Roy Schestowitz

• "The NetCard 3 is an add-on network expansion card designed exclusively for the ODROID-H3 and H4 series, offering four high-speed 5GbE Ethernet ports." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/netcard-3-for-h-series-expanding-5gbe-networking-on-odroid-h3-and-h4/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:25:47

• "Waveshare recently launched the ESP32-S3 IR Thermal Imaging Camera Module which is a wireless infrared thermal imaging device based on the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 chip." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-s3-ir-thermal-imaging-camera-module-with-wi-fi-and-bluetooth-connectivity/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:26:32

• Canonical pushing mindless buzzwords and slop, trying to pretend to somehow be ahead and instead coming across as a vapourware vendor that pollutes the environment ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/ai-in-2025-is-it-an-agentic-year | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:28:22

• ozilla is just playing along with "bullshit generators" for its BS agenda, which has nothing to do with the Web anymore https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/paris-summit/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:29:31

• Riding stupid buzzwords to pretend IBM is somehow "ahead"... in a marketing that's faking "value" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-rhel-ai-14-powering-next-wave-generative-ai-innovation | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:31:55

• Red Hat speaks of "community engagement and direct feedback from users via Slack"; so Red Hat no longer even pretends to care about "Open Source"; Slack is proprietary spyware. ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/empowering-non-technical-users-contribute-knowledge-and-enhance-model-responses | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:33:40

• And under IBM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux basically means proprietary ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/10-enterprise-linux-myths-debunked | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:35:09

• Red Hat is shamelessly promoting Large language models (LLMs), which are harmful for many reasons; Red Hat quit pursing genuine technical excellence and is instead promoting slop and misinformation ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/unlocking-effective-context-length-benchmarking-granite-31-8b-model | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:37:20

• "Embracing AI amidst the chaos" means that Red Hat is not pushing mindless nonsense and plagiarism, not technical edge ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/navigating-era-perpetual-change-fresh-perspective-telecommunications | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:39:00

• "Here are 7 informative resources to learn how to migrate VMs to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization with the toolkit: [...]" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/learning-resources-migrate-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:39:26

• How RHOCP 4.17 enhances control plane resilience ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/12/how-rhocp-417-enhances-control-plane-resilience    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:39:45

• Slop is not an upgrade ☞ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/12/os-licensing-gets-ai-upgrade/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:41:54

• "This article will guide you through the process of permanently changing Docker folder permissions on a Linux system." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/docker-folder-permissions-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:43:14

• "chmod 755: Understanding File Permissions" ☛ https://www.unixmen.com/json-checker-validate-and-debug-json-files/ | Source: Unix Men    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:44:03

• "In this article, let us explain each partition style’s advantages, limitations, use cases and most importantly the answer to the battle: MBR vs GPT SSD." ☛ https://www.unixmen.com/mbr-vs-gpt-ssd-which-partition-style-is-better/ | Source: Unix Men    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:44:22

• "Btrfs Vs. Ext4: Essentials, Benefits, And Disadvantages" ☛ https://www.unixmen.com/gpt-or-mbr-which-is-better-for-your-linux-device/ | Source: Unix Men    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:45:20

• GNU Shepherd 1.0.2 is out https://www.gnu.org/software/shepherd/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:47:44

• "It is also used to highlight key points and improve the readability of the overall content." ☛ https://www.unixmen.com/markdown-italics-instructions-pitfalls-and-solutions/ | Source: Unix Men    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:48:07

• Anorexia Patients Reveal a Distinct Pattern in Their Brain Activity ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/anorexia-patients-reveal-a-distinct-pattern-in-their-brain-activity    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:48:54

• Huge Study Shows Where Gout Comes From – It's Not What We Thought ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-study-shows-where-gout-comes-from-its-not-what-we-thought    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:49:04

• Identifying Chemicals in Our Environment Could Help Medicines Work Better ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/identifying-chemicals-in-our-environment-could-help-medicines-work-better    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:49:12

• Microsoft Blasted for Adding Insult to Injury: Workers Laid Off Without Prior Notice, Without Severance Payment and Basic Coverage (Like Health), Then Stigmatised as Bad Performers So They Cannot Find a Job Elsewhere ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/11/Microsoft_Blasted_for_Adding_Insult_to_Injury_Workers_Laid_Off_.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:50:21

• Morale at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Ruined by the Company Labelling Thousands of Workers 'Low Performers', Sacking Them on the Spot and Denying Them Basic Benefits ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/Morale_at_Microsoft_Ruined_by_the_Company_Labelling_Thousands_o.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:50:28

• Like GAFAM, the EPO is Passing the Financial Pains to Staff ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/Like_GAFAM_the_EPO_is_Passing_the_Financial_Pains_to_Staff.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:50:35

• Microsoft Skype in a Freefall: About 20% Decrease in Site Traffic in 3 Months (Amid Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Phasing Out Credits) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/Microsoft_Skype_in_a_Freefall_About_20_Decrease_in_Site_Traffic.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:59:27

• Italian Media Covers Richard Stallman's English Talk Ahead of Tonight's Public Appearance ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/Italian_Media_Covers_Richard_Stallman_s_English_Talk_Ahead_of_T.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:59:33

• The Register Studies (to Affirm) Reports of I.C.B.M. Layoffs "at the Finance and Operations business unit" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/The_Register_Studies_to_Affirm_Reports_of_IBM_Layoffs_at_the_Fi.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:59:41

• EPO Staff Representatives Confront the President Who Says 'F--king' in Front of Female Workers Over Measurable Discrimination Against Female Colleagues ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/EPO_Staff_Representatives_Confront_the_President_Who_Says_F_kin.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:59:49

• IlSoftware.it Covers Richard Stallman's Visit to Give Talks in Italy ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/IlSoftware_it_Covers_Richard_Stallman_s_Visit_to_Give_Talks_in_.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 02:59:56

• Photos From This Evening's Talk by Dr. Richard Stallman in Torino, Maybe a Video Soon ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/Photos_From_This_Evening_s_Talk_by_Dr_Richard_Stallman_in_Torin.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:00:02

• This is Why Codeberg Issues an Apology Today (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/This_is_Why_Codeberg_Issues_an_Apology_Today.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:00:09

• "The focus here isn't on DeVault's software, but on his hit piece aimed at ousting Stallman and the FSF board to install his own people. He attempted to distance himself from the article to mislead the public and maybe even shield himself from a libel lawsuit." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41877857    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:02:46

• Michael Meeks: 2025-02-11 Tuesday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-02-11.html "Worked late trying to dig back through piled-up E-mail."    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:03:26

• ‘Ultrahigh Energy’ Neutrino Found With a Telescope Under the Sea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/science/astrophysics-universe-neutrinos.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:04:31

• A Deep-Sea Fish of Nightmares Strays Into Shallow Waters ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/science/black-seadevil-anglerfish.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:04:48

• Measles Outbreak Hits Town in Texas ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/science/measles-vaccination-texas.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:05:04

• Trump’s W.H.O. Exit Throws Smallpox Defenses Into Upheaval ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/health/smallpox-who-cdc-bioweapons.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:05:12

• Australian Health Workers Suspended After Threatening Israeli Patients ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/australia/australia-health-workers-antisemitism.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:05:49

• Fairview Health Services opposed UMN, Essentia merger ☞ https://www.twincities.com/2025/02/12/fairview-health-services-opposed-umn-essentia-merger/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:06:06

• Family members are not medical translators ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/family-members-are-not-medical-translators/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:06:35

• US federal judge orders health agencies to restore webpages removed following Convicted Felon order ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/us-federal-judge-orders-health-agencies-to-restore-webpages-removed-following-trump-order/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:06:59

• 20 influenza deaths recorded in Latvia so far this season ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/12.02.2025-20-influenza-deaths-recorded-in-latvia-so-far-this-season.a587567/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:07:09

• North Korea demolishes facility for family reunions: Seoul ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/13/north-south-reunion-facility-demolished/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:07:25

• North Korea is dismantling facility near border for separated families: Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-dismantling-facility-near-border-for-separated-families-seoul-says    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:07:36

• South Korea’s ousted President Yoon back in court for impeachment hearing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-ousted-president-yoon-back-in-court-for-impeachment-hearing    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:07:43

• Words for fighting, not reuniting ☞ https://rfa.org/english/cartoons/2025/02/12/north-korea-left-south-korean-territory/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:07:53

• North Korean TV coverage of European football leaves out South Korean players ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/12/north-korea-premier-champions-league-football-epl-uefa/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:08:10

• Hong Kong Consumer Council receives ticketing complaints over K-pop group NJZ’s debut performance ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/12/hong-kong-consumer-council-receives-ticketing-complaints-over-k-pop-group-njzs-debut-performance/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:08:42

• Malaysian families plead to Thai government to rescue scam victims ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-families-plead-to-thai-government-to-rescue-scam-victims    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:09:30

• "Littleton MA USA info is obviously fake - any IBM person knows the situation in Littleton, MA USA" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jks0yq7m "Misspoke on my last post. Lowell MA [ ... ] My last day, 3/31. That's a relief."    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:16:07

• IBM launches «soft» return to offices program with relocation requirement, provoking layoffs in favor of AI https://itc.ua/en/news/ibm-launches-soft-return-to-offices-program-with-relocation-requirement-provoking-layoffs-in-favor-of-ai/ https://www.techradar.com/pro/ibm-return-to-office-order-hits-finance-ops-teams-amid-push-to-dump-staff-for-ai    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:18:58

• The convenient lie: When companies badge layoffs as poor performance https://www.hrkatha.com/features/the-convenient-lie-when-companies-badge-layoffs-as-poor-performance/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:20:37

• They always call layoffs "HEY HI"! It's the magic work now, just call everything "AI". https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-plans-replace-nearly-8-174052360.html?    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:21:51

• This whole industry has basically become somewhat of a laughing stock, riding fake "evaluation" based on something that loses a lot of money and wastes energy (raising water, electricity and even food bills). They always call layoffs "AI" (laying off to "replace with AI" or to "focus on AI"! It's the magic word now, just call everything "AI". https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-plans-replace-nearly-8-174052360.html RTOs, PIPs, forced relocations etc. are layoffs by other name    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:28:11

• This whole industry has basically become somewhat of a laughing stock, riding fake "evaluation" based on something that loses a lot of money and wastes energy (raising water, electricity and even food bills). They always call layoffs "AI" (laying off to "replace with AI" or to "focus on AI"! It's the magic word now, just call everything "AI". https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-plans-replace-nearly-8-174052360.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:28:22

• This whole industry has basically become somewhat of a laughing stock, riding fake "evaluation" based on something that loses a lot of money and wastes energy (raising water, electricity and even food bills). They always call layoffs "AI" (laying off to "replace with AI" or to "focus on AI"! It's the magic word now, just call everything "AI". https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-plans-replace-nearly-8-174052360.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:28:46

• RTOs, PIPs, forced relocations etc. are layoffs by other name    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:28:54

• Another "dodge" from financial issues is, "oh, we just fire low performers". https://www.hrkatha.com/features/the-convenient-lie-when-companies-badge-layoffs-as-poor-performance/ Microsoft did this last month and then the media reported a wave of mass layoffs that the media said had nothing whatsoever to do with performance. Stop letting companies get away with business failure and lack of money for salaries by parroting this "pivot to AI" thing.    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:32:17

