Roy Schestowitz

• "Wondering how to install Linux? If you're looking to change your current operating system or simply want another option to choose from, this guide will take you through the Linux installation process step-by-step." https://www.tomsguide.com/how-to/how-to-install-linux    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:31:51

• "A month and a half before the planned Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS point release for the long-term supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) series, Canonical updated today the kernel packages from Linux 6.2 to Linux 6.5." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-22-04-lts-is-now-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-5-from-ubuntu-23-10    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:32:20

• "Ubuntu routinely back-ports newer Linux kernels from “interim” releases to its latest long-term support release. The Linux 6.5 kernel from Ubuntu 23.10, released back in October, is the latest version to get the treatment." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/01/ubuntu-2204-linux-6-5-kernel-update    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:32:52

• It says "the NoaBot targets weak passwords connecting SSH connections." So the issue is clearly not Linux, this headline is classic Microsoft-esque FUD https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/a-previously-unknown-worm-has-been-stealthily-targeting-linux-devices-for-a-year/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:35:23

• "Speaking on Reddit, one of their team mentioned "We'll get some more info about Linux for you all soon, it's not something i know the answer to off the top of my head and I want to make sure I talk with the team and get you the right info.", and in a previous comment they mentioned Vanguard won't be used in the macOS version." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/league-of-legends-likely-unplayable-on-linux-steam-deck-soon-due-to-vanguard-anti-cheat/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:35:52

• "Speaking on Reddit, one of their team mentioned "We'll get some more info about Linux for you all soon, it's not something i know the answer to off the top of my head and I want to make sure I talk with the team and get you the right info."" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/league-of-legends-likely-unplayable-on-linux-steam-deck-soon-due-to-vanguard-anti-cheat/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:36:25

• "An open-source workspace automation tool. Sounds interesting!" https://news.itsfoss.com/app-fleet/ wot?? "curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/omegaui/app_fleet/main/network-install.sh | bash"    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:37:00

• Misleading FUD. The issue here is bad passwords, they try to make it sound like Linux is to blame. https://www.csoonline.com/article/1289758/mirai-based-noabot-botnet-spreads-via-ssh-and-deploys-cryptominer.html "The attack campaign targets weakly defended servers by brute-forcing SSH logins."    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:38:05

• "This release ships with the latest Cinnamon 6.0 desktop environment, which offers an experimental Wayland session." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-21-3-virginia-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:40:35

• "HoloISO is not actually SteamOS, but very close. So this is not in any way a partnership being done with Valve. HoloISO for those not aware can be found on GitHub and anyone can use it. I've asked if they can share what changes they've made." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ayaneo-next-lite-handheld-announced-with-steamos-linux/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:41:13

• "Originally released on November 12th, 2017, the long-term supported (LTS) Linux 4.14 kernel series has now reached its end of supported life after being maintained for more than six years." https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-4-14-reaches-end-of-life-after-more-than-six-years-of-maintenance    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:41:36

• "Users can order the StarBook Mk VI notebook pre-installed with the Qubes OS 4.x operating system series." https://9to5linux.com/security-oriented-qubes-os-is-now-pre-installed-on-starbook-mk-vi-linux-laptops    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:43:41

• Command Options and Examples of Tee Command in Linux https://geekygen.com/command-options-and-examples-of-tee-command-in-linux/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:44:11

• Here’s how to get started with Linux in 2024 https://medium.com/@adnanhasanrafi/heres-how-to-get-started-with-linux-in-2024-0ad4f796e426    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:44:30

• 50 Most Useful Linux Commands To Run in the Terminal https://geekygen.com/best-linux-commands-to-run-in-the-terminal/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:44:56

• How To Use Screen Command on Linux To Manage Terminals https://geekygen.com/how-to-use-screen-command-on-linux-to-manage-terminals/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:45:18

• Obligatory promotional LF SPAM https://medium.com/@akankshar8800/lfx-mentorship-learn-and-earn-with-open-source-aeaaf95c03b6    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:46:14

• 40 Simple and Effective “lsof Command” in Linux System https://geekygen.com/simple-and-effective-lsof-command-in-linux/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:46:48

• "Here's a text guide on how to install GE-Proton." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/ge-proton-8-26-and-8-27-released-with-various-game-fixes-for-steam-deck-linux/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 01:47:24

• "For those of you still using DSA keys with SSH: the project has announced its plans to remove support for that algorithm around the beginning of 2025." https://lwn.net/Articles/958048/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 02:56:28

• Security updates for Thursday https://lwn.net/Articles/958029/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 02:56:50

• Windows? "A ransomware attack has wreaked havoc inside the network of Tigo, the largest mobile operator and internet service provider in Paraguay." https://riskybiznews.substack.com/p/ransomware-wrecks-paraguay-largest-telco https://techrights.org/o/2021/05/02/ransomware-task-force/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 02:58:37

• Windows https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/finland-warns-of-akira-ransomware-wiping-nas-and-tape-backup-devices/ "The observed post-compromise activity includes mapping the network, targeting backups and critical servers, stealing usernames and passwords from Windows servers"    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 03:00:36

• "discovered 800 gigabytes of files and logs linked to school software provider Raptor Technologies. The firm provides software that allows schools to track student attendance, monitor visitors, and manage emergency situations." https://www.wired.com/story/us-school-shooter-emergency-plans-leak/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 03:01:17

• "DataBreaches provided the district with a link to an exposed PDF file of more than 100 pages containing personal information and portrait pictures of all their students." https://www.databreaches.net/us-school-shooter-emergency-plans-exposed-in-raptor-technologies-data-leak/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 03:02:07

• Windows TCO: "One-third of UK-based CISOs have confessed to paying ransomware groups millions of dollars in recent years in a bid to alleviate the impact of an attack, according to new research." They fund the crimes. https://www.itpro.com/security/ransomware/uk-cisos-are-cowing-to-ransomware-demands-more-than-you-think-heres-why-they-shouldnt-pay-up    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 03:02:57

