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  • Artificial Intelligence's attempt at university exam ☞ https://bianet.org/yazi/artificial-intelligence-s-attempt-at-university-exam-296428    

posted Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 23:51:22


  • A New Book About Plant Intelligence Highlights the Messiness of Scientific Change ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/a-new-book-about-plant-intelligence-highlights-the-messiness-of-scientific-change    

posted Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 23:51:35


  • Dunning–Kruger effect ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1034/dunningkruger-effect    

posted Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 23:53:07


  • Nationwide Issues Reported, But Only After Speaking to 3 People (2 of Whom in Person) ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2024/06/12/nationwide-issues/    

posted Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 23:53:44


  • Police inspector is first Hong Kong resident selected for China’s space programme – reports ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/06/12/police-inspector-is-first-hong-kong-resident-selected-for-chinas-space-programme-reports/    

posted Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 23:55:10


  • RT-Thread Vision board review – Part 1: OpenMV on Renesas RA8D1 Cortex-M85 microcontroller ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/06/13/rt-thread-vision-board-review-openmv-on-renesas-ra8d1-cortex-m85-microcontroller/    

posted Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 23:56:34


  • $20 Zigbee & Z-Wave mPCIe module targets Home Assistant gateways ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/06/12/20-zigbee-z-wave-mpcie-module-targets-home-assistant-gateways/    

posted Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 23:57:06


  • SONOFF ZBMicro Review – A Micro Zigbee USB Smart Adapter tested with eWelink and Home Assistant ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/06/13/sonoff-zbmicro-review-a-micro-zigbee-usb-smart-adapter-tested-with-ewelink-and-home-assistant/    

posted Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 23:57:52


  • Tuxedo Computers teases Snapdragon X Elite Prototype GNU/Linux Laptop! ☞ https://frontpagelinux.com/news/tuxedo-computers-teases-snapdragon-x-elite-prototype-linux-laptop/    

posted Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 23:59:56


  • openSUSE Leap 15.6 Released, Here’s What You Need to Know ☞ https://frontpagelinux.com/news/opensuse-leap-15-6-released-heres-what-you-need-to-know/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:00:32


  • Publishers around the world hit by Facebook (Farcebook) labelling news as spam ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/facebook-spam-posts-independent-small-news-publishers/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:03:12


  • This Namibian park has skyscraper-high dunes and a spectacular view of dawn ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2024/0612/namibia-dunes-namib-naukluft-national-park    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:04:51


  • Germany court rejects motion to stop arms exports to Israel ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/06/germany-court-rejects-motion-to-stop-arms-exports-to-israel/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:05:18


  • Elon Musk withdraws California lawsuit against Proprietary Chaffbot Company and Sam Altman ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240611-elon-musk-drops-lawsuit-against-openai-and-sam-altman-1    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:05:40


  • Elon Musk drops lawsuit that claimed Proprietary Chaffbot Company abandoned its founding mission ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/11/elon-musk-drops-lawsuit-claimed-openai-abandoned-founding-mission/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:05:58


  • Hamas responds to US ceasefire proposal for Gaza with amendments ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/06/hamas-responds-to-us-ceasefire-proposal-for-gaza-with-amendments/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:07:13


  • Linux III: The Linuxing of the Dell Laptop gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gallowsgryph/phlog/2024-05-31_linux3.txt    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:09:03


  • Back to the MacBook gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gallowsgryph/phlog/2024-06-12_back_to_macbook.txt    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:09:46


  • So being "in wikipedia" in 2024 is a liability because one then becomes aware of some need for reputation laundering or "management", seeing that any idiot can interject personal smears and use Wikipedia as a BRAND to legitimise those smears. Wikipedia makes money from the PR industry, it's not really a valid encyclopedia and hasn't been for years.    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:11:25


  • "So, when I was younger I was never that into comics, probably because I never had the means of getting or reading them. To fix that, I started reading comics about 3 years ago. I started with Star Wars mainly because that was the franchise I loved." gemini://auragem.letz.dev/~clseibold/20240613.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:12:12


  • 🔤SpellBinding: DFHNXUO Wordo: ANNEX gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2024-06-13.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:13:00


  • "The Rangers now have an account in galactic credits! And a table of records is available, where you can compare completed quests and the amount in your account. There are rumors that some quests have a cap on the maximum amount of credits, and millions can turn into a couple of thousand, but not sure." gemini://cthulhu28.space/en/gemlog/2024/06-13-leaderboard.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:13:59


  • "As you can see, ldd is broken on OpenBSD, so therefore OpenBSD is a terrible OS. I mean, who would break ldd?! A minor problem here is that ldd(1) may execute arbitrary code, and xterm has the set-group-id bit turned on, so may execute arbitrary code as some other user." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2024/06/13/ldd-advice.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:15:05


  • "What if you're a pathological liar and you don't even know you're living in an alternative reality you're creating yourself, and the real world is at your fingertips, just behind the veil of the lies you've created? It only takes one decision to start discovering a new, amazing, exciting world without them." gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2024-06-13-czerwona-pigulka.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:16:04


  • "In Part 1[1], we looked at the people and organizations involved in funding the OpenEarth Foundation: a ragtag bunch of crypto billionaires, crypto companies, massive philanthropic foundations" gemini://gemini.patatas.ca/posts/open-earth-foundation-part-2-mission.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:16:50


  • "~softwarepagan stoked an idea of increased freedom in absence of identity references." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1931    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:17:42


  • KOSMONAUT gemini://caleb.smol.pub/kosmonaut    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:18:45


  • "This week was calm at work, which, combined with insomnia, made for a good opportunity to work on a game as a hobby." gemini://text.eapl.mx/en-making-a-tic-tac-toe-variant    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:19:32


  • Registration open for PGDay UK 2024, September 11th, London, England ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/registration-open-for-pgday-uk-2024-september-11th-london-england-2876/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:24:32


  • Second party due in 15 hours. 5 years ago: http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/15-Year-Anniversary-Party-for-Tux-Machines    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:38:44


  • Hypervisor maintenance in the coming days in Techrights and Tux Machines, minute-long outages expected    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:40:47


  • Wikipedia is not an encyclopedia online. Also, "Linux" Foundation is not Linux.    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:42:33


  • The Web is not a source of information. It's just a pool of many people talking.    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:42:55


  • The Web MAY contain information. Wikipedia MAY be accurate sometimes. MAY contain nuts, too.    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:43:37


  • The wider or broader the reach of the Web gets, the lower the quality will get. Sad, but true...    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:44:30


  • Tile’s parent company Life360 discloses data breach and extortion threat ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/12/tiles-parent-company-life360-discloses-data-breach-extortion-threat/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 00:59:27


  • Postgres infected with Microsoft https://blog.jonudell.net/2024/06/12/pairing-with-chatgpt-to-help-write-a-postgres-function/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:00:18


  • GitHub is against security; this is just a Microsoft PR stunt ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/github-paid-out-over-4-million-via-bug-bounty-program/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:01:09


  • Hong Kong man with autism handed 12 months probation over inciting others to kill city’s leader and police online ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/06/12/hong-kong-man-with-autism-handed-12-months-probation-over-inciting-others-to-kill-citys-leader-and-police-online/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:03:08


  • BlackBerry Cylance hit by data breach, hacker lists data for sale on BreachForums ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/11/blackberry-cylance-hit-data-breach-hacker-lists-data-sale-breachforums/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:03:31


  • Microsoft June 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 51 flaws, 18 RCEs ☞ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-june-2024-patch-tuesday-fixes-51-flaws-18-rces/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:04:15


