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/co-ops-non-profits-pitched-as-two-fer-solution-for-housing-climate/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:42:43

• "Minister of Green Economy and Environment Mike Mposha has called for stricter oversight of storage facilities, including tailings dams, after multiple pollution incidents linked to mining operations." ☛ https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/02/27/government-to-launch-independent-investigation-into-mining-pollution-of-kafue-and-mwambashi-rivers/ | Source: Lusaka ZM    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:42:55

• "The study found high concentrations of microplastics in bird lungs, with an average of 221 particles per species and 416 particles per gram of lung tissue. The most common types identified were chlorinated polyethylene, used for insulating pipes and wires, and butadiene rubber, a synthetic material in tires." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-high-microplastic-bird-lungs-widespread.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:43:06

• Windows TCO ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/genea-cyberattack/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:43:46

• Windows TCO ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/china-specialized-offensive-skills-crowdstrike/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:43:58

• FOSDEM 2025: Our Qt Highlights ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/fosdem-2025-our-qt-highlights    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:46:59

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

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:47:12

• "ESP32-P4-Devkit is one of the first development boards with the new ESP32-P4 Dual Core RISC-V processor from Espressif." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/poev3-is-new-open-source-hardware-board-which-adds-power-over-ethernet-to-esp32-p4-devkit/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:48:52

• "A year ago I tried using an M1 iMac for work duty but its 21" screen took up too much room on my desk. After seeing Sean's video on Action Retro about putting an M4 Mac Mini inside an iMac G4, I thought I'd give it a try." ☛ https://jcs.org/2025/02/26/imacg4k | Source: JCS    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:49:02

• "So Framework Computers had a new reveal event on Feb 25th 2025, and there were a few new developments that are worth mentioning." ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/framework-desktops-are-next/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:49:30

• "Today I set up a new DeskPi RackMate 12U model, the T2, and compared it to the other existing models (T0 / 4U and T1 / 8U)... and I have to ask: at what point are these racks not 'mini' anymore?" ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/project-mini-rack-what-have-we-started | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:50:05

• "There's nothing like a custom handheld cyberdeck and this Raspberry Pi handheld is a shining example of how far you can take customization as a maker." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-5-powers-retro-futurism-1980s-cyberdeck-with-custom-milled-keypad-and-wood-finish | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:50:25

• "For the Europeans, this is not just an exercise in historical commentary." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0227/ukraine-putin-trump-europe-appeasement | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:56:39

• "“His talk of a third term isn’t a joke or a slip of the tongue. It’s a test to see how far he can go in his quest for unchecked power." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trump-s-third-term-talk-isn-t-a-joke-stand-up-america-warns-on-anniversary-of-22nd-amendment | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:57:02

• "I’m not interested in politics anymore. All I can say is that Russia will never honor its commitments." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/27/you-cant-trust-putin-chechens-georgians-and-belarusians-fighting-for-ukraine-warn-of-russian-betrayal-a88158 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:57:23

• "In a 2018 essay, The Atlantic's Adam Serwer attempted to make sense of the political chaos unfolding roughly a year and a half into president Donald Trump's first term." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-guiding-principle-cruelty | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:58:01

• "The trials took place in waters near Denmark from Feb. 17 to 20 and involved integrating manned and unmanned assets in live-firing events and tactical maneuvers." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/global/europe/2025/02/27/nato-trials-naval-drones-in-baltic-sea-demo/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:58:13

• "The question is whether there’s anything behind the glass to counter the emergency. Spoiler alert: There is — read on — but only because all the usual responders are failing." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-27/washington-donald-trump-elon-musk-constitution-checks-balances | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:58:36

• "Patel’s historical consciousness, like his grasp of any non-MAGA-branded talking point, is extremely shaky." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-fbi-kash-patel-dan-bongino/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:58:55

• "could upend not only important research" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/doge-antarctica-science-research-china-russia/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 08:59:16

• Techtrights has a scoop on OSI in the pipeline    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:19:36

• Confidentiality: "At its core, Snowflake is a piece of technology that transforms ordinary internet users into censorship-fighting allies." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/snowflake-refresh-to-help-more-people-get-online/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:20:13

• "The bill, which could pass next year, aims to give Swedish police and Security Service the ability to retrospectively review message histories of crime suspects." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/02/26/signal-to-leave-sweden-if-forced-to-create-message-backdoors.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:20:42

• "The law is built on the principle that you have a reasonable expectation of privacy that providers like Snap and Meta will not disclose your communications to third parties" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/eff-californias-supreme-court-protect-privacy-internet-users-communications | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:20:54

• "Nowadays, more and more banks set their interest rates automatically, and without any human intervention. But even the smallest inaccuracies can cost consumers thousands of additional euros." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/swedbank-refuses-transparency-automatic-interest-calculation | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:21:57

• "Almost every bill contains the same wording because they’re all following the same special interest group’s wording: any site with more than one-third (33.3%) “pornographic” content is subject to the law." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/27/south-dakota-lawmakers-send-unconstitutional-age-verification-bill-to-the-governors-desk/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:22:33

• "Researchers at George Mason University have discovered a way to track just about any Bluetooth device using Apple’s Find My network." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2622275/researchers-hack-apples-find-my-network-to-track-any-bluetooth-device.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:24:54

• "In certain situations we’re replacing SMS when creating a new account, however we do plan to gradually do away with SMS" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/google-sms-verification-change-passkey-multifactor-authentication/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:25:04

• "The judge is considering whether to issue a preliminary injunction blocking DOGE from accessing agency systems while the unions' lawsuit proceeds." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-27/us-officials-must-testify-about-doge-in-lawsuit-over-access-to-agency-systems | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:25:15

• Social Control Media ☛ https://cybergeeks.tech/russian-campaign-targeting-romanian-whatsapp-numbers/ | Source: Cybergeeks    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:27:54

• Social Control Media controlled by Pooh-Tin ☛ https://petal.blog/articles/exploiting-rednote.html |    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 09:28:11

• "In terms of what they're actually doing, most people are using them to assist in research, edit things they've already written, and summarize meeting notes." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/whos-using-ai-in-the-workplace/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:29:18

• "Raibert is now looking to lead a revolution in robot intelligence as well as acrobatics." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/boston-dynamics-led-a-robot-revolution-now-its-machines-are-teaching-themselves-new-tricks/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:29:36

