Roy Schestowitz

• Freeland https://www.dw.com/en/canada-detects-china-linked-campaign-targeting-freeland/a-71545318    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:50:19

• Shipping container village https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/gatineau-shipping-container-village-full-after-one-month-1.4430885    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:51:40

• When life gives you lemons, live in a shipping container    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:52:05

• "The expectation is the 300 IBM based jobs will be more productive than the 3000+ from India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jma144j9    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:53:09

• "People making making the McDonald’s references have the IQ of an imbecile" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk8g4dph    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:53:56

• "It’s not clear why you think you don’t belong on PIP. You need to have full proof of that. Not sure why you mention disability and being at retirement age, neither gives you a free pass, Trust me I know." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jma1j24p    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:55:53

• "It all depends on where IBM stands with its disability quota. Of course they will deny of one such quota placed on them by federal government." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkw27we4    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:56:19

• "Yes, never disclose a disability when employed or looking for a new job. It's the kiss of death regardless of what laws say. Unless a family member has a disability others look at you as a problem, not a asset. Period end of story." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkw27we4    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:57:23

• "and the interesting posting and remarks about DEI at IBM seems to have disappeared. Seems that someone wants to change the clock back after the posting struck a raw nerve....LOL ! Was it Alvind or one of his Pipmunks ? Someone is awfully sensitive when it comes to DEI and keeping the DEI flame burning at IBM. Raises and promotions should be based on merit ...." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:58:23

• "their primary goal is not to produce great products but to produce high share prices which is how they get wealthier. those 2 goals are not perfectly aligned" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:59:14

• "The stock buyback effort keeps the share price high. Who can trust a company that have a $ 60 Billion debt, when It is yearly revenue barely exceeds $ 60 Billion. Bankruptcy is looming, Creditors will get it for cheap." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 04:59:55

• Meta rebranded performance-based layoffs as ‘non-regrettable attrition’    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:01:24

• Who would TRUST any airlines THIS YEAR? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/business/17southwest-airlines-layoffs.html Trump is "saving my country" by screwing with aircraft control    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:02:25

• Hundreds of FAA Employees Drawn into Mass Layoffs https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/air-transport/2025-02-17/hundreds-faa-employees-drawn-mass-layoffs    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:03:29

• Hundreds of FAA air traffic control staff fired just weeks after fatal DC plane crash https://6abc.com/post/trump-administration-begins-firings-faa-air-traffic-control-staff-weeks-fatal-dc-plane-crash/15920956/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:03:56

• diversifying export https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/path-to-diversification-quebec-economy-tariffs-1.7453907    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:20:29

• I didn't feel able to have a child https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/i-didn-t-feel-able-to-have-a-child-because-i-didn-t-own-a-home-i-m-glad-i-was-wrong-1.7452893 Corporate media trying to tell people to get child-saddled, never mind overpopulation woes    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:21:18

• The Phantom Terrorists https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-phantom-terrorists-searching-for-islamic-state-in-syria-a-40b2f920-079b-40e3-b1d3-80fc0a1ea1b0    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:22:33

• Treasury agrees to block additional DOGE staff from accessing sensitive payment systems https://therecord.media/treasury-agrees-block-doge-access    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:24:29

• Indiana Man https://databreaches.net/2025/02/07/indiana-man-sentenced-to-20-years-in-federal-prison-for-conspiracies-involving-cyber-intrusion-and-a-massive-37-million-cryptocurrency-theft/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:25:03

• Attorney General James Releases Statement on DOGE Access to Sensitive Personal Information https://databreaches.net/2025/02/07/attorney-general-james-releases-statement-on-doge-access-to-sensitive-personal-information/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:25:35

• Random Tangents gemini://tirohia.smol.pub/1739822884    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:30:23

• "My go-to tool for automatically downloading files over Gemini protocol has been the gmni command line client. I've very glad to gmni exists, but it bothered me that I didn't have a way to do using just Elisp code. Naturally, I wondered if Elpher made available an API for this." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250217-0.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:31:40

• "You like poetry? I'm working on one. It's called Self Reminder. Lend a patron your ear?" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2497    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:32:33

• Battlestation Crocket gemini://triplemon.smol.pub/battlestation_crocket    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:33:31

• "I like reading the 'about' pages on gopher holes, and finding interesting tidbits. The downlinkomega gopher site [0] runs on a Windows 95 486 box, perfectly appropriate for a gopher server. As expected, the response is quite speedy, despite the limited hardware." gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/old-gopher-server-devuan-upgrade.md    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:35:30

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1559.jpg    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:36:03

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1209.jpg    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:36:09

• Old: Mark Shuttleworth resigns from Debian https://danielpocock.com/mark-shuttleworth-debian-volunteer-suicide-mass-resignations/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 05:41:34

• crypto scam ☛ https://thegrayzone.com/2025/02/17/milei-impeach-crypto-scam/ | Source: The Gray Zone http://techrights.org/o/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:16:54

• "The Hanoi People's Procuracy in Vietnam has issued an indictment against two men said to be the operators of the massive Fmovies piracy empire shut down last year." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/incredible-fmovies-piracy-indictment-is-not-a-stunning-victory-for-hollywood-250217/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:18:00

• "After previously making some improvements for Steam Deck, developer Pounce Light have now implemented more proper controller support for Tiny Glade. Now even more people will be able to enjoy it, as controller support will make it a lot more accessible." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-beautiful-diorama-builder-tiny-glade-adds-controller-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:19:41

• "A Game About Digging A Hole has a very simple idea, everything about it is in the name, and yet it managed to pull a whole lot of people in." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/a-whole-lot-of-people-picked-up-a-shovel-for-a-game-about-digging-a-hole/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:19:54

• "Luanti (formerly Minetest) has a new release out, which finally adds an in-game settings menu so you don't have to quit your current game to adjust things." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/luanti-formerly-minetest-v5-11-out-now-with-an-in-game-settings-menu-and-better-server-browser/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:20:13

• "From Walaber Entertainment who made Parking Garage Rally Circuit and JellyCar Worlds, their next game is Replicube." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/check-out-the-demo-for-replicube-an-open-ended-programming-puzzle-game-from-walaber/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:20:56

