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  • 🔴 Live: France, US propose 21-day Lebanon ceasefire to allow for talks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240925-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-france-us-propose-21-day-lebanon-ceasefire-to-allow-for-talks    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:20:26


  • Israel is targeting Hezbollah commanders like Ali Karaki, but will it work? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240925-israel-is-targeting-hezbollah-commanders-like-ali-karaki-but-will-it-work    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:20:41


  • NGOs urge UN Commission of Inquiry to investigate December killing of Lebanese journalist in Israeli strike ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/09/ngos-request-un-commission-of-inquiry-to-investigate-killing-of-journalist-issam-abdallah/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:21:22


  • Kiryat Shmona, Israel, Endures Hezbollah Rocket Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/middleeast/kiryat-shmona-border-town.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:21:36


  • In Lebanon, a Family Flees Israeli Airstrikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/middleeast/lebanon-strikes-refugees-displaced.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:21:51


  • Firefox tracks you with “privacy preserving” feature ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/firefox-tracks-you-privacy-preserving-feature    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:22:32


  • EDRi-gram, 25 September 2024 ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-25-september-2024/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:23:25


  • The Bill on Canada’s Digital Policy Comes Due: Blocked News Links, Cancelled Sponsorship, Legal Challenges, and Digital Ad Surcharges ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2024/09/the-bill-on-canadas-digital-policy-comes-due-blocked-news-links-cancelled-sponsorship-legal-challenges-and-digital-ad-surcharges/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:25:09


  • Google files EU antitrust complaint against Abusive Monopolist Microsoft over software licensing ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/25/google-files-eu-antitrust-complaint-microsoft-software-licensing/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:25:33


  • Google is officially a monopoly, now let’s get the rest of them ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/google-is-officially-a-monopoly-now-lets-get-the-rest-of-them/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:26:02


  • Hensoldt reveals new ARGOS-15 gimbal ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/hensoldt-reveals-new-argos-15-gimbal/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:26:27


  • North Korea says its satellite spied US nuclear submarine ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/us-south-korea-submarine-09242024234252.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:26:43


  • Federal Circuit Grants En Banc Rehearing in EcoFactor v. Google, Limiting Damages Expert Testimony ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/09/rehearing-ecofactor-testimony.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:27:21


  • Christian Hergert: Messaging Needs ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2024/09/25/messaging-needs/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:27:59


  • Why internal developer portals matter ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/09/25/why-internal-developer-portals-matter    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:29:15


  • How to serve embeddings models on OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/09/25/how-serve-embeddings-models-openshift-ai    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:29:23


  • Olympeaks: The impact of the Paris 2024 Olympics on Internet traffic ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/09/26/olympeaks-the-impact-of-the-paris-2024-olympics-on-internet-traffic/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:30:52


  • Publicized torture of İstanbul police killing suspect draws condemnation ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/publicized-torture-of-istanbul-police-killing-suspect-draws-condemnation-300030    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:31:39


  • Talk: Keeping the world from Burning ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/09/25/talk-keeping-the-world-from-burning/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:32:22


  • New – Electra Hey Hi (AI) Coder ! ☞ http://www.makululinux.com/wp/2024/09/25/new-electra-ai-coder/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:32:53


  • Hacker Successfully Runs GNU/Linux on a CPU from the Early ‘70s ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Hacker-Successfully-Runs-Linux-on-a-CPU-from-the-Early-70s    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:33:38


  • Avidemux: A simple Free Video Editor for Basic Editing Tasks ☞ https://medevel.com/avidemux/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:35:55


  • Fabric Video Editor: A Hobby Project That Grew Into a Powerful Next.js Application ☞ https://medevel.com/fabric-video-editor/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:36:48


  • What "Linux" Articles Look Like in ZDNet Right Now ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/25/What_Linux_Articles_Look_like_in_ZDNet_Right_Now.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:38:13


  • heynote – dedicated scratchpad for developers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/heynote-dedicated-scratchpad-developers/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:38:47


  • 16 Best Free and Open Source PDF Development Libraries ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-pdf-development-libraries/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:38:56


  • The Statial-b Open Source Adjustable Mous ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/09/25/the-statial-b-open-source-adjustable-mouse/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:40:10


  • Winamp releases its source code on Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub — but the legacy media player doesn't go full open-source ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/winamp-releases-its-source-code-on-github-but-the-legacy-media-player-doesnt-go-full-open-source    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:40:57


  • Cockpit Project: Cockpit 325 ☞ https://cockpit-project.org//blog/cockpit-325.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:41:46


  • reServer Industrial J501 – An NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin carrier board with 10GbE, 8K video output, GMSL camera support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/09/26/reserver-industrial-j501-an-nvidia-jetson-agx-orin-carrier-board-with-10gbe-8k-video-output-gmsl-camera-support/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:42:48


  • Fedora Community Blog: CPE Update Q2 2024 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/cpe-update-q2-2024/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:43:27


  • Jonathan Dowland: whisper ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/whisper/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:44:01


  • Flowblade Review: A Free Powerful and Lightweight Video Editor for GNU/Linux Users ☞ https://medevel.com/flowblade/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:44:25


  • Top 22 Free Open-Source Video Editing Tools for Every Content Creator (Linux, Windows, macOS) ☞ https://medevel.com/free-video-editors-1022/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:45:05


  • New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Aura of Worlds - 2024-09-25 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2024-09-25-edition/index.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:45:39


  • In-Place Modifications ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/09/in-place-modifications/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:46:07


  • Jonathan Blandford: GUADEC 2024 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2024/09/25/guadec-2024/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:46:57


  • "A DaVinci Screw-Cutting Machine" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/09/25/a-davinci-screw-cutting-machine/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:55:46


  • Mastering R Programming for Data Science: Tips and Tricks ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/09/mastering-r-programming-for-data-science-tips-and-tricks/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:58:17


  • Techtonique web app for data-driven decisions using Mathematics, Statistics, Machine Learning, and Data Visualization ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/09/techtonique-web-app-for-data-driven-decisions-using-mathematics-statistics-machine-learning-and-data-visualization/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:59:00


  • This is not about security ☞ https://copyninja.in/blog/enable_secureboot_ukify.html http://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:02:30


  • In Switzerland, Reported Use of Suicide Capsule Inflames Debate ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/europe/switzerland-sarco-capsule-suicide.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:03:18


  • Tips for Easier and Faster Typing on Your Smartphone ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/technology/personaltech/smartphone-typing-tips.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:04:23


  • Pluralistic: Academic economists get big payouts when they help monopolists beat antitrust (25 Sep 2024) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/25/epistemological-chaos/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:05:33


  • EPO grants loads of illegal patents; the whole point of an examination was to pretend frivolous cases, but lawyers stand to gain from them ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/panasonics-opening-win-against-oppo-in-munich/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:08:04


  • Ads or SPAM thinly disguised as "rankings"; they even get paid by some of these firms for placements and propaganda ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/video-juve-patents-netherlands-ranking-2024/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:09:01


  • They're measuring the wrong thing and evaluating dishonest firms that take people to fights they'd lose, too ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/top-filing-and-litigation-firms-in-the-netherlands-2024/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:09:56


  • In addition to taking bribes to lobby for illegal agenda using lies, JUVE also does fake "rankings" for firms it takes money from ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/top-filing-firms-in-the-netherlands-2024/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:10:55


  • And yet more spam disguised as "information" for the patent litigation "industry" ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/top-litigation-firms-in-the-netherlands-2024/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:11:42


  • Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/25/1104475/nobel-prize-winners-cancel-crispr-patents-europe/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:12:23


  • A Lot of Litigation at the European Patent Office Because the Administration Crushes the Rights of Staff ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/25/A_Lot_of_Litigation_at_the_European_Patent_Office_Because_the_A.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:12:35


  • IBM Is Running Out Of DDR4 Memory Faster Than It Thought ☞ https://www.itjungle.com/2024/09/25/ibm-is-running-out-of-ddr4-memory-faster-than-it-thought/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:14:22


  • TikTok’s Streaming Loss Is Spotify’s Gain — SPOT Cracks a Record High Following Fentanylware (TikTok) Music Shutdown Announcement ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/09/25/spotify-stock-tiktok-music-shutdown/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:14:52


  • Arduino releases a power management library for Arduino Pro modules to optimize power consumption ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/09/26/arduino-power-management-library-arduino-pro-modules/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:15:46


  • Company to go BANKRUPT soon? https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/25/open-ai-cto-mira-murati-quits-becoming-latest-string-executive-departures/ https://www.securityweek.com/openai-exec-mira-murati-says-shes-leaving-artificial-intelligence-company/ who will shoulder the EPIC LOSSES? http://techrights.org/n/2024/09/16/Open_AI_Looks_Like_a_Company_Headed_Towards_Bankruptcy_Not_IPO_.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:17:20


  • Cofense report reveals new phishing scam using Fentanylware (TikTok) URLs to target Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 credentials ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/25/cofense-report-reveals-new-phishing-scam-using-tiktok-urls-target-microsoft-365-credentials/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:18:56


  • Recent events impact the present a lot more than distant past events, so it's hard to attribute work done decades ago to major events at present, even if the chain as a whole is not deterministic and distant past events play a role in everything that follows    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:21:11


  • IBM looks like it'll be another Novell in a few years. "employees leaving should never sign any exit document - ever. Don't contract away your rights as you are booted from the company." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uER4hDY    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:22:06


  • Fearing Gen Z is keeping them out of tech jobs, older workers are filing age complaints in droves https://fortune.com/2024/09/26/gen-z-tech-jobs-boomer-workers-age-discrimination-complaints/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:25:33