• "Haishan Yang was studying at the University of Minnesota for his second Ph. D., in health administration (his first was in economics)." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/27/phd-student-expelled-for-using-ai-sues-university-files-pro-se-suit-using-chatgpt/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:29:53

• "So, one of my biggest regrets over the past few months is the degree to which I missed the fact that the “mainstream” “AI” movement is a fascist project." ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/esoteric-fascism/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:30:35

• "The United Arab Emirates' so-called "spy sheikh" controls a whopping $1.5 trillion in wealth — and he's funneling a colossal stream of it into AI, making him one of the world's most powerful figures in the space." ☛ https://futurism.com/uae-sheikh-tahnoon-wealth-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:31:04

• "We’ve been so busy at WIRED covering politics, science, culture, security, gear, and so much more that this week we decided to do something a little different—we’re talking through three stories from February that we just can’t stop thinking about." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-16-deepfakes-tesla-backlash-chips/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:32:07

• "When MIT Technology Review tested the site this week, we found popular user-created bots taking on underage characters meant to resemble Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, Emma Watson as Hermione Granger, and Millie Bobby Brown, among others" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/27/1112616/an-ai-companion-site-is-hosting-sexually-charged-conversations-with-underage-celebrity-bots/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:32:23

• "Humanoid robots are supposed to be our loyal assistants, but we saw another side to them the other day." ☛ https://theconversation.com/a-robot-nearly-headbutted-a-festival-spectator-in-china-here-are-four-urgent-steps-to-make-the-tech-safer-250851 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:32:39

• "All of them operate in a Wild West–like landscape with few rules." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/27/1112616/an-ai-companion-site-is-hosting-sexually-charged-conversations-with-underage-celebrity-bots/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:33:24

• "Developer Howard Oakley has documented on his blog how macOS installs updates even when you have the setting to install updates turned off." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2622358/psa-your-mac-will-eventually-install-that-macos-update-whether-you-want-it-or-not.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:35:43

• "And most of the limitations come from its software, both iPadOS and third-party apps. macOS also lacks some basic features, like a clipboard manager, and the Bartender app obviously has to be built-in." ☛ https://molodtsov.me/2025/02/ipads-are-now-both-expensive-and-useless/ | Source: Yury Molodtsov    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:36:01

• "Like most Web-heads I spent years living in Chrome, but now feel less comfy there, because Google. I use many browsers but now my daily driver is Safari." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/02/26/Safari-Cleanup | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:36:14

• "I’ve written extensively, in French, about my quest to break my "connection addiction" by doing what I called "disconnections"." ☛ https://ploum.net/2025-02-27-engagement-rehab.html | Source: Lionel Dricot    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:37:52

• "Employee burnout is likely costing companies millions of dollars each year, ranging from approximately $4,000 to $21,000 per employee in the U.S." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-employee-burnout-employers-millions-year.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:38:19

• "In the 1980s, there were as many as 4 million cases of measles per year. By the early 2020s, infection rates were down to a few hundred thousand." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/measles-in-texas-a-deadly-disease-that-can-be-prevented/a-68121991 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:38:45

• "There's less toxic PFAS, or "forever chemicals," in raincoats and other products sold in Canada" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/pfas-clothing-bans-1.7467058 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:38:52

• "At the same time, for the first time in my life that flexibility has become a little bit of a burden!" ☛ https://jmduke.com/posts/post/hq1/ | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:39:38

• http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/How_Americans_View_Free_Speech_in_Practice.shtml   

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:41:14

• "As a kid growing up in a house where there wasn't much disposable cash, I learned early on that I had to figure out a way to hustle up some dough if I wanted spending money." ☛ https://louplummer.lol/what-were-your-first-seven-jobs/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:41:45

• "The above example is a bit contrived, but I hope you get the idea. Also, you can totally use let () in the example above, although it seems to me that using let _ is more intention revealing in such cases." ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2025/02/27/leaning-ocaml-matching-anything-or-the-lack-of-anything/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:43:17

• "Getting precise about tolerance" ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/02/getting-precise-about-tolerance/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:43:47

• "The price paid — whether financial or social — to procure these photos is well worth it." ☛ https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/buy-the-overpriced-tourist-photos/ | Source: Brad Frost    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:44:15

• "It’s not just my work’s fault, I think. My “information diet” — reading blogs who obsess over details like which app to use for this or that" ☛ https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2025/obsessions/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:44:27

• "This was a quick problem to solve, but in the process, I realized that I should probably write down a few Go debugging tips I have come to appreciate over the years!" ☛ https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-02-27-debug-hanging-go-programs/ | Source: Michael Stapelberg    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:49:12

• "Without further ado, here’s the star of the show – Rust! Yes, that’s right: Fish 4 has been entirely rewritten in Rust." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/fish-shell-4-is-here-entirely-rewritten-in-rust/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:49:34

• "The intersection is of the Set persuation, datatype wise that is. So we use the keys method to get the actual values, the keys." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/intersection-sort.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:50:09

• "Eric’s experience using Shiny has evolved with the technology since its early days in 2012." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/shinyconf24-keynote-decade-of-shiny-in-action-case-studies-from-three-enterprises/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:50:28

• "If you're regularly rebuilding a large project like LLVM, you almost certainly want to be using ccache." ☛ https://muxup.com/2025q1/ccache-for-llvm-builds-across-multiple-directories | Source: Muxup    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:50:52

• "By understanding Vale’s initialization rules and using custom regular expression patterns to exclude a specific block, you create a robust documentation linting setup that can gracefully handle JSX components within your markdown files." ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/ignoring-jsx-components-in-vale/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:51:03

• "A lot of User Experience (UX) research looks at interface design through a task-oriented lens." ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/in-praise-of-off-screen-menus/ | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:51:29

• "What this is in a nutshell (there is a longer abstract below): a proposal for, and first steps towards, helping work on Automatic Program Repair (APR)" ☛ https://bertrandmeyer.com/2025/02/27/new-preprint-a-standard-framework-for-research-on-bugs-and-automatic-program-repair/ | Source: Bertrand Meyer    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:51:40

• "Both of those are forms of pattern matching, but one of them is a lot stricter than the other. In OCaml () is the single value of the unit type that indicates the absence of any meaningful value." ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2025/02/27/learning-ocaml-matching-anything-or-the-lack-of-anything/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:52:03

