Roy Schestowitz

• Wind gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2413    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:41:15

• "There has been considerable discussion surrounding the recent murder of the UHC CEO, highlighting how, even if people don’t condone murder, many express a lack of empathy toward the incident." gemini://rohitfarmer.com/gemlog/2024/2024-12-12_Legacy_Mortality_and_the_Unseen_Cost_of_Wealth.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:42:17

• "We often believe that money can buy life by affording high-quality food or access to health and wellness care that may extend our years. And while this is true to some extent, death operates on its own terms, indifferent to wealth. It can strike without warning, leaving no time to use money as a shield." gemini://rohitfarmer.com/gemlog/2024/2024-12-12_Legacy_Mortality_and_the_Unseen_Cost_of_Wealth.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:42:40

• "Every time I escape my own murder, I become more like a murderer. In the dream my mother splayed on a candlelit nest of pillows in darkness. She wore the same faded pink threadbare bathrobe that I remember her wearing when I was a child." gemini://wanderingsta.rs/egg/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:43:17

• Day 3 of the cleanse gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/castor3    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:44:54

• "Last day of my cleanse." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/castor4    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:45:34

• tea, incense and ink gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/poetry/incense    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:46:11

• Creative Moods gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20241208.txt    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:47:23

• "One of the criticisms of my table idea was that it wasn't backwards compatible with existing gemini client implemintations and would look like a mess there. Given that there is not one but two chatacters dedicated to tabulation in ASCII, I decided to play with them a bit." gemini://namno.duckdns.org/blog/2024-12-13.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:48:23

• "A basic on-device gallery app that lets you view, browse, organize and delete your photos entirely on your own phone, and open them in other apps for sharing." gemini://hyperborea.org/reviews/apps/fossify-gallery.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:49:10

• "I've been a bit down on music as a hobby the last couple of months. It's to the point that all of my instruments are cased and in the closet, rather than in their usual place out in the living room." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2024-12-05.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:49:53

• "When I was first experimenting with the Gemini Protocol, Lagrange quickly became my favorite Gemini client on the desktop. It's visually clean, it's fast, it runs well (and stable) on Linux" gemini://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/lagrange.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 05:50:31

• "The latest Steam Client Beta for Desktop and Steam Deck has been released, and Valve have given us new options for managing game updates and there's a new downloader style." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/steam-beta-for-dec-11-brings-new-game-update-options-plus-a-new-downloader-style/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:10:53

• "Airships: Lost Flotilla from developer David Stark and Metaroot has been announced for release on January 23, a bullet heaven survivor-like spin off from Stark's previous highly rated game Airships: Conquer the Skies" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/steampunk-bullet-heaven-auto-shooter-airships-lost-flotilla-releases-january-23/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:11:09

• "Chrysalis from developer Metamorph Games wins top marks for some originality here, and if you're a fan of cute tower defense games that mix in some exploration this is one for you." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/chrysalis-is-a-unique-hybrid-of-tower-defense-and-rogue-lite-rpg-action-where-you-possess-plants-and-creatures/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:11:19

• "Paper Perjury is the debut title from Paper Cat Games, one for fans of games a bit similar to the Ace Attorney series." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/taking-inspiration-from-ace-attorney-point-and-click-adventure-paper-perjury-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:11:48

• "Liberal senator Dave Sharma's 'fictitious Islamophobia' claim condemned | SBS News" x https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/liberal-senator-dave-sharmas-fictitious-islamophobia-claim-condemned/5wqbmxqc2    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:12:08

• "Trump invites China's Xi Jinping to attend inauguration: CBS News" https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/12/501_388269.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:12:21

• "Viral audio deepfake falsely claims Bashar al-Assad ‘apologised’ to Syrian people - Truth or Fake" https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20241211-viral-audio-deepfake-falsely-claims-bashar-al-assad-apologised-to-syrian-people    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:12:32

• "US President-elect Donald Trump invites China's Xi Jinping to attend inauguration: Reports" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/us-president-elect-donald-trump-invites-chinas-xi-jinping-to-attend-inauguration-reports/articleshow/116232817.cms    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:12:46

• "Weaponization of the DOJ" https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2024/12/195_388256.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:12:58

• iophk: sacrificing library funding to finance a 'tax cut' for the wealthy https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2024/12/11/kort-fortalt/ ("Kort fortalt … – Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase")    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:13:17

• "The ATOM RPG team have returned with another RPG, Swordhaven: Iron Conspiracy has started its time in Early Access if you're in need of a fresh party-based RPG to try out." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/swordhaven-iron-conspiracy-is-a-party-based-rpg-from-the-devs-of-atom-rpg-now-in-early-access/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:13:33

• "Golf With Your Friends 2 has been announced by Radical Forge and Team17 bringing the next-generation of golfing chaos." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/golf-with-your-friends-2-announced-for-early-access-in-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:13:51

• "This could be a good one! Weather Factory developers of Cultist Simulator and BOOK OF HOURS just revealed their third game called Travelling at Night." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/inspired-by-disco-elysium-and-fallout-weather-factory-announce-travelling-at-night/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:14:07

• "Louis Rossmann for FTC chair; I put my hat in the ring. Make it happen!" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/louis-rossmann-for-ftc-chair-i-put-my:b    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:14:37

• "VOA Russian: How Moscow's propaganda narrative on Syria changed after Assad's fall" https://www.voanews.com/a/voa-russian-how-moscow-s-propaganda-narrative-on-syria-changed-after-assad-s-fall/7897911.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:15:03

• "Windows DOUBLES DOWN on eWaste!" https://odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0/windows-doubles-down-on-ewaste!:d one of the few advocating upgrade to GNU/Linux as a solution to Vista 10 EOL in Oct 2025. "Start now!"    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:15:30

• "GOG have launched their proper Winter Sale now and with it there will be game giveaways again, along with some nice discounts on some great game." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/gog-winter-sale-is-now-live-and-theyre-giving-away-games-again-with-a-surprise-each-day/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:15:56

• "Just in time for my new playthrough, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered was updated to version 1.4 today bringing with it plenty of improvements and it should work better for Steam Deck / gamepad controller players" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/horizon-zero-dawn-remastered-v14-brings-various-controller-fixes-plus-improvements-to-amd-fsr-and-intel-xess/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:16:48

• "I have very fond memories of a seriously janky RPG called Arcanum from way back in the year 2000, and the release of New Arc Line could end up being the spiritual successor I've been wanting all these years." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/new-arc-line-is-a-promising-new-rpg-about-the-conflict-between-magic-and-engineering/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:17:01

• "It's that time! Yes, again! Each week Prime Gaming, part of what you get with a subscription to Amazon Prime, add and remove various games you can claim to keep." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/prime-gaming-december-12th-edition-round-up-for-steam-deck-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:17:14

• "Malaysia's PM betrays reform promises: new Law enable warrantless searches & Internet censorship" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/malaysia's-pm-betrays-reform-promises:d    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:20:44

• "Why Luigi Mangione Is Being Treated as a Folk Hero" https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/why-luigi-mangione-is-being-treated-as-a-folk-hero    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:20:58

• iophk: 'universal coverage' is not the same as 'universal health care'; insurance companies muddy the water by conflating the two https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-12-12/united-healthcare-murder-brian-thompson-luigi-mangione-insurance ("The UnitedHealthcare killing won't improve insurance. This would")    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:21:40

• "Luigi Mangione Is America Whether We Like It or Not" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/luigi-mangione-is-america-whether-we-like-it-or-not/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:22:08

• "One of last survivors of Pearl Harbor attack dies at 100" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-11/pearl-harbor-survivor-dies    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:22:52

• "VA awarded bonuses to career executives amidst a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2024/12/va-awarded-bonuses-to-career-executives-amidst-a-multi-billion-dollar-budget-shortfall/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:23:54

• "One Less CEO" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/12/one-less-ceo/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:24:10

• "Air Force names first female SERE specialist as chief master sergeant" https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2024/12/12/air-force-names-first-female-sere-specialist-as-chief-master-sergeant/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:24:18

• "Is This the Year Everyone Quits Social Control Media?" https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-6-quitting-social-media/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:24:33

• "Time magazine names Trump 2024 Person of the Year for ‘unparalleled’ political rebirth" https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20241212-time-magazine-names-trump-2024-person-of-the-year-unparalleled-political-rebirth    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:24:49

• "Donald Trump named Time's Person of the Year for 2024" https://www.dw.com/en/donald-trump-named-times-person-of-the-year-for-2024/a-71038040    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:24:57

• Turns out Time's Person of the Year can be a criminal. Yes, fame and crime are the same to them.    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:25:21

• "Ukraine’s darkest hour" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2024/12/12/ukraines-darkest-hour/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:25:43

• "In love with a killer: How the [Internet] became obsessed with Luigi Mangione" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-12/in-love-with-a-killer-how-the-internet-became-obsessed-with-luigi-mangione.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:25:53

• "Chat Control 2: Inget beslut i EU:s ministerråd" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2024/12/12/chat-control-2-inget-beslut-i-eus-ministerrad/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:26:06

• "Trump Criticizes Decision To Allow Ukraine To Strike Inside Russia" https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-atacms-ukraine-russia/33237728.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:26:18