  • Security compliance unicorn Drata lays off 9% of its workforce https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/26/security-compliance-unicorn-drata-lays-off-9-of-its-workforce/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:26:37


  • Another wave of Microsoft layoffs https://www.dailybulletin.com/2024/09/26/video-gamemaker-activision-blizzard-laying-off-400-workers-in-irvine-la/ https://www.ocregister.com/2024/09/26/video-gamemaker-activision-blizzard-laying-off-400-workers-in-irvine-la/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:29:05


  • Rumour: Bell to lay off 100s of Expertech employees before winter holidays https://mobilesyrup.com/2024/09/26/bell-lay-off-expertech-employees/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:31:06


  • "It's an interim release that will only get updates until next August, so it's mainly for enthusiasts; if you go for it, you're committing to the next couple of interim releases. After Oracular, you will need to upgrade to 25.04 and then 25.10 before the next LTS, 26.04 in April 2026." https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/25/ubuntu_2410_beta/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 02:59:48


  • "Ubuntu 24.10 supports the Snapdragon-powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop in the official ‘generic’ ARM64 ISO — a notable change." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/09/ubuntu-24-10-arm64-iso-now-supports-thinkpad-x13s    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:00:09


  • "When you open the Camera app, it shows "No Camera Found. Connect a camera device" message." https://itsfoss.com/no-camera-found-ubuntu/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:00:42


  • "Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released today version 1.9.25 of this powerful tool for updating the firmware of your devices, coming a little over a month after the fwupd 1.9.24 release." https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-1-9-25-adds-support-for-dell-k2-dock-and-more-intel-usb4-hubs    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:01:29


  • "Files are a fact of life in any operating system, and they need managing. So on your Linux devices, what software do you prefer to use to browse and organize your files and folders?" https://www.howtogeek.com/thread/whats-your-favorite-linux-file-manager/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:01:59


  • "With a short history that started in 2023, Liya Linux is a one-man effort based on Arch with reduced system requirements alongside modern looks and improved security. Released yesterday, version 2.1 comes with the 6.11.0-1 kernel." https://www.notebookcheck.net/Arch-Linux-based-Liya-2-1-rolls-out-with-the-6-11-0-1-kernel.893752.0.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:02:27


  • Apparently it targets VMware, not Linux https://www.techedt.com/windows-malware-expands-its-reach-now-targeting-linux-systems    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:03:42


  • "As for what's new: the big one is a Collections feature, which is still experimental. This allows you to install multiple mods together in one. Currently only supports mods from Nexus Mods and it's only available for Premium users right now but eventually free users will be able to use it." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/cross-platform-nexus-mods-app-adds-support-for-mod-collections-fixes-redmod-on-linux/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:04:01


  • "According to PC Gamer, Grinberg managed to boot the Debian Linux kernel on a 4-bit Intel 4004 processor, the first commercially manufactured microprocessor. With just 2,600 transistors, the 4004 is extremely limited in operations and lacks hardware interrupts." https://www.fudzilla.com/news/pc-hardware/59762-bloke-gets-linux-to-run-on-a-1971-processor    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:04:40


  • Essential Linux Security Practices https://cyberw1ng.medium.com/essential-linux-security-practices-f59bfecdcb01    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:05:36


  • "As for the performance, it’s rather what you expect, with video playback topping out at 480p (on the 1024×600 display) and applications like Firefox lacking the compact density mode, wasting a lot of screen space." https://hackaday.com/2024/09/25/reviving-a-15-year-old-asus-eeepc-with-modern-mx-linux/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:06:06


  • Can You Run Linux On An Intel 4004 CPU From 1971? Surprisingly, Yes! https://hothardware.com/news/linux-on-intel-4004    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:06:31


  • Proprietary snake-oil https://www.techtarget.com/searchdatabackup/news/366612013/SIOS-focuses-on-failovers-in-LifeKeeper-for-Linux-update    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:08:12


  • "ibm is dead. go pick another company to work for gen z kiddos." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uHSzcut    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 03:14:50


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1067.jpg    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 04:11:46


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1416.jpg    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 04:12:01


  • "These last few days seemed to go so fast. ~bartender, some tea, please. I want to sit down for a while." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2208    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 04:48:54


  • Writing books gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2209    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 04:49:51


  • Let's Encrypt continues to fall hard gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 04:50:43


  • GNU/Linux up in China this month https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/china/#monthly-200901-202409    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 04:58:25


  • "Ummm we don’t fear. We know. You see, many of us are responsible for making the decisions and when it comes to keeping the costs down, it’s a no brainer that young is cheaper." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uHSzcut    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 07:21:40


  • "Huh? After 27 years in tech, I am now driving an airport shuttle. Never take your career for granted." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uGmNUR7    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 07:22:19


  • Video game maker Activision Blizzard laying off 400 workers in Irvine, LA https://www.dailynews.com/2024/09/26/video-gamemaker-activision-blizzard-laying-off-400-workers-in-irvine-la/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 07:24:39


  • Disney layoffs https://www.zeebiz.com/world/video-gallery-mass-lay-off-at-disney-hundreds-of-corporate-staffers-impacted-317856    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 07:25:37


  • "A lot of the publicly funded social support network here in Sweden is set to “reward work”, or at least that’s the slogan. What that often means in practice is that the programs mean free labor for the capitalist oppressors." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/reward-work    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:05:58


  • SJVN copies a term coined by Techrights: "They're open-washing the program to get attention." https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/winamp-opens-its-code-but-it-doesn-t-open-source-its-code    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:10:12


  • "clarify" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/09/27/putin-wants-to-clarify-russia-s-nuclear-doctrine-but-any-escalatory-actions-will-depend-on-how-the-kremlin-interprets-its-own-wording | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:44:08


  • "war crime" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/09/26/another-war-crime-by-the-russians-the-aftermath-of-moscow-s-guided-bomb-attack-on-central-kramatorsk | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:44:23


  • "Musi, a massively popular free music app with millions of users, has been removed from the App Store." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/apple-removes-parasitic-streaming-app-musi-following-persistent-complaints-240926/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:45:03


  • "Three teachers share their experience with The Computing Curriculum" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-computing-curriculum-global-perspectives/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:45:27


  • An Ode To The SAO ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/09/26/an-ode-to-the-sao/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:45:52


  • "Seems they all come back in the end. Ubisoft put out a new financial targets statement, and in it they confirmed a move back to same-day releases on Steam starting with Assassin's Creed Shadows." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/assassins-creed-shadows-and-star-wars-outlaws-head-to-steam-as-ubisoft-return-to-same-day-releases/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:46:27


  • "With the news recently about Frog Protocols for Wayland coming from another frustrated Valve developer, now Mike Blumenkrantz has jumped in with a different proposal to speed things up." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/valve-dev-mike-blumenkrantz-details-a-new-proposal-for-speedier-wayland-protocols-development/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:46:44


  • "The developers have announced Slay the Princess - The Pristine Cut, a free upgrade that's going to release on October 24th." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/slay-the-princess-the-pristine-cut-is-a-big-free-upgrade-coming-in-october/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:47:55


  • "The Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 8, 9, 10 and 11 for Linux used in Wine / Proton, DXVK version 2.4.1 is out today. This is a huge part of what makes Valve's Proton able to run so many Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/dxvk-2-4-1-brings-improvements-for-launchers-more-robust-d3d8-lots-of-game-fixes-for-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:48:09


  • "The latest Dwarf Fortress update has been released bringing with it some needed fixes, along with babies and some fun news about modding." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/dwarf-fortress-to-get-lua-support-for-modding-plus-theres-now-babies-and-children/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:48:25


  • "Why the iPhone 16 Should Scare You Shitless" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/iphone16:8    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:49:14


  • "Don't Make the Same Mistake with Iran that Denialists Made with Russia" https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/09/25/dont-make-the-same-mistake-with-iran-that-denialists-made-with-russia/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:49:33


  • "Point and click murder mystery, Murder On Space Station 52, has released with Linux support from developer Made From Strings." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/sci-fi-point-and-click-adventure-murder-on-space-station-52-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:50:12


  • "Soldak Entertainment make some pretty quirky RPGs with a good few die-hard fans, and now they're trying something a bit different with Din's Champion." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/dins-champion-is-dynamic-rogue-lite-rpg-styled-like-terraria-from-soldak-entertainment/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:50:31


  • "Michigan Medicine notifies patients of health information breach | Michigan Medicine" https://www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release/michigan-medicine-notifies-patients-health-information-breach-3    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:50:50


  • Sultan "Erdoğan skips Biden’s dinner during UN General Assembly" https://bianet.org/haber/erdogan-skips-bidens-dinner-during-un-general-assembly-300085    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:51:05


  • "Tor y Tails se unen "por la libertad en Internet"" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.muylinux.com/2024/09/26/tor-y-tails-se-unen/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:51:34


  • "For exploration puzzle game fans you may want to look at the Enter the Mysterium Humble Bundle that has some goodies for you. A nice bit of gaming history in this one." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/get-the-2021-remake-of-the-original-myst-plus-obduction-and-more-in-this-humble-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:51:55


  • "Crusader Kings III: Roads to Power along with the free 1.13.0 "Basileus" update have launched, and it seems like it's actually really good news for Paradox." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/crusader-kings-iii-roads-to-power-major-expansion-released-plus-a-big-free-update/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:52:06


  • "American Rejects U.S. Citizenship in Russian Court, Russian Media Says - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/26/american-rejects-us-citizenship-in-russian-court-russian-media-says-a86487    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:52:25


