Roy Schestowitz

• "For some reason I'm wondering if in a movie or other “professional production”, if a character looking into the camera is as bad now as it was previously." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2025-04-01    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 00:59:31

• neil in gemini space - update - 2025-04-01 gemini://gemini.mingmengtou.org/2025-04-01-update.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 01:00:38

• "I finally deleted my Mastodon account. It is for the second time." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2025_04_01.txt "But... even the people who post generally about technical stuff (opensource software and hardware, old computers and so) now tend to post a lot about politics."    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 01:02:45

• "In the broadest sense, publishing one's own site is a form of samizdat. As a writer, I'm increasingly interested in alternate, "self-published" means ot preserving and disseminating information - particularly in uncertain political times." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-04-01    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 01:04:58

• "My colleague pointed me to this 1978 memo / note from Leslie Lamport, "State the Problem Before Describing the Solution". Such beautiful and succinct product management advice." gemini://funkaoshi.smol.pub/2024-04-state-the-problem    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 01:05:45

• April Fools https://nixsanctuary.com/richard-stallman-has-finally-given-windows-the-green-light-as-a-desktop-operating-system/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 01:09:19

• Richard Stallman y el software libre: una reivindicación política, técnica y ética https://administraciondesistemas.com/richard-stallman-y-el-software-libre-una-reivindicacion-politica-tecnica-y-etica/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 01:10:19

• "I have a one year medical RTO exception approved by corporate, and have had no trouble with it. I’m in the NYC metro area. I had an internal organ transplant last year and am immunocompromised due to anti rejection dr-gs. Not safe to be in a huge building with 1000+ infection vectors. This is one of those rare cases of IBM doing something right in the 21st century." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqps1h08    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 01:39:08

• "is the Baton Rouge CIC doing layoffs?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqnh1dcf    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 01:39:32

• "Why should any of us care? I plan to do as little as possible—just enough to stay under the radar—until I’m laid off with severance. Why should I care about a company that doesn’t care about any of us? When there are no future prospects or goals to work toward, why would any of us invest time    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 01:40:16

• "Why should any of us care? I plan to do as little as possible—just enough to stay under the radar—until I’m laid off with severance. Why should I care about a company that doesn’t care about any of us? When there are no future prospects or goals to work toward, why would any of us invest time or effort beyond the minimal requirements?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 01:41:45

• "I'm developing a Gemini Mention CGI script in Go. I've been working on it for about 2-3 days, and I already set up my gmid Gemini Server with FCGIWrap to support Gemini Mentions yesterday." gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2025-04-02-I_wrote_a_Gemini_Mention_script_in_Go.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 03:36:35

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1252.jpg    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 03:37:54

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1602.jpg    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 03:38:03

• Some Microsoft Staff Expected to Go On Strike https://kotaku.com/bethesda-union-eso-6-fallout-doom-indiana-jones-1851774083    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 03:45:05

• EPO lobbying https://www.ipfridays.com/interview-with-antonio-campinos-president-of-the-european-patent-office-draghi-report-unified-patent-court-patent-quality-challenges-ip-fridays-podcast-episode-161/ Search for "computer" http://techrights.org/wiki/Software_Patents_in_Europe/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 03:52:01

• "Linux" Foundation works to ensure DECLINING interest in Linux by associating it with what ACTUAL Linux users abhor and oppose https://techrights.org/n/2024/10/24/To_Linux_Foundation_Bill_Gates_is_a_Saint_and_Every_Russian_Dev.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 03:53:42

• At Techrights we now have an outline of how to cover privacy and elections at OSI. Keep it coming, anon sources, eventually we get around to all of it. Everything will be covered when the time or chronology is right.    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 03:57:51

• “We’ve Had To Continuously Fight For What Should Be Bare Minimum”: Over 300 Microsoft Developers Are Threatening To Go On Strike https://www.thegamer.com/zenimax-bethesda-falout-elder-scrolls-developers-strike-action/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 06:54:55

• "Valve have released SteamOS 3.6.24 for Steam Deck as the latest stable update for everyone." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steam-deck-steamos-3-6-24-released-with-fixes-for-avowed-and-no-rest-for-the-wicked/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:19:41

• "The community maintained compatibility layer for Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck, GE-Proton version 9-27 is out now with numerous fixes." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ge-proton-9-27-brings-fixes-for-ubisoft-connect-epic-games-wuthering-waves-and-monster-hunter-wilds/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:19:52

• "Blendo Games who previously made Flotilla, Quadrilateral Cowboy, Thirty Flights of Loving and Atom Zombie Smasher have a brand new release coming on April 30 with Skin Deep." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/blendo-games-announce-full-steam-deck-support-for-stealthy-shooter-skin-deep/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:20:13

• "Maze Mice is the next game from the developer of the popular Luck be a Landlord, and it's going to chew through your skirting board into Early Access on May 2nd." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/luck-be-a-landlord-devs-bullet-heaven-roguelite-maze-mice-arrives-may-2/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:20:29

• "Peace on Putin’s terms would lead to a new era of international insecurity" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/peace-on-putins-terms-would-lead-to-a-new-era-of-international-insecurity/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:21:04

• "Can Donald Trump really run for a third term?" https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/406531/trump-third-presidential-term-constitution-briefly-explained    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:21:16

• "With ICE Out of Control, How Can the US Cohost the 2026 World Cup?" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ice-fifa-world-cup-north-america/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:21:33

• "Trump to visit Saudi Arabia for first international trip: report" https://www.semafor.com/article/03/31/2025/trump-to-visit-saudi-arabia-for-first-international-trip-report    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:21:46

• "A blogger in Moscow" https://www.semafor.com/article/03/30/2025/a-blogger-in-moscow    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:21:59

• "Why Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About a Third Term" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-third-term/682243/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:22:14

• "US Supreme Court hears oral argument on religious exemptions from federal tax" https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/us-supreme-court-hears-oral-argument-on-religious-exemptions-from-federal-tax/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:22:28

• "Epstein Accuser Virginia Giuffre Claims She Has '4 Days to Live' After Apparent Car Crash" https://www.tmz.com/2025/03/31/virginia-giuffre-4-days-to-live-instagram-traffic-crash-australia/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/15/Meme_Well_He_s_Dead_So_Bill_Gates_Tells_the_Media_Which_He_Pays.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:22:53

• "Global stocks fall sharply ahead of Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs" https://www.semafor.com/article/03/30/2025/the-aims-contradictions-and-uncertainties-of-trumps-tariff-push    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:23:16

• "It may not be the most popular strategy game from Paradox Interactive and Paradox Development Studios, but they're still expanding it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/paradox-announce-victoria-3-expansion-pass-2-with-charters-of-commerce-expansion-arriving-in-june/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:23:31

• "Following the news I shared yesterday about Monster Train 2 being Steam Deck Verified, they've today revealed the release date as well." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/monster-train-2-is-now-set-for-release-on-may-21/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:23:41

• "After Trump's Decree: Fight for US Funding for Tor, F-Droid and Let's Encrypt" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/04/01/0749220 http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/25/After_US_Government_Funding_Cuts_the_Centralisation_of_the_Web_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:25:17

• "US Man Juggles Up To Nine Full-Time Remote Jobs And Earns 6-Figures By Hiring People To Do His Tasks" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-man-juggles-nine-full-time-remote-jobs-earns-6-figures-hiring-people-do-his-tasks-1732265    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:26:14

• "Musk's xAI swallows Musk's X in ego-friendly, all-stock deal" https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/xai_acquires_x/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/30/The_LLM_Bubble_is_About_to_Implode_Gimmicks_and_Financial_Shell.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:26:44

• The Ubuntu BS and "the FUD campaign continues" https://ubuntu.com//blog/securing-software-supply-chains-new-research-highlights-industry-vulnerabilities ("Securing Software Supply Chains: New Research Highlights Industry Vulnerabilities") see http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Ubuntu_Slop_and_FUD_Manufactured_With_LLMs_and_Funded_by_Onesel.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:27:32

• "Trump's Threats to the Constitution Are Happening in Real Time, Not (Just) in a Third Term" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/31/trumps-threats-to-the-constitution-are-happening-in-real-time-not-just-in-a-third-term/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:27:47

• Trump 2.0 and the dismantling of the American Enlightenment | "Trump 2.0 och den amerikanska upplysningens nedmontering - Carl Heath" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://carlheath.se/trump-2-0-och-den-amerikanska-upplysningens-nedmontering/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:28:14

• iophk: google-bombing string "morse" while misrepresenting microsoft an an authority https://www.securityweek.com/critical-vulnerability-found-in-canon-printer-drivers/ ("Critical Vulnerability Found in Canon Printer Drivers")    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:28:44

• "Open Technology Fund: US-Regierung will nun doch Projekte für Internetfreiheit finanzieren" | US government now wants to fund projects for internet freedom https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/open-technology-fund-us-regierung-will-nun-doch-projekte-fuer-internetfreiheit-finanzieren/ so why http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Ubuntu_Slop_and_FUD_Manufactured_With_LLMs_and_Funded_by_Onesel.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:29:23

• "My Weekend of Anti-Trump, Anti-Musk “Defiance”" https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/anti-trump-musk-defiance/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:29:33

• "How Donald Trump Is Teaching Christians to Abandon Empathy" https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/how-donald-trump-is-teaching-christians-to-abandon-empathy-albert-mohler    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:29:44

• iophk: whether he succeeds or not the very attempt is illegal itself, yet seems to go unprosecuted https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/why-is-elon-musk-trying-to-buy-a-wisconsin-supreme-court-seat ("Why Is Elon Musk Trying to Buy a Wisconsin Supreme Court Seat?")    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:30:11

• "In WWII, the ‘Tokyo Express’ was tough to beat. One man changed that." https://www.navytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/03/31/in-wwii-the-tokyo-express-was-tough-to-beat-one-man-changed-that/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:30:24

• "Sidebar: The imperial presidency | Courthouse News Service" https://www.courthousenews.com/sidebar-season-five-episode-4-the-imperial-presidency/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:30:37

• "Czech MEP Appointed to Climate Role While Paid £10k a Month as Car Consultant" https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/31/czech-mep-filip-turek-climate-role-cars-consultant/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:30:49

• "Taiwan calls on democracies to condemn Chinese military drills – Radio Free Asia" https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/01/china-taiwan-military-drill-april/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:31:02

• "Australia can take USAID’s place in the Pacific islands" https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ausaid-can-take-usaids-place-in-the-pacific-islands/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:31:13

• "The aftermath of deadly Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/31/putin-couldn-t-care-less-about-diplomacy    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:31:24

• "Rätten till privatliv och privat kommunikation (video)" | The right to privacy and private communications (video) https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/04/01/ratten-till-privatliv-och-privat-kommunikation-video/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:31:53

• "Michael Moore calls for portraits of Trump "as he truly appears, without distortion"" https://boingboing.net/2025/04/01/michael-moore-calls-for-portraits-of-trump-as-he-truly-appears-without-distortion.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:32:07

• "Atlantic editor: Chat shows Vance believes Trump ‘doesn’t even understand what he’s doing’ - The Zambian Observer" https://zambianobserver.com/atlantic-editor-chat-shows-vance-believes-trump-doesnt-even-understand-what-hes-doing/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:32:17

