Roy Schestowitz

• RC Car Gets Force Feedback Steering ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/08/06/rc-car-gets-force-feedback-steering/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:38:06

• Intel 18A Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest CPUs are booting — steady progress toward the next-gen lithography node ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-18a-panther-lake-and-clearwater-forest-cpus-are-booting    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:38:21

• Iran Denies Reports Of Arrests Over Haniyeh Assassination ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/haniyeh-hamas-tehran-jahangir-/33067692.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:38:34

• Spotify Is Reportedly Dumping More 4 World Trade Center Office Space Under a StubHub Sublease Deal ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/05/spotify-offices-stubhub-sublease/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:40:31

• Akademy 2024 T-shirt online orders now open & in-person extended ☞ https://akademy.kde.org/news/2024-08_akademy-2024-t-shirt-online-orders-now-open-in-person-extended/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:41:16

• KDE Plasma 6.1.4, Bugfix Release for August ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.1.4/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:41:32

• How risk prioritization and automation can shape the future of federal cybersecurity ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2024/08/how-risk-prioritization-and-automation-can-shape-the-future-of-federal-cybersecurity/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:42:36

• Samsung Bug Bounty Program Payouts Reach $5M, Top Reward Increased to $1M ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/samsung-bug-bounty-program-payouts-reach-5m-top-reward-increased-to-1m/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:42:46

• Thousands of Devices Wiped Remotely Following Mobile Guardian Hack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/thousands-of-devices-wiped-remotely-following-mobile-guardian-hack/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:43:01

• The People’s Court of New Normal Germany – Part Two ☞ https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/06/the-peoples-court-of-new-normal-germany-part-two/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:43:33

• Australia needs an influencers strategy for international affairs ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-needs-an-influencers-strategy-for-international-affairs/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:44:11

• OSS Security Adventure: Recap of Recent Security-Focused Events Featuring OpenSSF ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2024/08/06/oss-security-adventure-recap-of-recent-security-focused-events-featuring-openssf/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:44:25

• Venezuela launches criminal probe against opposition leaders amid protest crackdown ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240806-opposition-leaders-targeted-by-investigation-amid-venezuela-protest-crackdown    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:44:54

• China’s embassy in Beirut urges ‘caution’ for nationals travelling in Lebanon ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/08/06/chinas-embassy-in-beirut-urges-caution-for-nationals-travelling-in-lebanon/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:45:16

• As Israel Braces for Iran’s Retaliation, Diplomats Scramble ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-iran-retaliation.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:45:55

• Pakistani national with ties to Iran tried to hire hitmen to potentially assassinate Trump, other US politicians: feds ☞ https://nypost.com/2024/08/06/us-news/pakistani-national-with-ties-to-iran-tried-to-hire-hitmen-to-potentially-assassinate-trump-other-us-politicians-feds/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:46:12

• Big rise in antisemitic incidents in UK - charity https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx285v8djejo    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:47:34

• Lawsuit Over Alleged Discriminatory Refusal to Let Church Lease School Property on Weekends Can Go Forward ☞ https://reason.com/volokh/2024/08/06/lawsuit-over-alleged-discriminatory-refusal-to-allow-church-to-lease-school-property-on-weekends-can-go-forward/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:48:11

• Louisiana officials to seek dismissal of lawsuit challenging Ten Commandments public school display mandate ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/louisiana-officials-to-seek-dismissal-of-lawsuit-challenging-ten-commandments-public-school-display-requirement/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:48:24

• Parroting Microsoft, not studying facts ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/business/microsoft-delta-flight-cancellations-outage.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:50:09

• "Microsoft has mitigated an Azure outage that lasted more than two hours and took down multiple services for customers across North and Latin America." https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-azure-outage-takes-down-services-across-north-america/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:50:34

• More Advantage, Apple? — Disney+ Becomes the Latest Streamer to Increase Prices ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/06/disney-plus-latest-streamer-to-raise-prices/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:51:21

• Tiny Trackpad Fits On Ergonomic Keyboard ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/08/06/tiny-trackpad-fits-on-ergonomic-keyboard/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:51:40

• SMARC 2.2 specification adds support for Soundwire, PCIe Gen4, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/08/06/smarc-2-2-specification-soundwire-pcie-gen4/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:52:36

• "Stereographs" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/08/06/old-time-stereographs-get-new-photos/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:53:18

• Edinburgh Fringe: Out and About at the Festival ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/theater/edinburgh-fringe-photos.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:53:36

• In Pictures: Hong Kong unveils new national security exhibition as officials urge vigilance against ‘risks’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/08/06/in-pictures-hong-kong-unveils-new-national-security-exhibition-as-officials-urge-vigilance-against-risks/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:53:57

• Airfare pain eases as pricing power swings back to passengers ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2024/08/06/airfare-pain-eases-as-pricing-power-swings-back-to-passengers/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:54:37

• The pandemic killed off Summer Fridays — and Hamptons-bound millennials are pissed ☞ https://nypost.com/2024/08/06/lifestyle/hamptons-loving-millennials-angry-about-lack-of-summer-fridays/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:55:01

• Sadness Among Teen Girls May Be Improving, C.D.C. Finds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/health/teenage-girl-depression-sadness-pandemic.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:55:15

• Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Darling of the Progressive Left, Is Harris' Running Mate ☞ https://reason.com/2024/08/06/minnesota-gov-tim-walz-darling-of-the-progressive-left-is-harris-running-mate/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:55:28

• Hong Kong police investigate suspected suicide of officer ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/08/06/hong-kong-police-investigate-suspected-suicide-of-officer/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:55:52

• $1,000 awarded for NTECH multimedia patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2024/8/6/1000-awarded-for-ntech-multimedia-patent-prior-art    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:56:12

• Fourth CellSpinsoft data transfer patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2024/8/5/fourth-cellspinsoft-data-transfer-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:56:33

• 'Ricezempic' Is The Latest Fentanylware (TikTok) Hack For Weight Loss, But Does It Work? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ricezempic-is-the-latest-tiktok-hack-for-weight-loss-but-does-it-work    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 01:56:52

• These numbers are... weird. Windows 2% on the desktop? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/american-samoa/#monthly-200902-202408    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 02:27:51

• "Post from TheLayoff.com AI = All Indian" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tQdmjDl    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 02:29:06

• "It is not all of IBM - I have had absolutely horrendous managers on one hand and absolutely the best ones too! It all depends on the person who is the Manager and you can't blame the entire company for 1 bad apple!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1tSe88cG    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 02:29:37

• "New infrastructure processing unit (IPU) adaptors for the enterprise are now broadly available and supported by Dell Technologies, Red Hat and others." https://venturebeat.com/ai/intel-plans-to-lay-off-15-of-workforce/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 02:31:49

• USA working people to death https://www.hrgrapevine.com/us/content/article/2024-08-07-charles-barkley-the-82-year-old-mcdonalds-employee-why-employers-must-help-staff-navigate-retirement    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 02:32:35

• "And then we have the rather less high-profile story of Edward Eubanks, an 82-year-old McDonald’s employee in Las Vegas, Nevada who told KSNV that he continues to work because he simply cannot afford to retire."    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 02:33:16

• Bungie Game Studio to Cut 17% of Workforce https://www.awn.com/news/sonys-bungie-game-studio-cut-17-workforce    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 02:34:05

• Signs of a scam and a bubble https://www.cryptopolitan.com/ai-over-200-times-tech-earnings-calls/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 02:35:22

• Spammy? Ad? https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/endor-labs-makes-opensource-software-security-patches-easier    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 02:39:52

• 2021 cyberattack https://www.dw.com/en/germany-summons-chinese-envoy-over-2021-cyberattack/a-69819294    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 02:44:28

• NYC journalist who documented pro-Palestinian vandalism arrested on felony hate crime charges https://apnews.com/article/gaza-nypd-sam-seligson-brooklyn-museum-eea8ee12248d38d856fe5cabcac7a0d1    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 03:07:19

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1017.jpg    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 04:11:01

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1366.jpg    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 04:11:07

• "Unhealthy to ask now, unhealthy to speculate, and the last time we talked more than fifteen years ago, a short message on Facebook to say they'd heard I was getting married. And as much as all this is maybe not helpful, it's interesting to jog my memory about certain things. Names and dates and timelines that would other be forgotten instead coalesce." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2024/8-07.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 04:12:01

• The role of music in my life gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2024-08-07.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 05:35:29

• "Everyone's favourite Linux games launcher has added yet another milestone feature thanks to Linguin and other Heroic contributors." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/next-heroic-games-launcher-release-to-include-initial-gog-galaxy-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:51:14

• "One of the original greats from the original indie games boom has returned, World of Goo 2 from 2DBOY and Tomorrow Corporation is now available." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/world-of-goo-2-is-out-now-with-native-linux-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:51:57