• Another "dodge" from financial issues is, "oh, we just fire low performers". https://www.hrkatha.com/features/the-convenient-lie-when-companies-badge-layoffs-as-poor-performance/ Microsoft did this last month and then the media reported a wave of mass layoffs that the media said had nothing whatsoever to do with performance.    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:32:37

• Stop letting companies get away with business failure and lack of money for salaries by parroting this "pivot to AI" thing.    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:32:44

• Ubuntu 24.04.2 Delayed, Won’t Be Released This Week ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/ubuntu-24-04-second-point-release-delay    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:35:04

• FOSS Weekly #25.07: KDE Plasma 6.3, Arch with BTRFS, Flexpilot IDE, Terminal Tips and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-07/ "Use GNU/Linux everyday, keep backdoored Windows away."    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:36:34

• New version of the Fast Sketch Cleanup Plugin ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/fsc-plugin-new-version/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:38:13

• Darktable 5.0.1 Adds Support for Leica SL3-S, Minolta DiMAGE 5, and Panasonic S5D ☞ https://9to5linux.com/darktable-5-0-1-adds-support-for-leica-sl3-s-minolta-dimage-5-and-panasonic-s5d    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:39:26

• HandBrake 1.9.1 Open-Source Video Transcoder Improves AV1 Video Decoding ☞ https://9to5linux.com/handbrake-1-9-1-open-source-video-transcoder-improves-av1-video-decoding    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:39:35

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppUUID 1.2.0 on CRAN: Adding Clock-based UUIDs ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/02/12#rcppuuid_1.2.0    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:40:07

• Evgeni Golov: Authenticated RCE via OpenVPN Configuration File in Grandstream HT802V2 and probably others ☞ https://www.die-welt.net/2025/02/authenticated-rce-via-openvpn-configuration-file-in-grandstream-ht802v2-and-probably-others/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:42:05

• A former Linux site, elinux.co.in, has been hijacked by spammers    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:42:56

• Adam Young: Converting a Shell Script to Python ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2025/02/converting-a-shell-script-to-python/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:43:07

• MystiQ – GUI for FFmpeg ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mystiq-gui-ffmpeg/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:44:00

• ZnapZend – ZFS centric backup tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/znapzend-zfs-centric-backup-tool/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:44:17

• 15 Best Free and Open Source Email Servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-email-servers/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:44:28

• Relaying GAFAM Talking Points and Lies Using GAFAM LLMs, or Slop Pasted in by Brittany Day ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/Relaying_GAFAM_Talking_Points_and_Lies_Using_GAFAM_LLMs_or_Slop.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:44:59

• Destruction and Distortion of Information, Including Facts About GNU/Linux (Bonus: This is Destroying the Planet) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/Destruction_and_Distortion_of_Information_Including_Facts_About.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:45:04

• Makulu GameR Teaser and Beta Testing ☞ http://www.makululinux.com/wp/2025/02/12/makulu-gamer-teaser-and-beta-testing/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:46:17

• "Crew discuss social media, TikTok, bigtech, monopoly, technofascism, megalomaniac broligarchs and the rise of the Nerd Reich. They decide the only way to be sure is to nuke the entire site from orbit!" https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=40    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:47:34

• Jeff Bezos announces sweeping layoffs at space company Blue Origin    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:49:01

• Jeff Bezos-Backed Blue Origin to Cut 10% of Its Workforce    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:49:18

• Overwatch 2 Has Bad News for Fans of the Old Archives PvE Missions https://gamerant.com/overwatch-2-archives-missions-broke-pve-aaron-keller-comment/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:49:46

• Embracer says gutting its business has created 'strong foundation for future value creation' https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/embracer-says-gutting-its-business-has-created-strong-foundation-for-future-value-creation-    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:50:14

• Scripted 3D CAD applications for GNU/Linux ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202502/scripted-3d-cad-applications-for-linux.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:52:42

• Google Seems to Have Just Killed All Instances of Invidious (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/Google_Seems_to_Have_Just_Killed_All_Instances_of_Invidious.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:52:58

• RTX 5090 cable melting issues haven't been replicated — testers assess various power supplies and cable types ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/rtx-5090-cable-melting-issues-havent-been-replicated-testers-assess-various-power-supplies-and-cable-types    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:54:26

• YouTube’s Head of Music Lyor Cohen Pens Open Letter to Kanye West — Though It’s Probably a Lost Cause ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/12/lyor-cohen-open-letter-kanye-west/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:55:30

• SPAM https://fossforce.com/2025/02/foss-force-deal-of-the-week-type-type-c-hub-10/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:57:47

• Mindless Hey Hi (AI) hype. This is ridiculous. https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/which-shorts-podcast-do-you-really-need-to-use-ai-aFGeD9B3tqb8    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:59:07

• mintCast 454.5 – Nuked From Orbit ☞ https://mintcast.org/454-5-nuked-from-orbit/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 03:59:35

• USians exploring new places to live in now that the criminals run the nation? https://mexiconewsdaily.com/travel/mexico-records-best-tourism-figures-since-2019/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 04:00:50

• And from what one can gather, YouTube is still losing money (but won't admit it) https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/12/youtube-tv-growth-driven-by-video-podcasts/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 04:01:44

• 09: The Eagle has Landed ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/the-launch/9/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 04:05:50

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1009177/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 04:09:20

• Harish Pillay 9v1hp: Chief Open Source Officer – You asked, I’m delivering! ☞ https://harishpillay.com/2025/02/12/chief-open-source-officer-you-asked-im-delivering/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 04:40:15

• Thomas Krause Says Convicted Felon Had to Close USAID because of Convicted Felon’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 Friday, February 14, 2025 at 04:41:39

• Oreon 10, our favorite Windows replacement, has just been updated -- and it's about to get much, much better! https://betanews.com/2025/02/12/oreon-10-our-favorite-windows-replacement-has-just-been-updated-and-its-about-to-get-much-much-better/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 04:42:50

• Repair of a Trident VLB Graphics Card ☞ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/repair-of-a-trident-vlb-graphics-card/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 04:51:59

• Repair of a Cirrus Logic VLB Graphics Card ☞ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/repair-of-a-cirrus-logic-vlb-graphics-card/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:02:51

• Vi vs Vim: What's the Difference? ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/vi-vs-vim/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:03:17

• LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.03: BusyBox, solidtime, command history tips, reverse proxy and More ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-03/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:03:25

• When Will China’s Leader Talk to Convicted Felon? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/world/asia/trump-xi-china-talks.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:04:16

• China’s Spring Festival sees record spending, but frugality continues amid economic uncertainty ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-spring-festival-sees-record-spending-but-frugality-continues-amid-economic-uncertainty    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:04:34

• Jurassic fossil from China rewrites history of bird evolution ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/jurassic-fossil-from-china-rewrites-history-of-bird-evolution    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:04:43

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1205.jpg    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:06:52

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1555.jpg    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:06:56

• "Ooof. I'm trying out Cosmic DE on Fedora atm, and it is not the best: [...]" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/clseibold/25365    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:07:57

• "However, I have not largely been affected by the horrors of the modern internet. In this blog post, I will outline how I use my computers, and how we can try to create a better internet." gemini://gem.hellfirehost.uk.eu.org/gemlog/2025-02-14.gmi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:09:06

• "hey, long time no see. i've been keeping tarot things to the forum and most personal things in the journal. some tidbits here and there on mastodon, but mostly i just forget to post everywhere... but i think i'm drawn to here again for now." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/thisyearsofar    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:10:36

• "Stallman acknowledges the he did not invent the term, and describes how the "L" was added to connote freedom in the free-as-in-speech sense, rather than type of freedom the "F" was typically associated with." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43038483    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:15:32

• "It's incredibly relevant. We wouldn't even be having these debates if complex LLM judgements could always be verified without a human checking the logic." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42324776    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:16:51

• Overpopulation is a thing. China puts "the economy" before the planet. ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-authorities-play-cash-giving-cupid-to-boost-marriage-rates    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:19:11

• China coal surge challenges climate pledges, green investment: Study ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-coal-surge-challenges-climate-pledges-green-investment-study    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:19:29

• China will likely reduce purchase of chipmaking tools this year as homegrown toolmakers ramp up ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-will-likely-reduce-purchase-of-chipmaking-tools-this-year-as-homegrown-toolmakers-ramp-up    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:19:41

• China removes buoy placed near disputed islands administered by Japan ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/12/china-buoy-japan-senkaku-diaoyu/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:20:14

• Japan to transfer 2 patrol vessels to Indonesia ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/02/12/indonesia-japan-navy-ship-transfer/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:20:25

• Taiwan to scale up annual military drill as China tensions mount ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/12/china-taiwan-annual-drill-scale/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:20:34

• London council won’t argue against China’s ‘super-embassy’ at key hearing ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/12/china-uk-super-embassy-backtrack/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:20:43

• Chinese exporters cautiously confident despite US President The Insurrectionist’s trade threats ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/12/chinese-exporters-cautiously-confident-despite-us-president-donald-trumps-trade-threats/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:21:13

• "Kremlin responds to Zelensky’s proposal to exchange occupied territories" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/12/this-is-impossible-kremlin-responds-to-zelensky-s-proposal-to-exchange-occupied-territories | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:22:22

• Codeberg responds to hate attacks ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1009227/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/This_is_Why_Codeberg_Issues_an_Apology_Today.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:22:53

• US court approves extradition of Eylem Tok, son in fatal hit-and-run case ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/us-court-approves-extradition-of-eylem-tok-son-in-fatal-hit-and-run-case-304481    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:23:58

• How to play a file in reverse with mpv ☞ https://evanhahn.com/mpv-play-media-in-reverse/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:24:48

• "the clown-based edge infrastructure" ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/12/shares-fastly-fall-hard-fast-earnings-miss-weak-guidance/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:26:32

• the OSBA Tendering guidelines go live in English: https://osb-alliance.de/english/selection-criteria-for-the-sustainable-procurement-of-open-source-software-press-release https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-02-12.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:27:46

• MaTouch SmartKnob Assembled ESP32-based rotary knob with touchscreen display sells for $69 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/12/matouch-smartknob-assembled-esp32-based-rotary-knob-touchscreen-display/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:28:41

• Emojis can be hacked to hide data or messages, unicode Characters also susceptible ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/emojis-can-be-hacked-to-hide-data-or-messages-unicode-characters-also-susceptible    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:29:49

• GPL violations disguised as "intelligence" ☞ https://itsfoss.com/flexpilot-ide/ https://techrights.org/o/2023/02/10/copilot-in-court/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:31:16

• "Hey Hi (AI) Technologies Licensing Oy in its dispute with Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (case ID: UPC_CFI_164/2024)" in fake and illegal 'court' whose very existence is itself an illegality☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/court-of-appeal-rules-suinnos-representative-not-independent/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:33:51

• The very same EU that, owing to corruption, created a fake, illegal, unconstitutional patent 'court' that basically attacks Europe ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/eu-commission-withdraws-sep-regulation/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:34:54

• Cloud Byte cloud storage patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/11/cloud-byte-cloud-storage-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:35:27

• Macho Patent Office (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/Macho_Patent_Office.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:35:49

• Former EPO Manager Warns That the Illegal 'Court' for "Unitary Patents" Enables “Law Shopping” ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/12/Former_EPO_Manager_Warns_That_the_Illegal_Court_for_Unitary_Pat.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:35:57

