Roy Schestowitz

• TikTok; Google; Your Data | 60 Minutes Full Episodes https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lzJAzZmPQys    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 05:36:48

• IETF | Launch of the IETF Community Survey 2024 ⚓ https://www.ietf.org/blog/launch-of-the-ietf-community-survey-2024/ ䷉ Source: IETF | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.ietf.org/blog/launch-of-the-ietf-community-survey-2024/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 05:37:15

• "One thing is IBM doesn't have to list all the contractors laid off since they aren't IBM employees" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1w2ieK1W    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:07:23

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1149.jpg    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:09:38

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1499.jpg    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:09:44

• Designs Directive http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/12/guest-post-scope-of-protection-for-ages.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:24:07

• It is not "AI", they mean synthetic http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-french-draft-law-on-ai-generated-or.html see http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/16/Image_Fusion_is_Not_AI_LLMs_Aren_t_Either.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:25:29

• "EUIPO Grand Board" is just a corrupt kangaroo court http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/12/euipo-grand-board-finds-maricon-perdido.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:26:17

• Wide character (U+XXXX) in substitution (s///) https://blogs.perl.org/users/aristotle/2024/12/subst-widechar-warning.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:26:47

• What drives Nobel Prize winner Han Kang to write? https://www.dw.com/en/what-drives-nobel-prize-winner-han-kang-to-write/a-70452211    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:28:24

• Getting machines to write a lot of coherent text for you is NOT new/s. What's new is the HYPE.    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:29:16

• The Aral Sea: From lake to desert to forest https://www.dw.com/en/the-aral-sea-from-lake-to-desert-to-forest/a-70987224    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:29:51

• The Register plays along with stupid hype and pyramid scheme!! https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/scale_ai_defies_logic/ The editor should know better. "A new arms race"... come on, enough with this GARBAGE!    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:36:34

• This is not security, it is a power grab https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/microsoft_passkey_push/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:37:51

• Debian: a community for all, beyond technology https://yewtu.be/watch?v=IlI4WXMbmG4    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:39:46

• When Windows breaks itself without asking you. https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/windows_11_24h2_issues/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 06:42:55

• Google Layoffs: Tech Giant Plans To Cut 10% Management Positions, Says Report https://news.abplive.com/business/google-layoffs-tech-sundar-pichai-giant-plans-to-cut-10-percent-management-positions-1738719    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 08:23:09

• "Heads Up: our feed remains the main source for updates to the website." https://mastodon.social/@stallmansupport/113653368887835665    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 08:38:31

• RMS has Mastodon bot, which he apparently accepts https://mastodon.xyz/@rms    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 08:39:26

• BUT... saying your site is OFFICIAL and still creating a RELIANCE on social control media for it (not RSS feeds) is dumb because you give someone else control over your platform. Needlessly so.    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 08:40:25

• microRNA https://www.dw.com/en/nobel-prize-in-medicine-awarded-to-victor-ambros-gary-ruvkun-for-discovery-of-microrna/a-70374530    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 08:41:12

• India's farmer protests are on the move again https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-farmer-protests-are-on-the-move-again/a-71013831    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 08:42:00

• people smuggling https://www.dw.com/en/germany-uk-agree-on-joint-steps-against-people-smuggling/a-71007986    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 08:42:23

• GAFAM now firing tens of thousands of MANAGERS (not productive, just conceited) but not EXECUTIVES because this is an EXECUTIVE decision.    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 08:43:57

• GNU/Linux 9% in Liechtenstein https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/liechtenstein/#monthly-200902-202412    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 08:48:56

• "Looks like we may see some improvements to the Lenovo Legion series of hardware like the Lenovo Legion Go handheld when running on Linux, thanks to a new Linux kernel patch that's been sent in." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/new-linux-kernel-patch-submitted-to-improve-lenovo-legion-series-support-including-lenovo-legion-go/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:17:31

• "A little gift to yourself for the holidays perhaps? System76 just announced their AMD Ryzen 8945HS powered Pangolin laptop upgrade. " ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/system76-release-a-refreshed-pangolin-laptop-with-amd-ryzen-8945hs-plus-hardware-on-sale/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:18:01

• "FromSoftware parent company" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/sony-buy-up-kadokawa-shares-to-become-largest-shareholder-of-the-fromsoftware-parent-company/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:18:53

• "Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-gets-a-massive-patch-with-an-ai-overhaul-and-lots-of-a-life-fixes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:19:03

• "German 'diversity' Christmas market banned for selling Hamas gifts" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/19/german-diversity-christmas-market-banned-selling-hamas-gift/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:22:20

• "Big-Tech und das US-Militär: Ein verlockendes Geschäft" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2024/big-tech-und-das-us-militaer-ein-verlockendes-geschaeft/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:22:48

• "EU leaders to send 'clear message' to Trump on Ukraine, to debate U.S. ties" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/eu-leaders-to-send-clear-message-to-trump-on-ukraine-to-debate-u-s-ties-101734581363210.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:23:00

• " Randal Schwartz / Half My Life with Perl " https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=fffJnNTcLog    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:24:53

• "Facebook: Moderator:innen leiden unter schweren psychischen Erkrankungen" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2024/facebook-moderatorinnen-leiden-unter-schweren-psychischen-erkrankungen/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:26:23

• "UnitedHealthcare CEO killing: Luigi Mangione faces federal charges after extradition to New York" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/luigi-mangione-live-news-extradition-unitedhealth-ceo-b2667239.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:28:14

• "Luigi Mangione Faces Federal Charges, Murder Through Use of Firearm, Stalking" https://www.tmz.com/2024/12/19/luigi-mangione-federal-charges-unsealed-murder-stalking/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:28:26

• "Small, agile, deadly: the US Marine Corps and future war" https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/small-agile-deadly-the-us-marine-corps-and-future-war/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:28:40

• https://neweasterneurope.eu/2024/12/19/georgian-dream-turns-into-georgian-nightmare-election-fraud-escalating-protests-and-a-confrontation-with-the-eu/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:29:37

• "NB – hybrisbiblioteket – Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2024/12/19/nb-hybrisbiblioteket/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:31:29

• "Natalie Rupnow: The teenage girl behind the Wisconsin school shooting: A case with few precedents" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-18/the-teenage-girl-behind-the-wisconsin-school-shooting-a-case-with-few-precedents.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:31:39

• "Zelenskiy Says Transatlantic Unity Fundamental To Halt Putin's Aggression" https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskiy-nato-brussels-trump-rutte/33245410.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:33:31

• "Government shutdown would delay pay for deployed troops" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/us-troops-pay-shutdown/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:38:45

• "Marines can now reenlist early, some for up to 15 years" https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/12/19/marines-can-now-reenlist-early-some-for-up-to-15-years/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:38:58

• "overthrow of the Syrian government" ☛ https://fair.org/home/syria-is-free-say-media-but-that-shouldnt-mean-free-of-us-occupation/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:39:39

• "dismantled" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/dismantling-a-22m-user-pirate-iptv-service-led-to-big-rise-in-isp-blocking-orders-241220/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:40:17

• "Two decades ago, the torrenting world lost a legend: Suprnova.org." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/suprnovas-founder-speaks-20-years-many-lessons-and-a-youtube-empire-241219/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:40:24

• "AI [sic] Copyright Lawsuit in the US" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/ai-copyright-case-tracker/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:55:13

• "An entity claiming to be United Healthcare is sending bogus copyright claims to internet platforms to get Luigi Mangione fan art taken off the internet" ☛ https://www.404media.co/copyright-abuse-is-getting-luigi-mangione-merch-removed-from-the-internet/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:55:47

• "The perennial attempts to widen the reach of copyright in the pursuit of yet more revenue is something that is to be expected from companies." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/19/copyright-chaos-reigns-among-the-uks-top-cultural-institutions/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:56:31

