Roy Schestowitz

• Naming types is hard gemini://charptr.fyi/post/2025-02-12.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:45:57

• "We had a group away day in January. Or rather, away days. A Tuesday and a Wednesday off-site. There were a bunch of good ideas that came from it. Even better, we left with the acknowledgement that none of it would mean anything if nothing was implemented, nothing changed." gemini://tirohia.smol.pub/1739398145    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:47:04

• News and Links Digest (publ. 2025-02-12) gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250212-0.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:47:48

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1204.jpg    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:49:31

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1554.jpg    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:49:36

• "Well both of my wristwatches that I've talked about before are now broken." gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-02-13Going_Off_Watch.txt    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:50:34

• Exposing concurrency bugs with a custom scheduler https://lwn.net/Articles/1007689/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:52:27

• Resistance to Rust abstractions for DMA mapping https://lwn.net/Articles/1006805/ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/06/Mixing_Rust_and_C_in_Linux_likened_to_cancer_by_kernel_maintain.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:53:22

• "By the time that Linus Torvalds released 6.14-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle, some 9,307 non-merge changesets had been pulled into the mainline repository — the lowest level of merge-window activity seen in years. There were, nonetheless, a number of interesting changes in the 5,000 commits pulled since the first-half merge-window summary was written." https://lwn.net/Articles/1006378/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:53:53

• An update on sealed system mappings https://lwn.net/Articles/1006375/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:54:53

• New horizons for Julia https://lwn.net/Articles/1006117/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:57:17

• Federal judge temporarily blocks National Institutes of Health from cutting research funding in 22 US states ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-national-institutes-of-health-from-cutting-research-funding-in-22-us-states/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:59:33

• One Hong Kong doctor dies as health authorities suspect rare E. coli infection at Princess Margaret Hospital ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/11/one-hong-kong-doctor-dies-as-health-authorities-suspect-rare-e-coli-infection-at-princess-margaret-hospital/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 04:59:47

• The Labor Department helps the nation’s miners in finding critical services ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/02/the-labor-department-helps-the-nations-miners-in-finding-critical-services/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:00:04

• South Korea to seek talks with US after Convicted Felon announces steel tariffs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-seek-talks-with-us-after-trump-announces-steel-tariffs    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:00:24

• South Korea’s Yoon blames ‘malicious’ opposition for martial law bid ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-yoon-blames-malicious-opposition-for-martial-law-bid    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:00:36

• South Korea election official rejects impeached president Yoon’s fraud claims ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-election-official-rejects-impeached-president-yoons-fraud-claims    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:00:48

• Shock, outrage after elementary school teacher fatally stabs 8-year-old in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/shock-outrage-after-elementary-school-teacher-fatally-stabs-8-year-old-in-south-korea    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:01:05

• Are K-Pop Stocks Becoming a Safe Haven Amid Tariff Uncertainty? Hybe & SM Shares Spike As Institutional Holdings Increase ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/11/k-pop-stocks-february-2025/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:01:40

• Malaysia’s Hindus mark Thaipusam, with devotees flocking to Batu Caves complex ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-hindus-mark-thaipusam-festival-with-fervour    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:02:08

• Risk of a trade war rises as Convicted Felon boosts tariffs globally ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0211/trump-trade-war-tariffs-steel-china    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:02:32

• China plans ‘silver trains’ to encourage ageing boomers to travel ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-plans-silver-trains-to-encourage-ageing-boomers-to-travel    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:02:52

• US aid freeze risks handing influence to China in Beijing’s backyard ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/us-aid-freeze-risks-handing-influence-to-china-in-beijings-backyard    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:03:08

• China builds space alliances in Africa as Convicted Felon cuts foreign aid ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-builds-space-alliances-in-africa-as-trump-cuts-foreign-aid    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:03:28

• China launches new rocket designed to carry more satellites ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-launches-new-rocket-crucial-to-challenging-musks-starlink    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:03:41

• Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda ☞ https://rfa.org/english/factcheck/2025/02/11/afcl-taiwan-china-tourist-ban-02112025/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:04:25

• China pledges measures to boost dwindling foreign investment ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/11/china-foreign-investors-measures/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:04:54

• China punishes Xinhua journalist who called for probe into Li Keqiang’s death ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/11/china-xinhua-journalist-jailed-li-keqiang-probe/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:05:14

• Universal Music Greater China Scores ‘Exclusive Global Agreement’ With ‘King of Chinese Pop’ Liu Huan ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/11/universal-music-greater-china-liu-huan-deal/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:06:13

• Where the US needs an iron dome is in the Pacific region ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/02/where-the-us-needs-an-iron-dome-is-in-the-pacific-region/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:06:41

• CVE-2025-25186: DoS vulnerability in net-imap ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/02/10/dos-net-imap-cve-2025-25186/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:08:11

• California’s FAIR Plan Gets $1 Billion Bailout After L.A. Fires ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/climate/california-fairplan-insurance-bailout.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:08:29

• Modi in the middle? Superpowers in the age of tech titans ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250211-modi-in-the-middle-superpowers-in-the-age-of-tech-titans    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:09:04

• Adams Asks for Voters’ Trust as Democrats Argue He Is in Thrall to Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/nyregion/eric-adams-charges-trump.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:09:25

• US, UK do not sign Paris Hey Hi (AI) summit final statement ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250211-us-uk-do-not-sign-paris-ai-summit-final-statement    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:09:51

• A statement about buzzwords    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:10:09

• Is Framework Teasing New 2-In-1 Laptops And A Future Gaming Device? ☞ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/02/11/is-framework-teasing-new-2-in-1-laptops-and-a-future-gaming-device/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:10:21

• "The ESP32 family are the microcontrollers which just keep on giving, as new versions keep them up-to-date and plenty of hackers come up with new things for them." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/a-tiny-computer-with-a-3d-printed-qwerty-keyboard/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:10:58

• WordPress 6.7.2 Maintenance Release ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2025/02/wordpress-6-7-2-maintenance-release/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:11:10

• indows TCO ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31674    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:12:13

• Trusted Encryption Environments ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/trusted-encryption-environments.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:13:25

• "They will want people to be gone before the end of the first half of the year. Valentine’s Day can’t be correct - layoffs are not done on Fridays" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jks0yq7m    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:14:46

• "The Original Poster was let go from IBM for incompetence and now works the McDonald's drive-thru. I'll take some fries with my burger, OP!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkpqygbw It looks like the "Communications" (PR) people at IBM have hijacked this page. Sort spot touched?    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:16:51

• (Soft)    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:17:02

• "Will be replaced by restructuring, internal mobility and giving everyone more responsibility without pay increase." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk6x124g    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:19:41

• "VEst date 02/15/25 is a saturday, 02/17(monday) is holiday, if I quit on 02/18, do my 02/15 RSU vest? or I lose the vesting?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkyvr8gg    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:20:43

• Mass Layoffs at Google (Disguised as "Buyouts") https://www.benzinga.com/startups/25/02/43681931/googles-ai-ambitions-spark-cost-cuts-over-25000-employees-offered-buyouts-as-company-focuses-on-speed-and-efficiency    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:23:43

• "Aluminium-Ion Batteries" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/improving-aluminium-ion-batteries-with-aluminium-fluoride-salt/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:25:24

• SDR ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/a-tiny-tapeout-sdr/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:25:40

• Venice to double controversial city entry fee to further curb crowding — and other tourist hotspots are taking notes ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/02/11/lifestyle/venice-to-double-controversial-tourist-entry-fee-to-curb-crowding/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:26:05

• Mantis Shrimp Reveals The Secret to Surviving Its Deadly Shockwaves ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mantis-shrimp-reveals-the-secret-to-surviving-its-deadly-shockwaves    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:26:25

• As Drone Warfare Expands in Africa, Turkey Increases Share of the Market ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/02/as-drone-warfare-expands-in-africa-turkey-increases-share-of-the-market/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:26:58

• Locomotive ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/push-your-toy-train-no-more-with-this-locomotive/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:27:53

• "[buzzword]-Powered Timepiece" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/11/its-always-pizza-oclock-with-this-ai-powered-timepiece/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:28:10

• Beyoncé Tickets Go On Sale — Is Another Oasis-Style Ticketing Meltdown About to Begin? Signs Point to Yes ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/11/beyonce-tickets-go-on-sale-cowboy-carter/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:28:35

• Despite turning profitable, Lyft sees shares drop 10% on earnings miss and weak outlook ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/11/despite-turning-profitable-lyft-sees-shares-drop-10-earnings-miss-weak-outlook/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:29:24

• Teleportation Achieved Between Quantum Computers in a World First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/teleportation-achieved-between-quantum-computers-in-a-world-first    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:39:32

• Volcanoes Could Reveal Where to Dig Minerals For Future Energy Technology ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/volcanoes-could-reveal-where-to-dig-minerals-for-future-energy-technology    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:39:43

• Telecoms price rises include rip-off contract inflation and up to 15% bill hikes ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/telecoms-price-rises-include-rip-off-contract-inflation-and-up-to-15-bill-hikes-aVuQM3F3ZFsn    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:40:07