• With fares like these, the USPTO is just an "elite club" serving the rich ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/working-continuation-surcharges.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:39:27

• Federal Circuit Tightens Expert Testimony Standards in Trudell, Previewing Potential Approach to EcoFactor ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/testimony-standards-previewing.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:39:37

• Patent Applications After Final Rejection: A One-Year Follow-Up Study ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/patent-applications-rejection.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:40:00

• GNU/Linux at 4% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/ecuador/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:44:44

• Guatemala near 20% in guatemala https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/guatemala/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:46:17

• Windows near 20% in Guatemala https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/guatemala/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:46:32

• PCB Design Review: M.2 SSD Splitter ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/pcb-design-review-m-2-ssd-splitter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:47:40

• GoogleFindMyTools locates ESP32-based Bluetooth trackers using Surveillance Giant Google Find My Device network ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/12/googlefindmytools-locates-esp32-based-trackers-using-google-find-my-device-network/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:51:58

• GNOME’s Website Just Got a Major Redesign ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/gnome-website-revamp-goes-live    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:52:18

• Tell us something good ☞ https://rubenerd.com/tell-us-something-good/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:55:43

• Network Security Issues in RedNote ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/02/network-security-issues-in-rednote/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:56:43

• "Prosthetics" mixed with buzzwords and hype ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/will-embodied-ai-make-prosthetics-more-humane/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 05:59:48

• Microwave ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/diy-microwave-crucibles/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:00:06

• Dispatches from Europe, No. 16, February 12, 2025 – The Class-Conscious Workers of Kryvyi Rih ☞ https://howiehawkins.us/dispatches-from-europe-16/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:00:44

• Alpha Centauri Particles Already Lurk in Our Solar System, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/alpha-centauri-particles-already-lurk-in-our-solar-system-study-suggests    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:01:31

• Automatic Pill Dispenser Is Cheap And Convenient ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/automatic-pill-dispenser-is-cheap-and-convenient/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:01:57

• Westminster Dog Show 2025: Unforgettable Dogs Like Monty, Mercedes and Bourbon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/style/westminster-dog-show-best-in-show.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:02:59

• A Transparent BB-8 Build Using Christmas Ornaments ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/13/a-transparent-bb-8-build-using-christmas-ornaments/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:03:18

• ‘World’s most wholesome men’s magazine’ goes digital-only ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/mens-sorted-magazine-to-continue-digitally-after-founders-death/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:04:07

• This is a very obvious lie https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/4-reasons-tech-jobs-still-150041709.html http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/08/Why_Government_Data_on_Job_Openings_is_Typically_a_Lie_Perpetra.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:07:19

• “Big tech layoffs are mostly about restructuring” is also a lie. They have massive debt and little cash left in the bank.    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:08:17

• More lies. The media happy to repeat lies. "“AI is reshaping jobs and not just eliminating them". WHO WRITES THIS BS???? No, it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a lie. They're hyping up a lie.    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:09:11

• Chevron Layoffs Push More Employees Out of Work in 2025 https://www.thehrdigest.com/chevron-layoffs-push-more-employees-out-of-work-in-2025/ REPLACED-BY-HEY-HI(TM)?    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:10:35

• So much of the media now actively PARTICIPATES in the scams, notably "HEY HI". Will lie for food?    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:11:24

• ‘More than 60,000’ complain over GB News LGBTQ+ ‘paedos’ comment ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/gb-news-josh-howie-ofcom-record-complaints-lgbtq-paedos/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:12:42

• A record 124 journalists were killed in 2024, mostly by Israeli military ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/cpj-journalists-killed-2024-israel-gaza/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:14:01

• New phishing campaign exploits immigration arrival card process to steal personal data ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/12/new-phishing-campaign-exploits-immigration-arrival-card-process-steal-personal-data/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:15:14

• Qt WebEngine and Qt WebView User Survey ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-webengine-and-qt-webview-user-survey-2025    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:15:33

• "Esbo Theater is in the news because of Facebook censorship and shadowbanning I hope is manages to raise the issue of shadowbanning and political manipulation However, the "discussion" will take place via social control media and thus amount to nothing, quickly. The theater has allowed itself to become economically dependent on using Facebook (and its Instagram label) to market event tickets." -Anon    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:17:07

• EU:s planer för internet – hela (?) listan ☞ https://femtejuli.se/2025/02/12/eus-planer-for-internet/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:17:29

• Internet issues on LMT network fixed ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/12.02.2025-internet-issues-on-lmt-network-fixed.a587448/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:18:08

• "Original Punched Cards" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/12/on-the-original-punched-cards/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:18:41

• From Cyber Café to Digital Revolution: The Story of Joseph Bishi and Murambinda’s Community Network ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/02/joseph-bishi-and-murambindas-community-network/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:19:06

• TTAB Upholds Four Section 2(c) Refusals of Anti-Dictator Marks Due to Lack of Consent ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/02/ttab-sustains-four-section-2c-refusals.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:19:46

• Database: Cambodia’s prime minister spent $1.5 million on Facebook (Farcebook) boosts ☞ https://rfa.org/english/cambodia/2025/02/12/cambodia-hun-manet-facebook-expenses/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:21:22

• GAO Tells Coast Guard to Improve Cybersecurity of Maritime Transportation System ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/gao-tells-coast-guard-to-improve-cybersecurity-of-maritime-transportation-system/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:22:21

• Ivanti, Fortinet Patch Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ivanti-fortinet-patch-remote-code-execution-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:22:29

• Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Intel, AMD, Nvidia Fix High-Severity Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chipmaker-patch-tuesday-intel-amd-nvidia-fix-high-severity-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:22:42

• Apple fanboy spam in Planet Fedora again https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/testing-out-the-lenovo-thinkcenter-1l-minipc-as-a-core-firewall-and-router/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:23:28

• Kushal Das: pass using stateless OpenPGP command line interface ☞ https://kushaldas.in/posts/pass-using-stateless-openpgp-command-line-interface.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:25:17

• Two whois policy proposals up for community discussion at APNIC 59 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/12/two-whois-policy-proposals-up-for-community-discussion-at-apnic-59/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:25:55

• Web Components ☞ https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/02/12/web-components/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:26:54

• Corrupt senile and lunatic calls GPUs "hey hi", misusing buzzwords to sound like he is ahead ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/trump-administration-declares-most-powerful-ai-chips-will-be-built-in-america    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:38:05

• CLOWN and Hey Hi (AI).... a load of nonsense and buzzwords from this Microsoft-connected rag https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/12/1111721/harnessing-cloud-and-ai-to-power-a-sustainable-future/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:38:47

• ‘No information’ that Baltic Sea cable damage intentional – Lithuania’s intelligence chief ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2486533/no-information-that-baltic-sea-cable-damage-intentional-lithuania-s-intelligence-chief    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:39:17

• AI aggregator OmniGPT reportedly breached, leaking sensitive user data online ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/12/ai-aggregator-omnigpt-reportedly-breached-sensitive-user-data-leaked-online/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:40:50

• Not only does the general media promote a Ponzi scheme in "HEY HI"... it's also trying to create FOMO over nothing. This is why this media will perish and die. It actively misleads readers, viewers.    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:42:27

• MElon passes to Convicted Felon yet another bribe ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/technology/musk-x-settles-trump-lawsuit.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:43:45

• Justice Dept. Accuses New York of Favoring ‘Illegal Aliens’ Over U.S. Citizens ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/politics/bondi-new-york-immigration-lawsuit.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:44:00

• State Dept. Draws Up List of Cartels to Be Labeled Terrorist Groups ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/us/politics/state-dept-terrorist-designation.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:44:13

• Being against crime is no longer allowed. Participation in crimes is the way to go. ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/12/trump-fired-inspectors-general-who-identified-183-5-billion-in-waste-fraud-and-abuse/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:45:23

• International refugee NGO suspends lifesaving programs after Convicted Felon freezes foreign aid ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/international-refugee-ngo-suspends-lifesaving-programs-after-trump-freezes-foreign-aid/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:46:01

• Diddy Fires Back With $100 Million+ Defamation Suit Against NBCUniversal and Peacock Over ‘The Making of a Bad Boy’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/12/diddy-lawsuit-nbcuniversal-peacock/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:47:17

• A roundup of litigation affecting federal employees, agencies ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-report/2025/02/a-roundup-of-litigation-affecting-federal-employees-agencies/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:47:34

• Government watchdogs fired by Convicted Felon sue his administration and ask a judge to reinstate them ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/02/8-inspectors-general-fired-by-trump-file-a-federal-lawsuit-claiming-their-terminations-were-unlawful/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:51:00

• Hong Kong pollster halts all self-funded research, may shut down amid nat. security scrutiny ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/13/breaking-hong-kong-pollster-halts-all-self-funded-research-may-shut-down-amid-nat-security-scrutiny/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:52:29

• Intel roasts AMD and Nvidia in its latest product security report, claiming AMD has vulnerabilities with no fix planned, Nvidia has only high-severity security bugs [Updated] ☞ 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 Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:54:12

• A ‘national security nightmare.’ Why MElon’s DOGE is triggering alarm bells in the intel world. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/0212/elon-musk-doge-security    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:55:28

• A political fix in hate-crime and terror legislation shows the government isn’t leading ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/a-political-fix-in-hate-crime-and-terror-legislation-shows-the-government-isnt-leading/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:56:27

• UN reports grave rights violations in Bangladesh protest response ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/un-reports-grave-rights-violations-in-bangladesh-protest-response    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:56:42

• Cook Islands prime minister discusses marine, climate and economics in China visit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/cook-islands-prime-minister-discusses-marine-climate-and-economics-in-china-visit    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:56:57

• Hong Kong vows to keep up ‘national security’ crackdown ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/12/china-hong-kong-national-security-crackdown-continues/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:57:14

• Why is Lithuania hiding names of its former KGB collaborators? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2485756/why-is-lithuania-hiding-names-of-its-former-kgb-collaborators    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:57:46

• 27 religious groups sue Convicted Felon administration to prohibit immigration enforcement in places of worship ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/27-religious-groups-sue-trump-administration-to-prohibit-immigration-enforcement-in-places-of-worship/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:58:25

• “Censorship”: President Convicted Felon keeps using this word, but I do not think it means what he thinks it means. ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/censorship-president-trump-keeps-using-this-word/ publicknowledge infiltrated by Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 06:59:51

• Mozilla shutting down, moving everything to Microsoft, where proprietary software people will play games with proprietary spyware ☞ https://ahal.ca/blog/2025/jujutsu-with-mozilla-unified/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:17:30

• Legion Go S Review: A Blueprint For Handheld Gaming Perfection ☞ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/02/12/lenovo-legion-go-s-review-a-blueprint-for-handheld-perfection/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:18:12

• jason evangelho now boosting Windows? Because the company from China sent him a gift? What's the point, Forbes?    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:20:48

• Yellowstone's Super-Hot Water May Hold The Secrets of Earth's First Breath ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/yellowstones-super-hot-water-may-hold-the-secrets-of-earths-first-breath    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:21:17

• Turkish textile industry's dependence on Syrians in crisis after Assad's regime fall ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250212-turkish-textile-industry-s-dependence-on-syrians-in-crisis-after-assad-s-regime-fall    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:21:58

• DShield SIEM Docker Updates, (Thu, Feb 13th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31680    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:23:26

