Roy Schestowitz

• "Hey hi" hype; the use of computers isn't new, just the misuse of buzzwords http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/02/insilico-medicine-lessons-in-ip.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:19:03

• Think gin and non-alcoholic beer are not similar? Think again… http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/02/think-gin-and-non-alcoholic-beer-are.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:19:24

• trade mark oppositions http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/02/guest-post-navigating-trade-mark.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:20:10

• DISA Incident: Update on Review of ‘Potentially Affected Files’ and Notification Plan https://www.bakerlaw.com/insights/disa-incident-update-on-review-of-potentially-affected-files-and-notification-plan/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:21:00

• "In their submission to Maine, the provider’s external counsel indicates that the breach occurred on May 27, 2024" https://databreaches.net/2025/02/03/delta-county-memorial-hospital-district-reveals-more-about-2024-cyberattack-that-affected-148363-people/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:22:51

• Canadian Man Charged in $65M Cryptocurrency Hacking Schemes https://databreaches.net/2025/02/03/canadian-man-charged-in-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:23:32

• Kept in the Dark — Meet the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden https://databreaches.net/2025/02/04/kept-in-the-dark-meet-the-hired-guns-who-make-sure-school-cyberattacks-stay-hidden/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:24:59

• Italian Security Bill Seriously Threatens Rights, Freedoms https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/05/italian-security-bill-seriously-threatens-rights-freedoms    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:28:27

• Police union wants football clubs, festivals to pay for their own security https://nltimes.nl/2025/02/05/police-union-wants-football-clubs-festivals-pay-security    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:29:18

• Trimble Releases Security Updates to Address a Vulnerability in Cityworks Software https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/02/07/trimble-releases-security-updates-address-vulnerability-cityworks-software    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:31:18

• Hackers target Taliban databases https://databreaches.net/2025/02/06/hackers-target-taliban-databases/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:35:26

• Dangerous cracker responsible for more than 40 cyberattacks on strategic organizations arrested https://databreaches.net/2025/02/05/dangerous-hacker-responsible-for-more-than-40-cyberattacks-on-strategic-organizations-arrested/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:36:09

• Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/cyberattack_on_nhs_hospitals_sees/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:36:57

• Windows down in Oceania https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/oceania/#monthly-200902-202502 both iOS and Android will leapfrog it https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/oceania/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:46:20

• Honduras: Windows down to 25% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/honduras/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:47:25

• Kangaroo Court of the EPO http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-new-mode-of-administration-is-new.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:48:00

• plant variety licensing = monopoly on life http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/02/plum-opportunity-missed-from-domain.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:48:37

• With more Indians studying abroad, safety concerns rise https://www.dw.com/en/with-more-indians-studying-abroad-safety-concerns-rise/a-71473791    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:50:22

• "IPR" is a misnomer as all letters in this acronym are lies http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/02/guest-post-uzbekistan-legislative.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:56:46

• Latest battle in the War of the Roses almost results in English defeat in Texas http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/02/latest-battle-in-war-of-roses-almost.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:56:54

• Submarine cables: Achilles heel of our digital world https://www.dw.com/en/submarine-cables-achilles-heel-of-our-digital-world/a-71494600    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:57:23

• Rosa Parks: Icon of the US civil rights movement https://www.dw.com/en/rosa-parks-icon-of-the-us-civil-rights-movement/a-64532305    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:58:42

• How sabotage on undersea cables affects our digital world https://www.dw.com/en/how-sabotage-on-undersea-cables-affects-our-digital-world/a-71494600    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:59:33

• damage not sabotage https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-baltic-sea-cable-damage-not-sabotage-ship-released/a-71495750    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 01:59:52

• Police arrest two opposition leaders amid protests https://www.dw.com/en/georgia-police-arrest-two-opposition-leaders-amid-protests/a-71488794    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:00:48

• threat to academic freedom' https://www.dw.com/en/us-science-funding-freeze-a-threat-to-academic-freedom/a-71501071    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:01:42

• 'Year of the family' https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-women-s-rights-activists-criticize-year-of-the-family/a-71482348    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:04:09

• 18 journalists detained https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/18-journalists-detained-9-imprisoned-in-turkey-in-january-77765    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:05:20

• International organisations call for action as press freedom violations surge in Turkey https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/international-organisations-call-for-action-as-press-freedom-violations-surge-in-turkey-77798    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:05:50

• More Than 100 Have Died From Bootleg Alcohol in Turkey in Recent Weeks, NTV Says https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-07/more-than-100-have-died-from-bootleg-alcohol-in-turkey-in-recent-weeks-ntv-says    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:06:06

• Toxic-drug traffickers should face murder charge https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/murder-fentanyl-dealers-overdose-1.7451243    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:06:32

• Should Marineland even exist? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/marineland-beluga-1.7453210    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:07:29

• Entanglements With Saudi Arabia https://jacobin.com/2025/02/trump-ai-saudi-investments-oversight/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:08:29

• Journalist Ciwana Cuma tells the stories of the resisting people of Tishrin https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/journalist-ciwana-cuma-tells-the-stories-of-the-resisting-people-of-tishrin-77775    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:11:52

• Camp Detainees Face Uncertain Future https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/07/northeast-syria-camp-detainees-face-uncertain-future    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:12:23

• EU Lays Out Guidelines on Misuse of AI by Employers, Websites and Police https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-02-04/eu-lays-out-guidelines-on-misuse-of-ai-by-employers-websites-and-police    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:14:00

• Indigenous Media https://www.projectcensored.org/defending-local-indigenous-media-scarcity/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:14:44

• EU, Other Host States Should Support Syrians Weighing Return with 'Go-and-See' Visits https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/03/eu-other-host-states-should-support-syrians-weighing-return-go-and-see-visits    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:16:03

• UN Censors Criticism of Saudi Arabia https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/02/06/un-censors-criticism-saudi-arabia-internet-conference    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:17:09

• Hate-speech laws back on table https://www.theage.com.au/national/australia-news-live-hate-speech-laws-back-on-table-as-sitting-week-continues-deepseek-banned-on-australian-government-devices-20250205-p5l9mn.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:18:40

• "This release of GParted includes enhancements, bug fixes and language translation updates." https://gparted.org/news.php?item=256    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:25:48

• "24.10 (Electric Eel) brings many new features and improvements to the TrueNAS experience" https://www.truenas.com/docs/scale/24.10/gettingstarted/scalereleasenotes/#24102-changelog    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:26:15

• Parrot 6.3 Release Notes https://parrotsec.org/blog/2025-01-31-parrot-6.3-release-notes    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:27:00

• Void 20250202 and PorteuX 1.9 are out, but the latter is outsourced to Microsoft Github, so a no-no    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:28:59

• February 2025 Image Release: Arm64 Extravaganza https://voidlinux.org/news/2025/02/new-images.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:33:18

• Release Announcement: Nitrux 3.9.0 “pd” https://nxos.org/changelog/release-announcement-nitrux-3-9-0/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:34:44

• RELIANOID 7.6.1 is out https://www.relianoid.com/blog/ MakuluLinux 2025-02-05 also    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:37:02

• Univention Corporate Server 5.2-0 is out https://www.univention.de/presse/2025/02/ucs-5-2-release/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:37:39

• "Plop Linux 25.1 released." https://www.plop.at/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:38:05

• CalculateLinux 20250206 is out    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:38:19

• And finally, AUSTRUMI 5.0.1 is out (bugfixes) http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:38:52

• There are still persistent distro releases. For 4 years Microsoft failed to get many to adopt Vista 11. It has hit a wall.    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:39:48

• Women with rifles of just nuts? https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/10/tech-layoffs-workers-meta-microsoft-workday/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:41:54

• "Very concerned about the mediocrity I see at msft" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkm05hwr    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:43:34

• "It's OK. It's going to be OK. The low performers from other companies will need a new place to land and a flailing and failing company is just the place for them. They can join the ongoing en5hittification race to the bottom." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkm05hwr    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:44:15

• "At MS the difference between a low performer and non-low performer can be miniscule." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jksm4b8t    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:46:31

• Slop? LinkedIn To Lay Off 668 Employees https://www.bwpeople.in/article/linkedin-to-lay-off-668-employees-495320    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:47:13

• "Amazon famously culls its workforce based on performance metrics, and Microsoft reportedly has plans to do the same." https://www.fastcompany.com/91276893/meta-laid-off-low-performers-defend-themselves-on-linkedin-and-reddit    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:48:56

• iOS about to surpass Windows in Congo https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/congo-republic-of-the/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:56:15

• Windows is falling to THIRD in many countries    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:56:30

• Inc. Egypt (Windows around 7%) https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/egypt/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 02:58:13

• Windows new low in Hungary https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/hungary/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 03:00:43

• "OLD NEWS. they've been doing since Ballmer!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkw0ze2g    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 03:27:54

• " https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/IBM/insider-roster/ "KRISHNA ARVIND; Chief Executive Officer; Stock Award(Grant) Jan 31, 2025 325,716 @254.70 thats 82 million - ge-z" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkknthd2    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 03:29:28

• "The only exception to your statement is the jobs of Alvind and most of his Pipmunks will be untouched this year. " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jks0yq7m    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 03:30:37

• 2021: Richard Stallman, inventeur du logiciel libre et penseur d'un internet libertaire https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/richard-stallman-inventeur-du-logiciel-libre-et-penseur-d-un-internet-libertaire-5355561    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 04:44:06

• Richard Stallman's English Talk in Italy Less Than 24 Hours Away (Torino) and Then Another Talk in Italy Scheduled (University of Bozen-Bolzano) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/Richard_Stallman_s_English_Talk_in_Italy_Less_Than_24_Hours_Awa.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 04:45:07

• Oh dear!!! GitHub! Microsoft! Proprietary! https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-02/msg00009.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 04:46:29

• "Many people I know have landed on BlueSky" Also Proprietary https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-02/msg00008.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 04:47:09

• " Yes, I'm on BlueSky myself. It's not distributed like Mastodon, so if there's a concern around being shut down, Mastodon IMHO is more resilient. But I admit I have not made much use of my Mastodon account." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-02/msg00007.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 04:47:36

• Making anything (like a book) about Freedom in Microsoft GitHub is like inviting vegans to an annual meeting... at Burger King    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 04:48:15

• genAI hype = higher water bills, higher power bills, higher food bills etc.    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:37:26

• Food insecurity in Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/heard-of-bin-shopping-it-s-catching-on-with-the-most-committed-of-bargain-hunters-1.7451411 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/egg-prices-avian-flu-canada-us-1.7450654    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:41:35