• Internet is making people impatient ☞ https://alirezahayati.com/2025/02/10/internet-is-making-people-impatient/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:41:22

• Her Discovery Wasn’t Alien Life, but Science Has Never Been the Same ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/science/arseniclife-felisa-wolfe-simon-retraction.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:43:18

• OSINT gets its own subcommittee on House intelligence panel ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/intelligence-community/2025/02/osint-gets-its-own-subcommittee-on-house-intelligence-panel/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:43:55

• White House fires USAID inspector general after warning about funding oversight, officials say ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/02/trump-administration-owes-us-business-millions-in-unpaid-bills-amid-usaid-shutdown-lawsuit-says/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:45:53

• Rights groups challenge Convicted Felon’s executive order suspending refugee admissions in court ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/rights-groups-challenge-trumps-executive-order-suspending-refugee-admissions-in-court/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:46:52

• New Lawsuit Seeks MElon’s Communications, Pushes Back Against DOGE’s Secretive Efforts to Invade Agencies and Evade Oversight ☞ https://americanoversight.org/new-lawsuit-seeks-musks-communications-pushes-back-against-doges-secretive-efforts-to-invade-agencies-and-evade-oversight/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:47:34

• US Navy ships sail through Taiwan Strait, first since Convicted Felon inauguration ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-military-monitored-us-ship-crossing-taiwan-strait-state-media-reports    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:48:30

• Nigerian Soldiers in Counterterror Fight Carry Mental Health Burdens ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/02/nigerian-soldiers-in-counterterror-fight-carry-mental-health-burdens/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:49:05

• Wired for success: Inspiring the next generation of women in science ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/02/11/wired-for-success-inspiring-the-next-generation-of-women-in-science/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:50:41

• Reality Iced: Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/nanook-of-the-north    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:51:52

• How to use the fdisk command https://www.networkworld.com/video/3822180/how-to-use-the-fdisk-command.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 05:53:21

• 4 FEMA employees are fired over payments to reimburse New York City for hotel costs for migrants ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/02/4-fema-employees-are-fired-over-payments-to-reimburse-new-york-city-for-hotel-costs-for-migrants/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:29:16

• Adobe Plugs 45 Software Security Holes, Warn of Code Execution Risks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-plugs-45-software-security-holes-warn-of-code-execution-risks/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:30:43

• SAP Releases 21 Security Patches ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sap-releases-21-security-patches/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:31:14

• Intel Patched 374 Vulnerabilities in 2024 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/intel-patched-374-vulnerabilities-in-2024/ unlike "Linux", we didn't get many headlines about each of these    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:31:46

• Windows TCO / Windows Bot Nets ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-on-lee-enterprises-causes-disruptions-at-dozens-of-newspapers/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:32:20

• Plasma 6.3 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1008971/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:33:05

• Enjoying the Pinnacle of Power, MElon Holds Court on Convicted Felon’s Stage ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/trump-musk.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:37:54

• First US Navy ships sail through Taiwan Strait since Convicted Felon inauguration ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-military-monitored-us-ship-crossing-taiwan-strait-state-media-reports    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:38:20

• Republicans once railed against armed IRS agents. Now they want them for immigration enforcement ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2025/02/11/armed-irs-agents-immigration-enforcement/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:38:35

• Intel roasts AMD and Nvidia in its latest product security report, says AMD has 78 vulnerabilities with no fix planned, Nvidia has only high-severity security bugs ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/intel-roasts-amd-and-nvidia-in-its-latest-product-security-report-says-amd-has-78-vulnerabilities-with-no-fix-planned-nvidia-has-only-high-severity-security-bugs    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:39:19

• PCI DSS. Where to start? ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/pci-dss-where-to-start/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:40:13

• Ceasefire at risk: Israel holds emergency cabinet meeting ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250211-ceasefire-at-risk-israel-holds-emergency-cabinet-meeting    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:40:32

• US approves $600 million upgrade of Egyptian fast missile craft ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/us-approves-600-million-upgrade-of-egyptian-fast-missile-craft/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:40:51

• Livestock theft a headache for eastern Free State police ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/border-security/livestock-theft-a-headache-for-eastern-free-state-police/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:41:34

• To safeguard the Arctic, Convicted Felon should work with Denmark and Greenland ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/to-safeguard-the-arctic-trump-should-work-with-denmark-and-greenland/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:41:52

• More stable trade and investment policies can bolster the Nigerian economy ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/books/more-stable-trade-and-investment-policies-can-bolster-the-nigerian-economy/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:42:30

• Securing energy independence: The US path to resilient enriched uranium supply chain ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/securing-energy-independence-the-us-path-to-resilient-enriched-uranium-supply-chain/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:42:49

• "said in a statement on Facebook (Farcebook)" ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/african-union-sudan-civil-war-creates-the-worst-humanitarian-crisis-in-the-world/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:43:36

• Alabama Man Pleads Guilty to Hacking SEC’s X Account ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/alabama-man-pleads-guilty-to-hacking-secs-x-account/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:44:40

• PGroonga 4.0.0 - Multilingual fast full text search ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgroonga-400-multilingual-fast-full-text-search-3012/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:47:04

• Kushal Das: Using openpgp-card-tool-git with git ☞ https://kushaldas.in/posts/using-openpgp-card-tool-git-with-git.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:48:21

• RTU and Latvian partners to launch national microchip competence center ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/11.02.2025-rtu-and-latvian-partners-to-launch-national-microchip-competence-center.a587298/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:49:00

• Every day is Coffee Cheese Day at our place ☞ https://rubenerd.com/every-day-is-coffee-cheese-day/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:52:33

• "repair" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-schools-struggle-to-repair-buildings-despite-state-funding | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:52:51

• "Sexually Abusing His Patients" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-therapist-scott-owen-sexual-abuse-guilty-plea | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:53:17

• "The additional names help reveal Musk’s sudden and far-reaching influence across government, as these individuals have moved into a wide array of powerful posts — from chief information officers deciding government IT purchases, to seasoned lawyers helping the effort." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-doge-staffers-additional-names | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:53:58

• RMS covers "cancel culture" https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/13/Video_Richard_Stallman_Questions_and_Answers_Session_in_Google_.shtml covers corruption by Gates, too    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:11:23

• Technocracy Ascending – Part 3: Green Sustainable Slavery ☞ https://off-guardian.org/2025/02/11/technocracy-ascending-part-3-green-sustainable-slavery/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:14:39

• Muvox song selection patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/11/muvox-song-selection-patent-challenged    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:15:56

• French antitrust agency probing Abusive Monopolist Microsoft over Bing access ☞ https://www.reuters.com/technology/french-antitrust-agency-probing-microsoft-over-bing-access-bloomberg-reports-2025-02-10/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:16:47

• Microsoft Teams is becoming more like Facebook (Farcebook) ☞ https://www.computerworld.com/article/3820847/microsoft-teams-is-becoming-more-like-facebook.html i.e. timewasting and addiction, not work    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:17:57

• Microsoft to adjust Office-Teams pricing in bid to avoid EU antitrust fine, sources say ☞ https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-adjust-office-teams-pricing-bid-avoid-eu-antitrust-fine-sources-say-2025-02-10/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:18:41

• My vain fascination with Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/statement/my-vain-fascination-with-chatgpt/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:19:42

• Windows TCO ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-february-2025/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:20:03

• Stackable HAT brings high-resolution 24-bit ADC to Raspberry Pi (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/12/8-layer-stackable-hat-brings-high-resolution-24-bit-adc-to-raspberry-pi/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:20:20

• A feminist argument against weakening encryption ☞ https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2025/02/11/a-feminist-argument-against-weakening-encryption/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:25:11

• Election observing age limit reduced in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/election/11.02.2025-election-observing-age-limit-reduced-in-latvia.a587303/ but what if China runs your election? http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/27/When_Social_Control_Media_in_the_European_Union_is_Controlled_b.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:26:11

• BUZZWORDS Action Summit ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_471 what a bunch of clowns...    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:30:23

• Kilauea is shooting lava again. It is the Hawaii volcano’s latest activity in an on-and-off eruption ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2025/02/11/kilauea-volcano-erupting-ninth-episode/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:33:56

• fossforce became political site, maybe because its owner is badly affected by the transphobia https://fossforce.com/2025/02/chatgpt-looks-into-musks-move-on-its-parent-company/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:38:57

• "Ventilator Development Efforts During COVID" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/new-documentary-details-ventilator-development-efforts-during-covid/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:42:28

• Just friends: Are boys and girls ever purely platonic? ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/statement/just-friends-are-boys-and-girls-ever-purely-platonic/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:42:59

• pressgazette again hyping up LLM garbage https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/deepseek-news-publishers/ see http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/21/Paywalls_Bots_Spam_and_Spyware_is_Future_of_the_Media_According.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/The_UK_s_Press_Gazette_Has_No_Credibility_Anymore_It_Celebrates.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:44:54