• "Back to Cash: Life Without Money in Your Pocket is Not the Utopia Sweden Hoped" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/31/1218257    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:32:29

• "Politikerna begriper inte vad de sysslar med" | Politicians don't understand what they're doing. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/04/01/politikerna-begriper-inte-vad-de-sysslar-med/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:32:54

• "The Messy, Brutal, Unthinkable Collapse of USAID | The Walrus" https://thewalrus.ca/the-messy-brutal-unthinkable-collapse-of-usaid/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:33:05

• "Opinion | The Problem With Sweden Is Sweden" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/opinion/sweden-migration-policy.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:33:15

• "Standing Clearly - by Mike Brock - Notes From The Circus" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/standing-clearly    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:33:28

• Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange | "l'Échange de Clés Diffie-Hellman | Noë Flatreaud" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https://nflatrea.bearblog.dev/diffie-hellman/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:33:52

• "The waste of waiting" https://robertbirming.com/waste-waiting/ "After the weekend? In a few months? Next year? The truth is, it may never come – at least not in our definition of perfect. The real perfect moment is here and now."    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:34:24

• "Favourites of March 2025" https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/04/march-2025/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:34:34

• iophk: fails to mention copyright or even privacy https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/new-updates/who-started-the-ai-generated-ghibli-photo-trend-meet-the-man-behind-the-internets-latest-obsession/articleshow/119811083.cms ("Who started the AI-generated Ghibli photo trend? Meet the man behind the internet’s latest obsession")    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:34:54

• "Navigating the AI Landscape | Matan Abudy" x https://matanabudy.com/navigating-the-ai-landscape/ "Things are moving fast in AI-land. It seems like every week there’s a new model release, each one claiming to be the best we have ever seen." http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/30/The_LLM_Bubble_is_About_to_Implode_Gimmicks_and_Financial_Shell.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:35:45

• "The Four Kinds of Fuck-Ups Kristi Noem Committed on March 15" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/01/the-three-kinds-of-fuck-ups-kristi-noem-committed-on-march-15/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:36:05

• "Divergence From the Interests of Capital" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/divergence-from-the-interests-of    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:36:14

• "Oh Death" https://louplummer.lol/ohdeath/ "My personal encounters with death have been just that, personal. I cam home from school one day in the ninth grade to find out that the matriarch of the farm I lived on had dies during the previous night."    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:36:45

• "Fans shocked as Trump orders Peacock to pull iconic episode from streaming service – Daily Sundial" https://sundial.csun.edu/191815/opinions/fans-shocked-as-trump-orders-peacock-to-pull-iconic-episode-from-streaming-service/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:37:02

• "Bernie Sanders’ long march to failure" https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025/03/bernie-sanders-rallying-cry    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:37:16

• "Amazon is selling products calling Canada the 51st state, and many Canadians aren't happy" https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/amazon-51st-state-1.7499461    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:37:31

• Bezos is not a booster of the Cheeto Hitler http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/18/GAFAM_Kissing_the_Ring_of_the_Mafia_Don.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/25/The_Fall_of_Corporate_Media_Controlled_by_Oligarchs_Who_Boost_o.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:38:05

• He is an ALLY of his    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:38:19

• "Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust. Now we're announcing the latest release, Arti 1.4.2" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/arti_1_4_2_released/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:41:49

• "Our evaluations show that teachers are well-equipped to deliver the curriculum and provide high-quality and accessible learning experiences." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/empowering-indias-digital-future-our-computing-curriculums-impact/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:42:19

• "The $20 million copyright suit appeared destined for failure several months ago, when the judge signaled publicly that she was leaning Carey’s way." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/31/mariah-carey-defeats-ridiculous-copyright-suit-over-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-you/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:44:10

• "The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45B less $12B debt)" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/31/xai-x-purchase/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:44:21

• "I’m not going to give a full rundown of the recent spate of ChatGPT-generated Studio Ghibli memes." ☛ https://www.8ball.report/p/the-return-of-mass-memes-et-cetera | Source: Sean Monahan    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:44:45

• "Piracy poses a major threat to the Premier League's broadcast rights, prompting it to take continued action against rogue streaming sites." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/premier-league-subpoena-requires-cloudflare-to-unmask-streaming-pirates-250401/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:45:01

• "In a rare legal move, Aylo subsidiary Licensing IP used a cybersquatting lawsuit to take out pirate websites infringing on its trademarks." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/aylo-uses-cybersquatting-complaint-to-take-out-pirate-site-domains-250331/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:45:29

• [Old] "My work requires me to do things on the Google Cloud Platform." ☛ https://ewintr.nl/posts/2025/sso-yet-another-way-of-google-bullying-users-into-using-chrome/ | Source: Erik Wintr    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:46:04

• "They also seemed to disagree with how Apple defines tracking." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/french-competition-app-tracking-transparency/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:46:16

• "The French competition regulator, Autorité de la Concurrence, fined Apple on Monday $162 million over its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) tool." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/france-antitrust-watchdog-fines-apple-162m-for-violating-privacy-laws/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:46:34

• "There was a time when Microsoft's wares were nearly impossible to avoid. MS-DOS and then Windows were ubiquitous." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/50_years_of_microsoft/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:46:57

• "Sarandos pointed out that the theatrical box office is down 40-50% from pre-COVID levels and 8% lower this year. “...so the trend is not reversing." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/movie-theatres-are-never-coming-back-netflix-co-ceo-ted-sarandos/articleshow/119859520.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:54:59

• "Here’s another monthly mixtape made from a sealed, pre-recorded cassette I got for 99 cents at the record store. I taped over the cassette’s protection tabs and then I taped over the music and then I taped over the artwork." ☛ https://austinkleon.com/2025/04/01/a-satisfied-mind/ | Source: Austin Kleon    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:55:13

• "This is a big deal because I’ve been a Netflix subscriber since the very beginning—back when it was all DVDs and no streaming." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/04/my-unsuccessful-journey-into-netflixs-ad-tier/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:55:25

• "And while I don't have a recording of the exact tests that generated the 6x and 11x results in the charts above, I did compare doing 100 names which give you an idea of the performance gap I was seeing." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/from-m2-pro-to-m4-pro/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:55:40

• "Now Disher is worried that a long-promised push for rural access will be upended, leaving Louisianans desperate for [Internet] waiting." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/01/rural-broadband-satellites-starlink-kuiper/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:57:18

• "Then he called another deputy to the scene for supposed “officer safety reasons.” Completely not coincidentally, the backup he called for was a K-9 unit featuring Deputy John Samuelson and his drug dog, Bosco." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/31/indiana-court-finding-drugs-on-one-person-means-everyone-on-a-bus-can-be-searched/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:57:42

• "The Third Circuit should affirm the ruling, preferably on the alternative ground that standards incorporated into law are necessarily promoted to the public domain." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/eff-urges-third-circuit-join-legal-chorus-no-one-owns-law | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:57:58

• "The tribal nations have been involved with the permitting process since 2020, when Enbridge applied to build the underground tunnel for the pipeline" ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/u-s-indigenous-nations-walk-away-from-talks-on-line-5-pipeline/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:58:23

• "We need answers for both iPhones and Android phones. And it’s not just the US; the world is going to become a more dangerous place to oppose state power." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/cell-phone-opsec-for-border-crossings.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:58:56

• "an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine from a masculine point of view." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/norway-trad-pappaperm-paternity-leave/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 07:59:25

• IBM consider "high risk" https://1792exchange.com/pdf/?c_id=813    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:02:58

• "US District Court Judge Susan Paradise Baxter ruled Monday that Pennsylvania must count undated or misdated mail-in ballots, finding that rejecting such ballots violated the First Amendment." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/us-judge-rules-pennsylvania-rejecting-undated-mail-in-ballots-violated-first-amendment/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:03:20

• "The U.S. government just demonstrated exactly why due process matters." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/01/the-lawless-evil-of-denying-due-process/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:03:43

• "When officials claim they cannot correct this “error” because it would interfere with “a unified course of conduct for the United States' foreign affairs,” that is not statecraft." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/an-administrative-error | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:04:34

• "But those days are gone, she said, with her old newsroom now about one-third the size." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/03/31/newspapers-stations-turning-to-citizen-journalists-to-help-fill-reporting-void/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:09:44

• "rattled the journalists who cover the president and left them mulling how exactly to push back." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/03/31/2025/journalists-consider-briefing-room-sit-in-as-trump-clashes-with-white-house-press-corps | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:10:05

• "Amnesty also asserted that authoritarian regimes in Asia have celebrated RFA’s impending closure" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/trump-defunding-global-media-leaves-human-rights-violations-unchecked-amnesty-international/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:10:42

• "Medin, a reporter for the Swedish newspaper Dagens ETC, was immediately taken into police custody upon his arrival in Istanbul to cover civil unrest amid the government’s crackdown on the city’s opposition municipalities." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/03/swedish-journalist-imprisoned-in-turkey-accused-of-insulting-president-terrorism/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:11:33

• "USAGM is a federally funded, independent executive agency created by Congress that oversees the broadcast networks VOA, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), and Radio Free Asia (RFA)." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/us-federal-judge-orders-temporary-halt-of-voice-of-america-shutdown/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:13:00

• "Let’s be absolutely clear about what happened: A comedian called members of an administration implementing policies that deport people to face torture without due process “murderers” who aren’t “human beings.”" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/01/the-normalization-of-autocracy/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:13:22

• "When more federal cutbacks came ($127 million in 1996, with up to 2,500 jobs lost shortly after), they hit radio and local newsrooms just as hard as network TV." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/canadian-journalism-reinvention/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:14:28

• "Pressed by Tobin on what he knows about how the White House is now choosing which photographers can now attend certain White House events, Vucci said he was “clueless.”" ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/27/politics/ap-hearing-white-house-ban/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:15:10

• "It’s hurting us big time (...) We’re basically dead in the water on major news stories." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/photojournalism/photographer-who-took-iconic-trump-assassination-attempt-photo-opts-to-fight-fight-fight-ap-white-house-ban | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:15:46

• "USAGM-affiliated journalists face serious threats, imprisonment, and persecution in their home countries due to their reporting on politically sensitive issues." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-partners-urge-congress-to-protect-usagm-affiliated-journalists-from-deportation/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:16:11

• "We, the undersigned, are writing to bring to your urgent attention the perilous plight of journalists who have worked for the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM)-funded entities" ☛ https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-01-USAGM-Congressional-Letter-Final.pdf | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:16:26

• "Together with a revamped ‘foreign agent’ law nearing enactment, repressive amendments to Georgia’s broadcast law look tailor-made to muzzle the country’s vibrant and defiant independent press" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/03/georgia-set-to-pass-restrictive-broadcast-bills/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:16:41

• "Journalism is not a crime, in any country." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2290627.html | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:18:03

• "need to protect Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL),” warning that "if we don’t, we hand a gift to autocrats the world over." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/rferl-funding-eu-parliament-debate-trump-grant-cuts/33367900.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:18:24

• "Free speech and civil liberty organizations have been sounding the alarm for months about how this decision could chill speech in the United States for everyone." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/greenpeace-energy-transfer-free-speech/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:18:58