• Canada Post laying off dozens of managers amid shaky financial future https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-post-lays-off-dozens-managers-february-2025-1.7451332    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:41:57

• rising teen pregnancies https://www.dw.com/en/philippines-sex-ed-bill-targets-rising-teen-pregnancies/a-71501177    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:42:37

• Putin's man in Washington https://www.dw.com/en/greenland-pm-proposes-election-foreign-donation-ban/a-71506825    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:44:08

• How can I tell if a carbon credit is legit? https://www.dw.com/en/offsetting-flights-how-can-i-tell-if-a-carbon-credit-is-legit/a-71477784    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:44:28

• A talking point for more spying and "War on Cash" https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-money-laundering-problem-trump-1.7450357    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:45:22

• $9 Billion Residential Mortgage https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-02-07/bofa-to-buy-9-billion-residential-mortgage-loan-from-canadas-td-source-says    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:45:55

• $150-million class-action racism settlement https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/soldier-canadian-forces-class-action-settlement-racism-1.7451111    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:46:32

• How the Slash-And-Burn Tactics Musk Brought to Washington Backfired at Twitter https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-02-07/the-slash-and-burn-tactics-musk-brings-to-washington-often-backfired-at-twitter    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:47:43

• Moving domains gopher://gopher.black/1/phlog/20250211-moving-domains/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:52:22

• Sending and Receiving Webmentions with Kineto and nginx gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2025-02-12-Sending_and_Receiving_Webmentions_with_Kineto_and_nginx.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:53:18

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1203.jpg    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:54:09

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1553.jpg    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:54:15

• Analog Explorations: Simple Gravity gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250211-0.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:55:15

• "It just returned me a error about TLS connection even though the capsule had a valid cert and was opening with Lagrange and Amfora just fine." gemini://hideout.cyber-cave.org/gabbro-devlog/0-1-3.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:56:19

• "The video “Terence Tao on how we measure the cosmos [1]” was very interesting to watch, as Terence goes into depth on how people in the past, and by past, I mean the distant past" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/02/11.1    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:57:06

• "Somehow, in all my years of programming (and the few years I was looking into the source code of various MUDs back in the early 90s) I never came across this method of starting an updated version of a server without losing any network connections. In hindsite, it's an obvious solution—it just never occured to me to do this." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/02/11.2    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:57:43

• "Guys, I need your advice again as maybe I found the bug in the Gabbro (Gemini Server) or in my client (`ggemini`) implementation." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/25049    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:58:45

• "A different way to explore Wikipedia: randomly with pictures and a Tiktok navigation. It is quite a compelling way to spend some time and make some serendipitous discoveries." gemini://rrees.smol.pub/wikitok    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 05:59:55

• "Depression mostly. But that doesn't make a good post does it? So what better therapy than going too deep in to my own psyche to figure out just what my problem is." gemini://soup3461.smol.pub/wcida    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:00:32

• "I have varying degrees of distraction. I need to figure out how to communicate the degree of any given distraction that I am currently talking about." gemini://tirohia.smol.pub/1739316215    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:01:14

• GNU/Linux holding steady there for a year already https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/viet-nam/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:16:44

• United States Of America: GNU/Linux still at all-time high https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:17:29

• Microsoft still stuck at about 1000 mail (mx) servers. Irrelevant company yet? http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.202412/mxsurvey.html http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.202412/mxsurvey.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:18:56

• Chief Open Source Officer – You asked, I’m delivering https://harishpillay.com/2025/02/12/chief-open-source-officer-you-asked-im-delivering/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:35:19

• To avoid the paywall https://archive.is/5Jm0g    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:36:10

• Sweden: iOS passes Windows? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/sweden/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:42:54

• "Well if your "disability" is that you're a male over 40 .... then yeah, disclosing that will definitely make it more likely that you'll be RA'd." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkw27we4    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:44:09

• "Just for comparison, in the US severance is 1-3 months and you get health insurance for 6 months. Individual health insurance can easily be $1000 a month, and a lot more if you have dependents." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jks0yq7m    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:47:29

• "In Ontario Canada, based on common law precedent, if you have a great performance record and IBM is not able to spin it to say you were let go for cause, then you may be able to collect one month per year of service, to a maximum of 24 months in most cases. They don't just hand this over though - you have to hire a lawyer and fight"    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 06:48:03

• light plane crashes in Sao Paulo https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-2-dead-after-light-plane-crashes-in-sao-paulo/a-71539796    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:24:26

• river runs blood-red https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-alarm-as-river-runs-blood-red/a-71544607    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:24:39

• missing passenger plane https://www.dw.com/en/alaska-search-underway-for-missing-passenger-plane/a-71538407    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:24:54

• Aviation is hard when your government is run by racist teens    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:25:15

• Nazi-looted art https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-looted-art-will-arbitration-tribunals-help-with-restitution/a-71538858 But Nazis looted far more than art    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:26:31

• Cannon fodders from MElonland https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/south-african-troops-are-dying-in-the-drc-why-theyre-there-and-whats-going-wrong/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:27:24

• The D in "DRC" and in North Korea's initials are there to say 'Democratic". We have no DUSA though.    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:28:40

• In DUSA, American oligarchs would not literally control everything.    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:29:00

• Power moves: the women changing Africa's leadership https://www.dw.com/en/power-moves-the-women-changing-africa-s-leadership/a-71416501    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:31:45

• austerity-driven SANDF cuts https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/sacp-calls-for-end-of-austerity-driven-sandf-cuts-following-drc-deaths/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:32:26

• Africa’s Last Colony https://jacobin.com/2025/02/macron-morocco-western-sahara-eu/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:34:13

• bans on American liquor in response to U.S. tariffs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-lcbo-tariffs-trump-1.7448423 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/alcohol-canadian-trade-barriers-interprovincial-tariffs-1.7444161    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:35:36

• bird flu cases https://www.dw.com/en/new-york-city-shuts-live-poultry-markets-over-bird-flu-cases/a-71330201    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 07:37:53

• US-deported Indians: 'Devastated after risking everything' https://www.dw.com/en/us-deported-indians-devastated-after-risking-everything/a-71537261    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 08:57:22

• mandatory jail for MElon https://www.dw.com/en/australia-s-hate-crime-law-gives-nazi-salutes-mandatory-jail/a-71520692    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 08:58:06

• Ebola https://www.dw.com/en/ebola-explained-symptoms-treatment-and-vaccines/a-71524627    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 08:58:36

• tougher for U.S. companies to win government contracts https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-response-tariffs-1.7448811    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 08:59:32

• career in agriculture https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/women-career-agriculture-1.7443846    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:00:05

• WestJet https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/westjet-claims-deceptive-practices-1.7447797    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:00:48

• to Drive up Costs https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-02-02/us-businesses-brace-for-trumps-tariffs-on-canada-mexico-and-china-to-drive-up-costs    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:02:18

• consumers buy Canadian https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tariffs-impact-boycott-1.7448609    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:03:16

• As colleges slash programs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/cuts-college-programs-1.7442935    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:03:59

• foreign manipulation https://www.dw.com/en/germany-nearly-90-of-voters-fear-foreign-manipulation/a-71528481    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:09:36

• atheism https://www.dw.com/en/is-indonesia-cracking-down-on-atheism/a-71524951    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:10:11

• bird flu outbreak https://www.dw.com/en/is-us-bird-flu-outbreak-in-cattle-a-global-risk-to-humans/a-70988147    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:10:39

• impeachment of VP https://www.dw.com/en/sara-duterte-philippine-house-backs-impeachment-of-vp/a-71510054    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:13:45

• US military plane flies back deported migrants to India https://www.dw.com/en/us-military-plane-flies-back-deported-migrants-to-india/a-71512151    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:14:39

• Gerhard Schröder experiencing burnout https://www.dw.com/en/german-ex-chancellor-gerhard-schröder-experiencing-burnout/a-71501286    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:15:27

• List Of Canadian Alternatives To US Products https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trudeau-says-check-label-choose-canada-list-canadian-alternatives-us-products-1730677    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:16:18

• Why that song keeps playing in your head https://www.dw.com/en/earworms-why-that-song-keeps-playing-in-your-head/a-71346371    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:18:06

• Are they dangerous? https://www.dw.com/en/study-finds-microplastics-in-us-brains-are-they-dangerous/a-71521073    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:18:13

• human rights icon https://www.dw.com/en/why-bob-marley-remains-a-human-rights-icon/a-68208031    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:18:25

• La Nina effect https://www.dw.com/en/record-hot-january-despite-cooling-la-nina-effect/a-71255536    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:18:53

• Ford 'ripping up' Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink in wake of U.S. tariffs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-ripping-up-province-contract-with-starlink-1.7448763    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:21:49

• The $250-an-hour Band-Aid: How this small hospital keeps its emergency room open https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/doctor-shortage-rural-remote-emergency-northeastern-hospitals-1.7446336    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:22:12

• lying under oath https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/judge-hammers-ottawa-cops-for-lying-under-oath-misleading-court-in-searing-decision-1.7446113    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:22:38

• America was discovered 11,000+ years old? Not Columbus? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sturgeon-lake-first-nation-archeological-site-carbon-dating-1.7448980    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:25:17

• 'Flagrant disrespect' of U.S tariff threat has some Canadians taking their money elsewhere https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/buy-canadian-shopping-response-tariffs-1.7449341    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:30:18

• costlier — and more complicated https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tariff-border-canada-us-1.7450495    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:30:44

• The China Solution https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/05/canada-and-mexico-under-attack-the-china-solution/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:30:54

• Quebec union plans legal action against Amazon over closures https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/amazon-union-1.7449859    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:31:56

• Arbitrator finds N.B. government failed to protect teaching staff working with violent student https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/province-protect-teaching-staff-1.7438079    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:32:24

• fired unvaccinated [sic] employees https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/purolator-court-unvaccinated-covid-19-employees-1.7449564    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:32:54

• A Halifax business owner was defrauded. Then she had to pay a penalty for it https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/halifax-business-chargeback-fraud-shopify-1.7447319    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:33:13

• "SoK: Understanding Designs Choices and Pitfalls of Trusted Execution Environments... Trusted execution environment (TEE) is a revolutionary technology that enables secure remote execution (SRE) of cloud workloads on untrusted server-side computing platforms." ☛ https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3634737.3644993 | Source: ACM    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:55:54

• "So that’s why I have slot { all: inherit; } in one of my components. At least for now — until I shoot myself in the foot." ☛ https://noahliebman.net/2025/02/slot-all-inherit/ | Source: Noah Liebman    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:56:32