• "Humble Choice for August 2024 has been released and it's a pretty good selection this time, so here's your usual roundup" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/humble-choice-for-august-2024-has-sifu-high-on-life-blacktail/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:52:13

• "Jupiter Hell Classic is the demake of a remake of a roguelike unmake of a famous 1993 FPS shooter. Rip and Tear!" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/drl-doom-the-roguelike-is-coming-to-steam-as-jupiter-hell-classic/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:52:56

• "Uh oh. Not only did we recently have the issue with The Jackbox Megapicker breaking the Steam Deck, but now plugins via Decky Loader too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/certain-steam-deck-plugins-via-decky-loader-are-causing-bootloops/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:53:51

• "Two-Thirds of People in Climate Denier Nigel Farage’s Constituency Are Worried About Rising Temperatures" https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/06/clacton-voters-concerned-climate-change-nigel-farage-constituency/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:54:42

• "Iranian plot to kill US officials, politicians tied to Pakistani man" https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistani-man-with-ties-to-iran-is-charged-in-plot-to-carry-out-political-assassinations-on-us-soil/7732331.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:54:53

• "Hamas names Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar as its new top leader" https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5065789    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:55:04

• "Schrodinger's Privacy: Best Buy Needs Your Data to Stop Selling Your Data" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/schrodinger's-privacy-best-buy-needs:5    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:55:21

• minors os oligarchs? https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14352-Protection-of-minors-guidelines_en    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:55:47

• "Ukraine is creating a system of large-scale humanitarian demining, for which there are no models in the world today" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2024/08/07/ukraine-is-creating-a-system-of-large-scale-humanitarian-demining-for-which-there-are-no-models-in-the-world-today/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:56:15

• "Peer Pressure on Social Media. Practical Privacy Techniques If You Use These. But It's Not Easy." https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/Meta-x1:4    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:56:36

• "Niger Becomes Second African State To Cut Ties With Ukraine" https://www.rferl.org/a/niger-mali-ukraine-rebels-wagner/33068786.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:56:55

• "Navigating the Digital Frontier: [Buzzword]'s Role in Cyber Defense and Business Growth" https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/08/07/navigating-the-digital-frontier-ais-role-in-cyber-defense-and-business-growth/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:57:18

• "US military completes withdrawal from Air Base 201 in Niger" https://www.defenceweb.co.za/aerospace/aerospace-aerospace/us-military-completes-withdrawal-from-air-base-201-in-niger/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:57:32

• chat control https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2024/08/07/sa-kan-europaparlamentet-sanka-chat-control-2/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:57:45

• "Take this with your usual scepticism, but it appears Valve are working on another new game (no not Deadlock that leaked previously) which may end up being Half-Life 3." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/valve-working-on-a-new-game-that-could-be-half-life-3/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:58:32

• "Clearly, Godot Engine is going places, with more and more games using this cross-platform free and open source game engine that doesn't require royalty payments and now they've pulled in Second Dinner who developed MARVEL SNAP." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/second-dinner-marvel-snap-now-investing-in-w4-games-for-godot-engine/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:58:41

• "The Capcom Summer 2024 Humble Bundle has launched and looks to be yet another surprisingly good deal, worth taking a look at this one." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/the-capcom-summer-2024-humble-bundle-is-another-great-deal/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 07:58:50

• "corporate media pundits have called for the US and Israel to escalate the region-wide war." ☛ https://fair.org/home/pundits-push-for-regional-escalation-in-the-wake-of-israeli-assassinations/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:04:03

• "Umbrella Species" ☛ https://therevelator.org/umbrella-species/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:04:47

• "When ISPs are instructed to block pirate sites, tampering with their own DNS records is often the weapon of choice." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/isps-hijack-cloudflare-google-dns-requests-ending-site-blocking-workarounds-240807/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:05:17

• "The RIAA and several other organizations condemn AI startup Anthropic for allegedly flaunting copyright law." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-backs-ai-copyright-lawsuit-against-anthropic-sees-similarities-with-napster-240807/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:05:32

• RFK ☛ https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2024/08/07/rfk-jr-is-incredibly-bizarre/ |    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:06:15

• UK Excess Deaths: Still Incredibly High https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2024/08/08/uk-excess-deaths-week29/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:14:49

• Warrantless ☛ https://thedissenter.org/us-court-rules-against-warrantless-border-searches-of-cellphones/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:17:11

• Nevada ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/nevada-nzero-carbon-emissions-tracking-project | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:18:05

• oklahoma ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/07/george-kaiser-ovintiv-chesapeake-energy-corp-harold-hamm-oklahoma-oil-industry-voluntary-fund-clean-up-oil-wells-major-drillers-contributions-refunded/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:18:27

• "The comment about the riots could have been greatly expanded, I think the point which went unwritten was that the government's reactions to the riots have been very large in proportion to the number of deaths yet the number of excess deaths elsewhere remain not only uninvestigated but even slightly covered up." -iophk    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:21:21

• Wlroots Finally Gets Explicit Sync Integration ☞ https://linuxiac.com/wlroots-finally-gets-explicit-sync-integration/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:34:18

• FSF Blogs: Call for volunteers: Help us with the GNU Press shop and new member mailings ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/help-us-with-the-gnu-press-shop-and-new-member-mailings    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:34:49

• PureOS Crimson Development Report: July 2024 ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-july-2024/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:35:43

• Spotlight on SIG API Machinery ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/08/07/sig-api-machinery-spotlight-2024/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:36:14

• "On August 7th, 2000, the first version of libcurl, version 7.1, was released." ☞ https://ostechnix.com/libcurl-turns-24/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:44:02

• "Well this is a real punch in the gut" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/06/after-33-years-gamestop-shuts-down-and-disappears-game-informer/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:52:09

• "The Creators’ Rights Alliance (CRA) has fired off a stern warning to these tech behemoths" ☛ https://variety.com/2024/digital/global/microsoft-google-openai-apple-meta-uk-creators-ai-content-letter-1236098314/ | Source: Variety    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:52:23

• "private copying compensation is a significant source" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/06/finland-slashes-its-private-copying-compensation-plan/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:52:46

• "The promoted results, which were discovered by Alexios Mantzarlis in the Faked Up newsletter" ☛ https://www.404media.co/google-search-includes-paid-promotion-of-nudify-apps/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:55:21

• "A new Google update will make it simpler to request the removal of fake explicit images as public figures" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/07/delete-deepfake-nude-google-search/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:55:38

• "The highly anticipated decision issued by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta comes nearly a year after the start of a trial" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/americas/google-illegally-maintains-monopoly-over-internet-search-us-judge-rules-1814565 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:57:15

• "If the deal is undone, the iPhone maker could take a 4-6% hit to its profit, the analysts estimated." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/google-antitrust-20-billion-risk-apple/249252/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:57:29

• "The U.S. government’s landmark antitrust trial against Google’s search business concluded on Monday" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/technology/antitrust-google-amazon-apple-meta.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:58:15

• "The very thing that enabled these companies to succeed disappears once they seek to obtain bigness at any cost." ☛ https://seths.blog/2024/08/misunderstanding-bigness/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:58:35

• "I think you would have to do something crazy like have browsers randomly choose a difference search" ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/2024/08/07/that-so-many.html | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 08:59:29

• "Officers routinely pulled over and searched commercial buses during Operation Rolling Thunder in 2022" ☛ https://reason.com/2024/08/07/inside-the-unchecked-bus-searches-by-south-carolina-police/ | Source: Reason    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:05:50

• [Old] "Correcting these five issue types would fix most of the Accessibility problems detected." ☛ https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/67834/fix-85-of-your-web-accessibility-issues-in-5-easy-steps | Source: Alvaro Montoro    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:05:59

• "CPJ is investigating multiple incidents including one in the capital Abuja on August 3" ☛ https://cpj.org/2024/08/nigerian-security-forces-attack-arrest-journalists-covering-protests/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:13:57

• "While Cody’s grudge played a role in the unprecedented Marion County Record raid" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2024/08/07/news-of-police-raiding-a-kansas-newspaper-unfolded-like-a-novella-the-story-keeps-churning/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:14:07

• "really hold my breath in all these kinds of circumstances" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/reporter-s-notebook-from-arrest-to-release-how-voa-covered-jailed-american-journalists-/7732909.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:14:32

• US Stock Plunge: Could The AI Bubble Burst? https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=63456¬e=&title=US+Stock+Plunge%3A+Could+The+AI+Bubble+Burst%3F    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:16:14

• "A Moscow court on August 7 sentenced blogger Andrei Kurshin to 6 1/2 years in prison over two online posts he made" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-blogger-prison-criticizing-army/33068934.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:21:22