• "I found it a little comical that, you know, this shirt that I designed many, many years ago was so irritating, then or now, that I was added to a ban" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/31/facial-recognition-technology-msg-venues/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:19:22

• "Academy officials were told to review the library late last week, and an initial search had identified about 900 books for a closer look." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-04-01/naval-academy-removes-nearly-400-books-from-library-in-new-dei-purge-ordered-by-hegseths-office | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:19:40

• "former President Donald Trump and his allies played in the day’s events, according to NewsGuard, a tech firm that monitors misinformation and rates the reliability of media outlets." ☛ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/media-misinformation-watchdog-says-right-wing-channel-newsmax-frequently-traffics-in-jan-6-falsehoods-01658447770 | Source: Market Watch    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:21:06

• "The right-wing media company has long been a cheerleader for US President Donald Trump, and is now among the most-watched cable news channels in the United States." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/entertainment/news/a/2290673.html | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:21:34

• "R1 appears to censor and withhold information from users" ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/geotech-cues/deepseek-shows-the-us-and-eu-the-costs-of-failing-to-govern-ai/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:21:54

• "from an investor syndicate" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/640259/openai-40-billion-softbank-investment | Source: The Verge http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:22:51

• Nope, it is NOT "worth" $300 billion, it cannot even make money, only massive losses. This is like money laundering or debt-loading. ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/31/openai-closes-40-billion-in-funding-the-largest-private-fundraise-in-history-softbank-chatgpt.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:23:39

• "A rising trend of techno-fascism driven by populism and artificial intelligence has been visible since the US presidential election in November." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/questions-answered-by-yuval-noah-harari-for-wired-ai-artificial-intelligence-singularity/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:23:56

• "a significant step towards European cloud sovereignty" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/cispe_fulcrum_donation/ | Source: The Register UK http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:24:50

• "The book chimed with what I previously heard from former Meta executives about the company’s hypocrisy, its obsessive drive for growth and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s fixation on developing a fanbase." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/billionaires-reality-distortion-fields/261678/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:25:02

• Valuation which is fraudulent ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/01/openai-funding-april-2025/ | Source: Digital Music News http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:25:58

• ""Every accusation," tweeted political personality Mehdi Hassan, "is a confession."" ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-booed-wisconsin | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:26:33

• "Republicans claim that all efforts from those on the left to organize are funded by George Soros" while doing literal nazi salutes in PUBLIC ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:27:12

• "I never expected such a dramatic end to the pre-sale. The project came within a hair of failing, and the only thing that saved it was Hacker News picking up that longshot sample chapter." ☛ https://mtlynch.io/book-pre-sale-just-barely-succeeded/ | Source: Michael Lynch    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:28:56

• "A herd of more than 150 elephants, including several juveniles, has crossed into Zambia’s Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park from neighboring Zimbabwe, prompting a warning from wildlife officials about the animals’ heightened protective instincts." ☛ https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/04/01/elephant-herd-crosses-into-zambia-prompting-caution-from-wildlife-officials/ | Source: Lusaka ZM    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:29:17

• "Dogs are primed to detect smells. The average dog’s nose has more than 10 million scent receptors in their nose, compared to humans, who only have about 6 million." ☛ https://theconversation.com/dogs-see-their-world-through-smell-and-scientists-are-starting-to-translate-it-like-never-before-252659 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:29:35

• "Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation has sounded the alarm following the release of data from its Big Butterfly Count" ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/extinction-alarm-as-uk-butterfly-species-in-long-term-decline-after-numbers-collapse-5061728 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:30:31

• "Atomic energy is becoming the preferred solution to address the projected bump in megawatts needed to charge AI in the future, but it simply won't come soon enough in many cases." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/nuclear_no_panacea_ai/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:37:17

• "As with previous generations, the sixth will incorporate major advances in aircraft design, onboard electronics (avionics) and weapon systems." ☛ https://theconversation.com/how-a-new-wave-of-fighter-jets-could-transform-aerial-combat-252949 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:37:41

• "I’m really confused by all this. Let’s just rate this station on the Tier List before any other weird things happen around here." ☛ https://heliomass.com/posts/2506-station-stories-barrington/ | Source: Heliomass    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:37:58

• "In an interview with Reuters, Awad claimed that Arm's technology typically offers lower power consumption than processors made by rivals such as Intel and AMD." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/arm_datacenter_cpu_market/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:40:11

• "BYD is the Shenzhen-based EV company quickly replacing Tesla as the world's foremost seller of electric and hybrid vehicles." ☛ https://futurism.com/byd-tesla-rivalry | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:44:26

• "Swedish energy development firm OX2 has announced plans to construct onshore wind farms with a total capacity of 472 megawatts (MW) in South and Central Ostrobothnia, Finland." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20153217?origin=rss | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:44:42

• "Lithium-ion EV batteries made this way can charge 500% faster at temperatures as low as 14 F (-10 C)" ☛ https://record.umich.edu/articles/u-m-engineers-addressing-ev-battery-shortcomings-in-cold-weather/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:45:05

• "A robotics and machine learning engineer has developed a command-line interface tool that monitors power use from a smart plug and then tunes system performance based on electricity pricing." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/applications/open-source-tool-designed-to-throttle-pc-and-server-performance-based-on-electricity-pricing-lightweight-cli-can-automatically-limit-clocks-during-peak-hours | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:45:35

• "Most people think of machine instructions as the fundamental steps that a computer performs. However, many processors have another layer of software underneath: microcode." ☛ https://www.righto.com/2025/03/pentium-microcde-rom-circuitry.html | Source: Ken Shirriff    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:46:18

• "The Arduino spins the dial using a stepper motor and there is an OLED screen for status information, with buttons for control." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/04/01/forgot-your-safe-combination-this-arduino-controlled-autodialer-can-crack-it-for-you/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:47:17

• "On Friday, RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL), the organization maintaining the FOSS version of the original Acorn RISC Machine OS, announced its Moonshots initiative." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/risc_os_open_moonshots/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:47:44

• "By contrast, the Commodore 116 is entirely stock. It has had no modifications done, no upgrades, no replacements, and yet is fully functional in 2025 (a shocking achievement when you consider most computers aren’t designed to outlive a two-year warranty)." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/my-own-post-on-the-ship-of-theseus/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:48:05

• "Each of the three Raspberry Pi 5s has a HackerGadgets PoE+ NVMe HAT, with 2242-sized NVMe SSDs installed running Pi OS." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/running-lamp-stack-lamp-rack | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:48:26

• "The science can’t be any clearer that fossil fuels are killing us" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/fossil-fuels-impacts-climate-health-biodiversity.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:50:41

• "The review highlights that fossil fuels account for about 90% of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions, heating the climate" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/research-top-scientists-issue-urgent-warning-on-fossil-fuels | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:50:52

• "The company said the closure will cut the firm's carbon dioxide emissions by 50 percent this year, compared to 2024, and will reduce the City of Helsinki's carbon emissions by 30 percent." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20153244?origin=rss | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:51:17

• "Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/cybersecurity-professor-mysteriously-disappears-as-fbi-raids-his-homes/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:56:58

• "All vehicles visible had license plates registered in Marion County (code 49), and there were no obvious markings identifying them as belonging to a specific agency such as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)." ☛ https://bloomingtonian.com/2025/03/28/federal-agents-conduct-operation-at-home-on-xavier-court-friday-in-bloomington/ |    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:57:18

• "Wang is listed as computer science professor and Director of the Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering (SPICE) at Indiana University in Bloomington." ☛ https://eu.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/local/2025/03/28/fbi-department-of-homeland-security-agents-search-house-in-bloomington-indiana/82710451007/ |    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:57:38

• "who's been with the American university for more than 20 years - and Nianli Ma, a lead library systems analyst and programmer also at the university." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/indiana_cybersecurity_professor_fbi/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:58:02

• "Wang, a prominent figure in the field of cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity, had a distinguished career spanning over two decades." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/xiaofeng-wang-disappears-after-fbi-raids/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:58:50

• "Today, with news going viral via social media, there's the risk of jokes being mistaken for fact and making global headlines, only to later backfire on a media already accused of proliferating fake news" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/april-fools-day-why-the-press-is-now-avoiding-pranks/a-65171337 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:59:11

• "There have been growing calls from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for an investigation into the Signal scandal" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/signal-investigation-call-white-house-case-closed | Source: Axios    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:59:35

• "The contrast is striking. Clinton’s email server triggered multiple congressional investigations, FBI probes, and years of lawsuits." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/01/sorry-you-dont-get-to-declare-case-closed-on-war-crime-planning-over-signal/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 08:59:55

• "Our lawsuit argues that DOGE [sic] is an agency subject to FOIA and the Federal Records Act (FRA)." ☛ https://americanoversight.org/our-lawsuit-prompted-a-new-policy-from-doge-but-major-concerns-remain-about-the-administrations-preservation-of-government-records/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:00:53

• "Charlotte "Betty" Webb worked at Bletchley Park, the famous British code-breaking center just north of London" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/british-wwii-code-breaker-betty-webb-dies-aged-101/a-72110654 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:03:46

• ""Some members" also consider "violence against German state institutions and representatives of state power" to be "legitimate."" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/eritreas-conflicts-also-being-fought-out-in-germany/a-72100866 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:04:12

• "escalated" ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/04/01/how-the-naval-battle-of-guadalcanal-escalated-into-an-all-out-slugfest/ | Source: USMC    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:04:44

• "Only four airmen were awarded the Medal of Honor during the First World War, with two aviators, 1st Lt." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/04/01/the-wwi-aviators-who-gave-their-lives-to-help-the-lost-battalion/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:05:28

• "The interview has been condensed and edited for clarity." ☛ https://therecord.media/nakasone-interview-china-ai-deepseek-doge | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:05:58

• "weeks-long standoff" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/judge-approves-doge-usip-office-building/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:06:37

• "On Tuesday, Finland decided to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention, which was welcomed by Vilnius." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2526498/finland-to-quit-ottawa-convention-vilnius-welcomes-regional-solution | Source: LRT    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:19:17

• "The world’s wealthiest man and his allies have spent more than $20 million to boost a conservative judge’s campaign" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-fox-news-five-tesla-wisconsin-b2725690.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:19:38

• "They argue in the suit that names the president and multiple government departments and officials that Trump supporters" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/01/trump-elections-citizenship-proof-lawsuit-democrats | Source: Axios    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:20:09

• "He is feigning a willingness to negotiate, but not deviating an inch from his goals" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/germany-baerbock-putin-stalling-tactics-kyiv-visit-ukraine/33366267.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:22:07

• "At the upcoming meeting of NATO foreign ministers" ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/us-must-see-through-russian-stalling-tactics-germany-s-baerbock-says-101743512337132.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:22:27

• "Basically: if you challenge these orders, you’re likely to win relief, and fast." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/31/lawyers-last-chance-to-pick-which-side-of-history-they-want-to-be-on/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:22:52

• "By delivering newspapers, munitions and secret messages to resistance groups, among many other incredible tasks" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/new-book-reveals-daredevil-lives-four-italian-women-who-stood-up-hitler-mussolini-180986245/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:23:45

• "he took his phone" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/student_gchq_theft/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:24:37