• "The rise of generative AI presents both opportunities and significant challenges for the media landscape, particularly for news publishers and all creative businesses." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/opt-out-ai-rights-would-let-tech-companies-shirk-responsibilities-on-copyright/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:57:21

• "Presently, if one ignores the hype around Generative AI systems, we can recognize that software tools are not sentient." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/12/19/once-it-has-been-trained-who-will-own-my-digital-twin/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:58:25

• "Microsoft last week lauded the success of its efforts to convince customers" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/18/microsoft_passkey_push/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 10:59:39

• "the end of the year approaching" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/mirjam_kuhne/the-ripe-chair-team-reports-december-2024/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:01:11

• "last month’s cuts in two major Baltic Sea Internet cables now successfully repaired" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/a-deep-dive-into-the-baltic-sea-cable-cuts/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:01:26

• "Beyond our merge with Tails" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/tor-in-2024/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:02:29

• "in most cases, better off" ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2024/12/19/children-born-wealth-becoming-increasingly-rich-research-shows | Source: NL Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:03:34

• "The union says workers in New York City, Atlanta, California and Illinois are joining" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5233832 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:03:56

• "Tibetan dictionary containing definitions of over 300,000 words" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2024/12/18/tibet-dictionary-library-of-congress/ | Source: RFA    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:04:59

• "host of the 2034 international football competition has a gruesome record of violence" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/dont-let-saudi-arabia-hide-its-human-rights-abuses-behind-the-2034-world-cup/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:05:23

• "The lawsuit against the Des Moines Register and Gannett is the latest in a series of legal attacks that President-elect Donald Trump has filed against media organizations" ☛ https://cpj.org/2024/12/trump-steps-up-actions-against-press-with-des-moines-register-lawsuit/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:07:28

• "Le Monde's editorial team answered readers' questions as the newspaper celebrated its 80th anniversary on Wednesday" ☛ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2024/12/19/80-years-of-le-monde-your-questions-about-how-our-newsroom-works-answered_6736236_8.html | Source: Le Monde    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:07:52

• People brainwashed by media or rich people's media like to say stuff like, surgeons and techs and lawyers earn a lot of money, but in which country? Not every 'tech' works for GAFAM (Google to do mass layoffs next month), not every law graduate finds a job (at a firm that pays well), and many doctors become volunteers    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:16:18

• Then again, sustaining the current economic system and manufacturing consent for it requires a tinge of delusion, including disdain for the homeless (they drink too much, that must be why they lost the home)    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:16:25

• "The Geneva-based media safety and rights body says the killings in Pakistan come amid criticism over a lack of justice or impunity for journalists' murders." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-media-experienced-surge-in-violence-suppression-in-2024/7906338.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:16:45

• "The Times said in an editorial Tuesday that the targeted killing of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Russian army’s chemical weapons division" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/18/medvedev-threatens-times-journalists-over-coverage-of-russian-generals-assassination-a87387 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:17:07

• "Sunday Times political editor Caroline Wheeler’s journalist of the year win was the culmination of a personal crusade that began during her first week in journalism 23 years ago at Sunday Mercury in Birmingham." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/caroline-wheeler-sunday-times/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:24:37

• "On 16 December, Amnesty International released a report exposing widespread abuses by the Serbian police and Security Information Agency (BIA) through the use of spyware such as NoviSpy." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/serbian-authorities-must-prosecute-illegal-hacking-of-journalists-and-activists/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:25:11

• "Here's the twist: after the magistrate judge in this case applied this standard and quashed the subpoena" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/theres-no-copyright-exception-first-amendment-protections-anonymous-speech | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:26:34

• "Russia banned the cybersecurity company Recorded Future on Wednesday, labeling it an “undesirable” organization — much to its CEO’s delight." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/russia-bans-recorded-future/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:26:41

• "Bluesky, a microblogging platform" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/bluesky-could-become-target-of-foreign-disinformation-experts-warn/7906626.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:27:23

• "social media company Bluesky" is already an influencing operation. Of its owners. IT IS NOT FREE HOSTING!    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:28:05

• "The Meta, Reddit, X" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/a-close-reading-of-luigi-mangiones-self-help-library/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:30:30

• "we will introduce you to the various players involved" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/saving-internet-europe-defending-free-expression | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:41:31

• "government contractor" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bill-gates-dumps-593m-microsoft-248m-berkshire-hathaway-shares-q3-boosts-fedex-stake-65-1729649 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:42:51

• "In this series of articles we will be interviewing Canonicalers" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/life-at-canonical-victoria-antipovas-perspective-as-a-new-joiner-in-product-marketing | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:43:19

• "the 37-year-old singer-songwriter" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kate-nash-onlyfans-tour-live-music-butt-1235207873/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:44:56

• "The $2 billion Sun Stream Complex in western Maricopa County will soon generate enough power to supply over 200,000 homes." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/solar-power-growth-in-az-could-slow-if-trump-keeps-his-promise-to-kill-biden-era-incentives/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:45:35

• "Under the agreement, Oklo will develop nuclear reactors, called the Aurora powerhouse, with a total capacity of 12 gigawatts through 2044." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/sam-altman-backed-oklo-signs-power-agreement-with-data-centre-operator/articleshow/116445753.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:45:54

• "it possesses stakes in the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust exchange-traded fund known as BTC worth over $21 million." ☛ https://www.emorywheel.com/article/2024/11/university-discloses-bitcoin-stake-as-currency-reaches-highs |    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:53:11

• "Hanwha’s Qcells said it has had made a breakthrough in an emerging solar technology that has the potential to reduce the amount of space required by panels that generate power from the sun’s rays." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/breakthrough-space-needed-solar-panels/257052/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:55:35

• "Canoes were among the most important objects made by Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian people" ☛ https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-canoe-in-the-forest/ | Source: Hakai Magazine    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 11:55:58

• "A third Russian-flagged tanker has issued a distress signal two days after a storm badly damaged two other vessels and caused a major oil spill, the Interfax news agency reported Tuesday, citing authorities and emergency services." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/12/17/third-tanker-sends-distress-signal-as-russia-deals-with-black-sea-oil-spill-a87371 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:27:26

• "With the Amazon on the edge of collapse, climate pledges remain heavy on words and light on action. With progress stalling out on key issues like climate finance at COP29, delegates to COP30 in Brazil next fall have their work cut out for them." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2024/12/cop29-cop30-climate-amazon-indigenous/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:27:43

• "almost every Trump legal scandal where evidence comes out" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/12/19/friendly-to-us-nyt-buries-its-own-role-in-trumps-attacks-on-rule-of-law/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:28:48

• "Water consumption keeps rising" ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1256599/an-sos-for-water/ | Source: Greece    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:31:48

• "While it perhaps goes without saying given that this cutoff is about 30 days away, the stakes are decidedly high for TikTok, which (along with ByteDance) remains adamant that it has no intention to sell." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/18/tiktok-supreme-court-ban-law-challenge/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:33:08

• "The Justices will hear oral arguments in the case on Jan. 10, according to an order released today." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2024/12/18/supreme-court-hear-arguments-looming-tiktok-ban/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:33:25

• "to block a law intended to force the sale of the short-video app by January 19 or face a ban on national security grounds." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/top-us-senate-republican-urges-supreme-court-to-reject-tiktok-appeal/7906013.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:33:48

• "TikTok became one of the most downloaded apps in the world as officials grew increasingly wary of the potential for the Chinese government to influence ByteDance or access user data." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/tiktoks-rise-from-fun-app-to-us-security-concern/articleshow/116457934.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:34:29

• "The court's move came only two days after TikTok and ByteDance, its Chinese parent company" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/supreme-court-to-hear-tiktoks-challenge-to-law-that-could-ban-it/articleshow/116455420.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:35:20