• "One of the things that I've come to believe in is that everything, basically without exception, should be able to rate-limit authentication failures" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/RatelimitAuthenticationFailures | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:56:40

• "A road trip RPG that blends in some inventory management and unique turn-based battles that has you fight off everything on the road from tractors to abandoned suitcases" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/keep-driving-is-a-refreshing-road-trip-management-rpg/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 09:59:40

• "After a short testing period, the Linux performance overlay MangoHud had version 0.8.0 released today to bring new features and fixes to one of my favourite open source projects." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/linux-gaming-overlay-mangohud-version-0-8-is-out-now-with-intel-gpu-support-improved-wayland-keybinds/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 10:00:14

• Remember that the companies pushing hardest to spread Rust and even make Linux dependent on it are NOT interested in security. They go OUT OF THEIR WAY to promote BACK DOORS.    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 10:54:36

• "Easily one of the best narrative adventure visual novels on PC" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/excellent-narrative-adventure-scarlet-hollow-is-getting-a-greatly-expanded-soft-relaunch/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 10:55:03

• "a curious blend of features from the likes of Stardew Valley and Terraria" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fight-off-pesky-humans-and-raise-spider-babies-in-isle-goblin-a-blend-of-stardew-valley-and-terraria/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 10:55:33

• "KDE Plasma 6.3 has been released and it's another beautiful sounding release!" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/kde-plasma-6-3-is-out-now-with-big-fractional-scaling-improvements-drawing-tablet-upgrades-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:06:06

• "Monster Sanctuary was good fun, so I'm real keen to see more from moi rai games." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/monster-taming-roguelite-aethermancer-from-the-devs-of-monster-sanctuary-gets-a-demo/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:06:25

• "Firaxis Games / 2K have today fully launched Sid Meier's Civilization VII" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/sid-meiers-civilization-vii-is-out-now-with-linux-support-and-steam-deck-verified/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:07:49

• iophk: Jan 20: Trump fires director of the FAA; Jan 21: Trump pauses hiring of air traffic controllers; Jan 22: Trump disbands Aviation Safety Advisory Committee    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:14:53

• Jan 29: First mid-air collision in America in 16 years; Jan 30: Trump blames previous administration for the collision; Jan 31: Second plane crash within days of Trump firing; anyone who has anything to do with aviation safety. Feb 10th: 3rd fatal plane crash on American soil in 2 weeks.    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:15:15

• iophk: Melon's antics with the government databases are likely CFAA violations aka felonies    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:15:44

• "Donald Trump's Incorrect Shell Game of Appropriated Spending" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/11/donald-trump-incorrect-shell-game-of-appropriated-spending/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:16:00

• "Opinion: Love it or hate it, Trump's zone-flooding can't go on forever" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-02-11/trump-executive-orders    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:16:17

• "The Israeli who supports release of jihadist who masterminded the attack that killed his family: ‘It is more important that the hostages return alive’" https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-10/the-israeli-who-supports-release-of-jihadist-who-masterminded-the-attack-that-killed-his-family-it-is-more-important-that-the-hostages-return-alive.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:16:49

• "Tulsi Gabbard's intel chief nomination clears key Senate hurdle" https://www.axios.com/2025/02/10/tulsi-gabbard-cloture-senate-dni-confirmation    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:16:58

• "Vance, in First Foreign Speech, Tells Europe That U.S. Will Dominate STUPID BUZZWORD" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/world/europe/vance-speech-paris-ai-summit.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:17:18

• "American Healthcare" https://json.blog/2025/02/11/american-healthcare.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:17:30

• "Trump and the Very American Personnel Question" https://jacobin.com/2025/02/trump-federal-employment-personnel-usaid/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:18:25

• "Immanuel Wallerstein and the Life and Death of Capitalism" https://jacobin.com/2025/02/immanuel-wallerstein-capitalism-world-system/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:18:37

• "Trump Says the Corrupt Part Out Loud" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/trump-bribery-corruption-legal/681658/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:18:53

• "The World’s Most Powerful Unelected Bureaucrat" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/02/the-worlds-most-powerful-unelected-bureaucrat/681659/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:19:03

• "White House fires USAID inspector general after warning about funding oversight, officials say - mlive.com" https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/02/white-house-fires-usaid-inspector-general-after-warning-about-funding-oversight-officials-say.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:19:23

• "Trump’s halt of US law banning business bribes abroad raises specter of a ‘Wild West’ of dealmaking" https://www.twincities.com/2025/02/11/bribery-ban-trump-halt-explainer/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:19:52

• "Trump fires service academy boards that oversee morale, academics" https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/02/10/trump-fires-service-academy-boards-that-oversee-morale-academics/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:20:19

• "Trump’s Latest Solution To Everything: Let’s Make Foreign Bribery Great Again" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/trumps-latest-solution-to-everything-lets-make-foreign-bribery-great-again/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:20:47

• "Scam Altman Says He Feels Sorry for Elon Musk and His Bottomless Insecurity" https://futurism.com/sam-altman-elon-musk-insecurity    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:21:08

• "Donald Trump Threatens to ‘Look At’ Judges Blocking Musk’s DOGE Moves" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-threat-judges-musk-doge-1235264314/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:21:31

• "Donald Trump Plans to Make Enemy [sic] FBI Staffers’ ‘Lives a living Hell’" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-fbi-staffers-enemies-kash-patel-1235264331/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:21:51

• "One of Elon Musk’s DOGE Staffers Used to Sell Ketamine Professionally" https://futurism.com/neoscope/elon-musk-doge-staffer-ketamine    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:22:07

• iophk: stupid mistake https://www.voanews.com/a/europe-announces-plans-to-ease-ai-regulations-in-bid-to-become-a-heavyweight-/7971187.html ("Europe announces plans to ease [algorithm] regulations in bid to become heavyweight")    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:22:40

• "DOGE cuts $900 million from agency that tracks American students' academic progress" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/americas/doge-cuts-900-million-from-agency-that-tracks-american-students-academic-progress-1860743    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:23:03

• "‘We have no information’: Kremlin responds to unverified media reports that Trump envoy flew to Moscow" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/we-have-no-information-kremlin-responds-to-unverified-media-reports-that-trump-envoy-flew-to-moscow    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:23:25

• "Insider threats loom as Musk's team quickly gains government access" https://www.axios.com/2025/02/11/insider-threats-loom-as-elon-musks-team-gains-swift-government-access    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:23:52

• "Dismantling of US foreign aid plunges Ukraine into humanitarian and economic crisis" https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-11/dismantling-of-us-foreign-aid-plunges-ukraine-into-humanitarian-and-economic-crisis.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:24:10

• "White House fires USAID inspector general after warning about funding oversight, officials say" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/usaid-donald-trump-paul-martin-washington-white-house-b2696577.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:24:17

• Pure SPAM with the words "UNIX" and "Linux" added to it https://www.unixmen.com/why-every-linux-unix-user-should-try-creative-fabricas-font-generator/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:28:17

• More cruft but apparently not LLM slop https://www.unixmen.com/the-essential-guide-to-cnapp-on-linux-for-cloud-security/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:29:45

• Nonsense about "hey hi" keeps coming from this blog; is that influenced by Microsoft entering the management? "Discover insights from Asociația Techsoup’s pilot program with Experience AI, highlighting the urgent need for AI literacy" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/teaching-ai-safety-lessons-from-romanian-educators/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:31:24

• "The cuts were made at the behest of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting crew, the Department of Government Efficiency" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-institute-education-science-contracts-doge | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:33:18

• "Safety drives everything we do at the FAA" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-doge-faa-ast-regulation-spaceflight-trump | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:34:08

• "Key Weakness for Conservatives" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/11/trump-dissed-poilievre-revealing-key-weakness-for-conservatives/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:35:10

• "Fully Captured" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/11/albertas-energy-regulator-is-fully-captured-by-industry-study-finds/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:35:32

• "The Curlew, the Cactus, and the Obliterated Whitefish" ☛ https://therevelator.org/extinct-2024/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:36:04

• "economy" ☛ https://fair.org/home/we-need-to-understand-the-political-economy-thats-given-rise-to-rfk/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:36:33

• "It should surprise nobody that A.I. is trained on illicit material." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-ai-piracy/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:42:26

• "In 2020, the media and technology conglomerate filed an unprecedented AI copyright lawsuit against the legal AI startup Ross Intelligence." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/thomson-reuters-ai-copyright-lawsuit/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:42:37

• "We are pleased that the court granted summary judgment in our favor and concluded that Westlaw’s editorial content created and maintained by our attorney editors" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/thomson_reuters_wins_ai_copyright/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:43:00

• "Last week, several innovative copyright protection tools were discussed at WIPO’s Advisory Committee on Enforcement." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/ai-is-a-key-technology-in-todays-anti-piracy-toolbox-250211/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:43:09

• "Unexplained chaos at ISPs Movistar and DIGI has prevented some customers from accessing many sites using Cloudflare for over a week." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/spain-piracy-crisis-cloudflare-says-laliga-knew-danger-blocked-ip-address-anyway-250211/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:43:26

• "But no matter who came up with the distinctive contoured shape of the egg carton" ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/02/10/egg-carton-history/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:45:00

• "increased costs and burdens imposed on licensees for paying an ever-increasing number of PROs." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/10/copyright-office-pros-inquiry/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:48:16

• Plasma 6.3 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.0/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:48:57

• "He Will Try to Take Our Lands" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-native-sovereignty-citizenship-14th-amendment/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:49:53

• "Sponsored by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) in partnership with Accra Atheists, this historic installation marks a significant milestone in visibility and advocacy for African humanists, atheists, agnostics and skeptics." ☛ https://ffrf.org/news/releases/first-ever-atheist-billboard-in-africa-unveiled-in-ghana-with-ffrf-support/ | Source: Freedom From Religion Foundation    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:50:08

• "When California taxpayers are supporting our industries, it’s only fair that Californians benefit" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/10/american-federation-of-musicians-joins-entertainment-union-coalition/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:50:57

• "In this episode, we dive into the past, present, and future of Canada’s youngest territory." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/ctm-s3e6-eng-transcript/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:51:31

• "In the past, the Turkish state repeatedly attacked members of the free media through ISIS mercenaries." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/14-journalists-killed-by-turkish-state-in-five-years-77880 | Source: ANF News    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:52:18

• "Kurbangaleeva dismissed the charges as fabricated and said she was not concerned that the Czech Republic would comply with the request." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/11/russia-seeks-extradition-of-exiled-journalist-from-czech-republic-a87938 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:52:38