  • Bad news GPT fans — Abusive Monopolist Microsoft is only allowing some users access to this Copilot Pro feature now ☞ https://www.techradar.com/pro/bad-news-gpt-fans-microsoft-is-only-allowing-some-users-access-to-this-copilot-pro-feature-now    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:05:04


  • UK judge says he did not quit top Hong Kong court sooner as he wanted ‘to see how things develop’ post-security law ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/06/13/uk-judge-says-he-did-not-quit-top-hong-kong-court-sooner-as-he-wanted-to-see-how-things-develop-post-security-law/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:05:26


  • Hong Kong cancels passports of 6 ‘fugitive’ activists in UK, inc. Nathan Law, under new security law provision ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/06/12/breaking-hong-kong-cancels-passports-of-6-wanted-activists-in-uk-inc-nathan-law-under-new-security-law-provision/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:05:44


  • Cancelling Hong Kong democracy activists’ passports not a breach of UN rights treaty, security chief says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/06/12/cancelling-hong-kong-democracy-activists-passports-not-a-breach-of-un-rights-treaty-security-chief-says/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:06:00


  • Lithuania’s social security minister resigns over links with fintech co ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2295838/lithuania-s-social-security-minister-resigns-over-links-with-fintech-co    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:06:14


  • Lithuania mulls stripping dual nationals of citizenship for backing aggressors ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2295335/lithuania-mulls-stripping-dual-nationals-of-citizenship-for-backing-aggressors    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:06:24


  • Hong Kong revokes exiled activists' passports over UK spying charge ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hong-kong-activists-passports-06122024134110.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:06:43


  • Student project: Vector Map Rendering with Qt ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/vectormap_students_project    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:07:08


  • Microsoft offers fixes for 49 CVEs in Patch Tuesday release ☞ https://itwire.com/security/microsoft-offers-fixes-for-49-cves-in-patch-tuesday-release.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:07:32


  • ICS Patch Tuesday: Advisories Published by Siemens, Schneider Electric, Aveva, CISA ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ics-patch-tuesday-advisories-published-by-siemens-schneider-electric-aveva-cisa/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:07:38


  • The Art of JQ and Command-line Fu https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31006    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:07:46


  • How to Check PHP Version in GNU/Linux (via 4 Methods) ☞ https://linuxtldr.com/check-php-version-in-linux/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:07:58


  • DSI ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/displays-we-love-hacking-dsi/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:08:20


  • Tiny X-Ray vision chip can peer through nearby objects, like cardboard boxes and even walls — researchers say it is small enough to fit into a smartphone ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/tiny-x-ray-vision-chip-can-peer-through-nearby-objects-like-cardboard-boxes-and-even-walls-researchers-say-it-is-small-enough-to-fit-into-a-smartphone    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:08:28


  • The RPGA Feather dev board pairs RP2040 chip with a Lattice iCE40 FPGA for sensor fusion projects ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/06/12/the-rpga-feather-dev-board-pairs-rp2040-chip-with-a-lattice-ice40-fpga-for-sensor-fusion-projects/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:08:44


  • "At its core, Encode Justice is more than just a name." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/encode-justice-nc-movement-safe-equitable-ai | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:09:20


  • "Law enforcement should be required to obtain a warrant to search data contained in abandoned cell phones" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/eff-ninth-circuit-abandoning-phone-should-not-mean-abandoning-its-contents | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:09:25


  • Microsoft telecom layoffs https://www.lightreading.com/cloud/microsoft-to-quit-affirmed-and-metaswitch-in-telecom-retreat    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:11:03


  • Facebook facing mass layoffs in Nigeria https://nigerianbulletin.com/ams/meta-cuts-lagos-office-space-after-layoffs-hit-nigerian-team.6037/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:12:44


  • Rethinking the PostgreSQL CommitFest model [LWN] ⚓ https://lwn.net/Articles/976793/ ䷉ Source: LWN | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/976793/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:22:02


  • Debian's /tmpest in a teapot https://lwn.net/Articles/975565/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:22:34


  • One more pidfdfs surprise https://lwn.net/Articles/976125/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:23:33


  • "“It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me and I’m feeling…“ like I should stop singing and crack on with writing this post to say Mozilla Firefox 127 has been released — because it has!" https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/06/firefox-127-improves-screenshot-tool-mixed-content-https    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:27:54


  • Exploring Git Vulnerabilities: Latest Fixes and Updates https://tuxcare.com/blog/exploring-git-vulnerabilities-latest-fixes-and-updates/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:28:19


  • Open Mobile Hub (OMH) = openwash https://sdtimes.com/mobile/linux-foundation-europe-launches-open-mobile-hub-project-to-facilitate-multi-platform-mobile-development/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:29:31


  • Best Practices for Secure Linux Kernel Updates https://tuxcare.com/blog/best-practices-for-secure-linux-kernel-updates/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:30:01


  • Clearly a trademark violation against Linux, associating the project with internationally unpopular things https://www.papermag.com/los-angeles-nightlife-linux    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:30:35


  • Linux at the core: ChromeOS embraces Android tech to speed up Google AI integration https://betanews.com/2024/06/12/linux-at-the-core-chromeos-embraces-android-tech-to-speed-up-google-ai-integration/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:31:09


  • It’s Not Unusual To Port the Linux Vector Packet Processor (VPP) to FreeBSD https://thenewstack.io/its-not-unusual-to-port-the-linux-vector-packet-processor-vpp-to-freebsd/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:31:42


  • "Kubuntu Focus has been selling desktop and laptop computers with Kubuntu Linux pre-installed for a while now. The company has just released an updated version of its 14-inch laptop, as well as a brand new 16-inch model." https://www.howtogeek.com/kubuntu-focus-laptops-2024-refresh/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:32:10


  • "Mission Center adds a new tab, making it more useful with additional information." https://news.itsfoss.com/mission-center-services-update/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:32:30


  • "The integration of the Cockpit package in openSUSE Leap 15.6 simplifies system and container management through a user-friendly web-based interface. This feature is designed to make complex administrative tasks more approachable, illustrating openSUSE's effort to balance powerful functionality with accessibility." https://betanews.com/2024/06/12/goodbye-microsoft-windows-11-opensuse-leap-156-linux/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:34:23


  • Windows issue spun as "Linux", even if Linux has nothing to do with it and the focus should be Windows https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chinese-noodle-rat-backdoor/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:35:55


  • Not just Windows: Tuxedo developing Snapdragon X Elite based Linux laptop https://videocardz.com/newz/not-just-windows-tuxedo-developing-snapdragon-x-elite-based-linux-laptop    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:36:14


  • This is a Windows issue and Linux isn't the source of the problem https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/f/noodle-rat-reviewing-the-new-backdoor-used-by-chinese-speaking-g.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:37:36


  • "The openSUSE Project today announced the release and general availability of openSUSE Leap 15.6 as the latest stable version of this openSUSE variant for those who prefer a more conservative and well-tested operating system." https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-leap-15-6-officially-released-heres-whats-new    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:38:12


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D962.jpg    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:42:47


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1311.jpg    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 01:42:53


  • LF is outsourcing to ClownFlare, which is Proprietary Jail https://sitereport.netcraft.com/?url=https://training.linuxfoundation.org    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 02:02:50


  • Even the SSO got outsourced! https://sitereport.netcraft.com/?url=https://sso.linuxfoundation.org    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 02:04:57


  • New layoffs at Superior Tire Service, Inc. https://esd.wa.gov/about-employees/WARN    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 02:18:33


  • Record number of dollar millionaires worldwide, study says https://www.dw.com/en/record-number-of-dollar-millionaires-worldwide-study-says/a-69271223    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:27:51