• "The statement, issued Monday, comes almost eight full weeks after a printing error was discovered about the potential disclosure of limited information that may have been sent to another Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patient by mistake back in around mid-November 2023." https://www.meadvilletribune.com/news/erie-va-medical-center-says-it-regrets-veteran-info-disclosure/article_27be7e10-ae74-11ee-8010-5f37c6cccf61.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 03:03:52

• Hackers hit Moscow internet provider in response to Kyivstar cyber attack - source https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/hackers-hit-moscow-internet-provider-response-kyivstar-cyber-attack-source-2024-01-09/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 03:04:32

• Taiwan bombarded with cyberattacks ahead of election https://www.politico.com/news/2024/01/11/taiwan-cyberattacks-election-china-00134841    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 03:05:04

• "Mark Kevin Robison, a former vice president of Commonwealth Health Corporation (now Med Center Health) in Kentucky was also ordered to pay $140,000 in restitution." https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/marketing/former-exec-gets-2-yrs-probation-willful-hipaa-violation They always let the suits off easily...    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 03:05:59

• Underpaid cops become goons who serve "the system". In the EPO, examiners serve monopolists for a salary. « Production [of monopolies] is the only thing that guarantees our payslip » writes DG1 Director, EPO    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 04:22:24

• "discovered 800 gigabytes of files and logs linked to school software provider Raptor Technologies. The firm provides software that allows schools to track student attendance, monitor visitors, and manage emergency situations." https://www.wired.com/story/us-school-shooter-emergency-plans-leak/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 04:31:28

• In Asia, only 5 nations with Windows majority https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/asia/#monthly-202401-202401-map    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 06:14:29

• "All Tech companies should continue laying off all H-1B and L-1 Visas so these visa holders have to leave the US before any Americans get handed a lay-off notice." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1qv3rAoR#replies    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 06:25:48

• Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034705/discord-layoffs-17-percent-employees    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 06:26:56

• Puff pieces still hailing a Microsoft shill, Altman, like he's some great genius. Does Microsoft for for these by the volume of the quality? Same for Nat Friedman. "OUR MOLES ARE GENIUSES!!" Also: "BILL SAYS!!"    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 06:29:47

• Social control media is a waste of time and effort as you keep losing your home/platform, need to relocate. There are many other reasons to avoid such outsourcing. https://www.platformer.news/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 06:31:15

• Microsoft continues AI-spamming the media, hailing worthless vapourware that results in lawsuits and debt.... as if it's some massive revolution (spoiler: it's just a waste of electricity, like NFTs)    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 06:33:23

• Even language translators are now being RE-branded as "HEY HI". How much more ridiculous will it get? Maybe start calling "smart" phones "CLOWNPHONES" and then say that the clown is seeing an unprecedented boom.    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 06:35:23

• The "media" stopped making sense. The media is just taking bribes from anywhere it can still get those. And that's why "the media" is dying. Some gets taken over directly by oligarchs. No, it won't be informing the public. It'll condition the public to falsehoods.    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 06:36:49

• 1970s: HEY HI is a bubble. CLOWN COMPUTING does not exist. MLK is a hero. https://eu.fayobserver.com/story/opinion/2024/01/11/martin-luther-king-was-not-embraced-in-his-day-like-he-is-today/72182610007/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 06:37:35

• The strategy of IBM in this case is to paint anyone who talks about it as a criminal or nazi. Projection. https://techrights.org/n/2023/12/13/IBM_s_Ongoing_Racism_Exposed_in_New_Leaks_Red_Hat_s_Management_.shtml    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 06:40:19

• "In this post, I'll explain how to style RSS feeds and educate readers at the same time." ☛ https://darekkay.com/blog/rss-styling/ | Source: Darek Kay    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:13:30

• "Did you know you can transform that with HTML and CSS to make it much nicer on the eyes? Me neither!" ☛ https://marcamos.com/journal/css-your-rss-with-xsl/ |    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:13:40

• "This will force it to go into the BIOS so you can change settings or update the BIOS." ☛ https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/systemd-reboot-bios/ | Source: Xe's Blog    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:13:49

• "Historically there have been a number of reasons for the system administrator to send signals to init" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/InitOldSignalMistake | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:14:40

• [Old] "You can use a Raspberry Pi to connect to hotel Wi-Fi once, then broadcast a separate network to all of your devices." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/tutorials/host-a-hotel-wifi-hotspot/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:15:32

• "Basic MFA is ostensibly pretty simple these days. You get a trustworthy app for your smartphone (that's two strikes right there)" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/MFAIsBothSimpleAndWork | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:15:41

• "The Arduino community has clearly shown its love for open source too." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2024/01/11/the-2023-arduino-open-source-report-is-out/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:16:55

• "The Arduino name designates a company, an open source project, a community." ☛ https://content.arduino.cc/assets/Arduino%20Open%20Source%20Report%202023.pdf | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:17:19

• "I was recently chatting to a local friend about the course I’m setting up to teach local kids BBC BASIC and Logo." ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2024/01/11/bbc-master-128-2-retro-restoration/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:17:30

• "The OpenSSH project has announced the timeline for the removal of DSA support from OpenSSH: [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20240111105900 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:19:45

• "Kirby logo I spent hours yesterday dusting off the Hugo version of this blog and moving it back to the PaperMod theme and adding some of the posts from Kirby." ☛ https://baty.net/journal/2024/01/11/dodged-the-hugo-bullet | Source: Jack Baty    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:19:55

• "A new year dawns, and brings with it one last hurrah for the Kodi "Nexus" release line." ☛ https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-20-3-nexus-release/ | Source: Kodi Foundation    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:20:12

• "Two heavyweights have long stood out in the battle for the world’s preeminent open-source database." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/mariadb-versus-postgres/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:21:59