• "The Wikimedia Foundation says it will likely roll out features previously used to protect editors in authoritarian countries more widely." ☛ https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-prepares-for-increase-in-threats-to-us-editors-from-musk-and-his-allies/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:53:13

• "The death of the 22-year-old sparked the nationwide “Woman Life Freedom” uprising, which in turn prompted a harsh crackdown by Iranian authorities" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-pardons-journalists-who-covered-woman-s-death-that-triggered-protests/7970753.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:53:31

• "I wasn’t counting at the time. I was otherwise occupied but afterward I could see them on my body. I didn’t need to be told by anybody." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/salman-rushdie-b2696582.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:53:58

• "The encounter in Judge David Foley’s courtroom brought Rushdie and Matar together for the first time since, prosecutors say" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/11/salman-rushdie-testify-trial | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:54:27

• [Old] "The findings come amid claims that protests in Hong Kong are also being censored for political reasons." ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-49826155 | Source: BBC    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:55:10

• "After 17 days in a hospital and weeks of rehab, Rushdie hasn't fully recovered" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-02-11/excerpts-from-salman-rushdies-court-testimony-about-a-harrowing-attack | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:55:40

• "The author recounted in vivid testimony the moment when an attacker stabbed him about 15 times as he was about to give a lecture in western New York." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/nyregion/salman-rushdie-testimony-assault-trial.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:56:03

• "Once testimony is underway, the trial is expected last a week to 10 days." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/salman-rushdie-attempted-murder-trial-begins/a-71561231 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:56:28

• "Acclaimed novelist Salman Rushdie took the stand in the attempted murder trial of the man charged with stabbing him repeatedly at a literary gathering in August 2022." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/salman-rushdie-testimony-describes-attack-in-graphic-detail/a-71576173 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:56:39

• "Rushdie has faced numerous death threats since the publication of his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, which some religious leaders considered blasphemous" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/02/11/2025/salman-rushdie-testifies-against-man-charged-with-stabbing-him-at-ny-trial | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:57:12

• "The Insider revealed in a new report that Zhitnitskaya..." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/12/russia-s-unsanctioned-master-of-propaganda | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:58:32

• "The research draws on every tweet posted between 2017 and 2022 by every member of parliament with a Twitter" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/far-right-mps-fake-news-misinformation-left-study | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:59:21

• "The Quad promotes a free, open and prosperous Indo-Pacific by addressing challenges such as health" ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/undermining-unity-disinformation-as-a-threat-to-the-quad/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 11:59:47

• "as of 10 January 2025, the vast majority of that work has been summarily abandoned." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/feb/11/dei-meta-facebook | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:04:47

• Scam Altman ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/sam-altman-openai-reject-elon-musk-bid/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:04:57

• "Educating the Champion, the Buyer, and the Market" ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=968 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:05:11

• "consortium" for scam ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/10/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-openai/ | Source: Digital Music News http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:05:19

• "Europe will invest an additional $51.5 billion to bolster the bloc's artificial intelligence ambition" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/eu-s-ai-push-to-get-50-billion-boost-eu-s-von-der-leyen-says/7970482.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:05:28

• "DCAI head Sandra Rivera was tapped to lead" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/intel_hotard_nokia/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:05:34

• "Campain reverses a 2023 decision to halt government advertising on Facebook." ☛ https://www.thestar.com/business/ottawa-ends-meta-ad-boycott-spending-nearly-300-000-on-facebook-and-instagram-campaigns/article_a1b5a014-e4b4-11ef-8f4e-47d4853dfd57.html | Source: The Toronto Star    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:05:43

• Financial crimes ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/11/doubling-up-on-paperwork/#rip-freefile | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:06:22

• "As a US federal agent, Tigran Gambaryan pioneered modern [cryptocurrency] investigations" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/untold-story-crypto-crimefighters-descent-nigerian-prison-binance/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:07:28

• "An analysis published Thursday by the auto news website FuelArc found that, in their one year of existence" ☛ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/report-cybertruck-safety-ford-pinto/ | Source: Mother Jones    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:07:48

• "But that’s not what is actually happening. Just as when he took over Twitter..." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/musk-promised-government-transparency-doge-delivers-maximum-secrecy/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:09:57

• "“It soon became apparent that the scale of the problem was far greater than anyone had anticipated,” the local council said in a news release." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/11/wwii-bombs-playground-world-war-two/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:14:04

• "Swedish police said on Tuesday they had apprehended one person in the Stockholm area on suspicion of preparing terrorist crimes in a case concerning violent Islamist extremism." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-11/swedish-police-apprehend-person-suspected-of-preparing-terrorist-crimes | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:14:59

• "Why it matters: The American Federation of Teachers (AFT)-led lawsuit that was filed in federal court Monday alleges giving DOGE access to this data "violates federal law" and that the departments "improperly disclosed" U.S. citizens' sensitive information." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/11/doge-musk-unions-lawsuit-data-education-treasury | Source: Axios    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:15:13

• "“The CFPB can't move those cases forward, so they're basically on ice at the moment,” a former CFPB staffer, who was granted anonymity over fears of retaliation, tells WIRED." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/cfpb-trump-freeze-tech-investigations/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:15:32

• "WIRED previously reported that Musk and people with connections to him had taken over OPM." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/government-employees-lawsuit-privacy-doge/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:16:11

• "The bureau is the State Department's IT centre, managing data and communications from U.S. diplomatic posts worldwide. State Department employees have voiced unease about Coristine's new position." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/big-balls-controversy-elon-musks-19-year-old-protege-lands-senior-state-department-role-1730876 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:16:21

• "If they almost fooled me, a cybersecurity expert, they definitely fooled some people" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/it_worker_scam/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:16:37

• "I recently spoke by phone with Cristina Rodríguez, a professor at Yale Law School and an expert on the separation of powers." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-happens-if-trump-defies-the-courts | Source: New Yorker    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:16:55

• "Right now, meaningful obstruction is largely available to members of the legislature and the justice system who can try to stop things that are illegal, unconstitutional, and/or wrong and federal workers who can maybe throw sand in some gears." ☛ https://erinkissane.com/against-entropy | Source: Erin Kissane    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:19:13

• "This would mark a tripling of the landmass where healthy individuals aged 18 to 60 would cross the “critical overheating threshold” during extreme heat events." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/2c-rise-will-bring-unsurvivable-heat-to-vast-regions-as-arctic-sees-extreme-warming/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:19:31

• "the two papers just released use a different measure. Both examined historical climate data to determine whether very hot years in the recent past were a sign that a future, long-term warming threshold would be breached." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/two-major-studies-agree-earth-is-entering-frightening-new-climate-phase | Source: Science Alert    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:20:12

• "Doubles Its Budget" ☛ https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-doge-doubles-budget-2025-2 | Source: Business Insider    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:20:29

• "As Business Insider reports, DOGE's spending more than doubled from $6.75 million to $14.4 million between January 30 and February 8, according to its latest financial filings." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-doge-expenses | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:21:12

• "For food security reasons, the EU has allowed the import of Russian fertilisers since Moscow invaded Ukraine." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20143025 | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:21:23

• Confidentiality: "counterintuitive solution, known as public key cryptography" ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-public-key-cryptography-really-works-20241115/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:25:45

• "As if things weren’t terrible enough, the techbros of the world have decided the one-two punch of Donald Trump and Elon Musk will make them even richer than they already are, even if it means making the world a worse place to live… or suddenly die." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/palantir-ceo-sures-seems-pleased-his-tech-is-capable-of-getting-people-killed/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:26:46

• "As if things weren’t terrible enough, the techbros of the world have decided the one-two punch of Donald Trump and Elon Musk will make them even richer than they already are, even if it means making the world a worse place to live… or suddenly die." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/palantir-ceo-sures-seems-pleased-his-tech-is-capable-of-getting-people-killed/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:26:58

• "During the same call, Karp mentioned killing people once again when the conversation turned to the fiasco currently unfolding in the U.S. government (said fiasco involves Karp’s fellow billionaire Elon Musk using his Department [sic] of Government Efficiency" ☛ https://gizmodo.com/palantirs-billionaire-ceo-just-cant-stop-talking-about-killing-people-2000560597 | Source: Gizmodo    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:27:06

• "On a call with investors earlier this week, Palantir Technologies CEO Alex Karp—fresh off a week of stock surges—was euphoric." ☛ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/palantir-alex-karp-trump-private-prisons-profiteers/ | Source: Mother Jones    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:27:17

• "This directly threatens the privacy of Apple’s users – and the safety of many of those who might now be targeted for retribution or enforcement." ☛ https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2025/02/11/a-feminist-argument-against-weakening-encryption/ | Source: Light Blue Touchpaper    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:27:32

• "The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12797, was reported to OpenSSL developers by Apple in mid-December 2024." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-openssl-vulnerability-found-by-apple-allows-mitm-attacks/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:28:19

• "Skipping the certificate verification makes the connection insecure." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/02/11/disabling-cert-checks-we-have-not-learned-much/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:28:29

• "The leak site for the 8Base ransomware gang was taken down Monday and replaced with a banner by multiple law enforcement agencies." ☛ https://therecord.media/8base-ransomware-site-taken-down-4-arrested | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:35:03

• Windows TCO: "ransomware operation."    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:35:41

• Windows TCO: "LockBit 3.0 uses a triple extortion strategy" ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/how-to-outsmart-ransomware-and-build-resilience-within-your-organisation.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:41:47

• Windows TCO: "Cybercrime makes up a majority of the malicious activity online and occupies the majority of defenders' resources." ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cybercrime-multifaceted-national-security-threat/ | Source: Google    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:41:57

• Windows TCO: "These ransomware infections target on-premises systems only — not cloud infrastructure — and unlike most modern ransomware criminals, they don't involve double-extortion." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/triplestrength_google/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:42:38

• Windows TCO: "A consortium of U.S., Australian and U.K. officials announced coordinated sanctions Tuesday against Zservers" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/zservers-bulletproof-hosting-sanctions-lockbit-ransomware/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:43:04

• Windows TCO: "The Coast Guard also provides facility and vessel inspections during which its officers document any security flaws they find." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/coast_guard_cybersecurity_fail/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:52:34

• Windows TCO: "This is not the first time that the State’s critical information infrastructure has come under attack. In 2017, the Karnataka State Data Centre fell victim to the WannaCry ransomware attack" ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/struggling-with-poor-cyber-security/article69205723.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:52:46

• Social Control Media ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/social-media/social-media-is-broken-could-buzzfeeds-new-island-platform-finally-make-social-media-about-the-content-not-the-algorithms | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:54:32