  • Foreign Interference? Sounds like TikTok https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-06-01/canada-raised-foreign-interference-concerns-with-china-defence-minister-says    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:28:45


  • CRTC https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-online-streaming-services-1.7223840    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:35:28


  • Canada a back door https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-us-forced-labour-senator-1.7224599    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:36:31


  • 4.75% https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bank-of-canada-key-interest-rate-june-5-1.7225076    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:37:41


  • TTC union local says as strike deadline looms https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ttc-union-strike-update-thursday-1.7226322    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:38:46


  • German exports gather pace https://www.dw.com/en/german-exports-gather-pace-boosting-recovery-hopes/a-69297902    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:39:38


  • Japan's car testing scandal https://www.dw.com/en/is-japan-s-car-testing-scandal-the-new-dieselgate/a-69297911    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:40:39


  • credibility problem https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bank-of-canada-credibilty-june-5-analysis-1.7225997    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:41:47


  • Mr. hedge fund is very busy man https://www.dw.com/en/uk-s-sunak-apologizes-for-leaving-d-day-commemoration-early/a-69297979    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:43:49


  • antimicrobial resistance https://www.dw.com/en/are-scientists-finally-beating-antimicrobial-resistance/a-69275675    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:44:46


  • ECB cuts interest rates for first time since 2019 https://www.dw.com/en/ecb-cuts-interest-rates-for-first-time-since-2019/a-69290775    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:45:28


  • trademark https://www.dw.com/en/mcdonald-s-loses-chicken-big-mac-trademark-in-europe/a-69284875    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:46:35


  • Do not ask questions as headlines. ANSWER them. https://www.dw.com/en/are-all-commonwealth-countries-releasing-king-charles-banknotes/a-69265230    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:48:04


  • China's economic clout https://www.dw.com/en/latin-america-s-anger-grows-over-china-s-economic-clout/a-69269274    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:48:42


  • Global temperatures smash records for 12 months in a row https://www.dw.com/en/global-temperatures-smash-records-for-12-months-in-a-row/a-69275208    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 07:49:15


  • Austria: GNU/Linux at around 3.5% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/austria/#monthly-200902-202406    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:04:23


  • Same in Czech Republic https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/czech-republic/#monthly-200902-202406    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:05:04


  • GNU/Linux at around 7% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/palau/#monthly-200902-202406    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:07:04


  • Wells Fargo fires employees accused of faking keyboard activity to pretend to work https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/13/wells_fargo_fires_employees/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:27:13


  • The problem is the 1) spying 2) metrics. Stop measuring "productivity" using dumb yardsticks, same for "time trackers"...    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:27:48


  • It's also MILES easier tom fake productivity when the bosses put in charge have NO CLUE in the trade    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:28:32


  • Exclusive: Meta will reduce office space in Lagos after layoffs affected Nigerian team https://techcabal.com/2024/06/13/meta-reduce-office-space-after-layoffs-affected-nigerian-team/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:29:13


  • Meta follows Microsoft’s lead in scaling back Nigerian operations https://businessday.ng/technology/article/meta-follows-microsofts-lead-in-scaling-back-nigerian-operations/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:29:55


  • "Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is reducing its office space in Lagos, Nigeria, in response to global layoffs that affected its local team, including the entire engineering workforce." https://nigerianbulletin.com/ams/meta-cuts-lagos-office-space-after-layoffs-hit-nigerian-team.6037/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:37:15


  • BUBBLE!! Oracle Ads have had it: $2B operation shuts down after dwindling to $300M https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/13/oracle_online_ads/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:37:57


  • Microsoft Telecom Layoffs, Facebook Layoffs in Africa: A Month After Microsoft's Mass Layoffs in Lagos (Nigeria) Facebook/Meta Does the Same and Microsoft is Now Retreating and Quitting an Entire Sector! (Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch) http://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Microsoft_Telecom_Layoffs_Facebook_Layoffs_in_Africa_A_Month_Af.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:38:30


  • Sudan also ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/13/peace_research | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:42:47


  • Alito ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/13/propublica_scotus | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:43:14


  • Alito ☛ https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/13/alito_recordings | Source: Democracy Now    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:43:21


  • "Valve has released SteamOS 3.6.4 Preview for Steam Deck, a small update to the upcoming release aimed at addressing a few problematic bugs." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/steamos-3-6-4-preview-for-steam-deck-has-fixes-for-dualsense-displayport-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:44:37


  • "Valve released the latest update to SteamVR bringing with it a good few fixes, although most of it is for Steam Link. This follows on from a few recent Beta releases." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/steamvr-26-released-with-experimental-improvements-to-async-on-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:45:39


  • "Sun Haven is a multiplayer fantasy farming sim with dragons, magic, a main questline, RPG-style skill progression and a whole lot more." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/sun-haven-is-for-stardew-valley-fans-that-want-more-and-it-now-has-controller-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:47:52


  • "Kubuntu Focus are also a KDE Patron, so they help to fund KDE development." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/kubuntu-focus-announce-the-focus-ir14-gen-2-and-ir16-gen-2-laptops/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:48:43


  • "If you need a GOG game downloader for Linux that's nice and simple, Minigalaxy just got updated with a few good bug fixes." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/simple-gog-client-for-linux-minigalaxy-version-13-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:49:04


  • "Feeling competitive? Hypersomnia from Patryk Czachurski is a top-down 2D competitive online shooter. It's free, open source and you can play it via Steam or directly in your browser." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/hypersomnia-is-a-free-and-open-source-top-down-competitive-2d-shooter/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:49:33


  • "For those of you who love base-building RTS games like Age of Empires, perhaps give TFC: The Fertile Crescent a try now it's fully released." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/bronze-age-pixel-arts-rts-game-tfc-the-fertile-crescent-10-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:49:47


  • "Square Enix have now released the KINGDOM HEARTS series on Steam, enabling many more people to experience the grand adventure on Steam Deck and desktop Linux easily with Proton." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/the-kingdom-hearts-series-is-live-on-steam-se-giving-away-multiple-steam-decks/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:51:05


  • "I feel like I just need to play Car Park Capital after discovering it today. Styled much like a late 90s retro tycoon game, it looks like it's from a different time and I love it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/build-the-greatest-car-parks-ever-in-the-retro-tycoon-styled-car-park-capital/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 08:55:00


  • "Louis rips Adobe to shreds over their garbage response, because they deserve it" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/louis-rips-adobe-to-shreds-over-their:b    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:00:56


  • "Microsoft's Secret Plan to Dominate Tech and You Again!" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/Microsoft-Nwo-x:f    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:01:07


  • "FUTO Does Not Support Open Source And That's OK" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/futo-does-not-support-open-source-and:6    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:01:23


  • "We Need a Project 2025 for the Left" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/project-2025-left/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:02:09


  • "Saudi Arabia’s Next Billion-Dollar Sports Play: A Boxing Takeover" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/12/world/middleeast/saudi-boxing-league.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:02:25


  • "Fans of Donald Trump, Who Thinks Climate Change Is a Hoax, Hospitalized by Heat at Trump Rallies" https://futurism.com/the-byte/donald-trump-fans-hospitalized-heat-rally    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:02:47


  • meta https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/artikel/meta-tager-endnu-en-bid-af-dit-privatliv-protester-virker-mener-eksperter    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:05:16


  • "Curl command was first developed by a developer who wanted to get foreign exchange rates of his local currency everyday." ☛ https://www.unixmen.com/curl-command-mastery-a-complete-guide/ | Source: Unix Men    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:11:27