• Adafruit’s PioMatter library adds HUB75 RGB LED Matrix support to the Raspberry Pi 5 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/11/adafruit-piomatter-library-hub75-rgb-led-matrix-raspberry-pi-5/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:45:47

• Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo Bay Is ‘Not a Criminal,’ Family Pleads ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/world/americas/luis-castillo-venezuela-migrant-guantanamo-bay-trump.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:46:25

• Textok rebrands to avoid Fentanylware (TikTok) mix-up ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/business/11.02.2025-textok-rebrands-to-avoid-tiktok-mix-up.a587297/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 07:46:42

• Windows fell in Argentina https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/argentina/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 08:04:49

• GNU/Linux grew in Algeria https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/algeria/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 08:04:55

• "CISA and co push more Rust at the cost of C. Microsoft is trying to push its CoC into as many projects as it can so as to ruin them" -Anon https://techrights.org/n/2024/08/31/We_Turn_Out_to_Have_Been_Right_About_Rust.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 08:16:55

• Integration Act https://yle.fi/a/74-20143369?origin=rss    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 08:51:03

• iophk: the remedies do not address the problem and the corporate free-for-all does not take into account that the student doing the shooting was from that very school https://www.thelocal.se/20250212/sweden-to-allow-schoolbag-searches-after-mass-shooting    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 08:51:32

• "Immune From Prosecution" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/judge-presidents-may-be-immune-from-prosecution-but-not-transparency-2/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:34:56

• "NYT Advises Trump to Kill More Venezuelans" ☛ https://fair.org/home/nyt-advises-trump-to-kill-more-venezuelans/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:35:32

• "trans rights law" ☛ https://fair.org/home/theres-more-going-on-in-our-fight-than-being-reactive-to-nonsense-executive-orders/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:35:38

• "After being in Beta since December 2024, Valve have now released SteamOS 3.6.21 as stable for Steam Deck bringing in some bug and security fixes." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/steam-deck-steamos-3-6-21-released-fixing-indiana-jones-and-the-great-circle-eyes-and-security-bugs/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:36:15

• "After all the mess that was the Unity fees situation, the troubles continue, with another round of layoffs at the game engine developer" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/unity-continues-laying-off-staff-as-troubles-continue/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:36:43

• "More news on some job losses today following the Unity game engine layoffs, we have Crytek also shedding staff and shelving Crysis 4. On X / Twitter, the official Crytek account posted an image announcement." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/crytek-lay-off-15-of-staff-with-crysis-4-on-hold/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:37:07

• "Grapefruit Games recently revealed Tryhard, a sports RPG about managing an underdog rugby club in New Zealand." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/tryhard-is-a-sports-rpg-about-managing-an-underdog-rugby-club-in-new-zealand/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:37:22

• "BitGlint Games have released a demo for Blackford PI, a retro styled isometric detective adventure that looks really charming. Announced by the developer on Bluesky, the demo has a Linux version." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/check-out-the-demo-for-retro-styled-isometric-solve-em-up-blackford-pi/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:38:23

• "The most popular game from Paradox Development Studio, Hearts of Iron IV, is set for a new country pack expansion on March 4th. Released originally in 2016, it's the most played game from PDS with a 46,735 concurrent player peak from the last 24 hours." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/hearts-of-iron-iv-graveyard-of-empires-confirmed-for-a-march-release/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:38:53

• "Ruffy and the Riverside is releasing with Linux support later this year (hopefully - no set date) but you can try it early thanks to a demo release now available." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/with-a-unique-copy-and-paste-mechanic-ruffy-and-the-riverside-is-a-demo-worthy-of-your-time/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:39:13

• "From the developer of chilled beekeeping sim APICO, their next game Mudborne: Frog Management Sim is set for release on World Frog Day (March 20th) with a brand new demo. It has Native Linux support once again." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/mudborne-is-a-cozy-sim-about-collecting-and-breeding-frogs-releasing-in-march-with-a-new-demo-up/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 09:39:27

• "Google confirms Gulf of Mexico renamed to appease Trump" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/google_maps_gulf_of_mexico/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:20:56

• "Indonesia Joining BRICS Is a Huge Deal That Went Unnoticed - Antiwar.com" https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2025/02/11/indonesia-joining-brics-is-a-huge-deal-that-went-unnoticed/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:21:08

• "Nazis and Racists and “Big Balls,” Oh My!" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-doge-gamergate/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:21:19

• "PR move: 'Saudi is the best!': Why are TikTok mumfluencers lauding desert megacity?" https://today.rtl.lu/entertainment/news/a/2276024.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:21:43

• "Zelensky says Russian attack on Kyiv highlights Kremlin's disinterest in peace" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/zelensky-russian-attack-on-kyiv-highlights-kremlins-disinterest-in-peace-101739356939657.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:21:55

• "How will Europe deal with US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth?" https://www.dw.com/en/how-will-europe-deal-with-us-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth/a-71575417    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:23:11

• "China removes buoy placed near disputed islands administered by Japan – Radio Free Asia" https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/12/china-buoy-japan-senkaku-diaoyu/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:23:23

• "Russian IT firm iSpring has worked with IBM and the U.S. Department of Defense. Now its pro-war founder has been arrested — and Z-bloggers are rallying behind him." https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/12/russian-it-firm-ispring-has-worked-with-ibm-and-the-u-s-department-of-defense-now-its-pro-war-founder-has-been-arrested-and-z-bloggers-are-rallying-behind-him    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:23:39

• "Elon Musk looms over Donald Trump in "most powerless image ever" of U.S. president (video)" https://boingboing.net/2025/02/12/elon-musk-looms-over-donald-trump-in-most-powerless-image-ever-of-u-s-president-video.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:26:36

• "Trump Fired Inspectors General Who Identified $183.5 Billion in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/trump-fired-inspectors-general-who-identified-183-5-billion-in-waste-fraud-and-abuse/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:27:00

• "Thomas Krause Says Trump Had to Close USAID because of Trump's Poor COVID Management" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/thomas-krause-says-trump-had-to-close-usaid-because-of-trumps-poor-covid-management/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:27:11

• "More obeying in advance" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/more-obeying-in-advance/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:27:33

• "The new Outlook app was just force-installed on Windows 10 PCs" https://www.pcworld.com/article/2575334/the-new-outlook-app-has-been-force-installed-on-windows-10-pcs.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:27:43

• "Elon Musk: Austerity for Thee but Not for Me" https://jacobin.com/2025/02/musk-trump-doge-nasa-spacex/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:28:29

• "Thanking Putin, Trump links Mark Fogel’s release to ending Ukraine war" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/11/marc-fogel-russia-trump/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:28:41

• "Saudi invests in basketball tournament to challenge NBA" https://www.semafor.com/article/02/12/2025/saudi-invests-in-basketball-tournament-to-challenge-nba    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:28:54

• "Amid Trump's tariff threats, Canadians boycott all things American" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-02-12/tired-of-trumps-aggressions-canadians-fight-back-with-a-boycott    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:30:14

• "U.S. Is Releasing Russian Cybercriminal to Moscow, Officials Say" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/russia-us-prisoner-exchange-marc-fogel.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:30:31

• "Russia pins nuclear threat on Ukraine after militarizing atomic power station" https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-pins-nuclear-threat-on-ukraine-after-militarizing-atomic-power-station-/7973210.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:30:42

• "Trump may meet Putin in Saudi Arabia after call on Ukraine" https://www.axios.com/2025/02/12/trump-putin-negotiations-end-ukraine-war    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:30:55

• "Europe must prepare to defend itself in an increasingly multipolar world" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/europe-must-prepare-to-defend-itself-in-an-increasingly-multipolar-world/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:31:44

• "GIMP 3 está al caer, pero si quieres probarlo ya..." https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=shttps://www.muylinux.com/2025/02/12/gimp-3-rc-pero-si-quieres-probarlo/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:31:57

• "EU:s planer för internet – hela (?) listan" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/02/12/eus-planer-for-internet/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:32:09

• "Why is the EFF Suing to Stop DOGE? - by Bryan Lunduke" https://lunduke.substack.com/p/why-is-the-eff-suing-to-stop-doge    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:32:42

• "Forbidden Words" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/forbidden-words/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:33:03

• "Stephanie Kelton on the Disastrous Republican Economic Agenda" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stephanie-kelton-on-the-disastrous    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:33:28

• "Rust Is Splitting The Linux Kernel In Half" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/rust-is-splitting-the-linux-kernel-in:2    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:33:52

• "I am still unsure copyright law or, for that matter, robots.txt are the best tools for creators to control A.I. training, but this ruling sure seems to complicate the fair use justification upon which the entire field is currently based." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/reuters-wins-ai-case/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:38:49

• "There are several issues here. One concerns the cavalier manner in which YouTube dealt with this situation – sadly, by no means an isolated incident." ☛ https://walledculture.org/copyright-madness-youtube-seems-to-doubt-whether-shakespeare-is-in-the-public-domain/ | Source: Walled Culture    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:39:02