• "Elon Musk and his rocket company, SpaceX, have repeatedly failed to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/technology/elon-musk-spacex-national-security-reporting.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:35:47

• "That's because his space company has reportedly "repeatedly failed to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets" since at least 2021" ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-investigated-violating-terms-top-secret-clearance | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:36:15

• "The Republican megadonor bombarded X with lies about a stopgap bill that would have extended federal funding until the spring" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-government-funding-deal-shutdown-1235211000/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:36:37

• "Mr. Musk demanded that Republicans back away from a bipartisan spending deal that was meant to avoid a government shutdown over Christmas." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/us/politics/elon-musk-politics.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:37:09

• "TikTok and its owner ByteDance have argued that the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PFACAA) is unconstitutional because it will rob its 170 million US users of their right to free speech." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/tiktok_supreme_court_petition_allowed/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:37:32

• "The Yi Peng 3 vessel is wanted in Sweden for questioning over a breach of two undersea fiber-optic cables in November" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/china-lets-sweden-finland-germany-denmark-board-ship-in-cable-breach-case/7906994.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:38:15

• "How it works: Musk's X has become a partisan megaphone fine-tuned to promote its owner's own messages to a user base of MAGA supporters, libertarians, [cryptocurrency] enthusiasts, and fans of Musk himself." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2024/12/19/elon-musk-x-posts-government-shutdown | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:39:23

• "The arrest of Yaoning “Mike” Sun, 64, came at a time of rising concerns that the Chinese government has cultivated a network of operatives to influence local elections in the U.S." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-12-19/chinese-national-charged-with-acting-as-beijings-agent-in-local-california-election | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:40:34

• "The U.S. Space Force is on track to field its first batch of a new ground-based satellite communications jammer in the coming months — designed to disrupt signals from enemy spacecraft." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/space/2024/12/19/new-us-space-force-jammers-aim-to-disrupt-chinas-satcom-signals/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:40:49

• "British politician Nigel Farage says talks are underway about Elon Musk making a hefty donation to Farage’s party Reform U.K. The Times of London reported it could be as much as $100 million" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-12-19/elon-musk-considers-funding-nigel-farages-populist-party-a-move-that-could-shake-up-uk-politics | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:42:18

• "International ignorance of Ukraine has been a feature since long before the country regained independence in 1991. Following the Soviet collapse" ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/five-things-russias-invasion-has-taught-the-world-about-ukraine/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:42:29

• "The number of Africans forcibly displaced by conflict and repressive regimes has risen for the 13th year in a row—to over 45 million people." ☛ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/conflicts-causing-record-level-of-forced-displacement-in-africa/ | Source: Defence Web    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:42:39

• "Today, noyb filed a GDPR complaint against Ryanair." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/want-book-ryanair-flight-prepare-face-scan | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:45:35

• "implementing the legislation in a random manner" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2024-12-19/pornhub-to-block-florida-users-on-january-1-to-protest-war-on-porn.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:46:07

• "Researchers at Silent Push say despite Araneida using a seemingly endless supply of proxies to mask the true location of its users" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/web-hacking-service-araneida-tied-to-turkish-it-firm/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:58:47

• "Every year, countless emails hit our inboxes telling us that our personal information was accessed, shared, or stolen in a data breach." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/breachies-2024-worst-weirdest-most-impactful-data-breaches-year | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:58:59

• "Unknown criminals went on a phishing expedition that targeted about 20,000 users across the automotive" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/docusign_lure_azure_account_takeover/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 12:59:15

• "All this, it's worth noting, is exactly what sank Clinton's campaign in 2016" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/trump-private-server-hillary | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 13:12:10

• "Because they don’t have official emails, people are really wary to share things" ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/18/federal-officials-nervous-about-sending-data-to-trump-transition-private-emails-00195217 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 13:12:39

• "ScyllaDB Enterprise will change from closed source to source available." ☛ https://www.scylladb.com/2024/12/18/why-were-moving-to-a-source-available-license/ |    

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

• Windows TCO: "In addition to using SCP for file downloads" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/lnk-files-and-ssh-commands/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 13:51:38

• Windows TCO: "The launch of LockBit 4.0" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/lockbit-ransomware-comeback-lockbit-4-0/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 13:51:47

• Windows TCO: "The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model continued to mature" ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-research/dragos-industrial-ransomware-analysis-q3-2024.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 13:51:54

• "But AI can’t be bothered with a subject line. It’ll just read the whole thing, watch the entire video and listen to the song from beginning to end" ☛ https://seths.blog/2024/12/ideas-need-handles-the-thing-about-subject-lines/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 13:53:49

• "As new potential threats from Chinese [intruders] were identified this week, the federal government issued one of its strongest warnings to date about the need for Americans" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/us-slow-to-react-to-pervasive-chinese-hacking-experts-say/7908035.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 13:54:04

• "But soon, Michael was falling in love. Linky, which offers conversational chatbots, is crude—a dumbed-down ChatGPT, really—but to him" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/12/autistic-teenager-chatbot/681101/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 13:54:25

• "How did Apollo measure this? They made up a fictional scenario in which a corporation would delete the bot and told the bot to preserve itself." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/12/19/anthropic-and-apollo-astounded-to-find-that-a-chatbot-will-lie-to-you-if-you-tell-it-to-lie-to-you/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 13:54:38

• "How do you get up to speed with AI engineering? Unfortunately, I don’t know of any good consolidated resources" ☛ https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/12/19/ai-primer | Source: Tim Kellogg    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 13:54:55

• "But VA officials offered the latest results as a positive" ☛ https://www.airforcetimes.com/veterans/2024/12/19/suicides-among-veterans-remain-unchanged-despite-federal-focus/ | Source: Air Force Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:06:55

• "Nonetheless, U.S. media refused to publish it" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2024/12/11/luigi-mangionis-manifesto.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:07:53

• "What wearers of these devices may not know" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/smartwatch-wristbands-pfas.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:08:38

• "Each switch has its strengths" ☛ https://www.sparkfun.com/news/12582 | Source: SparkFun Electronics    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:10:05

• "We have now RFID-NFC-STI-20MM and RFID-NFC-STI-20x10MM 13.56Mhz Mifare NFC" ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/rfid-mifare-nfc-self-adhesive-tags-with-thickness-only-0-2mm-in-two-forms-disc-20mm-and-rectangle-20x10mm-are-in-stock/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:11:33

• "Martin Polesny was detained at Manohar International Airport at Mopa" ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/beware-this-gadget-can-get-you-jailed-heres-why/articleshow/116292537.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:11:48

• "brief account of the statesman’s mathematical education" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/after-failing-math-twice-a-young-benjamin-franklin-turned-to-this-popular-17th-century-textbook-180985664/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:13:16

• "latest results of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/12/unfuzzy-math-u-s-needs-to-do-better/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:14:46

• "The New York Public Library (NYPL)" ☛ https://locusmag.com/2024/12/new-york-public-library-best-books-and-top-check-outs/ | Source: Locus Magazine    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:15:04

• "Researchers worked for years to recover the scroll’s contents" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-this-tiny-amulet-is-the-oldest-evidence-of-christianity-found-north-of-the-alps-180985674/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:16:44

• "A satisfying thing it is when that ‘acting’ moniker is removed from your title." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2024/12/losing-the-acting-on-a-high-ranking-title-at-nasa/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:16:57

• "NASA's SpaceX Crew-10 now is targeting no earlier than late March 2025" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/19/spacex_delayed_boeing_crew/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:17:56

• "the size of an SUV" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-mars-chopper | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:18:07

• "I started writing the year-in-review (recap) posts from 2019" ☛ https://geshan.com.np/blog/2024/12/recap-2024/ | Source: Geshan    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:20:40