  • "This comprehensive guide will walk you through the step-by-step process of installing vTiger CRM on Ubuntu 22.04" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/install-vtiger-crm-on-ubuntu/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:13:00


  • "In some cases, you may need to install multiple versions of glibc to support different applications or to ensure compatibility" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/install-multiple-glibc-libraries-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:13:25


  • "the current size of our Prometheus setup" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PrometheusPrimeScrapeIntervals | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:15:44


  • "both of these checks require finding a path" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NFSServerFilehandleReconnection | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:16:03


  • "Lighting a real fire with wood was not an option." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-fireplace-emulator/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:31:52


  • "We knew this was coming! After my 5160 XT retrospective" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/bootstrapping-cpm-86-on-an-ibm-5160-pc-xt/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:31:59


  • "DeepComputing has announced a successor to its Roma laptop" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/13/riscv_laptop_ubuntu/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:37:42


  • "The DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II is the world’s first RISC-V laptop pre-installed" ☛ https://canonical.com/blog/worlds-first-risc-v-laptop-gets-a-massive-upgrade-and-equips-with-ubuntu | Source: Canonical    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:38:00


  • "In this project, Spiritual_Aside_7859 uses a Raspberry Pi 4" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-powers-creepy-one-eyed-head-swiveling-stuffed-koala-assistant-with-chatgpt | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:38:14


  • Bootstrapping CP/M-86 on an I.C.B.M. 5160 PC/XT ☞ https://rubenerd.com/bootstrapping-cpm-86-on-an-ibm-5160-pc-xt/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:56:40


  • Raspberry Pi powers creepy one-eyed, head-swiveling stuffed koala assistant with Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-powers-creepy-one-eyed-head-swiveling-stuffed-koala-assistant-with-chatgpt    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 09:57:34


  • Firefox tips and tricks for creatives ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-tips/creatives/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:05:12


  • "On my way to the airport last week, my driver asked what I do for a living. “I’m a content creator,” I replied. “I’m the video lead at Mozilla.”" ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-tips/creatives/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:05:28


  • "The flights, which were detailed by Crow’s lawyer in response to inquiries from the committee" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:10:30


  • "Budapest opposition Mayor Gergely Karácsony, called for a repeat of the recent mayoral election, 444 reports." ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2024/06/14/budapest-mayor-calls-for-new-election-after-recount-decision | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:20:49


  • "A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers to prevent circumvention of blocking measures" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/google-cloudflare-cisco-will-poison-dns-to-stop-piracy-block-circumvention-240613/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:22:41


  • "European football federation UEFA is cracking down on pirate EURO 2024 live streams, before they've even started." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/uefa-targets-pirate-euro-2024-live-streams-before-they-start-240613/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:22:48


  • "Nicholas Kristof is that guy at the party who reminds you that you haven’t really lived." ☛ https://fair.org/home/kristofs-burden-global-journalist-supports-closed-borders/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:39:53


  • "The beef packers have a lot of control" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/business/montana-meat-old-salt-co-op.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:46:58


  • "Streaming services effectively have a cap for how much money they get from each viewer every month" ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/foundation-apple-tv-plus/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:48:02


  • mRNA future https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tFzTTuuzfH0    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:57:52


  • Confirmation of fears https://yewtu.be/watch?v=nq2qwql8xBs    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:58:07


  • WHO update https://yewtu.be/watch?v=vNY0yDOj6Zk    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 10:58:23


  • "Police estimate that more than 5,000 Indians are being held captive in Cambodia, in the coastal Sihanoukville" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/captured-tortured-and-coerced-to-commit-cybercrime/article68281608.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:00:18


  • "Apple’s policy and practice of collecting such information about pay expectations" ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/apple-sued-by-female-employees-company-pays-women-less-men-given-more-bonuses-101718327791778.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:00:35


  • "Activists say the Taliban’s education ban has contributed to the surge in early and child marriages." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-taliban-education-ban-marriage/32989877.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:00:56


  • "The administration of Alaettin Kurt Anatolian High School in Kirazpınar neighborhood of Gebze district of Kocaeli" ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/students-not-allowed-to-attend-graduation-ceremony-for-wearing-inappropriate-dress-296488 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:01:12


  • "In February, Starbucks finally agreed to sit down at the bargaining table with their workers’ union." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-hammer-not-the-handshake | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:01:26


  • "Yong had less than 10 seconds to comply with a Los Angeles police officer’s commands before he was shot three times" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-13/lapd-shooting-yong | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:01:51


  • "When he shared his celebrity status, Morris claims that the ER doctor assumed he was mentally ill." ☛ https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/11/alexander-morris-four-tops-lawsuit-er-hospital-racism-straightjacket/ | Source: Stat    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:02:01


  • "Russian authorities have not provided any evidence to support the espionage charges" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/gershkovich-russia-charged-espionage-journalist/32991809.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:10:38


  • "Why it matters: A trial would likely resemble other sham proceedings against Americans detained in Russia" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2024/06/13/russia-wsj-reporter-trial-evan-gershkovich | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:11:07


  • "Russian authorities on Thursday said American journalist Evan Gershkovich will stand trial in the city of Yekaterinburg" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/us-reporter-evan-gershkovich-jailed-in-russia-on-espionage-charges-to-stand-trial-officials-say-/7654440.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:11:14


  • "Asghar Sepehri, the dissident's brother" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-sepehri-dissident-additional-sentences/32991932.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:12:18


  • "A day after reports that Mozilla had complied with orders from government officials and restricted access in Russia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/06/13/mozilla-reinstates-russians-access-to-firefox-add-ons-banned-by-federal-censor | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:12:27


  • "Misinformation and disinformation" ☛ https://www.vox.com/technology/354963/artificial-intelligence-media-misinformation | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:13:57


  • "Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC)" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-quarter-of-all-americans-still-believe-the-biggest-vaccine-lie | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:22:36


  • "held liable for nearly $1.5 billion in damages for his false claims that the 2012 massacre" ☛ https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4721590-sandy-hook-families-alex-jones-bankruptcy-social-media-accounts/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:22:53


  • "Gemini’s responses to questions about problems in the United States and Taiwan" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/google-ai-gemini-parrots-china-s-propaganda/7654874.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:23:47


  • "Mr. Blair has survived Facebook’s tweaks by pivoting away from politicians and toward culture war topic" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/technology/facebook-fake-news-culture-wars.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:24:32


  • "Building on its relationship with Databricks Inc." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/13/conde-nast-reader-experience-recommendation-models-databricks-dataaisummit/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:28:58


  • "should never have happened" ☛ https://therecord.media/microsoft-president-brad-smith-lawmakers-cyber | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:34:07


  • "Rather than make good on pledges to make cybersecurity a top priority" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/microsoft-security-hearing/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:34:13


  • "a corporate culture that deprioritized both enterprise security" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/technology/microsoft-hearing-security.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:34:46


  • "During his testimony, Smith (pictured) addressed significant breaches" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/13/microsofts-brad-smith-acknowledges-past-security-failures-outlines-new-initiatives/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:35:00


  • Congress hammers Microsoft. Windows SINKS ships. ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/brad_smith_microsoft_hearing/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:35:32


  • "reckoning moment" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-cybersecurity-house-homeland-security-hearing | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:35:57


  • "It is our shared interest that the security issues raised by the (report) be addressed quickly." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2204936.html | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:36:20


  • "scathing Cyber Safety Review Board report on his company’s cybersecurity practices" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2024/06/four-key-highlights-from-the-microsoft-cybersecurity-hearing/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:36:42