  • "After a short Beta period I covered previously, the EmuDeck team have released EmuDeck 2.3 that comes with the big user interface overhaul. Not only that but Nintendo 3DS emulators have made a return." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/09/emudeck-23-out-now-with-a-fresh-ui-design-3ds-emulators-return/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:52:50


  • "‘Another war crime by the Russians’: The aftermath of Moscow’s guided bomb attack on central Kramatorsk" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/09/26/another-war-crime-by-the-russians-the-aftermath-of-moscow-s-guided-bomb-attack-on-central-kramatorsk    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:53:01


  • "Moderaternas och Liberalernas svek om Chat Control 2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2024/09/26/moderaternas-och-liberalernas-svek-om-chat-control-2/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:53:14


  • Iran's "Hamas: "The Resistance Will Not Surrender"" https://www.telesurenglish.net/hamas-the-resistance-will-not-surrender/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:53:32


  • "What is a web" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://adrianperales.com/2024/09/lo-que-es-una-web/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:56:07


  • "There are many types of networks. We could oversimplify them into those that are commercially motivated, and those that have a more personal purpose (for our friends) and artistic ones (for a handful of fans). The latter are motivated by the privilege of having free time to share." https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://text.eapl.mx/re-lo-que-es-una-web-pequena    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:56:38


  • "disengagement" ☛ https://fair.org/home/how-scripps-turned-public-disengagement-into-strong-support-for-deportation/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:57:20


  • cryptex ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/u-s-indicts-2-top-russian-hackers-sanctions-cryptex/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:57:37


  • Ambassador ☛ https://thedissenter.org/israeli-ambassador-defends-shutdown-aljazeera/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 08:58:17


  • "The delays worsened after the federal government lifted pandemic-era protections last year." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/getinvolved/help-propublica-report-on-texas-medicaid-snap-backlog | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:01:21


  • "For three years during the coronavirus pandemic" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-medicaid-unwinding-consequences | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:01:33


  • "The sprawling business empire created by tribal leaders in northern Wisconsin was born of desperate times" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-lac-du-flambeau-tribe-lending-brian-coughlin-bankruptcy-lawsuit | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:02:03


  • "The Faboratory at Yale University has set a number of stretch goals." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/09/26/stretch-goal-300x-arduino/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:07:13


  • global warming ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/26/conservatives-taken-7-2-million-donations-from-global-warming-policy-foundation-climate-denial-group-funders-directors/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:07:55


  • "Tor Project, a global non-profit developing tools for online privacy and anonymity, and Tails" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:08:25


  • "updated strings for users on legacy Windows" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1355/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:09:00


  • How To Install Oracle VirtualBox 7.1 In Fedora GNU/Linux 41 ☞ https://ostechnix.com/install-oracle-virtualbox-fedora-linux/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:13:10


  • CUPS ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-response-openprinting-cups-vulnerabilities | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:15:18


  • "Now let's try it out!" ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2024/09/how-to-switch-start-menu-mode-on-kubuntu.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:16:10


  • "Most browsers know way too much about you"... just like FIREFOX! ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-privacy-security-features/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:16:38


  • "Crowd Supply recently launched the Sensor Watch Pro campaign, an upgrade for Casio’s F-91W and A158W models." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/sensor-watch-pro-hackable-arm-cortex-m0-upgrade-for-casio-f-91w/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:18:23


  • "The URVE Board A55 is a compact, high-performance Arm-based computer designed for continuous 24/7/365 operation." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/urve-board-a55-runs-linux-on-rockchip-rk3566-soc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:18:30


  • "LILYGO launched the T-Embed CC1101, built around the ESP32-S3 Dual-core LX7. It supports Wi-Fi, BLE 5, and Sub-GHz wireless communication, targeting remote and low-power IoT projects." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/lilygo-t-embed-cc1101-enabling-sub-ghz-and-nfc-rfid-communication/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:18:37


  • How to Optimize WoW on GNU/Linux Using Open-Source Tools for the Best Gaming Experience ☞ https://www.unixmen.com/how-to-optimize-wow-on-linux-using-open-source-tools-for-the-best-gaming-experience/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:19:10


  • "This is a market that is expected to grow substantially in the coming years, with our report shedding light on the motivation that CPSs are drawing from the enhancements that 5G networks will bring." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/telco-5g-mobile-networks-a-driver-for-edge-computing | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:19:45


  • "Canonical’s security team has released updates for the cups-browsed" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/cups-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-fix-available | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:20:39


  • FTC ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/ftc-report-confirms-commercial-surveillance-out-control | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:22:04


  • Andrey Matus ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/09/26/who-is-andrey-matus-the-fixer-who-reportedly-gave-navalny-s-team-info-linking-a-khodorkovsky-ally-to-attacks-on-russian-dissidents | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:22:49


  • "We paid $34 Billion. They got rich. We got sc--wed. No tangible benefit for our people. Where’s the accountability?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIuaP9A    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:23:15


  • "Changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine are a ‘signal’ to the West, Kremlin spokesman says" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/09/26/changes-to-russia-s-nuclear-doctrine-are-a-signal-to-the-west-kremlin-spokesman-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 09:25:02


  • Commission takes action to ensure complete and timely transposition of EU directives ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/INF_24_4661    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:15:55


  • France’s new government aims to calm the political storm. What will it mean for foreign policy? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/frances-new-government-aims-to-calm-the-political-storm-what-will-it-mean-for-foreign-policy/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:16:40


  • Zelensky’s ‘victory plan’: Is the war in Ukraine reaching its endgame? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240926-zelensky-s-victory-plan-is-the-ukraine-war-reaching-its-endgame    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:16:55


  • ‘Ukraine will prevail,’ Biden tells Zelensky after pledging $8 billion in military aid to Kyiv ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240926-ukraine-will-prevail-joe-biden-tells-volodymyr-zelensky-after-pledging-8-billion-in-military-aid-to-kyiv    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:17:24


  • European Council president calls for UN Security Council reform to strengthen global peacekeeping ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/09/european-council-president-calls-for-un-security-council-reform-to-strengthen-global-peacekeeping/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:17:43


  • Zelenskiy Brings 'Victory Plan' To White House Meeting With Biden, Harris ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/kyiv-zaporizhzhya-strikes-ukraine-russia/33135636.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:20:16


  • Russian Actor Jailed For 6 Years In Absentia ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-panin-prison-ukraine-war/33136350.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:20:28


  • Trump Says Zelenskiy 'Takes Billions' While Refusing To 'Make A Deal' To End War ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-zelenskiy-deal-ukraine-war-billions-aid/33135197.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:20:47


  • U.S. Intelligence Stresses Risks in Allowing Long-Range Strikes by Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/politics/us-intelligence-stresses-risks-in-allowing-long-range-strikes-by-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:21:00


  • Zelensky’s Star Power Fades on Capitol Hill ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/ukraine-zelensky-washington-congress.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:22:08


  • On Ukraine’s Eastern Front, A High-Stakes Struggle Against Russian Forces ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/world/europe/ukraine-eastern-front-line.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:22:36


  • U.S. House Speaker Demands That Ukraine Fire Ambassador ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/world/europe/mike-johnson-ukraine-us-ambassador.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:22:48


  • Harris meets Zelensky and slams Trump's 'surrender policy' for Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20240927-harris-meets-zelensky-and-slams-trump-s-surrender-policy-for-ukraine    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:26:06


  • How Russia, China, and Iran are working to sow distrust in US elections, according to US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/news/transcripts/how-russia-china-and-iran-are-working-to-sow-distrust-in-us-elections-according-to-us-deputy-attorney-general-lisa-monaco/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:26:54


  • China is ‘aiding and abetting the Russian war machine,’ says US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/china-is-aiding-and-abetting-the-russian-war-machine-says-us-ambassador-to-china-nicholas-burns/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:27:20


  • Two Russian nationals indicted for servicing millions of dollars in cybercrime funds ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/jokers-stash-cryptex-uaps-pm2btc-cybercrime-money-laundering/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:27:36


  • U.S. Moves To Break Up Cyber-Money-Laundering Operation Allegedly Run By Russians ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/treasury-crypto-russia-money-laundering/33136647.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:27:52


  • Moldova Blocks Russian Websites Ahead Of EU Referendum, Presidential Vote ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/moldova-eu-referendum-election-russia-influence/33136220.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:28:06


  • Language Incident At Uzbek School Leads To Heated Exchange With Moscow ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/uzbekistan-school-incident-russia-language/33136293.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:28:22


  • Relative of Late Chechen Leader Reportedly Abducted By Police After Posting Photo ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/chechnya-dudayev-relative-detained-kadyrov/33135931.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:28:36


  • Russia’s Lavrov says North Korea’s nuclear status is a ‘closed issue’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russias-lavrov-says-north-koreas-nuclear-status-is-a-closed-issue    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:28:54


  • Crunchtime for Election Interference: October Is the Month of Mischief ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/politics/october-election-interference.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:29:19


  • Wave Of Arrests Targets LGBT Community In Belarus ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-lgbt-arrests-transgender/33136652.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:29:39


  • Prison Labor Reported At German Lawmaker's Farm In Belarus ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/germany-afd-prison-labor-belarus/33136080.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:29:58


  • Ubuntu Blog: Charmed OpenSearch enters general availability ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/charmed-opensearch-release    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:31:23


  • The Historical Roots of Patent Injunctions: Revisiting Horton v. Maltby (1783) ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/09/historical-injunctions-revisiting.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:32:01


  • My Thoughts on the WordPress Drama ☞ https://kevquirk.com/blog/my-thoughts-on-the-wordpress-drama    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:34:39