• All eyes on Malaysia’s next ambassador to the US after Maga photo controversy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/all-eyes-on-malaysias-next-ambassador-to-the-us-after-maga-photo-controversy    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:23:51

• ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Addressed by Schneider Electric, Siemens ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ics-patch-tuesday-vulnerabilities-addressed-by-schneider-electric-siemens/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:25:57

• Cybersecurity experts raise concerns over DOGE’s access to federal systems ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/12/cybersecurity-experts-raise-concerns-doges-access-federal-systems/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:26:20

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

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:26:31

• 2 new Chinese warplanes could mean the end of US air superiority ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/02/2-new-chinese-warplanes-could-mean-the-end-of-us-air-superiority/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:27:01

• Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate expiry warning emails ☞ https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate-expiry-warning-emails/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:27:44

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:29:39

• "Is Alvind really gonna make IBM's revenue grow to 5% in 2025 as this article states ? Pigs might fly before that happens...LOL !" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jm17czjg maybe buy some more companies to add their revenue, but at what cost?    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:29:45

• SONOFF ZBM5 Review – A 3-gang Zigbee Smart Wall Switch tested with eWeLink and Home Assistant ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/12/sonoff-zbm5-review-3-gang-zigbee-smart-wall-switch-ewelink-home-assistant/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:33:07

• Edge video processing platform features NXP i.MX 8M Plus, i.MX 93, or i.MX 95 SoC, supports up to 23 camera types ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/13/edge-video-processing-platform-features-nxp-i-mx-8m-plus-i-mx-93-or-i-mx-95-soc-supports-up-to-23-camera-types/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:33:33

• Report says companies ‘playing with fire’ as Hey Hi (AI) chatbots fail when trying to summarize news ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/12/report-says-companies-playing-fire-ai-chatbots-fail-trying-summarize-news/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:38:34

• Windows 10 KB5051974 update force installs new Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Outlook app ☞ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-kb5051974-update-force-installs-new-microsoft-outlook-app/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:39:50

• Microsoft February 2025 Patch Tuesday fixes 4 zero-days, 55 flaws ☞ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-february-2025-patch-tuesday-fixes-4-zero-days-55-flaws/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:40:25

• Overcoming security dilemmas in the Great Lakes region ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/overcoming-security-dilemmas-in-the-great-lakes-region/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:41:21

• Rapid7 shares drop on mixed fourth-quarter results and weak outlook ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/12/rapid7-shares-drop-mixed-fourth-quarter-results-weak-outlook/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:42:13

• Cisco Says Ransomware Group’s Leak Related to Old Hack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-says-ransomware-groups-leak-related-to-old-hack/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:42:34

• UN: Bangladesh crackdown on anti-government protests may constitute crimes against humanity ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/un-bangladesh-crackdown-on-anti-government-protests-may-constitute-crimes-against-humanity/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:43:15

• Pentagon’s 18 spy plane missions near US-Mexico border spark surveillance concerns ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/spy-planes-near-us-mexico-border-spark-surveillance-concerns/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:44:09

• Around one third of Observer staff ‘taking redundancy’ ahead of Tortoise transfer ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/observer-journalists-tortoise-transfer/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:44:43

• Privacy under attack: Egypt must reform its draft Criminal Procedure Code ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/egypt-must-reform-draft-criminal-procedure-code-en/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:45:20

• Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/delivering-malware-through-abandoned-amazon-s3-buckets.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:46:11

• Italian Government Denies It Spied on Journalists and Migrant Activists Using Paragon Spyware ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/italian-government-denies-it-spied-on-journalists-and-migrant-activists-using-paragon-spyware/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:46:32

• Software Patent: Another Factor2 Multimedia authentication patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/12/another-factor2-multimedia-authentication-patent-challenged    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:48:08

• Digital Culture’s week in a minute: MElon, Beast, Tiktok and Dream ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/digital-culture/digital-cultures-week-in-a-minute-musk-beast-tiktok-and-dream/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:49:08

• This is foolish. You help Chinese propaganda. https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/12/tiktok-discover-list-2025/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:49:55

• Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/12/bytedance-taylor-swift-ai-performance/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:52:38

• Hong Kong police investigate murder-suicide case in Yuen Long involving son, father and grandfather ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/13/hong-kong-police-investigate-murder-suicide-case-in-yuen-long-involving-son-father-and-grandfather/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:53:16

• Josh Bressers: Why do we keep ignoring CI security with François Proulx ☞ https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/2025-02-ignoring_ci_security_francois_proulx/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:53:34

• R version of survivalist: Probabilistic model-agnostic survival analysis using scikit-learn, xgboost, lightgbm (and conformal prediction) ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/r-version-of-survivalist-probabilistic-model-agnostic-survival-analysis-using-scikit-learn-xgboost-lightgbm-and-conformal-prediction/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:53:53

• Ex-Tapestry CEO ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/jide-zeitlin-coach-kate-spade-tapestry-defamation-lawsuit-ends | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:58:55

• "The plaintiff ultimately agreed to pay Cohan certain defense costs and did not pursue a long-shot appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. With that, the parties concluded the case." But time wasted. Lots of time.    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 07:59:43

• "Protect Domestic Violence" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-guns-dispossession-domestic-violence | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 08:00:09

• Harsh Discipline of Native Students ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/gallup-mckinley-native-student-discipline-improvement-data | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 08:00:41

• "Truths About Drug Pricin" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/zolgensma-sma-novartis-drug-prices-gene-therapy-avexis | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 08:01:18

• "USA-centric content follows. And, yes, I'm frustrated by this horseshit." gemini://gem.sdf.org/beej/blog/2025-02-13-constitutionelse.gmi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 08:07:06

• "Every once in awhile I discover a unix tool that is so amazing that I really just can't believe I lived without it." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/canfood/phlog/2025-02-13    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 08:08:01

• Bulgaria has high GNU/Linux share this past year https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bulgaria/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 08:13:38

• Windows sank to about 20% in Montenegro https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/montenegro/#monthly-200902-202502    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 08:15:35

• "With no specific destination in mind, I eventually ended up at this little fidget that animates the row-gap property. The result is an experience that has been described as: [...]" ☛ https://multiline.co/mment/2024/04/teef/ | Source: Ashur Cabrera    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:17:50

• "Shiki is Astro’s built-in syntax highlighter. While it requires minimum configuration to set up, its real power shines when you configure dual themes to match your site’s light and dark themes. It also bundles a ton of modern themes that can be used by defining the theme’s name in the configuration." ☛ https://amanhimself.dev/blog/dual-shiki-themes-with-astro/ | Source: Aman Mittal    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:18:07

• "A discussion broke out in the comments on my entry on how everything should be able to ratelimit authentication failures, and one thing that came up was the standard advice that when authentication fails, the service shouldn't give you any indication of why." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/AuthFailureResponseDepends | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:18:24

• "increments and decrements by one. There’s ways to make it accept, increment by, and decrement by decimal values too" ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/using-the-step-and-pattern-attributes-to-make-number-inputs-more-useful/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:19:03

• "The realization this sparked is that we can divide accounts and systems into two sorts, which I will call internal and external, and how you want to treat things around these accounts is possibly quite different" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/InternalVsExternalAccounts | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:19:19

• Games ☛ https://www.luisquintanilla.me/posts/llama-turn-on-tuning-in-ai-quest-higher-consciousness-moo | Source: Luis Quintanilla    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:22:48

• "While FreeBSD UNIX generally has lots of great features – Quare FreeBSD – some of them described here – it also has its quirks." ☛ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/ghostbsd-pkg-repository-on-freebsd/ | Source: Vermaden    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:23:30

• "Europe and Ukraine alarmed by implications of Trump-Putin call" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/13/trump-putin-call-europe-ukraine-reaction/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:24:23

• windows tco: "Nordnetin Tuppurainen: Näin suuri summa suomalaissijoittajalta myytiin luvatta" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&u=https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/nordnetin-tuppurainen-nain-suuri-summa-suomalaissijoittajalta-myytiin-luvatta/44d5ff93-541f-4c15-817f-51ce9fd26cab    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:24:48

• "No Deals Without Us, Zelenskyy Says In Response To Trump-Putin Call On Ukraine" https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-putin-ukraine-peace-zelenskyy-zelenskiy-bessent/33313097.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:25:04

• "Trumps Propaganda: Google Maps, der Golf von Mexiko und der Umgang mit Autokraten" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/trumps-propaganda-google-maps-der-golf-von-mexiko-und-der-umgang-mit-autokraten/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:25:16

• "Trump Says Saudi Arabia May Host Talks With Putin on Ukraine" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/world/europe/trump-putin-saudi-arabia-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:25:28

• "Who’s Running the Defense Department?" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/defense-department-deputies-qualifications/681670/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:25:42

• "Some Head Start programs still having trouble accessing federal money after Trump funding freeze - CBS Chicago" https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/head-start-programs-confusion-federal-funding-freeze-president-trump/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:25:55

• "EU Warns Against 'Dirty Deal' on Ukraine After Trump-Putin Phone Call" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-13/eu-warns-against-dirty-deal-on-ukraine-after-trump-putin-phone-call    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:26:11

• "US allies seek clarity on Ukraine support at Munich Security Conference" https://www.voanews.com/a/us-allies-seek-clarity-on-ukraine-support-at-munich-security-conference/7972522.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:27:38

• "Ukraine's post-war recovery: financing, governance and reform strategies" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/02/11/ukraines-post-war-recovery-financing-governance-and-reform-strategies/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:27:48

• "‘Putin will use this to take Europe’: Outraged Ukrainians slam Trump’s peace talks with Russia" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ukraine-russia-war-putin-trump-peace-deal-munich-b2697601.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:28:33

• "XMPP Multi-User Chat: a performant alternative to Facebook Groups, Webcord (unofficial Discord), Matrix, IRC, etc." https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=384007    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:28:52

• "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    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:29:11

• "Emil Bove's Prisoner Exchange" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/13/emil-boves-prisoner-exchange/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:29:26

• "We go now to the Oval Office for a statement from Grimes" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/we-go-now-to-the-oval-office-for-a-statement-from-grimes/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:29:46

• "Apple Resumes Advertising on X" https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-ads-on-x/ Apple working for fascism, as usual; why pretend otherwise any longer?    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:30:21

• "The Age of Emirati Impunity in Washington" https://dawnmena.org/the-age-of-emirati-impunity-in-washington/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:30:36

• "Musk and His Rich Friends Are Looting the Federal Government" https://jacobin.com/2025/02/musk-doge-conflicts-interest-cfpb/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:30:48

• "Unionizing the “Cultural Apparatus”" https://jacobin.com/2025/02/union-organizing-cultural-apparatus-pmc/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:31:04

• "How to fight the Trump-Musk power grab" https://www.vox.com/politics/399530/trump-power-grab-musk-protest-resistance-strategy    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:31:26

• "The Constitution in Crisis | Washington Spectator" https://washingtonspectator.org/constitution-in-crisis/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:31:38

• "Elon Musk and the American Endgame | Washington Spectator" https://washingtonspectator.org/the-wide-angle-elon-musk-and-the-american-endgame/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:31:50

• "Hegseth team invites far-right activist Jack Posobiec on overseas trip" https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/13/pete-hegseth-jack-posobiec/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:32:10

• "Fork in the Road for Ukraine?" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/ukraine-trump-foreign-policy/681685/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:32:21