• "Donald Trump and RFK Jr to discuss ending childhood vaccination programs over ‘autism link’" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/donald-trump-and-rfk-jr-to-discuss-ending-childhood-vaccination-programs-over-autism-link-101734025559289.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:26:30

• "Adapting all-domain forces to changes in land warfare" https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/adapting-all-domain-forces-to-changes-in-land-warfare/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:26:45

• "In our 2025 seminar series, we'll look at what should be taught about AI, ML, and data science in schools and how we should teach this." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/how-can-we-teach-students-about-ai-and-data-science-2025-seminar-series/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:31:49

• "Microsoft’s vice president and deputy general counsel for intellectual [sic] property [sic]" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/harvard-ai-training-dataset-openai-microsoft/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:34:27

• "Applicant Canal+ argued that the alternative DNS resolvers allowed people to bypass the “regular” blocking measures implemented by internet providers." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/french-piracy-blocking-order-goes-global-dns-service-quad9-vows-to-fight-241212/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:34:39

• "Google has urged the Federal Trade Commission to intervene in Microsoft's exclusive cloud deal with OpenAI, citing potential cost increases for customers." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/why-did-google-ask-ftc-to-nix-microsoft-openai-pact/articleshow/116226074.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:34:59

• "Its action leaves the lower court's decision in place." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/us-supreme-court-tosses-case-involving-securities-fraud-suit-against-nvidia/articleshow/116233460.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:35:13

• "Beijing’s state administration for market regulation, the authority on antitrust issues, launched the probe “in accordance with the law,” according to a statement shared online." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/12/10/china-probes-us-chip-giant-nvidia-for-violating-anti-monopoly-law/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:35:25

• "The term ‘jailbroken’ simply refers to installing software that allows you to circumvent any restrictions placed by the maker of a device - such as an Amazon Fire Stick." ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/crime/dodgy-firesticks-how-police-catch-users-4907044 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:35:58

• "The platforms at risk will be significant social media platforms and search engines with an Australian-based revenue in excess of $160 million" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/australia-to-charge-tech-companies-for-news-content-if-they-do-not-pay/7898562.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:40:45

• "It’s embarrassing (and a clear sign of corruption) that U.S. regulators haven’t taken aim earlier." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/12/trump-fcc-commissioners-cable-lobby-use-lazy-soup-and-coffee-metaphors-to-defend-shitty-broadband-usage-caps/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:41:21

• "The agency had already opened up 850 MHz of the band to small mobile devices a year ago" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/fcc_6ghz_band/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:41:53

• "Measuring the Internet is a delicate process and without the proper setup" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/tfiebig/navigating-network-measurements-research-risks-and-reliability/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:42:08

• "critically engages with the importance of smell" ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2024/12/causing-a-stink-reflections-on-my-viral-phd | Source: New Statesman    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:44:18

• "Influential billionaires and right-wing think tanks have been advancing legislation that criminalizes homelessness" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-homeless-trump-vivek-ramaswamy-b2663740.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:44:41

• "An English translation of the authorised template for rental contracts is to be made available for the first time" ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20241210/denmark-to-introduce-english-version-of-official-rental-contract | Source: The Local DK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:45:10

• "Local critics of mass tourism say many apartment buildings in Rovaniemi's city center are also used for accommodation" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/as-tourists-discover-finland-s-santa-claus-village-some-locals-call-for-rules-to-control-the-masses/7898765.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:45:52

• "a large proportion was misogynistic and hateful" ☛ https://theconversation.com/swedish-academics-suffer-widespread-threat-and-harassment-most-of-it-from-their-own-colleagues-and-students-245602 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:48:14

• "Lots of cop shops and the cities that oversaw them assumed the system worked" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/12/another-study-confirms-nycs-shotspotter-deployment-was-a-waste-of-money/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:48:49

• "the two journalists run the agency from exile in the United States." ☛ https://cpj.org/2024/12/bypassing-the-taliban-firewall-how-an-exile-newsroom-reports-on-afghan-women/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:49:11

• "Given the importance of police reports to investigations and prosecutions and the unreliability already noted" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/aclu_ai_police_report/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:49:32

• "Allen and Previn knew Fajardo would need time off for military training exercises" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/12/12/woody-allen-puts-cook-on-chopping-block-over-army-training-chef-says/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:50:05

• "What enables men across Central Asia to commit violence against their partners with impunity?" ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2024/12/12/advancing-womens-rights-as-a-catalyst-for-economic-growth-in-central-asia/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:50:29

• "rather than pretend to type up a report" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/11/appeals-court-permanently-injuring-a-13-year-old-because-he-wouldnt-take-his-hand-out-of-his-pockets-isnt-a-rights-violation/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:50:53

• "Escalating Crackdown" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-demands-azerbaijan-release-detained-rights-activists/33236361.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:52:09

• "Guatemalan authorities must end their baseless pursuit of journalist Juan Luis Font, drop all criminal proceedings against him, and ensure he can return home to work safely and without fear of retaliation" ☛ https://cpj.org/2024/12/guatemala-issues-arrest-warrant-for-exiled-journalist-juan-luis-font/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:52:47

• "Under the current state law, the Legislature, the governor and the lieutenant governor are exempt from FOIA" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2024/12/12/foia-reform-clears-committee-moves-to-house-floor-for-further-consideration/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:53:05

• "Cut to 2023: Pothier had been an editor at the Boston Globe for 22 years, and the Old Colony Memorial, like dozens of Massachusetts community papers, had become a “ghost paper”" ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/12/12/massachusetts-local-news-startups-replace-ghost-papers/index.html | Source: uni Northwestern    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:53:21

• "The right has an extremely well-funded media ecosystem of high-paid bullshitters backed by algorithm-gaming SEO dickheads." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/12/the-view-from-somewhere/#abolish-rogan | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:53:32

• "You ain’t seen nothing yet regarding how some MAGA politicians are going to harass and attack journalists." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/12/ken-paxtons-subpoena-to-404-media-shows-how-maga-world-is-already-harassing-journalists/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:53:44

• "U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he plans to have Kari Lake" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-names-kari-lake-as-choice-for-voa-director/7899195.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:53:55

• "The legislation was dubbed the “Russian law” by its opponents, after similar laws long used by President Vladimir Putin’s government to silence political opposition and free media." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/european-democracy-tested-in-2024-amid-accusations-of-russian-meddling/7897977.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:55:04

• "Here on Techdirt, we write a lot about content moderation and even did a whole big series of content moderation case studies." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/12/attacker-has-techdirt-reclassified-as-phishing-site-proving-masnicks-impossibility-law-once-again/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:55:17

• "Jamshid Sharmahd fled his homeland after the Iranian Revolution in 1978/1979. The family lived in Hannover until 2003 before then moving to the U.S." ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/daughter-of-iranian-activist-jamshid-sharmahd-it-is-a-terrorist-regime-not-a-state-a-eb217f35-9004-4f02-b5ae-c78e450fec65 | Source: Spiegel    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:55:32

• "The bodies of over 30 people were found in a hospital morgue in the Damascus suburb of Harasta, many of them bearing signs of torture." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/syrian-anti-assad-activist-and-35-others-laid-to-rest-in-damascus-after-torture-101734029825555.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:55:42

• "At stake in this case is the future control of Infowars" ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/390953/the-onion-infowars-alex-jones | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:56:45

• "The fundraise valued Vapi at $130 million, according to a source familiar with the matter." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/voice-ai-startup-vapi-raises-20-million-in-bessemer-y-combinator-backed-round/articleshow/116255535.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:57:15

• "The Southeast Asian country has secured billions of dollars in investment in the past year from global tech firms" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/malaysia-launches-national-ai-office-for-policy-regulation/articleshow/116236144.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:57:39

• "Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act" ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2024/12/12/paris-hilton-stop-institutional-child-abuse-act-bill-passes-senate/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:57:59

• "Meta said on Wednesday that it had donated $1 million to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inaugural fund" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/technology/meta-trump-inaugural-fund-donation.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:58:16

• "The donation comes two weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg went to Mar-a-Lago to dine with Trump" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2024/12/12/meta-trump-donation-inaugural-fund-zuckerberg | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:58:42

• "Mark Zuckerberg has handed $1m (£790,000) to Donald Trump’s inauguration fund" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/12/zuckerberg-gives-trump-1m-despite-threat-to-jail-him/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 09:58:59

• "today’s stores have found ways to free themselves" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/12/the-fantasy-of-buying-without-shopping/680973/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 10:00:34

• "Google's response is a deal with solar energy firm Intersect Power, and financier TPG Rise Climate" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/google_solar_energy_datacenter/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 10:01:09

• "Concerns have been raised over plans to build a large battery storage site on a 12-hectare field less than 100m from a schools" ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/education/too-dangerous-anger-at-plans-for-168-container-battery-storage-site-70m-from-scottish-schools-4905286 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 10:01:17

• "The study, published in the journal Science Advances, explored the development of a foam filter made with cellulose, from cotton plants" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/microplastics-filter-cotton-squid-bone.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 15:56:55

• "person or company" ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-trump-billionaires-exempt-environmental-rules | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 15:57:24