  • "As the sole witness at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, Smith faced pointed questions from both sides" ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4720965-microsoft-seeks-to-ease-government-scrutiny-in-house-hotseat/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:37:12


  • "comes on the heels of a report by the Cyber Safety Review Board... Chinese hackers" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/lawmakers-question-microsoft-president-over-china-ties-repeated-breaches/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:37:53


  • "stepped down as NSA director earlier this year after becoming head under the Trump administration" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/13/former-nsa-director-paul-nakasone-joins-openai-board/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:38:59


  • "nominated to lead the NSA by former President Donald Trump" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24178079/openai-board-paul-nakasone-nsa-safety | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:39:07


  • "A lot of them are really, really critical to securing the cybersecurity of our nation" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/gao-cyber-white-house-report/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:39:43


  • "Risks to our nation’s essential technology systems are increasing." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/06/GAO-24-107231-High-Risk-Series-Urgent-Action-Needed-to-Address-Critical-Cybersecurity-Challenges-Facing-the-Nation.pdf | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:39:50


  • "They might not get many votes, and it might cause enormous backlash to their brand" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/06/hack-advertising-regulations-by-forming-a-political-party/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:40:32


  • "Online Streaming Act" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/06/government-court-filing-on-bill-c-11-the-act-does-allow-for-the-regulation-of-user-uploaded-programs-on-social-media-services/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:40:39


  • Windows TCO ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/06/13/black-basta-ransomware-group-suspected-ascension-data-theft-incident/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:43:10


  • Windows TCO ☛ https://therecord.media/traverse-city-michigan-newburgh-new-york-ransomware | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:44:00


  • Windows TCO ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/threat-source-newsletter-june-13-2024/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:44:06


  • "scammers" ☛ https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/watch-out-cisa-warns-it-being-impersonated-scammers | Source: Tripwire    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:48:30


  • "The recent Yama Sakura 85 exercise demonstrated how the Army" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/ask-the-cio/2024/06/how-the-army-is-always-testing-training-on-zero-trust/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:48:42


  • "The litigation has proved costly for Clearview AI" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/technology/clearview-ai-facial-recognition-settlement.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 11:59:44


  • "Microsoft is planning to launch its new Copilot Plus PCs next week without its controversial Recall" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/13/24178144/microsoft-windows-ai-recall-feature-delay | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:00:40


  • "Is the AI hype fading? Consumer products with AI assistant are disappointing across the board" ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5331/generative-ai-wont-take-over-world-surveillance-capitalism-already-has | Source: Privacy International    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:02:04


  • "Cactus Partners will acquire a low double-digit percentage stake in Indigrid, post-funding." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/funding/indigrid-technology-raises-5-million-from-cactus-partners/articleshow/110971633.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:05:46


  • "Ridership was 20% higher in the first seven months of Amtrak's budget year that began Oct. 1" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-06-12/us-railroad-amtrak-on-track-to-break-passenger-records-in-2024 | Source: US News And World Report    

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


  • "As methane pollution has emerged as one of the greatest threats to the oil and gas industry’s reputation" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2024/06/big-oil-democrats-biden-climate-policy/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:12:13


  • "In previous years, the occasional coyote would pass through the area at dusk" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-13/coyotes-stalk-through-mar-vista-neighborhood | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:12:27


  • "A streak like this has never been seen before for as long as records have been kept" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-confirms-every-month-for-last-year-was-hottest-on-record | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:12:55


  • "The Going Dark expert group („High-Level Group on access to data for effective law enforcement“)" ☛ https://netzpolitik.org/2024/going-dark-eu-states-push-for-access-to-encrypted-data-and-increased-surveillance/ | Source: Netzpolitik    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:14:32


  • "Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about a critical flaw because it feared losing government business." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-golden-saml-data-breach-russian-hackers | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:14:50


  • "installing high-speed internet in the Amazon rainforest is a level of connection" ☛ https://www.404media.co/remote-amazonian-tribes-new-york-times-starlink-have-been-using-the-internet-for-a-long-time/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:15:11


  • "aquifer depletion" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/06/13/time-for-a-reckoning-kansas-farmers-brace-for-water-cuts-to-save-ogallala-aquifer/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:16:29


  • "Between June 1 and 11, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for about 15 attacks on villages" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/islamic-state-linked-rebels-in-east-drc-kill-dozens-authorities-say/7654973.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:17:06


  • "We really don't talk too much about the hidden cost of war." ☛ https://louplummer.lol/post/war-and-peace | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:17:18


  • "a Taliban delegation wandered the halls of Russia’s showcase economic forum" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2024/0613/russia-taliban-afghanistan-terrorism-security | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:17:50


  • "Iran bristles at such resolutions by the International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-nation Board of Governors" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-expanding-enrichment-capacity-after-iaea-resolution-diplomats-say-/7653950.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:19:25


  • "Failure should be shared. Trying and failing at something should be celebrated." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/celebrating-failure | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:20:13


  • "With Junited 2024 going strong, I've decided to try a different type of blogroll." ☛ https://wand3r.net/blogroll-slashpage/ |    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:20:42


  • "Over time, this site has become my gateway to the internet. As well as blog posts, I post my notes here" ☛ https://kevquirk.com/on-this-site-and-financial-stability | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:21:18


  • "Her story is similar to what many people in the workforce are experiencing" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/teacher-11-years-quits-job-join-costco-now-im-paid-fairly-have-great-benefits-1724955 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:22:25


  • "If we want to make accountability something people are grateful to accept rather than eager to pass on" ☛ https://everythingchanges.us/blog/the-gift-of-accountability/ | Source: Mandy Brown    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:22:43


  • ""For children who experience certain developmental delays, specific types of physical therapies ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2024/06/14/a-gamified-approach-to-therapy-and-motor-skills-testing/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:23:51


  • "30.5% of code generated by AI" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2024/06/13/genai-code-mistakes-copilot-gemini-chatgpt | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:24:49


  • "The latest function, which The Reg FOSS desk suspects will ruffle some feathers, is a whole new command" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/13/version_256_systemd/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:25:12


  • "creating and sharing AI-generated nude images of over 50 female students" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/police-arrests-teenage-boy-who-circulated-ai-generated-nude-images-50-high-school-girls-1724981 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:26:49


  • "We conduct a series of experiments showing that state-of-the-art [...] LLMs" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/llms-acting-deceptively.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:27:11


  • "Corporations are now crawling the World Wide Web in order to get data that they could use to train LLMs." ☛ https://mandarismoore.com/2024/06/13/for-bios-not.html | Source: Mandaris Moore    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:28:00


  • ">I recently published an article about purchasing a new modem – the ARRIS SURFboard SB8200" ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/misleading-arris-modem-login-instructions/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:29:25


  • "I hate making things that are not as good as they could be, just because Google Says." ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/websites-that-excessively-internally-link-annoy-me-so-much-somehow-i-have-managed-to-have-two | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:29:32


  • "If you see people defaulting to existing habits when presented with a new technology" ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/06/12/sober-ai-is-the-norm.html | Source: Drew Breunig    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:29:47


  • "One of my favorite UX thought leaders has turned to writing exclusively about AI." ☛ https://derekkedziora.com/notes/2024-06-13-a-tale-of-two-ux-thought-leaders | Source: Derek Kędziora    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:29:56


  • Fake 'donation' "in the form of Amazon Web Service (AWS) credits" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/amazon-adds-230-million-in-cloud-credits-to-ai-startups/articleshow/110967401.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:30:04


  • Choosing Between Options to Outsource to Evades the Best Solution (Self-Hosting) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Choosing_Between_Options_to_Outsource_to_Evades_the_Best_Soluti.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:33:09