• "Einstein’s riddle requires composing a larger solution from solutions to subproblems, which researchers call a compositional task." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/chatbot-software-begins-to-face-fundamental-limitations-20250131/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:54:57

• "Ollama is open-source software that makes running most open LLMs seamlessly on your own machine (or even on the cloud)." ☛ https://geshan.com.np/blog/2025/02/ollama-api/ | Source: Geshan    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:55:17

• Ollama is not Open Source, it's openwashing    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:55:33

• "Focusing on AI’s potential economic contributions, and not differentiating between for example large language models and automated decision-making" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/why-so-called-ai-action-summit-falls-short | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 12:55:58

• "In this presentation the FSF will present the major considerations for defining what user freedom means in the rapidly developing field of machine learning, why it is different from defining software freedom, and why it matters." ☛ https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4818-fsf-s-criteria-for-free-machine-learning-applications/ | Source: FOSDEM    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:01:28

• "In this discussion, I set copy­right and fair use aside. I should say, however, that I’m not par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in clearing the air for AI com­pa­nies, legally." ☛ https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-okay/ | Source: Robin Sloan    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:01:47

• "Understandably, websites are now fighting back for fear that this invasive species—AI crawlers—will help displace them." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/11/1111518/ai-crawler-wars-closed-web/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:02:43

• "91% of AI responses had at least some issues. 51% had “significant” issues." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/11/ai-chatbots-are-still-hopelessly-terrible-at-summarizing-news/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:09:04

• "Nine out of ten AI chatbot responses about news queries contained at least “some issues”, BBC research has claimed." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ai-chatbots-news-bbc/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:09:33

• "In 1754 BCE, King Hammurabi of Babylon etched a radical idea into stone: accountability." ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/02/12/from-hammurabi-to-chatgpt-why-ancient-legal-principles-apply-to-ai-as-well/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:09:49

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1008966/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:12:15

• Weekly Deaths in England in Wales Increase by About 2,500 (Per Week!) After “New Normal” https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/02/12/after-new-normal/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:23:33

• "For 3 days in 2006, nobody at my high school could turn in homework because of my dumb joke." ☛ https://eieio.games/blog/breaking-my-highschool-mail-server/ | Source: Nolen Royalty    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:31:02

• "Google also has a new Welcome Back feature that summarizes your recent activity, formatting it as an easy-to-follow visual overvie" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2586664/a-beginners-guide-to-using-a-chromebook.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:31:30

• "Redmond’s security response team patched at least 55 documented software defects in Windows OS and applications, and flagged a privilege escalation bug in Windows Storage, along with a code execution issue in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock for immediate attention." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-wormable-windows-flaw-and-file-deleting-zero-day/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:32:39

• "The software giant’s AR-for-Army project is called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) and began in 2018 using hardware based on Microsoft's now-discontinued HoloLens headsets. It hasn’t gone well." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/microsoft_gives_up_army_ivas/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:33:24

• "The Integrated Single Financial Environment (ISFE) processes around £170 billion ($211 billion) in health spending every year for NHS England, which is responsible for running the health service in England." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/nhs_finance_system_delayed/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:35:28

• "Microsoft is handing over the Army’s do-it-all mixed reality device to defense company Anduril Industries, the companies announced Tuesday." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2025/02/11/oculus-founder-wants-to-help-troops-surpass-the-limits-of-human-form/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:36:13

• "According to Nielsen, YouTube has ranked number one in streaming watch time in the US for the past two years." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/youtube-is-the-new-tv-ceo-neil-mohan-spells-out-companys-2025-bets/articleshow/118155323.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:36:43

• "The TRO orders the agencies to restore the webpages and datasets." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/judge-grants-temporary-restraining-order-orders-cdc-fda-hhs-webpages-to-be-restored | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:38:08

• "The health agencies have until 11:59 p.m. on February 11 to restore the pages to how they were on January 30" ☛ https://www.404media.co/federal-judge-orders-cdc-fda-to-bring-back-web-pages-before-midnight/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:38:37

• "A team of 15 volunteers, under the December 4 Legal Committee, led the crowdfund." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/luigi-mangione-accepts-crowdfunded-donations-legal-defense-1235262872/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:38:48

• "The computer, known as the “RadPC”, went into space on January 15th atop a SpaceX Falcon launcher." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/nasa_radpc_firefly_moon_mission/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:40:02

• "Since I now write Haskell for paycheck, I wanted to refresh my Yesod knowledge. Yesod is a production-grade web framework, and there’s one web site I’ve long wanted to have: Fisher’s Fountain." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/deploying-single-binary-haskell-web-app | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:41:02

• "Then her language skills helped her land a job at the multinational technology company Siemens, which will be waiting for her when she graduates this spring." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2025/0211/colleges-jobs-humanities-languages | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:41:29

• "You know why you're stuck? Because you're writing about what you know, not what you need to learn." ☛ https://andysblog.uk/when-the-well-runs-dry/ | Source: Andy Hawthorne    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:41:54

• "I found it easy to identify with many of the people interviewed in Bullshit Jobs. I’ve certainly had jobs that were permeated by bullshit. However, I’ve never worked an entirely bullshit job." ☛ https://blog.danslimmon.com/2025/02/11/is-ops-a-bullshit-job/ | Source: Dan Slimmon    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:43:11

• "Additionally, many students don’t even know about the exciting opportunities available in tech because these careers aren’t widely discussed in schools. But we can change that narrative." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/02/11/wired-for-success-inspiring-the-next-generation-of-women-in-science/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:43:22

• "Have you ever wondered how to start a workgroup within Julia?" ☛ https://julialang.org/blog/2025/02/starting-workgroups/index.html |    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:49:04

• "We invite you to submit proposals to give a talk at JuliaCon 2025." ☛ https://juliacon.org/2025/cfp/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:49:14

• "Literacy levels were declining even before the pandemic, correct?" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/02/u-s-students-need-to-start-showing-up-pandemic-covid-learning-loss/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 13:49:27

• "In this paper, we revisit one of the simplest problems in data structures: the task of inserting elements into an open-addressed hash table so that elements can later be retrieved with as few probes as possible." ☛ https://arxiv.org/html/2501.02305v1#S1 | Source: arXiv    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:11:16

• "He turned to a common approach for storing data known as a hash table." ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture-20250210/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:11:27

• "A recent conversation with a colleague about a large stepped-wedge design (SW-CRT) cluster randomized trial piqued my interest, because the primary outcome is time-to-event." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/estimating-a-bayesian-proportional-hazards-model/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:12:26

• "So when Amanda Andersson-Rolf, a postdoctoral researcher in Hans Clevers’s group at the Hubrecht Institute, set out to build a better pancreatic organoid, she decided to include all three main cell types found in this organ." ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/a-novel-three-in-one-pancreatic-organoid-72535 | Source: LabX Media Group    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:17:34

• "It’s a big deal" ☛ https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/michigan-universities-would-lose-millions-if-trump-caps-research-costs | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:21:47

• "Based on the team's analysis, the lime clasts in their samples are not consistent with this method." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable | Source: Science Alert    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:22:08

• "A lot of people think ideas come from nowhere. That they just pop into your head, like magic." ☛ https://andysblog.uk/where-do-ideas-come-from/ | Source: Andy Hawthorne    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:27:34

• "If you ask most people when the Golden Age of blogging was, they’ll most likely say sometime between 2005-2010." ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/reminiscing-on-blogs-of-the-great-recession/ | Source: Brandon    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:27:50

• "Prototyped near the end of 1951 but not publicly demonstrated until 1953, the HEC1, Bird explained in a 2011 video interview" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/hollerith_electronic_computer_designer_raymond_bird/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:29:00

• "I had the morning off work today." ☛ https://www.neilmacy.co.uk/blog/some-cool-terminal-things | Source: Neil Macy    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:29:17

• "In the previous article we concluded that a persistent always-on internet connection isn't required for software to elicit feelings of connection between humans." ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/building-software-for-connection-consensus | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:29:46

• [Old] "On Saturday, bookstores around the country gave away this free zine we made to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day." ☛ https://austinkleon.substack.com/p/how-to-read-like-an-artist | Source: Austin Kleon    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:30:03

• "I checked in quietly here in late August, when I’d pulled back further from social media and pruned notifications." ☛ https://mattstein.com/thoughts/winter-2025/ | Source: Matt Stein    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:30:58

• "At the time of its release, The Matrix resonated across ideological lines." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/the-red-pill-was-hijacked/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:34:06

• How To Install Zabbix on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-zabbix-manjaro/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:38:18

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

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:38:33

• How To Install Streamlit on Rocky GNU/Linux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-streamlit-rocky-linux-9/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:38:49

• How to Install Rancher on Debian 12 Server ☞ https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/debian-rancher-docker-container-manager/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:39:36

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

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:39:48

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

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 14:39:57

• "Use two NVMe drives in RAID 1 for the root filesystem "/" to increase reliability" ☛ https://uplab.pro/2025/02/raid-on-raspberry-pi-with-compute-blade/ | Source: Ivan Kuleshov    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:01:14

• "Recently I've been testing a SiFive HiFive Premier P550, and as part of that testing, I of course plugged in some AMD GPUs I had laying around." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/build-box64-box32-x86-emulation-on-risc-v-linux | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:01:46

• fab's Gopher phlog — re: moving domains gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2025-02-12-re_moving_domains.txt    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:10:05

• How to prepare Chinese tea for more advanced user? gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/teac    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:11:49

• 🔤SpellBinding: CEIZSTO Wordo: SNUCK gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-12.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:13:47

• "Last night I focused mostly on splitting out my business logic from my handler logic to reduce complexity. The handlers are now responsible only for calling a service and retrieving either data or an error from it, then formatting and returning the result. The actual business logic is now in the services, which means I can extend and compose each handler much more easily." gemini://sporiff.dev/2025/02/12/devlog_8/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:14:30

• "I go to the bookstore semi-regularly - I still order most of my books online, but my partner likes browsing the Mystery section in our local bookstore. We both love that store - it's got the right mix of books and knick-knacks (that is: mostly books, some knick-knacks), and most of all has a really, really good selection" gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/2-12.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:15:25

• "Ny first gemlog!" gemini://station.martinrue.com/m_a_r_k/c96600ca670c4dc4b74d5194d23d31b3 gemini://hegreberg.io/gemlog/2025-02-10_Deploying_Other_Peoples_Code.gmi    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:16:22

• Speech by Commissioner Kos delivered at the EP Plenary debate “Council and Commission statements – Continuing the unwavering EU support for Ukraine after three years of Russia's war of aggression” ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_479    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:18:13