• "extensively and repeatedly" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/craig-wright-the-self-styled-creator-of-bitcoin-handed-suspended-prison-sentence/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:21:13

• "What happens behind the technical scenes at the Free Software Foundation (FSF)?" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/the-fsf-sysops-team-needs-your-help | Source: FSF    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:22:08

• Kdenlive 24.12.0 released ☞ https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/12/kdenlive-24-12-0-released/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:24:38

• "The event welcomed 45 participants and included a one-day conference and a four-day hands-on workshop." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/12/20/event-wrap-pacnog-34/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:34:01

• "The program featured presentations from local and regional industry experts on topics including RPKI, Internet security, emerging technologies and much more." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/12/20/event-wrap-npnog-10/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:34:08

• "APNIC met with APNIC Members and key stakeholders from the Japanese Internet community while attending Internet Week 2024 in Tokyo, Japan from 19 to 27 November 2024." ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/12/20/event-wrap-internet-week-2024/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:34:58

• "How recursive resolvers handle DNS queries and how can administrators optimize nameservers for performance and resilience?" ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/12/19/dns-nameservers/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:35:20

• "I had never met Randal Schwartz before" ☛ https://perladvent.org/2024/2024-12-19.html | Source: Perl    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:36:25

• "Data analysis in R often involves dealing with missing values" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/12/how-to-use-complete-cases-in-r-with-examples/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:37:08

• "I just realised I haven’t been to the landing pages of these languages for years." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/how-scripting-languages-present-themselves/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:37:36

• "Raspberry Pi PICO2 W is successor of the PICO W with the newer more powerful RP2350 processor." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2024/12/19/raspberry-pi-rp2350-pico2-w-with-wifi-and-bluetooth-5-2-in-stock/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:43:03

• A new set of stable kernels ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1002917/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:50:36

• IBM's Leadership Ruining Lives of People Who Thought Working for I.C.B.M. Would be OK (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/IBM_s_Leadership_Ruining_Lives_of_People_Who_Thought_Working_fo.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:50:49

• The United States' Authorities Ought to Become Enforcers of the General Public License (GPL) for National Security's Sake (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/The_United_States_Authorities_Ought_to_Become_Enforcers_of_the_.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:50:59

• "The Luckfox Lyra series introduces the Rockchip RK3506G2 processor" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/luckfox-reveals-first-boards-featuring-rockchip-rk3506g2-triple-core-processors-with-linux-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:51:53

• New: the Fast Sketch Plugin for Krita ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2024/fast_sketch_plugin/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:52:39

• Alice Mikhaylenko: Mobile testing in libadwaita ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/alicem/2024/12/19/mobile-testing-in-libadwaita/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 15:53:46

• 'World's first' open-source Armv9 motherboard surfaces — Radxa Orion O6's pricing starts at $200 for the 8GB RAM model ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/worlds-first-open-source-armv9-motherboard-surfaces-radxa-orion-o6s-pricing-starts-at-usd200-for-the-8gb-ram-model    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:00:44

• "To fix climate change, we need regulation change first and foremost. The richest, and the corporations, are doing more harm than random normal people are doing." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/regulate    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:01:26

• 🔤SpellBinding: ALYNRSM Wordo: RIFLE gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2024-12-20.gmi    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:02:13

• "If you count the BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) that came with every 80s home computer an “IDE (Integrated Development Environment),” then my first encounter with IDEs came in 1983." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2024/12/19.1    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:03:22

• "Turning on only 'use feature "say"' requires a bit more work; one method is to put a "y.pm" file somewhere in the Perl library search path and therein, among other things, shove "say" into main, along with any other imports you want, and the other code you want." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2024/12/20/My.gmi    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:04:10

• "The entire valley goes from east to west. There are mountains to the north, east and south. So in three out of four cardinal directions, the clouds already rained over some mountains. This region has the most sunny days in all of Switzerland." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2024-12-13-valais    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:17:42

• "Throughout history, spiritual traditions have been deeply influenced by the cultures they encounter." gemini://betulla.cities.yesterweb.org/2024/12/20-buddhism-early-christianity.gmi    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:19:08

• "There was a time when KEXP's YouTube channel was my main source for finding new music. It's weird how live performances arranged by a radio station has a higher hitrate of becoming my favourite music than Spotify has." gemini://ja.ckdaw.net/post/some-end-of-the-week-notes-2024-51/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:19:56

• "Aggregated list of smart devices and operating systems that can be installed on them." gemini://yaky.dev/devices/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:20:49

• "This post will have some animated GIF files, which the Lagrange gemini client seems to have some issues displaying, at least for me. My apologies for that." gemini://vigrey.com/tarot/gb/log/4.gmi    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:21:34

• Even if you personally don’t live all that much longer, your successor may very well live long enough to become the villain gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2024/ "I went digging for a quote I remember hearing about Bill Gates way back when, and I found it."    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:23:21

• How To Install Node.js on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-node-js-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:39:24

• How To Install Nginx on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nginx-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:39:40

• How To Install LAMP Stack on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lamp-stack-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:39:56

• How To Install LEMP Stack on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lemp-stack-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:40:10

• How to build hosted clusters on the OpenStack platform ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/12/19/how-build-hosted-clusters-openstack-platform    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:43:34

• How to Install VMware Tools on AlmaLinux 9 or Rocky GNU/Linux ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-install-vmware-tools-on-almalinux-9-or-rocky-linux/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:44:10

• How to Install Wget on AlmaLinux or Rocky linux ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-install-wget-on-almalinux-or-rocky-linux/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:44:20

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1002903/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:45:33

• Kdenlive 24.12: New Subtitle Features and Workflow Enhancements ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-24-12-video-editor-released/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:54:24

• Mozilla as a meme of a company, Mozilla on "Hey Hi (AI) openness and safety"☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/columbia-convening-research-agenda/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:56:30

• Quick Web Apps | Easy Access to Your Favorite Online Tools ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2024/12/19/quick-web-apps/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:57:00

• SSSD: Weaknesses in Privilege Separation due to Issues in Privileged Helper Programs ☞ https://security.opensuse.org/2024/12/19/sssd-lacking-privilege-separation.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 16:58:01

• 13 Best Free and Open Source Tools for Novelists ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/novelists/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:04:03

• Alternatives to popular CLI tools: tree ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-tree/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:04:12

• Skribisto – writing tool for GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/skribisto-writing-tool-linux/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:06:58

• gtree – generate trees and directories ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gtree-generate-trees-directories/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:07:08

• 6 Best Free GUI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-tools-find-delete-duplicate-files/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:07:15

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Fashion Company Apple Clock ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-apple-clock/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:07:54

• lscoltui – change the colors of ls ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lscoltui-change-colors-ls/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:08:04

• System Monitor – view and manage system resources ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/system-monitor-view-manage-system-resources/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:09:02

• sty – string styling for your terminal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sty-string-styling-terminal/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:09:18

• Bluefin – Fedora based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bluefin-fedora-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:09:26

• "clown articles" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/10-cloud-articles-2024 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:10:25

• "buzzwords articles" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/best-of-ai-2024 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:11:02

• "It brings several improvements over the older DNF version, such as better performance, security, and a more flexible plugin system." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/dnf5-command/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:12:19

• DNF vs. DNF5: Key Differences and Improvements ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/dnf-vs-dnf5/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:14:41

• Top 3 Open Source Virtual Data Room (VDR) for GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/open-source-virtual-data-room-for-linux/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:16:26

• No, for TikTok (CPC) ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/year-end-challenge-2024 | Source: EFF    

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

• After Two Disastrous Years, Burning Man Faces a $14 Million Shortfall Heading Into 2025 ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/19/burning-man-shortfall-2025/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:19:20

• Matěj Cepl: Distributed Storage ☞ https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/distributed-storage.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:20:34