• "Photographer Barron Claiborne took the famed portrait of the rapper Christopher George Latore Wallace, also known as Biggie Smalls just three days before his death in 1997 from a drive-by-shooting in Los Angeles, age 24." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/photographer-sues-over-copyright-infringement-over-iconic-portrait-of-king-of-new-york-rapper-the-notorious-b-i-g | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:39:26

• "I grant partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement for the headnotes in Appendix A. For those headnotes, the only remaining factual issue on liability is that some of those copyrights may have expired or been untimely created." ☛ https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/xmvjbznbkvr/THOMSON%20REUTERS%20ROSS%20LAWSUIT%20fair%20use.pdf |    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:40:00

• "actual copying" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/ai-fair-use-copyright-thomson-reuters/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:40:48

• "In far more words, the plaintiff has accused now-defunct defendant Ross Intelligence of lifting protected materials from that database sans permission to create a law-focused AI search engine." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/12/thomson-reuters-fair-use-ai-win/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:41:40

• "“None of Ross’s possible defenses holds water. I reject them all,” Judge Stephanos Bibas ruled." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/12/thomson-reuters-wins-ai-training-copyright-case-what-this-does-and-doesnt-mean/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:42:12

• "The accounts are key components of defendant’s popular and lucrative commercial enterprise (...) Defendant has over 12 million followers on [Facebook], and over 6 million followers on [Instagram], and over 5 million followers on [X] — all of which are monetized and provide significant financial benefits to defendant." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/portrait-photography/ozzy-osbourne-sued-for-using-own-likeness-genuine-copyright-infringement-or-just-a-shot-in-the-dark | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:43:13

• "or we risk losing a hold on reality." ☛ https://futurism.com/scarlett-johansson-blasts-ai-kanye-video | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:43:20

• "The accounts are key components of defendant’s popular and lucrative commercial enterprise (...) Defendant has over 12 million followers on [Facebook], and over 6 million followers on [Instagram], and over 5 million followers on [X]" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/portrait-photography/ozzy-osbourne-sued-for-using-own-likeness-genuine-copyright-infringement-or-just-a-shot-in-the-dark | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:45:18

• [Old] "In 1949, the defendants were acquitted on the first count of conspiring to monopolize transportation services" ☛ https://www.electricvehiclesnews.com/Footer/History/Ancillary/Great_American_Streetcar_Scandal.html |    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:45:26

• "The accounts are key components of defendant’s popular and lucrative commercial enterprise (...) Defendant has over 12 million followers on [Facebook], and over 6 million followers on [Instagram]" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/portrait-photography/ozzy-osbourne-sued-for-using-own-likeness-genuine-copyright-infringement-or-just-a-shot-in-the-dark | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:45:50

• "Another major problem is that federal regulators refuse to hold phone companies accountable for their lagging efforts" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/12/phone-companies-still-suck-at-stopping-unwanted-scam-robocalls-something-that-will-get-much-worse-under-trump-2-0/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:55:45

• "The Calendar controversy followed decisions by Google and Apple to change the Gulf of Mexico’s name to Gulf of America" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/technology/google-black-history-womens-history.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:57:17

• "Secure Repairs applauds Tuesday’s ruling by US District Court Judge Denise J. Casper" ☛ https://securepairs.org/statement-on-ruling-upholding-massachusetts-auto-right-to-repair-law/ | Source: Securepairs    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:57:26

• "Across the United States, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already begun increasing enforcement operations" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/yes-you-have-right-film-ice | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:57:52

• "And the hangover of what is to come will be even worse, especially for women." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-02-12/dismantling-of-usaid-will-impact-women-more-intensely.html | Source: El País    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 14:58:20

• "So-called foreign agents will not be allowed to withdraw their earnings unless they are removed from the register." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/02/russia-preps-to-block-income-of-foreign-agent-journalists/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:02:19

• "The White House’s outright attempt at regulating language used by independent media — and the punitive measures attached to it" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-02-12/white-house-says-it-has-the-right-to-punish-ap-reporters-over-gulf-naming-dispute | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:03:35

• "A journalist with VOA’s sister outlet, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, was released from Belarus on Wednesday" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/rfe-rl-journalist-released-from-belarus-jail-/7972466.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:03:42

• "Barring AP journalists from an official presidential event because of the news outlet's editorial decisions" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/12/ap-blocked-oval-office-complaint | Source: Axios    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:03:47

• "Since 2017, Russian authorities have designated hundreds of media outlets and journalists as foreign agents, requiring them to regularly submit detailed reports of their activities and expenses to authorities and to list their designation on published content. Failure to comply can result in fines, prosecution, and up to two years in jail." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/02/russias-repression-record/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:09:29

• "TAKE IT DOWN mandates that websites and other online services remove flagged content within 48 hours and requires “reasonable efforts” to identify and remove known copies." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/take-it-down-act-flawed-attempt-protect-victims-will-lead-censorship | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:09:42

• "The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday against the Russian Federation for violating the right to freedom of expression through fines, prosecution of individuals, and blockage of news outlets. The actions target the publications of “undesirable news” concerning the war in Ukraine." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/europe-rights-court-finds-russia-violated-free-speech-for-censoring-news-outlets/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:10:39

• "The exchange is bad enough: Elon basically confessed, in front of Trump, that a hoax Elon started that traveled first to Trump propagandist Karoline Leavitt and from there, through Jesse Watters’ exaggerations on Fox News" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/the-fraudsters-complain-the-loudest-and-the-fastest-legacy-media-ignores-import-of-gaza-condom-fact-check/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:14:44

• "it fooled Russians" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-s-make-peace-or-die-message-to-putin-is-deepfake-yet-it-fooled-russians/7957115.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:15:01

• "So! Is the role of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to be an agent of change? Or the keeper of the law?" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/us-moves-to-designate-agency-cios-as-political-appointees/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:17:55

• "What makes DeepSeek particularly disruptive is its ability to achieve cutting-edge performance while reducing computing costs" ☛ https://theconversation.com/deepseek-how-chinas-embrace-of-open-source-ai-caused-a-geopolitical-earthquake-249563 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:18:03

• "labelled such memory safety flaws" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/fbi_cisa_unforgivable_buffer_overflow/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:19:07

• "CISA and FBI maintain that the use of unsafe software development practices that allow the persistence of buffer overflow vulnerabilities" ☛ https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/secure-design-alert-eliminating-buffer-overflow-vulnerabilities | Source: CISA http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/04/What_Would_Dennis_Ritchie_Say_About_the_Memory_Safe_Hype_or_Car.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:19:46

• "Currently, Walters is vice president and head of franchise development at the Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft Gaming" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/minecraft-studio-mojang-new-head-kayleen-walters-asa-bredin-1236304930/ | Source: Variety    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:20:13

• "While bit barns are a crucial part of the modern technological economy, building more in haste may not deliver the desired results." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/uk_gov_ai_datacenters/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:20:44

• "California could be ours, and we need your help to make it happen." ☛ https://denmarkification.com/ |    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:20:57

• "A humorous review of how some developers see EU tech regulations before and after it actually impacts them" ☛ https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68072/gdpr-and-ai-act-are-awful | Source: Alvaro Montoro    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:21:08

• "In particular, it addresses unjustified geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on a customer’s nationality" ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14416-Geo-blocking-Regulation-evaluation_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:21:16

• "There is no central commodities market for diamonds, as there is for gold and silver, and because they’re not homogeneous" ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/business/finance/2025/02/a-diamond-ring-is-one-of-the-worst-investments-you-can-make | Source: New Statesman    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:34:46

• "For 20 years, locals have been lobbying for a separate cycling and walking path between the settlements." ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/news/transport/drem-station-gullane-cycle-path-campaign-dangerous-as-hell-4984809 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:36:23

• "Fortunately, Sandeep Vaheesan’s new book Democracy in Power offers important lessons on how previous generations" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/02/electric-grid-public-democracy-energy/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:36:30

• "The collision was the fourth deadly aircraft accident in the U.S. in the span of two weeks" ☛ https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/11/2302955/-Trump-team-will-stop-plane-crashes-by-using-the-word-men-for-pilots | Source: Daily Kos    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:36:46

• "Midland Bluebird, which runs the routes" ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/business/30-electric-buses-set-for-key-scottish-routes-as-part-of-ps14-million-investment-4987655 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:37:02

• "Ford has invested heavily in factories to produce batteries and electric vehicles in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/business/ford-trump-tariffs-electric-vehicles.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:37:23

• "Torrential rain is expected this week in Los Angeles" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/californias-problem-now-isnt-fire-its-rain-wildfires-atmospheric-rivers/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:38:11

• "Filters in water pitchers or under-sink systems capture dangerous chemicals, only for them to be returned to the environment." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-pfas-out-of-drinking-water-and-keep-it-out/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:38:33

• "Musk told reporters all of DOGE's actions are "maximally transparent." The website tracking waste is currently about an imaginary architecture firm." ☛ https://www.404media.co/elon-musks-waste-gov-is-just-a-wordpress-theme-placeholder-page/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:46:21

• "Flanked by president Donald Trump and his four-year old son, a stammering Musk defended himself from the charge that he could benefit immensely from his unelected position, gutting agencies that are directly in charge of investigating and regulating his billion-dollar business ventures." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/musk-doge-transparency | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:46:36