• "Since the beginning of November, Instagram and Facebook users who don’t want to be tracked have to pay a “privacy fee” of up to € 251.88 per year" ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/meta-ignores-users-right-easily-withdraw-consent | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:22:58

• "So I agree with the post but I come away from it wondering what an alternative to component design actually looks like." ☛ https://lmika.org/2024/01/12/golang-weekly-had.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:23:25

• "The point of this post though, is because I just got a scam SMS and thought it’d be fun to inspect how the phishing website works." ☛ https://chenhuijing.com/blog/lets-inspect-a-phishing-site/ | Source: Chen HuiJing    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:23:48

• [Old] "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. (Reiser)" ☛ https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/88032.html | Source: Liam Proven    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:24:28

• "It is a technique of unsupervised learning, so clustering is used when no a priori information about data is available." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/01/overview-of-clustering-methods-in-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:24:48

• "The interesting thing about SSH-Snake, however, is that it can perform all of these tasks recursively" ☛ https://joshua.hu/ssh-snake-ssh-network-traversal-discover-ssh-private-keys-network-graph |    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:30:36

• "Yes, PDF files can contain viruses. These viruses are often embedded in the file and can be activated when the PDF is opened" ☛ https://catonmat.net/can-pdf-files-have-viruses | Source: Peteris Krumins    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:30:54

• "how did I do i" ☛ https://mandarismoore.com/2024/01/11/labarum-debuggin-and.html |    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:31:08

• "Other thing was move from Ikea Trådfri to HomeAssistant with Zigbee dongle." ☛ https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2024/01/11/2023-summary/ | Source: Marcin Juszkiewicz    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:32:04

• "Moving costs are real, and large. But so is the moral injury from doing business with a repugnant organization." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2024/01/11/to-stay-or-to-go/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:32:17

• "I run the Hugo content management system, but the generalities could apply to a lot of systems if this is something that you’d like to replicate" ☛ https://justinmiller.io/posts/2024/01/11/link-blog/ | Source: Justin Miller    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:32:35

• "Okay, it's not all about me, though, is it? I get that." ☛ https://gkeenan.co/avgb/please-please-please-please-please-please-share-your-big-dumb-beautiful-self-with-the-world | Source: Keenan    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:34:18

• "The Mimo Diaries" ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/the-mimo-diaries | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:34:47

• "The way I “search” is that I have a list of resources in saved among my bookmarks, each tagged with a topic and with search." ☛ https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/personal-search-engine/ | Source: Gergely Nagy    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:35:07

• "One of the hallmarks of a truly Pavlovian preference is that classically conditioned animals are able to express their preference of" ☛ https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/01/the-speed-or-lack-thereof-of-science/ | Source: Bjoern Brembs    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:35:58

• "To quote our official blog post, here’s this year’s conference in a nutshell: [...]" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/join-us-at-future-frontend-2024/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:37:57

• [Old] "As I continued along my educational journey, and the subject matter became increasingly more complex, it forced me to rethink note taking." ☛ https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/06/a-few-words-on-taking-notes.html | Source: Dr Werner Vogels    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:38:08

• "Over the winter holidays, I decided to try my hand at blogging as I learn." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/11/blogging-as-i-learn/ | Source: James G    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:38:26

• "Intel and AMD have expanded the x64 instruction sets over time." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2024/01/11/implementing-the-missing-sign-instruction-in-avx-512/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:39:00

• "By using this new technique, they examined and analyzed store-bought water in plastic bottles" ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/bottled-water-microplastics | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:41:58

• "Micro-nano plastics originating from the prevalent usage of plastics have raised increasingly alarming concerns worldwide." ☛ https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2300582121 | Source: PNAS    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:45:27

• "New research this week has revealed there are 100 times more plastic particles in bottled water than previous studies showed." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/microplastics-in-our-environment-the-risks-and-solutions/a-66232708 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:59:10

• "I wish I could just focus on the site. All I want to do is write a feature and press publish and be done with it." ☛ https://carlbarenbrug.com/the-losing-battle-against-social-media |    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:59:20

• "It's finite, it's exhaustible and it ought to be held close and carefully guarded." ☛ https://coryd.dev/posts/2024/your-attention-is-precious/ | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 09:59:31

• "While progress may have been belatedly made, the scandal indicts all political parties." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2024/01/post-office-scandal-government-parties | Source: New Statesman    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 10:02:09

• "The cursed hour-long special is the work of Dudesy" ☛ https://www.vice.com/en/article/5d94xx/the-george-carlin-ai-standup-is-worse-than-you-can-imagine | Source: Vice Media Group    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 10:02:30

• "It was absolute nonsense. First of all, "truck driver" isn't a particularly common job in America!" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 10:11:21

• "When asked direct, verifiable questions about federal court cases, the study found the model behind ChatGPT, GPT-3.5, hallucinated 69 percent of the time" ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4403776-ai-models-frequently-hallucinate-on-legal-queries-study-finds/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 10:12:10

• "It’s been a while since I wrote an “attack of the week” post, and the fault for this is entirely mine." ☛ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/01/11/attack-of-the-week-airdrop-tracing/ | Source: Cryptography Engineering    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 10:12:31

• "Over the past couple of months, people have created more than 3 million chatbots thanks to the GPT creation tool OpenAI announced in November." ☛ https://www.vox.com/technology/2024/1/11/24033812/openai-gpt-chatbot-store-ai | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 10:12:58

• Windows TCO ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/saudi-foreign-affairs-data-breach/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:38:35

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

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:38:55

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.databreaches.net/ransomware-wrecks-paraguays-largest-telco/ | Source: Data Breaches    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:39:14

• Windows TCO ☛ https://riskybiznews.substack.com/p/ransomware-wrecks-paraguay-largest-telco | Source: RiskyBiz    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:39:27

• Windows TCO ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/01/11/fidelity-national-financial-discloses-cyberattack-previously-linked-ransomware-gang/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:39:41