• Slippery roads around Rīga and in Kurzeme Tuesday ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/11.02.2025-slippery-roads-around-riga-and-in-kurzeme-tuesday.a587259/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:18:24

• Can Russia be held accountable for the crime of aggression in Ukraine? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/can-russia-be-held-accountable-for-the-crime-of-aggression-in-ukraine/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:18:34

• Program to Murder People with Disabilities https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program "The American researcher’s controversial new volume, “IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation,” raises startling questions about the technology giant’s involvement with Nazi government officials — and throws the company’s wartime ethics into serious doubt." https://time.com/archive/6931688/ibm-haunted-by-nazi-era-activities/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:21:17

• Program to Murder People with Disabilities https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:21:50

• "The American researcher’s controversial new volume, “IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation,” raises startling questions about the technology giant’s involvement with Nazi government officials — and throws the company’s wartime ethics into serious doubt." https://time.com/archive/6931688/ibm-haunted-by-nazi-era-activities/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:22:02

• "Reporter from The Register here (tclaburn (at) theregister.com). I'm looking it layoffs at the Finance and Operations business unit -- a relocation order. If anyone wants to chat confidentially, feel free to get in touch." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jks0yq7m    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 15:23:01

• Axiomtek Introduces ROBOX300 Fanless Robotics Controller for Industrial AMRs with ROS/ROS 2 Support ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/axiomtek-introduces-robox300-fanless-robotics-controller-for-industrial-amrs-with-ros-ros-2-support/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:02:01

• GNOME Project Launches Revamped Website ☞ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-project-launches-revamped-website/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:02:27

• Mozilla Thunderbird: Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest – January 2025 ☞ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/02/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-january-2025/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:03:19

• Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Python 3.13 as the default Python 3 version, Fixing qtpaths6 for cross compilation, sbuild support for Salsa CI, Rails 7 transition, DebConf preparations and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-01-2025/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:05:42

• How Ukraine’s shadow army fights back against the Russian occupation ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/how-ukraines-shadow-army-fights-back-against-the-russian-occupation/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:06:33

• U.S. adversaries increasingly turning to cybercriminals and their malware for help ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/u-s-adversaries-increasingly-turning-to-cybercriminals-and-their-malware-for-help/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:06:46

• Ukraine prepared to swap territory with Russia in peace negotiations, Zelensky says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250211-ukraine-prepared-to-swap-territory-with-russia-in-peace-negotiations-zelensky-says    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:07:04

• Drone warfare: US Army looks to learn lessons from Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250211-drone-warfare-us-army-looks-to-learn-lessons-from-ukraine    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:07:13

• Release Of American Is 'Good Faith' Move By Russia As U.S. Seeks End To War In Ukraine, White House Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33311297.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:10:06

• Most reports about Convicted Felon’s Ukraine peace plan ‘baseless’, says Lithuanian MFA ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2485104/most-reports-about-trump-s-ukraine-peace-plan-baseless-says-lithuanian-mfa    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:10:20

• Hundreds Of Russian Soldiers Treated In Hospitals In North Korea ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-north-korea-soldiers-casualties-hospitalized/33310611.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:10:30

• Ukrainian Drones Damage Industrial Facility In Russia's Saratov Region, Governor Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/saratov-oil-refinery-ukraine-russia-drone-attack/33310467.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:11:01

• Ukrainian Lawmakers Approve Contentious Purchase of Nuclear Reactors ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/world/europe/ukraine-nuclear-reactor-purchase.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:12:12

• Can European ‘Boots on the Ground’ Help Protect Ukraine’s Security? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/world/europe/ukraine-russia-trump.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:12:47

• Wednesday Briefing: Israel Threatens to End the Cease-Fire ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/briefing/israel-cease-fire-us-tariffs-ukraine-security.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:13:03

• Africans Pushed to Frontlines in Russian ‘Cannon Fodder’ Strategy in Ukraine ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/02/africans-pushed-to-frontlines-in-russian-cannon-fodder-strategy-in-ukraine/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:13:28

• American Teacher Freed By Russia Due To Meet Convicted Felon In White House ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/fogel-russia-trump-witkoff-prisoner-exchange-ukraine/33311713.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:15:26

• "secured release of imprisoned U.S. teacher" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/trump-has-secretly-tasked-middle-east-envoy-steve-witkoff-who-secured-release-of-imprisoned-u-s-teacher-with-negotiating-to-end-war-in-ukraine-nyt | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:15:55

• "Moscow claims Ukrainian intelligence services are planning false flag attacks" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/moscow-claims-ukrainian-intelligence-services-are-planning-false-flag-attacks-on-foreign-ships-and-russian-opposition-politicians | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:16:21

• "Trump’s envoy puts Ukraine peace plan on hold to consult NATO allies" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/trump-s-envoy-puts-ukraine-peace-plan-on-hold-to-consult-nato-allies-the-telegraph | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:17:01

• "Munich Security Conference" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/zelensky-says-serious-members-of-trump-team-to-visit-ukraine-this-week-before-munich-security-conference | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:17:30

• "Unpursued suspect in Boris Nemtsov murder case repeatedly visited occupied Ukraine in recent years, journalists find" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/unpursued-suspect-in-boris-nemtsov-murder-case-discovered-in-occupied-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:17:47

• "psychological trauma" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/11/inside-a-kharkiv-rehabilitation-center-for-ukrainian-soldiers-with-psychological-trauma | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:18:10

• Real estate purchase ban for Russians, Belarusians being considered in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/11.02.2025-real-estate-purchase-ban-for-russians-belarusians-being-considered-in-latvia.a587351/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:18:34

• Russian Cybercrime Network Targeted for Sanctions Across US, UK and Australia ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-cybercrime-network-targeted-for-sanctions-across-us-uk-and-australia/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:19:07

• Authorities Disrupt 8Base Ransomware, Arrest Four Russian Operators ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/authorities-disrupt-8base-ransomware-arrest-four-russian-operators/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:19:31

• U.S. sanctions bulletproof hosting provider for supplying LockBit infrastructure ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/zservers-bulletproof-hosting-sanctions-lockbit-ransomware/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:20:31

• New Thai rule gives Myanmar junta greater power to block workers: activists ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/02/11/myanmar-thai-re-registration-02112025/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:22:36

• Russia offers India its most advanced Su-57 stealth fighter jet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/russia-offers-india-its-most-advanced-su-57-stealth-fighter-jet    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:22:49

• Seoul says North Korea has given Russia 200 long-range artillery pieces ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-says-north-korea-has-given-russia-200-long-range-artillery-pieces    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:27:44

• Russia Releases Marc Fogel After Talks With Convicted Felon Envoy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/marc-fogel-teacher-released-russia.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:27:53

• Who Is Marc Fogel? The American Teacher Caught in a Global Power Struggle. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/world/europe/who-is-marc-fogel.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:28:10

• Russia to Use Libyan Base Near Border with Chad, Sudan ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/02/russia-to-use-libyan-base-near-border-with-chad-sudan/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:28:36

• Iran, Russia Seek Military Bases in Sudan as Civil War Rages ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/02/iran-russia-seek-military-bases-in-sudan-as-civil-war-rages/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:30:06

• Struggling to Defeat Terrorists, Sahel Nations Squeeze Mining Companies for Cash ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/02/struggling-to-defeat-terrorists-sahel-nations-squeeze-mining-companies-for-cash/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:30:40

• Gold reserves in Russian banks ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/gold-reserves-in-russian-banks-drop-by-half-in-a-year | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:32:17

• "foreign agents" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/new-russian-draft-law-would-include-bank-account-details-on-public-foreign-agents-registry | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:32:29

• Latvian border case upcoming at ECHR ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/11.02.2025-latvian-border-case-upcoming-at-echr.a587302/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:32:46

• "We have no information" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/we-have-no-information-kremlin-responds-to-unverified-media-reports-that-trump-envoy-flew-to-moscow | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:33:20

• Windows TCO ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/microsoft-patch-tuesday-february-2025-edition/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:33:51

• TTAB Vacates DR. DOCTOR Section 2(d) Affirmance: Cited Registration Had Been Cancelled ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/02/ttab-vacates-dr-doctor-section-2d.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:34:23

• From Sculptors to Headnotes: Chiseling Out Copyright Protection for Westlaw Content ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/sculptors-headnotes-protection.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:34:43

• FSF Blogs: FSF talked about education, copyright monopoly management, and free machine learning at FOSDEM 2025 ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-at-fosdem-2025    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:35:07

• TTAB Denies "DISORDERLY FASHION" Nonuse Cancellation Petition: It's Hard to Prove a Negative ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/02/ttab-denies-disorderly-fashion-nonuse.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:35:44

• Crytek announced the dismissal of 15% of employees — the development of Crysis 4 is frozen https://dev.ua/en/news/maksymum-zvilnen-1739361908    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:43:37

• Crytek’s Huge Layoffs Affect 15% of Staff, Putting Crysis 4 in Limbo https://www.cgmagonline.com/news/crytek-layoffs-crysis-4-postponed/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:44:09

• ‘discrediting’ ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/russian-lawmakers-propose-tougher-penalties-for-discrediting-the-army-if-the-offense-was-committed-for-personal-gain | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:45:53

• "worker who exposed alleged student abuse sentenced to four years in prison" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/11/russian-boarding-school-worker-who-exposed-alleged-student-abuse-sentenced-to-four-years-in-prison | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:46:10

• "Russians who received money from USAID should ‘repent on Red Square’" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/congress-will-send-us-the-list-and-we-ll-hand-it-over-to-the-fsb-russian-state-duma-speaker-says-russians-who-received-money-from-usaid-should-repent-on-red-square | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:47:43

• Meduza doing a "trump sez" (as do many other publishers) ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/11/russia-releases-imprisoned-schoolteacher-marc-fogel-in-show-of-good-faith-says-trump-administration | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:48:28

• "suckled at USAID" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/12/repenting-in-red-square | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:50:06

• "Russian missile strikes on Kyiv leave one dead" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/overnight-russian-missile-strikes-on-kyiv-leave-one-dead-multiple-injured | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:50:26

• "bill to ban foreign words on signs and storefronts" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/russian-lawmakers-pass-first-reading-of-bill-to-ban-foreign-words-on-signs-and-storefronts | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:51:19

• "villagers are asking Putin and soldiers fighting in Ukraine to save them from tigers" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/11/we-ve-been-living-in-fear-dreading-nightfall | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:52:14

• "rumored Putin romantic partner Alina Kabaeva" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/irina-viner-former-coach-of-gymnast-and-rumored-putin-romantic-partner-alina-kabaeva-resigns-as-head-of-russia-s-rhythmic-gymnastics-team | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:52:33