• "The fact that people are getting access to classified and personally identifiable information who are not being vetted by our national-security system means it is more likely that there are going to be damaging leaks" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/doge-intelligence-agencies-harm/681667/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:46:55

• "The first Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against DOGE will expose and thwart Elon Musk’s efforts to evade accountability and the federal transparency law" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/new-lawsuit-seeks-musks-communications-pushes-back-against-doges-secretive-efforts-to-invade-agencies-and-evade-oversight/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:47:44

• "The Whistleblower Protection Act was enacted to protect people who raise issues from retaliation." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/02/whistleblowers-have-more-anti-retaliation-tools-than-they-realize/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:48:04

• Public Knowledge Rejects White House Executive Order To Reduce Federal Workforce ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-rejects-white-house-executive-order-to-reduce-federal-workforce/ publicknowledge is stacked by Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 15:54:15

• "Zoom out: In addition to the lawsuits, Democratic lawmakers are raising concern about the security implications of DOGE" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/12/trump-doge-executive-order-musk-federal-staff-cuts | Source: Axios    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:01:50

• "Nearly 100 people were killed and up to 60 others wounded when members of the Islamic State terror group" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/scores-dead-as-islamic-state-attacks-military-base-in-somalia/7970838.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:02:07

• "Elon Musk's government takeover is freaking tons of people out" ☛ https://futurism.com/state-department-insider-elon-nuclear-arsenal | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:02:31

• "It’s alarming to be at a point where someone has to make this kind of statement" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/609110/elon-musk-doge-department-energy-nuclear-weapon-waste-cleanup-access | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:02:41

• "On average, American TikTok users spend 107 minutes a day on the app, easily outpacing YouTube" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/12/tiktok-surviving-us-ban-youtube-meta/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:02:52

• "To date I have worked through the second Obama administration, the first Trump administration" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/02/why-im-leaving/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:03:26

• "The vessels in question are not modern, but rather are primarily aging fuel tankers" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0212/russia-shadow-fleet-oil-sanctions | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:05:55

• "The order was issued as the M23 militia moves deeper into eastern DRC after taking Goma, the largest city and the capital of North Kivu, in January" ☛ https://phr.org/news/u-s-foreign-aid-freeze-disrupts-lifesaving-health-care-services-for-survivors-of-sexual-violence-midst-deadly-conflict-in-democratic-republic-of-the-congo-phr/ | Source: PHR    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:06:14

• "Large swaths of workers at USAID have been blocked from implementing payments by being shut out of a pair of web platforms used to assist in agency procurement" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/how-usaid-employees-were-blocked-from-making-payments/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:06:56

• "Elez resigned the same day that Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ordered that Elez" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/marko-elez-resigned-the-day-his-write-access-to-payment-systems-was-discovered/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:07:07

• "The important thing here is: Congress passed a (stupid) law and Trump said" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/12/you-and-what-army/#student-debt | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:07:48

• "Russia is considering banning government employees from using foreign messaging apps for official communications or contacting citizens" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/10/russia-eyes-banning-officials-from-using-foreign-messaging-apps-a87932 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:08:07

• "The insurgency caused a huge amount of chaos marked by bombings, killings, and kidnappings" ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/02/12/boko-haram-insurgency-in-nigeria-and-the-quest-for-a-permanent-resolution-of-the-crisis-review/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:08:34

• "EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department [sic]" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/eff-sues-doge-and-office-personnel-management-halt-ransacking-federal-data | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:10:52

• "The complaint by EFF, Lex Lumina LLP, State Democracy Defenders Fund" ☛ https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-sues-opm-doge-and-musk-endangering-privacy-millions | Source: EFF    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:10:59

• "They are absolutely being overwhelmed by the volume of calls" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/11/5-calls-app-call-representative/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:11:31

• "Like I keep saying: [...]" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/nazify/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:11:43

• "DOGE is not about efficiency. It is about erasure. Democracy is being deleted in slow motion, replaced by proprietary technology and AI models." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america |    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:12:01

• "Last year, a media investigation revealed that a Florida-based data broker, Datastream Group, was selling highly sensitive location data that tracked United States military and intelligence personnel overseas. At the time, the origin of that data was unknown." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/rtb-location-data-us-military/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:12:33

• "Techdirt has been writing about India’s huge Aadhaar database of biometrics" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/india-wants-wide-business-use-of-its-huge-aadhaar-biometric-database-now-with-facial-recognition/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:17:10

• "The highly popular smartphone app WetterOnline shares the personal data of its users with hundreds of third-party companies for advertising purposes." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/wetteronline-sees-disproportionate-effort-complying-gdpr | Source: NYOB    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:17:55

• "If governments want AI to improve services and security for their citizens, then they need to put all their information in one place – even citizens’ genomic data – according to Larry Ellison, the Oracle database tycoon." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/larry_ellison_wants_all_data/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:18:43

• "Smartwatch is a first in corrections, explained Jon Logan, the CEO of Smart Communications. The incarcerated person wearing the watch can use it for phone calls and text messages—each message costing them 50 cents." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/carceral-system-smart-watch-surveillance/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:19:22

• "Schools will be required to have emergency plans for violent situations, access to schools will require keys, door codes or badges, and authorisations for camera surveillance will be simplified, Education Minister Johan Pehrson told a press conference." ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250212/sweden-to-allow-schoolbag-searches-after-mass-shooting | Source: The Local SE    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:20:22

• ""Several DPAs (data protection authorities) have already started actions vis-a-vis DeepSeek and there may be further actions in the future," a spokesperson for the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said in an email after the meeting." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-may-face-further-regulatory-actions-eu-privacy-watchdog-says/articleshow/118166289.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:20:49

• "Since the top positions in search results are relatively free of well-known and generally more trusted pirate sites, malicious actors use this void to get piracy-related scams featured instead." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/scammers-exploited-official-eu-website-for-piracy-scams-250212/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:29:15

• Windows TCO: "The scale of the cyberattacks faced by Hammersmith and Fulham is not unique." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/hammersmith-and-fulham-council/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:30:28

• Windows TCO: "Over the last decade, the Kremlin's most aggressive cyberwar unit, known as Sandworm, has focused its hacking campaigns on tormenting Ukraine, even more so since Russian president Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Russia's neighbor." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/russia-sandworm-badpilot-cyberattacks-western-countries/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:30:33

• Windows TCO: "A recent ransomware attack on the Sault Tribe in Michigan has knocked many of its most critical services offline." ☛ https://therecord.media/ransomware-disrupting-sault-michigan | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:30:50

• Windows TCO: "Governments of the United States’ chief adversaries in cyberspace, especially Russia, have increasingly been relying on cybercriminals and their tools to advance their goals, according to a Google report published Tuesday." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/u-s-adversaries-increasingly-turning-to-cybercriminals-and-their-malware-for-help/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:36:09

• Windows TCO: "Sandworm, the offensive cyber operations group that works for the Russian Military Intelligence Unit 74455 (GRU), has previously been linked to attacks on water facilities in the US and EU, the 2018 Winter Olympics, NotPetya, and various other destructive attacks on Ukraine's critical infrastructure." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/russias_sandworm_caught_stealing_credentials/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:36:33

• Windows TCO: "As cybercriminals continue to reap the financial rewards of stealing sensitive data and locking up computer systems, however, government-backed crews are moving in on the ransomware biz. Yet their motives aren't strictly profit-oriented." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/ransomware_nation_state_groups/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:37:22

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:42:08

• Social Control Media ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/12/moderator-facebook-real-cost-outsourcing-digital-labour | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:42:13

• "I disagree with pretty much both the core premise and every step of the reasoning of it" ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/subtly-wrong-is-more-dangerous/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:42:50

• "I’ve been trying out a new technique to plug in knowledge and capabilities to AI apps like chat, using an emerging open standard from Anthropic called Model Context Protocol (MCP). It’s early days but it has momentum." ☛ https://interconnected.org/home/2025/02/11/mcp | Source: Matt Webb    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:46:41

• "As artificial intelligence becomes integrated into our daily lives, researchers are working to tackle what might be its most glaring and enduring issue: that AI "hallucinates," or boldly spits out lies, when it doesn't know the answer." ☛ https://futurism.com/ai-makes-up-answers | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:46:58

• "The Delhi High Court highlighted the dangers of artificial intelligence, regardless of its origin, while hearing a PIL to block access to the Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek. The court allowed time for the Centre's counsel to gather instructions for further action by February 20." ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/ai-dangerous-tool-in-anybodys-hands-observes-delhi-hc/articleshow/118191608.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:47:31

• "The Centre's counsel submitted that the issue requires consideration and urged the court to grant some time to get instructions in the matter." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ai-dangerous-tool-be-it-in-chinese-or-american-hands-delhi-hc-on-plea-to-ban-deepseek/articleshow/118182582.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:47:49

• "The warning signs for the big Apple event appeared, as with the decline of so many beloved cultural institutions, when normal life shut down for the pandemic." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2605372/the-era-of-the-apple-event-is-over.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:50:55