• "As the deadline for the TikTok sale approaches" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/31/tiktok-ban-looms-substack-launches-short-video-content/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:24:57

• "filed a lawsuit against Jackson" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/doge-takes-control-usip-office-building/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:25:27

• "During an interview aboard Air Force One, Trump indicated that the app had several interested buyers." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/social-media/id-like-to-see-tiktok-remain-alive-president-trump-expects-a-tiktok-deal-to-save-the-app-from-going-dark-again-on-april-5 | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:27:05

• "exactly what you’d expect when someone treats government operations like an ExTwitter poll" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/31/the-real-cost-of-doge-musks-government-cuts-creating-massive-new-expenses/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:27:29

• "Until about a decade ago, dark money was the most apt phrase to discuss a range of shady, financially motivated political tactics" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/elon-musk-wisconsin-million-dollar-payments/682248/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:27:55

• "Islamist extremism" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/world/asia/bangladesh-islam.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:28:18

• "The Open Technology Fund (OTF) has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court in Washington D.C. against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) and the Office of Management and Budget." ☛ https://www.heise.de/en/news/After-Trump-s-decree-fight-for-US-funding-for-Tor-F-Droid-and-Let-s-Encrypt-10328335.html | Source: Heise    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:29:10

• "In short, we’re very close to becoming a full-fledged network operator." ☛ https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/03/5x1000-donation-campaign-fiscal-year-2024/ | Source: Osservatorio Nessuno    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:29:23

• "The text of that statute, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, does not give presidents the power Trump claims." ☛ https://www.vox.com/scotus/406719/trump-attack-immigrants-supreme-court | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:29:52

• "In the nine weeks since its formation, DOGE [sic] has been able to access sensitive information from the Treasury Department payment system" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/03/31/repub/data-privacy-experts-call-doge-actions-alarming/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:35:40

• "The exhibition on Angel Island in San Francisco Bay will run from April 2, 2025 through May 28, 2025." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/announcing-effs-new-exhibit-border-surveillance-and-accompanying-events | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:38:41

• "Microsoft first started testing Live Captions on Intel and AMD devices last December, and it’s now available through the latest Windows 11 update." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/640028/microsoft-copilot-plus-pcs-ai-intel-amd-rollout | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:38:59

• "a rise in far-right and other authoritarian governments" ☛ https://www.404media.co/open-source-genetic-database-opensnp-shuts-down-to-protect-users-from-authoritarian-governments/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:39:16

• "Now consider the chatbot therapist: what are its privacy safeguards? Well, the companies may make some promises about what they will and won't do with the transcripts of your AI sessions, but they are lying." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/01/doctor-robo-blabbermouth/#fool-me-once-etc-etc | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:39:57

• "ORG welcomes legislation to protect and improve the UK’s cyber security. But a key component of any cyber security strategy has to be the promotion of strong encryption for both the state and the public." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-response-to-cyber-security-bill/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:40:39

• "The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act — or HIPAA — established in 1996 to protect the privacy and security of patient health information" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/01/repub/seventeen-states-want-to-end-an-abortion-privacy-rule-a-federal-judge-is-questioning-hipaa-itself/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:41:09

• "The push to expand AI integration across devices is expected to boost sales this year, Moon Jeong Seung, head of the R&D team for Samsung’s digital appliance business, said at a media conference." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/ai-is-coming-to-your-next-fridge/261586/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:43:29

• "AI Tech Privacy co-founder Luiza Jarovsky also warned about AI image generators being used to collect more personal data on a thread on X" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/the-ai-generated-studio-ghibli-photo-trend-is-taking-the-internet-by-storm-but-experts-warn-of-data-and-privacy-risks | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:43:55

• "The problem for the European Union is that defense, security and intelligence have always been sovereign matters for each member state" ☛ https://therecord.media/european-commission-takes-aim-encryption-europol-fbi-proposal | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:44:19

• "A change in mindset is needed to build the trust that allows us to do this as the whole of society." ☛ https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/5bb2881f-9e29-42f2-8b77-8739b19d047c_en?filename=2024_Niinisto-report_Book_VF.pdf | Source: European Commission    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:44:32

• "Apple’s revamped health app will utilize much of the health data that the company already has on you (especially if you have an Apple Watch), and then feed it to its new AI coach to offer you new health recommendations." ☛ https://9to5mac.com/2025/03/30/apple-health-doctor-project-mulberry/ | Source: 9to5Mac    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:47:01

• "As of Feb. 1, the Navy is offering the commercial version of Noom free for a year to these sailors in what the service calls its Fitness Enhancement Program." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2025/04/01/thousands-of-sailors-get-access-to-trendy-weight-loss-app-in-new-deal/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:47:18

• "Democracy organisations, privacy groups and academics have written to government ministers to warn that powers in the Data Use and Access (DUA) Bill could threaten the integrity of future elections." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/democracy-groups-warn-of-threat-henry-viii-powers-pose-to-future-election-integrity/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:47:51

• "Two former OnlyFans subscribers are suing the platform in a class-action lawsuit" ☛ https://www.404media.co/onlyfans-sued-after-two-guys-realized-they-might-not-actually-be-talking-to-models/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:49:31

• "It is unlikely my scam caller was sitting in an office in Florida, Purdue University professor of computer science Eugene Spafford said." ☛ https://eu.jconline.com/story/news/opinion/2025/03/26/spending-time-scams-are-finding-success-everywhere-we-look-how-do-we-prevent-them/82651245007/ |    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:49:41

• "Monday, March 31st, 2025, is World Backup Day and an annual reminder to regularly back up all your important data and documents to avoid headaches or heartache from losing precious business or personal data." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/world-backup-day-a-reminder-to-protect-against-data-loss | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:52:30

• "Jackie and Anthonie Talarico say their family developed chronic health issues and spent $20,000 to replace furniture" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/military-life/mold-housing-navy-lawsuit/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:53:05

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-group-takes-credit-for-national-presto-industries-attack/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:53:49

• Windows TCO ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/moscow-metro-disrupted/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:53:58

• "This was the topic of last Thursday’s inaugural Ethics IRL (or, in real life,) a new series" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/03/new-ethics-center-events-mull-real-life-conflicts/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:54:30

• "LLMs are great code reviewers. They can even spot security mistakes that open us up to vulnerabilities. But no, they’re not an adequate mitigation. You can’t use them to ensure security." ☛ https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/04/01/llm-security | Source: Tim Kellogg    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:55:32

• "The exposed database, which was discovered by security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who shared details of the leak with WIRED, is linked to South Korea–based website GenNomis." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/genomis-ai-image-database-exposed/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:57:11

• "Starting around March 14 — just a week after the feature went live — Grok began deploying the N-word when prompted just right." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-grok-ai-slurs | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:57:34

• "AI in the enterprise is failing faster than last year — even as more companies try it out." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/01/ai-in-the-enterprise-is-failing-over-twice-as-fast-in-2025-as-it-was-in-2024/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:57:48

• "Those of us who do booth duty at a conference don’t often get a chance to attend many, if any, sessions." ☛ https://blog.relyabilit.ie/impressions-of-srecon-americas-2025/ | Source: Niall Murphy    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:58:02

• "The multinational corporate equivalent of that Upton Sinclair quote you know." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/modern-google-mediocrity/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:58:29

• "The company that once represented the pinnacle of innovation has devolved into a symbol of corporate indifference. Let me share a personal example that illustrates this decline." ☛ https://om.co/2025/03/29/the-mediocrity-of-modern-google/ | Source: Om Malik    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:58:41

• "The new process will allow Gmail users to simply toggle on “additional encryption” in the email draft window to send an encrypted message." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/640422/google-gmail-email-encryption-enterprise-beta | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 09:59:03

• Groklaw is STILL offline. There is this "mirror" address for it. http://groklawstatic.ibiblio.org/article.php%3fstory=20130818120421175 is PJ alive? Who is the domain controller?    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:00:05

• "It's pitched as an alternative to the Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) protocol often used by well-resourced, regulated organizations for encrypted comms." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/google_e2ee_gmail/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:00:22

• "The new release seeks to address issues with traditional encryption methods, such as S/MIME." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/01/google-launches-client-side-end-end-email-encryption-gmail/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:01:05

• "Redmond revealed its plans in March 28 post – note the date because we would do a much better April 1 gag than that" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/microsoft_is_redesigning_the_windows/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:01:44

• "for highly technical conversations with colleagues at other government agencies" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/641144/michael-waltz-gmail-national-security-signal | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:02:08

• "Senior members of the US National Security Council, including the White House national security adviser Michael Waltz, have been accused of using their personal Gmail accounts to exchange sensitive information." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/waltz_gmail_security/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:02:23

• "The short of it is: macOS Sequoia will randomly drop the IPv6 default route from its routing table, and won’t automatically re-add it." ☛ https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2025/macos-drops-ipv6-default-route/ | Source: Luke Harris    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:02:44

• "But there isn't some magic pixels per inch value where a screen objectively achieves that status." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/retina-is-not-a-static-ppi/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:02:59

• "So I recently set out to devise a formula. I wanted to take into account the relative benefit and harm of foods’ nutrients, given how filling each choice may be." ☛ https://allenpike.com/2025/nutri-score-calculator | Source: Allen Pike    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:03:45

• "To this day, nobody can say when exactly Sewell Setzer forgot or suppressed the fact that there would be nobody waiting for him in the place he wanted to go." ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/artificial-intelligence-a-deadly-love-affair-with-a-chatbot-a-e5498031-c2b0-4da4-9192-65da9d3f40d6#ref=rss | Source: Spiegel    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:06:20

• "Mangione is charged in both state and federal court in the shooting of Thompson, the UnitedHealthcare chief executive officer. In the state case, Mangione has pleaded not guilty and could face life imprisonment with no parole if convicted." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2290635.html | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:07:16

• "Immediate USB needs met, I decided to keep using it for a while. For a ten year old laptop, it holds up pretty well." ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/dated-carbon | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:07:34

• "On Monday, managers at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) informed 77 employees" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/institute-museum-library-services-layoffs/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:11:05

• "For years, I worked as a professional software developer. But at some point, a shift slowly started to happen." ☛ https://yordi.me/following-a-feeling-slowly/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:14:15

• "Average reading scores for fourth graders and eighth graders slipped again – by 2 points since 2022" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2025/0331/read-aloud-west-virginia-reading-scores | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:14:26

• "Don't expect any deep insights here. It's just a collection of things I have discovered." ☛ https://blog.viditb.com/three-months-of-job-hunting/ | Source: Vidit Bhargava    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:14:37

• "The aim of this rule, unusual in a state undergoing a population and development boom" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-rare-reminder-britains-brief-reign-over-the-nations-oldest-city-180986340/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:15:06

• "The nation’s scientific enterprise is being annihilated and the silence of too many of our scientific leaders is only making the ongoing catastrophe worse." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/1900-leading-scientists-sound-alarm-on-trump-administrations-attacks-on-science-and-public-health | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:15:22

• "The space agency has already suffered greatly due to Musk's efforts to gut the federal government with the help of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-working-nasa | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:15:35