• Dictator Warns Kyiv Ukraine 'May Be Russian Someday' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-kellogg-ukraine-zelenskiy-zelenskyy-putin-war-munich-conference/33310441.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 16:52:56

• Ian Jackson: derive-deftly 1.0.0 - Rust derive macros, the easy way ☞ https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/19395.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:01:01

• 3 ways Ansible Lightspeed simplifies automation ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/11/3-ways-ansible-lightspeed-simplifies-automation    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:06:45

• How To Install Apache OpenOffice on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-openoffice-linux-mint-22/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:07:58

• "i'm thinking about doing some iframe-like stuff in one of my CGIs, and to embed part of one page into another i need a tool that i can call with a url and just get the gemlog output, not the rendered page like in a browser. anyone has a recomendation for that?" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/25280    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:09:26

• Bálint Réczey: Supercharge Your Installs with apt-eatmydata: Because Who Needs Crash Safety Anyway? 😈 ☞ https://balintreczey.hu/blog/supercharge-your-installs-with-apt-eatmydata-because-who-needs-crash-safety-anyway/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:12:44

• NetBeans ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/install-netbeans-ide-in-ubuntu-debian-linux-mint/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:24:33

• How to Install DeepSeek on Ubuntu 24.04 (Locally) ☞ https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-deepseek-on-ubuntu-locally/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:24:56

• ASRock Industrial Updates iEP-6010E Series with Super Mode for NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Nano ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/asrock-industrial-updates-iep-6010e-series-with-super-mode-for-nvidia-jetson-orin-nx-and-nano/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:25:50

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, February 14, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-02-14-irc    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:26:23

• KDE Plasma 6.3 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-3-desktop-environment-officially-released-this-is-whats-new    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:27:10

• Canonical announces 12 year Kubernetes LTS ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/12-year-lts-for-kubernetes https://canonical.com/blog/12-year-lts-for-kubernetes | Source: Canonical    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:29:02

• "Ubuntu’s recent 20 year milestone is a timely reminder to pause and reflect on what made Ubuntu so exciting, so successful and so captivating to the Linux community." ☛ https://jnsgr.uk/2025/02/engineering-ubuntu-for-the-next-20-years/ | Source: Jon Seager    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:29:39

• "Sometimes you just need to use PF in a jail. An example can be a Wireguard jail server, where the wg interface is not available on the host." ☛ https://crys.site/bsd/freebsd-homelab/vnet-pf-jail/ | Source: Michał Sapka    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:31:12

• "This report covers hrev58487 through hrev58583." ☛ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-02-10-haiku_activity_contract_report_january_2025/ | Source: HaikuOS    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:32:04

• "The wait is over! Four months after the major Plasma 6.2 release, followed by five minor updates, the last one being Plasma 6.2.5, the KDE desktop environment, beloved by many" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-3-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:33:41

• "A while back, there was a discussion about moving Plasma to a twice-yearly release model, to better align with discrete release distros that also have two yearly releases — mostly Fedora KDE and Kubuntu." ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2025/02/10/about-the-plasma-release-schedule/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:33:48

• "Nvidia drivers allow your computer to use the full power of your graphics card, which is important for tasks like gaming, video editing, and 3D rendering." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/install-nvidia-drivers-debian/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:34:15

• Understanding Rancher in the Kubernetes Ecosystem ☞ https://vitux.com/understanding-rancher-in-the-kubernetes-ecosystem/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:34:56

• "Microsoft today issued security updates to fix at least 56 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including two zero-day flaws that are being actively exploited." ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/microsoft-patch-tuesday-february-2025-edition/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:35:28

• "SAST is important, and conducting it early in the development lifecycle allows teams to identify and address code-related security issues before software moves into production where addressing such issues becomes significantly more costly." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/leading-effective-static-application-security-testing-sast-program | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:36:16

• "Don’t have a USD 5,000–10,000 per month OpEx budget for an observability tool?" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/11/psa-traceroute-safe-and-effective-to-use/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:38:23

• "This version includes important security updates to Firefox." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-145a3/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:44:06

• "wider takedown of North Korea’s scheme" ☛ https://therecord.media/arizona-woman-pleads-guilty-north-korean-laptop-farm | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:44:12

• "It was predictably unimpressed by Microsoft's effort to muscle in on its market." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/microsoft_postgresql_extensions/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:45:23

• "Four FSF staff members had a great time sharing their knowledge and learning at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-at-fosdem-2025 | Source: FSF    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:45:48

• "Panelists will elaborate on the following questions: 1) How to ensure swift enforcement of the GPL?" ☛ https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5376-managing-copyrights-in-free-software-projects-discussion-panel/ | Source: FOSDEM    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:46:37

• "Open source software projects are frequently enmeshed with the interests of corporations" ☛ https://www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/open-source-software-and-corporate-influence/ |    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 17:46:59

• Putin installed his lapdog in the White House https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/02/12/us-cannot-protect-europe-pentagon-chief-tells-nato-allies/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/02/12/trump-calls-putin-and-agrees-to-visit-russia/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:33:37

• RMS talk finished right about now    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:35:20

• Belarus: GNU/Linux up https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/belarus/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:49:28

• still very high in Brunei, too https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/brunei-darussalam/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:51:15

• "How could we support that? And by “we”, I primarily mean, either in PostgreSQL, which I work on, or in the SQL standard, which I work on. And ultimately in other SQL implementations, which may or may not follow either of these two sources." ☛ http://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2025/02/11/how-about-trailing-commas-in-sql | Source: Peter Eisentraut    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:51:42

• "The venerable curl is one of the most fundamental pieces of code in the modern world. A seemingly simply utility - it enables other programs to interact with URls - it runs on millions of cars, is inside nearly every TV, used by billions of people, and is even in use on Mars." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/a-small-contribution-to-curl/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:51:51

• "The preceding article described the three basic ways to divide a monolith, namely: sharding (spawning identical instances), layers (splitting by abstraction) and services (splitting by subdomain)." ☛ https://itnext.io/introduction-to-software-architecture-with-actors-part-5-on-fragmented-systems-f3027cce5de8 |    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:52:00

• "It has always been the goal of architecture to find a combination of applicable approaches (patterns) that provides strong benefits and none of whose associated drawbacks (there are no benefits without drawbacks, as everything has a price) are consequential to the project’s success." ☛ https://itnext.io/introduction-to-software-architecture-with-actors-part-4-on-systems-with-models-4302a68558bf |    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:52:19

• "The remaining parts of the publication examine the relation between structural diagrams (drawings of components and their interactions) for common types of systems of actors/services and the properties of those systems. The following coordinates, abbreviated as ASS, will be used consistently: [...]" ☛ https://itnext.io/introduction-to-software-architecture-with-actors-part-3-on-simple-systems-ada09e28eebf |    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:52:32

• "After defining actors and traversing the design space [POSA1, POSA5] for systems built of actors, it is time to look inside an actor to find out how it may work. However, first we’ll need to make a distinction between control flow and data flow." ☛ https://itnext.io/introduction-to-software-architecture-with-actors-part-2-on-handling-messages-940c62cb06dc |    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:52:44

• "The modern literature on distributed architectures deals with testing pyramids, fault tolerance, and the selection of middleware and databases, as well as other important nuances of practicality." ☛ https://itnext.io/introduction-to-software-architecture-with-actors-part-1-89de6000e0d3 |    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:52:55

• "Static Single Assignment is a program representation where each “variable” (though this term can be misleading) is assigned exactly once." ☛ https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/ssa/ | Source: Max Bernstein    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:53:07

• "As a programmer, my reaction could be that I don’t want to be replaced by AI, but I’ve said forever — I know Daniel and I talked about it on Core Intuition — that I actually don’t like writing code." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/02/11/robin-sloan-on-ai.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:53:32

• "There are many good things that can be said about Perl, for this or for anything else." ☛ https://dev.to/jj/writing-git-extensions-in-perl-3ken | Source: DEV Community    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:53:53

• "Every week I collect JavaFX-related content for the JFX Central Links Of The Week." ☛ https://webtechie.be/post/2025-02-11-interview-abdoulaye-lab-app-in-javafx/ | Source: Frank Delporte    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:54:23

• "A few weeks ago, we launched Dagger Cloud v3" ☛ https://dagger.io/blog/replaced-react-with-go |    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:54:32

• "I hope when IBM does and goes bankrupt... ... it could release the whole source code of OS/2! RIP IBM. PS: I know M$ wrote some of the code, but it's still IBM's call. Besides, we already have access to Windows source code! (wink)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkxhxr4p    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:56:46

• Good strides for GNU/Linux in Costa Rica last year https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/costa-rica/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:57:52

• iOS bigger than Windows in Ireland https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/ireland/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 18:59:53

• "here’s a quick explanation for anyone who might not be familiar with this" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/flac-1-5-debuts-with-long-awaited-multithreaded-encoding/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:31:43

• The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 878 ☞ https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/02/10/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-878/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:34:33

• librearts Weekly recap — 9 February 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/02/week-recap-9-feb-2025/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:35:27

• GIMP RC3 is out with New Filter API & Official AppImage Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/02/gimp-rc3-new-filter-api/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:35:44

• Ubuntu Blog: How your feedback shapes the way we support open source software ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-your-feedback-shapes-our-open-source-support    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:36:52

• "As of about a day ago, Google’s reasonably new Find My network just got more useful." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/google-findmy-tools-run-on-an-esp32/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:37:29

• An ontology for threats, cybercrime and digital forensic investigation on Smart City Infrastructure, (Wed, Feb 12th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31676    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:38:10

• KDE Plasma 6.3 Released with Panel Clone, Pixel Perfect KWin Zoom ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/02/kde-plasma-6-3-released/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:38:39

• Sun reporter visited parents of aid worker killed in Gaza before they knew of his death ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/sun-gaza-reporter-ipso-death/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:40:26

• Trump's Efforts to Dismantle Hey Hi (AI) Protections, Explained ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/trumps-efforts-to-dismantle-ai-protections-explained    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:41:11

• They just basically mean computing but call it "hey hi"    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:41:35

• Surveillance Giant Google - a back doors purveyor - pretends to be anything but a co-conspirator ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cybercrime-threatens-national-security-google-threat-intel-team-says/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:43:00

• Mekotronics R58-PTZ video surveillance/live streaming embedded computer features a PTZ camera, two HDMI input ports ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/11/mekotronics-r58-ptz-video-surveillance-live-streaming-embedded-computer-ptz-camera-two-hdmi-inputs/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:44:03