• "Exabyte Games announced they're bringing their popular survival strategy base-builder to PC with Final Outpost: Definitive Edition. There's a demo available now with Native Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/final-outpost-is-hopping-over-from-mobile-to-pc-with-a-definitive-edition-demo-available-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:21:33

• "A gay imam was killed in South Africa. His friend says his death 'will not be in vain'" https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/muhsin-hendricks-gay-imam-1.7461246    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:22:21

• "1st openly gay Muslim imam killed in South Africa; ‘hate crime’ suspected" https://www.voanews.com/a/st-openly-gay-muslim-imam-killed-in-south-africa-hate-crime-suspected-/7977802.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:22:36

• "South African Imam and Gay Rights Advocate is Shot Dead" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/africa/south-african-imam-gay-rights-dead.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:22:50

• topic: "Here's the ad the Washington Post wouldn't run - Common Cause" https://www.commoncause.org/articles/jeff-bezos-doesnt-want-you-to-see-this/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:27:13

• "Independent Sentencing Review: penal populism has broken our prisons" https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/society/2025/02/penal-populism-has-broken-britains-prisons-david-gauke-sentencing-review    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:27:23

• "Things get weird real fast in SUPER DEBT, a new bullet-hell dungeon crawler from developer zagawee, who also made Garbanzo Quest." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/super-debt-is-a-twin-stick-bullet-hell-dungeon-crawler-where-time-eats-away-your-money/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:27:51

• "In a world where Artificial Intelligence is everywhere, you work for an AI megacorp and you're the one sent around to people's homes to fix up all their problems." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/ai-is-everywhere-in-ai-confidential-and-its-your-job-to-fix-up-all-the-robots-check-out-the-demo/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:52:58

• "Here's a bit of fluff for you today: fans of Deep Rock Galactic are in for a treat, as you can now grab an officially licensed beer mug and they sure do look fancy." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/now-you-can-get-a-real-life-deep-rock-galactic-mug-for-all-your-beer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:53:12

• "With a demo now available, Is This Seat Taken? is a wonderfully charming idea for a logic puzzle game about picking up people and putting them in the right seat." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/is-this-seat-taken-is-a-thoroughly-charming-puzzle-game-about-swapping-seats/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:53:26

• "Same old: Lukashenka’s centrally planned economy is a burden for Belarus" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/02/17/same-old-lukashenkas-centrally-planned-economy-is-a-burden-for-belarus/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:56:05

• "Finnish PM calls cross-party meeting on foreign, security policy" https://yle.fi/a/74-20144279    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:56:15

• "Zelensky to Visit Saudi Arabia After U.S.-Russia Talks - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/17/zelensky-to-visit-saudi-arabia-after-us-russia-talks-a88047    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:56:24

• "Ukrainian Drones Hit Major Pipeline in Southern Russia, Disrupting Oil Supplies - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/17/ukrainian-drones-hit-major-pipeline-in-southern-russia-disrupting-oil-supplies-a88043    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:56:36

• "Delta plane flips upside down in Toronto crash, at least 17 injured" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2277723.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:56:59

• "'I was just in a plane crash': Survivor shares video of moment Delta jet flipped, crash-landed in Toronto - The Times of India" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/i-was-just-in-a-plane-crash-toronto-plane-crash-survivor-shares-video-of-moment-delta-plane-flipped/articleshow/118339739.cms    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:57:14

• "Delta flight flips over at Toronto airport leaving at least 17 injured, including child: Latest" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/delta-plane-toronto-crash-live-updates-b2699775.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:57:30

• "Delta plane crash at Toronto airport in Canada: All on board survive, officials say" https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/delta-flight-crash-toronto-airport    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:57:47

• "No fatalities after plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto's Pearson airport" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-pearson-overturned-airplane-1.7461227    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:57:57

• "U.S. Commuter Jet Ends Up Upside Down at Toronto Airport" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jet-upside-down-toronto-airport-1235270676/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:58:13

• "Local AI Voice Generators Are Here!" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/local-ai-voice-generators-are-here!:7    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:58:24

• "Crockett zings Musk with 'apology' to MAGA on immigrant stance" https://boingboing.net/2025/02/17/jasmine-crockett-zings-elon-musk-with-heartfelt-apology-to-maga-you-were-1000-percent-correct-on-immigrants.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:58:40

• "Aggressive Defense Of The Rule Of Law" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/15/aggressive-defense-of-the-rule-of-law/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:58:51

• "Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say" https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/14/climate/nuclear-nnsa-firings-trump/index.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:59:01

• "DOGE2025 Is Getting the Catastrophic De-Ba'athification They Demanded" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/17/doge2025-is-getting-the-catastrophic-de-baathification-they-demanded/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:59:16

• "Computers, Cars & Creatures" https://connortumbleson.com/2025/02/17/computers-cars-creatures/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:59:26

• "Europe's security is at a 'turning point', EU leader warns" https://www.thelocal.dk/20250217/europes-security-is-at-a-turning-point-eu-leader-warns http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/By_Buying_Twitter_MElon_and_Cheeto_Now_Control_EU_Politicians_E.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 06:59:40

• Remember who helped MElon finance the Twitter buyout: the biggest boosters of Cheeto    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:00:16

• Twitter became GAB    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:00:26

• "Filmen «Seven» – bibliotek-etisk misvisande – Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2025/02/17/filmen-seven-bibliotek-etisk-misvisande/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:00:41

• Just a BRIBE using money that does not exist and will not be spent. This is stenography: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-to-invest-700-million-in-poland-polish-pm/articleshow/118326107.cms ("Microsoft to invest $700 million in Poland: Polish PM")    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:01:17

• "‘Iran not safe if you have blonde hair and blue eyes’, tourists warned after UK couple arrested" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/16/british-couple-arrested-iran-kerman-tehran-foreign-office/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:01:35

• "Concerned Bartender Takes Away Pete Hegseth’s Security Clearance - The Onion" https://theonion.com/concerned-bartender-takes-away-pete-hegseths-security-clearance/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:01:52

• "Firefox Public Data Report" poisoned with gratuitous javascript https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:02:05

• oil ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/16/leaked-oil-executives-donald-trump-allies-attend-jordan-peterson-alliance-for-responsible-citizenship-london-conference/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:03:03

• coal ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/17/u-s-energy-secretary-chris-wright-backs-coal-and-attacks-sinister-climate-targets-at-arc-conference/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:03:11