  • TTABlog Test: Is AMERICAN CLOUD Primarily Geographically Descriptive of Cloud-Based Computer Services? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2024/09/ttablog-test-is-american-cloud.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:35:33


  • Uniting for Internet Freedom: Tor Project & Tails Join Forces (Tor blog) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/991899/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:36:20


  • Why We Keep Saying Bryan Lunduke is a Liability ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/26/Why_We_Keep_Saying_Bryan_Lunduke_is_a_Liability.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:38:34


  • Rust Compiler Not Stable Enough for Linux Kernel Development ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/rust-compiler-not-stable-enough-for According to Linus Torvalds: "Nothing depends on Rust in the kernel now, and nothing will for some time yet."    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:39:33


  • How To Install Anaconda on AlmaLinux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-anaconda-almalinux-9/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:44:12


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

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:44:40


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

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:45:03


  • "How To Switch Start Menu Mode on Kubuntu" ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2024/09/how-to-switch-start-menu-mode-on-kubuntu.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:47:54


  • How To Install ELK Stack on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-elk-stack-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:48:10


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

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:48:31


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

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:48:58


  • How To Install Apache Maven on Fedora 40 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-maven-fedora-40/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:49:10


  • "Here’s a phrase I have to use but hate doing so: let’s go back to the 2020 presidential campaign." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/26/trump-loses-copyright-suit-over-electric-avenue-2020-campaign-video-in-summary-judgement/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:51:12


  • "There are fair use and copyright issues to sort out in the courts" ☛ https://www.manton.org/2024/09/26/notraining-creative-commons.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:51:35


  • "fined for allegedly creating fake accounts" ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/09/251_383180.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:56:56


  • "­­The request to withdraw the pair of European patents" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/25/1104475/nobel-prize-winners-cancel-crispr-patents-europe/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:57:44


  • "we’ve tracked the impact of RaiPlay’s coverage" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/09/26/olympeaks-the-impact-of-the-paris-2024-olympics-on-internet-traffic/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 12:59:35


  • 🔤SpellBinding: ATMNORF Wordo: SPREE gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2024-09-27.gmi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:01:30


  • "I am pretty fed up with the quality and quantity of the information and interactions I tended to encounter day-to-day. Here's how I push back." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2024-09-27_digital-and-media-hygeine.gmi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:02:26


  • simple cms for a website, multi-page, blog - updates gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2211    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:04:40


  • "But for me, it was too late. After six months of uncertainty" ☛ https://otavio.cc/why-did-we-leave-san-francisco-the-us-actually/ | Source: Otávio C    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:18:21


  • "Several journalists have been detained, while others face travel bans." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/journalists-flee-venezuela-as-maduro-threatens-media-freedom/7799012.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:19:25


  • "That success is not something we take for granted." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/journalism-requires-investment-engagement-and-the-odd-order-of-souvlaki-with-thick-cut-fries/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:19:37


  • "In a landmark case about media freedom" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/hong-kong-court-to-sentence-2-former-editors-found-guilty-of-sedition-in-landmark-case/7799855.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:19:54


  • "real risks" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/hong-kong-court-jails-former-editor-releases-another-on-health-grounds/7800221.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:20:06


  • "Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine grinds on for a third year" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/un-russia-muzzling-dissent-amid-climate-of-fear-repression/7799059.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:20:45


  • "The organization wants governments to protect radio stations' right to inform freely across the region" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/media-watchdog-calls-for-protecting-community-radio-stations-in-sahel-/7800909.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:21:04


  • "In July, a judge ordered him to serve two years at a penal colony for unlawfully transferring the rights" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/09/26/russian-internet-pioneer-dying-in-prison-son-says-a86489 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:21:28


  • "[...] The charge stems from Panin expressing support on social media in October 2022 for an explosion" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-panin-prison-ukraine-war/33136350.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:22:16


  • "Cupertino removed at least 60 more between early July and September 18" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/apple_vpn_russia/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:22:58


  • "Today, I implemented a feature on my blog that lets me easily set posts to unlisted or private" ☛ https://jlelse.blog/thoughts/2024/09/2024-09-26-olmwj | Source: Jan Lukas Else    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:23:22


  • "There are rare and remarkable protests happening in Pakistan right now." ☛ https://text.npr.org/2024/09/26/nx-s1-5126667/demands-for-justice-doctor-accused-of-blasphemy-is-killed-in-pakistan-police-custody | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:25:37


  • "police had orchestrated the killing of a doctor" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/09/26/pakistan-police-blasphemy-doctor-killed/3343db50-7c1d-11ef-980d-341a84fdff8f_story.html | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:25:50


  • "He is the second blasphemy suspect in Pakistan to be shot dead in the space of a week." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9pg8d4245o | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:26:56


  • "The statement marks the first time the government has accused security forces of what the doctor’s family" ☛ https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-police-blasphemy-doctor-killed-365276efee085c0088de57913c520459 | Source: Associated Press    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:27:33


  • "In religiously conservative Pakistan, speech considered insulting or criticizing Islam is punishable by death." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/pakistan-police-blasphemy-killings-raise-new-concerns/a-70331902 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:28:00


  • "Following the arrest of music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs for sex trafficking and other charges" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-09-25/posts-spread-digitally-altered-photo-of-kamala-harris-with-sean-combs.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:29:18


  • "The election is 40 days away and nobody trusts or believes anything." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2024/09/26/misinformation-politicians-elections-axios-harris | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:29:48


  • "many of Project 2025’s key proposals — to centralize presidential power" ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/373485/project-2025-abortion-ban-trump-comstock-mifepristone | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:30:17


  • "A proxy statement [PDF] filed on Wednesday reveals that Oracle held 29 percent stake in Ampere as of May 31" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/oracle_ampere_stake_cpu/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:31:23


  • "The CRA has introduced a novel, and potentially quite worrying, approach to cybersecurity legislation." ☛ https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-cyber-resilience-act--an-accidental-european-alien-torts-statute | Source: The Lawfare Institute    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:31:52


  • "The bill is sponsored by Senators Mark Kelly (D-AZ) and Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/bipartisan-chips-permitting-reform-bill-heads-to-potus-desk/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:32:12


  • "Laying off good developers at RedHat won't make them laying off good developers in the rest of IBM any better. And I say that as someone not in RedHat." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIuaP9A    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:33:20


  • "OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati and two other senior executives at the ChatGPT maker announced their departures Wednesday." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/25/openai-mira-murati-departure-leaves/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:34:31


  • "As the White House plans to force federal agencies to be more transparent with their use of AI" ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-secret-service-spent-50-000-on-openai-and-wont-say-why/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:34:46


  • "Once you have some, the easiest way to increase your wealth is to decrease your needs" ☛ https://sive.rs/whn | Source: Derek Sivers    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:35:26


  • "Ivanov has laundered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of virtual currency" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/cryptocurrency-exchange-network-accused-of-helping-russia-hit-with-sanctions-/7800550.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:54:49


  • "During an event at Climate Week NYC" ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/policy-regulation/the-clean-energy-workforce-needs-people-heres-how-a-new-initiative-intends-to-help/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:55:05


  • "The Norwegian Hydrogen subsidiary said it would construct the station in Jyväskylä" ☛ https://www.h2-view.com/story/vireon-starts-finnish-hydrogen-infrastructure-roll-out-with-station-in-jyvaskyla/2115330.article/ | Source: H2 View    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:55:22


  • "This news is fascinating for so many reasons." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104516/three-mile-island-microsoft/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:57:11


  • "I don't have a lot of data points for comparison" ☛ https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/24/iphone-80-percent-charging-test/ | Source: MacRumors    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:57:37


  • "Linus: I had reached maybe mile 125 or so and desperately needed a store stop." ☛ https://daniel.industries/2024/09/26/hang-a-loaf-of-bread-from-your-bike-for-safety/ | Source: Daniel Miller    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:59:28


  • "Few people in our region know what these changes look like more than Portlander Linus Unitan" ☛ https://bikeportland.org/2024/09/24/meet-the-guy-who-circumnavigated-portlands-urban-growth-boundary-by-bike-389941 |    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:59:40


  • "Lack of driver education: Some driver education programs may not adequately cover" ☛ https://sundial.csun.edu/185446/sundialbrandstudio/sundial-marketplace/why-do-the-number-of-bicycle-accidents-keep-rising/ |    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 13:59:52


  • "It reflects a new and increasing threat to vulnerable species and habitats around the world: social media." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/26/social-media-posts-endangered-species-capercaillie-birders-aoe | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:01:49


  • "Unfortunately, new drone footage shows that permanent damage has been done." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/off-road-drivers-are-destroying-ancient-artworks-stretching-across-chiles-deserts-180985155/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:01:59


  • "The three mega dams worked at only a fraction of their full capacity in September" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2024/0926/Brazil-climate-change-drought-mega-dam | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:02:10


  • "As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been altered, but even if it was, its contents are publicly verifiable" ☛ https://futurism.com/twitter-hacked-trump-dossier | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:02:44


  • "The document allegedly comes from an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24255298/elon-musk-x-blocks-jd-vance-dossier | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:03:19


  • "Independent journalist Ken Klippenstein was suspended Thursday from the social platform X" ☛ https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4901990-journalist-suspended-x-vance-hack/ | Source: The Hill    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:03:35


  • And that's why NOBODY should be in Twitter. It's a FILTER, not a medium.    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:04:02


  • "The crackdown on what the Kremlin calls the “childfree” movement will result in fines" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-09-26/russia-considers-law-to-ban-defending-child-free-lifestyle.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:07:37


  • "The roots of this tactic go back more than half a century." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/09/trump-ivf-abortion-family/680027/ | Source: The Atlantic    