• "If the appellate court upholds that decision, which endorsed database maker Neo4j's right to amend the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/adverse_appeals_court_ruling_could/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:54:25

• "As you may have seen, The MagPi magazine, including HackSpace, has been reborn under one official umbrella. We’ve always been the official Raspberry Pi magazine, and now that’s a bit more evident in our new name: Raspberry Pi Official Magazine. Or RPOM (ar-pom) for short." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-official-magazine/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:55:01

• "This talk will explore the validation and visualization of spatio-temporal data in sports, focusing on the NFL tracking dataset and the application of frame-by-frame modeling." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/frame-by-frame-modeling-and-validation-of-nfl-geospatial-data-using-gganimate-in-r-workshop/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:55:33

• "For 15 years, Mozilla Festival has been the home for big ideas, bold conversations, and the movement for a better [Internet]. This year, we’re bringing that energy back to Barcelona, and you’re invited to be a part of it." ☛ https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/ |    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:58:37

• "The HOPE conferences are known for their creativity and diversity, not to mention a whole lot of hacker fun. We’ve been at this for over three decades now – the first HOPE conference was in 1994." ☛ https://edri.org/take-action/events/the-16th-hackers-on-planet-earth-conference-hope_16/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:58:50

• "With that out of the way, here is my review of The Quick Python Book, Fourth Edition." ☛ https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/a-review-of-the-quick-python-book-fourth-edition | Source: Miguel Grinberg    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 10:59:06

• "In this article, I’ll lay the groundwork for productive SQL writing by giving tables clear names and avoiding data errors through normalization and constraints." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/3-foundational-principles-for-writing-efficient-sql/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:10:39

• "OpenCascade is an open-source CAD kernel. Mainly it is FreeCAD's CAD kernel." ☛ https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/freecad-abort-long-running-operations.html | Source: James Stanley    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:11:10

• "My package just does some formatting on math functions." ☛ https://macadie.info/2025/02/26/i-made-an-emacs-package/ | Source: Eric MacAdie    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:11:19

• "Unfortunately, the same website and its default login are readily available in the instruction manual for the system, which is trivial to find with a Google search" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/apartment-buildings-broken-into-with-phone-in-minutes-iot-connected-intercoms-using-default-creds-vulnerable-to-anyone-with-google | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:12:04

• "Now that I’ve gotten my pi-hole instance working, I realized I wasn’t able to load any of my local DNS entries." ☛ https://peroty.micro.blog/2025/02/27/fix-local-dns-when-upgrading.html | Source: Peroty    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:13:04

• "If you’re running pi-hole behind a reverse proxy and upgrading to pi-hole 6 you are not able to login. You need to make one change in your reverse proxy." ☛ https://peroty.micro.blog/2025/02/27/fix-pihole-login-behind-nginx.html | Source: Peroty    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:15:42

• "Although NFS v4 is (in theory) the latest great thing in NFS protocol versions, for a long time we only used NFS v3 for our fileservers and our Ubuntu NFS clients." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NFSv4KernelStateNotImpressed | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:16:14

• "This is the final post (hah! for now at least) in my series about implementing support for off-axis encoders in moteus (see previous iterations here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)." ☛ https://jpieper.com/2025/02/27/configuring-an-off-axis-ma600-encoder-with-moteus/ | Source: J Pieper    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:16:22

• "I have multi-factor on my account and the password was unique, but I immediately reset my password anyway. Thank goodness for password managers." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/ios-mail-is-shite | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:16:46

• [Old] "It’s such a meta HTML thing that it probably won’t surprise you to learn it was standardised in HTML 2.0 in 1995." ☛ https://dylanatsmith.com/wrote/styling-the-kbd-element |    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:23:11

• "I use the kbd element to specify keypresses in my posts. To differentiate it from the inline code element, I’ve styled it as a minimal version of an actual key: [...]" ☛ https://pjg1.site/kbd-css | Source: Piya Gehi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:23:20

• "The Intel A-series cards use Linux's i915 driver, and B-series uses the newer Xe driver." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/progress-on-intel-and-nvidia-gpus-on-raspberry-pi | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:24:25

• "Nvidia announced its fourth-quarter earnings last night, hitting a record full-year revenue of $130.5 billion — a 114% year-over-year increase" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/nvidia-gaming-gpus-an-afterthought-as-ai-generates-mountains-of-cash-rtx-50-series-shortages-mentioned-not-explained | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:24:40

• "At Canonical, we work continuously with customers and partners alike to bring the benefits of edge AI to the telecommunications space." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/experience-edge-ai-use-cases-with-canonical-at-mobile-world-congress-barcelona-2025 | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:28:02

• "In this guide, I’ll walk you through the steps to set up FreeDOS on a Linux system using Qemu, a powerful open-source emulator." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/install-freedos-on-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:32:23

• "In this guide, we’ll explore practical methods to reduce RAM and CPU usage on Linux." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/reduce-ram-cpu-usage-on-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:34:09

• "Following the development of its Wi-Fi 6 System-on-Modules, Mango and Cherry, 8DEVICES has introduced Kiwi, a Wi-Fi 7 SOM based on the Qualcomm IPQ-9570 network processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/kiwi-som-featuring-wi-fi-7-qualcomm-ipq-9570-dual-usxgmii-and-pcie-expansion/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:36:22

• How To Install FirewallD on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-firewalld-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:41:18

• How To Install Memcached on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-memcached-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:41:36

• How To Install Memcached on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-memcached-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:41:46

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

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:42:05

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

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:42:26

• How To Install Surveillance Giant Google Drive on Fedora 41 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-google-drive-fedora-41/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:42:45

• How To Install Surveillance Giant Google Drive on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-google-drive-linux-mint-22/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:44:11

• PCLinuxOS Recent Updates ☞ https://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=5919    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:46:48

• Building an IoT Application with Eclipse Kura ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/02/building-an-iot-application-with-eclipse-kura/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:47:38

• 📝 27 February 2025 at 19:10 - I'm getting really bored of the constant block YouTube ads... ☞ https://kevquirk.com/notes/20250227-1910    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:47:49

• How To Install qBitTorrent on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-qbittorrent-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:48:41

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

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 11:48:49

• Bedrock GNU/Linux – meta distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bedrock-linux-meta-distribution/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 12:34:09

• openSUSE’s Agama Installer Gets a Major Overhaul ☞ https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-agama-installer-gets-a-major-overhaul/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 12:34:32