• "the statement does highlight Trump’s utter disregard for protecting the environment" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trumps-ludicrous-billionaire-polluter-exemption-plan-deserves-ridicule-but-his-probable-abuse-of-national-security-exemptions-deserves-attention | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 15:57:50

• "Since then, scientists have been piecing together what happened to the birds, along with other species in the northeast Pacific that suddenly died or disappeared" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/climate/alaska-common-murre-birds-ocean-heat.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 15:58:07

• "It won’t cost money to stop AI from going out of control. In fact, we can save money — just stop setting fire to money for AI." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/12/vox-arts-funding-is-an-outrage-averting-ai-doom-is-much-more-effective-altruism/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 15:58:19

• "The new law, set to take effect in July, will make Finland the world's first country to implement such comprehensive wastewater regulations." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20131006 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 15:58:32

• "The international group of Nobel laureates and other experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 15:58:45

• "Taiwanese forces were on high alert in anticipation of Beijing’s People’s Liberation Army" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/12/10/taiwan-says-china-carrying-out-huge-maritime-drills-around-island-with-almost-90-ships-spotted/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 15:59:26

• "US dollar is used in more than 50 per cent of foreign trade invoices" ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/why-donald-trumps-election-could-hasten-the-end-of-us-dollar-dominance-4906312 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 15:59:51

• "[TikTok and ByteDance] are not entitled, however, to an injunction against an Act of Congress" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/12/tiktok-ban-injunction-motion-government-response/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:00:28

• "As the deadline approaches for ByteDance to divest from TikTok or face a ban in the United States" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/bytedance-seeks-to-delay-tiktok-ban-putting-hope-on-trump-administration/7899041.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:00:48

• "The Justice Department said the court should not delay the law's effective date" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/us-asks-court-to-reject-tiktoks-bid-to-stave-off-law-that-could-ban-the-app/articleshow/116233949.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:01:24

• "This political turmoil has created a vulnerable environment" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/holy-league-hacktivists-uniting-against-france/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:01:57

• "unmanned boats equipped with cameras and sensors" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/nato-may-use-aquatic-drones-to-protect-undersea-internet-cables/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:02:27

• "The vast wealth inherited by centuries-old billionaire families is staggering." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/meet-the-billionaire-nepo-babies-benefiting-from-trump-tax-scam | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:03:01

• "The president-elect has tapped at least nine billionaires for his administration" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-12-12/trumps-billionaire-brigade-is-headed-to-washington-should-that-be-worrying | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:03:21

• "He listed a series of recent “hostile actions” by Russia against NATO allies" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-12-12/nato-chief-warns-that-putin-wants-long-term-confrontation-with-europe-after-ukraine | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:03:46

• "addictive feeds" ☛ https://epic.org/epic-urges-northern-district-of-california-to-reject-netchoices-request-to-enjoin-california-law-to-regulate-addictive-feeds-for-minors/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:04:16

• "member states bordering Russia and Belarus" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2436808/eu-allows-countries-bordering-russia-belarus-to-restrict-migrants-asylum-rights | Source: LRT    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:05:09

• "We assume that she is the only survivor of the shipwreck and that the other 44 people drowned" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/eu-11-year-old-is-only-survivor-from-capsized-migrant-boat/a-71029060 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:05:20

• "15-kilowatt infrared laser was found to be capable of "neutralizing" target" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/british_army_drone_laser/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:05:51

• "This whole industry is down. Companies not hiring." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1vUDzZTx    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:06:50

• "I know many newer sales people let go in the past few years. Most have gone on to great jobs elsewhere. IBM trains them for the benefits of others." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1vVKVukf    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:07:21

• Spying by "MitID app" ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20241211/denmark-updates-digital-id-mitid-to-guard-against-scammers | Source: The Local DK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:08:20

• "What’s a little more surprising is that it might not take a dedicated team of security researchers to uncover a Pegasus infection." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/11/cheap-phone-scanner-shows-lots-of-people-are-still-being-targeted-by-nso-group-spyware/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:08:43

• "Formally the HLG is called “High Level Group on Access to Data for Effective Law Enforcement" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/shedding-light-we-address-the-flawed-going-dark-report/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:09:19

• "The High-Level Group on Access to Data for Effective Law Enforcement, also known as HLG Going Dark, presented its final report and recommendations for an agenda of maximal access to personal data." ☛ https://epic.org/epic-coalition-urge-eu-council-to-reconsider-proposals-that-would-undermine-encryption/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:09:38

• "We, the undersigned professional associations, media and human rights organisations, trade unions and technology companies" ☛ https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Open-Letter-on-HLG-Access-to-Data-for-Effective-Law-Enforcement-Recommendations.pdf | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:09:53

• "This file is still a work-in-progress." ☛ http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/mouse/ssh/Terrapin.txt |    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:10:16

• Windows TCO: "Krispy Kreme disclosed a cyberattack impacting its operations" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/krispy-kreme-cyberattack/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:13:14

• Windows TCO: "At the time of writing there has been no confirmation from Krispy Kreme" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/doughnut-disrupted-krispy-kreme-hack-attack | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:13:23

• "Google LLC today debuted Android XR, a new operating system for virtual reality and augmented devices." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/12/12/google-debuts-android-xr-operating-system-vr-ar-devices/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:22:45

• "Of course, a single creator with thousands of ongoing DM conversations has only so many hours in a day." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/onlyfans-models-are-using-ai-impersonators-to-keep-up-with-their-dms/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:23:03

• "The new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip, code-named Proxima, will first appear in refreshed HomePod Mini" ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2555406/apple-is-about-to-switch-to-its-own-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-chip.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:23:37

• "I’m still not sure how to think about AI." ☛ https://leancrew.com/all-this/2024/12/thinking-about-ai/ | Source: Dr Drang    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:24:06

• "I stumbled across DSPy while looking for a framework to build a small agent" ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2024/12/12/pipelines-prompt-optimization-with-dspy.html | Source: Drew Breunig    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:24:36

• "When managing a docs site SEO, you might encounter situations when external websites link to incorrect..." ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/block-unwanted-external-links-using-google-search-console-disavow/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:25:02

• "The rest of this article outlines the difference between these two world views" ☛ https://blog.relyabilit.ie/llms-wont-save-us/ | Source: Niall Murphy    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:25:16

• "The payments will be made to players of Fortnite related to in-game purchase" ☛ https://www.mlive.com/news/2024/12/do-you-or-your-kids-play-fortnite-you-might-be-eligible-for-payment-in-massive-settlement.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:25:37

• "Google's new prototype, called Mariner, is based on Gemini 2.0, which the company also unveiled Wednesday." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/google-unveils-ai-agent-that-can-use-websites-on-its-own/articleshow/116233143.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:25:44

• "Mineral water from several European nations has been found for the first time to be contaminated with TFA" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/12/forever-chemical-europe-mineral-water | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:40:29

• "Updated World Health Organization (WHO) estimates show 1 in 5 people aged under 50 have genital herpes." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/its-rarely-lethal-but-genital-herpes-costs-the-world-35-billion-a-year-and-20-of-people-have-it/a-71037992 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:40:50

• "Measure 437, which will legalize up to 5 ounces of medical marijuana with a licensed health care practitioner’s" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/nebraska-supreme-court-to-consider-medical-cannabis-petition-signatures-challenge/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:41:02

• "U.S. District Court Judge Dan Traynor on Monday granted a request from a coalition of Republican attorneys" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2024/12/10/ruling-blocks-undocumented-immigrants-from-using-health-insurance-under-aca/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:41:23

• "Researchers tallied losses and gains of labor and delivery units at close to 5,000 U.S. hospitals" ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/birth-labor-delivery-closure-hospital | Source: Science News    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:41:31

• "It’s clear in the aftermath of the murder, allegedly carried out by twenty-six-year-old Luigi Mangione" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2024/12/sanders-movement-health-care-mangione/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:42:15

• "The top five health insurers have raked in over $371 billion in profits since ACA passed." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2024/12/health-insurance-profits-unitedhealthcare-aca/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:42:45

• "But he was lonely. He had gotten divorced and moved cross-country twice in a few years." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/technology/ev-williams-twitter-medium-mozi.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:43:18

• "Worse, kids can wind up in a downward spiral, with screen time and poor sleep feeding off each other." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-12-12/too-much-screen-time-harms-preschoolers-sleep-behavior | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:43:39

• "The aim: to teach adolescents that the explicit content they encounter is unrealistic" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/science/pornography-adolescents-teenagers.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:44:18

• "It was a three-week process, involving setting the children regular cognitive tests on a computer" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/wellbeing/mental-health/swiped-documentary-smartphones/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:44:33

• "Most of the messages on the crowd-sourced fundraising site GiveSendGo" ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/luigi-mangione-was-charged-with-murder-then-donations-started-pouring-in-7228493 | Source: NDTV    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:45:14

• "At this inflection point, a complex" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/12/1107976/why-materials-science-is-key-to-unlocking-the-next-frontier-of-ai-development/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:46:29

• "After Samsung and Sony's departure from physical media, LG was one of the last major manufacturers of Blu-ray" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/lg-stops-making-blu-ray-players-marking-the-end-of-an-era-limited-units-remain-while-inventory-lasts | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:46:36