• "The surveillance, digital repression and human rights abuses in Venezuela reportedly spiked" ☛ https://therecord.media/venezuela-election-digital-censorship | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:21:42

• "While each one of these points comes with its own set of changes" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/secure-by-default-what-it-means-for-the-modern-enterprise/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:23:50

• "Vance did write the forward [sic] to a book from the author of Project 2025." ☛ https://www.rawstory.com/thats-not-true-fox-news-host-cuts-in-as-guest-links-jd-vance-to-project-2025/ | Source: Raw Story    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:23:57

• "This post is part of our series on our work for the Sovereign Tech Fund (STF)." ☛ https://neighbourhood.ie/blog/2024/08/07/nh-stf-s01e01-sequoia-pgp |    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:29:13

• "The second quarter of 2024 (April to June) saw 350.5MW of rooftop solar capacity" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/homeowners-still-going-solar-reasons/249217/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:32:30

• [Old] "In recent weeks" ☛ https://washingtonspectator.org/paranoia-on-parade/ |    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:32:42

• "The current threat is they will use the debt ceiling deadline to spark a US debt default and a currency crisis." ☛ https://www.rawstory.com/mockery-online-after-trump-says-hell-interview-with-elon-musk-next-week/ | Source: Raw Story    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:33:09

• [Old] "Buildings used to house cryptocurrency mining can create a massive strain on local electricity grids" ☛ https://www.energystar.gov/products/data_center_equipment/cryptocurrency | Source: Energy Star    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:34:05

• [Old] "Between 2015 and 2023, the energy used in Bitcoin mining skyrocketed to 121 terawatt-hours (TWh)" ☛ https://www.brusselstimes.com/1134300/bitcoin-consumes-more-electricity-than-belgium | Source: The Brussels Times    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:34:13

• [Old] "As of January 2024, its methodology suggests Bitcoin uses 141-160 terawatt-hours (TWhs) of electricity annually." ☛ https://justenergy.com/blog/crypto-energy-consumption-crypto-energy/ |    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:39:04

• [Old] "But crypto has a dirty little secret that is very relevant to the real world: it uses a lot of energy." ☛ https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2022/05/04/cryptocurrency-energy/ | Source: uni Columbia    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:39:15

• "These pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCbs) are caused when a wildfire’s intense heat and smoke create strong updrafts" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/wildfires-thunderstorms-fire-clouds-pyrocbs.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:39:35

• "The Associated Press published a debunk of the rumor about Vance, initially headlined" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5055854 | Source: NPR    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:40:17

• "In May, the DWS published the draft reserve determination in the government gazette." ☛ https://www.capeindependent.com/article/new-water-policy-will-soon-make-potatoes-unaffordable | Source: South Africa    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:41:23

• "It’s possible to cancel other people’s voter registration: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/08/problems-with-georgias-voter-registration-portal.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:42:11

• "People who have died or have been convicted of a felony can be removed from rolls relatively quickly" ☛ https://apnews.com/article/georgia-cancel-voter-registration-personal-information-5bf7d7d474e0e077c7fd50141ff487e8 | Source: Associated Press    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:42:29

• "TikTok was adapted for overseas use by a Chinese social media platform owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/despite-security-concerns-tiktok-still-plays-key-role-2024-race-/7731015.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:45:29

• "Imagine this dire scenario: the Atlantic Ocean's sea currents which bring warm water to Europe collapses" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/major-earth-systems-collapse-global-warming | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:45:54

• "The government in Nigeria accused Russia of orchestrating the protests in this most populous African country." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/nigerian-influencer-downplays-role-of-economic-hardship-in-protests/7732489.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:46:57

• No messages in libreplanet-discuss this month (so far) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2024-08/index.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:47:42

• "Northern Nigeria shares strong cultural, religious and socioeconomic ties with neighbors in the Sahel region" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/nigeria-arrests-protesters-with-russian-flags/7731843.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:47:58

• "In a joint action, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/us-government-sues-tiktok-for-coppa-violations/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:48:07

• "Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University and the author of books including Bloodlands" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/timothy-snyder-russia-ukraine-war-victory/33067942.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:48:13

• GNU/Linux holding steady in Saudi Arabia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/saudi-arabia/#monthly-200902-202408    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:49:12

• "In 2021, parents in South Africa with children between the ages of 5 and 13 were offered an unusual deal." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/08/07/face-scanning-kids-online-privacy/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 09:59:53

• "The report also clears Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn and editor Eric Meyer of wrongdoing." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2024/08/06/special-prosecutors-plan-to-charge-police-chief-who-led-kansas-newspaper-raid/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:00:09

• "In this post, we'll discuss why we're relicensing from ELv2 to FCL" ☛ https://keygen.sh/blog/keygen-is-now-fair-source/ |    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:04:40

• Windows TCO: "2023 had been a high water mark in ransomware attacks, but 2024 is on course to be worse." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-in-2024-more-attacks-more-leaks-and-increased-sophistication/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:06:45

• Windows TCO: "The amount includes “costs to investigate and remediate the cybersecurity incident" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-attack-cost-loandepot-27-million/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:06:59

• Windows TCO: "The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has proposed a £6.09 million [approximately US$ 7.74 million]" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ico-proposed-6m-fine-to-advanced-software/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:07:53

• Windows TCO: "The chaos was the result of a software update released by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/crowdstrike-outage-microsoft-delta-lawsuits-analysis/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:08:34

• "The lawsuit claims that certain members of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, or GARM" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/08/06/x-goes-war-advertisers-boycott/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:11:50

• "The most exciting thing about Midori wasn’t the fact that Microsoft was willing to leave behind the massive heap" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2419961/microsoft-without-windows-how-the-attempt-to-find-an-alternative-failed.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:12:10

• "The majority of schools in Tampere have also introduced a phone ban." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20103459 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:13:38

• "So what is a homelab any how? For me currently it's the production environment that my house runs on" ☛ https://jasontucker.blog/the-homelab-aug-2024-edition/ |    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:14:28

• "As a personal fun project, I challenged myself to do 100 CSS drawings in 100 days." ☛ https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/67936/100-days-of-css-illustrations | Source: Alvaro Montoro    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:14:54

• "If we instead print the project information with pprint.pprint" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/improved-print-readability-with-pprint/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:19:05

• [Old] "Go was created at Google to solve Google problems, which mostly involves dealing with networked services." ☛ https://kristoff.it/blog/why-go-and-not-rust/ | Source: Loris Cro    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:20:59

• [Old] "What’s more, Go has built-in support for the HTTP web protocol." ☛ https://blog.logrocket.com/when-to-use-rust-when-to-use-golang/ |    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:21:24

• [Old] "Behavior modification. Behavioral conditioning. Behavioral design. Gamification." ☛ http://hackeducation.com/2018/06/15/pigeons |    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:21:32

• [Old] "Zig is a new general-purpose programming language developed by Andrew Kelley." ☛ https://kristoff.it/blog/what-is-zig-comptime/ | Source: Loris Cro    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:21:57

• Iran terrorism https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/egypt-asks-its-airlines-avoid-iran-air-space-three-hours-thursday-2024-08-07    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:24:24

• Now 7% http://techrights.org/n/2024/07/10/Six_Percent_of_Maharlika.shtml https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/philippines/#monthly-200902-202408    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:26:24

• And Android pulled ahead of Windows for the first time this year https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/philippines/#monthly-200902-202408    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:28:29

• [Old] "Although there are different methods for backing up MySQL and MariaDB databases" ☛ https://www.daniloaz.com/en/how-to-perform-mysql-mariadb-backups-mysqldump-command-examples/ | Source: Daniel López Azañ    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:29:35

• "We are looking for volunteers who would like to try out our test parcour." ☛ https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2024/06/18/202404-uxstudies/ | Source: SequoiaPGP    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:30:13

• "The term "Giant Lock" is also a bit of a misnomer, since at least on day #1 the getpid() syscall was unlocked" ☛ https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=172303534813420&w=2 | Source: Mailing list ARChives    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:42:16

• "As promised in our link to Roman Komarov’s ‌Fit-to-Width Text: A New Technique article" ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/riffing-on-the-latest-css-fit-text-approach/ | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:43:18

• "The intent of this embedded hostname is noble; it's there so you can have syslog relays (which may happen accidentally)" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SyslogMessagesAndHostnames | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:43:32

• "Otherwise, here's what I discovered, and the many bugs I filed along the way." ☛ https://jakearchibald.com/2024/video-with-transparency/ |    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:43:49

• "Following the theme of corCTF 2023" ☛ https://www.willsroot.io/2024/08/just-a-dos-bug.html |    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:44:35