• Fish Shell 4 Is Here Entirely Rewritten in Rust ☞ https://linuxiac.com/fish-shell-4-is-here-entirely-rewritten-in-rust/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 12:34:52

• "Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4.18 is now generally available, enabling you to migrate your existing virtual machine (VM) workloads to Red Hat OpenShift" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-openshift-virtualization-4.18 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:32:09

• "Running LLMs at scale is no small feat. These models crave powerful, costly hardware that drives up infrastructure expenses and operational headaches." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/unleash-full-potential-llms-optimize-performance-vllm | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:32:22

• "Announcing the general availability of cluster observability operator" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/announcing-general-availability-cluster-observability-operator | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:32:41

• Red Hat boosting buzzwords and hype https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/services-for-linux-ai-ebook    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:36:15

• vLLM V1: Accelerating multimodal inference for large language models ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/27/vllm-v1-accelerating-multimodal-inference-large-language-models    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:37:52

• Zurich CEO suicide, Martin Senn proximity to Adrian and Diana von Bidder-Senn, Debian ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/27/Zurich_CEO_suicide_Martin_Senn_proximity_to_Adrian_and_Diana_vo.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:39:35

• Releasing version 12 and a roadmap ☞ https://agama-project.github.io/blog/2025/02/27/releasing-version-12-and-a-roadmap    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:39:55

• "As always, be sure to roll back using snapper if any issues arise" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/27/tw-monthly-update-february/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:40:39

• A guide to configure execution environments as code ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/27/guide-configure-execution-environments-code    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:44:07

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Whisker Squadron: Survivor - 2025-02-26 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-02-26-edition/index.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:44:42

• Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Garbage and Fake 'Articles' About GNU and Linux, Courtesy of Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/27/Slopwatch_Anti_Linux_Garbage_and_Fake_Articles_About_GNU_and_Li.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:49:46

• Slopwatch: Another Offending 'Linux' Site Found (Fake Articles About "Linux"), Postgres/PostgreSQL/PSQL Targeted by FUD from LLMs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Slopwatch_Another_Offending_Linux_Site_Found_Fake_Articles_Abou.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:49:58

• Intel Posts GNU/Linux Kernel Patches For Supporting APX - Advanced Performance Extensions ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-APX-Linux-Kernel-Patches    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:50:07

• US-Russia negotiations won’t bring peace to Ukraine ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/us-russia-negotiations-wont-bring-peace-to-ukraine/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:51:29

• Dispatch from Kyiv: The Forrest Dump-Zelenskyy meeting signals a momentum shift in Ukraine’s favor ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/dispatch-from-kyiv-the-trump-zelenskyy-meeting-signals-a-momentum-shift-in-ukraines-favor/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:51:38

• Ukraine’s IT sector offers opportunities for pragmatic partnership with the US ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-it-sector-offers-opportunities-for-pragmatic-partnership-with-the-us/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:52:13

• Starmer says Ukraine truce 'can't be peace that rewards the aggressor' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250227-starmer-says-ukraine-truce-can-t-be-peace-that-rewards-the-aggressor    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:52:39

• 🔴 Ukraine truce 'can't be a peace that rewards the aggressor', Starmer says in Washington ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250227-uk-s-starmer-to-meet-with-trump-as-european-leaders-push-for-ukraine-support    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:53:12

• Ukraine truce 'can't be a peace that rewards the aggressor', Starmer says in Washington ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250227-uk-s-starmer-to-meet-with-trump-as-european-leaders-push-for-ukraine-support    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:53:25

• Lithuania’s defence, Ukraine aid in focus of Russian propaganda in 2024 – military ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2499437/lithuania-s-defence-ukraine-aid-in-focus-of-russian-propaganda-in-2024-military    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:57:24

• Starmer Tells Convicted Felon U.K. Ready To 'Put Boots On Ground' On Eve Of Zelenskyy Visit ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/starmer-trump-washington-meeting/33330730.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:57:37

• North Korea Has Sent More Troops To Russia, Says South Korean Intelligence ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/north-korea-troops-ukraine-russia-kursk/33329798.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:57:54

• Taiwan ‘closely watching’ Ukraine as Convicted Felon pivots, official says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-closely-watching-ukraine-as-trump-pivots-official-says    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:58:49

• Starmer Offers Convicted Felon a Plea and a Promise Over Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/politics/starmer-ukraine-trump.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:58:59

• With Convicted Felon, Alliances Come With Strings Attached ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/us/politics/trump-alliances-ukraine-russia.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 14:59:08

• North Korea Is Sending More Troops to Russia, South Korea’s Spy Agency Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/world/asia/north-korea-troops-russia.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:02:16

• Starmer Flies to Meet Convicted Felon, With a Gift and a Difficult Message ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/world/europe/uk-trump-starmer-meet-defense-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:03:45

• "America, wake up!" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/27/america-wake-up | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:06:17

• "Photos of Ukrainian soldiers who returned to the front lines even after losing limbs" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/27/as-long-as-the-war-continues-i-won-t-leave | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:06:33

• European democracies and Canada mark 10 years since death of Boris Nemtsov ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/27.02.2025-european-democracies-and-canada-mark-10-years-since-death-of-boris-nemtsov.a589643/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:09:13

• Latvian parliament moves to apply brake on remaining tourism to Russia and Belarus ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/27.02.2025-latvian-parliament-moves-to-apply-brake-on-remaining-tourism-to-russia-and-belarus.a589530/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:09:25

• Army soldier linked to Snowflake attack spree allegedly tried to sell data to foreign spies ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/army-soldier-alleged-cybercriminal-foreign-spies/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:10:07

• Lithuanian president sees no reason to end gas transit deal with Russia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2499793/lithuanian-president-sees-no-reason-to-end-gas-transit-deal-with-russia    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:10:59

• No additional concern over Russia’s Zapad drills – Lithuanian president ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2499630/no-additional-concern-over-russia-s-zapad-drills-lithuanian-president    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:12:48

• Lithuanian salesman helps import luxury cars into Russia – media ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2499322/lithuanian-salesman-helps-import-luxury-cars-into-russia-media    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:14:28

• North Korea sending more troops to Russia, South confirms ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/27/north-korea-more-troop-russia/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:14:44

• Exclusive: Boris Nemtsov’s Mother Shares Memories, 10 Years After His Killing ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/boris-nemtsov-mother-interview-10-years-after-assassination/33329373.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:15:02