• "there’s a second dimension to this attack." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/delivering-malware-through-abandoned-amazon-s3-buckets.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:51:15

• "It’s a good piece by Gemmell, who has spent most of the last decade being iPad-only. He does a rather exhaustive explanation of the reasons the switch was right for him." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/matt-gemmell-is-back-on-the-mac/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:51:36

• "According to the transport authority, the overcharges started last Wednesday (5 February) and the problem continued until the following morning." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20143248 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:51:51

• "Screen addiction – the literal and metaphorical inability to switch off – is a big part of it." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/12/train-passengers-using-phones-on-loud-speaker/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:57:30

• "How do you want your social media pages, smartphone photos and computer files handled after you die? While property and money distribution are usually at the top of the estate-planning list" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/technology/personaltech/social-media-accounts-death.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:57:50

• "Here's another way of potentially postponing the onset of dementia and reducing dementia risk: cultivating an active social life. Meeting up with other people regularly was associated with delaying dementia by up to five years, a new study found." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-social-life-could-help-you-stave-off-dementia-for-years-study-finds | Source: Science Alert    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:58:14

• "Don’t do team wide standups or sync meetings, except one meeting at the start of every week." ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2025/02/12/meetings-space/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:59:06

• "Published in Nature, the study doesn't claim to be the first to achieve quantum teleportation" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/oxford_quantum_gate_teleportation/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 16:59:29

• "If the question is about how much work and insight goes into a good technical blog post, we need to consider all other activities than just the writing" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/how-long-does-it-take-me-to-write-a-blog-post/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:00:07

• "So I did a Google Trends search on the three uses, and saw that “adtech” still wins, by a hair, though “ad tech” is close, and was ahead for much of the ‘teens." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/02/12/its-still-adtech/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:08:06

• "For this week's newsletter I want to brainstorm an idea I've been noodling over for a while. Say we have a computational task, like running a simulation or searching a very large graph, and it's taking too long to complete on a computer. There's generally three things that we can do to make it faster: [...]" ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/are-efficiency-and-horizontal-scalability-at-odds/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:08:51

• "I had one too! It was a Mavica FD71, the internal clock was always resetting itself to 1998, and to this day when I use a real camera I subconsciously expect to hear the floppy drive buzzing away after a shot. Many of those photos still live with the wrong dates at the very back of my Apple Photos library." ☛ https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2025/my-first-digital-photo/ | Source: Luke Harris    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:09:03

• "I’ve always marveled at people who are motivated purely by the love of what they’re doing. There’s something so wholesome about that approach to life—where winning and losing don’t matter. They’re simply there to revel in the experience and enjoy the activity for its own sake." ☛ https://matduggan.com/my-very-own-rival/ | Source: Mat Duggan    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:09:22

• "We attracted our first few thousand users from desperately under-served niches. We put Morgen on Linux (we were, and still are, the only planner on Linux), integrated with small CalDAVs, and went cross-platform to serve Windows and Android users." ☛ https://nesslabs.com/morgen-featured-tool | Source: Ness Labs    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:09:41

• "A Mastodonian and reader of my ramblings here, and the cogent thoughts over at 82MHz, asked me if I’d be up for answering the same blog challenge linked therein. Why not?" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/blog-question-challenge-technology/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:10:50

• "Today, after a house inspection, a client remarked on how nice and helpful I was. It's not uncommon; I frequently receive positive feedback and high ratings for my work." ☛ https://birming.com/rarity-friendliness/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:11:08

• "Walk past any vending machine, and you’ll see a story unfolding in real time—a person stopping, scanning their options, and making a split-second decision to buy (or not to buy)." ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/the-hidden-triggers-of-buying-what-vending-machine-data-reveals-about-your-impulsive-vs-intentional-purchases.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:11:21

• "Over two months after its previous 1.9 release, the popular open-source video transcoder HandBrake has just rolled out version 1.9.1, delivering improvements and fixes that avid video encoders will appreciate." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/handbrake-1-9-1-vide-transcoder-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:12:00

• "That's the thing about the internet. Sometimes the Algorithm Bots smile upon you. Sometimes they don't." ☛ https://andysblog.uk/the-algorithm-bots-were-smiling/ | Source: Andy Hawthorne    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:12:19

• DietPi February 2025 News (Version 9.10) ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-february-2025-news-version-9-10/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:19:26

• Dippi – calculate display info like DPI and aspect ratio ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dippi-calculate-display-info/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:19:56

• OpenSwoole – programmatic platform ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openswoole-programmatic-platform/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:20:26

• termv – terminal iptv player ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/termv-terminal-iptv-player/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:20:33

• SonicRadio – stylish TUI radio player ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sonicradio-stylish-tui-radio-player/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:23:55

• Butler – companion for Home Assistant ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/butler-companion-for-home-assistant/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:24:02

• How To Install KDE Plasma on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-kde-plasma-manjaro/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:26:09

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

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:26:30

• How To Install MATE Desktop on Fedora 41 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mate-desktop-fedora-41/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:26:48

• TypeScript is Microsoft copycat, vendor lockin, and attack on JS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-typescript-debian-12/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:30:32

• Deprecated garbage from Microsoft; use something like Kate instead ☞ https://idroot.us/install-atom-text-editor-centos-stream-10/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:31:09

• Why is the EFF Suing to Stop DOGE? ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/why-is-the-eff-suing-to-stop-doge    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:32:28

• Codeberg Announces "Fight Against Far-Right" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/codeberg-announces-fight-against http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/This_is_Why_Codeberg_Issues_an_Apology_Today.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:32:47

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

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:33:29

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

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:33:40

• How To Install R Programming Language on AlmaLinux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-r-programming-language-almalinux-9/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:34:04

• Dictator and Putin Discussed the War in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/briefing/trump-putin-call-inflation-valentines-day.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:37:43

• Dictator Says Call With Putin Is Beginning of Ukraine Peace Negotiations ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/politics/trump-putin-call-russia-ukraine-war.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:37:51

• The Mozilla Blog is boosting proprietary social control media instead of Free software and Web standards☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/bluesky-emily-liu/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:40:06

• "perhaps you should explain why you consider this posting tripe. I'm sure Alvind and the Pipmunks made you do this with some arm twisting. Or was it Modi who is su-king up to Trump ?? LOL !" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkpqygbw    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:42:09

• "Yes there are a multitude of interesting projects at IBM, but all of them are failures going nowhere anytime soon. Management hasn't got a clue and so the laggard company can't even do AI projects properly, as they only hire young unprofessionals and the inexperienced. Now I call that tripe !" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkpqygbw    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:42:45

• "If you had a full tank of gas and a new opportunity after Alvind and the Pipmunks laid you off, you wouldn't be writing your ridiculous comment. That is pure unadulterated tripe written by someone who has nothing better to do. Trying to rewrite the history of IBM is like the Progressive Democrats have lost their advantage." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkpqygbw    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:43:06

• IBM layoffs. "Can confirm Littleton, MA, USA laid of some consultants this am, not sure about anyone else." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jks0yq7m    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:43:45

• "Os/2 was written by IBM and not Microsoft. The only thing os/2 did for Microsoft was give the source code for multiple process threading and windowing." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkxhxr4p    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:44:13

• "The layoffs and forced relocations couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of crooked managers, architects, project managers and and senior employees as IBM downsizes it's US workforce. It just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic in anticipation for the next round of F&O layoffs in 2026. How's all those million dollar AI acquisitions working for ya ??" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkz3fakz    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:44:56

• "This really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. AK in Aug of 2023 announced that he wanted 30% of the back office (or approx 8k) replaced by AI. IBM has had 18 months to get the AI working and when you couple that with offshored headcount to fill in where the AI still breaks down, you are most likely looking at 10-12k of NA and Northern European headcount impacted." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkz3fakz    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:45:38

• "Kinda dovetails with the additional 500 million announced of the 3.5 billion of cost take out for 2025 the CFO announced on the 4th q earnings call. Remember “cost takeout” is job one at IBM. How it’s accomplished (layoffs, spinoffs, AI replacement, etc etc) doesn’t matter to the exec’s." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkz3fakz    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:45:43

• "Java is a stable and matured product. It follows a structured release cycle with each version being released every six months and LTS version being rolled out every three years. Here are the most commonly used Java versions: [...]" ☛ https://www.unixmen.com/java-versions-how-to-view-and-switch-versions/ | Source: Unix Men    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:53:43

• "language’s generic programming" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/go-1-24-released-with-faster-performance-better-tooling/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:54:59

• "the associated data load which is definitely a concern" ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/should-your-rss-expose-full-content-or-a-snippet/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:55:30

• [Old] "A few blogs I recently started following have something in common, and whether it’s a trend or just a coincidence" ☛ https://multiline.co/mment/2023/12/let-an-rss-feed-be-a-reminder/ |    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:55:54

• "Not a big fan of pandas dataframe syntax? Prefer to use SQL? Then suffer no more!" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/giovane_moura/easy-ripe-atlas-data-analysis-with-sql/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:56:52