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


  • "The primates live on the slopes of the Nimba Mountains around a subsistence farming community" ☛ https://www.thetimes.com/world/africa/article/they-no-longer-fear-humans-how-bossous-chimps-became-killers-zdsmgkd7k | Source: Times Media Limited    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:08:11


  • "Today, the world’s richest 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/oxfam-oligarchy-of-super-rich-undermining-cooperation-to-tackle-poverty-climate-change/7800166.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:09:03


  • "that's a take on the infamous expression" ☛ https://futurism.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-is-dressing | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:09:32


  • "A group of residents near Dexter are speaking out after dealing with weeks of what they say is harassment over their political signs." ☛ https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2024/09/nails-shotgun-shells-trash-thrown-in-yards-residents-say-its-because-of-harris-signs.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:10:17


  • "The new ballot counting rule requires that the number of ballots — not the number of votes" ☛ https://www.twincities.com/2024/09/26/republican-led-group-sues-to-block-georgia-rule-requiring-hand-count-of-ballots/ | Source: TwinCities Pioneer Press    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:11:45


  • "In the home’s front lawn, sitting amid manicured shrubs, rises an even more unusual sight" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/09/25/meet-the-afghan-general-who-wants-to-take-on-the-taliban/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:15:37


  • "Now, an analysis of arrowheads unearthed in the valley has revealed that Tollense" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-3000-year-old-arrowheads-are-pivotal-clues-in-the-mystery-of-europes-oldest-known-battlefield-180985142/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:16:04


  • "In an unexpected move to bolster online privacy and combat digital surveillance" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tor-and-tails-join-forces/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:19:35


  • "The Tor Project, a non-profit focused on network anonymity, is joining forces with Tails" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/tor_project_tails_merger/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:21:55


  • "Today the Tor Project, a global non-profit developing tools for online privacy and anonymity" ☛ https://tails.net/news/tails_tor/index.en.html | Source: Tails    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:22:07


  • "AI software to review 30 million potential app" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2024/09/25/army-enlists-ai-to-identify-prospective-new-recruits/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:23:08


  • "The message displayed to users via a compromised Wi-Fi landing page, seen by The Register" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/public_wifi_operator_investigating_cyberattack/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:49:58


  • "According to Network Rail, who operate most of the railway infrastructure in Great Britain" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/when-uk-rail-stations-wi-fi-was-defaced-by-hackers-the-only-casualty-was-the-truth/ | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 14:50:09


  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/25/delaware_libraries_ransomware_attack/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:00:53


  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/cisa-warns-hackers-targeting-industrial-systems-unsophisticated-methods | Source: Tripwire    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:01:19


  • "In fact, CEO and founder Luis von Ahn is willing to discuss the gloomy prospect of mass layoffs" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/billionaire-sips-margaritas-bragging-ai-kill-jobs | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:03:21


  • "A real father would want to help his daughter grieve." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2024/09/do-not-buy-ai-smartphone | Source: New Statesman    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:03:39


  • "Those three entities that want to take this matter to trial - Ascend Ecom" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/26/ftc_sues_ai_outfits/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:04:45


  • "Over and over again, these one-off issues keep popping up" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:06:10


  • "With a phone, your memories become artificial right after taking the shot" ☛ https://mzll.it/2024/09/smart-purchasing/ | Source: Luigi Mozzillo    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:06:45


  • "It's hard to find any contemporary information about GE's private telephone system." ☛ https://computer.rip/2024-09-26-the-GE-switched-services-network.html | Source: Computers Are Bad    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:06:59


  • "A Michigan Medicine employee accepted an unsolicited multifactor authentication prompt" ☛ https://eu.freep.com/story/news/health/2024/09/26/cybersecurity-breach-university-of-michigan-medicine-email-attack/75392949007/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:08:35


  • "For years now, generative AI has been used to conjure all sorts of realities" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/ai-generated-csam-crisis/680034/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:09:15


  • "In a professional setting, where we’re expected to perform at our best" ☛ https://nesslabs.com/workplace-anxiety | Source: Ness Labs    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:22:43


  • "When it comes to social media attacks, small businesses are particularly susceptible." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/cybercriminals-social-media-attack-businesses/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:24:36


  • "And you can’t have the web without websites. Laterz." ☛ https://flamedfury.com/posts/a-social-web/ | Source: Flamed Fury    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:25:28


  • "The truth is, the [Internet] is no longer fun to me" ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/post/a-new-beginning/ | Source: Brandon    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:25:55


  • "To discover how to get data out of the joystick, I had a look at the wires that came out of it." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-brings-junked-joysticks-back-to-life-the-magpi-146/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:26:40


  • "We published instructions for installing Dangerzone in Tails." ☛ https://tails.net/news/report_2024_08/ | Source: Tails    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:29:48


  • "The Tails Project develops a privacy-focused version of Linux called Tails." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/26/privacy-focused-tails-operating-system-merges-tor-project/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:30:21


  • "ISO/IEC 27001:2022 is the latest revision of the internationally recognized Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) standard" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/09/27/a-comprehensive-guide-to-achieving-iso-iec-270012022-certification/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:37:00


  • "The Space Force announced this week the four companies that will compete to build its first batch of Resilient GPS satellites, aimed at ensuring military and civilian users have access to reliable positioning, navigation and timing signals." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/space/2024/09/25/space-force-picks-four-firms-to-design-resilient-gps-satellites/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:37:14


  • "The economics are such that a lot of consumers will buy some kind of cheap router off a company like Belkin who also may four-way power adapters and other dumb devices. Neither they nor their vendor initially cares too much about some yet-to-be-invented Internet protocol, and a lot of the middleboxes will inspect traffic and block anything they don't recognise." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2024-09-27_smolnet-evolutionary-constraints.gmi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:44:38


  • "The economics are such that a lot of consumers will buy some kind of cheap router off a company like Belkin who also may four-way power adapters and other dumb devices. Neither they nor their vendor initially cares too much about some yet-to-be-invented Internet protocol, and a lot of the middleboxes will inspect traffic" gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2024-09-27_smolnet-evolutionary-constraints.gmi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:45:21


  • "Redhat is the primary example of IBM changing strategy and buying innovation instead of developing innovation. Thus if you work in IBM legacy, you are in the bullseye. NOTE after two-three years IBM moves the acquired company towards legacy and treats the employees as such. Like it or not, this is the new IBM. Buy it, distributed it worldwide, move it to sustain mode, repeat." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIuaP9A    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:48:49


  • "In all major corporate purchases, accountability is ultimately determined by the Board of Directors and the shareholders. They decide through their actions what is "right"." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIuaP9A    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:50:22


  • "In my day, the darling of the company was Tivoli. IBM purchased the firm in 1996 for a reported $750 million. After Tivoli was bought, the principals of the company soon left the firm. This included former investors and many early employees, including the major developers of the Tivoli products of the time (Enterprise Console, Sentry a.k.a. Distributed Monitoring, Courier a.k.a Software Distribution)." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIuaP9A    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:51:27


  • "(Many of those early employees were, interestingly enough, IBM employees before they started Tivoli.)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIuaP9A    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:51:45


  • "IBM got the IP [sic], the remaining employees and the Tivoli name. The business became IBM's property to manage. I'm sure a similar thing has happened with Red Hat. Only time will tell if Red Hat survives as a pseudo-independent entity, or if instead IBM will erase its identity and it just becomes another IBM department like Tivoli did." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIuaP9A    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 15:51:54


  • "We'd all benefit from restoring the distinction between a detailed changelog" ☛ https://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/changelogs-and-release-notes/ | Source: Sumana Harihareswara    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:23:08


  • "After the apocalypse, all that’ll be left will be cockroaches, Keith Richards" ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/09/22/Unbackslashing | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:23:31


  • "Data visualization is a crucial aspect of data analysis, allowing us to understand and communicate complex data insights" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/09/how-to-create-horizontal-boxplots-in-base-r-and-ggplot2/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:23:56


  • "The event welcomed 257 participants from across the globe to participate in APAN Working Group meetings" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/09/25/event-wrap-apan-58/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:25:00


  • "The members of the Haskell.org Committee (the Committee) and the directors of the Haskell Foundation" ☛ https://blog.haskell.org/haskell-foundation-and-committee-merger/ |    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:25:19


  • "Bookmarklets are handy scripts that run Javascript and you can make Javascript do the work for you" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/automate-filling-form-with-bookmarklet/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:25:56


  • "Ok, if you're not up to date with all the WordPress drama, here's a very quick catch up with what's been going on" ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/my-thoughts-on-the-wordpress-drama | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:26:48


  • "It’s pretty simple, and it’s a hobby project so the UX sucks" ☛ https://lewisdale.dev/post/filter-rss-podcast-feeds/ | Source: Lewis Dale    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:27:15


  • "WordPress has revision history?" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/the-core-thing-that-makes-wordpress-wordpress-isnt-what-you-think/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:27:42


  • "The wait is almost over! Thunderbird for Android will be here soon." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/contribute-to-thunderbird-for-android/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:29:55


  • "Calculations based on the data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/foreign-smartphone-sales-in-china-drop-12-7-in-august-data-show/articleshow/113673240.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:30:11


  • "The SD card used UFS (default image for FreeBSD on Raspberry), so I lost it" ☛ https://michal.sapka.me/blog/2024/crys-vm/ | Source: Michał Sapka    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:30:58


  • "The changes are many" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-alpha2-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:32:11


  • "I’d like to explain how it works. Not everything, just focusing on the most interesting parts." ☛ https://wickstrom.tech/2024-09-26-how-i-built-the-monospace-web.html | Source: Oskar Wickström    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:33:19