• "professional librarian." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/12/guest-post-the-perennial-question-of-librarian-credentialing/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:47:51

• "One of the biggest realizations I’ve had when building Chessbook is that onboarding a user is really hard." ☛ https://mbuffett.com/posts/onboarding-babies/ | Source: Marcus Buffett    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:48:03

• "Obstacles don’t exist to stop you from reaching your goal. They exist because the world exists." ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/expect-obstacles | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:48:31

• "The Survey measured the skills of around 160 000 16-65 year-olds across 31 countries*." ☛ https://www.oecd.org/en/about/news/press-releases/2024/12/adult-skills-in-literacy-and-numeracy-declining-or-stagnating-in-most-oecd-countries.html |    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:48:55

• "The story so far: On November 25, the Indian government announced the launch" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/govt-reveals-more-info-about-one-nation-one-subscription-explained/article68974647.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:49:13

• "Willow’s performance on this benchmark is astonishing" ☛ https://futurism.com/google-quantum-computer-parallel-universes | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:49:52

• "With the Geminid meteor shower, Gemini rises around 7 p.m. local time" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/2024-geminids-1.7406577 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:50:08

• "Artist Morry Kolman made a website called Traffic Cam Photobooth that lets people take “selfies” using publicly-available feeds from traffic cameras." ☛ https://www.404media.co/traffic-cam-photobooth-cease-and-desist/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:51:21

• "To become a Golden Knight, soldiers have to be airborne qualified or willing to go to Army Airborne School." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-golden-knights-feature/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:51:40

• "An anime adaptation of the epic fantasy has fans up in arms – but for trippy strangeness" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/tolkien-versus-counter-culture-jagger-mccartney-making-ralph/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:51:50

• "Interview with Daniel Schulz, a German journalist and author of Wir waren wie Brüder (We Were Like Brothers)." ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2024/12/11/fascism-is-an-offer-a-promise-of-profit/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:52:03

• [Old] "Since I made the plan to “own my web” last year, I’ve been collecting article drafts and learnings." ☛ https://medienbaecker.com/articles/finally-owning-my-web | Source: Thomas Günther    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:52:12

• "Just after 10:30 a.m. ET, Carson confirmed Korhonen's creation unofficially beat the current Guinness World Record- holder's machine, which is approximately 67 mm tall, 30 mm wide and 34 mm deep." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/it-s-not-yet-official-but-this-is-the-world-s-smallest-arcade-machine-guess-what-game-it-plays-1.7406570 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:53:06

• "Raspberry Pi Monitor’s kickstand" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/new-raspberry-pi-500-and-monitor-reviews-teardowns-builds/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:53:32

• "They are now on prototype stage and Goran is going to verify their functionality soon." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/eleven-open-source-hardware-add-on-board-for-gatematea1-evb-are-designed-by-intergalaktik-d-o-o/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:53:55

• Email Slicer Using Python ☞ https://idroot.us/email-slicer-using-python/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:56:16

• How to install and Use Screen tool on AlmaLinux 9 or Rocky ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-install-and-use-screen-tool-on-almalinux-9-or-rocky/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:56:39

• Desktop Notification with Python ☞ https://idroot.us/desktop-notification-with-python/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:57:46

• How To Install Prospect Mail on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-prospect-mail-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:58:03

• How To Install Apache Kafka on AlmaLinux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-kafka-almalinux-9/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:58:17

• Josef Strzibny: How to use a remote build server with Kamal ☞ https://nts.strzibny.name/how-to-use-remote-build-server-kamal/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 16:59:59

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

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:00:33

• Generate OTP using Python ☞ https://idroot.us/generate-otp-using-python/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:00:39

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

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:00:45

• There's a New Version of Lagrange (Gemini Reader) and Its Developer is Making an IDE/Editor ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/There_s_a_New_Version_of_Lagrange_Gemini_Reader_and_Its_Develop.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:01:34

• "December 12, 2024 - If you are on Mastodon, you can now follow us there as well. @stallmansupport@mastodon.social. However, this feed remains the main source for updates to the website." https://stallmansupport.org/updates.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:07:58

• COSMIC Desktop Proposed as Official Spin for Fedora 42 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-proposed-as-official-spin-for-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:10:07

• FSF Blogs: IDAD 2024 - Dec. 20: For freedom, against restriction ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/idad-2024    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:10:31

• Revisited: kew – terminal-based music player ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/revisited-kew-terminal-based-music-player/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:10:51

• PCLinuxOS Recent Updates ☞ https://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=5878    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:16:58

• How to Run Any Program from Any GNU/Linux Distro with Distrobox ☞ https://www.maketecheasier.com/run-program-from-any-linux-distro-with-distrobox/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:17:20

• "Long words can easily break your layout, especially in languages like German with lots of compound words." ☛ https://medienbaecker.com/articles/the-fine-art-of-hyphenation | Source: Thomas Günther    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:18:04

• "Since I started to create content in Japanese, I also wanted to learn about traditional setups, like having Japanese text flow from top to bottom, right to left, like you’d see in newspapers or novels." ☛ https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2024/12/ | Source: Markup from Hell    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:18:16

• "This is an example of a “text shortcut.” Text shortcuts let you type a short amount of text to invoke an action like creating a document or expanding short text into a longer form." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2024/12/12/text-shortcuts/ | Source: James G    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:18:46

• "The specific hardware in question is from our second generation ZFS fileservers, which ran OmniOS and which we used between 2014 and somewhere around 2019." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/FileserverHardwareReuse | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:18:57

• "System76’s Rust-based COSMIC desktop is shaping up to be one of the most exciting developments in the open-source world." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-proposed-as-official-spin-for-fedora-42/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:21:11

• "A month after its previous 24.08.3 release, KDE has rolled out the latest version of its app collection, KDE Gear 24.12." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-gear-24-12-apps-collection-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:22:05

• "This pre-release version comes as a milestone offering for all supported architectures, including x86_64, x86_64_v2, ARM64 (aarch64), IBM PowerPC (ppc64le), and IBM Z (s390x)" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/almalinux-10-beta-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:23:28

• "Here we go, after about 2 weeks, UPS delivered today my fixed Jolla C2 phone." ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/i-received-my-fixed-jolla-c2-unit.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:23:58

• "QEMU, the popular open-source machine emulator and virtualizer, has just introduced its 9.2 release, bringing a range of noteworthy enhancements, deprecations, and removals." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/qemu-9-2-open-source-machine-emulator/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:24:33

• "We know the age of every single curl security problem because every time we have a confirmed one" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/12/a-twenty-five-years-old-curl-bug/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:24:58

• "The DNT toggle is already gone in the nightly developer release of Firefox 135" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/12/firefox_do_not_track/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:25:39

• "WordPress isn’t WordPress anymore" ☛ https://joost.blog/wordpress-roadmap/ | Source: Joost de Valk    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:26:16

• "This post is about Go implementation details, so they can probably break you at any time if you rely on it." ☛ https://mcyoung.xyz/2024/12/12/go-abi/ | Source: Miguel Young de la Sota    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:39:45

• "These are somewhat more detailed notes than normal that summarise The Art and Science of CAP part 4" ☛ https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2024/12/10/tasc-notes-part-4/ | Source: DJ Adams    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:39:53

• "We've learned how to use goroutines and channels" ☛ https://antonz.org/go-concurrency/pipelines/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:40:03

• "Following on from my previous post about not having too much configuration" ☛ https://andydote.co.uk/2024/12/12/system-design-outside-in/ | Source: Andy Dote    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:40:13

• "Missing values are a common challenge in data analysis" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/12/how-to-use-drop_na-to-drop-rows-with-missing-values-in-r-a-complete-guide/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:40:51

• "A switch statement is a powerful control flow mechanism in C programming" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/12/understanding-switch-statements-in-c-programming/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:41:01

• "Last night I attended my first meeting as a Django Software Foundation board member" ☛ https://www.paulox.net/2024/12/11/my-first-dsf-board-meeting/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:41:33

• "The first three (your operating system, shell, and terminal emulator)" ☛ https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/26/terminal-rules/ | Source: Julia Evans    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:41:50

• Ubuntu Blog: What is vulnerability management? ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-vulnerability-management    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:44:28

• travelers information stations ☞ https://computer.rip/2024-12-11-travelers-information-stations.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:45:37

• Bribes as the "new normal", government as a corporation ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/technology/amazon-trump-inauguration.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:46:57

• Gunnar Wolf: Some tips for those who still administer Drupal7-based sites ☞ https://gwolf.org/2024/12/some-tips-for-those-who-still-administer-drupal7-based-sites.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:48:10

• pgAdmin 4 v8.14 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgadmin-4-v814-released-2979/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:48:28

• [Meme] Doing Online Activism in Social Control Media ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/13/Meme_Doing_Online_Activism_in_Social_Control_Media.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:48:45

• Windows Falls to Single-Digit "Market Share" in Benin ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/13/Windows_Falls_to_Single_Digit_Market_Share_in_Benin.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:49:05

• Number of Libera.Chat Users (Simultaneously Online) Falls to Lowest Figure in Over 3 Years ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Number_of_Libera_Chat_Users_Simultaneously_Online_Falls_to_Lowe.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:49:13