• "SQL injection" ☛ https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/01/11/application-phishing | Source: Tim Kellogg    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:46:42

• "images, sound, maps of personal living spaces" ☛ https://securepairs.org/cyber-sucking-robot-vacuum-lands-ces-worst-in-show-for-security/ | Source: Securepairs    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:47:22

• [Old] "The key questions are no longer about means: We are all subject to being recorded, and most of us possess the ability to record." ☛ https://www.sholis.com/work/cincinnati-enquirer-text |    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:47:33

• "India banned TikTok and nearly 300 other Chinese apps in phases, starting from June 2020, citing national security concerns." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/tiktok-parent-bytedance-to-shut-resso-app-in-india/articleshow/106738672.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:50:49

• "Six of the passengers were captured, while two escaped and one was killed, according to the officials" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/world/africa/al-shabab-un-helicopter-somalia.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 11:53:45

• "At the end of December, the German government is said to have approved the export of 150 IRIS-T guided missiles to Saudi Arabia." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/germany-makes-u-turn-on-weapons-deliveries-to-saudi-arabia/a-67940590 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:01:08

• "After two of Trump’s lawyers had delivered traditional closing arguments Thursday, one of them, Christopher Kise, asked the judge again" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-01-11/donald-trump-arrives-for-closing-arguments-in-new-york-civil-fraud-trial-after-bomb-threat.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:01:38

• Overpopulation: "The biggest mistake in the traditional security concept is too dominated by militaristic approaches" ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/01/11/the-global-food-crisis-as-an-international-security-threat-in-non-traditional-security-issues/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:02:22

• "When Centra’s discrepancies were exposed in print, it wasn’t long before the authorities were alerted to the fake company." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/review-bitconned-age-old-tale-human-greed/237801/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:03:09

• "But..but, my family is educated, and we definitely know better than to vote for Trump." ☛ https://microblog.pratikmhatre.com/2024/01/10/generalizing-voters-based.html | Source: Pratik    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:03:20

• "Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Electric Vehicle Team has unveiled its plan for constructing a hydrogen-powered electric motorcycle" ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/mit-students-open-source-hydrogen-motorcycle | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:04:06

• "Brennan, who is the team’s safety lead, has been learning about the safe handling methods required for the bike’s hydrogen fuel" ☛ https://news.mit.edu/2024/future-motorcycles-could-be-hydrogen-0110 | Source: uni MIT    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:04:29

• "Just ten minutes into the flight and some 15,000 feet high, the door plug was torn off the fuselage" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-serious-trouble-door-panel | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:04:57

• "On Friday, an Alaska Airlines flight carrying 177 people made an emergency landing shortly following takeoff from Portland, Oregon" ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/09/business/boeing-safety-meeting-737-max-factory/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:05:15

• "On Wednesday, the ministry had asked Apple to remove Binance and other similar offshore cryptocurrency apps from its store." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/threat-of-ban-looms-over-offshore-crypto-platforms-as-govt-weighs-in/articleshow/106739554.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:05:50

• "did not approve or endorse bitcoin." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/bitcoin-etfs-permitted-by-the-us-sec-in-crypto-market-boost/a-67946708 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:06:06

• SEC did not approve and endorse Bitcoin, but it continues to approve and endorse fraudster and mobster Elon Musk by persisting with official presence his his social control media CIRCUS called "X". It makes SEC look irresponsible, clueless, and even intentionally reckless.    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:08:41

• "The layoffs will impact a few hundred employees working on Google Assistant" ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4403286-google-lays-off-hundreds-of-workers/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:09:14

• "The layoffs come as Google is reportedly gearing up for another major restructuring initiative." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/01/11/google-lays-off-hundreds-employees-across-google-assistant-unit-divisions/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:09:31

• "Google parent firm Alphabet employed 182,381 employees as of September 30th, 2023, so roughly a thousand job cuts would only be around half a percent" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24034124/google-layoffs-engineering-assistant-hardware | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:09:54

• "A few hundred roles are being eliminated in the company’s Devices and Services team, with the majority in the 1P AR hardware team" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/layoffs-hit-google/237752/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:10:20

• "It’s not clear exactly how many people will be losing their jobs" ☛ https://qz.com/amazon-is-laying-off-hundreds-from-prime-video-despite-1851155337 | Source: Quartz    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:10:48

• Silicon Valley engineers joked you'd go to LinkedIn to retire. Then came the PIPs and layoffs. https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-linkedin-culture-ai-pips-layoffs-perks-2024-1?r=US&IR=T    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:13:04

• Just pretending they are big to cause "valuation" hikes (bubble, fraud) https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/discord-layoffs-citron-overhiring-gaming-18603308.php    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:14:07

• Amazon cuts 5% of Audible division's workforce - Business Insider https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-cuts-5-audible-divisions-workforce-business-insider-2024-01-11/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:14:44

• "As the evidence of Big Oil’s long-standing campaigns of climate denial piles up, and the cases inch closer to trial" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2024/01/fossil-fuels-first-amendment-climate/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:16:50

• "And that was also the reason I founded PTT, because I think we should have a system that embraces open source and that embraces the freedom of speech" ☛ https://text.npr.org/1216340756 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:17:04

• "Such a threat is the most immediate risk to the global economy, the document, released annually, concluded." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-powered-misinformation-worlds-biggest-short-term-threat-claims-new-report-1722674 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:17:18

• ""Kozyreva criticized Russian censorship laws ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/11/st-petersburg-state-university-expels-student-charged-with-discrediting-army-for-online-post-she-made-in-high-school | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:18:30

• "Russian government’s blacklisting of the liberal-arts institution" ☛ https://www.chronicle.com/article/russia-blacklisted-a-prominent-university-its-russian-students-and-staff-now-risk-arrest | Source: Chronicle Of Higher Education    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:18:42