• "During a recent class a student asked whether bootstrap confidence intervals were more robust than confidence intervals" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/bootstrap-vs-standard-error-confidence-intervals/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:57:32

• "We need a paradigm shift toward invariant-driven development to drive the industry toward a more secure future." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/02/12/the-call-for-invariant-driven-development/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:57:54

• "In Rust the Iterator trait is the single-most complex trait in the stdlib." ☛ https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/a-survey-of-every-iterator-variant/ | Source: Yoshua Wuyts    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:58:03

• "That extra back and forth got me wondering—isn't there a way right inside the Ghost admin dashboard to see" ☛ https://chrisenns.com/2025/02/getting-ghosted-by-ghosts-comments/ | Source: Chris Enns    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 17:59:12

• "In this post, I’ll address some common “weird” issues I’ve encountered and explore solutions that work at scale." ☛ https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/40/scaling-with-postgresql-without-boiling-the-ocean/ |    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:02:23

• "Therefore, creating a backup of your existing configuration before upgrading is strongly advised." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/darktable-5-0-1-raw-photo-editing-tool-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:04:38

• "I found this to be true in my cursory testing; mpv could play my videos in reverse but it had trouble." ☛ https://evanhahn.com/mpv-play-media-in-reverse/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:04:45

• "When building my modular 10GHz /P transverter I identified a number of areas where some minor changes could potentially improve the overall performance and build experience." ☛ https://radio.g4hsk.co.uk/2025/02/12/qo-100-10ghz-downconverter-update/ | Source: G8GKA    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:12:46

• "This should give you a list of JTAG devices connected. JTAG works in a chain from ID 0, so multiple chips can be programmed from a single connector." ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/raspberry-pi-jtag-programming-2025-edition/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:12:57

• "Maker and developer Likeablob, as they're known as over at Hackaday and GitHub, is using our favorite SBC to power this Raspberry Pi AI pizza clock that uses slices of pizza to indicate the current time instead of hands like you would find on a regular clock." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/this-raspberry-pi-ai-pizza-clock-tells-the-time-one-slice-at-a-time | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:13:35

• "We’re partial to a 3D printer around here. The Maker Lab at Pi Towers has a nice collection of various types and sizes to serve the unique needs of our engineers, so we’re pretty good at figuring them out across a range of brands." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/formlabs-new-3d-printers-are-based-on-compute-module-4/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:13:50

• SSH into Raspberry Pi from Outside Home Network Using Tailscale ☞ https://itsfoss.com/tailscale-raspberry-pi-ssh/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:17:19

• Argon One V5 Review: Not so sci-fi any more (Updated) ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/argon-one-v5-review    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:17:31

• mesa 25.0.0-rc3 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2025-February/226463.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:19:56

• The Cat’s Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-cats-meat-man    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:20:53

• Paws for Thought: Tiny Cryptic #2 ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/02/tiny-cryptic-2    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:21:01

• The call for invariant-driven development ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/02/12/the-call-for-invariant-driven-development/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:32:48

• Mayoral vetting rules raise issues of accountability and security in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/12.02.2025-mayoral-vetting-rules-raise-issues-of-accountability-and-security-in-latvia.a587455/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:34:02

• Sci-Fi novelist Dmitry Glukhovsky on Russia's anti-West rhetoric ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/perspective/20250212-sci-fi-novelist-dmitry-glukhovsky-on-russia-s-anti-west-rhetoric    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:34:45

• Dictator Says His Call With Putin Brings Parties Closer To Peace Talks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-putin-ukraine-peace-zelenskyy-zelenskiy-bessent/33313097.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:34:56

• Dictator Says He And Putin Agreed To 'Start Negotiations Immediately' On Ending War In Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-says-had-lengthy-and-productive-call-with-putin/33312519.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:35:06

• Dictator says he and Putin have agreed to start 'negotiations' to end Ukraine war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250212-%F0%9F%94%B4-trump-says-he-and-putin-have-agreed-to-begin-negotiations-on-ending-ukraine-war    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:35:23

• Thursday Briefing: Convicted Felon and Putin Discuss an End to Ukraine War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/briefing/trump-putin-ukraine-india-modi-venezuela-colombia-rebels.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:36:50

• Putin and Convicted Felon agree to “visit each other’s nations” ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250212-putin-and-trump-agree-to-visit-each-other-s-nations    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:37:04

• What to make of the unfolding Convicted Felon strategy on Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/trump-strategy-on-ukraine-hegseth/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:37:13

• The Mozilla Blog: Paris Hey Hi (AI) Action Summit: A milestone for open and Public Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/paris-summit/ Mozilla is just playing along with "bullshit generators" for its BS agenda, which has nothing to do with the Web anymore    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:41:02

• Putin holds first phone call with Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/putin-holds-phone-call-with-syrian-interim-president-ahmed-al-sharaa | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:41:42

• Trump and Putin speak by phone and agree to ‘start negotiations immediately’ on ending war in Ukraine ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/trump-and-putin-hold-phone-call-cnn | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:41:58

• "immediately after call with Putin" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/trump-speaks-with-zelensky-immediately-after-call-with-putin | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:42:14

• "Trump and Putin will likely meet in Saudi Arabia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/13/trump-and-putin-will-likely-meet-in-saudi-arabia-u-s-president-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:42:43

• Charity concert for Ukraine to take place February 24 ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/12.02.2025-charity-concert-for-ukraine-to-take-place-february-24.a587426/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:42:56

• Latvia sends mobile drone repair station to Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/12.02.2025-latvia-sends-mobile-drone-repair-station-to-ukraine.a587424/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:43:06

• Europe must prepare to defend itself in an increasingly multipolar world ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/europe-must-prepare-to-defend-itself-in-an-increasingly-multipolar-world/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:43:21

• "Ukraine NATO membership is not a ‘realistic’ outcome", says US Defense Secretary ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250212-ukraine-nato-membership-is-not-a-realistic-outcome-says-us-defense-secretary-hegseth    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:43:48

• Russian ballistic missile attack on Kyiv kills one, injures three ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250212-russian-missile-attack-kills-one-in-kyiv    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:44:06

• US Defense Secretary Hegseth makes first visit to NATO over US plans for Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250212-us-defense-secretary-hegseth-makes-first-visit-to-nato-for-us-plans-for-ukraine    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:44:16

• Belarus Releases 3 Detainees As Convicted Felon Aims To Set Stage For Talks To End War In Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-detainees-kuznechyk-mavchuk-tsihkanouskaya-russia-ukraine-trump/33313062.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:44:30

• Hegseth Says Return To Ukraine's Pre-2014 Borders 'Unrealistic' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskiy-zelenskyy-rare-minerals-trump/33311718.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:44:42

• U.S. To Release Russian Cybercriminal As Part Of Prisoner Exchange: Reports ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/fogel-russia-trump-witkoff-prisoner-exchange-ukraine/33311713.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:44:54

• The Fiercest Fighting of the Ukraine War May Be in Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/kursk-russia-war-ukraine.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:45:07

• Hegseth Says Return to Ukraine’s Prewar Borders Is ‘Unrealistic’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/ukraine-war-hegseth-nato.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:45:19

• North Korea Is Caring for Russia’s Wounded Soldiers, Envoy Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/asia/north-korea-russia-soldiers-orphans.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:45:42

• Treasury Secretary Makes Trip to Kyiv ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/scott-bessent-us-ukraine.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:45:55

• How Ukraine Pitched Convicted Felon on a Deal for Critical Minerals ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/trump-ukraine-rare-earth-minerals.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:46:11

• "patriotic" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/12/are-you-from-western-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:46:40

• "systematic coercion of Russian draftees to enlist as contract soldiers, possibly in preparation for the end of combat in Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/13/sign-on-the-dotted-line | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:47:26

• "how the war in Ukraine could end " ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/13/bloomberg-analysts-outline-three-possible-scenarios-for-how-the-war-against-ukraine-could-end | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:47:48

• Abusive Monopolist Microsoft is not security expert but the world's biggest culprit, which adds back doors to everything ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-seashell-blizzard-hackers-gain-maintain-access-to-high-value-targets-microsoft/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:49:03

• Again, Microsoft is the problem, not he expert, so this is truly ridiculous spin-doctoring ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/russian-state-threat-group-shifts-focus/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:50:11

• Study finds Russian defence spending exceeds all of Europe combined ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250212-study-finds-russian-defence-spending-exceeds-all-of-europe-combined    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:50:28

• Stop undersea sabotage – opinion ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2486263/stop-undersea-sabotage-opinion    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:50:39

• Russian MP Valuev Barred From Entering Azerbaijan Over ‘Offensive’ Remarks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/azerbaijan-bans-nikolai-valuev-russia-remarks/33312072.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:50:50

• Kazakhstan lawmakers propose Russian-style 'foreign agent' law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/kazakhstan-lawmakers-propose-russian-style-foreign-agent-law    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:51:02

• China aids Russian drone production with smuggled Western parts, says Estonia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-aids-russian-drone-production-with-smuggled-western-parts-says-estonia    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:51:24