• ZeniMax Workers Union Voted Overwhelmingly To Authorize Strike at Microsoft https://80.lv/articles/zenimax-workers-union-voted-overwhelmingly-to-authorize-strike-at-microsoft/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:17:45

• "Trump’s administration has slashed research funding and halted broad swathes of federally funded science, under a government-wide cost-cutting [sic] initiative led by billionaire Elon Musk." ☛ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00938-y | Source: Nature    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:20:02

• "We've said this before: We had a plan, right?" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/crew9-astronauts-williams-wilmore-1.7497999 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:20:14

• "And if that wasn't enough sign of intellectual erosion, a whopping 79 percent of postgraduate researchers and 255 of 340 PhD students said they'd consider leaving." ☛ https://futurism.com/majority-scientists-considering-fleeing-america | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:20:25

• "NASA has officially added SpaceX's enormous Starship rocket to its roster — despite the vehicle never having completed a single successful test flight, let alone a mission." ☛ https://futurism.com/nasa-contract-elon-musk-spacex-starship | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:20:34

• "Multiple NIH sources tell WIRED the layoffs include—in addition to labor, IT, and human resources personnel—several accomplished senior investigators at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/doctor-breakthrough-parkinsons-research-nih-purge/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:21:02

• "Archaeologists have long theorized the helmet originated in Sweden. But Hjort’s discovery suggests it may have come from Denmark instead." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/britains-famous-sutton-hoo-helmet-may-have-come-from-denmark-not-sweden-new-discovery-suggests-180986350/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:21:22

• "According to a translated statement by Naples’ Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine arts and Landscape, an excavation led by archaeologist Simona Formola recently unearthed two embellished tombs in Liternum’s necropolis, as well as many smaller burials." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-gladiators-marble-etched-epitaph-is-found-in-an-ancient-roman-necropolis-180986339/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:21:27

• "A paper published in Nature Geoscience describes the phenomenon, which was discovered at The University of Texas at Austin. It's the first time that "cratonic thinning" may be captured in action." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-04-north-america-geoscientists.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:21:40

• "They all feature 88x31 buttons in some capacity and those buttons reflect the website and it's designer in some way." ☛ https://ultrasciencelabs.com/lab-notes/why-we-are-still-using-88x31-buttons |    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:23:17

• "This is not an April Fool's Day joke. It was, however, my April Fool's Day joke in 2013, so I'm blowing the dust off it, tweaking a couple of infelicities, and giving it to you as a chew toy: hopefully you've already forgotten it by now." ☛ http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/04/happy-april-1st.html | Source: Antipope    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:23:26

• "This blend of passion, joy, and creativity is a powerful recipe for success. While strategic planning can certainly enhance outcomes, it's the intrinsic motivation that provides genuine fulfillment." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/passion-over-strategy/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:23:50

• "The UK's technology secretary revealed the full breadth of the government's Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill for the first time this morning" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/01/uk_100k_fines_csr/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:24:25

• "One of my home servers went down due to a surge warning on one of the motherboard’s USB ports." ☛ https://techtea.io/articles/2025/mar-review/ | Source: TechTea    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:24:35

• "And what you should do: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/advice-for-technical-newsletters-and-announcements/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:24:49

• "Blogging is back, so why not bring back Webrings, too?" ☛ https://micro.webology.dev/2025/04/01/announcing-the-great-django-webring/ | Source: Jeff Triplett    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 10:24:57

• "Kiki watches your every move, offering remarks and occasional words of encouragement (but mostly sarcasm)" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1071/introducing-a-new-krita-plugin-kiki-ultimate-digital-painting-companion | Source: David Revoy    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:06:58

• "yt-dlp remains the premier command-line tool for downloading videos. This guide covers installation methods for Linux, macOS, and Windows, with optimization tips for privacy-conscious users." ☛ https://greycoder.com/how-to-install-yt-dlp-download-youtube-videos/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:07:18

• "OpenSSH 10.0p1 is almost ready for release, so we would appreciate testing on as many platforms and systems as possible." ☛ https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2025-April/041855.html | Source: OpenSSH    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:07:30

• "it allows you to subscribe to the missing websites in BlogCat and it generate another OPML" ☛ https://andregarzia.com/2025/04/think-i-implemented-a-unique-feature-in-my-feed-reader.html | Source: Andre Alves Garzia    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:08:08

• "For the last three years, I’ve been working on Offpunk, a command-line gemini and web browser." ☛ https://ploum.net/2025-04-01-xkcdpunk.html | Source: Lionel Dricot    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:08:17

• "A new CSS property appearance" ☛ https://developer.chrome.com/blog/a-customizable-select |    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:08:46

• "Those losses aren't easy to measure since Mozilla does not publish user numbers for Thunderbird." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/thunderbird_pay_services/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:09:33

• "I often read PDF documents in Firefox, and sometimes I prefer to work in dark mode" ☛ https://susam.net/pdf-dimmer-bookmarklet.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:09:43

• "Tor Browser 14.0.9 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1409/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:10:13

• "[Attackers] are abusing the “Must-Use” plugins (MU-plugins)" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/hackers-exploit-little-known-wordpress-mu-plugins-feature-to-hide-malware | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:14:30

• "EuroPython is the official European conference for the Python programming language." ☛ https://www.paulox.net/2025/07/16/europython-2025/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:15:35

• "The current plan is that I’ll have an opportunity to chat with people at the Monday reception via Zoom" ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/meeting-roadmap-a-guide-to-the-spring-2025-cni-meeting | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:16:29

• "Subsea and terrestrial fibre optic cables form the backbone of the global Internet." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/01/recapping-pimf-malaysia-11-views-on-internet-resilience/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:16:42

• "In environmental research, however, we are seeing a shift toward more open practices." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/01/guest-post-no-data-no-acceptance-how-iop-publishing-is-strengthening-open-science/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:17:30

• "Keep in mind that the models should be tuned in practice. They are not tuned by default in these examples." ☛ https://thierrymoudiki.github.io//blog/2025/03/31/r/glm-zeroinfl |    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:25:38

• "This is the fifth and last post in a series" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/bayesian-proportional-hazards-model-for-a-stepped-wedge-design/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:26:15

• "Pydantic Evals. Brand new package from the Pydantic AI team which directly tackles what I consider to be the single hardest problem" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/1/pydantic-evals/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:26:49

• "I created this (very) ugly script as I wanted to keep track of the events generated by AlertManager." ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/ugly-script-to-log-alertmanager-events-.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:32:25

• "The plan on April Fools' Day was to get into work at OMG early o'clock and iterate over every entry in the spool" ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-april-fools-joke-that-might-have.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:32:42

• [Old] "After some failed attempts with bg and fg, it turned out that bash does not allow job control in scripts" ☛ https://ewintr.nl/posts/2020/job-control-in-bash-scripts/ | Source: Erik Wintr    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:32:55

• "Sheppard said that while larger GIDEs function more as operational test demonstrations" ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/pentagon/2025/03/31/new-defense-department-experimentation-series-targets-data-integration/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:35:48

• "A 2022 bill mandated that medical device manufacturers abide by new cybersecurity rules and submit devices for verification" ☛ https://therecord.media/lawmakers-warn-hhs-firing-impact-medical-device-cybersecurity | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:36:25

• "Just to add, even though the distro is based on Ubuntu, it doesn’t include Snap support out of the box" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-lite-7-4-released-with-kernel-6-8-lts-and-gui-tweaks/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:38:51

• "Due to the electrical work, we skipped performing package builds for March." ☛ https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2025-03-31/hardenedbsd-march-2025-status-report | Source: HardenedBSD    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:39:35

• "Valve has just rolled out a fresh update for the Steam client, which will be automatically downloaded for users." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/steam-rolls-out-april-update-with-fixes-and-ui-improvements/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:41:20

• [Old] "However, I'm starting to have a significant number of jails (more than thirthy), on the same machine. And some jails doesn't need to be necessary backed up." ☛ https://aumont.fr/posts/Jails-backup-nocodb/ | Source: Mathieu Aumont    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:51:36

• "This working for both flexbox and grid is what I like to see too. " ☛ https://piccalil.li/links/item-flow-part-1-a-new-unified-concept-for-layout/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:53:31

• "When I wrote about how error handling isn't a solved problem" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/RustSortingOutErrorHandling | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:53:43

• "It has been a moment since I last wrote about logging, and save a month and a bit" ☛ https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/grepping-logs-remains-terrible/ | Source: Gergely Nagy    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:54:22

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

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:57:16

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

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:59:25

• Rsync Command on GNU/Linux with Examples ☞ https://idroot.us/rsync-command-linux/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 12:59:50

• 3 Ways to Integrate Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot into WordPress ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-integrate-chatgpt-into-wordpress/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:00:22

• "Every year, World Backup Day reminds us of the importance of safeguarding our digital assets" ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/world-backup-day-2025-robust-reliable-backup-solutions-with-openzfs/ | Source: Klara    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:05:34

• "The Incus team has just announced the release of version 6.11 of its container & virtual machine manager" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/incus-6-11-container-and-virtual-machine-manager-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:05:45

• "EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a nominee in the Webby Awards 29th Annual People's Voice competition – and we need your support to bring the trophy home!" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/vote-how-fix-internet-webby-awards-peoples-voice-competition | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:07:34

• "This week we give an update on the journey with GrapheneOS." ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/435 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:08:28

• Seems like clickbait, but not LLM slop, for a change https://betanews.com/2025/04/02/celebrate-donald-trump-liberation-day-linux-open-source/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:10:47

• The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Hijacked Again by Patent Litigation Industry, as President Cheeto Prioritises Aggressors ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/The_U_S_Patent_and_Trademark_Office_Hijacked_Again_by_Patent_Li.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:11:32

• UPC is illegal and unconstitutional; the judges in this kangaroo 'court' are part-time Nokia employees; this is EPO corruption cross-pollinating the EU, in turn destabilising Europe ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/nokia-targets-acer-asus-hisense-in-upc-munich-patent-suits/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:19:44

• The Return of Robust Discretionary Denials ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/return-discretionary-denials.html corruption from above http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/23/New_USPTO_Memo_Makes_Fighting_Patent_Trolls_Even_Harder.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:21:43

• Convoyed Sales: Federal Circuit Washes Away $2.6M in Patent Damages ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/convoyed-federal-circuit.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:22:20

• Why We're Reporting Brett Wilson LLP for Apparently Misusing Their Licence to Protect American Microsofters Who Attack Women (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/01/Why_We_re_Reporting_Brett_Wilson_LLP_for_Apparently_Misusing_Th.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:23:08

• Stefano Maffulli and His Microsoft-Funded OSI Staff Are Killing the OSI and Killing "Open Source" (All for Money!) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/01/Stefano_Maffulli_and_His_Microsoft_Funded_OSI_Staff_Are_Killing.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:23:23

• Techrights Headlines as Semaphore (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/01/Techrights_Headlines_as_Semaphore.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:23:53

• Newer Press Reports Confirm That Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Shuts Down 'Hey Hi' (AI) Labs Despite All the Hype ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/01/Newer_Press_Reports_Confirm_That_Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Hey_Hi_AI.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:24:05

• "This month brought the debut of GNOME 48, delivering modern User Interface polish, performance improvements and new features like digital wellbeing tools and HDR support" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/04/01/tw-monthly-update-march/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:31:24