  • [Old] "To my surprise it wasn’t too difficult to create one that looks pretty clean" ☛ https://www.jonashietala.se/blog/2024/08/25/a_simple_timeline_using_css_flexbox/ | Source: Jonas Hietala    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:33:33


  • The Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/health/united-nations-drug-resistance-antibiotics.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:44:38


  • F.D.A. Approves a New Antipsychotic Drug ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/health/fda-schizophrenia-drug.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:44:49


  • Michigan Medicine notifies patients of health information breach ☞ https://www.michiganmedicine.org/news-release/michigan-medicine-notifies-patients-health-information-breach-3    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:45:39


  • Study finds travel can reduce impacts of premature aging ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2024/09/26/study-finds-travel-can-reduce-impacts-of-premature-aging/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:48:17


  • NAMIWalks takes place Saturday and this high schooler wants to raise awareness ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2024/09/26/namiwalks-takes-place-saturday-and-this-high-schooler-wants-to-raise-awareness/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:48:38


  • Annual survey-based study finds improvements in mental health of college students ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/annual-survey-based-study-finds-improvements-in-mental-health-of-college-students/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:49:00


  • VA to remain ‘very discerning’ on health care hiring, calls on Congress to address $12B shortfall in December ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2024/09/va-to-remain-very-discerning-on-health-care-hiring-calls-on-congress-to-address-12b-shortfall-in-december/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:49:44


  • North Korea may conduct nuclear test after US election: South’s spy agency ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/north-korea-nuclear-test-09262024050716.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:50:41


  • Finnish Zoo Returning Pandas to China Because of Cost ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/world/europe/finland-china-pandas-return.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:54:25


  • China covered up sinking of newest submarine, says US official ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-covered-up-sinking-of-newest-submarine-says-us-official    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:54:48


  • ST Picks: Hot demand for China’s ‘cooling’ exports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/st-picks-hot-demand-for-china-s-cooling-exports    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:55:06


  • Two execs of China-based chipmaking tools producer resign to meet U.S. requirements ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/two-execs-of-china-based-chipmaking-tools-producer-resign-to-meet-us-requirements    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:55:34


  • Japanese destroyer makes first Taiwan Strait transit ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/southchinasea/japan-australia-new-zealand-taiwan-strait-transit-09262024034752.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:56:00


  • Pacific leaders to meet after China’s ‘concerning’ ICBM missile test ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/pacific/pacific-china-icbm-test-reaction-09262024053525.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:56:14


  • Hong Kong sentences 2 journalists to prison for sedition ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hong-kong-stand-news-sentences-09262024075355.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:56:30


  • EXPLAINED: How the umbrella became a Hong Kong protest symbol ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hong-kong-umbrella-protest-anniversary-china-occupy-central-09252024155635.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:56:54


  • Key figures in the Umbrella Movement: Where are they now? ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/umbrella-movement-09262024113430.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:57:10


  • Chinese truck convoys crowd main bridge to North Korea ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/north-korea-china-trucks-convoy-trade-bridge-dandong-sinuiju-09262024180441.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:57:56


  • China acknowledges ‘problems’ in economy, vows to ‘respond to the people’s concerns’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/09/26/china-acknowledges-problems-in-economy-vows-to-respond-to-the-peoples-concerns/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:58:16


  • South Africa declares neutrality and China steals the Waterkloof defence show ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/governance/governance-governance/south-africa-declares-neutrality-and-china-steals-the-waterkloof-defence-show/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:58:37


  • US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns: The US has managed to ‘stabilize’ its relationship with China ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/transcript/us-ambassador-to-china-nicholas-burns-the-us-has-managed-to-stabilize-its-relationship-with-china/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 16:59:00


  • PostgreSQL 17 Released! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-17-released-2936/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:00:22


  • Pluralistic: When prophecy fails, election polling edition (26 Sep 2024) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/26/dewey-beats-truman/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:02:22


  • COSMIC DE Alpha 2 Released, This is What’s New ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/09/cosmic-desktop-alpha-2-pop-os-released    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:05:36


  • "o me, Matt Mullenweg represents the good of my generation; the antithesis of Mark Zuckerberg in so many ways" ☞ https://rubenerd.com/there-something-about-matt/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:07:05


  • Or maybe turning WordPress into a for-profit company with financial objectives and fiscal goals (even if that means irritating users of WordPress.com and WordPress.org) was a mistake all along....    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:09:32


  • WordPress has been accountable and answerable to shareholders for well over a decade. What does that mean for the communities of users and developers?    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:10:53


  • EuroBSDcon 2024 ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/eurobsdcon-2024/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:12:10


  • My A-Z toolbox: bwm-ng ☞ https://rubenerd.com/my-az-toolbox-bwm-ng/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:12:48


  • BSD Now 578: KVM, but Smol ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/578    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:13:27


  • Fixing Kubevirt networking not working on reboot ☞ https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/kubevirt-ubuntu-networking/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:14:32


  • EasyOS ports to QV ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202409/easyos-ports-to-qv.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:15:03


  • Electra Hey Hi (AI) – Impressive Terminal Mode ☞ http://www.makululinux.com/wp/2024/09/27/electra-ai-impressive-terminal-mode/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:16:56


  • DXVK 2.4.1 Improves Support for God of War, GTA: San Andreas, and Other Games ☞ https://9to5linux.com/dxvk-2-4-1-improves-support-for-god-of-war-gta-san-andreas-and-other-games    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:18:32


  • COSMIC Alpha 2 Released with Bluetooth Settings, Much-Improved File Manager ☞ https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-alpha-2-released-with-bluetooth-settings-much-improved-file-manager    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:18:42


  • FOSS Weekly #24.39: New File Manager, Webcam Issue in Ubuntu, GNOME 47 Release and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-24-39/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:20:01


  • [OT] "radio has said the army is assessing whether Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Hezbollah, was in the headquarters that was attacked." https://news.sky.com/story/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-war-latest-sky-news-live-12978800    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:26:57


  • Achilles Heel of Wikileaks http://techrights.org/n/2024/09/24/If_You_Start_Your_Own_Show_Don_t_Do_the_First_Episode_With_the_.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:27:30


  • "While Texas Instruments maintains dominance in the calculator market (especially graphing calculators), there was a time when this wasn’t the case" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/09/26/reverse-time-back-to-the-days-of-rpn/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:31:37


  • A Universal RF Amplifier ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/09/26/a-universal-rf-amplifier/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:32:58


  • The Tech Bro Style in American Politics ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/opinion/cryptocurrency-election-moreno-vance.html "Why some billionaires are helping to promote political extremism."    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:33:32


  • Estimating The Size Of A Single Molecule Of Oil Using Water ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/09/26/estimating-the-size-of-a-single-molecule-of-oil-using-water/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:35:46


  • "Want To Help Capture Some Digital Ephemera? Break Out Your VHS Player" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/09/26/want-to-help-capture-some-digital-ephemera-break-out-your-vhs-player/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:36:12


  • pressgazette is jumping with the shark with the past week's hey hi (LLM) infatuation and nonsense. It'll cease to be relevant if it plays along with this Ponzi scheme and vapourware.    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:38:32


  • LLMs asm 'articles' are not innovation; they're a subversion and a self-inflicted wound    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:39:27


  • Support.Mozilla.Org: Contributor spotlight – Noah Y ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2024/09/26/contributor-spotlight-noah-y/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:40:01


  • That's unreal. How much fire power to assassinate Nasrallah? https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2024/9/27/3a733a94-0f9a-4c3d-9306-6680e1e2f36e.jpg.webp    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:41:59


  • US Transportation and Logistics Firms Targeted With Infostealers, Backdoors ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-transportation-and-logistics-firms-targeted-with-infostealers-backdoors/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:42:29


  • One Frightening Syndrome Looks Like Dementia, But Strikes Far Faster ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-frightening-syndrome-looks-like-dementia-but-strikes-far-faster    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:42:54


  • Service Employees International Union reach bargaining agreement with Stanford after authorizing strike ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2024/09/25/seiu-bargaining-agreement/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:43:16


  • Successful Op Shujaa strike in DR Congo ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/successful-op-shujaa-strike-in-dr-congo/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:43:47


  • 🔴 Live: Israel says it has secured $8.7 billion in US military aid ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240925-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-france-us-propose-21-day-lebanon-ceasefire-to-allow-for-talks    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:45:31


  • Heavy fighting in Khartoum as Sudan army pushes to retake paramilitary positions ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240926-air-strikes-in-khartoum-as-sudan-army-attacks-paramilitary-positions    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:45:46


  • Escalating conflict on Lebanon-Israel border raises humanitarian concerns ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/09/escalating-conflict-on-lebanon-israel-border-raises-humanitarian-concerns/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:46:17


  • 10 days before Oct 7, is the head of Hezbollah hydra decapitated?    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:46:58


  • Australian prison sentence for official’s son strikes chord in Cambodia ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/melbourne-fatal-traffic-crash-cambodian-prison-sentence-09262024154826.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:47:39


  • Myanmar junta airstrike kills civilians sheltering in rebel territory ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/thandwe-airstrike-civilians-killed-rakhine-09262024055013.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:48:15


  • Netanyahu, Set to Give U.N. Speech, Vows to Keep Up Strikes on Hezbollah ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/26/world/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-hamas    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:48:35


  • Israel’s Displaced Want to Go Home. But Will Attacks on Hezbollah Offer That Path? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/world/middleeast/israel-hezbollah-displaced.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:48:51


  • Israel Says It Killed Another Hezbollah Commander in Beirut ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/world/middleeast/israel-hezbollah-mohammed-hussein-sarour-beirut.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:49:05