• U.S. Is Releasing Russian Cybercriminal to Moscow, Officials Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/russia-us-prisoner-exchange-marc-fogel.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:51:37

• Belarus Frees an American and 2 Others as It Tries to Thaw Relations ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/europe/belarus-prisoner-release.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:51:49

• RFE/RL Journalist Kuznechyk Released After More Than 3 Years In Belarus Prison ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/rfe-journalist-kuznechyk-released-belarus-prison/33312573.html    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:52:01

• "Belarus releases jailed RFE/RL journalist Andrey Kuznechyk" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/belarus-releases-jailed-rfe-rl-journalist-andrey-kuznechyk | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:52:15

• "Russian IT firm iSpring has worked with IBM and the U.S. Department of Defense." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/12/russian-it-firm-ispring-has-worked-with-ibm-and-the-u-s-department-of-defense-now-its-pro-war-founder-has-been-arrested-and-z-bloggers-are-rallying-behind-him | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:52:41

• "Russian cybercrime suspect Alexander Vinnik in exchange for schoolteacher Marc Fogel" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/u-s-to-release-russian-cybercrime-suspect-alexander-vinnik-in-exchange-for-schoolteacher-marc-fogel-abc-news | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:53:04

• Microsoft Patch Tuesday, February 2025 Edition ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/microsoft-patch-tuesday-february-2025-edition/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:53:47

• "anti-war Russians feeling disillusioned and unrepresented" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/12/nothing-good-will-come-of-this | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:54:38

• "Political scientist Vera Grantseva explains the transformation of Russia’s global influence" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/13/call-it-sharp-power | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:54:54

• "Russia’s military spending soars, surpassing all of Europe’s defense budgets combined" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/13/russia-s-military-spending-soars-surpassing-all-of-europe-s-defense-budgets-combined-the-financial-times | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:55:49

• "Zelensky warns Russia is preparing to send 100,000 troops to Belarus, possibly for an offensive against a NATO country" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/13/zelensky-warns-russia-is-preparing-to-send-100-000-troops-to-belarus-possibly-for-an-offensive-against-a-nato-country-the-economist | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:56:22

• "Last year Mozilla released a report showcasing how the auto industry has some of the worst privacy practices of any tech industry in America (no small feat)." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/11/subaru-software-hacked-allowing-remote-control-and-access-to-the-location-histories-of-millions-of-drivers/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:57:59

• "On OpenBSD, there is a rule that you link with libc to interface with the kernel, because that’s where the syscall stubs live." ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/you-dont-link-all-of-libc | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 18:58:35

• "Just 24 hours after the official release of the Plasma 6.3 desktop environment" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-3-desktop-environment-landed-in-arch-repos/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:00:15

• "Recently, I was brainstorming networking project ideas, I got curious on what goes behind connecting to the [Internet], and if I could do it from scratch." ☛ https://pjg1.site/linux-internet-from-scratch |    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:01:35

• "I found something pretty useful the other day, something that I have know for a while and I finally found a use for it." ☛ https://claytonerrington.com/blog/view-public-gpg-fingerprints/ | Source: Clayton Errington    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:01:53

• "Yesterday I posted that I’d resolved my new microblog POSSE1 posts from generating link previews on Mastodon and Bluesky. Today, I want to briefly run through how I managed that." ☛ https://calebhearth.com/prevent-microblog-link-previews | Source: Caleb Hearth    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:02:11

• "Although I didn't mention it in the post, I assume that rspamd's goal is to extract the domain from email addresses and see if the domain is 'bad'." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/spam/RspamdAtTestSurprise | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:02:40

• [Old] "Your personal site is your playground. Overhearing some recent chatter about putting the personality back in personal websites" ☛ https://daverupert.com/2021/01/art-direction-for-static-sites/ | Source: Dave Rupert    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:03:07

• "Historically, these sorts of design touches have been a little tricky to implement. Will you use negative margins? Absolute positioning? Transforms? How do you reserve adjacent space so it doesn’t overlap content?" ☛ https://cloudfour.com/thinks/faux-containers-in-css-grids/ | Source: Cloud Four Inc    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:03:20

• "Nerd fonts are regular font with extra icons (not available in standard unicode) added in unicode private blocks from popular icon libraries (font awesome, vscode, material design,...)." gemini://gmi.noulin.net/2025-02-13-installing-nerd-fonts.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:05:02

• "I finally added a new zine on here (I'm trying to successfully compress the remaining Lindwyrm zines) -- this one is Castles In The Sky, and it's about how it's /okie/, actually, to just enjoy the things you like and /also/ okie to not be constantly Producing in your hobbies, either." gemini://taichara.smol.pub/newzine-castle    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:05:42

• "I've seen numerous posts in the gopher-verse concerned about or moving away from US-based hosting and computing services [0][1][2][3]" gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~slugmax/phlog/2025-02-12-ditching-the-states    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:07:03

• "Episode 39 of the #postmarketOS #podcast is one of the best podcasts I have listened to in a long time! It's an interview with magdesign, a geek who sold all his projects and tools and belongings to cycle the world with his wife, and uses a #linux #mobile #phone as his main computing device. Funny, inspiring and full of amazing stories from the trip." gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:08:10

• "Geez, I didn't realize it had been three months since my last post. Time really flies. I know my server was down for part of that time. A power fluctuation caused it to reboot and I was (paradoxically) a combination of too busy and too lazy to restart it for quite a while. Well, we're back online now." gemini://ythraverse.xyz/gemlog/entries/250212.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:09:30

• 🔤SpellBinding: CFSOPRI Wordo: GALOP gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-13.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:10:22

• "I have new, crazy idea to build a decentralized social network based on Git :)" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/ps/25323    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:12:57

• Meet gwit: Human-scale, Distributed Sites over Git gemini://oldest.gwit.site/log/_en/20230517--meet-gwit/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:14:39

• Clapper Media Player Adds New Features, Official backdoored Windows Build ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/clapper-update-adds-official-windows-builds    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:17:40

• "If you're like me, you probably find Windows 11 a disappointment, and you feel more like a resource for Microsoft than its customer. Linux can help you escape, and here's why particularly Linux Mint is the Windows 11 replacement you’ve been looking for." https://www.howtogeek.com/why-linux-mint-is-the-best-windows-11-replacement/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:18:46

• "A new version of the KDE Plasma desktop environment is out and, as you’d expect, the update is packed with new features, UI tweaks, and performance boosts." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/kde-plasma-6-3-released-this-is-whats-new    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:19:28

• "Every so often, you hear tech enthusiasts claim it’s finally the year of Linux. But despite its high utility in server and production environments, the casual PC user base has sidelined Linux for years, and for good reason." https://www.xda-developers.com/5-reasons-why-2025-might-finally-be-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:20:47

• 'Key kernel maintainers' still back Rust in the Linux kernel, despite the doubters https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/11/rust_for_linux_project_support/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:21:26

• "HandBrake 1.9.1 was released today as the first maintenance update to the latest HandBrake 1.9 series of this free and open-source transcoder application for digital video files." https://9to5linux.com/handbrake-1-9-1-open-source-video-transcoder-improves-av1-video-decoding    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:22:06

• EndeavourOS Mercury Arrives As A Low-Key Release https://news.itsfoss.com/endeavouros-mercury/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:22:27

• Android 16'S Linux Terminal Now Capable Of Running Graphical Applications https://menafn.com/1109196633/Android-16S-Linux-Terminal-Now-Capable-Of-Running-Graphical-Applications    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:23:46

• Security's Moving Parts 01: Linux Access Control Mechanisms https://hackernoon.com/securitys-moving-parts-01-linux-access-control-mechanisms    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:24:09

• Marketing or spam in "howto" clothing? https://www.cyberghostvpn.com/privacyhub/how-to-set-up-linux-vpn/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:25:07

• "Linux is having a moment in the mainstream right now, thanks to the popularity of the Steam Deck and SteamOS. The thing is, while Linux is the overarching name for the operating systems bearing its name, there are as many Linux distributions as stars in the sky (okay, maybe not quite, but it's not far off)." https://www.xda-developers.com/make-your-linux-desktop-look-amazing/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:26:18

• The Microsoft sites treat OpenSSF like it's a Microsoft thing (because to a great degree it is) https://adtmag.com/Articles/2025/02/12/Linux-Foundation-OpenSSF-Help-Devs-Navigate-EU-CRA.aspx    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:27:40

• 14 Commands to Display System Information in Linux. https://andreybyhalenko.medium.com/14-commands-to-display-system-information-in-linux-135a1d57c26e    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:27:59

• How to use Linux without ever touching the terminal https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-use-linux-without-ever-touching-the-terminal/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:28:27

• Here's Linux running inside a PDF, running inside a browser, running on a Windows PC https://www.pcgamer.com/software/operating-systems/heres-linux-running-inside-a-pdf-running-inside-a-browser-running-on-a-windows-pc/    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:29:08

• "The first building block of our multi-tenant or multi-workload configuration is OpenZFS." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/isolating-containers-with-zfs-and-linux-namespaces/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 19:34:53