• North Korea has deployed more troops to Russia: Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-has-deployed-more-troops-to-russia-seoul    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:15:13

• Twin sisters compete against one another in Soviet-era ballet world ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2025/0227/maya-and-natasha-novel-elyse-durham-cold-war    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:15:34

• Boris Spassky, Chess Champion Who Lost ‘Match of the Century,’ Dies at 88 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/world/europe/boris-spassky-dead.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:15:51

• "South Korean intelligence says" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/27/north-korea-has-deployed-additional-troops-to-russia-south-korean-intelligence-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:16:18

• "Washington hoping to undermine Russia–China relations" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/27/u-s-and-russia-discussing-cooperation-in-arctic-with-washington-hoping-to-undermine-russia-china-relations-bloomberg | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:16:46

• "Russian delegation arrives in Istanbul" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/27/russian-delegation-arrives-in-istanbul-for-talks-with-u-s-on-embassy-operations | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:19:10

• "demand Russia admit responsibility for downing plane as part of peace settlement" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/27/relatives-of-mh17-victims-appeal-to-trump-to-demand-russia-admit-responsibility-for-disaster-as-part-of-peace-settlement | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:19:29

• "Russia extends gasoline export ban" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/27/russia-extends-gasoline-export-ban-until-the-end-of-summer | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:20:03

• Debian, CentOS, RHEL source code demise now linked, accelerated after invalid trademark judgment ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/27/Debian_CentOS_RHEL_source_code_demise_now_linked_accelerated_af.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:20:30

• "new joint investigation" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/27/hot-rods-cold-trails | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:21:10

• "Give us your Trump vibes Meduza in English wants to know what readers are feeling about America’s returned president" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/27/give-us-your-trump-vibes | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:21:40

• "Then she clashed with her former protégé — and Putin’s rumored girlfriend — Alina Kabaeva." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/27/irina-viner-was-the-ruthless-ruler-of-russian-rhythmic-gymnastics-then-she-clashed-with-her-former-protege-and-putin-s-rumored-girlfriend-alina-kabaeva | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:22:19

• Putin meets North Korean party leaders as Kim tests new missile ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/putin-meets-north-korean-party-leaders-as-kim-tests-new-missile    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:22:31

• Pro-Russia Politicians in Ukraine, Inspired by Convicted Felon and Putin, See an Opening ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/world/europe/pro-russia-politicians-ukraine-trump.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:22:49

• Putin Praises Convicted Felon for Working to Thaw U.S.-Russia Tensions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/world/europe/putin-trump-russia-us.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:23:11

• Jussi Pakkanen: The price of statelessness is eternal waiting ☞ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-price-of-statelessness-is-eternal.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:24:23

• Moxey’s Got Moxie, But ‘Ultra Music Publishing’ Is History; Federal Judge Orders Name Change Within Six Months ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/27/ultra-music-publishing-judge-name-change/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:24:49

• IBM "Layoffs in Brazil !! Gotta pay for Alvind and his Sh-tmunks" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jn2hy3cd    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:28:52

• Announcement of LibreOffice 25.2.1 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/02/27/announcement-of-libreoffice-25-2-1/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:32:42

• Hiding Crimes Against Women (i.e. Reputation Laundering) by Misusing Inapplicable Privacy Laws From Another Continent ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/27/Hiding_Crimes_Against_Women_i_e_Reputation_Laundering_by_Misusi.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:32:52

• Mike Blumenkrantz: Slow Down ☞ https://www.supergoodcode.com/slow-down/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:33:34

• Mozilla Festival 2025 ☞ https://edri.org/take-action/events/mozilla-festival-2025/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:33:56

• Netcraft's New Web Server Survey Shows Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Down in Every Category (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/27/Netcraft_s_New_Web_Server_Survey_Shows_Microsoft_Down_in_Every_.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:35:46

• What the LLM Scrapers Are Doing to Tux Machines ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/27/What_the_LLM_Scrapers_Are_Doing_to_Tux_Machines.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:35:54

• Civil Society Should Demand Removal of People Who Sought Removal of Richard Stallman ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/27/Civil_Society_Should_Demand_Removal_of_People_Who_Sought_Remova.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:36:03

• RTO for You, But Not for Me: How IBM's Managers Try to Disguise Layoffs as "Resignations" or "Retirements" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/27/RTO_for_You_But_Not_for_Me_How_IBM_s_Managers_Try_to_Disguise_L.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:36:14

• The Short Lifecycle of Ex-Twitter Outrage ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/The_Short_Lifecycle_of_Twitter_Outrage.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:36:30

• Microsoft Devoured the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Now It's Just a Chain of Blunders ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Microsoft_Devoured_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Now_It_s_Just.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:36:44

• The Free Software Foundation's Fund-raising Efforts Continue Unabated (and With Positive Results) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/The_Free_Software_Foundation_s_Fund_raising_Efforts_Continue_Un.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:36:53

• Chronological Index of Techrights ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Chronological_Index_of_Techrights.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:37:00

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s E.P.A. Seeks to Deny Science That Americans Discovered ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/trumps-epa-seeks-to-deny-science-that-americans-discovered    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:39:40

• Inefficient machines ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/02/27/inefficient-machines/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:40:06

• France threatens to review longstanding accords with Algeria ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250227-france-threatens-to-review-longstanding-accords-with-algeria    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:40:25

• U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/health/usaid-contract-terminations.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:40:50

• Use of greener anesthesia protects patients, environment ☞ https://ihpi.umich.edu/news-events/news/use-greener-anesthesia-protects-patients-and-environment    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:41:01

• Cartoon-shaped e-cigarettes, or toy pods, pose health risks to children, Thai expert warns ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/toy-pods-or-cartoon-shaped-e-cigarettes-pose-health-risks-to-children-expert-warns    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:44:14

• Michigan Medicine tests new heart assistance device in clinical trial ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/michigan-medicine-tests-new-heart-assistance-device-in-clinical-trial/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:44:32

• Tiny animal known as ‘water bear’ produces radiation-resistant protein called ‘Dsup’ that can treat cancer patients: study ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/science/this-tiny-animal-produces-a-protein-that-can-be-used-to-treat-cancer-patients-study/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:44:54

• South Korea, US finance chiefs discuss tariffs, investment, FX, says Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-us-finance-chiefs-discuss-tariffs-investment-fx-says-seoul    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:45:52