• "a self-described ethical AI voice generation company" ☛ https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwkb4/none-of-us-want-our-voices-replicated-voice-actors-say-unions-ethical-ai-deal-is-bad-for-humans | Source: Vice Media Group    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:25:02

• "Google formally endorsed the concept of right to repair Thursday and is set to testify in favor of a strong right to repair bill in Oregon later Thursday" ☛ https://www.404media.co/google-formally-endorses-right-to-repair-will-lobby-to-pass-strong-repair-laws/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:25:24

• "Capers immediately opens fire" ☛ https://text.npr.org/1223769843 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:26:02

• "bad hijab." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2024/0111/Taliban-s-dress-code-crackdown-targets-Afghan-women-UN-warns | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:26:49

• "When around 80% of the global workforce is disengaged from their work, there is an opportunity for change." ☛ https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/change-work-change-the-world/ | Source: Stanford University    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:27:54

• "In a later interview with RFA Vietnamese, Nguyen said he is one of thousands of captives who are being held at a large compound in Kayin state called KK Park" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/human-trafficking-01112024095958.html | Source: RFA    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:28:07

• "HarperCollins is one of those big publishers that think everything needs DRM, and they came up with a convoluted dance to comply with it. Sort of." ☛ https://mwl.io/archives/23343 | Source: MWL    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:28:56

• "In her email conversation with us, Carlin added that she and her father's estate are researching their own legal avenues" ☛ https://futurism.com/george-carlin-daughter-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:39:09

• "George Carlin: I'm Glad I'm Dead" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/12/george_carlin_comedian_cloned/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:39:26

• [Old] "Williams said that she stands in solidarity with the Screen Actors Guild (SAG" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/robin-williams-daughter-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:39:49

• "what if the content generated by an LLM is wrong?" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/11/llms-public-domain/ | Source: James G    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:41:12

• "pirated-book libraries have been used to train the generative-AI products of companies such as Meta and Bloomberg" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/chatgpt-memorization-lawsuit/677099/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:44:42

• "Beyond its cultural significance, its release into the public domain is notable because of the role that the character has played in the field" ☛ https://walledculture.org/mickey-mouse-is-public-domain-now-but-the-battle-to-prevent-copyright-term-extensions-is-not-over/ | Source: Walled Culture    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:45:16

• "Literary, musical and artistic works; films, sound recordings and broadcasts; and computer programs are all automatically covered by the act" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/mickey-mouse-south-africa-copyright/237736/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:46:49

• "New year, same pattern Ukraine is holding its own as Russia continues pushing along the entire front" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/01/11/new-year-same-pattern | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:48:55

• ukrainian judge ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/11/ukrainian-prosecutor-general-says-preliminary-findings-confirm-russia-uses-north-korean-missiles | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:49:47

• pension ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/11/russian-pension-fund-employees-asked-not-to-publish-information-about-welfare-payments-to-war-participants-journalists-use-this-data-to-uncover-scale-of-russian-troop-losses | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:51:29

• "Finland extends border closure with Russia by one month" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/11/finland-extends-border-closure-with-russia-by-one-month | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:52:18

• ukraine ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/11/ukraine-s-parliament-sends-bill-on-amending-mobilization-rules-back-to-cabinet-of-ministers-for-revision | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:52:33

• Moscow House ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/11/latvia-to-transfer-moscow-house-cultural-center-in-riga-to-state-ownership | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:53:00

• "Measures in the UK's Criminal Justice Bill currently range from criminalizing the homeless in the event their "rough sleeping" is deemed a nuisance" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/domain-ip-seizures-in-uks-criminal-justice-bill-could-apply-to-pirate-sites-240111/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:56:56

• "Reddit finds itself in court again as film companies continue to seek information on the site's 'anonymous' users." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/film-companies-and-reddit-clash-again-over-anonymous-piracy-comments-240111/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:57:09

• "With AI initiatives developing at a rapid pace, copyright holders are on high alert." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/meta-admits-use-of-pirated-book-dataset-to-train-ai-240111/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:57:22

• udaltsov ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/11/russia-s-investigative-committee-opens-justifying-terrorism-case-against-left-front-leader-sergey-udaltsov | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 12:58:28

• "frozen" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/11/bloomberg-white-house-supports-using-frozen-russian-assets-to-help-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 13:01:08

• "fifth column" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/11/russian-foreign-intelligence-chief-says-u-s-plans-to-use-exchange-program-alumni-to-create-fifth-column-in-russia-and-interfere-in-election | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 13:02:02

• Jesus ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/what-wouldnt-jesus-do/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 13:25:18

• "Freedom is a founding principal of the Internet, it was designed to be able to have complete control of your domain" ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/centralized-or-decentralized-there-is-no-question/ | Source: Purism    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 13:27:18

• "Last Epoch is closing in on a full release and it's going to be a big one for ARPG fans, especially if you weren't fussed by the latest Diablo" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/last-epoch-to-get-item-factions-a-unique-item-trading-system-for-the-arpg/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 13:28:39

• "While no doubt many of you are waiting on more news about the upcoming ELDEN RING expansion, this is not it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/elden-ring-gets-patched-to-fix-up-anti-cheat-on-steam-deck-steamos/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 13:28:53

• IBM / Red Hat whistleblower leaks internal, racist, anti-White presentation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyWyHkG7_rE    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 13:30:54

• "VVVVVV is an indie classic from Terry Cavanagh that just got a nice juicy upgrade with version 2.4 now officially released" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/challenging-platformer-vvvvvv-gets-a-big-upgrade-and-now-steam-deck-verified/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 13:43:52

• "Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Collection Vol. 3" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/toaplan-arcade-shoot-em-up-collection-vol-3-announced/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:33:11

• "Taito and M2 have been bringing some updated shoot 'em up classics to Steam with lots of enhancements, and players seem to love them." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/multiple-shoot-em-ups-from-taito-like-g-darius-hd-got-fixed-up-for-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:33:55