• [Meme] How NOT to Do Activism Online ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Meme_How_NOT_to_Do_Activism_Online.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:49:20

• EPO is Corrupt Like Always, What Changed is the Lack of Media Coverage (No Transparency Means No Democracy) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/EPO_is_Corrupt_Like_Always_What_Changed_is_the_Lack_of_Media_Co.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:49:28

• KDE ⚙️ Gear 24.12 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.0/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:50:14

• "The tool is designed to discover the attack surface of backdoored Windows COM and find security vulnerabilities such as privilege escalation and remote code execution." ☞ https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/12/windows-tooling-updates-oleviewnet.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:51:29

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppCCTZ 0.2.13 on CRAN: Maintenance ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2024/12/11#rcppcctz_0.2.13    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:52:05

• Google Has Only Solidified Its Search Monopoly in Africa Since Microsoft's Chatbot/LLM Hype Started ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Google_Has_Only_Solidified_Its_Search_Monopoly_in_Africa_Since_.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:53:02

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1142.jpg    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:53:53

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1492.jpg    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:53:58

• Gopher, HTML and the 90s Web Aesthetic gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/gopher-html-90s-aesthetic.md    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:54:42

• "I may have mentioned this before, but when I'm ripping movies, I often end up modifying the subtitles, if only converting them from pictures like PGS (Blu-rays) or Vobsubs (DVDs) to SRT (plain timed text)." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20241212-captions.txt    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:55:37

• darkness   

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:56:43

• "keep thinking about self-hosting and people dying, myself included. So my first wish for the end of the year is a solar-powered machine that takes all my websites and turns them into clay tablets to bury and survive the coming darkness." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2024-12-13-archiving-homepages    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:56:48

• "At first I thought I would need some kind of two-dimensional dynamic-programming array, but it turns out you just need to solve two equations with two unknowns and then check if the solutions are integers. This runs in constant time for each prize." gemini://dkalak.de/aoc/13.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:58:17

• 🔤SpellBinding: AYEHKPC Wordo: WINDY gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2024-12-13.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:58:43

• "In Mid-October, I wrote a post mentioning oaths I'm making for this Lunar year. As it's about a day or 2 until the Full Moon before Yule, I figured I'd write an update on where I am on these oaths." gemini://vigrey.com/journal/progress-of-winter-nights-2024-oaths-update-1.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 17:59:37

• "Yes, decades before anyone was talking about virtue signaling, performative social justice, keyboard warriors, and slacktivists, there was this lovely piece: Easy to Be Hard. It originally came from the musical Hair. It has been covered multiple times." gemini://the-brannons.com/song-about-virtue-signaling/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:00:46

• "I saw an ad in the subway from a bookshop chain (and yeah they do sell my books 🤷🏻‍♀️) that I thought was a li’l bit clever but I wanna add some nuance." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/page-flow-ad    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:01:40

• "The game is excellent. I love it. Until now I've been running it from the PDF but the print edition should be available early next year. It contains a great one-page procedure for creating a map for a campaign, which I followed to create the Realm of Zaraz." gemini://sdf.org/diggy/posts/2024/12/building-the-stilts.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:03:11

• "I started reading it years ago and I adore it. It tells the story of three friends, Susan, Daisy, and Esther, meeting in university in Sheffield. It begins with their first year and over the course of 50-something issues takes the reader through three years of university with them." gemini://sdf.org/diggy/posts/2024/12/giant-days-by-john-allison.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:04:03

• "I had a revelation recently (regrettably, I should've thought of this sooner): this absolutely no reason for my Gemini capsule and website to be generated from the same repo. all my SSG woes pretty much stems from this limitation." gemini://hedy.smol.pub/2024-12-13    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:05:27

• "I used to meditate regularly. I went twice a week to a Buddhist centre. The weekday session was about an hour, mixing sitting and walking meditation. The weekend session was similar with added chanting." gemini://sdf.org/diggy/posts/2024/12/couch-to-5-biminutes.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:06:38

• "I watched the first episode of Skeleton Crew, the new Star Wars show, yesterday and I really enjoyed it. It is fun and sweet. The designs of familiar-but-different space suburbia are great. I loved the effects that looked like puppetry (maybe they are CG, I don't know). I felt positive about it." gemini://sdf.org/diggy/posts/2024/12/skeleton-crew-and-the-grubby-mitts-of-industry.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:07:19

• Google told FTC Microsoft’s Proprietary Chaffbot Company deal is killing Hey Hi (AI) competition ☞ https://www.drydeadfish.co.uk/google-told-ftc-microsofts-openai-deal-is-killing-ai-competition/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:13:12

• BTCPay Server: The Best Open-Source Solution for Self-Hosted Crypto Payments ☞ https://medevel.com/btcpay-server-crypto/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:14:03

• Red Hat talks in buzzwords: RHEL Hey Hi (AI) 1.3 Docling context aware chunking: What you need to know ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rhel-13-docling-context-aware-chunking-what-you-need-know    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:15:00

• Red Hat now shilling more of Windows through E.E.E. (WSL) ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/build-rhel-10-beta-insights-image-builder | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:16:11

• More "hey hi" fluff from IBM's Red Hat ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/user-experience-and-its-importance-adoption-democratized-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:16:55

• "virtualization and AI"... yet more of that "hey hi" nonsense. ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/maximize-cloud-value-red-hat-aws-marketplace | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:18:27

• Migration Toolkit for Applications: Report analysis, customization, and troubleshooting ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/12/12/migration-toolkit-applications-report-analysis-customization-and    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:19:49

• What’s new in Red Bait build of Apache Camel 4.8 ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/12/12/whats-new-red-hat-build-apache-camel-48    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:21:30

• 'Linux' Foundation Pays for LLM Slop (Puff Pieces Made by Bots) About the 'Linux' Foundation (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Linux_Foundation_Pays_for_LLM_Slop_Puff_Pieces_Made_by_Bots_Abo.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:22:17

• Hans de Goede: IPU6 camera support is broken in kernel 6.11.11 / 6.12.2-6.12.4 ☞ https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/29039.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:24:12

• Red Hat expands Hey Hi (AI) model support in new release of GNU/Linux Hey Hi (AI) platform ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/12/12/red-hat-expands-ai-model-support-new-release-linux-ai-platform/ sea of buzzwords from publisher that takes money from Red Hat    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:25:16

• Red Hat Expands Hey Hi (AI) Models in New GNU/Linux Release ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/red-hat-expands-ai-models focusing on buzzwords and hype instead of GNU/Linux and Free software    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:25:56

• Greenmask 0.2.0 - 0.2.5 Releases ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/greenmask-020-025-releases-2974/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:27:18

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1001863/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:28:38

• New Version of Mir-Based Tiling Window Manager Miracle-WM Out ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/miracle-wm-0-4-released    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:28:59

• FDA ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/glenmark-pharmaceuticals-recalls-fda-oversight | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:29:18

• Ruby 3.4.0 rc1 Released ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/12/12/ruby-3-4-0-rc1-released/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:29:59

• Making o(m)g:image Part I: Design Iterations ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/making-omgimg-pt-i/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:31:11

• Mozilla Performance Blog: Introducing the Chrome Extension for the Firefox Profiler ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/performance/2024/12/12/introducing-the-chrome-extension-for-the-firefox-profiler/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:31:49

• pgAdmin 4 v8.13 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgadmin-4-v813-released-2957/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:32:09

• New Quest Software updates help accelerate enterprise adoption of PostgreSQL ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/12/12/new-quest-software-updates-help-accelerate-enterprise-adoption-postgresql/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:32:41

• FOSSASIA PGDay 2025 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/fossasia-pgday-2025-2978/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:33:12

• Kubernetes v1.32 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1001930/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:35:04

• Kubernetes v1.32: Memory Manager Goes GA ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/12/13/memory-manager-goes-ga/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:35:19

• Nordic PGDay 2025 registration open ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/nordic-pgday-2025-registration-open-2980/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:36:22

• Friday the 13th. Nothing spooky so far...    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:38:43

• "Focus on Hey Hi (AI) Innovation" = vapourware and hype, nothing substantial to actually show https://www.cloudbooklet.com/apple-drops-m4-extreme    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:39:26

• Mozilla pushing more Hey Hi (AI) nonsense instead of browser and Web standards ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-builders-demo-day/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:42:32

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 577 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2024/12/11/this-week-in-rust-577/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 18:43:33

• Martin Thompson: C2PA Is Not Going To Fix Our Misinformation Problem ☞ https://lowentropy.net/posts/c2pa/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:00:45

• South Korea’s telecom carriers brace for traffic surge ahead of impeachment vote ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-telecom-carriers-brace-for-traffic-surge-ahead-of-impeachment-vote    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:09:37

• South Korea opposition leader Lee says impeaching Yoon is the best way to restore order ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-opposition-leader-lee-says-impeaching-yoon-best-way-to-restore-order    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:09:49

• Will second impeachment vote for South Korea’s Yoon be different? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/will-second-impeachment-vote-for-south-koreas-yoon-be-different    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:09:59

• Young South Koreans, seeing democracy at stake, take to the streets ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/young-south-koreans-seeing-democracy-at-stake-take-to-the-streets    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:10:10