• 'Continents' of Venus Hint at Surprising Link to Early Earth, Scientists Discover ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/continents-of-venus-hint-at-surprising-link-to-early-earth-scientists-discover    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:45:38

• "And yes, you read that right: amazingly, most deGoogled AOSP distributions require you to buy a reference Android platform, i.e. a Google Pixel phone. Meaning if you want to escape Google's corporate surveillance, you have to give money to Google" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/08/07/0258226#1367730    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:47:02

• "Not that I give a flying fuck about Mozilla: even a turd floating down the San Francisco bay would be a better caretaker of those open-source projects. As far as I'm concerned, Mozilla can fuck right off [fastcompany.com]. The problem is, if Mozilla disappears, who is going to be the next turd? Most likely nobody. And as much as I hate to admit this, even Mozilla actively managing Firefox and Thunderbird is a better option than them becoming abandonware."    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:47:18

• "Not that I give a flying fuck about Mozilla: even a turd floating down the San Francisco bay would be a better caretaker of those open-source projects. As far as I'm concerned, Mozilla can fuck right off [fastcompany.com]. The problem is, if Mozilla disappears, who is going to be the next turd? Most likely nobody."    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:47:40

• "[...] And as much as I hate to admit this, even Mozilla actively managing Firefox and Thunderbird is a better option than them becoming abandonware." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/08/07/0258226#1367730    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:47:46

• NASA Says Boeing Starliner Astronauts May Fly Home on SpaceX in 2025 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/science/boeing-starliner-nasa-spacex.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:48:02

• Women Really Are Less Likely to Be Treated For Their Pain Than Men ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/women-really-are-less-likely-to-be-treated-for-their-pain-than-men    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:48:51

• Andes Glaciers Are The First to Shatter a Depressing Record ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/andes-glaciers-are-the-first-to-shatter-a-depressing-record    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:49:07

• Study Estimates Millions in US Risk Liver Damage From Herbal Remedies ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-estimates-millions-in-us-risk-liver-damage-from-herbal-remedies    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:49:24

• Millennials And Gen X Face Higher Risk of These 17 Cancers Than Boomers ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/millennials-and-gen-x-face-higher-risk-of-these-17-cancers-than-boomers    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:49:42

• Olympics: Athletes 'In The Zone' Can Unlock 2 Different Mental States ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/olympics-athletes-in-the-zone-can-unlock-2-different-mental-states    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:50:05

• New logo? https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Google-Monopoly-800x450.jpg    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:51:02

• A Psychiatrist’s Livestreams With a Twitch Streamer Raises Ethical Questions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/health/gamers-twitch-mental-health.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:58:09

• Rights Group Calls On Tashkent To Move Karakalpak Activist To Less Restrictive Penitentiary ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/dauletmurat-tajimuratov-karakapakstan-prison-uzbekistan-freedom-eurasia/33069391.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:58:58

• Latvian experts mull drug abuse solutions ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/07.08.2024-latvian-experts-mull-drug-abuse-solutions.a564168/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 10:59:30

• South Korean nuclear weapons would fracture US ties, defence chief says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korean-nuclear-weapons-would-fracture-us-ties-defence-chief-says    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:00:02

• North Korea punishes students and officials for watching banned Korean War film ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/72-hours-korean-war-film-banned-in-north-korea-students-officals-punished-08072024172705.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:00:55

• Heatwave in Malaysia leads to drownings after victims try to cool down in rivers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/heatwave-in-malaysia-leads-to-drownings-after-victims-try-to-cool-down-in-rivers    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:01:45

• Hacks.Mozilla.Org: Announcing Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox ☞ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2024/08/puppeteer-support-for-firefox/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:03:11

• Firefox support added to Puppeteer ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/984733/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:29:44

• Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch Serious Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-firefox-updates-patch-serious-vulnerabilities/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:30:26

• Sixty-one bar associations demand lift of Instagram ban ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/sixty-one-bar-associations-demand-lift-of-instagram-ban-298323    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:31:03

• Makerfabs SenseLora 4G gateway supports LTE Cat 1 and WiFi 4 connectivity, features solar battery charger ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/08/07/makerfabs-senselora-4g-gateway-supports-lte-cat-1-and-wifi-4-connectivity-features-solar-battery-charger/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:37:57

• GhostWrite Vulnerability Facilitates Attacks on Devices With RISC-V CPU ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ghostwrite-vulnerability-facilitates-attacks-on-devices-with-risc-v-cpu/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:38:24

• 2 Hongkongers charged with sedition under new security law say they intend to plead guilty ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/08/07/2-hongkongers-charged-with-sedition-under-new-security-law-say-they-intend-to-plead-guilty/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:40:27

• Understanding Nasrallah’s speech: How will Hezbollah avenge Shukr? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/iransource/hezbollah-nasrallah-speech-fuad-shukr-iran/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:41:29

• A Russia without Russians? Putin’s disastrous demographics ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/russia-tomorrow/a-russia-without-russians-putins-disastrous-demographics/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:43:12

• In Prisoner Swap, Echoes of Putin’s K.G.B. Past ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/world/europe/putin-russia-prisoner-swap.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:53:13

• Niger Becomes Second African State To Cut Ties With Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/niger-mali-ukraine-rebels-wagner/33068786.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:56:40

• Russia is destroying monuments as part of war on Ukrainian identity ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russia-is-destroying-monuments-as-part-of-war-on-ukrainian-identity/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:56:54

• Russia's Kursk region declares emergency amid Ukrainian offensive, says governor ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240807-thousands-evacuated-as-ukrainian-troops-launch-attack-in-russia-s-kursk-region    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:57:07

• Ukraine legal battle against Russia gains momentum as 23 states intervene in genocide allegations case ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/ukraine-legal-battle-against-russia-gains-momentum-as-23-states-intervene-in-genocide-allegations-case/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:57:28

• Could an Istanbul deal have brought peace? – Opinion ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2335013/could-an-istanbul-deal-have-brought-peace-opinion    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:57:40

• Russia's Stifling Of Civic Freedoms Dramatically Up Since Ukraine Invasion, Rights Watchdog Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/human-rights-watch-foreign-agent-report/33069230.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:57:48

• Czech Soldier Given Prison Term Over Looting In Ukraine's Irpen, Bucha ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/prague-court-sentences-czech-looting-ukraine-irpen-bucha/33069224.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 11:58:09

• Zelenskiy Endorses Bills Extending Ukraine's Martial Law, Mobilization ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskiy-martial-law-mobilization-extension/33069205.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:01:03

• State Of Emergency Declared In Russia's Kursk Region Amid Cross-Border Incursion ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-kursk-strikes-border/33068723.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:01:16

• Ukraine Launches Rare Cross-Border Ground Assault Into Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/world/europe/ukraine-russia-cross-border-assault.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:01:29

• "Ukraine’s surprise August incursion" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/07/how-deep-into-russian-territory-has-ukraine-s-surprise-august-incursion-reached | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:01:53

• "Fighting continues in Russia’s Kursk region as Ukraine carries out largest cross-border incursion of war so far" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/07/fighting-continues-in-russia-s-kursk-region-as-ukrainian-troops-reportedly-advance-further-into-russian-territory | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:02:38

• "Ukrainian POW who died in Russian prison killed by blunt force chest injury, autopsy finds" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/07/ukrainian-pow-dies-of-blunt-force-chest-injury-in-russian-prison | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:03:06

• "Judging by the reports, our town no longer exists" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/08/07/judging-by-the-reports-our-town-no-longer-exists | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:03:32

• AI complacency is compromising Western security ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ai-complacency-is-compromising-western-security/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:31:33

• How NATO and its Indo-Pacific partners can work together in an era of strategic competition ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-nato-and-its-indo-pacific-partners-can-work-together-in-an-era-of-strategic-competition/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:31:56

• How Armenia’s ‘Crossroads for Peace’ plan could transform the South Caucasus ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-armenias-crossroads-for-peace-plan-could-transform-the-south-caucasus/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:32:11

• Germany justice minister warns against travel to Russia amidst prisoner exchange and human rights concerns ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/germany-justice-minister-warns-against-travel-to-russia-amidst-prisoner-exchange-and-human-rights-concerns/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:39:23

• Lithuanian vehicle export company fined €13.6m for breaching Russia sanctions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2334708/lithuanian-vehicle-export-company-fined-eur13-6m-for-breaching-russia-sanctions    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:40:20

• Russia, North Korea sign deal to fight infectious diseases ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/russia-north-korea-medical-cooperation-08062024231835.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:44:07

• Kremlin Critic's Half-Brother Handed 5 1/2-Year Prison Term On 'Terrorism' Charge ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/gabbasov-fararitdinov-trial-sentence-russia-bashkortostan/33069479.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:44:54