• "The Team Fortress: Source 2 project is now officially dead in the water after getting hit with a DMCA from Valve" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/team-fortress-source-2-fan-project-gets-a-dmca-from-valve/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:34:09

• How to install ClearML Enterprise on Red Hat OpenShift ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-install-clearml-enterprise-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:36:33

• Exploring PXE booting with Red Hat OpenShift agent-based installer ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/exploring-pxe-booting-red-hat-openshift-agent-based-installer | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:36:53

• "Node can't be removed because of an unexpected error" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/operating-tekton-scale-10-lessons-learned | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:37:14

• "How to Keep Linux Process Running After a Crash or Reboot" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/linux-process-running-after-crash-reboot/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:38:31

• Story of Reviving Old Lenovo Phone with Free Software ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2024/01/story-of-reviving-old-lenovo-phone-with-free-software.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:41:24

• microsoft accenture pretending to be an authority https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/01/11/widening-disparities-and-growing-threats-cloud-global-cybersecurity-outlook-for-2024/ a blunderfest with NSA back doors http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:42:23

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:42:51

• Joke of the year: "The Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024report, developed in collaboration with Accenture, distils insights of industry experts and global executives about key cyber trends that leaders will need to navigate in 2024, based on a series of surveys carried out between June and November 2023. Given the increasingly complex cyber threat landscape, the report also calls for concerted collaboration, across borders and industries, to counter these interrelated threats and build a more resilient environment." Really?????    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:43:05

• Joke of the year: "The Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2024report, developed in collaboration with Accenture, distils insights of industry experts and global executives about key cyber trends that leaders will need to navigate in 2024, based on a series of surveys carried out between June and November 2023."    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:44:21

• "Given the increasingly complex cyber threat landscape, the report also calls for concerted collaboration, across borders and industries, to counter these interrelated threats and build a more resilient environment." Really????? http://techrights.org/o/2010/05/31/silent-patching-confirmed-by-msft/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:44:27

• chatcontrol https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2024/01/11/chatcontrol-i-ministerradet-i-mars-vad-sager-eu-namnden/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:46:03

• "DFRobot has announced the launch of the updated FireBeetle 2, now incorporating the latest ESP32-C6 System-on-Chip from Espressif Systems." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/firebeetle-2-upgraded-with-risc-v-based-esp32-c6-soc-featuring-zigbee-3-0-and-thread-1-3-connectivity/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:55:49

• quectel ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/quectel-and-morse-micro-launch-first-wi-fi-halow-module-with-ce-and-fcc-certifications/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 14:56:13

• "Before there were home computers, among the hottest pieces of consumer technology to own was a pocket calculator." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/01/12/decoding-a-rom-from-a-picture-of-the-chip/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:00:43

• "Regular photo frames are good, but they tend to only display a single photo unless you pull them to bits and swap out what’s inside." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/01/11/e-ink-photo-frame-is-a-simple-pleasing-design/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:02:28

• "[Clay Builds] found a bit of a gem at a recent auction, picking up a Nomadic Technologies N150 robot for just $100." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/01/11/weird-trashcan-is-actually-advanced-1990s-robot/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:02:54

• "So it is welcome news that the Federal Trade Commission has brought a successful enforcement action against X-Mode Social (and its successor Outlogic)." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ftc-bars-x-mode-selling-sensitive-location-data | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:03:16

• "One of the biggest upsides of open communications standards such as CAN or SPI is that a whole world of vehicle hacking becomes available" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/01/11/a-dashboard-outside-the-car/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:04:15

• "Typically, when we want to tell a robot where to go, we either pre-program a route or drive it around with some kind of gamepad or joystick controller." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/01/11/voice-controlled-rover-follows-verbal-instructions-to-get-around/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:04:50

• "A law passed last year has now taken effect in California." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/11/california-cops-now-have-to-lead-with-the-pretext-when-making-pretextual-stops/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:05:32

• Microsoft Mono, burn in hell ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/11/unity-lays-off-25-of-its-work-force-is-having-a-bad-time/ | Source: Techdirt | see http://techrights.org/n/2024/01/10/Jim_Whitehurst_Allowhurst_is_Rebooting_His_Mac_No_He_Was_Never_.shtml    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:06:51

• "In late 2022, the state of New York finally passed new right to repair legislation after years of activist pressure." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/11/new-yorks-watered-down-right-to-repair-bill-goes-live/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:07:26

• Same old Twitter ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/11/extwitter-users-getting-fed-up-with-the-crypto-spam-and-ai-bots-elon-promised-to-clean-up/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:08:20

• "Learning about AI explainability is key for young people to develop digital literacy, so we share practical ways for teachers to educate them about this topic." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/teaching-ai-explainability/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:09:19

• "a funder of the UK’s leading climate science denial" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2024/01/11/net-zero-secretary-claire-coutinho-took-donation-gwpf-climate-science-denial-funder-michael-hintze/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:14:08

• "Project Censored’s directors, Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, have repeatedly asked what would happen if journalism disappeared." ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/local-news-crisis-lowdown/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:15:12

• "Law enforcement officers learned long ago that if all they have is a crime scene and no likely suspects" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/11/eff-asks-pennsylvanias-top-court-to-stop-cops-from-googling-for-suspects/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:16:22

• "Hewlett Packard (HP) has been socked with yet another lawsuit for crippling the printers of consumers who use cheaper third-party ink cartridges." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/11/hp-hit-with-yet-another-lawsuit-over-bricking-printers-that-use-third-party-ink-cartridges/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:16:47

• "Those who haven’t experienced the destruction of a house fire should consider themselves lucky." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/01/11/retrotechtacular-rebuilding-a-fire-ravaged-telephone-exchange/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:19:11

• "At a meeting in June 2009, the treasurer of the National Rifle Association worked out a plan to conceal luxury expenses involving its chief executive, Wayne LaPierre" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/nra-wayne-lapierre-recording-private-jet-limousine-expenses | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:20:14