• Mozilla Thunderbird: Open Source, Open Data: Visualizing Our Community with Bitergia ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/12/visualizing-the-thunderbird-community-with-bitergia/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:21:51

• "Open access is a necessary condition to solving the climate crisis. Not only is the knowledge about our understanding of climate change and its impacts contained in research outputs but so are the solutions to climate change. " ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2024/12/18/cc-open-science-2024-year-in-review/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:33:48

• "Man who falsely claimed to be bitcoin creator sentenced for continuing to sue developers" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/19/craig-wright-man-who-falsely-claimed-to-be-bitcoin-creator-sentenced-for-continuing-to-sue-developers | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:35:32

• "APNIC participated in Internet Week 2024, held in Tokyo, Japan from 19 to 27 November 2024." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2024/12/20/event-wrap-internet-week-2024/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:36:59

• "So, a slightly different topic for a change." ☛ https://kodi.tv/article/the-kodi-foundation-who-we-are-what-we-do/ | Source: Kodi Foundation    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:38:28

• "In order to better understand what our contributors need to be supported and successful" ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/12/visualizing-the-thunderbird-community-with-bitergia/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:38:41

• "It is no longer unusual for Operational Technology systems to be connected to IT" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/anastasiya-pak/daniel-kapellmann-detecting-cyber-threats-to-critical-systems/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:40:34

• "As its name suggests, Livepatch enables kernel live patching on Ubuntu-based systems" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-patching-automation | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:41:30

• "Thanks to work by David Gwynne (dlg@), OpenBSD -current now has a new "AF_FRAME" socket domain" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20241219080430 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:43:06

• "If you are using other update methods, update the kernel and modules first" ☛ https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-10/NetBSD-10.1.html | Source: NetBSD    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:43:15

• "we’re warming things up with a special holiday roundup" ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/winter_2024_roundup_storage_and_network_diagnostics/ | Source: Klara    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:43:22

• "In particular, numerous crashes and glitches have been fixed" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-24-12-video-editor-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:48:26

• "Over the past year" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/residential-proxy-network-cybercrime-vpn/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:49:21

• "I’ve been excited by the potential of text-box-trim, text-edge and text-box for a while." ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/why-im-excited-about-text-box-trim-as-a-designer/ | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:49:55

• "If you’re using Fedora 39 and want to install DNF5" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/install-dnf5-on-fedora/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:51:41

• "Whether you’re cleaning data, looking at datasets, or getting data ready for machine learning" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/pandas-commands-for-data-analysis/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:51:47

• 2 entangled right whales spotted off coast of Massachusetts ☞ https://nypost.com/2024/12/19/science/2-entangled-right-whales-spotted-off-coast-of-massachusetts/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:53:26

• "Users should upgrade to openSUSE Leap 15.6 to continue to receive security and maintenance updates." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2024/12/19/leap-nears-eol/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:55:38

• RK3576D   

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:57:01

• "The Toybrick TB-RK3576D SBC is a compact development board designed for high-performance computing tasks." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-like-sbc-featuring-rockchip-rk3576d-dual-gigabit-ethernet-and-pcie-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:57:06

• Mozilla is trying to justify surveillance of Firefox users now ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/advertising/anonym-transparency-portal/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 17:58:49

• Mozilla worker buys ads for oneself as part of "marching" ☞ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/dec/19/2024-fundraising-matcher-interview-with-edunham/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:01:08

• Mozilla Executive Pay Doubles as Loss of 80% of Revenue Looms ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/mozilla-executive-pay-doubles-as    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:02:48

• ChatGPT Can Not Say "Bryan Lunduke" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/chatgpt-can-not-say-bryan-lunduke    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:03:13

• T-Keyboard-S3 Pro 4-Key USB mechanical keyboard adds rotary encoder, support for daisy-chaining up to six keyboards ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/20/t-keyboard-s3-pro-4-key-usb-mechanical-keyboard-adds-rotary-encoder-support-for-daisy-chaining-up-to-six-keyboards/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:06:47

• Lenovo All But Confirms New SteamOS Handheld With Surprise Event ☞ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2024/12/19/lenovo-all-but-confirms-new-steamos-handheld-with-surprise-event/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:07:06

• More Than Twice as Many U.S. Troops Are in Syria as Previously Disclosed ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/us/politics/us-troops-syria.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:11:23

• In Homs, Smiles and Tears Amid a Ravaged Landscape After al-Assad’s Fall ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/world/middleeast/syria-homs-assad.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:11:33

• WordPress is under attack from an entity sponsored by a Microsoft proxy    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:12:26

• Command Injection Exploit For PHPUnit before 4.8.28 and 5.x before 5.6.3 ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31528    

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

• FSF Has Made It Halfway to Its Target (Funding Goal) a Week Before Christmas Day ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/18/FSF_Has_Made_It_Halfway_to_Its_Target_Funding_Goal_a_Week_Befor.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:14:04

• [Meme] Making Choices at the EPO ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/Meme_Making_Choices_at_the_EPO.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:14:56

• Twitter is Going to Fall Out of Top 100 Domains as Clownflare (DNS MitM) Sees It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/Twitter_is_Going_to_Fall_Out_of_Top_100_Domains_as_Clownflare_D.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:15:08

• A "Year of Efficiency" (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/A_Year_of_Efficiency.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:15:21

• The Problem of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Security Problems is Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (the Solution is to Quit Microsoft) and "Salt Typhoon" Coverage Must Name CALEA Back Doors (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/The_Problem_of_Microsoft_Security_Problems_is_Microsoft_the_Sol.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:15:31

• Marcus Lundblad: Christmas / Winter / End-of-the-year Holidays Maps 2024 Yearly Wrap-up ☞ https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2024/12/christmas-winter-end-of-year-holidays.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:17:46

• "When IBM replaces one employee from NA with five from I.ndia, overall headcount doesn’t go down." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1w2ieK1W or when buying a company with X staff while laying off x IBM staff    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:23:12

• "Will he give a talk on how to bring down Corporate America by giving shareholders what they want?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1w3tASbd    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:23:43

• "AK is anti-chr.ist and doesn’t care axing employees before Christmas; he just wants to preserve his high paying job compensation" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1w37iJCN Arvind said: “What a beautiful country! I’m living the American dream, making many millions, replacing fellow Americans with my native countrymen from I.ndia in the process and I’m not even American…”    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:24:30

• Microsoft lies and gaslighting today (loaded (lying) headline): The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers?    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:25:52

• US economy is PLUNDERED, not booming. Check where the capital goes.    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:26:22

• Google to Cut 10% of Managerial Workforce, Signaling a Shift Towards Efficiency https://theafricalogistics.com/money/google-to-cut-10-of-managerial-workforce-signaling-a-shift-towards-efficiency/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:26:48

• Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai announces 10% job cuts in managerial roles https://www.business-standard.com/technology/tech-news/google-managerial-layoffs-restructuring-2024-ai-competition-124122000769_1.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:27:12

• Bad news for Google employees as Sundar Pichai announces major cuts in… https://www.india.com/business/google-layoffs-bad-news-for-google-employees-as-sundar-pichai-announces-major-10-percent-cuts-in-managerial-roles-googleyness-7481707/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:27:34

• Google Layoffs: Tech Giant Plans To Cut 10% Management Positions, Says Report https://news.abplive.com/business/google-layoffs-tech-sundar-pichai-giant-plans-to-cut-10-percent-management-positions-1738719    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:28:01

• Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry to start in January ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_6542    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:31:50

• "patent disputes can quickly become big money—for lawyers and litigants alike." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/12/19/the-battle-over-vanishing-spray/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:32:18

• CCIA Senior Counsel Joshua Landau Testifies Against RESTORE Act ☞ https://patentprogress.org/2024/12/ccia-senior-counsel-joshua-landau-testifies-against-restore-act/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:32:31