• Full text of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s address to the nation on Dec 12 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/full-text-of-south-korean-president-yoon-suk-yeols-address-to-the-nation-on-dec-12    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:10:26

• Asian Insider: Power transition in Syria | Walls closing in on S. Korea President Yoon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/asian-insider-power-transition-in-syria-walls-closing-in-on-s-korea-president-yoon    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:10:43

• South Korea’s President Yoon vows to ‘fight to the end’, defying impeachment threat ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/i-will-fight-until-last-moment-with-public-south-koreas-president-yoon    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:11:12

• South Korean President Yoon’s impeachment inches closer. But Mr. Yoon won’t quit. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2024/1212/south-korea-president-yoon-impeachment    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:11:37

• Young Koreans, Seeing Democracy at Stake, Take to the Streets ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/asia/south-korea-young-protesters.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:12:00

• A Father’s Search for His Missing Daughter in South Korea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/asia/south-korea-missing-person-fliers.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:12:13

• Back trouble and brain fog bothered suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing, his posts show ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2024/12/12/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-posts/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:14:42

• The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2024-in-review/the-gilded-age-of-medicine-is-here    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:15:00

• Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Killing Went Silent for Months. Where Was He? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/luigi-mangione-gunman-united-healthcare-shooting.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:15:20

• What To Know About The Gun Found With Luigi Mangione ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/unitedhealthcare-luigi-mangione-gun.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:15:30

• The Benefits and Risks of Fluoride, Explained ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/well/fluoride-water-health-pregnancy-children.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:15:49

• South Korea support for Yoon hits record low before key impeachment vote ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-support-for-yoon-hits-record-low-before-key-impeachment-vote    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:16:27

• South Korea police secure data from ‘secret phone’ of ex-defence minister in martial law probe ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-police-secure-data-from-secret-phone-of-ex-defence-minister-in-martial-law-probe    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:16:42

• North Korean nationals indicted in scheme using IT workers to funnel money for weapons programs ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2024/12/12/north-koreans-indicted-weapons-program-money-scheme/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:17:02

• EXPLAINED: Why are leaflets protesting North Korea dropped in Japan? ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2024/12/12/north-korea-japan-zainichi-leaflet-explainer/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:17:13

• US offers $5 million bounty for information on North Korean IT firms ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2024/12/13/north-korea-us-bounty/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:17:23

• Court indicts 14 North Korean IT workers tied to $88 million in illicit gains ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/court-indicts-14-north-korean-it-workers-tied-to-88-million-in-illicit-gains/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:17:39

• [Meme] Solving Real Problems With So-called 'Social Media'? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Meme_Solving_Real_Problems_With_So_called_Social_Media.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:18:04

• Protecting People From So-called 'Social Media' is Not Censorship (No More Than Banning or Restricting Access to Cigarettes is 'Censorship') ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Protecting_People_From_So_called_Social_Media_is_Not_Censorship.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:18:14

• Microsoft OSI Promoting Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub , Which is Proprietary and a Massive GPL Violator ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Microsoft_OSI_Promoting_GitHub_Which_is_Proprietary_and_a_Massi.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:18:25

• Microsoft Falls to Just 11% in Ivory Coast ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Microsoft_Falls_to_Just_11_in_Ivory_Coast.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:18:35

• IBM Said to Be Firing People Days Before Christmas ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/IBM_Said_to_Be_Firing_People_Days_Before_Christmas.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:18:55

• BeReal: The app that won’t take no for an answer ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/bereal-app-wont-take-no-answer    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:19:40

• Speech by Commissioner Lahbib on Gender in Health at the European Parliament ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_24_6406 a book called “Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men”.    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:20:31

• Explaining What Deb Nicholson Does to the Python Software Foundation ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Explaining_What_Deb_Nicholson_Does_to_the_Python_Software_Found.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:24:38

• [Meme] You Just Grab Him by the CoC ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Meme_You_Just_Grab_Him_by_the_CoC.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:24:47

• Azerbaijan Rejects Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Azerbaijan_Rejects_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:24:54

• [Meme] Award-Winning Back-stabbing Opportunists ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Meme_Award_Winning_Back_stabbing_Opportunists.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:25:01

• Nick's Job at OSI: Promote Microsoft, Promote Proprietary Software ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Nick_s_Job_at_OSI_Promote_Microsoft_Promote_Proprietary_Softwar.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:25:11

• [Meme] Leave My /home Alone ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Meme_Leave_My_home_Alone.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:25:18

• "You have probably noticed my frenetic and uncharacteristic appeals for donations across social control media." ☞ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/12/costs-much-less-boring-than-you-expect/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:26:28

• Shedding Light on How the EPO Sheds Off Staff in Order to Grant Loads of Invalid (Fake) Patents in Europe ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Shedding_Light_on_How_the_EPO_Sheds_Off_Staff_in_Order_to_Grant.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:26:50

• UPC is illegal and this is more paid-for SPAM from JUVE disguised as supposed endorsements (for an illegal system it got paid to lobby and lie for)☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/the-role-of-italian-law-firms-in-upc-litigation/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:28:02

• General Consultative Committee (GCC) Meeting at the European Patent Office (EPO) Shows Existing Problems (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/General_Consultative_Committee_GCC_Meeting_at_the_European_Pate.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:28:12

• When (and Where) Does Amazon’s APEX Create Personal Jurisdiction ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/12/reaching-personal-jurisdiction.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:28:34

• [Teaser] EPO is Running Out of Brains ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Teaser_EPO_is_Running_Out_of_Brains.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:28:48

• Rally against hate speech by Latvian Saeima Thursday ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/12.12.2024-rally-against-hate-speech-by-latvian-saeima-thursday.a579965/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:29:19

• Jimmy Lai denies promoting hostility against China in posts supporting hawkish Pompeo speech, trial hears ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/12/12/jimmy-lai-denies-promoting-hostility-against-china-in-posts-supporting-hawkish-pompeo-speech-trial-hears/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:29:41

• Microsoft backdoored Windows Falls to New All-Time Low in Guatemala (Less Than a Quarter) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/13/Microsoft_Windows_Falls_to_New_All_Time_Low_in_Guatemala_Less_T.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:29:55

• The FSF (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) Can Reach Its Funding Goal of $400,000. This Bothers the Imposters and Foes of the FSF. (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/The_FSF_Free_Software_Foundation_Inc_Can_Reach_Its_Funding_Goal.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:30:02

• International Troll Alert by Helen Plews (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/International_Troll_Alert_by_Helen_Plews.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:30:11

• Humbled in Syria, Putin Seeks Vindication in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/europe/putin-syria-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:30:47

• DRC Foreign Minister Thérèse Kayikwamba Wagner details national security challenges and regional role ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/drc-foreign-minister-therese-kayikwamba-wagner-details-national-security-challenges-and-regional-role/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:31:19

• "Still Wagner at heart" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/12/still-wagner-at-heart | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:32:33

• Human rights organizations document escalating violence, civilian casualties in Mali ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/12/human-rights-organizations-document-escalating-violence-and-civilian-casualties-in-mali/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:32:50

• Rīga's Ferris wheel owner alleged to have been on Ukraine's sanctions list ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/12.12.2024-rigas-ferris-wheel-owner-alleged-to-have-been-on-ukraines-sanctions-list.a580010/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:33:14

• Linux banned Russian contributors. Does my FOSS project need to worry about U.S. Sanctions? ☞ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/dec/12/linux-banned-russian-contributors-do-i-need-to/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:39:07

• Coming from the SFC, whose chief tamples over eastern European women, underpaying them for PR purposes and sometimes enabling trafficking involuntarily http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/02/Why_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_Does_Not_Deserve_Money_Karen_S.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:40:35

• Why Finland thinks Finlandization is a bad idea for Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/why-finland-thinks-finlandization-is-a-bad-idea-for-ukraine/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:40:59

• European allies mull sending peacekeepers to Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241213-european-allies-mull-sending-peacekeepers-to-ukraine    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:41:10

• Noted Russian Missile Designer Reportedly Shot Dead Near Moscow ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-missile-designer-reports-assassination-moscow-ukraine-invasion/33237577.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:41:18

• Trump Criticizes Decision To Allow Ukraine To Strike Inside Russia ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-atacms-ukraine-russia/33237728.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:41:27

• Russia Closes In On Key Ukrainian City As Zelenskiy Visits Front Line ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-gains-ground-near-pokrovsk-amid-diplomacy-surge-toward-peace-talks-/33237342.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:41:38

• Ukrainians Skeptical About War With Russia Ending Soon ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-war-russia-end-vox-pop-chernihiv-zaporizhzhya-united-states-support/33232684.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:41:49

• Ukrainian Women Are Traveling to the Front Line to Keep Love Alive ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/world/europe/ukraine-war-dating.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:44:36

• The nasty mobster who attacks the FSF and serially defaming key FSF people is a transphobe himself. It's good that on the Web people can archive evidence of his defamation and transphobia.    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:45:59

• Russian Troops Advance to Within 3 Miles of Key Ukrainian Transit Hub ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-pokrovsk.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:47:38

• Moldova ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/13/moldova-to-declare-state-of-emergency-over-ukraine-s-plans-to-halt-russian-gas-transit | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:47:57