  • LibrePlanet 2024 and the Lost Video/Audio of Talks ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/LibrePlanet_2024_and_the_Lost_Video_Audio_of_Talks.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:33:16


  • IBM Layoffs at Kyndryl ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/IBM_Layoffs_at_Kyndryl.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:33:22


  • Watch This Space ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Watch_This_Space.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 12:33:33


  • "It appeared I had traded the problem of high CPU usage for a memory leak. Last night I saw: [...]" ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2024/06/12.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 14:46:17


  • "Looks like the host and plugins need to have exactly the same dependencies. To be fair, the package documentation says as much, and also states that the best use of plugins is for dynamically loaded modules build from the same source." ☛ https://lmika.org/2024/06/12/thinking-about-plugins.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 14:46:31


  • "Building fast software is a team effort which encompasses multiple different fields. It’s not easy, but it’s what makes a great product." ☛ https://iamfran.com/archives/fast-software-the-best-software | Source: Francesco    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 14:46:47


  • "If you must multiply matrices, you should use dedicated libraries. However, we sometimes need to roll our own code" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2024/06/13/rolling-your-own-fast-matrix-multiplication-loop-order-and-vectorization/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 14:47:02


  • "This was my first PyCon US as the Security Developer-in-Residence." ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/security-developer-in-residence-report-37?date=2024-06-13 | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 14:47:28


  • "my previous experience with SQLite has taught me that it’s much more capable" ☛ https://gcollazo.com/optimal-sqlite-settings-for-django/ | Source: Giovanni Collazo    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 14:49:41


  • "As I explained here and here" ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/my-feedback-on-openbsdamsterdam-as-hosting-company.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 14:50:28


  • "Web users often follow hyperlinks hastily, expecting them to be correctly programmed." ☛ https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589334.3645510 | Source: ACM    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 14:53:25


  • Alito Versus Law And Science ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/13/alito-versus-law-and-science/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:03:24


  • The Standing Analysis in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine ☞ https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/13/the-standing-analysis-in-fda-v-alliance-for-hippocratic-medicine/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:03:43


  • Wild New Study Suggests Gravity Can Exist Without Mass ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-new-study-suggests-gravity-can-exist-without-mass    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:04:02


  • Amazing New Technique Images Alzheimer's Brain Changes at Every Level, All at Once ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/amazing-new-technique-images-alzheimers-brain-changes-at-every-level-all-at-once    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:04:40


  • Drinking Alcohol on Planes May Pose a Hidden Danger. Here's Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/drinking-alcohol-on-planes-may-pose-a-hidden-danger-heres-why    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:04:54


  • 'Huge Global Success': Ozone-Killing Gases Fading Faster Than Predicted ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-global-success-ozone-killing-gases-fading-faster-than-predicted    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:05:09


  • There's a Strange Link Between Depression And Body Temperature, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-strange-link-between-depression-and-body-temperature-study-finds    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:10:12


  • Dementia Expert Reveals Why Some Brains With Alzheimer's Signs Have No Symptoms ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dementia-expert-reveals-why-some-brains-with-alzheimers-signs-have-no-symptoms    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:10:27


  • Universal Basic Income Could Double World's GDP And Slash Emissions ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/universal-basic-income-could-double-worlds-gdp-and-slash-emissions    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:10:41


  • Feebjac: "It would be useful to point out that Microsoft treats public, government contracts as trade secrets." gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Microsoft_Needs_to_be_Banned_From_Contracts_Including_Governmen.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:12:24


  • Worrying trend of children's injuries in summer season ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/14.06.2024-worrying-trend-of-childrens-injuries-in-summer-season.a558028/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:13:44


  • What to Know About Chemical Hair Relaxers and Health ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/magazine/what-to-know-hair-relaxers-health.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:13:52


  • Disrupted Adderall Access Poses Risks After A.D.H.D. Startup Executives Charged with Fraud ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/well/live/adderall-telehealth-fraud-cdc-risks.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:14:02


  • Lithuanian university agrees to transfer land for Rheinmetall ammunition plant ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2296285/lithuanian-university-agrees-to-transfer-land-for-rheinmetall-ammunition-plant    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:14:17


  • Switzerland summit should give peace a chance, but only on Ukraine’s terms ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/switzerland-summit-should-give-peace-a-chance-but-only-on-ukraines-terms/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:14:39


  • Ukraine’s fight against Russia gets three boosts from the G7 ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/fastthinking/ukraines-fight-against-russia-gets-three-boosts-from-the-g7/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:14:55


  • Experts react: Ukraine gets $50 billion from Russian assets and a US security deal at the G7 summit ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react-ukraine-gets-50-billion-from-russian-assets-and-a-us-security-deal-at-the-g7-summit/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:21:30


  • Ukraine officially embraces English as historic westward pivot continues ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-officially-embraces-english-as-historic-westward-pivot-continues/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:21:49


  • French MEP Glucksmann joins leftwing union New Popular Front, vows clear stance on Gaza, Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240614-%F0%9F%94%B4-french-mep-glucksmann-joins-leftwing-union-popular-front-vows-clear-stance-on-gaza-europe-and-ukraine    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:21:59


  • Peace summit for Ukraine opens in Switzerland, but Russia not invited ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240614-peace-summit-for-ukraine-opens-in-switzerland-but-russia-not-invited    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:22:09


  • Techrights is dealing just fine with mysogonistic bullies who think that cutting one's penis means "I no longer need to pay for the two kids I made with two different women who are not my wife who divorced me..."    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:42:21


  • "Someone had claimed that the Bible was a word-for-word translation. Well, mostly. There are stories (humans are ever inventing and copying stories) of 70 elders faithfully translating words about a virgin, or maybe it was supposed to be a maiden?" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2024/06/14/word-for-word.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:42:29


  • 🔤SpellBinding: AELOPXY Wordo: SHOWS gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2024-06-14.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:42:54


  • "I finished reading The Fantasy Trip Bestiary today. All in all, I'm very pleased by the content. It was interesting to see how many real animals they included; all had points of interest, and I can see using them in the game." gemini://consp.org/blog/2024/2024-06-13-the-fantasy-trip-bestiary-finished.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:43:48


  • "This place looks really nice. There's a bit of dust in some corners, some splinted wood here, some discoloration there. I really like it, gives the pub a really nice charm." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1932    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:44:27


  • Test, images and ascii gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/Houjimmy/17912    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:45:08


  • "as i lie here, naked and deconstructed, i do not think anything anymore. the machine wins every time." gopher://triapul.cz/0/phlog/2024-06-14-the-egg-of-time.txt    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:45:50


  • "Computex was last week. For those unaware, its this big tech expo where many companies have new product demonstrations - new pc cases, new cpu coolers, keynotes by Intel, AMD, and Nvidia, oh my! It's also a content feast for tech youtubers who make the trip." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2024-06-14.gmi    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 15:46:30


  • Biden and Zelensky sign 10-year US-Ukraine security agreement ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240613-g7-to-agree-50-bn-ukraine-loan-at-italy-summit    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:17:18


  • Ten-year security deal between US and Ukraine is 'landmark event', FM Kuleba says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20240613-ten-year-us-ukraine-security-deal-is-a-landmark-event-fm-kuleba-says    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:17:31


  • Hong Kong firms among hundreds hit with US sanctions for supporting Russia’s ‘war economy’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/06/13/hong-kong-firms-among-hundreds-hit-with-us-sanctions-for-supporting-russias-war-economy/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:17:46


  • India asks Russia to return citizens recruited by Russian army following deaths of two Indian nationals in Ukraine ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/06/india-asks-russia-to-return-citizens-recruited-by-russian-army-following-deaths-of-two-indian-nationals-in-ukraine/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:18:04