• In one Seoul neighbourhood, academic cramming begins at age 4 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/in-one-seoul-neighbourhood-cramming-begins-at-age-4    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:47:18

• Kim Jong Un says it is N. Korea’s duty to be fully ready to use nuclear deterrence: KCNA ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/kim-jong-un-says-it-is-n-koreas-duty-to-be-fully-ready-to-use-nuclear-deterrence-kcna    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:47:45

• North Korean hackers behind largest ever financial theft ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/27/north-korea-lazarus-bybit-cryptocurrency-theft/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:48:05

• North Korea fires cruise missiles as leader Kim orders war preparations ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/28/north-cruise-missile-test-kim-jong-un/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:48:27

• N. Korea showcases 'counterattack' abilities with new missile tests ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250228-n-korea-says-launched-cruise-missiles-in-counterattack-drills    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:48:42

• Tasered, beaten, long hours without pay: Malaysian man’s 11-month ordeal in Myanmar scam centres ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/tasered-beaten-long-hours-without-pay-a-malaysian-mans-11-month-ordeal-in-myanmar-scam-centres    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:49:08

• Malaysia’s Cameron Highlands hits record heat in 2024 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cameron-highlands-hits-record-heat-in-2024    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:49:54

• Why Scam Centers in Southeast Asia Keep Flourishing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/world/asia/scam-centers-myanmar-thailand-china.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:51:24

• China says Taiwan drills ‘routine’, as Taipei details surge in military activity ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-details-surge-in-chinese-military-activity-did-not-detect-live-fire    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:51:43

• New Zealand raises China’s surprise warship drills at high-level talks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/new-zealand-raises-chinas-surprise-warship-drills-in-high-level-talks    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:51:54

• Thailand sends 40 Uighurs back to China after decade in detention ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-pm-says-human-rights-principles-must-be-followed-amid-concern-over-fate-of-uighurs    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:52:18

• There is nothing about politics in GPL, this is pure nonsense. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203274    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:53:59

• If wanting to share one's code is "politics", then everything is politics    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:54:28

• People pose as mourners to try China funeral home’s rice noodles ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/people-posing-as-mourners-to-try-chinese-funeral-homes-rice-noodles    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:55:38

• China says Tasman Sea navy firing drills ‘in line’ with international law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-tasman-sea-navy-firing-drills-in-line-with-international-law    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:55:57

• Talks to sign South China Sea Code of Conduct ramping up: Asean sources ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/talks-to-sign-south-china-sea-code-ramping-up-asean-sources    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:56:08

• China says plans for talks with US military are in the works ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-plans-for-talks-with-us-military-are-in-the-works    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:56:22

• Asian Insider: China’s keen to move forward on South China Sea code | The ‘indescribable bliss’ of a hot spring soak ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/asian-insider-chinas-keen-to-move-forward-on-south-china-sea-code-the-indescribable-bliss-of-a-hot    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:56:32

• China plays key role on climate change, COP30 president-designate says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-plays-key-role-on-climate-change-may-be-looked-to-for-additional-leadership-cop30-president    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:57:04

• US condemns Thailand’s return of 40 Uighurs to China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/us-condemns-thailands-return-of-40-uighurs-to-china    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:57:48

• toothpaste? sounds like terrible idea and bad tact ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/teen-hiker-survives-on-toothpaste-melted-snow-after-getting-lost-in-chinas-mountains-for-10-days    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 15:58:53

• China will not apologise for military drills off Australia’s east, ambassador says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-will-not-apologise-for-military-drills-off-australias-east-ambassador-says    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:16:53

• US condemns Thailand’s deportation of 40 Uyghurs to China ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/02/27/thailand-china-deported/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:19:10

• British Museum removed ‘Xizang’ label from Silk Roads exhibition about Tibet ☞ https://rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/02/27/tibet-british-museum-drops-xizang-label/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:20:23

• Rubio accuses China of ‘reverse’ Opium War via fentanyl ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/27/china-rubio-fentanyl-opium-war/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:20:42

• Report: China has half a million Uyghurs in prison or detention ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/02/27/uyghur-us-report-chinas-atrocities-xinjiang/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:20:54

• EXPLAINED: Thailand’s repatriation of 40 Uyghur refugees to China ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/02/27/thailand-deport-china-uyghurs-xinjiang-explainer/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:21:05

• ‘Blatant provocation’: Taiwan says 45 Chinese aircraft detected in 24 hours, highest this year ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/27/blatant-provocation-taiwan-says-45-chinese-aircraft-detected-in-24-hours-highest-this-year/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:21:23

• China appears to confirm Uyghur deportations from Thailand following warnings from human rights groups ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/27/china-appears-to-confirm-uyghur-deportations-from-thailand-following-warnings-from-human-rights-groups/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:21:56

• Nemtsov ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/27/he-couldn-t-be-bought-so-they-killed-him | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:26:24

• Bobby Fischer’s rival ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/27/soviet-chess-grandmaster-boris-spassky-bobby-fischer-s-rival-in-reykjavik-dead-at-88 | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:26:48

• How Do Air Fryers Work? ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/how-do-air-fryers-work/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:27:25

• Convert A Cheap Tube Preamp Into A Headphone Amp With Jenny ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/convert-a-cheap-tube-preamp-into-a-headphone-amp-with-jenny/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:28:22

• pressgazette keeps pushing AI garbage☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/publishers-must-use-ai-powered-slingshots-to-fight-big-tech-goliath/ https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/harvard-business-review-hbr-amy-bernstein-adi-ignatius/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:32:28

• Slop promotion in pressgazette 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 Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:33:10

• Why it sucks http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/The_UK_s_Press_Gazette_Has_No_Credibility_Anymore_It_Celebrates.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/21/Paywalls_Bots_Spam_and_Spyware_is_Future_of_the_Media_According.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:33:18

• ‘On The World With The World’: The power of voice and outsider art ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/style/on-the-world-with-the-world-the-power-of-voice-and-outsider-art/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:35:35

• IBM completes $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition following regulatory approvals ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/27/ibm-completes-6-4b-hashicorp-acquisition-following-regulatory-approvals/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:36:02

• Autodesk announces 1,350 job cuts following strong quarterly earnings ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/27/autodesk-announces-1350-job-cuts-following-strong-quarterly-earnings/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:36:33