• "The ‘Gulf of America’ Is an Admission of Defeat" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/gulf-america-mexico-defeat/681682/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:32:33

• old: "Jimmy Carter calls US campaign finance ruling 'legalised bribery'" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/03/carter-says-campaign-finance-2010-citizens-united-ruling-legalised-bribery    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:32:47

• "Opinion: Death of Democracy and the Democratic Party – Daily Sundial" https://sundial.csun.edu/189866/opinions/opinion-death-of-democracy-and-the-democratic-party/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:32:59

• "Protected: How to mature your IT infrastructure forward while also mining backward for gaps" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-insights/2025/02/how-to-mature-your-it-infrastructure-forward-while-also-mining-backward-for-gaps/ "There is no excerpt because this is a protected post." iophk: windows tco; hiding the evidence http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/30/Federal_News_Network_is_Corrupt_It_Runs_Propaganda_Pieces_for_M.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:33:50

• "This Medal of Honor recipient became an ace pilot in a day" https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/02/13/this-medal-of-honor-recipient-became-an-ace-pilot-in-a-day/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:34:53

• "Protestors demand VA oppose Trump efforts to trim federal workforce" https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2025/02/13/protestors-demand-va-oppose-trump-efforts-to-trim-federal-workforce/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:35:05

• "Trump’s call with Putin ends US efforts to isolate Russia" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/trumps-call-with-putin-ends-us-efforts-to-isolate-russia-1861192    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:35:23

• "In Finland, friendship is what’s celebrated on Valentine’s Day. People give gifts and cards to their best friends; it’s not just for romantic partners." https://finland.fi/life-society/treasure-friendship/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:36:42

• "Nice to see dedicated support like this from a massive game. Marvel Rivals had a small update that came with a fix for Bazzite Linux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/marvel-rivals-gets-a-low-quality-ui-fix-for-bazzite-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:41:12

• "Gearbox and 2K have now revealed that Borderlands 4 is set for release on September 23rd, along with giving it a short new trailer. However, they've said a more thorough gameplay reveal will come in the PlayStation State of Play later this Spring." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/borderlands-4-confirmed-for-release-in-september-with-a-new-trailer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:41:39

• "It seems a recent update to glibc with version 2.41 release at the end of January, has been causing all sorts of problems for Linux gamers that have pulled in the update (mostly on rolling-release distributions)." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-glibc-2-41-update-has-been-causing-problems-for-linux-gaming/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:45:36

• "Hot on the heels of the recent news that Shift Up mentioned Stellar Blade would be optimized for Steam Deck and other smaller devices, we have a Steam page and release month." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/stellar-blade-confirmed-for-a-pc-release-in-june-steam-page-now-live/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:45:47

• "With Adventure Mode out now, the Dwarf Fortress team are looking ahead and it's sounding quite exciting with some big features coming to the game." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/dwarf-fortress-has-some-exciting-plans-for-the-future/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:46:33

• "After years of work across many areas, lots of discussions and more work - the Wayland Colour Management and HDR Protocol has been merged! This means it will finally be released with a future version of Wayland Protocols." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/wayland-colour-management-and-hdr-protocol-finally-merged/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:48:44

• "Two more bundles of games here to build up your collection ready for the weekend! Fanatical have launched the Build your own Special Editions Bundle (BundleFest 2025) and Build your own Simulator Collection bundles." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/fanatical-have-a-great-special-editions-bundle-and-a-simulator-collection-bundle-worth-a-look/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:54:48

• "ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN is now set for launch on May 30th, and it does look great, but the anti-cheat could be a problem for Steam Deck / Linux players." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/elden-ring-nightreign-launches-in-may-will-have-kernel-level-anti-cheat/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:54:55

• "Humble are rehashing a previous bundle here that was first released around this time last year, with the launch of the Capcom Arcade Classics & Fighters Pack Humble Bundle. Good chance to grab a whole lot if you missed it before." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-capcom-arcade-classics-fighters-pack-humble-bundle-has-lots-of-goodies-again/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:55:41

• "New Alito, Thomas Filings" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-supreme-connections-database-new-filings | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:57:16

• "French football clubs held emergency talks after broadcaster DAZN withheld millions of euros in TV rights payments due this month." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/dazn-escrows-e35m-tv-rights-payment-as-football-piracy-row-boils-over-250213/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:58:40

• "Predictions of a looming music industry apocalypse, fueled by users of LimeWire and similar peer-to-peer apps, have long-since been replaced by all-you-can-eat music services." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-target-20-isps-in-pursuit-of-bittorrent-pirates-and-damages-250214/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:58:55

• "In the first research seminar in our new series, Shuchi Grover shared practical insights about teaching AI in K–12 education." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/teaching-about-ai-in-k-12-education-thoughts-from-the-usa/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:59:18

• "Deny, Defend, Disinform:" ☛ https://fair.org/home/deny-defend-disinform/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 10:59:42

• "Far-Right Conspiracy Theory at Farming Protest" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/13/nigel-farage-spreads-far-right-conspiracy-theory-farming-protest/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:00:25

• "Oil Lobby Group" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/14/eu-defends-hiring-trump-linked-oil-lobby-group/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:00:42

• "I’m sure this work will be scraped in no time and embedded into AI models but that’s besides the point" ☛ https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/gen-ai-assimilation | Source: Alex Ewerlöf    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:05:34

• "Most of the videos OmniHuman has as examples of its generation on this page are hard to tell the video is AI. Some hallmarks of AI content do remain" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/12/bytedance-taylor-swift-ai-performance/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:08:52

• "In a statement to People, the Black Widow actress said: "It has been brought to my attention by family members and friends, that an AI-generated video featuring my likeness" ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qwkdlxgxno | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:09:21

• "Representatives for X and Meta, which owns Instagram, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. NBC News has reached out to representatives for other celebrities who appear in the fake video." ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/scarlett-johansson-calls-ai-safety-laws-fake-video-celebrities-fightin-rcna191883 | Source: NBC    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:09:57

• "Johansson’s statement continued, “I have unfortunately been a very public victim of AI, but the truth is that the threat of AI affects each and every one of us." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/12/entertainment/scarlett-johansson-ai-video-kanye-west/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:11:35

• "Scarlett Johansson, Steven Spielberg, Adam Sandler and several other Jewish celebrities assembled in matching T-shirts to shame Ye (formerly Kanye West) for his latest antisemitic outbursts — at least that’s what a self-proclaimed “generative AI expert” fantasized this week." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-02-12/scarlett-johansson-ai-deepfake-video-kanye-west | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:12:20

• "It has been brought to my attention by family members and friends, that an AI-generated video featuring my likeness, in response to an antisemitic view, has been circulating online and gaining traction." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/scarlett-johansson-israel-fake-ai-video-kanye-west-b2697329.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:12:57

• "Mullenweg last September launched a fierce campaign against the rival firm. A lawsuit followed and the matter remains the subject of ongoing legal action, plus further feuding." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/wordpress_foundation_trademark_registrations_nixed/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:14:24

• "specifically about its 30% commission on in-app purchases and restrictions on external payment services, according to the outlet's sources." ☛ https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/05/apple-potential-antitrust-probe-china/ | Source: MacRumors    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:16:44

• "When Apple released the first M1 Macs, they too came with their own SEP" ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/02/13/do-m4-chips-have-a-new-security-processor/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:17:55

• "Carr this week leaked word to right wing propaganda mill Newsmax that he’s tasked the FCC’s enforcement bureau with launching an investigation into whether Comcast is breaking any laws (they’re not) by still having references to diversity initiatives on their website: [...]" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/trump-fcc-tries-to-bully-comcast-away-from-its-already-flimsy-dedication-to-civil-rights/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:19:28

• "On the morning of Dec. 30, 2024, Huijun Long received a notification on the Virgin Plus app that her phone number with the company had been cancelled. Turns out, her number had been "mistakenly transferred" to a Bell Mobility account." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/cellphone-number-sim-swapping-security-risks-1.7456092 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:19:41

• "The release said he would highlight the ways that Trump and his DOGE partner, billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, are threatening working people. He said Americans might not yet understand how close they are to authoritarianism, oligarchy and kleptocracy." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/u-s-sen-bernie-sanders-to-kick-off-trump-pushback-tour-in-nebraska-iowa/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:21:00

• "Spouses of active-duty U.S. military members employed by federal agencies with remote-work agreements will be exempt from the Trump administration’s return-to-work policy, the Office of Personnel Management said in a memo released Wednesday." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/military-spouses-telework-remote-work-federal-agencies/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:21:29

• "This week, the Trump administration terminated more than $900 million in contracts that mostly focused on education research and data on learning and the country’s schools." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/department-of-education-civil-rights-office-investigations | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:21:52

• "Leading up to the election, Amazon has deployed its now-familiar union-busting arsenal to quash the worker-led movement at the nearly 5,000-person warehouse." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/amazon-union-busting-north-carolina/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:22:13

• "The city argued it had a justifiable reason for these checkpoints — during which occupants were questioned and drug dogs performed open-air sniffs: drug interdiction. Not good enough, said the Supreme Court." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/mississippis-top-court-says-rights-violations-are-ok-if-cops-dont-know-how-to-do-their-jobs/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:22:29

• "As the College of Commissioners prepares to visit India amid efforts to upgrade the strategic partnership between the European Union (EU) and India, our organizations urge EU leaders to step up their engagement with their Indian counterparts in light of the profound human rights crisis in the country." ☛ https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/India-Joint-NGO-letter-to-EU-Commission-on-human-rights-in-India-February-2025.pdf | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:23:48

• "be clear that progress on bilateral relations will be linked to concrete and measurable progress on these pressing issues." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/02/cpj-partners-call-on-european-commission-to-hold-india-to-account-over-rights-crisis/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:24:12

• "White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters on February 12." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-detainees-kuznechyk-mavchuk-tsihkanouskaya-russia-ukraine-trump/33313062.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:25:35

• "AP said that the president blocked their reporters from an event on Tuesday after the news agency refused to change its editorial style on the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump has ordered be renamed the “Gulf of America.” The outlet said that a second AP reporter was later denied access from an evening event in the Diplomatic Reception Room." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-associated-press-ban-gulf-mexico-america-1235265798/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:26:04

• "AP said that the president blocked their reporters from an event on Tuesday after the news agency refused to change its editorial style on the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump has ordered be renamed the “Gulf of America.” The outlet said that a second AP reporter was later denied access from an evening event in the Diplomatic Reception Room." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-associated-press-ban-gulf-mexico-america-1235265798/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:26:29

• "AP said that the president blocked their reporters from an event on Tuesday after the news agency refused to change its editorial style on the Gulf of Mexico, which Trump has ordered be renamed the “Gulf of America.”" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-associated-press-ban-gulf-mexico-america-1235265798/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:26:44

• "Hondudiario’s editorial team told Reportar sin Medio, a Honduran news site, that the request came following its Oct. 30, 2024 report on internal divisions within the Honduran Armed Forces" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/02/honduran-military-chief-files-defamation-complaints-against-12-news-outlets/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:27:17

• "An unknown individual shot at public broadcaster RAI1’s reporter Vito Francesco Paglia and camera operators Stefano Currò and Riccardo Nava" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/02/in-italy-4-journalists-shot-at-while-reporting-on-alleged-child-abuse/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:27:53