• "However, sometimes you might encounter an error like this: [...]" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/fix-no-release-file-error-in-ubuntu/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:32:59

• "openSUSE takes a step further by offering users a seamless migration tool for migration from Windows 10 and 11 to openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/04/01/seamless-migration-from-windows/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:33:41

• Latvia awaits regulation on bomb shelters ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/01.04.2025-latvia-awaits-regulation-on-bomb-shelters.a593702/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:46:34

• Puri | Betraying Ukraine is the worst thing Convicted Felon has ever done ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/03/31/puri-betraying-ukraine-is-the-worst-thing-trump-has-ever-done/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:46:54

• Still no consensus on using frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/still-no-consensus-on-using-frozen-russian-assets-to-support-ukraine/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:47:12

• Drones changing the rules of modern conflict ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/drones-changing-the-rules-of-modern-conflict/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:47:30

• Russian advance in Ukraine slows for fourth consecutive month, ISW data shows ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250401-russian-advance-in-ukraine-slows-for-fourth-consecutive-month-isw-data-shows    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:47:48

• Russia accuses Ukraine on firing on energy sites ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250401-russia-accuses-ukraine-on-firing-on-energy-sites    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:51:45

• Lithuania backs NATO Article 5 guarantees for Ukraine, says official ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2526346/lithuania-backs-nato-article-5-guarantees-for-ukraine-says-official    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:55:12

• "Ukraine not preparing for elections" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/01/top-ukrainian-lawmaker-denies-election-preparations-are-underway | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:56:02

• "Russia complains to U.S. and U.N. that Ukraine keeps attacking its energy infrastructure" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/01/amid-mutual-allegations-of-moratorium-violations-russia-complains-to-u-s-and-u-n-that-ukraine-keeps-attacking-its-energy-infrastructure | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:56:54

• "The Ukrainian mineral deposits Trump is after" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/01/kyiv-s-buried-treasure | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:57:14

• Many obstacles remain for Russian naval base in Sudan ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/many-obstacles-remain-for-russian-naval-base-in-sudan/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:57:56

• Georgians decry Kremlin-funded photographer winning World Press Photo Award ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2526134/georgians-decry-kremlin-funded-photographer-winning-world-press-photo-award    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 13:58:14

• Russian, Chinese foreign ministers discuss Iran's nuclear program and Korea, Russia says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russian-chinese-foreign-ministers-discuss-irans-nuclear-program-and-korea-russia-says    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:00:31

• Akademy 2025 will be held in Berlin ☞ https://akademy.kde.org/news/2025-03_akademy2025locationannouncement/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:00:59

• "impose new sanctions" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/01/six-e-u-countries-declare-readiness-to-increase-pressure-on-russia-and-impose-new-sanctions | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:04:10

• "intellectual disabilities" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/01/he-had-no-understanding-of-what-war-is | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:04:41

• "sixth Russian LGBTQ asylum seeker to die in Dutch detention in three years" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/01/transgender-teenager-is-sixth-russian-lgbtq-asylum-seeker-to-die-in-dutch-detention-in-three-years | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:04:48

• In they US they call them "Trump voters"    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:05:07

• Kharkiv ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/01/russian-state-censor-forces-news-outlet-to-unpublish-discrediting-report-about-drone-strike-on-kharkiv-that-didn-t-even-mention-russia-s-military | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:05:25

• "notorious Russian cult leader" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/01/astro-planetary-karate-loses-again | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:07:15

• "enhanced tier" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/02/u-k-adds-russia-to-enhanced-tier-of-threats-identified-under-new-foreign-influence-registration-scheme | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:07:38

• A Prison Death Highlights Russia’s LGBTQ Crackdown ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/world/europe/russia-lgbtq-gay-prison-death-andrei-kotov.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:08:01

• American detained in Belarus not linked to Pabradė rescue operation – VSAT ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2526297/american-detained-in-belarus-not-linked-to-pabrade-rescue-operation-vsat    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:08:40

• Lithuanian border guards refused to accept asylum requests, says NGO ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2526201/lithuanian-border-guards-refused-to-accept-asylum-requests-says-ngo    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:09:17

• Fourth U.S. Soldier Is Found Dead in Lithuania ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/world/europe/fourth-us-soldier-dead-lithuania.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:09:43

• TTAB Posts April 2025 Hearing Schedule ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/04/ttab-posts-april-2025-hearing-schedule.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:10:13

• LibreOffice project and community recap: March 2025 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/01/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-march-2025/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:10:35

• How to Put a GUI on Ansible, Using Semaphore ☞ https://thenewstack.io/how-to-put-a-gui-on-ansible-using-semaphore/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:10:52

• IBM Red Hat is choking on buzzwords and mindless hype ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/when-bots-commit-ai-generated-code-open-source-projects | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:51:07

• "Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 introduced an edge solution called distributed compute nodes (DCN)." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openstack-services-openshift-edge-ceph | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:51:17

• "This single-board computer features a JH7110 quad-core RISC-V processor" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/updated-orangepi-rv-sbc-gains-jh7110-risc-v-processor-and-pcie-2-0-interface/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:52:44

• "Efinix has introduced the Titanium Ti180J484D1 FPGA, which includes 2 Gb of embedded LPDDR4x memory." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/efinix-titanium-ti180-fpga-delivers-embedded-lpddr4x-memory-and-expanded-i-o/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:53:29

• Colin Watson: Free software activity in March 2025 ☞ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2025-03.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:54:47

• Michael Ablassmeier: qmpbackup 0.46 - add image fleecing ☞ https://abbbi.github.io//fleece/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:55:33

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1016076/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:56:31

• FSF Blogs: March GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/march-gnu-spotlight-with-amin-bandali    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:57:21

• Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues: TIL: OpenPGP Web Key Directory ☞ http://blog.mister-muffin.de/2025/03/31/til-openpgp-web-key-directory/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:57:36

• Ubuntu Slop and FUD Manufactured With LLMs and Funded (by Oneself) 'Studies' ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Ubuntu_Slop_and_FUD_Manufactured_With_LLMs_and_Funded_by_Onesel.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:58:13

• Ubuntu 25.10 Codename Revealed — or an April Fools’ Prank? ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-25-10-q-codename-maybe    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:58:56

• The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 885 ☞ https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/03/31/welcome-to-the-ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-885/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 14:59:15

• Peter Czanik: Installing nightly syslog-ng arm64 packages on a Raspberry Pi ☞ https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/installing-nightly-syslog-ng-arm64-packages-on-a-raspberry-pi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:00:04

• Guido Günther: Free Software Activities March 2025 ☞ https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_March_2025.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:01:06

• Lip-Bu Tan's first speech as defective chip maker Intel CEO focuses on innovation and working with foundry customers ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/lip-bu-tans-first-speech-as-intel-ceo-focuses-on-innovation-and-working-with-foundry-customers    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:08:30

• Cory Booker Condemns Convicted Felon’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/booker-senate-trump.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:11:48

• Pope Francis’ Health Continues to Improve, Vatican Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/world/europe/pope-francis-health-vatican.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:12:17

• Moments from Cory Booker’s record-breaking Senate floor speech ☞ https://nypost.com/video/moments-from-cory-bookers-record-breaking-senate-floor-speech/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:12:53

• US senator breaks record with over 24-hour speech against Convicted Felon's policies ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250402-us-senator-speech-trump    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:13:26

• China muzzles online debate on construction standards after Bangkok building collapse ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/01/china-censors-online-debate-bangkok-collapse/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:15:13

• Installing nightly syslog-ng arm64 packages on a Raspberry Pi ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/installing-nightly-syslog-ng-arm64-packages-on-a-raspberry-pi/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:17:00

• Mozilla Thunderbird Finally Takes On Gmail With New Email Service ☞ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/04/01/finally-mozilla-thunderbird-takes-on-gmail-with-new-email-service/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:17:34

• Firefox 137.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1016077/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:22:42

• [April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers ☞ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/april-cools-gaming-games-for-non-gamers/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:24:07

• Playing Video Games Has an Unexpected Effect on Kids' IQ, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/playing-video-games-has-an-unexpected-effect-on-kids-iq-study-finds    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:24:16

• WordPress 6.8 Release Candidate 2 ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2025/04/wordpress-6-8-release-candidate-2/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:25:20

• ‘Hard and fast from every direction’: inside the group plotting Poilievre’s blitzkrieg of cuts ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/inside-the-group-plotting-poilievres-blitzkrieg-of-cuts/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:26:07

• US sanctions 6 officials, inc. justice minister and police chief, as Hong Kong condemns ‘despicable behaviour’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/01/us-sanctions-6-officials-inc-justice-minister-and-police-chief-as-hong-kong-condemns-despicable-behaviour/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:26:45

• Turnout Strong as Wisconsin Decides Key Court Contest ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/elections/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-turnout.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:27:14

• "Early photography lacked the convenience of the stable roll film we all know, and instead relied on a set of processes which the photographer would have to master from film to final print." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/a-forgotten-photographic-process-characterised/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:27:41

• New Priorities for GIMP ☞ https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/04/01/jeffs-image-format-support/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:29:53

• CrushFTP Blames Security Firms for Fast Exploitation of Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-attempting-to-exploit-crushftp-vulnerability/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:30:21

• Navicat for PostgreSQL17.2 Introduces Hey Hi (AI) Assistant, Snowflake Support, and Enhanced Data Modeling Features ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/navicat-for-postgresql172-introduces-ai-assistant-snowflake-support-and-enhanced-data-modeling-features-3046/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:31:07

• In Adams Case, Some Say It’s Not the Time for Narrow Reading of the Law ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/nyregion/adams-corruption-clement-dismiss.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:34:13

• Arm aims to capture 50% of data center CPU market in 2025 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/arm-aims-to-capture-50-percent-of-data-center-cpu-market-in-2025    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:35:28

• Apple Patches Recent Zero-Days in Older iPhones ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-patches-recent-zero-days-in-older-iphones/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:36:00

• Apple issues fixes for vulnerabilities in both old and new OS versions ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/apple-security-update-march-2025/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:36:23

• Critical Vulnerability Found in Canon Printer Drivers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-vulnerability-found-in-canon-printer-drivers/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:36:51

• New Online Exploring Experience Launched! ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/new-online-exploring-experience-launched    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:39:02

• Qt Safe Renderer 2.2.0 Beta 2 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-safe-renderer-2.2.0-beta-2-released    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:39:22

• Noel Clarke ‘pressured women to keep quiet’ ahead of Guardian publication ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/noel-clarke-pressured-women-to-keep-quiet-ahead-of-guardian-publication/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:40:31

• Dave Täht RIP ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1016109/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:41:49

• Iron in The Brain Might Help Explain Curious Link Between ADHD And Dementia ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/iron-in-the-brain-might-help-explain-curious-link-between-adhd-and-dementia    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:43:05

• Measles Devastates Your Body in a Variety of Ways. Here's What's at Risk. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/measles-devastates-your-body-in-a-variety-of-ways-heres-whats-at-risk    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:43:19

• Vitamin D Could Be an Effective Way to Slow Progress of MS ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/vitamin-d-could-be-an-effective-way-to-slow-progress-of-ms    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:44:23