• Meta issues apology after Instagram started flooding people’s feed with obscene content ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/27/meta-issues-apology-instagram-started-flooding-peoples-feed-obscene-content/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:44:38

• Destructive Forces of Ancient Glaciers May Have Given Complex Life a Boost ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/destructive-forces-of-ancient-glaciers-may-have-given-complex-life-a-boost    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:45:21

• Science of Knots Could Help Us Imagine Our Universe's Weird Shape ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/science-of-knots-could-help-us-imagine-our-universes-weird-shape    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:45:39

• First-Ever Detailed Footage Shows Polar Bear Cubs Emerging From Dens ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-ever-detailed-footage-shows-polar-bear-cubs-emerging-from-dens    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:45:50

• Vesuvius Eruption Turned a Victim's Brain to Glass. Here's How. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/vesuvius-eruption-turned-a-victims-brain-to-glass-heres-how    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:46:02

• Study Reveals How Earth's Orbit Triggers Ice Ages, And There's One in The Next 11,000 Years ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-how-earths-orbit-triggers-ice-ages-and-theres-one-in-the-next-11000-years    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 16:46:09

• Study Finds Humans Age Faster at 2 Sharp Peaks – Here's When ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-finds-humans-age-faster-at-2-sharp-peaks-heres-when    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:08:37

• Blue Ghost Captures Stunning Moon Footage Ahead of Historic Landing ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/blue-ghost-captures-stunning-moon-footage-ahead-of-historic-landing    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:09:27

• This Star Goes Nova Every 80 Years. Here's Where to Look For It in 2025. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-star-goes-nova-every-80-years-heres-where-to-look-for-it-in-2025    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:09:38

• World's Most Common Painkiller During Pregnancy Linked to ADHD ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-most-common-painkiller-during-pregnancy-linked-to-adhd    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:09:57

• Guido Fawkes settles Dale Vince libel claim to avoid ‘ruinous’ costs ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/guido-fawkes-settles-dale-vince-libel-claim-to-avoid-ruinous-costs/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:11:05

• Victims Recoil As Andrew Tate Arrives In U.S. Hours After Romania Lifts Travel Ban ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/internet-influencer-andrew-tate-leaves-romania-reports/33329940.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:29:15

• Advancing the WSIS Vision Together ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/02/advancing-the-wsis-vision-together/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:29:50

• The Case Against Greenpeace Puts a Spotlight on Native History ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/climate/greenpeace-energy-transfer-standing-rock-history.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:31:22

• SCOTUS dispatch: Supreme Court considers constitutionality of state laws restricting DNA testing post-conviction ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/scotus-dispatch-supreme-court-considers-constitutionality-of-state-laws-restricting-dna-testing-post-conviction/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:36:03

• US conservative advocacy group says strict liability crimes contribute to overcriminalization ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/us-conservative-advocacy-group-says-strict-liability-crimes-contribute-to-overcriminalization/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:36:30

• Thailand deports 40 Uyghur asylum seekers to China, sparking human rights concerns ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/thailand-deports-40-uyghur-asylum-seekers-to-china-sparking-human-rights-concerns/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:36:56

• Diddy’s Mother Faces Latest Lawsuit for Allegedly Ousting Bad Boy Co-Founder ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/27/diddy-mother-lawsuit-bad-boy/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:37:41

• DEI and Accessibility, Explained ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/dei-and-accessibility-explained    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:38:27

• Stefon Diggs alleges he was victim of extortion attempt, threatened with ‘deadly weapon’ by reality star in lawsuit ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/sports/stefon-diggs-alleges-he-was-victim-of-extortion-attempt-in-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:39:33

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Officials Split Over How Hard to Go on Mexican Cartels ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/world/americas/mexico-trump-cartels-washington.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:40:29

• Australia discusses security, aid with Vanuatu amid competition with China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-discusses-security-aid-with-vanuatu-amid-competition-with-china    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:41:03

• Hong Kong pro-democracy lawmaker jailed over 2019 mob attack ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-pro-democracy-lawmaker-jailed-over-2019-mob-attack    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:47:11

• FBI identifies North Korea as source of $1.5 billion ByBit hack ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/fbi-identifies-north-korea-as-source-of-usd1-5-billion-bybit-hack    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:47:33

• Case of man charged with sedition under Hong Kong’s Article 23 security law adjourned to May ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/27/case-of-man-charged-with-sedition-under-hong-kongs-article-23-security-law-adjourned-to-may/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:48:53

• Hong Kong condemns ‘wanton interference’ after US politicians criticise ‘authoritarian oppression’ in city ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/28/hong-kong-condemns-wanton-interference-after-us-politicians-criticise-authoritarian-oppression-in-city/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:49:28

• Correctional Services officials implicated in flood of contraband ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/correctional-services-officials-implicated-in-flood-of-contraband/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:50:31

• UN Security Council urges Rwanda to stop supporting M23 in eastern DRC ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/un-security-council-urges-rwanda-to-stop-supporting-m23-in-eastern-drc/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:50:52

• Woman warrant officer leads SAPS SWAT team in UAE Challenge ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/woman-warrant-officer-leads-saps-swat-team-in-uae-challenge/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:51:22

• BMA UAVs on the way ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/border-security/bma-uavs-on-the-way/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:54:12

• South Africa’s defence policy is misaligned and needs reform, Parliament told ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/south-africas-defence-policy-is-misaligned-and-needs-reform-parliament-told/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:54:33

• SAPS reports 80 lost firearms in 18-month period ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/saps-reports-80-lost-firearms-in-18-month-period/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:54:59

• FBI Says North Korea Hacked Bybit as Details of $1.5B Heist Emerge ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-says-north-korea-hacked-bybit-as-details-of-1-5b-heist-emerge/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:03:25

• "The pi 4 wasn’t originally going to be a laptop project, but I got a nice display as a gift. So I mounted the pi 4 to it and soon had a very useable Hyprland setup. I couldn’t get the gesture pane swapping to work, but then I don’t really like touching the screen anyway." gemini://thatit.be/2025-02-24-09-40-52.gmi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:05:41

• offpunk is my new favorite browser gemini://thatit.be/2025-02-17-08-23-06.gmi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:06:13

• The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/2-28.gmi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:06:55

• 🔤SpellBinding: AWGINUF Wordo: DYING gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-28.gmi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:07:42