• Detained U.S.-Russian Citizen Pleads Guilty To Treason, Says Russian Media ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-american-karelina-treason/33069357.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:46:26

• 16 Years After War With Russia, West Reiterates Support For Georgia's Territorial Integrity ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-georgia-2008-war-anniversary-abkhazia-south-ossetia/33069097.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:47:04

• Estonian Journalist Who Worked With Russian Outlets Charged With High Treason ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/svetlana-burceva-estonia-trial-treason-russia-propaganda-sputnik/33069130.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:47:15

• How Belarus Was Left Out of a Prisoner Swap Between Russia and the West ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/world/europe/belarus-russia-prisoner-swap.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:48:49

• Migrant flow on Latvia-Belarus border doubled in July ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/07.08.2024-migrant-flow-on-latvia-belarus-border-doubled-in-july.a564165/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:49:43

• Belarusian doctor who slammed Lukashenko flees to Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2334837/belarusian-doctor-who-slammed-lukashenko-flees-to-lithuania    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:50:05

• "In January, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about rapper Punchmade Dev, whose music videos sing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle." ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/cybercrime-rapper-sues-bank-over-fraud-investigation/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:51:13

• Spotify Faces Major Patent Lawsuit Over ‘Remote Group Session’ and ‘Jam’ Features Here’s the Filing ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/06/spotify-faces-major-patent-lawsuit-bluejay-technologies/ "British startup Bluejay Technologies sues Spotify for patent monopoly infringement over their Remote Group Session and Jam listening features."    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:51:56

• "Everyone Has Access to the Law and Reject Private Gatekeepers" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/eff-tells-yet-another-court-ensure-everyone-has-access-law-and-reject-private | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:53:10

• TTAB Dismisses REEFER MAN Opposition Due to Unlawfulness of Opposer's Pleaded Applications ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2024/08/ttab-dismisses-reefer-man-opposition.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:54:03

• China's drivers fret as robotaxis pick up pace - and passengers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-drivers-fret-as-robotaxis-pick-up-pace-and-passengers    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:55:07

• As Biden’s Presidency Wanes, U.S. and Asian Nations Do a Delicate Dance ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/us/politics/biden-asia-china-blinken.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:55:33

• Thursday Briefing: Antiracism Protesters Gather in Britain ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/briefing/britain-antiracism-protests-us-presidential-election-great-barrier-reef.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:55:42

• What to know about China’s push for hydrogen-powered transportation ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/07/1095849/china-hydrogen-truck-bike-coal/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:56:40

• China’s efforts to boost Tibet’s economy benefit Han population, report says ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/china-efforts-boost-economy-benefit-han-people-report-08062024162319.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:57:09

• China flies drone along Vietnam’s coast ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/southchinasea/china-vietnam-drone-08072024020442.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:57:30

• Philippines joins US-led allies in multilateral maneuvers in South China Sea ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/southchinasea/philippines-exercises-south-china-sea-08072024045749.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:57:45

• Myanmar junta jets bomb town under rebel control, six killed ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/shan-state-bombing-kutkai-08072024080108.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:58:02

• Chinese police arrest Beijing woman for 'defaming' Olympic athletes ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/olympics-defamation-arrest-tabletennis-08072024100107.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:58:39

• Taiwanese drama aims to shine spotlight on 'fear of war' with China ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/taiwan-tv-invasion-zero-day-08072024135738.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 12:59:27

• US and Australia officials reaffirm partnership in Indo-Pacific region during AUSMIN Consultations ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/us-and-australian-officials-reaffirm-partnership-with-indo-pacific-region-during-ausmin-consultations/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:00:37

• Taiwanese ex-soldier returns home after being held in China for almost 5 months ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/08/07/taiwanese-ex-soldier-returns-home-after-being-held-in-china-for-almost-5-months/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:01:00

• Hong Kong party room held up by 10 men, victims forced to transfer HK$110,000 ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/08/07/hong-kong-party-room-held-up-by-10-men-victims-forced-to-transfer-hk110000/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:01:33

• China Pathfinder: Q2 2024 update ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/china-pathfinder-q2-2024-update/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:03:40

• China could stake a claim on the Moon. Just look at what it’s doing in Antarctica ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/china-could-stake-a-claim-on-the-moon-just-look-at-what-its-doing-in-antarctica/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:04:14

• China Launches Satellites For Major Network to Rival Elon Musk's Starlink ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/china-launches-satellites-for-major-network-to-rival-elon-musks-starlink    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:04:25

• How to Back up or Clone a Virtual Machine on VirtualBox ☞ https://itsfoss.com/virtualbox-backup-clone/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:04:43

• How To Install Jenkins on Fedora 40 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-jenkins-fedora-40/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:06:42

• How To Change Timezone on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/change-timezone-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:07:00

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

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:07:38

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

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:07:56

• How to Install Timeshift on Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04 or 20.04 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-timeshift-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:09:33

• How to Install GitLab on Debian 12, 11 or 10 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-gitlab-on-debian-linux/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:09:42

• How to Install Arduino on Debian 12, 11 or 10 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-arduino-on-debian-linux/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:10:00

• How to Install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-kde-plasma-on-linux-mint-22/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:10:49

• How to Install WordPress with Nginx on Debian 12, 11 or 10 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-wordpress-with-nginx-on-debian-linux/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:11:03

• How to Install Yandex Browser on Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04 or 20.04 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-yandex-browser-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:11:09

• How to Install Waterfox Browser on Ubuntu 24.04, 22.04 or 20.04 ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/install-waterfox-browser-on-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:11:15

• Sarcopenic Obesity Sneaks Up on People. Here's How to Reduce Risk. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sarcopenic-obesity-sneaks-up-on-people-heres-how-to-reduce-risk    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:15:03

• Registration is open for the LibreOffice Conference 2024! ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/08/07/registration-is-open-for-the-libreoffice-conference-2024/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:15:43

• How to Find Public IP Address from Hostname ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-find-public-ip-address-from-hostname/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:16:48

• Only 75 Known Gemini Capsules Still Use Let's Encrypt (More Than 9 Out of 10 Self-Sign) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/08/07/OPOnly_75_Known_Gemini_Capsules_Still_Use_Let_s_Encrypt_More_Th.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:17:43

• Probably the First Major GNU/Linux Distro to Adopt Gemini and Have an Official Gemini Capsule ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/08/07/Probably_the_First_Major_GNU_Linux_Distro_to_Adopt_Gemini_and_H.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:17:51

• 🔤SpellBinding — BEFIYXL Wordo: GISTS gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2024-08-08.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:26:09

• came back just to be terrible and useless gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2063    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:26:50

• "‘Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria’ (RSD) is, of course, not yet a formal diagnosis acknowledged by the Gods That Walk Among Us known as ‘psychiatrists’[a]. But off the top of my head, my neurodivergence-dominated social circles casually refer to our RSD as a matter of fact, as a standard part of the adhd experience." gemini://flexibeast.space/gemlog/2024-08-08.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:27:45

• Disgraceful openwashing by the Microsoft-bribed OSI; the author of this blog post is paid by Microsoft. This complete compromise of the OSI does not get the media attention is truly deserves. ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/jean-pierre-lorre-voices-of-the-open-source-ai-definition    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:37:13

• Android almost half of Web traffic in S Korea https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/south-korea/#monthly-200902-202408    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:48:05

• GNU/Linux up to 4% in Eritrea https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/eritrea/#monthly-200902-202408    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 13:56:52

• Fedora Community Blog: Fedora Operations Architect Weekly ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-operations-architect-weekly-2/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:34:04

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) instead of real sales ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/07/warner-music-group-earnings-q2-2024/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:49:00

• India court reserves orders in preventive detention case against YouTuber for defamatory remarks ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/india-court-reserves-orders-in-preventive-detention-case-against-youtuber-for-defamatory-remarks/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:49:42

• Journalists facing ‘appalling harassment and abuse’ amid riots ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalists-increasingly-being-targeted-riots/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:50:07

• Slashdot Media and GNU/Linux Journal: Missing Pages, Allegedly ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/08/07/Slashdot_Media_and_Linux_Journal_Missing_Pages_Allegedly.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:50:18

• Microsoft backdoored Windows Falls From 100% to 25% in Morocco, GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now Exceed 4% on Desktops/Laptops ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/08/07/Microsoft_Windows_Falls_From_100_to_25_in_Morocco_GNU_Linux_and.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:50:57

• Microsofters' War on GNU/Linux Takes New Forms, Pentagon Nowadays Controls GNU/Linux in More Ways (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/08/07/Microsofters_War_on_Linux_Takes_New_Forms_Pentagon_Nowadays_Con.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:51:08

• An ESP Makes A Bicycle Odometer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/an-esp-makes-a-bicycle-odometer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:55:28