• "But media watchdogs believe her arrest is connected to her journalism." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/jailed-georgian-journalist-i-will-not-bow-to-this-regime-/7974348.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:28:35

• "Meanwhile, Allstate's media team continued to badger us, sending a lengthy table of requested changes" ☛ https://futurism.com/allstate-demanding-delete-quotes-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:29:18

• "Musk withdrew his platform -- then known as Twitter -- from the original code in May 2023 and he has repeatedly railed against the European Union's content moderation rules known as the Digital Services Act (DSA)." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2276530.html | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:30:21

• "Motivational videos on TikTok using AI-generated voices of Trump, Musk, and other celebrities are racking up millions of views." ☛ https://www.404media.co/ai-slop-of-musk-and-trump-on-tiktok-racks-up-700-million-views/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:30:48

• Murdoch and Cheeto ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/technology/trump-fox-news-common-sense.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:31:27

• "And of all the workers devastated by the carnage, former tech workers in Silicon Valley are having a particularly rough go of it" ☛ https://futurism.com/silicon-valley-engineers-jobs | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:33:43

• "In a statement to The Register, the infosec outfit told us the staff it’s let go are no longer needed now that Secureworks is no longer a public company." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/sophos_secureworks_layoff/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:37:16

• | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:38:19

• "Instead, Torvalds publicly rebuked Martin and defended the Linux governance process." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/ashai_linux_head_quits/ gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/14/They_Will_Never_Leave_Linus_Torvalds_Alone_Rust_is_Just_Another.gmi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:38:29

• "fold like cheap umbrellas at the first gust" ☛ https://www.theindex.media/this-is-the-age-of-the-coward-2/ |    

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

• "Lithuania’s intelligence chief says there is as yet no evidence that underwater telecommunications and electricity cables in the Baltic Sea were damaged" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2486533/no-information-that-baltic-sea-cable-damage-intentional-lithuania-s-intelligence-chief | Source: LRT    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:40:05

• "Cairncross' only apparent exposure to cybersecurity policy and strategy - key responsibilities of the National Cyber Director" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/trump_cybersecurity_chief/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:40:25

• Passing another bribe ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/technology/musk-x-settles-trump-lawsuit.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:40:51

• "The OpenAI board has not yet formally rejected the bid." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/technology/elon-musk-openai-response.html | Source: New York Times http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:41:23

• "I started by finding ways to see the temperature of my laptop, for which I found a package called lm-sensors. Before checking the temps, I ran sensors-detect and selected all of the default options." ☛ https://pjg1.site/mbp-linux-power | Source: Piya Gehi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:43:08

• "Lapland's pricey hotels prompt airlines to send flight crew hours away to sleep" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20143547 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:43:38

• "The advantage of the train is, most often than not, that you can just hop in the train and not spend much time as you need to do in an airport." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2025/02/13/london/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:43:59

• "Bitcoin mining in the US is notorious for inflicting ridiculously noisy data centers on small towns across the country." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/13/the-uks-turbocharged-ai-initiative-bringing-data-center-noise-to-a-village-near-you/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:48:44

• iophk: ICT is a tool, a means to get things done, not an end in itself https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/why-ict-was-not-being-taught-as-separate-subject-in-schools-questions-annamalai/article69214801.ece    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:50:02

• revolving door politics ramps up: "Justice Chancellor Tuomas Pöysti stepping down, heading to private sector" https://yle.fi/a/74-20143826    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:50:07

• [Old] "Google technicians, for example, tend to be hired through specialized temp agencies, and for a limited time only." ☛ https://goodjobsfirst.org/data-centers/ |    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:50:27

• [Old] "The Journal Investigates has uncovered that over 135,000 tonnes of CO2 was emitted from these centres in the last five years from generators not on the electricity grid." ☛ https://www.thejournal.ie/investigates-data-centres-6554698-Nov2024/ | Source: The Journal    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:50:35

• [Old] "Riot already had an existing bitcoin mine in Milam County. This new project was an expansion on a grander scale." ☛ https://amycastor.com/2023/10/23/texans-versus-bitcoin-jackie-sawicky-and-the-texas-coalition-against-cryptomining/ |    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:50:51

• "Carrying out a financially motivated string of attacks isn't the news here – North Korea's primary objective has long been to siphon money from enemy economies" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/north_korea_npm_crypto/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:51:22

• "The blazes killed 29 people and destroyed at least 16,000 structures, including homes, offices, shops, and public infrastructure. Angelenos are starting to get back to survey the damage, but it may be weeks before they can start rebuilding as cleanup crews first work to clear toxic debris" ☛ https://www.vox.com/climate/397756/la-wildfire-insurance-palisades-california-fair-plan-climate | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:53:36

• "In Southern California this week, Kittell said the most likely outcome was “shallow” debris flows in burn scar areas, covering roads with mud. Thicker mudflows might be capable of immersing parked cars in mud." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-12/southern-californias-strongest-storm-of-winter-is-here-high-risk-of-flooding-debris-flow | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:53:52

• "high risk of flooding, debris flow, damaging winds" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-13/strong-atmospheric-river-strikes-california-when-will-l-a-get-hit-what-you-need-to-know | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:54:15

• "I am at the stage of evaluating right now, of asking What can I do?, after which point I can start taking more concrete actions. I have just purchased a compost bin that I can use to store food waste — including coffee grounds! — before taking it out to the food waste bin. I am thinking about the foods I buy and alternatives that use less packaging." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/12/sustainable-living | Source: James G    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 13:54:45

• "Wired Politics senior editor Leah Feiger joins global editorial director Katie Drummond to talk about the latest at DOGE and the inexperienced engineers holding key positions at the so-called Department [sic] of Government Efficiency." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-news-update-doge/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:17:33

• "DOGE.gov claims to be an “official website of the United States government,” but rather than giving detailed breakdowns of the cost savings and efficiencies Musk claims his project is making, the homepage of the site just replicated posts from the DOGE account on X." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/doge-website-is-just-one-big-x-ad/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:17:49

• "and Britannica, Collins English Dictionary, Dictionary.com, and National Geographic. And every other dictionary in the land including the Chambers School Dictionary I got given by my English teacher when I left school[1]: [...]" ☛ https://rknight.me/blog/we-need-to-talk-about-zoe-being-wrong-about-islands/ | Source: Rob Knight    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:18:06

• "The ink on that partnership agreement had barely dried before KrebsOnSecurity published a story showing that Onerep’s Belarusian CEO and founder Dimitiri Shelest launched dozens of people-search services since 2010, including a still-active data broker called Nuwber that sells background reports on people." ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/nearly-a-year-later-mozilla-is-still-promoting-onerep/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:18:21

• "Who the hell voted for Mr. Musk?”" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-edward-coristine-b2697352.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:19:36

• "While democracy burns, corporate America is busy checking the wind direction. Google renames the Gulf of Mexico to flatter a wannabe autocrat's ego. Business leaders draft contingency plans for the end of constitutional government." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-price-of-protection | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:19:54

• "most notably Vice President JD Vance, have suggested that Trump should simply ignore these orders and behave as if he is unbound by law" ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/399487/trump-musk-doge-constitutional-crisis-definition | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:20:20

• "stress-testing the Constitution, and the nation, to a degree not seen since the Civil War." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/opinion/trump-constitutional-crisis.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:20:45

• "The good news, such as it is, is that the administration doesn’t yet seem to have taken the plunge. The bad news is that this seems like a live possibility, and nobody really knows what will happen if it does. To some extent, there is a road map—but beyond that, not so much." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/legal-analysis-trump-ignores-court/681672/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:21:12

• "Why it matters: They're setting the stage for historic Supreme Court showdowns that could test Trump's push to remake the federal government — and increase his power." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/12/trump-lawsuits-executive-orders-powers | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:22:09

• "This time it is the one running the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, one of the latest to be unlawfully shut down." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/12/doge-may-now-be-aware-of-the-cfaa-but-its-still-violating-it-along-with-lots-of-other-laws/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:22:25

• "This story is moving very fast. On Feb. 8, a federal judge blocked the DOGE team from accessing the Treasury Department systems any further. But given that DOGE workers have already copied data and possibly installed and modified software, it’s unclear how this fixes anything." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/doge-as-a-national.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:22:50

• "premature antifascist," ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/13/digital-rights/#are-human-rights | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:24:04

• "The USA is no longer considered a democracy and lies at the cusp of autocracy; it has experienced a Presidental Coup and an Adverse Regime Change event (8-point drop in its POLITY score)." ☛ https://www.systemicpeace.org/index.html |    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:24:50

• "Full quote of a short, horrifying Kottke post: [...]" ☛ https://eay.cc/2025/the-usa-is-no-longer-considered-a-democracy/ | Source: Stefan Grund    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:25:08

• "About 52% of its total downloads were from Apple App Store, while 48% were from Google Play in the U.S. last year, Sensor Tower said." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-02-13/apple-to-restore-tiktok-on-us-app-store-after-attorney-generals-letter-bloomberg-news-reports | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:25:23

• "citing the risk that the Chinese Communist Party would be able to demand data on the app’s U.S. users or push propaganda to American users." ☛ https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/tiktok-restored-apple-app-stores-google-play-1236307488/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:25:40

• "Google confirmed to WIRED it has brought TikTok back, but didn’t immediately elaborate on the reason. Apple, TikTok, and the Department of Justice didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. Bondi was sworn into office last week." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-ban-back-in-ios-app-store-google-play-store/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:25:51

• "The law, passed with bipartisan support by Congress and signed into law under the Biden administration, said TikTok could keep operating only if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, sold it to a company not based in China." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/13/tiktok-app-stores-apple-google/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:26:03

• "Apple and Google had recently received letters from the Justice Department assuring them that they would not face fines for carrying TikTok in their app stores, said two people with knowledge of the communications, who were not authorized to speak publicly." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/technology/tiktok-apple-google-app-stores.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:26:28

• "A lot of assistive technology is purposely designed to not announce the fact that it is being used. This is to stave off things like discrimination or ineffective, separate-yet-equal “accessibility only” sites." ☛ https://ericwbailey.website/published/evaluating-overlay-adjacent-accessibility-products/ | Source: Eric Bailey    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:29:49

• "But upgrading to a version of MacOS that had Apple AI, it struck me that these emails are getting processed by an LLM already, in order to power Mail’s email summaries and priorities. Like many others I find these features pretty useless, mainly because what is considered important it’s usually not relevant to me (I’m on heaps of mailing lists)." ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/02/13/now-that-ive-got-a.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:30:03

• "The sudden emergence of Chinese startup DeepSeek, which rocked financial markets with the release of its R-1 chatbot in January, has “sparked a new AI-related catalyst for Chinese tech stocks,” an expert in Asia Pacific investments told Bloomberg." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/02/13/2025/apple-to-use-chinese-giant-alibabas-ai-in-iphones | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 15:30:14

• "FedEx, the world’s largest express transportation company, is issuing an urgent public warning regarding a wave of FedEx scams that have recently emerged, particularly in India." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/fedex-scam-alert/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:17:20

• "in isolation from financially-motivated intrusions." ☛ https://therecord.media/cybercrime-evolving-nation-state-threat | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:17:57

• "The intruders used the AWS credentials to grab sensitive info from the S3 buckets before encrypting the software company's Windows computers with RA World ransomware and demanding a $2 million ransom. The extortionists said it would be reduced to $1 million if paid in three days." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/chinese_spies_ransomware_moonlighting/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:18:29