• "How Many of Your State’s Lawmakers Are Women? In the Southeast, It Could Be Just 1 in 5." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/state-lawmakers-women-southeast | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:23:29

• "If you aren’t old enough to remember, the title of this post refers to an old game show where contestants would try to name a tune using the fewest possible notes." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/01/11/linux-fu-name-that-tune/ "You can probably already do this with your phone, and now you can do it with your Linux computer."    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:24:52

• "It's a small SDL game where random cards are used to navigate a ship around a level map. Something like RoboRally, only not with multiple players and not with rockets and other such fun cards." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2024/01/12/kezboard.gmi    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:48:14

• 🔤SpellBinding: CEFGLUN Wordo: FETAL gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2024-01-12.gmi    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:49:12

• For the Broken Clown gemini://idiomdrottning.org/for-the-broken-clown    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:49:56

• "Para nadie es un secreto que por los servicios que recibimos por parte de las GAFAM pagamos un precio muy alto." gemini://deivisdiaz.flounder.online/saturacióndigital.gmi "GAFAM" coined by techrights and wikileaks    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:51:15

• "First significant snowfall of the season in progress at the moment. I'll just have to hope shoveling is like the proverbial riding of a bike, because it seems like it's been forever." gemini://tilde.club/~oldernow/2024-01-12-08-46-21.gmi    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:52:14

• "I don't have an instagram, facebook, snapchat, tiktok, google, or X account" ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/centralized-or-decentralized-there-is-no-question/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:54:58

• ByteDance Is Shutting Down Resso in India Amid Regulatory Scrutiny — No Plans to Replace With Fentanylware (TikTok) Music ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/01/11/resso-india-shutdown-announcement/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 15:55:18

• Could Fentanylware (TikTok) hoaxes tip upcoming South Asian elections? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2024/0111/Could-TikTok-hoaxes-tip-upcoming-South-Asian-elections    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:03:55

• Purina Rebuts Fentanylware (TikTok) Rumors About Pet Food Safety ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/business/purina-pro-plan-sick-dogs.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:04:07

• TikTok a source of harm ☞ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjvmy7/tiktok-real-estate-influencers-and-grifters-are-in-deep-trouble-short-seller-says    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:05:55

• ‘Cooking With Lynja’ Fentanylware (TikTok) ... promoted in FOMO-style marketing in Wall Street Times ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/dining/lynja-davis-cooking-tiktok-dead.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:06:29

• "lawmakers recently the agency would reverse course and do more to force borrowers of under $100,000 to pay back COVID loans" ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/big-data/2024/01/better-data-analysis-gives-sba-new-optimism-to-recoup-smaller-covid-loans/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:35:58

• Let's inspect a phishing site ☞ https://chenhuijing.com/blog/lets-inspect-a-phishing-site/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:36:24

• Maybe work towards a vaccine that both works (high efficacy), is reasonably safe, well tested, and not patented? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/who-sees-incredibly-low-covid-flu-vaccination-rates-as-cases-surge    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:38:29

• "It imposed some of the strictest border controls in the world during the spread of Covid-19." ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-korea-poised-to-admit-first-known-tourists-since-2020    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:38:49

• "Raising two children during the pandemic prompted a change in focus." ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/kate-zambreno-collects-herself    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:39:31

• Pluralistic: The REAL Hey Hi (AI) automation threat to workers (11 Jan 2024) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:39:57

• Commission approves €126 million Romanian State aid scheme to support ports facing increased trade flows due to Russia's war against Ukraine ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_24_104    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:41:18

• Rinkēvičs: Latvia will support Ukraine until victory ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/president/11.01.2024-rinkevics-latvia-will-support-ukraine-until-victory.a538634/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:41:32

• VIDEO: Ukrainian President visits Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/video/11.01.2024-video-ukrainian-president-visits-latvia.a538624/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:41:50

• VIDEO: President Zelenskyy arrives at Rīga Castle ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/video/11.01.2024-video-president-zelenskyy-arrives-at-riga-castle.a538601/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:42:05

• VIDEO: Ukrainian President arrives at Rīga Airport ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/video/11.01.2024-video-ukrainian-president-arrives-at-riga-airport.a538462/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:42:20

• LTV releases Latvian culture videos for Ukrainians ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/culture/11.01.2024-ltv-releases-latvian-culture-videos-for-ukrainians.a538498/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:42:39

• "Modern" computing: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2015/04/02/the-utf8mb4-upgrade/ they can never leave standards alone; your 'universal' is... not so much    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:44:59

• Arsenal of Autocracy: North Korea and Iran are arming Russia in Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/arsenal-of-autocracy-north-korea-and-iran-are-arming-russia-in-ukraine/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:45:35

• EU aspirations and Russian realities: Georgia at the geopolitical crossroads ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/eu-aspirations-and-russian-realities-georgia-at-the-geopolitical-crossroads/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:49:33

• 'Afraid for our children': Residents of Russia's Belgorod evacuate as Ukrainian strikes intensify ☞ https://observers.france24.com/en/europe/20240111-afraid-children-residents-russian-town-belgorod-evacuate-ukraine-war    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:49:45

• Ukraine draft mobilization rules returned to government for revisions ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/ukraine-returns-draft-law-on-new-mobilization-rules-to-government-for-revision/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:55:08

• ‘Life’, ‘symbol’, ‘inspiration’: Lithuanians moved by Zelensky’s speech in Vilnius ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2168493/life-symbol-inspiration-lithuanians-moved-by-zelensky-s-speech-in-vilnius    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 16:55:26

• U.K. PM Sunak Arrives In Kyiv With Pledge Of Increased Military Aid ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-sunak-visit-uk-military-funding/32771365.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:02:37

• U.S. Imposes Sanctions Over Transfer Of North Korean Ballistic Missiles To Russia ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-north-korea-missiles-russia-ukraine-sanctins-blinken/32771315.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:02:52