• Dennis Crouch and fellow patent extremists (or profiteers) looking to restore software patents ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/12/restore-sentence-everything.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:34:04

• Federal Circuit Affirms $95 Million Verdict in E-Cigarette Patent Battle Between Altria and Reynolds ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2024/12/federal-cigarette-reynolds.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:34:30

• CJEU provides new guidance on combination SPCs in Teva v. MSD (C-119/22) and MSD v. Clonmel (C-149/22) ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/12/19/cjeu-provides-new-guidance-on-combination-spcs-in-teva-v-msd-c-119-22-and-msd-v-clonmel-c-149-22/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:34:48

• 'Dark Patterns' or a Trap at the European Patent Office (EPO) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/Dark_Patterns_or_a_Trap_at_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:35:03

• Patent troll, Hyperquery, application search patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2024/12/18/jeffrey-gross-entity-hyperquery-application-search-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:36:36

• Graber: Announcing Incus 6.8 ☞ https://stgraber.org/2024/12/19/announcing-incus-6-8/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:38:05

• Bangladesh (Population Close to 200 Million) Sees Highest GNU/Linux Adoption Levels Ever ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/20/Bangladesh_Population_Close_to_200_Million_Sees_Highest_GNU_Lin.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:38:20

• LibreOffice 24.8.4 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 55 Bug Fixes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-24-8-4-office-suite-is-now-available-for-download-with-55-bug-fixes    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:38:41

• IPFire GNU/Linux Firewall Preps for Wi-Fi 7, Adopts Post-Quantum Cryptography ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-linux-firewall-preps-for-wi-fi-7-adopts-post-quantum-cryptography    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:38:59

• Kdenlive 24.12 Added Multiple Subtitle Tracks & Removed Qt5 Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/12/kdenlive-24-12-multiple-subtitle-tracks/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:39:27

• Kdenlive Update Adds New Subtitle Tools, Effects + More ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/12/kdenlive-adds-improved-subtitle-tools-new-effects-more    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:41:02

• The backdoored Windows Registry Adventure #5: The regf file format ☞ https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-windows-registry-adventure-5-regf.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:41:32

• Oysters Sicken at Least 80 at Restaurant Event in Los Angeles, Officials Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/us/oysters-norovirus-los-angeles.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:43:06

• U.S. Files Murder Charge Against Mangione That Could Bring Death Penalty ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/nyregion/luigi-mangione-federal-charges.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:43:16

• Digital twins of human organs are here. They’re set to transform medical treatment. ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/19/1108447/digital-twins-human-organs-medical-treatment-drug-trials/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:43:30

• How 21st-century data management can help leaders provide more effective correctional healthcare services ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2024/12/how-21st-century-data-management-can-help-leaders-provide-more-effective-correctional-healthcare-services/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:43:51

• Montana Supreme Court affirms landmark climate ruling in favor of youth activists ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/12/montana-supreme-court-affirms-landmark-climate-ruling-in-favor-of-youth-activists/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:44:19

• Two South Korean colleagues win nearly $1 million lottery within minutes of each other ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/two-south-korean-colleagues-win-about-1-milion-lottery-within-minutes-of-each-other    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:45:07

• South Korean burger chain Lotteria caught in crossfire of martial law debacle ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-burger-chain-lotteria-caught-in-crossfire-of-martial-law-debacle    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:45:36

• North Korean hackers stole $1.8 billion in crypto in 2024 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-korean-hackers-stole-1-8-billion-in-crypto-in-2024 https://techrights.org/o/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:45:56

• South Korea probe team issues Christmas Day summons for Yoon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-probe-team-issues-christmas-day-summons-for-yoon    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:46:10

• Malaysian influencer Ady Hu detained by Taiwanese cops for alleged fraud: Taiwan media ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-influencer-ady-hu-detained-by-taiwanese-cops-for-alleged-fraud-taiwan-media    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:47:42

• Legal experts to consider clemency requests for convict repatriated from Indonesia: Philippines’ Marcos ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-president-says-legal-experts-to-consider-clemency-requests-for-convict-veloso    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:48:10

• Survival water filter ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202412/survival-water-filter.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:48:46

• Large and Significant Error Correction in South America? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/Large_and_Significant_Error_Correction_in_South_America.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 18:49:12

• "Hostinger announced the closure of its 000webhost brand" https://www.netcraft.com/blog/december-2024-web-server-survey/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:17:22

• CrowdStrike: What the 2024 outage reveals about security ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5507/crowdstrike-what-2024-outage-reveals-about-security http://techrights.org/n/2024/08/30/Microsoft_is_Still_Hurting_Badly_From_CrowdStrike_gate_Now_It_P.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:18:31

• Starbucks workers to strike in three US cities, threaten nationwide action ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20241220-starbucks-workers-strike    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:18:51

• Amazon workers strike days ahead of Christmas ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20241219-amazon-workers-strike-days-ahead-of-christmas    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:19:03

• Junta forces are mobilizing in central Myanmar amid Shan state ceasefire, rebel say ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2024/12/19/myanmar-junta-offensives-plains/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:19:28

• Amazon workers are on strike. Will your gifts arrive on time? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2024/1219/amazon-workers-strike-teamsters-union-delivery    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:19:45

• Fish shell announces 4.0 beta release ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1002820/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:21:22

• Gain confidence with hosted control planes and OpenShift Virtualization using public cloud ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/12/19/gain-confidence-hosted-control-planes-and-openshift-virtualization-using-public    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:21:38

• AAEON’s first Arm-based SMARC 2.1 module is NXP i.MX 8M Plus-powered uCOM-IMX8P system-on-module ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/19/aaeon-smarc-nxp-i-mx-8m-plus-system-on-module-ucom-imx8p/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:22:19

• Putin says ready to compromise with Trump on Ukraine war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241219-putin-says-ready-compromise-trump-on-ukraine-war    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:22:38

• Zelensky says Trump and EU must work together to ‘stop Putin and save Ukraine’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20241219-zelensky-trump-eu-must-work-together-stop-putin-save-ukraine    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:22:45

• 'In His Own Bubble': Zelenskiy Slams Putin Remarks, Urges More EU Military Aid ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-zelenskiy-brussels-eu-defense-supply-usa-trump-costa-russia-support/33246198.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:22:54

• Putin, In Annual Televised Show Of Control, Says Russia Nearing 'Primary Goal' In Ukraine War ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-at-annual-show-of-control-says-russia-nearing-primary-goal-in-ukraine-war/33245667.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:23:03

• Zelenskiy Says Transatlantic Unity Fundamental To Halt Putin's Aggression ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskiy-nato-brussels-trump-rutte/33245410.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:23:12

• Zelensky says Trump and EU must work together to ‘stop Putin and save Ukraine’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20241219-zelensky-says-trump-and-eu-must-work-together-to-stop-putin-and-save-ukraine    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:23:18

• Kremlin opens a US branch next month. Trump is already ready to make way for a Ukraine branch, too.    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:23:52

• Putin Glosses Over Russian Setbacks, Including Syria ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/world/europe/putin-press-conference-syria.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:24:18

• "Russia appears to intensify YouTube throttling" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/20/russia-appears-to-intensify-youtube-throttling-possibly-in-connection-with-putin-s-year-end-press-conference | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:24:37

• "hasn’t just protected Russia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/putin-says-he-hasn-t-just-protected-russia-but-brought-it-back-from-the-edge-of-the-abyss | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:25:04

• "we need peace" says the invader ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/we-don-t-need-a-truce-we-need-peace-putin-on-the-war-in-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:33:21

• "Biden’s decision to pardon his son" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/the-human-side-prevailed-and-i-don-t-condemn-him-for-that-putin-on-biden-s-decision-to-pardon-his-son | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:34:15