• "YouTube is a massive competitor to TV" ☛ https://theconversation.com/youtube-at-20-how-it-transformed-viewing-in-eight-steps-250083 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:08:53

• "I’ve been seeing a bunch of links to online stores that sell digital media — books, music, etc. — that is without DRM" ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/02/18/an-incomplete-list-of-drmfree.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:09:02

• "More than 95% of the world’s internet traffic is transferred through undersea cables" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/17/meta-plans-to-build-worlds-longest-underwater-sub-sea-cable-venture | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:10:00

• "His argument was rejected by the tribunal, which upheld Ms Miluska’s claims of pregnancy discrimination and unfair dismissal" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pregnant-woman-unfair-dismissal-employment-tribunal-birmingham-b2699614.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:21:01

• "A new report published today finds that news audiences and journalists alike are concerned about how news organisations are - and could be - using generative AI such as chatbots" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/generative-ai-is-already-being-used-in-journalism-heres-how-people-feel-about-it/articleshow/118319657.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:21:23

• "It isn’t clear how much AI-edited copy The Times will allow in published articles." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/613989/new-york-times-internal-ai-tools-echo | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:22:01

• "The other side: AP — which has long been considered the gold standard of neutrality — rejects any accusation of bias." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/trump-ap-gulf-america-mexico | Source: Axios    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:22:28

• "New York Times goes AI for newspaper content generation"... so ANYTHING there is now SUSPECT! ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/17/guardian-does-openai-deal-new-york-times-goes-ai-for-newspaper-content-generation/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:23:11

• "responsible journalism." ☛ https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-weekly-a-star-chamber-for-journalists-2/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:23:57

• "Digital rights experts say the situation has created an unprecedented imbalance in power." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/17/elon-musk-x-target-critics-federal-employees/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:27:29

• "Signal is notably used by journalists to receive confidential information from sources, reassured by the knowledge that messages are end-to-end encrypted and stored on-device." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/613997/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:27:50

• High-Level Criminals Associate Privacy With Crime Because They Want Privacy Only for Themselves (Control But No Accountability) http://techrights.org/o/2020/08/14/control-but-no-accountability/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:28:13

• "Political Prisoners" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/17/un-expert-sounds-alarm-on-2000-political-prisoners-in-russia-a88054 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:28:29

• "Navalny's lawyers remain "unjustly imprisoned, together with hundreds of political prisoners"" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/16/russias-putin-bears-ultimate-responsibility-for-navalnys-death-eu-a88035 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:29:00

• "The Trump administration is facing multiple lawsuits challenging the actions" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/trump-firing-power-supreme-court-watchdog-dellinger | Source: Axios    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:29:32

• "100% in the bag for Musk and Trump" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/bezos-is-as-always-100-in-the-bag-for-musk-and-trump/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/The_Washington_Post_Jeff_Bezos_Dies_in_Darkness.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:30:03

• "You read that right. The Washington Post – which has a responsibility to hold a magnifying glass up to powerful people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump – refused to run our ad calling them out." ☛ https://www.commoncause.org/articles/jeff-bezos-doesnt-want-you-to-see-this/ | Source: Common Cause    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:30:23

• "Janus Rose’s You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism crossed my radar on a hundred channels." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/02/08/Posting-and-Fascism | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:30:49

• "Jesus’ warnings are dire: it is possible to love the Bible so much that you lose sight of loving the people God loves: the lost, the lowly, the broken, those far from God" ☛ https://aj.bourg.family/i-desire-mercy/ | Source: AJ Bourg    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:31:17

• "A new ruling from the Danish Tax Council (Skatterådet) has determined that you are no longer tax liable in Denmark if you move abroad." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250217/digital-nomads-how-to-work-for-a-danish-company-without-paying-danish-tax | Source: The Local DK    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:32:18

• "According to the US Department of Energy, the energy requirement for a large data center is 100 MWe, which is equivalent to the energy consumed by approximately 80,000 households in the United States." ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/02/17/nuclear-energy-for-ai-data-centers/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:33:28

• "The Trump administration has started firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration probationary employees who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure, according to their union." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/16/politics/faa-employees-fired-trump-administration/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:33:43

• "The Musk-Trump Administration fired "three hundred" FAA employees over the weekend — just hours before Saturday's deadly plane crash near Atlanta, Georgia that killed two people." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/02/17/trump-fires-hundreds-of-faa-workers-hours-before-yet-another-deadly-plane-crash.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:33:58

• "The climate aware intersectional justice movement is on the back foot, and the fascists have (for now) won the propaganda war." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/back-foot | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:49:48

• "If passed, the bill would require the state Department of Ecology to establish PFAS sampling and testing requirements for biosolids by July 2027." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-washington-state-human-fertilizer-pfas.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 07:50:12

• "In September 2015 the then Secretary of State for Justice commissioned a departmental review, supported by external expertise" ☛ https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/islamist-extremism-in-prisons-probation-and-youth-justice/summary-of-the-main-findings-of-the-review-of-islamist-extremism-in-prisons-probation-and-youth-justice | Source: The United Kingdom    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:32:10

• "The National Offender Management Service (NOMS) is reviewing how it deals with extremism in prisons and its report is expected later this year." ☛ https://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7487/CBP-7487.pdf | Source: The United Kingdom    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:32:20

• "more than 100 Muslims are in jail for terrorism offences in Great Britain" ☛ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32194671 | Source: BBC    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:39:37

• "As per the report, there are 13,724 Muslims residing in England and Wales." ☛ https://www.firstpost.com/world/at-4-per-cent-of-uks-population-muslims-make-up-18-per-cent-of-criminals-in-jail-11281491.html | Source: Firstpost    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:40:23

• "A Russian court has fined Alphabet's Google 3.8 million roubles ($41,530) for hosting content on YouTube that included videos instructing Russian soldiers how to surrender, Russia's TASS news agency reported on Monday" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/russia-fines-google-for-youtube-clip-telling-russian-troops-how-to-surrender/articleshow/118328126.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:40:38

• "he three men together with a fourth were, however, convicted of participation in a terrorist organisation, Islamic State in Somalia, the court said in a statement." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-17/swedish-court-acquits-three-men-of-preparation-of-terrorist-crime | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:41:02