  • If this much fire power was used, they probably knew with high certainty Nasrallah was inside there https://news.sky.com/story/israel-hezbollah-lebanon-war-latest-sky-news-live-12978800?postid=8340663#liveblog-body    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:51:53


  • Take control of your browsing with Firefox’s privacy and security features ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-privacy-security-features/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:52:20


  • Reuters now reporting "he says she says" about whether a person is alive    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:57:52


  • "hey says she says" is very cheap and easy; for "journalists", well... they can just say "something told me so..."    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:58:23


  • Supermicro shares drop on reported Justice Department probe ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/26/supermicro-shares-drop-reported-justice-department-probe/ "dropped more than 12% today"    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 17:59:27


  • Wild Orcas Spotted Hunting Dolphins Off Chile in a Scientific First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-orcas-spotted-hunting-dolphins-off-chile-in-a-scientific-first    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:00:36


  • Strange Rocks Clinging to Mummies Could Be World's Oldest Cheese ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-rocks-clinging-to-mummies-could-be-worlds-oldest-cheese    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:00:57


  • Space Travel Makes The Heart Grow Weaker, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/space-travel-makes-the-heart-grow-weaker-study-finds    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:01:45


  • Something Awesome Happens if You Use Banana Peel as an Ingredient ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/something-awesome-happens-if-you-use-banana-peel-as-an-ingredient    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:02:59


  • Qt Installer Framework and Qt Online Installer 4.8.1 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-installer-framework-and-qt-online-installer-4.8.1-released    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:17:36


  • The Afghan saga of bravery, allegations and betrayal ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-afghan-saga-of-bravery-allegations-and-betrayal/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:22:54


  • Macron and Trudeau rekindle diplomatic ‘bromance’ with Canada visit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240926-macron-meets-trudeau-in-canada-as-both-face-political-setbacks    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:29:30


  • Study: Even as larger Hey Hi (AI) models become more bloated, answering more questions leads to more wrong answers ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/26/study-even-larger-ai-models-improve-answering-questions-leads-wrong-answers/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:30:38


  • Investor Litigation Against Adidas Over Kanye West’s Erratic Behavior Officially Dismissed with Prejudice ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/09/26/investor-litigation-against-adidas-over-kanye-wests-erratic-behavior-officially-dismissed-with-prejudice/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:58:02


  • Chinese Zhaoxin KX-7000 CPU can't beat old defective chip maker Intel and AMD chips — Core i3-8100 and Ryzen 5 5600G come out on top ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinese-zhaoxin-kx-7000-cpu-cant-beat-old-intel-and-amd-chips-core-i3-8100-and-ryzen-5-5600g-come-out-on-top    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:58:51


  • US election security is seeing a rise in ‘complex’ threats—and it’s not just foreign actors, says Lisa Monaco ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/us-election-security-is-seeing-a-rise-in-complex-threats-and-its-not-just-foreign-actors-says-lisa-monaco/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 18:59:55


  • Staff, students 'tread carefully' at Hong Kong's eight universities ☞ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hong-kong-academic-freedom-crackdown-09262024142054.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:00:20


  • Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks. Risks, techniques, and mitigations in hardware hacking ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/direct-memory-access-dma-attacks-risks-techniques-and-mitigations-in-hardware-hacking/ "TL;DR Direct Memory Access (DMA) attacks are a powerful class of attack that give read and write access to the memory of a target system [...]"    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:01:10


  • How to Install Sweet Home 3D 7.5 in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/09/install-sweet-home-3d-ubuntu/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:01:55


  • Lots of Anti-Linux FUD This Week, Some of It is Microsoft- or Chatbot-Generated Spew (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/26/Lots_of_Anti_Linux_FUD_This_Week_Some_of_It_is_Microsoft_or_Cha.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:02:09


  • Tor Project welcomes Tails OS to improve user privacy and security ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/tor-project-welcomes-tails-os-to-improve-user-privacy-and-security/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:03:09


  • Iotas – simple note taking application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/iotas-simple-note-taking-application/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:04:08


  • 6 Best Free and Open Source C++ Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-cplusplus-static-site-generators/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:04:40


  • Rucola – terminal-based markdown note manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rucola-terminal-based-markdown-note-manager/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:04:58


  • Choosing Your Embedded Hardware ☞ https://www.kdab.com/choosing-your-embedded-hardware/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:05:30


  • Google Sees Drop in Memory Safety Bugs in Android as Code Matures ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-sees-drop-in-memory-safety-bugs-in-android-as-code-matures/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:06:01


  • (Google Security Blog) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/991775/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:06:20


  • Mozilla Thunderbird: Contribute to Thunderbird for Android ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/09/contribute-to-thunderbird-for-android/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:06:39


  • ‘Lithuania’s security is Germany’s security’ – Pistorius in Vilnius ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2369818/lithuania-s-security-is-germany-s-security-pistorius-in-vilnius    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:10:47


  • Pistorius and Kasčiūnas. The stakes are high – opinion ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2369710/pistorius-and-kasciunas-the-stakes-are-high-opinion    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:10:58


  • Academic freedom in Hong Kong in ‘severe decline,’ report finds, as gov’t hits back ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/09/26/academic-freedom-in-hong-kong-in-severe-decline-report-finds-as-govt-hits-back/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:11:33


  • Senate bill eyes minimum cybersecurity standards for health care industry ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/minimum-cybersecurity-standards-health-care-wyden-warner-bill/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:13:10


  • Zelensky Warns U.N. Against Conceding to Russia’s ‘Insane’ Desire for Land ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/world/europe/un-zelensky-ukraine-putin.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:14:29


  • Enable etcd backups for OpenShift clusters in hybrid cloud environments ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/09/26/enable-etcd-backups-openshift-clusters-hybrid-cloud-environments    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:18:25


  • "I have to say that, unlike other acquisitions, Red Hat has managed to avoid being blue-washed or assimilated too much. In the guise of being a neutral vendor of modern technologies, they operate more like an independent company who happens to be also rescuing a dinosaur like IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIuaP9A    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:21:55


  • "They treat IBM'ers like losers and ask them to stay away. And, I guess IBM lets them do it as long as they are satisfied with their performance." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIuaP9A    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:22:27


  • "Oh man, Tivoli. I haven't heard that name in probably 25 years. Worked on a Tivoli project the same year I worked on an Enron project. One died through IBM assimilation, and one died from cooking the books. Foreshadow much?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIuaP9A    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:23:12


  • "B/c /red-hat is a world onto its own. The fact that /ibm owns it is totally irrelevant. "    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:23:36


  • "AI" started almost a century but it was RE-introduced a few years ago as a catch-all buzzwords for "something to do with computers"    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:24:19


  • Peer Scraping Attack Affects Major Private Music Torrenting Site ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/09/25/peer-scraping-attack-affects-major-private-music-torrenting-site/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:29:08


  • Andy Wingo: needed-bits optimizations in guile ☞ https://wingolog.org/archives/2024/09/26/needed-bits-optimizations-in-guile    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:29:29


  • WINDOWS? Seriously, dude? https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/qualcomm-snapdragon-dev-kit-windows-teardown-2024    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:29:56


  • Openwashing explained by a Microsoft front group. Openwashing is exactly what it does, with or without a hyphen. ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/is-open-source-ever-hyphenated    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:31:12


  • Outpost for Microsoft front group (OSI) ☞ https://opensource.net/opensourcenet-redesign-survey/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:31:43


  • Swift 6 Officially Available ☞ https://www.infoq.com/news/2024/09/swift-6-officially-available/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:34:19


  • How to Get Docker Container ID from Container Name ☞ https://linuxbuz.com/devops/docker-container-id-from-name    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:34:45


  • How to Use Tags in Ansible Playbooks ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/ansible-tags/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:35:01


  • Tor and Tails Merge to Fight Global Surveillance and Censorship ☞ https://linuxiac.com/tor-and-tails-join-forces/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:35:45


  • COSMIC Desktop Alpha 2 Released, Here’s What’s New ☞ https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-alpha2-released/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:39:14


  • DXVK 2.4.1 Released with Improvements Across the Board for Gamers ☞ https://linuxiac.com/dxvk-2-4-1-released/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:39:34


  • EndeavourOS Neo Released as a Refresh to the Fifth-Anniversary Edition ☞ https://linuxiac.com/endeavouros-neo-released-as-a-refresh-to-its-fifth-anniversary-edition/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:41:08


  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/991897/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:45:10


  • Melissa Wen: Reflections on 2024 GNU/Linux Display Next Hackfest ☞ https://melissawen.github.io/blog/2024/09/26/reflections-2024-display-next-hackfest    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:45:40


  • Mike Blumenkrantz: Device Generated Commands ☞ https://www.supergoodcode.com/device-generated-commands/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:46:27


  • U.S. removes ABLV bank from money-laundering list ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/26.09.2024-us-removes-ablv-bank-from-money-laundering-list.a570332/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:52:26


  • Have you seen the new Fairphone Timeline feature? ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2024/09/26/have-you-seen-the-new-fairphone-timeline-feature/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:53:02


  • UPC is illegal and a violation of constitution, but this site, JUVE, was paid to promote this sheer illegality, ushering corruption into the EU for profit ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/plans-for-patent-mediation-and-arbitration-centre-take-shape/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:54:53


  • Winning at a kangaroo court that isn't actually legal and mostly represents the sheer corruption of the patent system in Europe ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/ortovox-wins-at-upc-court-of-appeal-in-avalanche-rescue-devices-dispute/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:55:42


  • The Download: a CRISPR patent monopoly battle, and the promise of tiny Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104538/the-download-a-crispr-patent-battle-and-the-promise-of-tiny-ai/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:56:03