• Ukrainian Deputies Withdraw Draft Mobilization Bill, But Defense Minister Says New Version Already Prepared ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-mobilization-bill-withdrawn-umerov/32770768.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:03:05

• U.S. 'Disappointed' By Hungary's Policy On Ukraine, Urges Ratification Of Sweden's NATO Bid ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-ukraine-policy-sweden-nato-accession-us-disappointed/32770737.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:03:17

• Cancer-Stricken Anti-War Activist Transferred To Russian Prison Infirmary ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-activist-baryshnikov-cancer-prison/32770244.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:03:33

• Subway Fast Food Chain Added To Ukraine's 'Sponsors Of War' List ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-subway-sandwich-chain-war-sponsor-russia/32770220.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:05:48

• U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine ☞ https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/U.S.-Suspends-Military-Aid-to-Ukraine-20240111-0020.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:06:13

• US imposes sanctions over transfer of North Korean ballistic missiles to Russia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/us-imposes-sanctions-over-transfer-of-north-korean-ballistic-missiles-to-russia    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:06:41

• Friday’s papers: Zelensky warns Finland, shrinking Russia, and who wants European meat? ☞ https://yle.fi/a/74-20069091    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:07:00

• Ukraine’s other resistance – against despair ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2024/0111/Ukraine-s-other-resistance-against-despair    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:07:29

• U.S. Military Aid to Ukraine Was Poorly Tracked, Pentagon Report Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/world/europe/us-military-aid-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:07:54

• U.K. to Pledge $3 Billion More in Military Aid to Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/world/europe/uk-ukraine-military-aid.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:08:21

• Under 40% of Russian citizens passed Latvian language test on first try ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/12.01.2024-under-40-of-russian-citizens-passed-latvian-language-test-on-first-try.a538687/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:08:40

• Moscow 2030: Creating a biometric paradise ☞ https://off-guardian.org/2024/01/11/moscow-2030-creating-a-biometric-paradise/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:09:22

• Russia’s growing dark fleet: Risks for the global maritime order ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/russias-growing-dark-fleet-risks-for-the-global-maritime-order/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:10:12

• False promises: The authoritarian development models of China and Russia ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/false-promises-the-authoritarian-development-models-of-china-and-russia/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:11:01

• Sandworm probably wasn’t behind Danish critical infrastructure cyberattack, report says ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/sandworm-sektorcert-critical-infrastructure-zyxel/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:11:35

• Finland to extend Russia border closing until February 11 ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/finland-to-extend-russia-border-closing-until-february-11/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:13:13

• Air defence rotation in NATO’s east ‘appropriate response’ to Russia – Lithuanian FM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2168942/air-defence-rotation-in-nato-s-east-appropriate-response-to-russia-lithuanian-fm    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:13:23

• Russian Man Gets Prison Term For Posting Photo Of St. George's Ribbon Tied To Male Genitals ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-st-george-ribbon-genitals-man-prison/32770642.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:13:53

• Lithuanian justice minister warns against ‘populism’ in Russian schools debate ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2168708/lithuanian-justice-minister-warns-against-populism-in-russian-schools-debate    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:14:05

• Belarus Designates Current Time As Extremist ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-current-time-extremist-rferl/32770558.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:14:32

• Russian Supreme Court Rejects Two Navalny Lawsuits Against Justice Ministry ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-navalny-justice-ministry-lawsuits-rejected/32770538.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:14:54

• Russia Bans RFE/RL Reporter, Other Moldovan Journalists, Officials Over Chisinau's 'Unfriendly Acts' Toward Moscow ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-bans-moldova-journalist-dermenji/32770512.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:15:26

• Russia Adds Half Brother Of Self-Exiled Bashkir Activist To 'Terrorist' List ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/bashkortostan-terrorist-list-russia-activist/32770297.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:18:41

• Russia requests UN Security Council meeting after U.S. and Britain strike Yemen ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russia-requests-un-security-council-meeting-after-us-and-britain-strike-yemen    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:19:42

• Finland to keep Russian border shut until mid-February ☞ https://yle.fi/a/74-20068969    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:20:07

• Finland Extends Closure of Border With Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/world/europe/finland-russia-border.html    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:20:18

• Belarus refuses to invite OSCE observers to its upcoming election ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/belarus-refuses-to-invite-osce-observers-to-its-upcoming-election/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:21:07

• Saeima approves takeover of 'Moscow House' in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/11.01.2024-saeima-approves-takeover-of-moscow-house-in-riga.a538515/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:21:24

• Contibuting text from LLMs to public domain wikis ☞ https://jamesg.blog/2024/01/11/llms-public-domain/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:22:10

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.3 dev 2 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-3-dev-2/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:25:27

• How To Change Display Manager on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/change-display-manager-ubuntu-22-04/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:27:40

• How to Use Pacman Commands on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/pacman-commands-manjaro/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:27:52

• How To Install Webmin on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-webmin-opensuse/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:28:13

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

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:28:24

• "Its robust feature set includes Java EE compliance, a user-friendly web-based administration console, high performance and scalability, and support for hot deployment." ☞ https://idroot.us/install-glassfish-manjaro/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:28:38

• How to Install PHP 8.2 on AlmaLinux 9 or 8 ☞ https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-php-8-2-on-almalinux/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:30:00

• Upgrade to Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat Desktop or Server ☞ https://www.linuxcapable.com/upgrade-to-ubuntu-24-04-noble-numbat-desktop-or-server/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:30:07

• How to Install Xfce on Linux Mint 21 or 20 ☞ https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-xfce-on-linux-mint/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:30:14

• How to Install TIG Stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana) on Debian 12 ☞ https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-tig-stack-telegraf-influxdb-and-grafana-on-debian-12/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:30:38

• How to install SDKMAN on GNU/Linux ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-sdkman-on-linux/    

posted Friday, January 12, 2024 at 17:31:07