• "That was the Third Reich's [Nazi Germany's] project in Europe. Russia's current aggression against Ukraine is of this very nature" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/17/moscow-furious-over-italys-third-reich-comparison-a88051 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:56:36

• "This time Musk is investigating the exact same agency that is currently targeting him – and fined him $22 million for security violations in a past case." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-sec-tesla-doge-b2699798.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:57:15

• "The lawsuit highlighted that Musk and his new department have endangered critical foreign aid programmes and subsequently put people's careers, personal safety, and the lives of the less fortunate at risk." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/usaid-workers-sue-elon-musk-over-unconstitutional-power-grab-endangering-peoples-careers-1731051 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:58:01

• "Donald Trump and Elon Musk's assault on federal workers threatens government employees, working conditions throughout the economy, and the viability of crucial services. Federal workers are uniting across agency and union lines to fight back." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/02/federal-unions-doge-musk-trump/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 08:58:24

• "The cuts included about 20 people in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices, several of whom worked on Neuralink" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-02-17/exclusive-fda-staff-reviewing-musks-neuralink-were-included-in-doge-employee-firings-sources-say | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:01:01

• "U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., heard arguments on Monday" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51255054/judge-expected-to-rule-in-24-hours-in-case-that-aims-to-sharply-curtail-musks-doge | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:01:25

• "We are providing consular assistance to two British Nationals detained in Iran and are in contact with the local authorities" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/02/17/british-couple-detained-iran/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:07:34

• "Demonstrators from New York to Atlanta to San Francisco have taken to the streets Monday in the largest mass-protests since the beginning of the second Trump administration." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/donald-trump-elon-musk-protests-no-kings-day-1235270646/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:08:11

• "As he reviewed the existing security controls" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/17/appropriate-access-and-methods-to-ensure-are-changing/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:08:57

• "It contains information such as taxpayers’ individual master files, taxpayer identification numbers, retirement account information and details on pending adoptions." ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/doge-affiliated-employee-access-irs-system-sensitive-taxpayer-inform-rcna192423 | Source: NBC    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:10:07

• "An Internal Revenue Service employee connected with the Elon Musk-led DOGE team is set to seek access to an IRS system that includes sensitive taxpayer data, the Washington Post first reported Sunday and Axios can confirm." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/17/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data-system | Source: Axios    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:10:26

• "Under pressure from the White House to comply with DOGE’s efforts" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-doge-irs-sensitive-information-b2699770.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:10:42

• "The Atlas of Surveillance is a database of surveillance technologies deployed by law enforcement in communities across the United States." ☛ https://atlasofsurveillance.org/ | Source: EFF    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:16:51

• "For the past few days on Twitter, a particularly alarming screenshot has spread of a forced Microsoft account sign-in screen appearing on Windows 11— this screenshot" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/no-notepad-for-windows-11-doesnt-require-you-to-use-a-microsoft-account-unless-youre-trying-to-use-ai | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:17:30

• "This algorithmic layer aims to do video analysis, whether in real time or after the fact, and to find… whatever the police wants to find" ☛ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2025/02/17/what-is-ai-video-surveillance/ | Source: La Quadature Du Net    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:18:11

• "Email breaches can be devastating, but the earlier you recognize the signs, the quicker you can take action." ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/02/17/how-to-recognize-the-early-warning-signs-of-a-security-breach-in-your-email/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:18:52

• "onnx is an open format for representing machine learning models; it aims to unify the ecosystem. It doesn’t support advanced use cases, such as model training checkpoints, but it is simple, secure (no arbitrary code execution), and easy to build on." ☛ https://mmapped.blog/posts/37-onnx-intro | Source: Roman Kashitsyn    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:27:12

• "A new AI architecture is challenging the status quo. LLaDA is a diffusion model that generates text" ☛ https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/17/diffusion | Source: Tim Kellogg    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:27:28

• "slay the dread "correlation is not causation" beast" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/caliper-ai/#racism-machine | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:27:55

• "Turns out that my thoughts on Ubuntu were somewhat popular, and it ended up being ingested by an AI slop generator over at Fudzilla, with no links back to the source or anything." ☛ https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/02/17/influencer/ | Source: Herman Õunapuu    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:29:06

• "Throughout history, tyranny has been limited by human frailty. Dictators tire." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-final-despotism | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:45:35

• "As India shapes its AI policy, government bodies discuss regulation, ethics, and innovation." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-regulations-still-in-beta-phase/articleshow/118336514.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 09:45:56

• HIGHLY misleading title! https://medium.com/@ibtissamhammadi/why-did-linus-torvalds-reject-100m-to-switch-to-c-127a8b11e4a2    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:24:49

• Seems like SLOP again https://medium.com/@jankammerath/is-windows-haunted-by-gary-kildall-12229204da06 https://medium.com/@jankammerath revisionism, calling facts "conspiracy theory" http://techrights.org/o/2020/01/05/history-canceled/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:44:58

• Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an Hey Hi (AI) to judge workers' personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/caliper-ai/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:48:17

• "According to a recently published procurement note, the 330-year-old institution said it was increasing the contract value awarded to its Oracle implementation partner Version 1 to £13.8 million." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/17/bank_of_england_oracle/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:49:10

• "It is a standard practice to use milestones to reflect on the achievements of a project, such as the anniversary of its first release or first commit." ☛ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1008721/7c31808d76480012/ | Source: LWN    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:49:14

• "To carry out these attacks, Salt Typhoon exploited two vulnerabilities to compromise unpatched Cisco devices running Cisco IOS XE software." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/chinese-hackers-still-breaching-u-s-telecoms-despite-sanctions/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:49:19

• "Why it matters: It's a dangerous environment for a generation that's already sad and stressed" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/02/16/teen-loneliness-tech-ai-chatbots | Source: Axios    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:50:27

• "The foundational knowledge that used to come from struggling through problems is just… missing." ☛ https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-learning | Source: Namanyay Goel    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:51:21

• "The Oxford scientists used quantum entanglement to almost instantaneously send basic information between computers." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/quantum-computing-information-teleportation/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:55:34

• "If so, it will be the first planet ever found orbiting a hypervelocity star." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-may-have-found-the-fastest-star-system-weve-ever-seen | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:56:28

• "This post is simply a list of brief comments on many papers related to minimizers, and forms the basis of /posts/minimizers/." ☛ https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/minimizer-papers/ | Source: Groot Koerkamp    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:56:51