  • The EPO's Central Staff Committee Explains the EPO Became So Corrupt That It Strives to Almost Automatically Grant Every Patent (Monopoly) Request (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/26/The_EPO_s_Central_Staff_Committee_Explains_the_EPO_Became_So_Co.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:56:12


  • [Meme] Break the Law for the European Patent Office (EPO) or Die (Get Sacked in a Terrible Economy) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/26/Meme_Break_the_Law_for_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO_or_Die_Ge.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:56:21


  • EPO Dictatorship, Facing Growing Pressure From Senior Staff for Breaking Laws and Illegally Running the System, Turns to "Young Professionals" (to Crush Voices, Rights, and Benefits) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/26/EPO_Dictatorship_Facing_Growing_Pressure_From_Senior_Staff_for_.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:56:38


  • UPC is illegal, so this entire case should be canceled and those who created this fake court should be put on trial, instead ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/09/26/patent-case-regeneron-pharmaceuticals-inc-vs-amgen-inc-upc/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:57:39


  • Free Post: Not Yet in Effect: Clarifying Misconceptions About the USPTO’s Proposed Terminal Disclaimer Rule ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/09/clarifying-misconceptions-disclaimer.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:57:55


  • "Google disabled my Play Store developer account because I didn't consent to publicly sharing my home address. I'm disappointed. Rosy Crow is now only available via F-Droid." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Rosy-Crow/19952    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 19:59:45


  • "I don’t know why, but you cannot use a closure for callbacks when subscribing to Meshtastic events. It took me days to figure out. Also, the parameter name in pubsub callbacks really matter. Even for positional arguments." gemini://thatit.be/2024-09-14-22-08-20.gmi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:00:50


  • "I just learned that Fantasy Life i has been delayed again. I was really looking forward to the release. I was even going to take that day off from work." gemini://thatit.be/2024-08-30-19-24-06.gmi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:01:50


  • "I cloned the meshtastic repo a few weeks back but was still using the browser based flasher and the images they package. The instructions for building from the CLI seemed absent from the repository. Or at least I didn’t see them." gemini://thatit.be/2024-07-07-09-38-07.gmi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:02:31


  • Red Hat Publishes backdoored Windows Article, Omits Authors' Names (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/26/Red_Hat_Publishes_Windows_Article_Omits_Authors_Names.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:05:00


  • A Year Since the Big Switch - Part V - In Summary (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/26/A_Year_Since_the_Big_Switch_Part_V_In_Summary.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:05:09


  • The Media Has Hardly Mentioned This, But New Antitrust Complaint Filed Against Abusive Monopolist Microsoft in the European Union ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/26/The_Media_Has_Hardly_Mentioned_This_But_New_Antitrust_Complaint.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:05:31


  • [Meme] How Crime Becomes the 'Normal' in Society ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/26/Meme_How_Crime_Becomes_the_Normal_in_Society.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:05:42


  • Technology: rights or responsibilities? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/25/Technology_rights_or_responsibilities.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:05:54


  • [Meme] EPO Versus Technology (and Versus the Law) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/25/Meme_EPO_Versus_Technology_and_Versus_the_Law.shtml    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:06:06


  • Niko Matsakis: Making overwrite opt-in #crazyideas ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2024/09/26/overwrite-trait/?utm_source=atom_feed    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:06:56


  • Critical flaws in Kia’s remote system could have allowed hackers to control vehicles ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/09/26/critical-flaws-kias-remote-system-allowed-hackers-control-vehicles/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:08:27


  • Israeli Group Claims Lebanon Water Hack as CISA Reiterates Warning on Simple ICS Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/israeli-group-claims-lebanon-water-hack-as-cisa-reiterates-warning-on-simple-ics-attacks/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:08:57


  • Police Are Probing a Cyberattack on Wi-Fi Networks at UK Train Stations ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/police-are-probing-a-cyberattack-on-wi-fi-networks-at-uk-train-stations/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:09:26


  • Cisco Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in IOS Software ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-high-severity-vulnerabilities-in-ios-software-2/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:09:45


  • Talking Lightly About Serious Things: Henri Rochefort and the Origins of French Populism ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/henri-rochefort-and-the-origins-of-french-populism    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:10:57


  • Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 W features mysterious 'Raspberry Pi RM2' Wi-Fi chip ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/pimoroni-pico-plus-2-w-features-mysterious-raspberry-pi-rm2-wi-fi-chip    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:11:33


  • MYiR Tech MYC-LD25X – A compact STM32MP25 system-on-module running Debian 12 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/09/26/myir-tech-myc-ld25x-a-compact-stm32mp25-system-on-module-running-debian-12/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:12:28


  • Putin’s rhetoric shows he fears long-range strikes from Ukraine – Lithuanian minister ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2369912/putin-s-rhetoric-shows-he-fears-long-range-strikes-from-ukraine-lithuanian-minister    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:12:46


  • UNGA Debates Disarmament After Putin Proposes Revisions To Russian Nuclear Doctrine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/nuclear-united-nations-guterres-putin-disarmament/33136597.html    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:13:01


  • Software Patents: VirtaMove's Kubernetes / open source patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2024/9/24/virtamove-patent-challenged    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:13:30


  • History is a key battleground in the Russian invasion of Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/history-is-a-key-battleground-in-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:13:47


  • Simplenote ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/simplenote/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:22:04


  • Javier Martinez Canillas: Using an SPI SSD1306 OLED on Fedora with a Raspberry Pi ☞ https://blog.dowhile0.org/2024/09/27/using-an-spi-ssd1306-oled-on-fedora-with-a-raspberry-pi/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:22:28


  • X Releases Its First Transparency Report Since Elon Musk’s Takeover ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/x-releases-its-first-transparency-report-since-elon-musks-takeover/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:22:56


  • Critical Nvidia Container Flaw Exposes Cloud Hey Hi (AI) Systems to Host Takeover ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-nvidia-container-flaw-exposes-cloud-ai-systems-to-host-takeover/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:23:07


  • Remote Code Execution, DoS Vulnerabilities Patched in OpenPLC ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/remote-code-execution-dos-vulnerabilities-patched-in-openplc/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:23:19


  • Why are three of Brazil’s mega dams in the Amazon on the brink of failure? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2024/0926/Brazil-climate-change-drought-mega-dam    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:23:41


  • Implementing a round of mass layoffs without calling it "layoffs" ☞ https://nypost.com/2024/09/26/business/dell-becomes-latest-company-to-mandate-5-days-a-week-in-office/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:24:24


  • System76 COSMIC Alpha 2 Released ☞ https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-2-press-release    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:24:47


  • IBM escapees. "Start your own business in a nitch tech segment you understand very well and like. I did. Never looked back." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uFvxHS3    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:27:45


  • "Let's be honest: IBM has been using accounting gimmicks for years to look profitable. The jettison of the 401K is the fiscal equivalent of scrounging for change in the couch cushions to save money" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uH56XND    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:28:47


  • "stock price up - but company not sustainable = riding the cash cow until the company is put to bed. Arvind does not add value... and the board will not do anything about it. Look how long they let Ginny destroy the company." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uH56XND    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:29:06


  • "Oh an easy question. AK has a very valuable star power just like a famous actor in the movies." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uH56XND    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:29:32


  • "AK value is being an Indian and knowing the Indian Prime Minister." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uH56XND    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:29:39


  • "AI is just used to grift money from rube investors. Lets be honest: outside of word editing, language translation, replacing phone centers with even worse customer service, AI is not going to turn into the $$$ that folks think it will. $300 billion spent on it, and a net return of less than 3$ billion so far. It is not the game changer people think it is, at least not right now." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uFGjqIF    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:30:51


  • Nasrallah killed? https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-09-27/ty-article-live/idf-missile-fired-from-yemen-intercepted-outside-israeli-airspace-by-arrow-defense-system/00000192-311a-d8e1-a196-7dbe49390000?liveBlogItemId=907505225#907505225    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:32:41


  • Major Streaming Platforms and Labels Push Back Against Applying Radio Regulations to On-Demand Listening in Canada ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/09/26/online-streaming-act-radio-regulations/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:34:51


  • PostgreSQL 17 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/991904/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:35:13


  • Harness the power of serverless containers in hybrid scenarios ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/09/26/harness-power-serverless-containers-hybrid-scenarios    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:37:00


  • How To Install Avidemux on AlmaLinux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-avidemux-almalinux-9/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:37:25


  • Judging by reaction of Iran it seems highly improbable that the entire higher chain of Hezbollah is dead (but unconfined) and nobody even remembers or talks about the exploding phones anymore. GPS warfare is brutal and ugly.    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 20:53:47


  • "It’s a godless abomination in the name of “technological advancement”." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uIm4Jj9    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 21:00:11


  • "It could be worse for “Big Blue”…they could have the poster child for the ‘dark triad’…AT&T’s John Stankey." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1uH56XND    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 21:00:43


  • Putin will keep escalating his nuclear blackmail until it stops working ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-will-keep-escalating-his-nuclear-blackmail-until-it-stops-working/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 21:02:41


  • Mike Blumenkrantz: Gettin Nacky ☞ https://www.supergoodcode.com/gettin-nacky/    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 21:37:40


  • "An intriguing treasure hunt is in progress. A valuable item was left on the forest floor somewhere within a 500 mile radius circle shown on the project website. Each day the circle shrinks, so we know the treasure is within the new smaller circle." gemini://gemini.thegonz.net/glog/240927-projectSkydropAndShrinkingCircles.gmi    

posted Friday, September 27, 2024 at 21:57:51



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