• Another Red Hat sponsored piece about Red Hat peddling mindless hype ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/01/red-hat-expands-internal-developer-portal-tools-ai-powered-modernization-updates/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:48:12

• Vox sees boom in paying readers for explainer journalism under Convicted Felon 2 ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/vox-editor-memberships-paywall-trump/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:49:04

• What gives him hope for rebuilding Gaza? Dialogue and science. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2025/0401/gaza-arava-institute-environmental-diplomacy    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:49:31

• Dihydroxyacetone Man threatens $9 billion in Harvard funding over 'anti-Semitism' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250401-trump-threatens-9-bn-in-harvard-funding-over-anti-semitism    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:50:22

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Aid Cuts End Contraception Access for Millions of Women ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/health/usaid-contraception-cuts.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:51:24

• Rights group urges Iran to ‘unconditionally release’ Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/rights-group-urges-iran-to-unconditionally-release-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-narges-mohammadi/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:51:43

• Targeted pay bump for junior enlisted troops goes into effect this month ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/04/targeted-pay-bump-for-junior-enlisted-troops-goes-into-effect-this-month/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 15:59:58

• What happens next at Health and Human Services with a quarter of the workforce gone? ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/what-happens-next-at-health-and-human-services-with-a-quarter-of-the-workforce-gone/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:00:52

• Mass layoffs are underway at the nation’s public health agencies ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/layoffs-begin-at-the-nations-health-agencies/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:01:08

• "If out of the ordinary an H-1B get laid off, it’s because he rebelled and didn’t follow the work orders of the sweatshop cast system, and deportation is next. The thing to remember: “it’s a warfare out there”" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqq6s93y    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:04:36

• "IBM in 2025 is a reflection of him and it is a walking corpse, rotting from within. His example is an argument against moral leadership, in favor of exploitation. A true mirror for our times. The worst leader in IBM’s history, hands down, and that’s a low bar." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:08:28

• IBM. "I do understand the sentiment of people not wanting to overwork themselves for the next 30 days Many worked nights and weekends and were called or texted on vacation and on weekends." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:09:35

• "They saw awful raises and GDP Amounts and were told learn more skills. It’s not enough to be good or even excel at it it’s learn more learn more. So while IBM lards itself up with debt to artificially pump up the share price as well do these acquisitions, Alvind Krabanaugh and the rest of the greedy pipmunks feed like pigs." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:10:17

• "And with all those glowing references from the CEO downwards on 3 accounts, you still got shown the door at IBM ? Why was that ? You got too expensive or your job disappeared to India ? You're not being paid by Alvind and the Pipmunks to post your heroic history, are you ?"    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:11:11

• "I had positive relations with all my co-workers on all 3 accounts I was on both US and offshore, plus I had positive relations with all my end users from ceo down. All it got me was 2.90 to get on the NY subway"    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:11:52

• "Insiders tell us it's chaos as Tesla's layoff playbook hits another federal agency"    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:15:05

• The Computer Science Association had a talk by RMS about 2 years ago. Nobody noticed, FSF didn't mention it.    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:42:18

• "Honestly we kinda need a new Stallman for the brave new world, someone who is relentlessly beating the drum on this stuff even if they come across as anticorporate and extreme. An extremist might get traction, but a call to preserve things as they are probably cannot / should not." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43535653    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:43:58

• FSF to Acquire OSI ☞ https://jxself.org/fsf-acquires-osi.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:44:59

• Hospitals can be penalised for poor data entry practices ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/01.04.2025-hospitals-can-be-penalised-for-poor-data-entry-practices.a593774/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:46:04

• Preparing KEcoLab Technical Documentation in Season of KDE ‘25 ☞ https://eco.kde.org/blog/2025-03-24-roopa-sok25-kecolab/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:46:36

• Linux Format 327 ☞ https://linuxformat.com/linux-format-327.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:47:19

• Sparky news 2025/03 ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-news-2025-03/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:47:58

• 12 Best Free and Open Source Replacements for ls ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-replacements-ls/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:49:45

• SACAD: Smart Automatic Cover Art Downloader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sacad-smart-automatic-cover-art-downloader/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:49:54

• 10 Best Free and Open Source OCR Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ocrtools/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:50:04

• serpl is a TUI to search and replace keywords ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/serpl-tui-search-replace-keywords/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:50:13

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Surveillance Giant Google Analytics ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-google-analytics/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:50:28

• ArchiveKeep keeps your files archived in multiple places ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/archivekeep-keeps-files-archived-multiple-places/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:51:09

• facad is a modern colorful directory listing tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/facad-modern-colorful-directory-listing-tool/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:51:23

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Progress Kemp LoadMaster ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-kemp-loadmaster/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 16:51:30

• Coal layoffs leave Wyoming community grappling with good, bad of energy transition https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/coal-layoffs-leave-wyoming-community-grappling-good-bad-energy-transition    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:03:20

• One year on namno.duckdns.org! gemini://namno.duckdns.org/blog/2024-04-01.gmi it is Microsoft spyware, nothing else    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:06:07

• "Some of the coolest computer people I've met over the last few years have been students of creative and critical studies." gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/2025-04-01.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:06:50

• 🔤SpellBinding: ACIZQUL Wordo: LUMEN gemini://tilde.team/~stack/ensemble/gemlog/2025-04-02.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:08:45

• Interesting P2P projects gemini://ps.cities.yesterweb.org/en/software/interesting-p2p-projects.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:09:58

• Helplessness In Situations gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20250402.txt    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:12:32

• How I Use Windows XP in 2025 gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/clseibold/27652 but GNU/Linux so much better on that very same hardware; this is stupid to do...    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:13:32

• "On my Web site homepage, which also has a new domain name. Also on Playce, the little site I made to store links to games and retro movies and similar stereophonic multimedia events: [...]" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-04-02    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:15:09

• 'Linux' Foundation works for Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Microsoft's hype and subsidiaries https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news-updates/infosys-and-linux-foundation-collaborate-to-promote-responsible-ai-across-global-networks/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:18:44

• "With this release there's a bunch of new change and additions to Protonfixes, their database of game-specific fixes that get applied to make gaming smoother including: [...]" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ge-proton-9-27-brings-fixes-for-ubisoft-connect-epic-games-wuthering-waves-and-monster-hunter-wilds/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:19:47

• How Linux Kernel Deals With Tracking CVE Security Issues https://thenewstack.io/how-linux-kernel-deals-with-tracking-cve-security-issues/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:21:50

• "NixOS features a well-designed OS with an array of layouts, but I'd recommend it to users who aren't afraid of a little learning curve." https://www.zdnet.com/article/as-a-linux-power-user-this-is-the-distro-with-the-most-refreshing-take-on-os-design/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:22:27

• "Is this the end of fragmentation for Linux?" https://news.itsfoss.com/onepackage-announcement/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:22:51

• "This release also adds support for using the address bar as a calculator and signing PDF documents without leaving Firefox." https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-137-is-now-available-with-hevc-playback-support-on-linux    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:24:00

• AGAIN, 'Linux' Foundation works for Bill Gates, Microsoft, and Microsoft's hype and subsidiaries https://www.enterprisetimes.co.uk/2025/04/01/infosys-and-linux-foundation-networking-collaborate-to-strengthen-responsible-ai/ https://itbrief.co.nz/story/infosys-partners-with-linux-foundation-to-enhance-ai-ethics    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:24:44

• "Zorin OS 17.3 is everything you know and all the things you need. See what makes this latest release so special." https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-this-linux-distro-is-my-new-favorite-windows-replacement/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:25:35

• Linus Torvalds admits 'pure incompetence' for missing the new Linux 6.14 kernel deadline but all is forgiven as the update is great news for non-Windows gaming https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-admits-pure-incompetence-for-missing-the-new-linux-6-14-kernel-deadline-but-all-is-forgiven-as-the-update-is-great-news-for-non-windows-gaming/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:26:09

• "This is the dark age of digital information" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvh7shh    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:29:27

• "You are correct as most of the Fortune 500 companies worldwide are moving a great number of employees to India. It’s a case of monkey see, monkey do The CFO’s are just chasing lower labor costs. This flow aligns with broader developments within the tech enterprise, in which agencies like Meta and google have additionally been shifting jobs to India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvh7shh    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:29:52

• "The Luxtorpeda dev, d10sfan, let us know that while it's still work in progress the fork has been added to Luxtorpeda so now you can try Command & Conquer Generals on Linux with this native code." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/linux-support-for-command-conquer-generals-zero-hour-is-coming-along-now-its-open-source/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:33:41

• Freeware? No. https://gizmodo.com/download/freecad    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 17:36:45

• Tussling, trying to open aircraft door: Jetstar deals with disruptive passengers on 2 flights ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/travellers-from-hell-jetstar-deals-with-disruptive-passengers-on-2-separate-flights    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:29:34

• Retailers in Malaysia stop displaying smoking products from April 1 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/retailers-in-malaysia-stop-displaying-smoking-products-from-april-1    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:29:56

• Malaysia gas pipeline inferno injures over 100: Fire officials ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/massive-inferno-spotted-near-subang-malaysia    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:30:10

• China begins code-named military exercises in Taiwan Strait, Xinhua reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-begins-code-named-military-exercises-in-taiwan-strait-xinhua-reports    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:30:33

• China’s Military Drills Around Taiwan Are a Warning to Its President ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/world/asia/china-taiwan-military-drills.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:30:42

• China holds large-scale military drills around Taiwan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-launches-military-exercises-around-taiwan    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:30:59

• Taiwan coast guard warns of China using ‘pretext’ to launch more war games in 2025 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-coast-guard-warns-of-china-using-pretext-to-launch-war-games-in-2025    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:31:14

• Xiaomi EV car with driver assistance crashes in China, 3 reported dead ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-xiaomi-says-it-is-cooperating-with-police-after-fatal-ev-accident    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:31:40

• Military chief says Philippines ‘inevitably’ involved if Taiwan invaded ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/military-chief-says-philippines-inevitably-involved-if-taiwan-invaded    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:32:06

• How Convicted Felon’s tariffs are hitting one Chinese factory owner: ‘We are helpless’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-trumps-tariffs-are-hitting-one-chinese-factory-owner-we-are-helpless    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:32:34

• Taiwan calls on democracies to condemn Chinese military drills ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/01/china-taiwan-military-drill-april/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:32:50

• China deploys army veterans for military, political training in Tibetan schools ☞ https://rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/04/01/tibet-military-on-campus-instructors/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:33:04

• Lithuania launches probe over drones possibly made in ‘unfriendly’ country ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2526136/lithuania-launches-probe-over-drones-possibly-made-in-unfriendly-country    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:33:19

• Air Liquide and Shenergy open ‘first’ 300-bar hydrogen filling centre in China ☞ https://www.h2-view.com/story/air-liquide-and-shenergy-open-first-300-bar-hydrogen-filling-centre-in-china/2123849.article/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:34:01

• Chechnya ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/01/ramzan-kadyrov-s-teenage-son-who-beat-a-prisoner-on-camera-is-appointed-to-oversee-chechnya-s-police | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:34:27

• "Maker Faire" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/philadelphia-maker-faire-returns-this-weekend/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:35:43