• Ukraine seeks further progress toward EU membership in 2025 ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-seeks-further-progress-toward-eu-membership-in-2025/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:34:51

• Ukrainian sentenced to five years in jail for work on Raccoon Stealer ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/mark-sokolovsky-raccoon-infostealer-sentenced/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:35:14

• Uzbek Man Charged With Terrorism In High-Profile Assassination Of Russian General ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ahmad-qurbanov-charge-moscow-court-terrorism-general-igor-kirillov-killing-explosion-ukraine/33246069.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:35:26

• Crimean Tatar Leader Applauds Czech Recognition Of Soviet Deportations As Genocide ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/czech-lawmakers-recognition-1944-crimean-tatar-deportation-genocide-soviets-mustafa-dzhemilev-ukraine-russia-rights/33245638.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:36:28

• "Putin says he doesn’t know if the West understands Russia’s modified doctrine on the use of nuclear weapons" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/putin-says-he-doesn-t-know-if-the-west-understands-russia-s-modified-doctrine-on-the-use-of-nuclear-weapons | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:36:48

• Last Holdouts Cling To Life In Ukrainian Frontline Town ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-donetsk-siversk-residents-holding-out/33244827.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:36:59

• 15 Countries Where Yandex is Already Seen to be Bigger Than Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (in Search) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/15_Countries_Where_Yandex_is_Already_Seen_to_be_Bigger_Than_Mic.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:37:17

• Ukrainians Mourn the Loss of Viktoria Roshchyna and Her Stories ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/world/europe/ukraine-journalist-viktoria-roshchyna-dead.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:37:39

• "expelling Ukrainian troops from Kursk" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/putin-declines-to-set-timeline-for-expelling-ukrainian-troops-from-kursk-says-rushing-will-lead-to-unnecessary-losses | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:38:02

• Zelensky Raises Prospect of European Peacekeepers in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/world/europe/zelensky-europe-peacekeepers-russia.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:38:17

• Russian missile attack on Kyiv injures two and damages buildings, officials say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russian-missile-attack-on-kyiv-injures-two-and-damages-buildings-officials-say    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:39:05

• "there are ‘positive signals’ in European discussions about peacekeepers" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/volodymyr-zelensky-says-there-are-positive-signals-in-european-discussions-about-peacekeepers-in-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:39:29

• Interior minister to halt decision to scrap Russian-language driving tests in Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2443118/interior-minister-to-halt-decision-to-scrap-russian-language-driving-tests-in-lithuania    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:39:48

• Lithuania bans Russian, Belarusian, Chinese citizens from joining defence forces ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2442831/lithuania-bans-russian-belarusian-chinese-citizens-from-joining-defence-forces    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:40:03

• "Moscow says Ukraine attacked chemical plant in southern Russia with Western-made ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/moscow-says-ukraine-attacked-chemical-plant-in-southern-russia-with-western-made-atacms-and-storm-shadow-missiles | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:40:26

• "Massive Russian cyberattack hits Ukraine’s state registries" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/20/massive-russian-cyberattack-hits-ukraine-s-state-registries-justice-minister-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:40:43

• Lawmaker Shot Dead In De Facto Parliament Of Georgia's Breakaway Abkhazia Region ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/abkhazia-parliament-shooting-kharazia--golandzia-kvarchia-russia-bzhania-gunba/33245811.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:41:00

• Its Syrian Bases in Doubt, Russia Sends Cargo Flights to Libya ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/world/middleeast/russia-flights-libya-syria.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:46:29

• "North Korea first sent troops to Russia in October" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/cards/north-korea-first-sent-troops-to-russia-in-october-according-to-western-intelligence-so-why-is-there-no-clear-footage-of-them-on-the-battlefield | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:47:00

• "Gazprombank" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/20/u-s-allows-turkey-to-pay-for-russian-gas-through-sanctioned-gazprombank | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:47:22

• "The Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism, Re:Baltica, and its partner Buro Media reports that a company in Daugavpils that had been identified as being owned by Belarusian businessmen" ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/business/19.12.2024-rebaltica-reports-on-ownership-switch-at-daugavpils-electronics-plant.a581026/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:48:42

• "Russian economic officials draft legislation to double overtime limits amid national labor shortage" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/russian-economic-officials-draft-legislation-to-double-overtime-limits-amid-national-labor-shortage | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:49:03

• UK coalition of creatives rejects government plan on Hey Hi (AI) copyright monopoly exemption ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2024/12/19/uk-coalition-creatives-rejects-government-plan-ai-copyright-exemption/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:50:06

• Three Years Later, Universal Music Settles Trademark Lawsuit Filed Against Investment Platform Republic ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/19/universal-music-republic-settlement/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:50:53

• Is this an ad or news? Probably the former from JUVE. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/klinkert-ip-team-opens-new-frankfurt-office-for-blueport/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:51:44

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 dev 7 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-4-dev-7/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:52:32

• LibreOffice 24.8.4, optimised for the privacy-conscious user, is available for download ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/12/19/libreoffice-24-8-4/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:53:36

• US Sudan envoy calls on combatants to get out of the way of peace ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20241219-blinken-announces-aid-for-sudan    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:55:02

• Rebekah Brown discusses the global abuse of commercial spyware on TaiwanPlus ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2024/12/rebekah-brown-discusses-the-global-abuse-of-commercial-spyware-on-taiwanplus/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:58:00

• "talks with Trump" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/i-m-ready-anytime-putin-says-he-s-open-to-talks-with-trump-dismisses-claims-that-he-would-be-the-weaker-leader | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:58:31

• "achieved its goals in Syria" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/putin-says-moscow-achieved-its-goals-in-syria-promises-to-ask-assad-about-missing-u-s-journalist | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:58:54

• "We need more girls" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/territory-is-good-but-it-must-be-populated-says-putin-telling-russians-we-need-more-girls | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:59:17

• "21st-century high-tech duel" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/putin-challenges-west-to-21st-century-high-tech-duel-against-oreshnik-missile-with-kyiv-as-russia-s-target | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 19:59:37

• teenage ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/19/russian-soldier-on-leave-kills-teenage-daughter-and-injures-wife-and-son-with-knife-before-taking-own-life | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:00:43

• "Enter, Pyongyang" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/20/enter-pyongyang | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:01:03

• "soldiers who refused to fight were beaten and tortured" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/20/five-killed-in-fire-at-russian-detention-center-where-soldiers-who-refused-to-fight-were-beaten-and-tortured | Source: Meduza    

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

• alaa ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/uk-politicians-join-organizations-calling-immediate-release-alaa-abd-el-fattah | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:01:55

• 2024 end-of-year review: policy and standards ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/2024-end-of-year-review-policy-and-standards    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:02:55

• "Help From A Raspberry Pi" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/12/19/old-bbc-micro-gets-some-disk-help-from-a-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:03:33

• 69: Classic GM Cruise Control ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/23927 "My ears refuse to pop. Everything sounds flat. I hope this bit from the unnamed fiction WIP came out."    