• $500 million ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/13/u-s-allocates-500-million-in-military-aid-to-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:48:14

• Monument desecrator possibly paid EUR 350 by Russian services ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/12.12.2024-monument-desecrator-possibly-paid-eur-350-by-russian-services.a579978/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:48:31

• Syria’s house of cards ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/syrias-house-of-cards/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:49:07

• Assad’s Fall in Syria Renews Push for Justice on Crimes Committed by His Regime ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/middleeast/syria-assad-regime-crimes.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:49:17

• Von der Leyen on ‘weaponisation of migration’: From now on, refoulement of refugees is allowed ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2024/12/12/von-der-leyen-on-weaponisation-of-migration-from-now-on-refoulement-of-refugees-is-allowed/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:49:34

• "She was so little that no one knew anything about her. I was very afraid for her and still am!" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/family-separations-biden-russian-immigrants | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:50:12

• Foreign troops help Putin avoid pitfalls of another Russian mobilization ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/foreign-troops-help-putin-avoid-pitfalls-of-another-russian-mobilization/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:50:58

• GNU Guix: The Shepherd 1.0.0 released! ☞ https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2024/the-shepherd-1.0.0-released//    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:51:58

• "More than $12.4 million, plus real estate, seized from former Russian Presidential Property Management Department officials" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/12/over-12-4-million-and-real-estate-seized-from-former-russian-presidential-property-management-department-officials | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:55:05

• "An imitation of activity for appearances" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/12/an-imitation-of-activity-for-appearances | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:55:29

• "strikes on Russian territory" bad in the eyes of Putin's buddy ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/12/trump-says-u-s-missiles-shouldn-t-be-used-for-strikes-on-russian-territory | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:57:34

• "Khmeimim bases" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/13/russia-has-informal-understanding-with-new-syrian-leadership-to-keep-tartus-and-khmeimim-bases-bloomberg | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:57:55

• Opening speech by Commissioner Kos at a musical performance by Belarusian artists ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_24_6381    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:58:24

• Opening remarks by Commissioner Kos at the high-level conference on standing with the people of Belarus ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_24_6403    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:58:31

• "discredit traditional values" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/13/russian-lawmakers-want-to-deny-distribution-licenses-to-movies-that-discredit-traditional-values | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:58:52

• "linked to Russian bank accounts" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/13/google-play-to-halt-monetization-for-apps-linked-to-russian-bank-accounts | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 19:59:17

• Media watchdog will be able to block [copyright-infringing] sites in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/media/12.12.2024-media-watchdog-will-be-able-to-block-pirate-sites-in-latvia.a579974/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:00:02

• "DMCA takedown notices that accused Channel 781 of copyright infringement, resulting in YouTube deactivating Channel 781’s channel just days before a critical municipal election." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/eff-speaks-out-court-citizen-journalists | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:00:29

• Yet EFF keeps uploading its material to YouTube while taking bribes from Google    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:00:52

• Peju Pursues Appeal of SDNY Decision Misapplying B&B Hardware On Issue Preclusion ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2024/12/peju-pursues-appeal-of-sdny-decision.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:01:52

• "weaponisation of migration" ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2024/12/12/von-der-leyen-on-weaponisation-of-migration-from-now-on-refoulement-of-refugees-is-allowed/ | Source: Site36    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:04:37

• 11-year-old rescued alone in the Mediterranean: Coastguard searches for dozens dead off Lampedusa ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2024/12/12/11-year-old-rescued-alone-in-the-mediterranean-coastguard-searches-for-dozens-dead-off-lampedusa/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:04:45

• German trial over death of refugee Mouhamed Dramé ends with acquittals for five police defendants ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2024/12/12/german-trial-over-death-of-refugee-mouhamed-drame-ends-with-acquittals-for-five-police-defendants/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:04:59

• The End of Physical Media is Here (and That Sucks) ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-end-of-physical-media-is-here    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:05:17

• How to Delete the Last Pushed Commit ☞ https://tecadmin.net/how-to-delete-the-last-pushed-commit/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:09:50

• 'Negotiations down to the wire' as Macron's self-imposed deadline to name new PM looms ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241212-negotiations-down-to-the-wire-as-macron-s-self-imposed-deadline-to-name-new-pm-looms    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:10:09

• KOSA ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/xs-last-minute-update-kids-online-safety-act-still-fails-protect-kids-or-adults | Source: EFF https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5690050/eff-says-dont-stop-kids-from-looking-at-porn    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:10:44

• Essential Python web security ☞ https://opensource.net/essential-python-web-security/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:11:24

• A day or so after Techrights said this site had stopped publishing ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/top-articles-at-opensource-net-in-2024    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:12:02

• "Engineer behind Russian Kh-69 cruise missile reportedly killed in Moscow region as part of Ukrainian intelligence operation" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/12/engineer-behind-russian-kh-69-cruise-missile-reportedly-killed-in-moscow-region | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:12:54

• "Russian train supervisor gets demoted after arguing with soldier over ‘box of gifts’ for fighters in Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/12/above-the-rules | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:13:14

• YouTube TV Hikes Monthly Price to $82.99, a 14 Percent Increase ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/business/youtube-tv-price-increase.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:13:45

• EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.5.1 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202412/easyos-scarthgap-series-version-651-released.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:14:57

• Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” – BETA Release ☞ https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4785    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:16:11

• Microsoft-sponsored openwashing lies and other garbage from the corrupt OSI (taking bribes from Microsoft) https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/redefining-open-source-to-make-ai-fit-sparks-unsettled-debate-177466.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:20:08

• KDE Gear 24.12 Apps Collection Rolls Out, Here’s What’s New ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kde-gear-24-12-apps-collection-released/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:20:30

• RPCS3: The Free PlayStation 3 Emulator for backdoored Windows and Linux, Supports 2000+ Titles ☞ https://medevel.com/rpcs3/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:22:45

• Installing Snap & Snap Store on AlmaLinux 9 or Rocky ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/installing-snap-snap-store-on-almalinux-9-or-rocky/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:23:16

• dirdiff – compute the differences between two directories ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dirdiff-compute-differences-two-directories/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:23:41

• Tokyo to make daycare free to boost birth rate ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/tokyo-to-make-day-care-free-to-boost-birth-rate    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:42:12

• Singaporean and Malaysian companies, families snapping up CNY reunion meal packages in JB ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/singaporean-and-malaysian-companies-families-snapping-up-cny-reunion-meal-packages-in-jb    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:42:49

• China jails ex-Premier League football star Li Tie for 20 years as Beijing cracks down on corruption in sport ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/12/13/china-jails-ex-premier-league-football-star-li-tie-for-20-years-as-beijing-cracks-down-on-corruption-in-sport/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:43:22

• How U.S. Firms Battled a Government Crackdown to Keep Tech Sales to China ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/politics/tech-sales-china-huawei.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:44:11

• Australia inks $518m rugby deal with Papua New Guinea to combat China influence ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-inks-517-7m-rugby-deal-with-papua-new-guinea-to-combat-china-influence    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:44:30

• Denmark moves to reduce China reliance by boosting Malaysia ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/denmark-moves-to-reduce-china-reliance-by-boosting-malaysia-ties    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:44:40

• China to issue more debt, boost consumption in 2025 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-to-issue-more-debt-boost-consumption-in-2025    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:44:49

• South Korea Has Its Own Alternative to IBM's Proprietary RHEL ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/South_Korea_Has_Its_Own_Alternative_to_IBM_s_Proprietary_RHEL.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:45:16

• Fake "Linux" News, Produced by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chatbots in 'Brittany Day' or "LinuxSecurity" Clothing ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/12/Fake_Linux_News_Produced_by_Microsoft_Chatbots_in_Brittany_Day_.shtml    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:45:25

• Old: RMS/Stallman crashes European Patent session https://www.itnews.com.au/news/stallman-crashes-european-patent-session-232825    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:49:38

• China breaks silence on possible drills, says it will not be soft on Taiwan independence activities ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/breaking-silence-on-possible-drills-china-says-will-not-be-soft-on-taiwan-independence-activities    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:50:42

• China says Philippines has ‘provoked trouble’ in South China Sea with US backing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-says-philippines-has-provoked-trouble-in-south-china-sea-with-us-backing    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:50:51

• US targets China's solar dominance with 50% tariffs on solar wafers and polysilicon — tungsten products will see a 25% increase ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-targets-chinas-solar-dominance-with-50-percent-tariffs-on-solar-wafers-and-polysilicon-tungsten-products-will-see-a-25-percent-increase    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:51:10

• China banned exports of a few rare minerals to the US. Things could get messier. ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/12/1108568/china-export-bans/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:51:39

• Xi Jinping calls for wider use of Mandarin in China’s border areas ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2024/12/12/china-madarin-wider-use/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:51:58

• Trump ‘invited’ China’s Pooh-tin to inauguration in Washington ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2024/12/12/china-trump-inauguration-taiwan/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:52:09

• Lithuania should align its position on China with partners – minister-designate ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2437293/lithuania-should-align-its-position-on-china-with-partners-minister-designate    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:52:18

• US finalises tariff rises on more China green tech imports, including solar panel parts ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/12/12/us-finalises-tariff-rises-on-more-china-green-tech-imports-including-solar-panel-parts/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:52:41