• Carcinogenic ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/on-carbon-fiber-types-and-their-carcinogenic-risks/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:56:14

• Compiling Four Billion If Statements ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/compiling-four-billion-if-statements/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:56:46

• The First Real Sputnik ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/the-first-real-sputnik/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 14:57:58

• "Joule Thief In A Fuse Tube?<" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/forget-ship-in-a-bottle-how-about-joule-thief-in-a-fuse-tube/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:00:30

• Kidnappings Soar in Central Africa’s ‘Triangle of Death’ ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2024/08/kidnappings-soar-in-central-africas-triangle-of-death/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:01:22

• Chinese Demand for ‘Maw’ Behind Decimated Lake Victoria Fish Stocks ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2024/08/chinese-demand-for-maw-behind-decimated-lake-victoria-fish-stocks/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:01:51

• Truth Alliance Fights Terrorists’ ‘Traps, Tricks and Lies’ in Nigeria ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2024/08/truth-alliance-fights-terrorists-traps-tricks-and-lies-in-nigeria/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:02:22

• Organized Crime Fuels Terror in Sahel Nations ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2024/08/organized-crime-fuels-terror-in-sahel-nations/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:18:07

• To Counter RSF Advance, SAF is Arming Civilians ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2024/08/to-counter-rsf-advance-saf-is-arming-civilians/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:18:53

• Al-Shabaab Attacks Increase in Somalia Amid ATMIS Troop Drawdown ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2024/08/al-shabaab-attacks-increase-in-somalia-amid-atmis-troop-drawdown/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:19:21

• Refugees Overwhelm Chad’s Fragile Food Supply ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2024/08/refugees-overwhelm-chads-fragile-food-supply/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:19:55

• Does a Speedsuit Make You Faster? Maybe. Does It Look Cool? Absolutely. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/style/olympics-speedsuits-ingebrigtsen.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:21:13

• For These Olympians, the Bling Is the Thing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/style/olympians-bling-accessories.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:21:33

• FT, Atlantic, Axel Springer and Fortune get behind Hey Hi (AI) start-up’s per-use compensation plan ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/prorata-ai-publisher-deals-financial-times-axel-springer-fortune-atlantic/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:22:05

• Future closes two US TV trade publications ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/future-closes-two-us-tv-trade-publications/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:23:20

• userbullshit https://siliconangle.com/2024/08/06/uber-shares-10-increased-bookings-deliver-earnings-revenue-beats/ company 12 BILLION DOLLARS in DEBT https://finbox.com/NYSE:UBER/explorer/total_debt    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:24:42

• Is Uber Heading Back Into the Black? https://www.statista.com/chart/31223/net-income-loss-of-uber-technologies/ Uber already lost about 30 billion dollars. Saudis subsidise this attack on the industries and on workers.    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:26:03

• Uber STILL loses money https://fourweekmba.com/uber-losses-by-year/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:27:17

• Rivian shares slide as electric car maker reports cost blowouts in second quarter ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/08/06/rivian-shares-slide-electric-car-maker-reports-cost-blowouts-second-quarter/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:42:28

• "first profitable quarter" (according to THEM) https://siliconangle.com/2024/08/07/lyfts-first-profitable-quarter-overshadowed-missed-booking-targets/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:43:10

• Lyft needs to pay interest on loans of over a billion dollars https://finbox.com/NASDAQGS:LYFT/explorer/total_debt    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:44:15

• Disappointing guidance and mixed earnings crater JFrog’s stock ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/08/07/disappointing-guidance-follows-mixed-earnings-results-jfrog-stock-craters-hours/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:51:07

• This airport will soon be able to automatically ID passengers using controversial new tech: ‘No government should be trusted’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/lifestyle/this-airport-is-leading-the-way-to-document-free-process-with-biometric-scanners/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:51:28

• Ohio ban on trans treatments for kids and trans athletes in youth sports can take effect, court rules ☞ https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/us-news/ohio-bans-trans-treatments-for-kids-trans-athletes-in-youth-sports/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:52:23

• "Firstly, the account is only open to customers who've been with Virgin Money since 4 December 2019 or earlier, and those who originally opened a current account with Clydesdale Bank or Yorkshire Bank." ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/new-regular-savings-account-whats-the-catch-ayBAO4V9iVJp    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:54:10

• Qt Creator 14.0.1 released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-14.0.1-released    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:54:39

• Steve Martin turns down Tim Walz impersonation role on ‘SNL,’ dashing internet’s casting hopes ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2024/08/07/steve-martin-turns-down-tim-walz-impersonation-role-on-snl-dashing-internets-casting-hopes/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:55:34

• Good that Intel didn't fall for this SCAM. "open" HEY HI loses money LIKE CRAZY! https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/intel-reportedly-gave-up-a-chance-to-buy-a-stake-in-openai-in-2017    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:57:15

• Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS 13.5 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2024/08/07/kiwi-tcms-135/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:58:57

• Event Wrap: bdNOG 18 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/08/07/event-wrap-bdnog-18/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:59:29

• LibreQoS: Analysing and defeating latency ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/08/07/libreqos-analysing-and-defeating-latency/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:59:37

• Event Wrap: PHNOG 2024 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/08/07/event-wrap-phnog-2024/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 15:59:48

• If people want to tackle nazism online, one approach other than bulk censorship is to convince people not to become nazis or convince nazis that it's dumb and disgusting. But rabid censors don't like to even consider this possibility because they like to assume nazi arguments always win, hence blocking them from existing is the sole option.    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:02:32

• ""Owning property" means not having to share. Whether we're talking about land or material possessions, "ownership" means it's yours for life, and beyond. You decide who gets your property after you die, and rich families set things up so that the dynasty maintains exclusive ownership of the family's property, in perpetuity. (Assuming no revolutions)" gemini://asquare.srht.site/gemlog/software_exceptionalism.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:02:38

• "words violently" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/poetry/violent    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:03:30

• "It was early July, we were seeing the due date approaching, our close family had made bet one when he would show up, but the reality is that we had no clue. There are supposed to be signs, like the baby "dropping" a couple a weeks prior, more contractions, or even less reliable ones. But really we had none." gemini://fludiblu.xyz/family/002-birth.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:04:01

• Germany rejects appeal of former Syria secret police officer’s 2022 conviction ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/germany-rejects-appeal-of-former-syria-secret-police-officers-2022-conviction/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:05:58

• Court Rules That the Government Can Hide Its Own Report on CIA Torture ☞ https://reason.com/2024/08/07/court-rules-that-the-government-can-hide-its-own-report-on-cia-torture/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:06:12

• Install VirtualBox Guest Additions for Ubuntu 24.04 VM ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/08/virtualbox-guest-additions-ubuntu/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:07:18

• nomino – batch rename utility for developers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nomino-batch-rename-utility/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:07:38

• 30 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Image Viewers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/imageviewers/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:07:59

• cosh – concatenative command-line shell ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cosh-concatenative-command-line-shell/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:08:16

• Elk – tiny embeddable JavaScript engine ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/elk-tiny-embeddable-javascript-engine/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:08:36

• tempren – template-based file renaming utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tempren-template-based-file-renaming-utility/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:09:02

• Elevate Your GNU/Linux Experience: Effective Performance Optimization Techniques for Enhanced Speed ☞ https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/elevate-your-linux-experience-effective-performance-optimization-techniques-enhanced-speed    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:10:25

• Alpaca Makes It Easy To Run Powerful Hey Hi (AI) Language Models On GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2024/08/07/alpaca-makes-it-easy-to-run-powerful-ai-language-models-on-linux/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:10:55

• 17 Must-Have Free Open-Source Apps for Book Readers for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android and the Web ☞ https://medevel.com/book-readers-1782/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:12:05

• TinyWATCH S3 P7: A Hackable and Open-Source Smartwatch Based on the ESP32-S3 SoC ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/tinywatch-s3-p7-a-hackable-and-open-source-smartwatch-based-on-the-esp32-s3-soc/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:13:16

• Firefox 130 Promises to Enable Overscroll Animations on Linux, Firefox Labs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/firefox-130-promises-to-enable-overscroll-animations-on-linux-firefox-labs    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:13:43

• Switch from Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows 11: Nitrux, GNU/Linux Mint, and GNU/Linux Lite are your new best friends ☞ https://betanews.com/2024/08/07/switch-microsoft-windows-11-nitrux-linux-mint-and-linux-lite/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:13:51

• How to Use the chmod Command for File Permissions in GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.fosslinux.com/143998/chmod-command-for-file-permissions-in-linux.htm    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:14:15

• "stay up-to-date with the latest technology and industry" buzzwords ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/top-red-hat-blog-articles-year-so-far | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:15:20