• "David Jara Bogunyà, a marine wildlife photographer, was aboard the research vessel Glaucus when the creature appeared." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-did-deep-sea-anglerfish-rise-thousands-feet-ocean-scientists-baffled-odd-behaviour-i-1731088 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 10:57:02

• "There are two modes of travel; retreat or engage" ☛ https://kk.org/thetechnium/50-years-of-travel-tips/ | Source: Kevin Kelly    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:02:20

• "I hear many men say that as we get older, it becomes more difficult to make new friendships." ☛ https://louplummer.lol/work-friends-real-friends/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:03:01

• "I know there’s nothing to say," ☛ https://henry.codes/writing/what-to-say/ | Source: Henry Desroches    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:03:26

• "Unfortunately comments from Disqus have not been migrated yet." ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/2025-02-17-migrating-comments-to-giscus | Source: MaskRay    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:04:30

• "We recently redesigned our whitepapers as part of our broader rebranding project." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/a-look-under-the-hood-of-our-grid-system-and-typography-for-the-a4-format | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:12:48

• "Now, several years later, I feel much more comfortable running my own mail server again." ☛ https://jlelse.blog/posts/a-few-weeks-self-hosting-mails | Source: Jan Lukas Else    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:13:38

• "I use a non-standard shell and have for a long time, which means that I have to write and maintain my own set of dotfiles" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/MyPATHFilteringProgram | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:14:07

• "We'll discuss how to make sure that your access to TLS (thread-local storage) is fast." ☛ https://yosefk.com/blog/cxx-thread-local-storage-performance.html | Source: Yossi Kreinin    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:14:59

• "I wrote my first program when I was a kid—many, many years ago—not on a computer but on a piece of paper." ☛ https://jarosz.dev/atomicessay/why-test-first-development-is-so-damn-hard/ | Source: Jakub Jarosz    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:15:10

• "tisthemachinelearner: A Lightweight interface to scikit-learn with 2 classes, Classifier and Regressor (in Python and R)" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/tisthemachinelearner-a-lightweight-interface-to-scikit-learn-with-2-classes-classifier-and-regressor-in-python-and-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:15:20

• "In 1986, a document called the 'Techno-Revolution Manifesto,' which was written by a hacker named 'Doctor Crash’" ☛ https://hackernoon.com/hackers-are-becoming-a-rarer-breed | Source: Hacker Noon    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:16:30

• "Artemis, the calm web reader I maintain, has a page where you can see all of the authors to which you are subscribed." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/17/delete-action-design | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:23:30

• "This talk is a deep dive into how browsers decide when to load a specific resource" ☛ https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4852-how-browsers-really-load-web-pages/ | Source: FOSDEM    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:23:40

• ""I’m halfway through my second batch at RC, and one of my batch goals was to learn DevOps/SRE skills by contributing to this cluster. ☛ https://pjg1.site/first-monitoring-system | Source: Piya Gehi    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:24:11

• "TigerVNC, a high-speed remote display system that allows users to view and interact with remote computers, has just released version 1.15." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tigervnc-1-15-released-with-improved-mouse-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:24:43

• "a lot of knowledge on the original Vim of all the features he wanted to have." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/vim-after-bram-a-core-maintainer-on-how-theyve-kept-it-going/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:24:48

• "If they're already authenticated on their phone with an identity provider like Google" ☛ https://cendyne.dev/posts/2025-02-17-qr-code-login.html | Source: Cendyne Naga    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:33:37

• "Pianos famously have a lot of keys. A standard full-size piano has 52 white keys and 36 black keys, for a total of 88." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/02/18/this-robotic-piano-has-solenoids-for-all-88-keys/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:39:01

• "This custom PC both imitates the MDR computer from the show and works as a PC on its own." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-powers-miniature-severance-mdr-computer | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:39:12

• "The woodcraft here was undertaken by Japan's Funaki Woodworks. According to the linked report (machine translation), the work took two to three months to complete." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/fujitsu-celebrates-50-million-laptops-produced-with-one-off-exquisite-kumiko-wooden-lid-model | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:39:24

• "ArcaOS 5.1.1 continues to support installation on the latest generation of UEFI-based systems" ☛ https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-5-1-1-now-available/ | Source: Arca Noae    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:41:00

• "You may have heard that there are a lot of crawlers out there these days, many of them apparently harvesting training data for LLMs." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/HTTPStatusCodesHere-2025-02-16 | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:44:01

• "While designing the quiz, I used two HTML elements I have not yet used: fieldset and legend. You can use fieldset to group multiple inputs together." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/17/designing-lists-of-inputs-with-html-and-css | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:47:43

• "When designing these pages, I thought to myself: is there a way I can make the screenshots appear in light mode or dark mode depending on the user agent’s preference?" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/17/images-light-dark-css | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:48:02

• "A lot of the SVG filter primitive content out there is some really rad, deep-dive type content (I’ll link some of these at the end!), so I reckoned it might be nice to do a quick write-up on some effects I use pretty commonly." ☛ https://henry.codes/writing/how-to-distort-text-with-svg/ | Source: Henry Desroches    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:48:28

• "The syntax highlighting used by my code snippets is generated by pygments, a Python library that lets you turn a string of code into HTML with highlighting rules that you can put on a web page." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/17/code-snippet-style | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:52:17

• [Old] "Spurred by last week’s ShopTalk I rolled out View Transitions here on my static Jekyll site. I hadn’t realized View Transitions for multi-page apps (MPAs) and static sites are ready for testing behind a flag in Chrome 113+." ☛ https://daverupert.com/2023/05/getting-started-view-transitions/ | Source: Dave Rupert    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:52:39

• "I feel like I’m 98% of the way there, I’ve just hit a small bug." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/aspect-ratio-in-css-view-transitions/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:53:10

• How To Install SDKMAN on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-sdkman-debian-12/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:54:10

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

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:54:42

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

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:56:21

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

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:56:52

• How To Install Ruby on Rails on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ruby-on-rails-linux-mint-22/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:57:51

• How to install and setup Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 ☞ https://net2.com/how-to-install-and-setup-docker-on-ubuntu-22-04/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:58:17

• How to set up a UFW on Ubuntu 22.04 ☞ https://net2.com/how-to-set-up-a-ufw-on-ubuntu-22-04/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:58:41