• "Hunt For The Loch Ness Monster" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/the-everlasting-hunt-for-the-loch-ness-monster/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:37:00

• "Vetinari Clock" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/malfunctional-timekeeping-with-the-vetinari-clock/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:37:25

• ISWAP Use of Weaponized Drones Alter the Battlefield in Lake Chad Basin ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/04/iswap-use-of-weaponized-drones-alter-the-battlefield-in-lake-chad-basin/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:40:44

• Intel announces 18A process node has entered risk production — crucial milestone comes as company ramps to Panther Lake chips ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-announces-18a-process-node-has-entered-risk-production-crucial-milestone-comes-as-company-ramps-to-panther-lake-chips    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:41:07

• The Irving Family Provides Many Jobs to a Canadian Province, But Also Draws Concerns ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/world/canada/irving-family-canada-oil-environment.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:55:11

• “Missing The Mark” – How Antitrust Remedies Should Address Specific Competition Concerns ☞ https://project-disco.org/competition/missing-the-mark-antitrust-remedies-should-address-specific-competition-concerns/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:55:48

• French parliament considers adding consent to rape law in penal code ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250401-french-parliament-considers-adding-consent-to-rape-law-in-penal-code    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:56:08

• Democratic groups sue to block Convicted Felon administration’s elections order ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/democratic-groups-challenge-trump-election-order/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:56:57

• North Korea denounces US, Japan’s pledge at Hegseth visit to co-produce missiles ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-korea-denounces-us-japans-pledge-to-co-produce-missiles-on-hegseth-visit    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:57:15

• African Militaries’ Growing Drone Use Takes a Heavy Toll on Civilians ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/04/african-militaries-growing-drone-use-takes-a-heavy-toll-on-civilians/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:58:03

• U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong Officials for Pursuing Activists Abroad ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/world/asia/china-hong-kong-sanctions.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:58:18

• Iran will have 'no choice' but to get nukes if attacked, says Khamenei adviser ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250401-iran-will-have-no-choice-but-to-get-nukes-if-attacked-says-khamenei-adviser    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 21:59:06

• Dispersed responsibility, lack of asset inventory is causing gaps in medical device cybersecurity ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/gaps-in-medical-device-cybersecurity/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:00:11

• Think laterally: government air and shipping services can boost Australian defence ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/think-laterally-government-air-and-shipping-services-can-boost-australian-defence/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:01:07

• Congress requests information about Chinese national students, cites national security concerns ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/01/congress-chinese-stude-information/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:01:49

• Check Point Responds to Hacking Claims ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/check-point-responds-to-hacking-claims/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:02:39

• Hackers Looking for Vulnerable Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Portals ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-looking-for-vulnerable-palo-alto-networks-globalprotect-portals/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:03:35

• Social Security Administration probes origin of website portal outage ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/benefits/2025/04/social-security-administration-probes-origin-of-website-portal-outage/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:03:59

• Hackers Could Unleash Chaos Through Backdoor in China-Made Robot Dogs ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/undocumented-remote-access-backdoor-found-in-unitree-go1-robot-dog/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:04:26

• Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/plain-home-talk    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:04:41

• "Many of us know the basic Blink Arduino sketch" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/shrinking-blinky-as-far-as-possible/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:05:11

• Gender-Based Digital Transnational Repression and the Authoritarian Targeting of Women in the Diaspora ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/04/gender-based-digital-transnational-repression-and-the-authoritarian-targeting-of-women-in-the-diaspora/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:05:52

• No, Microsoft puts back doors in things. Microsoft is the worst at security. Saying Microsoft "Using Hey Hi (AI) to Uncover Critical Bootloader Vulnerabilities" is framing the CULPRIT as the hero ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-using-ai-to-uncover-critical-bootloader-vulnerabilities/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:07:12

• TinyBeast FPGA – A Microchip PolarFire MPF300T/MPF100T FPGA PCIe reference design (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/02/tinybeast-fpga-a-microchip-polarfire-mpf300t-mpf100t-fpga-pcie-reference-design/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:07:50

• SoK25 Highlights: My Season of KDE Journey With KEcoLab ☞ https://eco.kde.org/blog/2025-03-25-utkarsh-sok25-kecolab/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:08:55

• Enable 3.5 times faster vision language models with quantization ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/01/enable-faster-vision-language-models-quantization    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:09:53

• Spreading Beefy Miracle love ☞ https://michel-slm.name/posts/2025-04-01-spreading-beefy-miracle-love/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:10:21

• France’s Antitrust Watchdog Fines Fashion Company Apple for Problems With App Tracking Transparency ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/frances-antitrust-watchdog-fines-apple-for-problems-with-app-tracking-transparency/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:11:28

• Israel’s Military Strikes Near Beirut, Killing at Least 4 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/world/middleeast/israel-strike-lebanon-beirut.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:11:41

• Myanmar’s junta continues airstrikes, hampering search for earthquake survivors ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/04/01/airstrikes-thailand-earthquake-rescue/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:11:50

• Rights groups urge Myanmar junta to facilitate relief efforts after aid request ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/rights-groups-call-on-myanmar-government-to-facilitate-earthquake-relief-efforts-and-end-airstrikes-in-the-affected-areas/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:12:10

• China holds large-scale military drills around Taiwan ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/01/china-holds-large-scale-military-drills-around-taiwan/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:12:58

• Israel confirms Hezbollah targeted in overnight Beirut strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250401-israel-confirms-hezbollah-targeted-in-overnight-beirut-strike    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:13:15

• US ranking protection of Taiwan on same level as home territory, analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250401-us-ranking-protection-of-taiwan-on-same-level-as-home-territory-analyst-says    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:13:37

• Cybercom discovered Chinese malware in South American nations — Joint Chiefs chairman nominee ☞ https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/01/cybercom-chinese-malware-south-america-dan-caine-joint-chiefs-trump/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:13:53

• Mozilla Security Blog: Updated GPG key for signing Firefox Releases ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2025/04/01/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-releases-2/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:14:11

• Netflix’s Chaos Monkey: Embracing Failure for Resilience ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/2025/04/02/netflixs-chaos-monkey-embracing-failure-for-resilience/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:15:04

• Fix Exec line in .desktop file has quotes ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202504/fix-exec-line-in-desktop-file-has-quotes.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:16:28

• IBM Red Hat is trying to sell back doors for Microsoft and endless, limitless surveillance under the false guise of "confidential" ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/01/how-set-openshift-confidential-clusters-azure    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:17:58

• LibreArts Weekly recap — 30 March 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/03/week-recap-30-mar-2025/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:19:10

• Linux Matters: Great Scott, 1.21 Jiggabits! ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/52/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:19:45

• Pluralistic: Anyone who trusts an Hey Hi (AI) therapist needs their head examined (01 Apr 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/01/doctor-robo-blabbermouth/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:20:22

• KStars v3.7.6 is Released ☞ http://knro.blogspot.com/2025/04/kstars-v376-is-released.html    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:21:01

• Mozilla Firefox 137 Is Available with HEVC Playback Support on Linux, Tab Groups ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-137-is-now-available-with-hevc-playback-support-on-linux    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:22:18

• Valve’s Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on GNU/Linux ☞ https://9to5linux.com/valves-latest-steam-client-release-brings-faster-download-of-updates-on-linux    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:22:27

• Firefox 138 Is Out for Public Beta Testing with New Contrast Control Settings ☞ https://9to5linux.com/firefox-138-is-out-for-public-beta-testing-with-new-contrast-control-settings    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:22:47

• Steam On GNU/Linux Shows A Wild Swing Back Up For March 2025 ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-March-2025    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:22:57

• Nepal ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/art-institute-chicago-returned-buddha-statue-nepal-marilynn-alsdorf | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:24:27

• "The flight attendant, a young woman who went by the nickname Lala, said she grabbed the plane’s emergency oxygen bottle and rushed past rows of migrants chained at the wrists and ankles to reach the girl and her parents." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ice-air-deportation-flights | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:24:46

• Linux App Release Roundup (March 2025) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/linux-app-release-roundup-march-2025    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:25:38

• Joint Letter: Henry VIII powers in Data Use and Access Bill could undermine election integrity ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/joint-letter-henry-viii-powers-in-data-use-and-access-bill-could-undermine-election-integrity/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:26:39

• Briefing: Data Use and Access Bill Henry VIII powers threaten democracy and UK adequacy ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-data-use-and-access-bill-henry-viii-powers-threaten-democracy-and-uk-adequacy/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:26:57

• Firefox 137 Released with Address Bar Revamp & Tab Groups ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/firefox-137-new-features    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:27:19

• From the company that let Sarah Sharp put turds in Linux and then throw tantrums at Torvalds for not fancying her turds https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Patches-Hide-Turds    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:30:26

• "CODE HAS FEELINGS TOO!!" - Companies (aka "people")    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:31:12

• "I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY TORVALDS IS SO RUDE TO ME FOR ATTACKING LINUX... for Microsoft's benefit"    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:32:07

• Firefox 137.0 is out with Tab Group & HEVC Playback for GNU/Linux ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/firefox-137-0-tab-group-hevc-linux/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:32:14

• Intel gives Linus Torvalds funny taste of his own language to "hide disgusting broken turds" ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-gives-linus-torvalds-funny-taste-of-his-own-language-to-hide-disgusting-broken-turds/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:33:38

• Linux 6.14 released, Bootlin contributions inside ☞ https://bootlin.com/blog/linux-6-14-released-bootlin-contributions-inside/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:37:26

• Nonlinear conformalized Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) with R package ‘rvfl’ (and other models) ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/nonlinear-conformalized-generalized-linear-models-glms-with-r-package-rvfl-and-other-models/    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:39:00

• "His particular way of explaining things has definitely helped many electronics newbies to learn new concepts quickly!" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/why-the-lm741-sucks/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:39:44

• Algorithmic sabotage for static sites II: Images gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2025-04-01-algorithmic-sabotage-ii.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:40:46

• "Well, March is over, and the second installment of OFFLFIRSOCH is over with it! I managed to put up the official archive pages of all entries on Gemini and Gopher last night, but the round up post unfortunately had to wait until today." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/offlfirsoch-2025-round-up.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:41:22

• "Printed books are fascinating to me. They occupy a place in societal conscience that no other medium can, at least reliably." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202504/20250402-books-unlike-any-other.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:42:01

• "This conventional wisdom also has a Temperate or more pole- or mountaintop-wards bias; in Tropical climates the tea is sometimes poured between metal cups too cool it down enough for drinking, a warm climate reversal of a cold climate "heat the saké up before serving"." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/04/02/tea-hot.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:43:03

• Historia de Facebook para dummys gemini://moribundo.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-04-02-historia_facebook.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:43:45

• LQ’s account of the end gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2562    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:48:00

• "i enjoy the work i put into my garden here, but i realize that my Overly Complicated Tag and Index System can be greatly improved with bear's tag system." gemini://angelai.smol.pub/23    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:49:09

• "Being able to use midnight.sh to post replies is pretty convenient- is there a similar way to write a shell script or use some other CLI to upload and modify my midnight personal home page?" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2561    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:49:43

• head in sand gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/headInSand    

posted Wednesday, April 02, 2025 at 22:51:09