  • US sanctions Hong Kong companies for alleged support of Russia’s ‘war economy’ ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/06/us-sanctions-hong-kong-companies-for-alleged-support-of-russias-war-economy/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:18:33


  • Qubes Canary 039 ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2024/06/14/canary-039/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:19:28


  • Ukraine Calls For Ban On 4 Russian, Belarusian Wrestlers From Paris Olympics ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-belarus-wrestlers-olympics-ban/32991410.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:19:56


  • Ukraine, Russia Trade Drone Strikes After G7 Agreement On Loan For Kyiv ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-drone-attack-g7-loan/32992608.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:21:00


  • Commander Of Georgian Legion Fighting For Ukraine Says He Was Poisoned ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/georgian-legion-fighter-mamulashvili-ukraine-poisoned-russia/32991300.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:21:14


  • Moscow Exchange Stops Dollar, Euro Trades Over New Sanctions ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/moscow-exchange-dollar-trades-sanctions/32991219.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:21:30


  • Biden, Zelenskiy Sign Security Deal After G7 Agreement On $50 Billion Loan To Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/g7-ukraine-loan-russian-assets-summit-italy/32990942.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:21:43


  • US sanctions PC cooling and power supply maker DeepCool for selling products to Russia, fueling its war efforts in Ukraine ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cooling/us-sanctions-pc-cooling-and-power-supply-maker-deepcool-for-selling-products-to-russia-fueling-its-war-efforts-in-ukraine    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:22:00


  • Explosion heard in Kyiv region after missile warning ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/explosion-heard-in-kyiv-region-after-missile-warning    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:22:13


  • China under scrutiny for absence at Ukraine peace summit, which is seen as sign of its pro-Russia tilt ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-under-scrutiny-for-absence-at-ukraine-peace-summit-which-is-seen-as-sign-of-its-pro-russia-tilt    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:42:15


  • How the G7 plans to tap frozen Russian assets to fund a massive Ukraine aid package ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2024/0613/G7-summit-loan-Ukraine-50-billion-Russian-frozen-assets-Italy    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:42:25


  • Will Biden’s Help for Ukraine Come Fast Enough and Last Long Enough? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/world/europe/g7-biden-ukraine-agreements.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 16:42:37


  • Janet Yellen: Use Russia’s Assets to Support Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/opinion/janet-yellen-ukraine-russia-g7.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:13:11


  • Here’s Why Ukraine Should Seek Peace ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/opinion/ukraine-russia-peace-switzerland.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:13:19


  • G7 Leaders Agree on Plan for $50 Billion Loan to Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/06/13/world/g7-summit-italy    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:13:28


  • Software patents being legitimised by OIN instead of squashed https://www.zdnet.com/article/oin-expands-linux-patent-protection-yet-again-but-not-to-ai/#ftag=RSSbaffb68    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:29:18


  • G7 Leaders Gather in Italy to Discuss an Unruly World ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/world/europe/g7-leaders-weakened.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:45:31


  • Ukraine Stalled Russia Near the Border. Vovchansk Has Paid the Price. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/world/europe/ukraine-russia-vovchansk.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:45:40


  • Friday Briefing: A $50 Billion G7 Loan to Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/world/asia/g7-loan-ukraine-china-asia.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:51:28


  • Japan Commits $4.5 Billion for Ukraine, Zelensky Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/world/europe/japan-ukraine-security-zelensky.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:51:39


  • G7 Leaders Agree on $50 Billion Loan to Ukraine From Frozen Russian Assets ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/world/europe/g7-ukraine-loan-russian-assets.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:51:47


  • Biden and Zelensky Sign 10-Year Pact to Aid Ukraine’s Military ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/world/europe/biden-zelensky-ukraine-us-security-deal.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:52:01


  • Ukraine's Record Power Imports Continue Due To Energy Infrastructure Damage ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-power-imports-energy-infrastructure-damage-russian-attacks-g7/32992608.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:52:21


  • China’s absence at Ukraine peace summit seen as sign of pro-Russia tilt ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-under-scrutiny-for-absence-at-ukraine-peace-summit-which-is-seen-as-sign-of-its-pro-russia-tilt    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:52:41


  • Latvia backs seizure of 300 billion euros of Russian central bank assets ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/13.06.2024-latvia-backs-seizure-of-300-billion-euros-of-russian-central-bank-assets.a557878/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:52:52


  • Lithuania catches Russian with Latvian residency crossing border with gun parts ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/13.06.2024-lithuania-catches-russian-with-latvian-residency-crossing-border-with-gun-parts.a557876/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:53:10


  • Nearly half of fence on Latvia-Russia border completed ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/13.06.2024-nearly-half-of-fence-on-latvia-russia-border-completed.a557847/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:54:43


  • "Two days after blocking anti-Censorship, pro-Privacy Firefox Extensions in Russia, Mozilla has reversed course." http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/06/14/Mozilla_censored_for_Vladimir_Putin_gives_Firefox_tips_and_tric.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:57:33


  • US reporter Evan Gershkovich to stand trial in Russia on espionage charges ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240613-us-reporter-evan-gershkovich-to-stand-trial-in-russia-on-espionage-charges    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:57:44


  • Russia prosecutors send espionage indictment against US reporter Evan Gerskovich to court ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/06/russia-prosecutors-send-espionage-indictment-against-us-reporter-evan-gerskovich-to-court/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:58:02


  • Lithuania extends ban on Russian, Belarusian media ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2296452/lithuania-extends-ban-on-russian-belarusian-media    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:58:12


  • Czech Official Says Letter To EU's Borrell Asks To Curb Moves Of Russian Diplomats ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/czech-foreign-minister-letter-russian-diplomats-movements/32991972.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:59:15


  • Imprisoned Russian Blogger Gets Additional Term Shortly Before Release ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-blogger-sinitsa-additional-charges-before-release/32991640.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:59:31


  • Kara-Murza Appeal Hearing Postponed, Kremlin Critic's Whereabouts Unknown ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/hearing-kara-murza-russia-postponed-whereabouts-unknown/32991665.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 17:59:43


  • Russia Adds Self-Exiled Journalist Tatyana Lazareva To Wanted List ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-journalist-lazareva-wanted-list/32991249.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:00:00


  • Russian Prosecutors Finalize Indictment of Evan Gershkovich ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/world/europe/evan-gershkovich-russia-indictment.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:00:46


  • "Russia formally charges U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich with ‘espionage’" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/06/13/russia-formally-charges-u-s-journalist-evan-gershkovich-with-espionage | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:01:08


  • "Russia’s largest stock exchange has stopped trading in U.S. dollars and euros. What does this mean for the ruble?" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/cards/russia-s-largest-stock-exchange-has-stopped-trading-in-u-s-dollars-and-euros-what-does-this-mean-for-the-ruble | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:01:19


  • Belgrade's Higher Court Upholds Ruling to Extradite Belarusian Journalist ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/serbia-court-gniot-extradition-belarus/32991692.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:01:31


  • "Suspended dollar and euro trading on Moscow Exchange produces relatively calm first day after expanded U.S. sanctions" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/06/13/suspended-dollar-and-euro-trading-on-moscow-exchange-produces-relatively-calm-first-day-after-expanded-u-s-sanctions | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:07:53


  • Court Says 'Threats' Forced Closed-Door Trial Of Moscow Theater Director, Playwright ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/court-rules-closed-door-trial-moscow-director-playwright/32991508.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:08:04