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

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:59:23

• How To Install Ruby on Rails on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ruby-on-rails-centos-stream-10/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:59:58

• How To Install Anaconda on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-anaconda-linux-mint-22/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:00:52

• How to Install KDE Plasma on GNU/Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/install-kde-plasma-linux-mint/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:01:26

• SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM https://www.tecmint.com/udemy-cisco-networking-courses/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:03:06

• How To Install Shadowsocks on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-shadowsocks-debian-12/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:03:48

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

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:04:15

• How To Install ClipGrab on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-clipgrab-debian-12/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:04:33

• "But security updates alone don’t cover everything; what happens when a package update causes unexpected behavior, a dependency breaks, or you encounter an issue that impacts operations?" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/20-04-support-how-ubuntu-pro-support-keeps-your-ubuntu-20-04-lts-secure-and-stable | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:07:32

• "Whilst it may seem that this skills gap is purely a concern from data scientists or ML engineers, in reality it affects a much wider section of your workforce than you might imagine." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/7-considerations-ml-architecture | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:07:40

• Ultimate Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Server with UPS, NVMe Drive & Stats Display ☞ https://www.the-diy-life.com/ultimate-raspberry-pi-5-desktop-server-with-ups-nvme-drive-stats-display/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:27:00

• Personal MediaWiki with Raspberry PI and Docker ☞ https://peppe8o.com/personal-mediawiki-with-raspberry-pi-and-docker/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:31:48

• CrowView Note: Turning Raspberry Pi into a Laptop, Sort of ☞ https://itsfoss.com/crowview-note-review/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:32:33

• Modder crams LLM onto Pi Zero-powered USB stick, but it isn't fast enough to be practical ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-zero/pi-zero-llm-usb-stick    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:32:47

• "Bill Gates presents himself as a climate champion, but his trust has actually increased its fossil fuel investments since his divestment pledge. It's just the latest example of the billionaire appointing himself to solve problems he helps perpetuate." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/02/bill-gates-oil-divestment-climate/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:43:30

• "The extent of these federal subsidies depends on how they are counted. The Fossil Fuel Subsidy Tracker pegged them at nearly $18 billion in 2023." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/how-elon-musk-could-end-fossil-fuel-subsidies/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:43:36

• "Instead, there's growing concern among environmental groups and some lawmakers that plastic manufacturers, producers and distributors are waging a behind-the-scenes battle to derail the plastics law, known as SB 54." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-california-polystyrene-plastic-industry-spooked.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:43:41

• 🔤SpellBinding — DFILORY Wordo: LATEX gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-18.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:46:39

• "Rather than programming in my very cold office, I have decided to sit under what feels like a billion blankets and read. I just finished up "Moonwalking with Einstein" by Joshua Foer and am now reading "Remember It!" by Nelson Dellis" gemini://vigrey.com/journal/its-cold-so-im-reading-books.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:47:25

• "The film version made a big impression on me as a child. Sean Connery and Michael Caine have big adventures in the mountains of central Asia. I remember really wanting it to be a true story, and also knowing it wasn't." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-02-18_Re__The_Man_Who_Would_Be_King.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:48:07

• Call to action (re: A somewhat brutal Bongusta cleanup) gopher://box.matto.nl/0/call-to-action-re-a-somewhat-brutal-bongusta-cleanup.txt    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:49:20

• Photos in Geminispace (new) gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-02-17.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:50:00

• launching Oneiric Monk: "I am happy to launch a new project, oneiricmonk.net." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/oneiricmonk.net    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:52:04

• 2025-02-17 of psychics and securities ☞ https://computer.rip/2025-02-17-of-psychics-and-securities.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 13:06:11

• What's wrong with Germany's economy? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250217-what-s-wrong-with-germany-s-economy    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 13:07:10

• India reassures Nepali students after suicide sparked protest ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-reassures-nepali-students-after-suicide-sparked-protest    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 13:07:28

• [New/updated] Richard Stallman https://kids.britannica.com/scholars/article/Richard-Stallman/474253 This is not what happened: "In September 2019 Stallman attracted controversy after attempting to discredit an alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender". Nope, he defended a friend of his (Minsky), falsely accused.    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 13:44:02

• "it turns out that I sent it to the wrong list due to some messed-up autocompletion" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/18/linus_torvalds_autocomplete_mistake/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 13:53:54

• Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson warns about ‘mansion-sized asteroid’ that could hit Earth in 2032 ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/science/astrophysicist-neil-degrasse-tyson-warns-about-mansion-sized-asteroid-that-could-hit-earth-in-2032/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 13:59:24

• Louis Pasteur’s Relentless Hunt for Germs Floating in the Air ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/science/airborne-louis-pasteur-germs.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 13:59:40

• Pope Francis Will Remain in Hospital for ‘Complex’ Clinical Issue ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/europe/pope-francis-hospital-clinical-issue.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:00:05

• An Invisible Medical Shortage: Oxygen ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/health/medical-oxygen-shortage.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:00:19

• North Korea’s Kim makes rare visit to father’s tomb ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-makes-rare-visit-to-fathers-tomb    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:00:46

• Setia Alam mall gunman killed in shootout with Malaysian police ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/setia-alam-mall-gunman-killed-in-shootout-with-malaysian-police    

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

• Chengdu Snow Village in China apologises for fake cotton snow ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chengdu-snow-village-in-china-apologises-for-fake-cotton-snow    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:04:35

• Okinawa Is a Japanese Island Caught Between the U.S. and China ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/asia/okinawa-japan-us-military-china.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:04:49

• U.S. Marines Start to Leave Japan, Decades Behind Schedule ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/world/asia/us-marines-japan-okinawa.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:05:02

• Taiwan Strait not China’s, Taipei says after Canadian warship passes through ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-condemns-sailing-of-canadian-warship-in-taiwan-strait    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:05:25

• China urges US to ‘correct its mistakes’ after website removes Taiwan independence reference ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-says-website-update-routine-after-removal-of-reference-to-taiwan-independence    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:05:40

• Where China’s exports begin: Inside the vast markets of Guangzhou ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/where-chinas-exports-begin-inside-the-vast-markets-of-guangzhou    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:06:12

• China’s Pooh-tin meets business leaders, including Jack Ma, amid economic, geopolitical headwinds ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-xi-meets-business-leaders-including-jack-ma-amid-economic-geopolitical-headwinds    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:06:22