• "The next command in awk tells it to skip the remaining patterns and actions for the current line and proceed to the next input line." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/use-next-command-with-awk-in-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:15:41

• "There are several Linux utilities that we can use to locate files on the file system, but finding files with multiple extensions can sometimes prove tricky and require specific commands." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/find-files-by-extension-in-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:15:53

• "ADLINK Technology Inc has announced the launch of its new SBC35 Series of 3.5” Single Board Computers." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/adlink-unveils-new-sbc35-series-3-5-single-board-computers-featuring-intel-i3-i5-i7-n97-processors/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 16:16:20

• FSF Blogs: Join us in saying goodbye to our beloved office on August 16! ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/fsf-office-closing-party    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:17:28

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/984702/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:18:09

• AI inference on edge with TensorFlow Lite ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/ai-inference-on-edge-with-tensorflow-lite https://ubuntu.com//blog/ai-inference-on-edge-with-tensorflow-lite    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:18:59

• Detecting warp drive bubbles ☞ https://rubenerd.com/detecting-warp-drive-bubbles/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:19:24

• (Finally!) cutting shelves for our robot Hi-Fi ☞ https://rubenerd.com/cutting-shelves-for-our-robot-hifi-setup/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:20:37

• [Video] Debian With More Money: What Canonical, Under Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and GAFAM Control, Has Turned Into ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/08/08/Video_Debian_With_More_Money_What_Canonical_Under_Microsoft_and.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:20:45

• Man pages gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2024-08-08-man-pages    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:21:44

• "irc is fun. lurk in and out. Google Fi is still terrible with tethering, haven't diagnosed Port 22/SSH issue. Apparently by putting my SSH key with a domain (such as user@domain.com) instead of user@xx.xx.xx.xx (ip) that fixes the issue, but I haven't, yet." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2064    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:22:32

• "Hola! Happy Hacking to all hackers, DIY, Creators and tinkers out there." gemini://rek2.hispagatos.org/HackTheBox/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:23:15

• 20 GNOME Extensions To Perfectly Balance GNOME ☞ https://fosspost.org/gnome-extensions    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:24:54

• Hyprland 0.42 Is a Milestone Release, Here’s Why ☞ https://linuxiac.com/hyprland-0-42-is-a-milestone-release-heres-why/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:26:34

• kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from x to y packets/sec ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2024/08/07/kernel-limiting-closed-port-rst-response-from-x-to-y-packets-sec/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:27:18

• Sublime Text 4 Build 4180 Brings Fixes Across All Platforms ☞ https://linuxiac.com/sublime-text-4-build-4180-brings-fixes-across-all-platforms/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:28:25

• Vintage Crystal Radio ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/vintage-crystal-radio-draws-the-waves/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:38:25

• After Dobbs, some states rushed to protect abortion access. Now numbers of procedures are rising. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2024/0807/abortion-increase-bans-dobbs    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:38:39

• US district court rejects Harvard University efforts to dismiss antisemitism lawsuit ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/us-district-court-rejects-harvard-university-efforts-to-dismiss-antisemitism-lawsuit/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:39:14

• Family of French explorer killed in Titan sub implosion seeks more than $50 million in lawsuit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240807-titan-sub-crew-knew-they-were-going-to-die-before-implosion-50-million-lawsuit-alleges    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:39:55

• Justice Gorsuch Warns Biden To 'Be Careful' With Attempts To Control Supreme Court ☞ https://reason.com/2024/08/07/justice-gorsuch-warns-biden-to-be-careful-with-attempts-to-control-supreme-court/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:40:12

• Texas man accused of hiding explosives under toilets at local businesses that detonated when victims sat down ☞ https://nypost.com/2024/08/07/us-news/texas-man-hid-explosives-under-toilets-at-local-businesses-that-detonated-when-victims-sat-down/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:41:02

• India Raises Profile as Security Partner for Africa ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2024/08/india-raises-profile-as-security-partner-for-africa/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:41:22

• Trump Dangles New Tax Cut Proposals With Real Political Appeal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/business/economy/trump-tax-cuts.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:41:35

• Lufthansa Suspends Flights To Iran, Citing Security Concerns ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/lufthansa-germany-suspends-flights-iran-middle-east-tensions/33069060.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:41:46

• Key safe security, or the lack of it ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/key-safe-security-or-the-lack-of-it/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:42:03

• Israel vows to kill new Hamas chief Sinwar as US warns against escalation ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240807-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-israel-war-blinken-says-up-to-new-hamas-chief-yahya-sinwar-decide-gaza-ceasefire    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:42:22

• Masemola addresses concerns over high number of suspects killed by police in KZN ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/masemola-addresses-concerns-over-high-number-of-suspects-killed-by-police-in-kzn/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:42:37

• White River military training camp was illegal – PSiRA ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/white-river-military-training-camp-was-illegal-psira/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:42:52

• UN DR Congo mission authorised to assist SAMIDRC ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/un-dr-congo-mission-authorised-to-assist-samidrc/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:43:05

• KZN SAPS arrested over 11000 suspects in July as war on crime continues ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/kzn-saps-arrested-over-11000-suspects-in-july-as-war-on-crime-continues/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:43:21

• Fortinet acquires Next DLP to extend its data security capabilities ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/08/06/fortinet-acquires-next-dlp-extend-data-security-capabilities/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:44:10

• Over 40,000 Internet-Exposed ICS Devices Found in US: Censys ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/over-40000-internet-exposed-ics-devices-found-in-us-censys/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:47:42

• Latvian Foreign Ministry repeats call not to go to Israel ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/07.08.2024-latvian-foreign-ministry-repeats-call-not-to-go-to-israel.a564182/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:47:56

• Explore underwater with this Arduino-controlled DIY ROV ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2024/08/07/explore-underwater-with-this-arduino-controlled-diy-rov/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:49:10

• Turkish activists file lawsuit against government Instagram ban ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/08/turkish-activists-file-lawsuit-against-governments-instagram-ban/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:49:41

• Thomas Lange: Download Debian ☞ http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/debian-download/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:49:51

• After Telling X/Twitter Advertisers ‘Go F*ck Yourself’, Elon Musk Launches Antitrust Lawsuit ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/08/07/elon-musk-antitrust-lawsuit-x-advertisers/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:50:20

• New video shows Liverpool library riot and police attack https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c86lqldp26xo    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:52:03

• Windows Update Flaws Allow Undetectable Downgrade Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/safebreach-sounds-alarm-on-windows-update-flaws-allowing-undetectable-downgrade-attacks/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:53:40

• Please don't dump apples in forests, nature authority asks ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/environment/07.08.2024-please-dont-dump-apples-in-forests-nature-authority-asks.a564238/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:54:53

• Ryzen 9000 delid leads to first Zen 5 death — shared photos expose cracked dies and leftover solder ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/ryzen-9000-delid-leads-to-first-zen-5-death    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:56:55

• IDC v Lenovo: reinforcing the English Court’s pragmatic approach to FRAND determination ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/08/07/idc-v-lenovo-reinforcing-the-english-courts-pragmatic-approach-to-frand-determination/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 20:58:40

• Software Patents ☞ https://ipwatchdog.com/2024/08/06/cafc-affirms-dismissal-storage-patent-infringement-case-claims-failure-101/id=179953/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:00:19

• Alibaba Group joins Unified Patents ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2024/8/7/alibaba-group-joins-unified-patents    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:00:43

• $4,000 awarded for Atlantic IP Services entity Croga Innovations software patents prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2024/8/7/4000-awarded-for-atlantic-ip-services-entity-croga-innovations-software-patents-prior-art    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:01:01

• SPAM disguised as information; so-called 'marketing' in place of news ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/patent-attorney-firm-wsl-opens-office-in-munich-with-hgf-team/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:01:35

• Sahil Dhiman: Banks With Own ASN in India ☞ https://blog.sahilister.in/2024/08/banks-with-own-asn-in-india/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:02:14

• Fix “pkg-config command could not be found” Error on Debian ☞ https://ostechnix.com/fix-pkg-config-command-could-not-be-found-error-on-debian/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:03:17

• Geniatech SOM-3576 – A Rockchip RK3576 system-on-module with a 314-pin MXM 3.0 edge connector ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/08/07/geniatech-som-3576-rockchip-rk3576-system-on-module-314-pin-mxm-3-0-edge-connector/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:03:57

• ESP32-P4-Function-EV-Board development board launched for $55 with 7-inch display and camera module ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/08/07/esp32-p4-function-ev-board-development-board-launched-for-55-with-7-inch-display-and-camera-module/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:04:30

• Ron Deibert on ‘Sexist’ falsehoods target Kamala Haris after Biden drops out in the Daily Mail ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2024/08/ron-deibert-on-sexist-falsehoods-target-kamala-haris-after-biden-drops-out-in-the-daily-mail/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:05:20