• "Duetti’s ‘Music Economics Report‘ highlights how much each streaming service is paying its artists in 2024" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/13/tiktok-virality-rarely-translates-into-sustainable-growth/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:21:36

• "Reddit missed market estimates for daily active unique visitors in the fourth quarter on Wednesday" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/reddit-misses-daily-active-unique-visitors-on-google-algorithm-change-shares-tumble/articleshow/118199920.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:22:21

• "Peretti, despite being responsible for introducing many of us to this very dynamic of content" ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/02/11/buzzfeed-snarf-snarf-snarf-snarf-snarf/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:22:27

• "The plenary session is scheduled to decide on it in early March, not this week. The Saeima Legal Office called for not rushing the law's progress, as there are many questions about data security, compensation, and other aspects." ☛ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/12.02.2025-lots-of-human-decisions-required-before-latvian-ai-center-can-be-launched.a587525/ | Source: Latvia    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:26:25

• "Since I wrote about COCONUT, Meta’s paper on reasoning in latent space, there’s been a wave in publicly accessible research into reasoning models." ☛ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/02/12/The-Models-Want-to-Reason/ | Source: Ben Congdon    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:28:10

• "A fascinating new paper shows that LLMs can recursively self-improve." ☛ https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/12/recursive-improvement | Source: Tim Kellogg    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:28:26

• "If you didn’t want it read that way, you should have made an effort to distance what you were saying from the standard lines of rhetoric being used by those boosting the “AI” scene" ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/now-im-disappointed/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:28:49

• "Lawyers increasingly use AI tools for research and analyzing documents. But this isn’t the first time using AI to draft legal cases has gotten lawyers in trouble." ☛ https://www.404media.co/lawyers-caught-citing-ai-hallucinated-cases-call-it-a-cautionary-tale/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:29:27

• "Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated, and generative AI helps scammers scale their crimes, the problem could get worse." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/loneliness-epidemic-romance-scams-security-crisis/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:30:29

• "The report reveals that after the trial participants rated Copilot less useful than they hoped it would be, as it was applicable to fewer workloads than they hoped would be the case." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/australian_treasury_copilot_pilot_assessment/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:30:48

• "Insurance company Allstate has revealed that almost all of the communications its reps send out to claimants are now written by AI, the Wall Street Journal reports." ☛ https://futurism.com/allstate-almost-all-insurance-communications-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:30:59

• "A new report says the emergence of cheap artificial intelligence tools is leading to a wave of biometric fraud in Africa. The report says fraudsters are using AI to create fake documents, voices, and images that facilitate identity theft and financial crimes." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/ai-driven-biometric-fraud-surges-in-africa-fueling-financial-crimes/7973925.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:31:15

• "The whole setup is a nuisance, especially for some of those really early morning starts. Moving furniture around while in the dark and only half awake isn’t great. So, I’m considering the new Zwift Ride." ☛ https://matt.routleynet.org/2025/02/12/updating-my-indoor-bike-setup.html |    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:33:11

• "China’s Salt Typhoon campaign to breach telecommunications companies has continued through the new year despite efforts by governments to stop the [intruders], researchers said Thursday." ☛ https://therecord.media/china-salt-typhoon-cisco-devices | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:33:42

• "To carry out this latest campaign of intrusions, Salt Typhoon—which Recorded Future tracks under its own name, RedMike," ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/chinas-salt-typhoon-spies-are-still-hacking-telecoms-now-by-exploiting-cisco-routers/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:34:28

• Proprietary back doors to blame: "The group likely compiled a list of target devices based on their association with telecommunications providers' networks" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/salt_typhoon_pwned_7_more/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:34:52

• "The key to planning what you eat, I’ve realised, starts by owning a handful of quality cookbooks, which contain healthy, easy-to-cook meals that taste great." ☛ https://harrycresswell.com/writing/planning-meals/ | Source: Harry Cresswell    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:35:51

• "But an informed person is a free person." ☛ https://mzll.it/2025/02/who-are-aware-of-it/ | Source: Luigi Mozzillo    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:36:07

• "In 2022–2023, enrollment in publicly funded preschool hit an all-time high, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research" ☛ https://www.vox.com/policy/399427/preschool-pre-k-kids-school-early-education | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:36:38

• "This new award celebrates innovations that have transformed scholarly publishing." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/12/announcing_rosenblum_award/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:37:11

• "If you are worried about software engineering candidates using LLMs to pass your technical interviews, one of these is true: [...]" ☛ https://blog.sulami.xyz/posts/llm-interviews/ | Source: Robin Schroer    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:41:19

• "In addition to its humanitarian impact, supporters say, foreign aid is a relatively inexpensive way for the U.S. to exercise so-called soft power, helping it to counter hostile rivals such as China and Russia." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/02/13/usaid-shutdown-would-halt-research-grants-to-state-universities/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:42:00

• "Two-way repeated measures ANOVA is a powerful statistical test used to analyze datasets where two within-subject factors (independent variables) are measured multiple times for each subject." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/two-way-repeated-measures-anova-in-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:43:02

• "One of the neat things about the PCG random number generator by Melissa O’Neill is its use of instruction-level parallelism: the PCG state update can run in parallel with its output permutation." ☛ https://dotat.at/@/2025-02-13-pcg32-simd.html | Source: Tony Finch    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:43:08

• "Optimal Bounds for Open Addressing Without Reordering," ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/hash_table_breakthrough/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:43:30

• "Multiple countries are gradually considering the concept of Smart Cities, a key consideration in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31676 | Source: SANS    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:44:13

• "Your voice isn't hidden in someone else's style guide. It's in the emails you write to close friends. The conversations you have when you forget anyone's listening. The things you say when you're brave enough to tell the truth." ☛ https://andysblog.uk/the-search-for-your-voice/ | Source: Andy Hawthorne    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:44:31

• "It seems these days, I look to the past for inspiration and this time is no different. I’ve decided to create a message board called The RSS Haven." ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/introducing-the-rss-haven-a-web-forum/ | Source: Brandon    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:44:46

• "I randomly started watching Molli and Max in the Future on the bald logistics baron’s video streaming service." ☛ https://daniel.industries/2025/02/13/molli-and-max-in-the-future-predicts-the-future/ | Source: Daniel Miller    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:45:05

• "Some of them are longer and I don't have time to read them just now. Sometimes I just feel more in the mood to read about iOS development than spor" ☛ https://www.neilmacy.co.uk/blog/timelines-and-rss-feeds | Source: Neil Macy    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:45:31

• "This is the card I received. It is a 1MB card which is expandable to 2MB, missing the bracket and has some physical damage. I was pretty sure I knew what was wrong before I purchased it. So, I went ahead and bought it. You can see some jumper pins are damaged. That isn’t the main problem, but something I will repair." ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/repair-of-a-trident-vlb-graphics-card/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:46:46

• "Night vision camera support on the Raspberry Pi is nothing new but this crazy thermal fusion night vision helmet put together by maker and developer Angus Logue is absolutely something different." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/maker-creates-raspberry-pi-powered-thermal-fusion-night-vision-goggles | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:47:09

• "I've been testing XMPP clients for the Raspberry Pi. When it comes to Multi-User chat, Gajim is the best for the Raspberry Pi." ☛ https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=384007 | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:48:22

• DietPi 9.10 Brings RISC-V Upgrades, Raspberry Pi Kernel Migration ☞ https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-10-brings-risc-v-upgrades/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:48:49

• "SECO S.p.A. and Raspberry Pi Ltd have introduced the SECO Pi Vision 10.1 CM5, an HMI solution powered by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/seco-pi-vision-10-1-brings-modular-industrial-hmi-with-raspberry-pi-cm5/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:50:07

• "DietPi, a lightweight Debian-based Linux distribution designed for single-board computers (such as Raspberry Pi)" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-10-brings-risc-v-upgrades/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:51:35

• How To Install RetroArch on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-retroarch-linux-mint-22/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:58:24

• How To Create Bash Aliases in GNU/Linux ☞ https://idroot.us/create-bash-aliases/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 16:58:42

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

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:00:17

• Microsoft Teams is proprietary spyware; use Free software options instead ☞ https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-teams-opensuse/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:02:51

• How To Install NestJS on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nestjs-debian-12/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:03:48

• [Updated] How to Set Up and Personalize KDE Plasma on Ubuntu 24.04 ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/install-kde-plasma-ubuntu/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:05:14

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

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:05:41

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

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:05:53

• The Models Want to Reason ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/02/12/The-Models-Want-to-Reason/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:22:58

• "I was talking to a friend about how to add a directory to your PATH today." ☛ https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/13/how-to-add-a-directory-to-your-path/ | Source: Julia Evans    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:24:40

• "I was refactoring my .zshrc recently, and found these existing options for managing the command history: [...]" ☛ https://pjg1.site/zsh-history-opts | Source: Piya Gehi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:24:46

• "Datasette Lite is a version of Datasette that runs entirely in your browser." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/13/url-addressable-python/ | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:25:36

• "In the programming world, laziness can often be a good thing: it is both a human quality that can motivate automation efforts, and a programming concept that avoids wasting resources such as memory." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/lazy-introduction-to-laziness-in-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:30:42

• "One of the pieces of advice about design that has stuck in my head over the last year is to build a habit of noting interesting designs." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/12/prior-art-technology-design | Source: James G    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:30:54

• "Instead, in Zig, there are two common methods for comparing strings." ☛ https://www.openmymind.net/Switching-On-Strings-In-Zig/ | Source: Karl Seguin    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:31:55

• "Today the R package acs was recently “archived” from CRAN. This led to the choroplethr package (which I maintain) also being “archived”." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/is-cran-holding-r-back/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:32:11

• "Now, I’ve had a lot of conversations on this general topic in recent years – enough to provide fodder for a list of FAQs: [...]" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/02/13/defending-the-walled-garden-yes-academic-libraries-actually-should-focus-on-the-needs-of-their-host-institutions/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:34:37

• "Python seems to be everywhere these days, and I’m really into learning languages" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/book-review-pandas-workout/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:35:50

• "Description: Do the words “Web API” sound intimidating to you?" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/hitting-web-apis-with-httr2-in-r-workshop/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:36:22

• "I have 20 talks uploaded and transcribed." ☛ https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0051/ | Source: Jamie Brandon    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:37:09

• "If you have an Eleventy-based site" ☛ https://blog.martin-haehnel.de/blog/2025/02/12/search-in-eleventy/ | Source: Martin Hähne    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:38:24

• "I use Hugo for all my static site needs. It has downsides as well, but at least it’s fast, it lets me write standard HTML, CSS, and JS" ☛ https://www.jameskerr.blog/posts/superdb-website-build-review/ | Source: James Kerr    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:38:50

• "When I moved this site to my own hosting I rewrote the dynamic code that had previously been handled by edge functions in PHP." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/dynamic-pages-with-php-and-11ty |    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:38:58

• LibreOffice goes collaborative and Wasm as ZetaOffice ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/libreoffice_wasm_zetaoffice/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:54:29

• "This is a quick follow-up patch release due to the number of ugly regressions in the 8.12.0 release." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/02/13/curl-8-12-1/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:55:09

• "For quick file switching, I would recommend things like telescope.nvim or Harpoon. This post is not about file switching, but file-based operations." ☛ https://pawelgrzybek.com/neovim-file-explorers/ | Source: Paweł Grzybek    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:55:52