• China, Cook Islands sign action plan for partnership deal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-cook-islands-sign-action-plan-for-partnership-deal    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:06:43

• Malaysia to host inaugural summit of Asean, China, Gulf bloc in May ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-host-inaugural-summit-of-asean-china-gulf-bloc-in-may    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:06:57

• Look who’s back: Alibaba’s Jack Ma shakes Xi’s hand at meeting of China’s business titans ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/look-whos-back-alibabas-jack-ma-shakes-xis-hand-at-meeting-of-chinas-business-titans    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:07:30

• Cook Islands PM pledges to release details of China deal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/cook-islands-pm-pledges-to-release-details-of-china-deal    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:07:44

• Japan to allow Taiwan as place of origin in family registry ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-to-allow-taiwan-as-place-of-origin-in-family-registry    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:08:03

• 2 Lao women warn of pitfalls of agreeing to ‘sham marriages’ in China ☞ https://rfa.org/english/laos/2025/02/16/lao-sham-marriages-chinese-men/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:08:35

• Taiwanese army officer’s failed defection to China ends in 13-year sentence ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/17/china-taiwan-army-officer-defect/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:08:52

• China condemns US for tweak to Taiwan reference; Washington calls it ‘routine’ update ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/17/china-us-taiwan-independence/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:09:11

• China’s President Pooh-tin meets top business leaders including Alibaba’s Jack Ma ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/17/chinas-president-xi-meets-top-business-leaders-including-alibabas-jack-ma/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:09:47

• China condemns US after ‘we do not support Taiwan independence’ cut from gov’t website ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/18/china-condemns-us-after-we-do-not-support-taiwan-independence-cut-from-govt-website/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:10:23

• Mexico’s tech exports to US surged 35% in 2024, closing gap with China ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-china-advanced-tech-exports-us-2024/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:10:52

• Viewing Xorg logs with journalctl in Fedora ☞ https://major.io/p/xorg-logs-fedora-journalctl/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:11:47

• "I believe that taxes and social programs are incredibly important to overcome whatever causes the lack of equal opportunity." ☞ https://danielmiessler.com/blog/my-politics    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:12:54

• "Every time I hear Kavanaugh open his mouth I feel d-mber ... How did he ever climb the corporate ladder and be where he is ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:15:14

• "Workday has a salary range of what the midpoint and high point and damn it’s embarrassing My department went from over 800 to barely 300 and travel stopped They have the nerve to cry poverty ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:15:34

• HSBC lays off 40 dealmakers in Hong Kong as part of revamp to cut costs https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/hsbc-lays-off-40-dealmakers-in-hong-kong-as-part-of-revamp-to-cut-costs-125021800236_1.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:17:57

• Illy Intenso coffee beans ☞ https://rubenerd.com/illy-intenso-coffee-beans/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:30:50

• The BSD Humbling | LINUX Unplugged 602 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/602/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:31:51

• Destination Linux 407: Most Private & Secure Browsers, plus Freedesktop.org in a Funding Crisis ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/407    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:31:58

• Amnesty International demands truth and accountability one year after death of Russian activist Alexei Navalny ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/amnesty-international-demands-truth-and-accountability-one-year-after-russia-activist-alexei-navalnys-death/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:49:05

• How K-12 CS teachers support students for whom English is not their first language ☞ https://computinged.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/how-k-12-cs-teachers-support-students-for-whom-english-is-not-their-first-language/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:49:56

• Southwest to Cut 15% of Corporate Jobs in First-Ever Layoffs    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:58:42

• How many people canceled their impending flights after news about FAA and persistent crashes?    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 14:59:27

• 'I loved my job': FAA employees in Oklahoma fired in purge of federal workers https://eu.oklahoman.com/story/news/state/2025/02/18/faa-layoffs-doge-impacts-oklahoma-elon-musk/78966082007/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:00:16

• Why defective chip maker Intel must stay independent, spin out its foundry and rebuild its iconic brand ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/16/intel-must-stay-independent-spin-foundry-rebuild-iconic-brand/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:04:37

• US 'wants to please Putin': Zelensky ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250217-us-wants-to-please-putin-zelensky    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:04:54

• The death of NATO? Europe in crisis over Convicted Felon-Putin talks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250217-the-death-of-nato-europe-in-crisis-over-trump-putin-talks    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:05:07

• France hosts emergency summit on Ukraine: US treats EU as 'junior partner' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250217-eu-emergency-summit-on-ukraine-us-treats-eu-as-junior-partner    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:05:27

• Ukraine Won't 'Recognize' U.S.-Russia Talks In Saudi Arabia, Zelenskyy Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-trump-putin-russia-ukraine-paris-saudi/33317240.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:05:43

• Britain To 'Consider' Troops In Ukraine If Peace Agreed, But Wants 'U.S. Backstop' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/starmer-ukraine-russia-trump-putin-paris-eu/33317239.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:05:59

• Top Russian and American officials will discuss ending the Ukraine war without Kyiv ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0217/trump-putin-ukraine-war-peace-talks    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:06:11

• Latvian media to jointly play Ukrainian anthem on February 24 ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/17.02.2025-latvian-media-to-jointly-play-ukrainian-anthem-on-february-24.a588142/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:06:26

• Latvia sends medical, police cars to Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/17.02.2025-latvia-sends-medical-police-cars-to-ukraine.a588100/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:06:49

• Tanks for the memories ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/tanks-for-the-memories-2/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:07:08

• The underexploited potential of Ukrainian defence tech ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-underexploited-potential-of-ukrainian-defence-tech/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:07:30

• Dispatch from Munich: Sorting signal from noise in the Convicted Felon team’s Ukraine moves ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/dispatch-from-munich-sorting-signal-from-noise-in-the-trump-teams-ukraine-moves/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:07:50

• What Munich means for Ukraine peace talks ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/fastthinking/what-munich-means-for-ukraine-peace-talks/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:08:15

• Ukrainian combat unmanned systems and African security in focus at panel discussion ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/panel-discussion-ukrainian-combat-unmanned-systems-and-african-security/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:08:35

• Rubio in Saudi Arabia ahead of US, Russia talks on Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250218-rubio-in-saudi-arabia-ahead-of-us-russia-talks-on-ukraine    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:09:00