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

• Fake Articles About 'Linux' ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/Fake_Articles_About_Linux.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:05:06

• There's an Abundance of Articles About the New Release of Kali Linux, But This One is a Fake (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/19/There_s_an_Abundance_of_Articles_About_the_New_Release_of_Kali_.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:05:14

• "How Do Abortion Bans Affect Miscarriage Treatment?" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/miscarriage-abortion-bans-dilation-and-curettage-dilation-and-evacuation | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:06:53

• "How Segregation Academies Have Changed Amite County" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-academies-public-schools-amite-county-mississippi | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:07:51

• Starbucks Workers Say They Will Begin a Strike in 3 Cities on Friday ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/business/economy/starbucks-union-strike.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:08:37

• Maps: See Israel’s Moves in Syria Since al-Assad Was Toppled ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/world/middleeast/syria-israel-maps.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:08:53

• Israel Launches Airstrikes Against Houthis in Yemen as Netanyahu Issues Warning ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/world/middleeast/yemen-israel-houthis.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:09:11

• Abortion ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-ban-deaths-report-ron-wyden | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:09:32

• $59 Voice “Preview Edition” adds an offline smart speaker to your Home Assistant server ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/20/59-voice-preview-edition-adds-an-offline-smart-speaker-to-your-home-assistant-server/    

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

• Nvidia’s Global Chips Sales Could Collide With US-China Tensions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/technology/nvidia-chip-sales-us-china.html    

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

• Chinese National Charged in California After Aiding Local Candidate, Prosecutors Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/us/china-california-election-sun-chen.html "authorities to prevent China from influencing American politicians."    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:14:28

• Macau Is the Casino Capital of the World. For China, That’s Not Enough. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/business/macau-china-xi-jinping.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:14:41

• Malaysia will strengthen territorial defence while keeping diplomatic channels open in South China Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-will-strengthen-territorial-defence-while-keeping-diplomatic-channels-open    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:14:54

• Chinese President Pooh-tin urges bigger international role for gambling hub Macau ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-xi-urges-bigger-international-role-for-gambling-hub-macau    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:15:24

• Chinese GPU designers received key technologies from British company Imagination Technology: Report ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinese-gpu-designers-received-key-technologies-from-imagination-technology-report    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:15:51

• U.S. gov't removes China's chip toolmaker AMEC from the list of 'military companies' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/u-s-govt-removes-chinas-chip-toolmaker-amec-from-the-list-of-military-companies    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:16:03

• China’s farm sector more tainted by forced labor than previously known, report says ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2024/12/19/uyghur-coerced-land-use-transfers-report/    

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

• Corruption in China’s military may hamper its modernisation, Pentagon report says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/12/19/corruption-in-chinas-military-may-hamper-its-modernisation-pentagon-report-says/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:16:49

• China’s Pooh-tin Jinping swears in new Macau leader Sam Hou-fai on 25th anniversary of ex-colony’s return to Chinese rule ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2024/12/20/chinas-xi-jinping-swears-in-new-macau-leader-sam-hou-fai-on-25th-anniversary-of-ex-colonys-return-to-chinese-rule/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:17:14

• Mexico to impose new protective tariff on finished textile imports ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-textile-tariff/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:17:50

• Adam Young: Rust and Dependency Injection. ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2024/12/rust-and-dependency-injection/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:19:50

• Josef Strzibny: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon after switching to OrbStack ☞ https://nts.strzibny.name/kamal-cannot-connect-to-docker-daemon/    

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

• CentOS Board Meeting Recap, December 2024 ☞ https://blog.centos.org/2024/12/centos-board-meeting-recap-december-2024/    

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

• Gregory Colpart: MiniDebConf Toulouse 2024 ☞ https://gcolpart.evolix.net/blog21/minidebconf-toulouse-2024/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:21:35

• ‘Yellowstone’ spinoff star reveals she died for 3 minutes during scary COVID-19 battle: ‘I had complete organ failure’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2024/12/20/entertainment/yellowstone-spinoff-star-reveals-she-died-for-3-minutes-in-covid-battle/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:22:23

• Bird Flu Has Hit California Dairies So Hard That They’re Calling It ‘Covid for Cows’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/us/bird-flu-california-covid-cows.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:22:31

• SiriusXM Shares Are Down More Than 60% YTD — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Is Snapping Shares Up ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/12/19/siriusxm-shares-down-more-than-60-percent/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:23:05

• Going GNU/Linux #463 · Top 5 Myths About GNU/Linux ☞ https://goinglinux.com/shownotes.html#glp463    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:24:09

• Hackers Use Surveillance Giant Google Calendar to Bypass Spam Filters! ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/hackers-use-google-calendar    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:24:49

• The Surveillance Giant Google Ad Tech & Search Cases: How Combined Remedies Could Reshape Digital Markets ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/the-google-ad-tech-search-cases/ this organisation needs to disclose it added Microsoft moles to its board - a conflict of interest    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:25:51

• Hong Kong mulls Hey Hi (AI) police drones amid rise in public surveillance ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2024/12/19/china-hong-kong-police-drones-surveillance/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:26:18

• pgmoneta 0.15 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgmoneta-015-2983/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:26:33

• http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml   

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:27:06

• Trump’s Return May Worsen Financial Woes for Global Health Institutions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/health/global-health-funding-us-trump.html    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:27:20

• Is the Tech Industry Nearing an Hey Hi (AI) Slowdown? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/technology/artificial-intelligence-data-openai-google.html http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:27:47

• NetBSD 10.1 available! ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_10_1_available    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:32:07

• WeAct RP2350A_V20 is a cheap Raspberry Pi RP2350 board with up to 16MB flash ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/12/20/weact-rp2350a_v20-is-a-cheap-raspberry-pi-rp2350-board-with-up-to-16mb-flash/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:33:11

• Will the US Ban TikTok? Latest Updates Inside ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/us-ban-tiktok    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:34:33

• Apple shilling tiktok ☞ https://www.cloudbooklet.com/apple-partners-with-tencent    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:35:00

• Smartphone ☛ https://hackaday.com/2024/12/19/measuring-a-well-with-just-a-hammer-and-a-smartphone/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:35:34

• High court overturns life sentences in İstanbul airport suicide bombing, six released ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/high-court-overturns-life-sentences-in-istanbul-airport-suicide-bombing-six-released-302836    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 20:35:54

• These 7 Linux myths you still believe simply aren't true https://www.xda-developers.com/these-linux-myths-you-still-believe-simply-arent-true/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 21:05:02

• "Looking for a way to easily mirror your Android phone's screen on your Linux desktop? I've found a tool that lets you do so. The best part? It's free and there's no string attached. It's called scrcpy. Let's explore it and see its potential in this guide." https://www.howtogeek.com/mirror-your-android-screen-on-linux-with-scrcpy/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 21:05:24

• "Intel’s latest Arc Battlemage B580 performs well in Windows but seems to have room to grow in Linux, benchmarks by Phoronix show." https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/intels-newest-b580-gpu-underperforms-last-gen-arc-alchemist-cards-in-linux-benchmarks-likely-due-to-early-teething-pains    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 21:08:17

• Corporate colonialism https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/corporate-news/linux-foundation-announces-launch-of-lf-india-to-expand-global-open-source-support-and-innovation/116431986    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 21:08:37

• "Today, the IPFire Project released IPFire 2.29 Core Update 190 as a new update to its hardened open-source GNU/Linux distribution, which primarily performs as a router or firewall." https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-linux-firewall-preps-for-wi-fi-7-adopts-post-quantum-cryptography    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 21:09:00

• "Clark mentioned how they tested it directly on a Lenovo Legion Go. It's actually supposed to be a replacement for a previous patch and was inspired by the Linux asus-armoury driver." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/new-linux-kernel-patch-submitted-to-improve-lenovo-legion-series-support-including-lenovo-legion-go/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 21:09:20

• Microsoft moles trying (as usual) to distract from the back doors and zero-days in Windows https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/12/20/update-google-chrome-now-4-new-windows-mac-linux-security-warnings/    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 21:09:56

• Bye Mr Case gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20241220.txt    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 21:12:10

• "The skin is old, drawn tight over sinew and bone, colored in part by liver spots and veins. Knuckles still scarred by a life of violence, white lines over ridges of petrified cartilage." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2422    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 21:13:00

• "2024 was a rough one for me, i had some health problems & other stresses out of nowhere that kept interfering with things i wanted to do & enjoy, but i am hoping next year is better. but i don't want to dwell on the negative things too much here so i will talk about some good things now." gemini://bogbody.smol.pub/exeunt2024    

posted Friday, December 20, 2024 at 21:13:28