• "I finally found a Pinboard-like replacement that I can easily self-host and that’s just perfect for my needs: linkding (GitHub link)." ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2025/02/14/self-hosted-bookmarks-manager/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 17:55:59

• "MINIX has recently launched the NGC-NR660, a compact yet powerful Mini PC featuring an AMD Ryzen 5 6600H processor and AMD Radeon 660M graphics" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/minix-ngc-nr660-mini-pc-with-high-speed-2-5gbe-networking-and-triple-display-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:03:19

• "The transition was announced on the mailing list in July and marks a significant development for the rolling release." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/13/tw-plans-to-adopt-selinux-as-default/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:04:51

• "Ubuntu Pro goes beyond patching and maintenance" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-can-you-personalize-your-ubuntu-pro-subscription | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:05:39

• "There are several key tools and concepts that are critical to building more secure software supply chains and application lifecycles." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/democratize-security-processes-your-software-development-lifecycle | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:07:25

• "EPMS addresses a core cybersecurity challenge: verifying that all systems are consistently patched against known vulnerabilities." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/epms-cornerstone-cybersecurity-defense-operations | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:07:33

• What past? The eugenics? https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article299816654.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:10:08

• Red Hat is pushing buzzwords and hype again https://www.redhat.com/en/compiler-podcast/ai-101    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:11:11

• Quarkus in Action: Getting started with Quarkus ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/13/quarkus-in-action-getting-started    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:12:49

• Jonathan Dowland: 10 years at Red Bait ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/redhat/10/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:18:55

• sean michael kerner, former editor of Linux Today, once again running puff pieces for Microsoft. Was the editor assigning this as paid PR? https://venturebeat.com/ai/taking-ai-to-the-playground-linkedin-combines-llms-langchain-and-jupyter-notebooks-to-improve-prompt-engineering/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:26:23

• Braže cautious on Convicted Felon-Putin conversations over Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/13.02.2025-braze-cautious-on-trump-putin-conversations-over-ukraine.a587628/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:28:21

• Lilbits: New Fashion Company Apple hardware, Asahi GNU/Linux shakeup, Android 16 Beta 2, and Amazon makes backing up Kindle eBooks tougher, ☞ https://liliputing.com/lilbits-new-apple-hardware-asahi-linux-shakeup-android-16-beta-2-and-amazon-makes-backing-up-kindle-ebooks-tougher/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:28:48

• "Putin-Trump call" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/13/russian-stocks-jump-6-6-percent-at-moscow-exchange-open-after-putin-trump-conversation | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:30:40

• "Commenting on Putin-Trump phone call" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/13/commenting-on-putin-trump-phone-call-kremlin-spokesman-says-moscow-views-washington-as-its-main-counterpart-in-ukraine-peace-talks | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:30:59

• "Zelensky’s days are numbered" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/13/zelensky-s-days-are-numbered | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:31:16

• Norway pledges $50 million to Drone Coalition for Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/13.02.2025-norway-pledges-50-million-to-drone-coalition-for-ukraine.a587635/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:32:01

• "The Wall Street Journal" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/14/vance-threatens-u-s-troops-in-ukraine-and-sanctions-on-russia-if-moscow-rejects-peace-deal-the-wall-street-journal | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:32:09

• Saeima to look at tourism ban to Russia, Belarus ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/13.02.2025-saeima-to-look-at-tourism-ban-to-russia-belarus.a587679/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:32:26

• Latvia's State Security Service keeps an eye on anti-Baltic 'conference' speakers ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/13.02.2025-latvias-state-security-service-keeps-an-eye-on-anti-baltic-conference-speakers.a587599/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:33:26

• Hey Hi (AI) Hype☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-hub-in-poland-to-develop-ai-use-in-energy-and-cybersecurity-sectors/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:34:00

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: 2024 State of Rust Survey Results ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/13/2024-State-Of-Rust-Survey-results.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:34:56

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 586 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/02/12/this-week-in-rust-586/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:35:24

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1009450/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:36:05

• Russell Coker: Browser Choice ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/02/13/browser-choice/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:36:32

• Hacks.Mozilla.Org: Launching Interop 2025 ☞ https://hacks.mozilla.org/2025/02/interop-2025/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:39:22

• 🔤SpellBinding — EFVLOTG Wordo: KNOCK gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-14.gmi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:41:06

• Shavian alphabet 8x8 pixel typeface gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/vi/25370    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:41:48

• "Slow progress, but progress nonetheless. Lots of frustrations, but at least I've ended up with something tangible." gemini://sporiff.dev/2025/02/14/devlog_9/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:42:28

• Nearly a Year Later, Mozilla is Still Promoting OneRep ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/nearly-a-year-later-mozilla-is-still-promoting-onerep/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 18:59:11

• "Less math, more Mandarin Russian schools are losing teachers" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/13/less-math-more-mandarin | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:02:09

• "Galina Timchenko with violating ‘foreign agents’ law" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/13/russia-charges-meduza-co-founder-galina-timchenko-with-violating-foreign-agent-law | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:02:29

• "He had a lot to do with this" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/13/he-had-a-lot-to-do-with-this | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:11:04

• "Russian money launderer traded for Mark Fogel returns to Moscow, visits mother" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/14/russian-money-launderer-traded-for-mark-fogel-returns-to-moscow-visits-mother | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:11:22

• Major publishers launch copyright monopoly lawsuit against Hey Hi (AI) startup Cohere ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/13/major-publishers-launch-copyright-lawsuit-ai-startup-cohere/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:12:05

• "Canonical’s Utkarsh Gupta reports that an ‘unfortunate incident’ resulting in some of the newly spun Ubuntu 24.04.2 images (for flavours) being built without the new HWE kernel on board (which is Linux 6.11, for those unaware)." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/ubuntu-24-04-second-point-release-delay    

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

• Can you use a general-purpose OS like Windows or Ubuntu to replace your dedicated NAS OS? https://www.xda-developers.com/can-an-all-purpose-operating-system-replace-your-dedicated-nas-os/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:13:45

• https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml   

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:14:22

• How to Install a Docker-Driven Home Server on Ubuntu With CasaOS https://builtin.com/articles/docker-casaos    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:14:43

• "The official GNOME website has an important role, serving as both showcase and springboard for those looking to learn more about the desktop environment, the app ecosystem, developer documentation, or how to get involved and support the project." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/gnome-website-revamp-goes-live    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:15:12

• "If you're facing the end of support for your operating system, I recommend giving Siduction a try - especially if you're a Pink Floyd fan." https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-old-laptop-can-shine-on-after-windows-10s-sunset-with-this-linux-distro/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:17:33

• Student turns PDF into functional Linux emulator https://dev.ua/en/news/student-peretvoryv-pdf-fail-na-funktsionalnyi-emuliator-linux-1739455571    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:18:11

• Buzzwords and bluff https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/increased-linux-kernel-timer-frequency-delivers-big-boost-in-ai-workloads    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:20:35

• FINALDRAFT Malware Exploits Microsoft Graph API for Espionage on Windows and Linux https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/finaldraft-malware-exploits-microsoft.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:20:59

• "For game devs using FMOD, they were already aware of the issue, and solved it with FMOD 2.02.00. The FMOD team said for older versions, using the execstack command is safe." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-glibc-2-41-update-has-been-causing-problems-for-linux-gaming/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:21:26

• THIS IS MORE ANTI-Linux LLM slop https://gbhackers.com/critical-vulnerability-in-falcon-sensor/ see https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:22:11

• Also slop https://cybersecuritynews.com/crowdstrike-falcon-sensor-linux-tls-vulnerability/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:22:37

• "A classic use for Linux is to breathe life into an old PC. Some distributions are more lightweight than others, though. Which distro in your experience has the most spring in its step?" https://www.howtogeek.com/thread/which-linux-distro-do-you-think-is-the-fastest/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:24:05

• "Those worried about having to install a system that might not live up to their expectations should be aware that Bluestar can also be used as a live distro with support for persistent storage." https://www.notebookcheck.net/Bluestar-Linux-6-13-2-sports-a-new-kernel-Firefox-135-Libreoffice-25-2-and-more.960678.0.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:24:28

• "If your PC can't upgrade to Windows 11, switching to Linux can extend its life past 2025. WattOS is one of the best options I've tested." https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-brought-my-aging-pc-back-to-life-with-this-lightweight-linux-os-and-its-easy-to-use/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:24:49

• "You don't see this happening from many developers of online multiplayer games. The patch notes mentioned "High-end computers running the Bazzite (Linux) system were mistakenly tapping into low-quality UI resources. Fear not—this issue has been rm'd!"." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/marvel-rivals-gets-a-low-quality-ui-fix-for-bazzite-linux/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:25:16

• Student turns a PDF into a functional Linux emulator https://www.techspot.com/news/106752-student-turns-pdf-functional-linux-emulator.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:25:35

• How to use the lsblk command https://www.networkworld.com/video/3824003/how-to-use-the-lsblk-command.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:26:50

• VirtualBox vs. UTM: Which Is Best for Linux VMs on Mac https://www.howtogeek.com/virtualbox-vs-utm-which-is-best-for-linux-vms-on-mac/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:27:21

• Fedora's Code of Conduct: 200 Day Response Time, Only Protects You if Red Bait Likes You ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/fedoras-code-of-conduct-200-day-response    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:38:51

• "She asked to pass along that she loves you all" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/14/she-asked-to-pass-along-that-she-loves-you-all | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:39:32

• "Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/14/russian-drone-strikes-and-damages-sarcophagus-at-chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant-zelensky-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:39:53

• How to use large language models to assist in systematic literature reviews ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/how-to-use-large-language-models-to-assist-in-systematic-literature-reviews/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:40:41

• Gold’s Rise Over Silver Amid Convicted Felon Tariffs ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/golds-rise-over-silver-amid-trump-tariffs/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:41:38

• A First Look at TimeGPT using nixtlar ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/a-first-look-at-timegpt-using-nixtlar/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:41:55

• Announcing Istio 1.23.5 ☞ https://istio.io/latest//news/releases/1.23.x/announcing-1.23.5/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:42:33

• Announcing Istio 1.24.3 ☞ https://istio.io/latest//news/releases/1.24.x/announcing-1.24.3/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:42:42

• New American Oversight Report Details Impacts of Far-Right Classroom Censorship on Public Education ☞ https://americanoversight.org/new-american-oversight-report-details-impacts-of-far-right-classroom-censorship-on-public-education/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:44:16

• SteamOS comes to the Lenovo Legion Go S - Is this Steam Machines 2.0 ? ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/steam-os-comes-to-the-lenovo-legion-go-s-is-this-steam-machines-2-0/index.html    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:46:52

• ‘Avowed’ Is Playable On Steam Deck, But Do This First ☞ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/02/13/avowed-runs-well-on-steam-deck-but-do-this-first/    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:47:04

• Dangers - Mysterious Friend gemini://lantashifiles.com/gemlog/entries/2025-02-14.gmi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:50:20

• "we'd talk about history, life, culture, politics, all kinds of nerd stuff. All in all, we had a great relationship." gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/2025-02-14.gmi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:51:17

• This is what my therapist calls depersonalization-derealization disorder gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/2025-02-13.gmi    

posted Friday, February 14, 2025 at 19:51:52