• "I avoid topics of politics for multiple reasons, despite my interest in the beliefs of others. Like belief systems, politics tend to be tightly integrated with a person’s identity." gemini://thatit.be/2025-02-16-07-01-44.gmi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:12:38

• "Level 5 announced a release date for May, 21. Last release date was April, but they slipped it to May. They are going to simultaneously release on Switch, PC (Steam), PS4/5, and XBox. They’re going to support cross-play and cross-save progression." gemini://thatit.be/2025-02-16-14-25-56.gmi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:13:22

• "As Lagrange is the leading browser for the Gemini protocol, I would like to ask: what about the missed close_notify warning, as specified in the Gemini protocol documentation?" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Lagrange/25904    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:15:16

• Many capsules don't send TLS close_notify gemini://rawtext.club/~nervuri/close_notify.gmi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:16:16

• Firefox is nonfree https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mozilla-introducing-terms-of-use-to-firefox also see https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-introduces-firefox-first-ever-terms-of-use/ iophk: does that conflict with the freedom to run the program for any purpose? https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:19:21

• Linux Fu: USB Everywhere ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/linux-fu-usb-everywhere/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:20:07

• "To save you a click and for those who didn't try the Beta, all these below are also included in 570.124.04 that were first released via the 570.86.16 Beta: [...]" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/nvidia-stable-driver-570-124-04-released-for-linux-with-vrr-for-multiple-displays-and-various-bug-fixes/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:20:47

• "Cybersecurity isn’t just a technical issue; it’s a fundamental business concern. The same characteristics that make Linux powerful also make it a target." https://www.fleetowner.com/perspectives/ideaxchange/blog/55269509/is-your-fleets-linux-system-secure-from-cyber-attacks-what-trucking-operators-need-to-know    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:21:27

• Top 5 Linux Security Best Practices Every Admin Must Know https://www.itprotoday.com/linux-os/top-5-linux-security-best-practices-every-admin-must-know    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:21:56

• "Today, NVIDIA published the stable version of the NVIDIA 570 graphics driver series for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems, with new features and performance improvements." https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-570-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-new-features-and-improvements    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:22:20

• SLOP SPAM SITE! https://gbhackers.com/new-anubis-ransomware-targets-windows-linux-nas-and-esxi/ see https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/gbhackers_com_is_Not_Hackers_It_s_LLM_Slop_Outputs_Fake_Article.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Slopwatch_Anti_Linux_Machine_Generated_FUD_LLM_Slop_From_GBHack.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:22:58

• More LLM slop googleBOMBING "Linux" https://cybersecuritynews.com/openssf-released-releases-security-baseline/ see https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Slopwatch_Anti_Linux_Machine_Generated_FUD_LLM_Slop_From_GBHack.shtml    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:24:23

• OpenSSF sets baseline security standards for Linux-based software https://www.scworld.com/news/openssf-sets-baseline-security-standards-for-linux-based-software http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:24:49

• "If Linux borrowed these features from MacOS, it would be unstoppable." https://www.zdnet.com/article/6-features-i-wish-linux-would-borrow-from-macos/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:25:36

• "He resigned due to stress and he received CHF 581,000 as a leaving gift. The clients received nothing." https://juristgate.com/en/2025/02/26/urban-angehrn-resignation-finma-ceo-announced-simultaneously-with-redacted-ptp-judgment/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:43:36

• KDE Plasma 6.3.2 Released with Another Batch of Fixes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/02/kde-plasma-6-3-2-released-with-another-batch-of-fixes/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:44:53

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 588 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/02/26/this-week-in-rust-588/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:46:18

• Blacklight – next-generation catalog ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/blacklight-next-generation-catalog/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:46:55

• Vaults – keep files safe ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/vaults-keep-files-safe/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:47:55

• Datcord – Discord client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/datcord-discord-client/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:48:41

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Progress Sitefinity ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-progress-sitefinity/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:49:17

• 'We Have to Reclaim Race and Racism' ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/we-have-to-reclaim-race-and-racism    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 18:51:43

• Meta fires 20 employees over data leaks: Report    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:01:10

• Autodesk (ADSK) Cuts 1,350 Jobs to Boost AI Investment https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/autodesk-adsk-cuts-1-350-jobs-to-boost-ai-investment-1034424080    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:01:47

• Layoffs: Even the best employees are getting fired https://www.peoplemattersglobal.com/article/performance-management/opinion-in-2025-even-the-best-employees-are-getting-fired-44568    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:02:15

• Skype to shut down in May, Microsoft says https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/microsoft-skype-shutting-down-1.7471390    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:03:51

• HP announces 2,000 more global redundancies amid cost-cutting drive https://www.shine.cn/biz/tech/2502284406/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:04:17

• Skype's final call set for May as Microsoft prioritizes Teams https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/skype-s-final-call-set-for-may-as-microsoft-prioritizes-teams-article-12953551.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:05:48

• Microsoft shutting down Skype in May https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2025/02/28/microsoft-shutting-down-skype/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:07:41

• Meta Fires 20 Employees for Leaking Confidential Information Amid Ongoing Layoffs: Reports https://www.latestly.com/technology/meta-fires-20-employees-for-leaking-confidential-information-amid-ongoing-layoffs-reports-6675677.html    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:08:24

• "Just a small public service announcement: If you're using the Gemini protocol, my webste (well, in particular the blog posts), are now also accessible via Gemini at gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/[1]." gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2025-02-28-on-gemini.gmi    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:13:27

• Idea from FOSDEM: Power 11 Hey Hi (AI) workstation ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/ibm-power-11-spyre-workstation/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:22:09

• "ESP32? You’re in luck, a new challenger has entered the scene, looking to help you write code that lasts – [Scott Mabin] and the team from Espressif have brought us the esp-hal 1.0.0-beta." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/27/esp-hal-a-stable-api-esp32-hal-gift-for-your-rust-code/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:25:31

• Al-Assad Becomes a Punchline in Syria’s Comedy Scene ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/world/middleeast/syria-comedy-assad-new-government.html "Comics had already been trying to foster stand-up in Syria before Bashar al-Assad’s fall. Now, they are telling jokes in a liberated country, while warily eyeing the new government."    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 19:25:45

• Security and Justice committee chair expresses support for pregnant soldiers returning from DRC ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sa-defence/sa-defence-sa-defence/security-and-justice-committee-chair-expresses-support-for-pregnant-soldiers-returning-from-drc/    

posted Friday, February 28, 2025 at 17:55:28