• Chinese national arrested after allegedly flying drone over US military base ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/12/12/chinese-national-arrested-after-allegedly-flying-drone-over-us-military-base/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:53:02

• Can China’s new ambassador to Israel reset the strained relationship? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/can-chinas-new-ambassador-to-israel-reset-the-strained-relationship/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:53:51

• Soylent Green is people ☞ https://xeiaso.net/blog/2024/soylent-green-people/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:55:07

• British Journalism Awards winners 2024: Channel 4 News named best news provider, Caroline Wheeler is journalist of the year ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/british-journalism-awards-2024-winners/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:55:31

• Syrian rebels uncover Assad regime's large-scale illegal drug laboratories ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241212-syrian-rebels-uncover-assad-regime-s-large-scale-illegal-drug-laboratories    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:56:20

• Heads up for Latvian central bank's cabbage coin ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/12.12.2024-heads-up-for-latvian-central-banks-cabbage-coin.a579983/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:57:32

• Vietnam cybersecurity law violates freedoms of speech and expression: HRW report ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/12/human-rights-group-says-vietnam-cyber-security-law-violates-freedoms-of-speech-and-expression/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 20:57:58

• Configure which OS or kernel to Boot by Default in Ubuntu 24.04 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/12/os-kernel-boot-default-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:05:00

• AlmaLinux 10.0 Beta Released ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/AlmaLinux-10.0-Beta-Released    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:05:21

• Linux Mint 22.1, code-name “Xia”, is Now in Beta Stage ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/12/linux-mint-22-1-beta/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:05:50

• "Imagine: you setup a fancy new service that is connected to the interwebs. How scary! What if that new butt that you have exposed to the www is - in fact - naked? Even worse, what if it is programmed in C and because of that, probably breakable in ways that you cannot imagine?" gemini://shtrophic.net/sandboxing-on-linux.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:08:13

• "Rumor has it that the London tube system is falling down, or more precisely overheating." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2024/12/13/tubes.gmi    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:09:16

• "Deansgate Picture House / moon under the water Pub, opened 1914, modernised 1930/1960/1971, cinema closed 1990, weatherspoons opened it 1995‬" https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TkjApqDk34Y    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:12:37

• Manchester Time Travel - ABC cinema, Deansgate 2013 - 1980's https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=a2LQKp1jAjA    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:14:17

• Linux Mint 22.1 Beta is Now Available to Download ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/linux-mint-22-1-beta-download    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:21:21

• Introducing CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://blog.centos.org/2024/12/introducing-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:25:49

• KDE Gear 24.12 Officially Released, Finally Ports Dolphin to Mobile Devices ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-24-12-officially-released-finally-ports-dolphin-to-mobile-devices    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:25:58

• CC Learning and Training: 2024 Year in Review ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2024/12/12/cc-learning-and-training-2024-year-in-review/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:27:09

• Allow run app non-root in container ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202412/allow-run-app-non-root-in-container.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:27:34

• Ramones DRM spreader Netflix Film Starring Pete Davidson On Shaky Ground Amid Legal Dispute ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/12/ramones-netflix-film-on-shaky-ground-amid-legal-dispute/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:28:24

• Supply-chain attack analysis: Ultralytics (PyPI Blog) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1001909/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:29:47

• Supply-chain attack analysis: Ultralytics - The Python Package Index Blog ⚓ https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-12-11-ultralytics-attack-analysis/ ䷉ Source: Python Package Index | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-12-11-ultralytics-attack-analysis/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:30:12

• #KeepItOn: authorities in Pakistan must stop the ongoing suppression of digital rights ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/keepiton-authorities-in-pakistan-stop-suppression-of-rights/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:30:58

• Joint statement: civil society demands action ahead of Internet Governance Forum ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/joint-statement-saudi-arabia-internet-governance-forum-2024/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:31:07

• UN experts say Israel airstrikes on Syria violate international law ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/12/un-experts-reject-israel-strikes-on-syria-as-egregious-violations-of-international-law/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:31:31

• Magnitude 4.4 earthquake strikes off Turkey's northwestern coast, tremors felt in Greece ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/magnitude-4-4-earthquake-strikes-off-turkey-s-northwestern-coast-tremors-felt-in-greece-302629    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:31:37

• U.S. Charges Ex-Syrian Prison Official With Torture ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/politics/torture-charges-syria-prison-official.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:31:48

• December 12, 2024: outsourcing to social control media (mistake) ☞ https://stallmansupport.org/updates.html#2024-12-12 https://mastodon.social/@stallmansupport    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:32:36

• FOSS Weekly #24.50: Beautiful Distros, Open Source for Windows, Thunar Tweaks, Hyprpaper and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-24-50/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:33:16

• Diffify & Posit Package Manager ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/12/diffify-posit-package-manager/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:33:54

• Moscow kangaroo court ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/13/moscow-military-court-sentences-ukrainian-soldiers-to-14-and-15-years-in-prison-for-invading-russia-s-kursk-region | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:34:22

• "massive overnight attack" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/13/air-raid-sirens-sound-across-ukraine-as-russia-launches-massive-overnight-attack | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:34:31

• Two Americans on Holiday Are Killed in Western Mexico ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/world/americas/americans-killed-mexico.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:34:43

• Why Luigi Mangione Is Being Treated as a Folk Hero ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/why-luigi-mangione-is-being-treated-as-a-folk-hero    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:35:26

• BSD Now 589: The buffering pipe ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/589    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:36:12

• Rebekah Brown and John Scott-Railton on Distilling Cyber Policy podcast ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2024/12/rebekah-brown-and-john-scott-railton-on-distilling-cyber-policy-podcast/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:36:28

• Biden Commutes the Sentences of Nearly 1,500 Americans, a Record for One Day ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/us/politics/biden-pardons-commutes-1500.html    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:36:44

• Pluralistic: A Democratic media strategy to save journalism and the nation (12 Dec 2024) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/12/the-view-from-somewhere/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:37:04

• When The Pandemic Came, Zoos Closed, And Animals Began to Act Differently ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/when-the-pandemic-came-zoos-closed-and-animals-began-to-act-differently    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:37:28

• Biden grants largest single-day clemency in modern US history ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/12/biden-grants-largest-single-day-clemency-in-modern-us-history/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:39:35

• OBS Studio 31.0 Release Brings Exciting Improvements for Streamers and Creators https://news.itsfoss.com/obs-studio-31-0-release/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:41:19

• "Not to rain on its parade, but Advanced Weather Companion doesn’t technically do anything existing weather add-ons don’t. It just does it in a slightly different want." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/advanced-weather-gnome-shell-extension    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:43:14

• "But there are substantive changes elsewhere, not least to the default Cinnamon desktop environment, underlying package management tools, and burgeoning compatibility with the Wayland display server." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/linux-mint-22-1-beta-download    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:45:06

• This page lacks an important disclosure: Red Hat pays this site for these puff pieces https://siliconangle.com/2024/12/12/red-hat-expands-ai-model-support-new-release-linux-ai-platform/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:50:19

• Mastering Linux Regex: A Comprehensive Guide https://medium.com/codex/mastering-linux-regex-a-comprehensive-guide-4dab804aaf62    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:55:21

• "This long-term support release will eventually be supported until 2029, providing a solid foundation for those seeking reliability and usability. Built on the Ubuntu 24.04 package base and powered by the Linux kernel 6.8, this beta showcases several key improvements and updates." https://betanews.com/2024/12/12/linux-mint-22-1-xia-beta/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:55:56

• "KDE Gear 24.12 also improves the Okular document viewer with support for more types of items in comboboxes of PDF forms and improved speed and correctness of printing, along with easier digital signing of a document." https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-24-12-officially-released-finally-ports-dolphin-to-mobile-devices    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:56:22

• "One of the big new features in this release is the addition of support for the NVIDIA Optical Flow API and DLSS 3 Frame Generation for Desktop Linux. So NVIDIA GPU owners can now make use of it." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/proton-9-0-4-is-out-now-bringing-big-compatibility-improvements-for-steam-deck-linux/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:58:42

• "The previous step in taking them mainstream was merging the locking code, which went in to kernel 5.15 in 2021.) This latest merge makes it possible to enable both hard and soft real-time behaviour in the kernel." https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/11/linux_612_lts/    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 21:59:07

• Boosting buzzwords https://www.rcrwireless.com/20241202/telecom-software/red-hat-strikes-deal-aws    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 22:00:27

• Red Hat has given up on meaningful things and is pushing vapourware now www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241212622791/en/Red-Hat-Delivers-Next-Wave-of-Gen-AI-Innovation-with-New-Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-AI-Capabilities    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 22:00:59

• Who writes such NONSENSE??? https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/user-experience-and-its-importance-adoption-democratized-ai    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 22:01:35

• A whole article WITHOUT mentioning "hey hi"? Oh, wow. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/deutsche-telekom-red-hat-and-ibm-collaborate-successful-o-cloud-trial-open-ran    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 22:02:27

• Microsoft top sponsor (bribe) of Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/summit/sponsors https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/Summit%20sponsorship%20prospectus.pdf    

posted Friday, December 13, 2024 at 22:06:13