  • Spotify Bundling Fallout Continues As Federal Lawmakers Present ‘Serious Questions’ to the Copyright Office About ‘A Compulsory Licensing System That Robs’ Songwriters ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/06/13/copyright-office-spotify-bundles-congressional-letter/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:08:30


  • Supreme Court: You Can't Trademark Your 'Trump Too Small' T-Shirts ☞ https://reason.com/2024/06/13/supreme-court-you-cant-trademark-your-trump-too-small-t-shirts/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:09:43


  • Justices Agree on Constitutionality of Trademark Restriction, Disagree on How to Approach Such Questions ☞ https://reason.com/volokh/2024/06/13/justices-agree-on-constitutionality-of-trademark-restriction-disagree-on-how-to-approach-such-questions/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:09:55


  • Mastering IP Filing: Insights from Leading Authors ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/06/13/mastering-ip-filing-insights-from-leading-authors/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:10:22


  • Trump Too Small: Supreme Court Upholds Lanham Act’s Restriction on Registering Marks With Living Individual’s Names Without Consent ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/06/restriction-registering-individuals.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:10:45


  • Clown computing hype ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-cloud-automation-amazonaws-800 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:11:20


  • A practical guide to linker section ordering ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/06/13/practical-guide-linker-section-ordering    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:12:03


  • How to manage and preserve Kafka Connect offsets smoothly ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/06/13/how-manage-and-preserve-kafka-connect-offsets-smoothly    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:12:53


  • Demystifying the role of an automation developer (it's not what you think) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/06/13/demystifying-role-automation-developer-its-not-what-you-think    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:13:44


  • "some form of AI"... Red Hat dabbling in hype ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/security-and-safety-ai-systems | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:14:00


  • Mutua Madrileña adopts Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to manage its automation and observability strategy https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/mutua-madrilena-adopts-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-manage-its-automation-and-observability-strategy    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:22:59


  • Buzzwords salad from and for IBM suits https://fintechmagazine.com/articles/red-hat-how-banks-should-leverage-gen-ai-for-transformation    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:23:46


  • Red Hat Offers Discounted Services to Accelerate and Support Virtualization Migration Initiatives and Upskill IT Professionals https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-offers-discounted-services-accelerate-and-support-virtualization-migration-initiatives-and-upskill-it-professionals    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:25:17


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

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:30:57


  • How To Install Thunderbird Mail on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-thunderbird-mail-opensuse/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:31:08


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

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:31:20


  • How To Install Brave Browser on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-brave-browser-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:32:08


  • How to Install NodeBB with Nginx Proxy on Debian 12 ☞ https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-nodebb-on-debian-12/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:32:35


  • How To Use traceroute Command in GNU/Linux such as Ubuntu ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-use-traceroute-command-in-linux-such-as-ubuntu/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:34:07


  • How to Check GNU/Linux Terminal Command History ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-check-linux-terminal-command-history/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:34:21


  • How to Deploy a MariaDB Database Server ☞ https://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/downloads/how-to-deploy-mariadb-database-server/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:34:37


  • How to install the Zimdigital decoder (for dummies) ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2024/06/how-to-install-the-zimdigital-decoder-for-dummies/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:34:55


  • How to Install ‘IPFire’ Free Firewall GNU/Linux Distribution ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/install-ipfire-firewall-distribution/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:35:27


  • You can also contribute to the syslog-ng OSE documentation ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-contribute-to-the-ose-documentation/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:35:50


  • Peter Czanik: You can also contribute to the syslog-ng OSE documentation ☞ https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/you-can-also-contribute-to-the-syslog-ng-ose-documentation    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:36:07


  • RFC 9518 — What can Internet standards do about centralization? ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/06/14/rfc-9518-what-can-internet-standards-do-about-centralization/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:46:27


  • Microsoft Telecom Layoffs, Facebook (Farcebook) Layoffs in Africa: A Month After Microsoft's Mass Layoffs in Lagos (Nigeria) Facebook/Meta Does the Same and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft is Now Retreating and Quitting an Entire Sector! (Affirmed Networks and Metaswitch) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Microsoft_Telecom_Layoffs_Facebook_Layoffs_in_Africa_A_Month_Af.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:46:50


  • "Planets" Cannot Replace Social Control Media, They're Very Much Akin to It (Censorship Hubs, Gatekeepers) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Planets_Cannot_Replace_Social_Control_Media_They_re_Very_Much_A.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:47:00


  • Topics That Truly Irritate and Consistently Infuriate the Microsofters (Whenever We Cover These) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Topics_That_Truly_Irritate_and_Consistently_Infuriate_the_Micro.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:47:13


  • Short Downtimes, Planned Maintenance ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/Short_Downtimes_Planned_Maintenance.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:47:25


  • [Meme] How Stefano Maffulli (and Microsoft's Own OSI Insiders) Make Money ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/Meme_How_Stefano_Maffulli_and_Microsoft_s_Own_OSI_Insiders_Make.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:47:36


  • Mobs Don't Get the Job Done (Mob Leaders Have Lost Credibility/Visibility, Job, or Both) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/Mobs_Don_t_Get_the_Job_Done_Mob_Leaders_Have_Lost_Credibility_V.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:47:54


  • Nationwide Eventually Did Listen ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/Nationwide_Eventually_Did_Listen.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:48:04


  • The Corruption of Open Source Initiative (OSI), a Front Group of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and GAFAM, Openwashing Proprietary Things and Even Plagiarism, GPL Violations ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/The_Corruption_of_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_a_Front_Group_of_M.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:48:40


  • [Meme] Featuritis ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/Meme_Featuritis.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:49:07


  • "AI" Tech Bubble ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/AI_Tech_Bubble.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:49:22


  • Ireland Last to Report Election Results ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/12/Ireland_Last_to_Report_Election_Results.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:49:34


  • Never Sleeps, Never Slumbers ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/12/Never_Sleeps_Never_Slumbers.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:49:52


  • EPO Has Gotten So Bad That Workers Need to Ask to be Allocated a Desk (at Work) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/12/EPO_Has_Gotten_So_Bad_That_Workers_Need_to_Ask_to_be_Allocated_.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:50:06


  • Driving forward in Android drivers ☞ https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/06/driving-forward-in-android-drivers.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:52:25


  • In Malawi, backdoored Windows Down to 10%, GNU/Linux Growing ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/it_s_not_a_small_country.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:56:33


  • Montenegro: GNU/Linux "Proper" at Over 6% ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/Montenegro_GNU_Linux_Proper_at_Over_6.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:56:41


  • Turkmenistan: GNU/Linux Leaps Past 5% This Month? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Turkmenistan_GNU_Linux_Leaps_Past_5_This_Month.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:56:49


  • Honduras: Vista 11 Down, GNU/Linux Up ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Honduras_Vista_11_Down_GNU_Linux_Up.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:57:01


  • Papua New Guinea: GNU/Linux Growing, backdoored Windows Down Below 15% ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Papua_New_Guinea_GNU_Linux_Growing_Windows_Down_Below_15.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 18:57:07


  • New Highs for Android in Haiti (Nearly 80%), Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows at Only 4% ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/13/New_Highs_for_Android_in_Haiti_Nearly_80_Microsoft_Windows_at_O.shtml    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 19:01:52


  • TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Section 2(e)(1) Mere Descriptiveness Appeals Turn Out? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2024/06/ttablog-test-how-did-these-three.html    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 19:05:15


  • Sergio Durigan Junior: The Pagure Debian package is now orphan ☞ https://blog.sergiodj.net/posts/pagure-debian-is-now-orphan/    

posted Friday, June 14, 2024 at 19:05:40



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