• "TIL that "Richard Stallman" is considered prohibited content in Bing Image Creator." Can anyone verify this?? https://x.com/WaluigiBSOD/status/1888008476556734899 see https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/Microsoft_Bing_Lies.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:46:17

• KDE Plasma 6.3 Released, This is What’s New ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/kde-plasma-6-3-released-this-is-whats-new    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:49:29

• Kentaro Hayashi: Breaking compatibility, upgrade from createrepo-c 0.17.3 to 1.2.0 ☞ https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2025/02/11/191558    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:51:11

• Stable kernel 6.6.77 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1008969/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:55:16

• Coulomb – simple and elegant circuit simulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/coulomb-simple-elegant-circuit-simulator/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:57:31

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Photo Metadata Editors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/photometadataeditors/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:57:39

• Chirurgien – hex editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chirurgien-hex-editor/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:57:47

• AR Tag Placement and Finder Tool – minimalist image editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ar-tag-placement-finder-tool-minimalist-image-editor/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:57:58

• KDE Plasma 6.3.0 released with better color accuracy, improved graphics, and more ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-plasma-630-released-with-better-color-accuracy-improved-graphics-and-more/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:58:34

• 9 Best Free and Open Source Snippet Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-snippet-tools/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:59:37

• Xjadeo – the X JACK video monitor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xjadeo-x-jack-video-monitor/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:59:45

• Tally – hybrid native and web app for Plausible Analytics ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tally-hybrid-native-web-app-plausible-analytics/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:59:52

• Plausible – web analytics software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/plausible-web-analytics-software/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 19:59:59

• Parasitic LLM Slop Sites Destroy the Ability to Find "Linux" News in Surveillance Giant Google News ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/Parasitic_LLM_Slop_Sites_Destroy_the_Ability_to_Find_Linux_News.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:12:28

• BetaNews is Still Publishing LLM Slop/SPAM About "Linux" (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/BetaNews_is_Still_Publishing_LLM_Slop_SPAM_About_Linux.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:12:46

• New Software Center in LinDoz ☞ http://www.makululinux.com/wp/2025/02/11/new-software-center-in-lindoz/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:13:50

• Httptap - Monitor All HTTP and HTTPS Connections of Any GNU/Linux Application ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/httptap/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:14:05

• Reacting to SAMTIME’s GNU/Linux Journey… this GNU/Linux user has some thoughts ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/videos/reacting-to-samtimes-linux-journey-this-linux-user-has-some-thoughts/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:15:04

• Perl Programming Leftovers ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/Perl_Programming_Leftovers.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:15:53

• New Paper From the EPO Highlights Large-Scale Discrimination at the Office, Where People Are Rewarded for Granting More and More Illegal Patents ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/10/New_Paper_From_the_EPO_Highlights_Large_Scale_Discrimination_at.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:16:40

• EPO's Local Occupational Health, Safety and Ergonomics Committee (LOHSEC) in The Hague: Workers Are Getting Sicker, Conditions in Which to Assess Patent Applications Deteriorate ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/10/EPO_s_Local_Occupational_Health_Safety_and_Ergonomics_Committee.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:16:49

• Different Burdens of Proof Prevent IPR Estoppel from Extending to Non-Challenged Claims ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/different-extending-challenged.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:19:41

• Germany – Settled and recent case law on claim construction (Part 1 – Introduction) ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/02/11/germany-settled-and-recent-case-law-on-claim-construction-part-1-introduction/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:19:51

• IBM Layoff Rumours, Large-Scale Implementations Weeks Ahead (in March 2025) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/IBM_Layoff_Rumours_Large_Scale_Implementations_Weeks_Ahead_in_M.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:20:07

• Microsoft Blasted for Adding Insult to Injury: Workers Laid Off Without Prior Notice, Without Severance Payment and Basic Coverage (Like Health), Then Stigmatised as Bad Performers So They Cannot Find a Job Elsewhere (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/Microsoft_Blasted_for_Adding_Insult_to_Injury_Workers_Laid_Off_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:20:14

• Conservative Estimate: Over 10,000 I.C.B.M. Workers to Be Laid Off in the Next Two Waves ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/Conservative_Estimate_Over_10_000_IBM_Workers_to_Be_Laid_Off_in.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:20:21

• Richard Stallman's English Talk in Italy Less Than 24 Hours Away (Torino) and Then Another Talk in Italy Scheduled (University of Bozen-Bolzano) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/Richard_Stallman_s_English_Talk_in_Italy_Less_Than_24_Hours_Awa.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:20:29

• Microsoft in Africa: From 98% to Less Than 10% in Just 16 Years ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/Microsoft_in_Africa_From_98_to_Less_Than_10_in_Just_16_Years.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:20:41

• Gedit Technology blog: Various news about gedit ☞ https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2025-01-07-various-news.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:21:40

• Jiri Eischmann: GNOME Has No Czech Translators ☞ https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2025/02/11/gnome-has-no-czech-translators/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:23:56

• The Standard Needs to Improve Its Standards for Fact-Checking, Aaron Swartz Had Nothing to Do With Reddit and He Detested the Company That Created It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/10/The_Standard_Need_to_Improve_Its_Standards_for_Fact_Checking_Aa.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:24:34

• If Matthias Kirschner Loves Free Software, He'll Change the Name of the Microsoft-Sponsored Organisation He Governs (in Order to Avoid Confusion) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/10/If_Matthias_Kirschner_Loves_Free_Software_He_ll_Change_the_Name.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:24:42

• Almost as If MElon Reads Techrights ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/Almost_as_If_MElon_Reads_Techrights.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:24:49

• 74% of French say politicians are corrupt: Study show low trust in government ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250211-74-of-french-say-politicians-are-corrupt-study-show-low-trust-in-government    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:25:32

• Latvia does well on proportion of female scientists and engineers ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/11.02.2025-latvia-does-well-on-proportion-of-female-scientists-and-engineers.a587115/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:25:46

• Revolution OS uploaded yesterday https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=g1PSIV7lLfw    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:43:33

• "OS/2 passed on to other owners over the years, using the name "eComStation". It is very outdated at this point, but commercial support may be available to select customers from the new owners. (It was used a lot for ATMs and POS devices.)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkxhxr4p    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:45:38

• "Personally, I doubt that anyone at IBM still has access to the source code. Even if they did, they probably wouldn't know what to do with it. OS/2 was a product of a very different era, and those who developed it are long gone." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkxhxr4p    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:46:02

• Crytek cites “unfavorable market dynamics” in laying off 60 devs and putting next Crysis game on hold https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/02/12/crytek-layoffs-60-employees-unfavorable-market-dynamics    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:47:07

• "I once used Ubuntu and followed its development with extreme excitement, like a kid whose favorite console and game are both available for free. Now, at best, I feel ambivalence. What happened along the way?" https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-was-my-first-distro-heres-why-we-went-our-separate-ways/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:57:40

• LLM slop used to spread FUD against GNU/Linux https://cybersecuritynews.com/ubuntu-printing-vulnerability/ FAKE article: https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:58:14

• "A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source office suite for Windows, macOS, and Linux, is now available to download." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/onlyoffice-8-3-released-new-features    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:58:35

• All this hype will be dead by then https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/128595/no-rush-canonical-kubernetes-lts-offers-support-up-to-2037/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 20:59:33

• "Linux has been proven to run on so many devices, but a high school student who was known for running Doom on a PDF has done something you probably never would have thought possible." https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-running-in-a-pdf-this-hack-is-as-bizarre-as-it-is-brilliant/ shows how bad and insecure the PDF spec is    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:00:50

• "The recent Linux kernel drama over Rust code has resulted in the creation of a Rust kernel policy." https://news.itsfoss.com/rust-kernel-policy-linux/ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/06/Mixing_Rust_and_C_in_Linux_likened_to_cancer_by_kernel_maintain.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:01:29

• "Since writing my initial thoughts on Garuda Linux, I left and spent years hopping from one Linux distro to another. I've now returned to Garuda Linux, my beloved, as a daily driver and was surprised by a few things I saw." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-just-reinstalled-garuda-linux-3-things-that-surprised-me/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:01:52

• Seems like bad news for Adobe. This ought NOT be possible. https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:02:23

• "We’re always advised that we need to make regular backups, to different media, and with one copy offsite. The Linux rclone command is an easy way to create and maintain offsite backups." https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-rclone-on-linux-and-what-can-you-do-with-it/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:03:04

• "This release adds a few more applications to the blacklist to stop it appearing and causing issues with them including the Ubisoft Store (UplayWebCore.exe), halloy (IRC client) and Plutonium Launcher (plutonium.exe, plutonium-launcher-win32.exe)." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/linux-gaming-overlay-mangohud-version-0-8-is-out-now-with-intel-gpu-support-improved-wayland-keybinds/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:03:23

• "It's really great to see continued Linux support here. Previous versions of the game were external ports by Aspyr Media, that often ended up quite outdated with broken cross-play for Linux but this time around it appears Firaxis did it directly." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/sid-meiers-civilization-vii-is-out-now-with-linux-support-and-steam-deck-verified/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:03:43

• Veecle’s Core now compatible with EB corbos Linux, advancing SDV development https://www.marklines.com/en/news/321760    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:05:33

• EndeavourOS 2025.02.08 comes with Firefox 135, default dark theme, multiple tweaks and fixes https://www.notebookcheck.net/EndeavourOS-2025-02-08-comes-with-Firefox-135-default-dark-theme-multiple-tweaks-and-fixes.959275.0.html    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:06:03

• "This release ships with the Mesa 24.3.4 graphics stack and includes an updated Calamares graphical installer." https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-based-endeavouros-mercury-lands-with-linux-kernel-6-13-and-xfce-4-20    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:06:21

• MORE antu-Linux FUD made by LLM junk https://gbhackers.com/seven-years-old-linux-kernel-bug/ see https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:06:51

• Bridging the Gap Between Open-Source Software and Automotive Safety Standards https://www.electronicdesign.com/markets/automotive/article/55267322/elektrobit-bridging-the-gap-between-open-source-software-and-automotive-safety    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:17:58

• "The developers of the KDE Plasma desktop environment continue to paint an image of Linux as a home for artists with the release of Plasma 6.3.0. The update also has a lot more settings that anyone can try out." https://www.howtogeek.com/kde-plasma-6-3-update-digital-art-system-stats/    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:19:03

• LLM SLOP/SPAM: "OpenSFF"... in the headline. The slop couldn't even get OpenSSF right? https://linuxsecurity.com/news/organizations-events/linux-foundation-opensff-initiative-cra    

posted Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 21:22:54