• The Citizen Lab at DEF CON 32 ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2024/08/the-citizen-lab-at-def-con-32/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:05:52

• What Is Open Source? ☞ https://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/downloads/what-is-open-source/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:06:52

• Seems like keylogger and spyware ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/08/07/automattic-rolls-ai-writing-assistant-wordpress-bloggers/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:08:03

• Means-Plus-Function Claims in Patent Eligibility and Infringement Analyses ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/08/function-eligibility-infringement.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:09:01

• The Chain of Issuance: The People and Patents That Built The Financial Surveillance Network ☞ https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/08/investigative-series/the-chain-of-issuance-the-people-and-patents-that-built-the-financial-surveillance-network/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:09:46

• Federal Court Rules That Surveillance Giant Google Illegally Maintained a Monopoly ☞ https://reason.com/2024/08/07/federal-court-rules-that-google-illegally-maintained-a-monopoly/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:10:16

• Modern Password Manager - Free Self-hosted Password Manager with Surveillance Giant Google Chrome Support ☞ https://medevel.com/modern-password-manager/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:11:01

• Exploring Red Language: A Powerful Tool for Modern Programming, Relive Rebol Again ☞ https://medevel.com/red-lang-getting-started/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:26:24

• Is it the Time to Replace Node.js and Deno with Bun? ☞ https://medevel.com/bun-js/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:26:41

• Open Password Manager - Free Cross-platform and Open source Password Manager ☞ https://medevel.com/open-password-manager/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:27:11

• Data Visualization in Julia Language for Data Engineers ☞ https://medevel.com/julia-data-visualization/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:27:50

• Dynamic vs Static Typing: an Intro with Examples, Benefits and Use-Cases ☞ https://medevel.com/dynamic-vs-static-typing-an-intro-with-example-benefits/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:41:03

• Inside the Unchecked Bus Searches by South Carolina Police ☞ https://reason.com/2024/08/07/inside-the-unchecked-bus-searches-by-south-carolina-police/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:41:32

• U.S. Ambassador to Skip Peace Ceremony in Japan Over Israel’s Omission ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/world/asia/nagasaki-ceremony-japan-israel-us-ambassador.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:41:56

• Hezbollah chief Nasrallah vows 'strong response' to Israeli attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240806-%F0%9F%94%B4live-palestinian-officials-say-six-dead-in-israeli-raids-in-the-west-bank-israel-hamas-war-lebanon-iran    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:42:44

• Thoughts On 'SLUBStick' (Not a Severe Bug, Helps Distract From Lawsuits Against Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Over Clownstrike Fiasco) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/08/07/Thoughts_On_SLUBStick_Not_a_Severe_Bug_Helps_Distract_From_Laws.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:42:52

• Windows TCO ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/easterly-crowdstrike-china-volt-typhoon/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:43:30

• United Nations Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of ICTs for Criminal Purposes ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/publication/united-nations-ad-hoc-committee-to-elaborate-a-comprehensive-international-convention-on-countering-the-use-of-icts-for-criminal-purposes-2/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:44:43

• Letter To Negotiating States Regarding The Chair’s Proposal On Main Pending Provisions ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/publication/cybercrime-convention-recommendations-aug-6/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:45:04

• Qt for Android Automotive 6.7.2 is released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-android-automotive-6.7.2-is-released    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:45:39

• Google kills the Chromecast, introduces the Surveillance Giant Google TV Streamer for both video streaming and Smart Home control ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/08/07/google-kills-the-chromecast-introduces-the-google-tv-streamer-for-both-video-streaming-and-smart-home-control/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:46:12

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Kitsune Tails and Motordoom - 2024-08-07 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2024-08-07-edition/index.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:46:49

• Black Monday Crash ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/08/black-monday-crash/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:47:10

• $2,000 awarded for Equitable IP entity Communication Interface Technologies virtual connection patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2024/8/6/2000-awarded-for-equitable-ip-entity-communication-interface-technologies-virtual-connection-patent-prior-art    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:47:50

• Getting Started with Julia: A Beginner's Guide to the High-Performance Language ☞ https://medevel.com/julia-intro/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:48:10

• What is GPU programming ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/08/07/what-gpu-programming    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:48:39

• Moscow City Court Upholds Arrest Warrant For Yulia Navalnaya ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/yulia-navalnaya-arrest-warrant-moscow-court-ruling/33069368.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:49:03

• mintCast 443 – Wilma Has Arrived ☞ https://mintcast.org/443-wilma-has-arrived/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:50:05

• FLOSS Weekly ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/08/07/floss-weekly-episode-795-liferay-now-were-thinking-with-portals/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:50:27

• Linux Matters: Mark Was Right, Twice ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/35/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:50:46

• [Podcast] The SIDN Labs post-quantum DNSSEC testbed ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/08/08/podcast-the-sidn-labs-post-quantum-dnssec-testbed/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:51:34

• Not really, the bubble is imploding already. Lots of money lost, the environment ruined, mostly for junk and vapourware. ☞ https://fossforce.com/2024/08/expect-a-boom-in-data-centers-purpose-built-for-power-hungry-ai-workloads-researcher-says/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:53:04

• Coronavirus denialism overlooks excess deaths, among other data points ☞ https://off-guardian.org/2024/08/07/the-virus-telenovella-teaching-the-plandemic/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:54:06

• How covid conspiracy theories led to an alarming resurgence in AIDS denialism ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/07/1095762/covid-conspiracies-hiv-aids-denial-public-health/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:54:25

• Tim Walz Was a COVID-19 Tyrant ☞ https://reason.com/2024/08/06/tim-walz-was-a-covid-19-tyrant/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:54:34

• Pluralistic: The Surveillance Giant Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not democratize it (07 Aug 2024) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:54:54

• Samsung A54 long-term usage report 5 ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/samsung-a54-report-5.html    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:55:42

• The Evolution of Smartphone Security ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/the-evolution-of-smartphone-security/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 21:55:55

• No TokTok in Tibetan ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/cartoons/china-tibetan-tiktok-deleted-cartoon-08072024093500.html http://techrights.org/n/2024/03/15/The_Demise_of_Bytedance_TikTok_Would_Do_Good_for_Free_Speech_On.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 22:01:57

• "Selecting a Linux distribution can be daunting but when you finally find the one, you stick with it. Pop!_OS has been my go-to for a long time. Here's why." https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-reasons-why-pop-os-is-this-linux-pros-favorite-distro/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 22:09:44

• Exaggerated claims https://thehackernews.com/2024/08/new-linux-kernel-exploit-technique.html http://techrights.org/n/2024/08/07/Thoughts_On_SLUBStick_Not_a_Severe_Bug_Helps_Distract_From_Laws.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 22:11:40

• "Here are the top three Linux distributions that you should consider when switching from Microsoft Windows 11." https://betanews.com/2024/08/07/switch-microsoft-windows-11-nitrux-linux-mint-and-linux-lite/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 22:11:59

• "Whether you're new to Linux or an advanced user, here are five distributions that will up your game." https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-linux-distros-that-offer-something-for-everyone-from-beginners-to-pros/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 22:12:48

• Secure software development education report from the Linux Foundation https://appdevelopermagazine.com/secure-software-development-education-report-from-the-linux-foundation/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 22:14:27

• "While it's exclusive to the Epic Store when it comes to launchers, you can also buy it with Native Linux support DRM-free directly from their website. So no launcher at all is needed for it." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/world-of-goo-2-is-out-now-with-native-linux-support/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 22:14:50

• "The upcoming Firefox release will allow translating selected text portions to different languages after a full-page translation." https://9to5linux.com/firefox-130-promises-to-enable-overscroll-animations-on-linux-firefox-labs    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 22:15:11

• Linux Foundation seems to be facilitating charlatans and scams https://coingeek.com/video/thomas-giacomo-the-bsv-association-wants-to-be-the-linux-foundation-of-bsv-blockchain-video/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 23:28:00

• "Choosing a movie for my wife and I can sometimes be a battle. So we have this set of cards designed to help set up a date night, and there are ones for movies. It gives you a very specific category to pick from." gemini://fludiblu.xyz/culture/movies/001-midnight-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 23:37:47

• "This is what it feels like whenever I look at the ridiculous array of tools modern companies have and how many of them do the exact same things with maybe a slightly different coat of paint." gemini://sporiff.dev/microblog/fundamentals/    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 23:38:57

• "When I first saw gazetters I was frustrated as all heck with them. They to me seemed like unplayable nonsense. “In this part of Eberron the hobbits ride dinosaurs” gee thanks! [Where is the game!] That’s how I felt." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/gazetteers    

posted Thursday, August 08, 2024 at 23:39:54