• "pro-Russian accounts on X"... well, "X" (Twitter) itself is pro-Putin ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250217-ukraine-peace-talks-did-trump-exclude-the-eu    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:09:45

• Ukraine and European allies have reasons to be worried about peace deal, expert says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250217-ukraine-and-european-allies-have-reasons-to-be-worried-about-peace-deal-expert-says    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:10:08

• European leaders hold emergency talks, fearing that Convicted Felon has abandoned age-old allies ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250217-european-leaders-hold-emergency-talks-fearing-that-trump-has-abandoned-age-old-allies    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:10:24

• European leaders race to respond after US policy shift on Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250217-european-leaders-race-respond-us-policy-shift-ukraine-paris    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:17:22

• On the ground with Ukraine’s volunteer drone hunters ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250217-on-ground-ukraine-volunteer-drone-hunters-kyiv-russia-war    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:17:33

• UN asserts Ukraine peace negotiations must adhere to Charter ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/un-asserts-ukraine-peace-negotiations-must-adhere-to-charter/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:17:59

• ECHR announces Russia-Ukraine conflict case updates ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/echr-announces-russia-ukraine-conflict-case-updates/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:18:39

• Too early to talk about sending Lithuanian troops to Ukraine – speaker ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2490525/too-early-to-talk-about-sending-lithuanian-troops-to-ukraine-speaker    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:18:51

• Ukraine broadcasts appeal to North Korean soldiers to surrender ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/17/north-korea-ukraine-radio-broadcast/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:19:04

• Russia Reportedly Frees U.S. Prisoner As Crucial Talks In Saudi Arabia Set To Begin ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-prisoner-wayne-release-saudi-trump-rubio-ukraine/33318552.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:25:31

• Europe ‘Willing’ to Offer Ukraine Security Guarantees, But Eyes U.S. Support ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/europe-macron-paris-ukraine-summit-russia-trump-rutte/33318549.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:25:48

• Saudi Arabia Hosts U.S.-Russia Talks To Carve A Bigger 'Diplomatic Footprint' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/saudi-arabia-us-russia-talks-rubio-diplomatic-footprint-ukraine/33318121.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:28:47

• Ukraine Preparing For Elections, Claims Zelenskyy's Predecessor Poroshenko ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-poroshenko-zelenskyy-elections/33317972.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:29:13

• Zelenskyy Arrives In Middle East, But Kyiv Says Peace Talks Not On Agenda ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-us-russia-ukraine-talks-saudi-/33316619.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:29:33

• Laughter, with no strings attached: Ukrainian puppeteers bring joy amid war ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2025/0217/ukraine-war-kharkiv-puppet-theater    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:29:57

• Russia Frees American Prisoner Before Talks With U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/russia-american-prisoner-released.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:30:52

• How Can the Russia-Ukraine War End? A Guide to a Possible Peace Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/europe/russia-ukraine-peace-explained.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:31:22

• typos in headline in NY Times. Are they producing this using LLM slop? Rubio [sic] ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/middleeast/rubio-saudi-arabia-gaza-ukraine.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:32:31

• They corrected this headline later, but the URL still contains that original typo    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:32:58

• NY Times recently admitted misuse of chatbots for "content"    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:33:17

• European Leaders Meet to Discuss Ukraine War as Convicted Felon Officials Prepare For Russia Peace Talks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/europe/europe-paris-ukraine-talks.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:33:29

• The Land Ukraine Could Be Forced to Give Up to End the War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000009988658/ukraine-war-peace-talks-land.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:34:04

• Tuesday Briefing: E.U. Discusses Security and Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/briefing/europe-ukraine-us-saudi-gaza-beijing-business.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:34:13

• Monday Briefing: E.U. Leaders Set to Meet on Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/briefing/europe-ukraine-israel-hamas-east-timor.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:34:22

• US, Russia to discuss Ukraine in Saudi Arabia with Zelensky sidelined ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250218-saudi-arabia-hosts-us-russia-talks-no-seat-for-ukraine    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:35:56

• EU pledges to boost defense spending to ensure Ukraine security ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250218-eu-pledges-to-boost-defense-spending-to-ensure-ukraine-security    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:36:09

• "everything from ports and infrastructure to oil and gas" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/17/trump-s-resource-demands-from-ukraine-cover-everything-from-ports-and-infrastructure-to-oil-and-gas-and-are-harsher-than-reparations-imposed-on-germany-after-wwi-the-telegraph | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:36:48

• "A moment of truth" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/17/a-moment-of-truth | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:37:13

• Latvian security service: Russia is ramping up its sabotage plans ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/17.02.2025-latvian-security-service-russia-is-ramping-up-its-sabotage-plans.a588066/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:37:37

• Russian State Hackers Target Organizations With Device Code Phishing ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-state-hackers-target-organizations-with-device-code-phishing/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:38:11

• India opposition slams Convicted Felon's F-35 offer, Russia makes its own pitch ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/india-opposition-slams-trumps-f-35-offer-russia-makes-its-own-pitch    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:38:43

• Russian Navy warship holds artillery firing drills in Sea of ​​Japan (East Sea): Report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/russian-navy-warship-holds-artillery-firing-drills-in-sea-of-japan-also-known-as-east-sea-says    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:39:03

• Today, without the key stakeholder! ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/17/u-s-russian-negotiations-planned-for-tuesday-february-18-in-saudi-arabia | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:39:47

• "Moscow court fines Russia’s Central Bank for illegal firearms storage " ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/17/moscow-court-fines-russia-s-central-bank-for-illegal-firearms-storage | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:40:07

• "Saudi Arabia" as 'peace nation' is parody ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/17/russian-foreign-minister-and-top-kremlin-aide-traveling-to-saudi-arabia-for-talks-with-u-s-officials-says-kremlin | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:43:28

• "Statistical illusions" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/17/statistical-illusions | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:43:51

• Swiss PGDay 2025: Announcement and CfS ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/swiss-pgday-2025-announcement-and-cfs-3014/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:44:37

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

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:45:01

• Community Member Monday: Ndidi Folasade Ogboi ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/02/17/community-member-monday-ndidi-folasade-ogboi/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:45:41

• Microsoft Lunduke Belongs in 4Chan (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/Microsoft_Lunduke_Belongs_in_4Chan.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:47:35

• "Don't Be Evil" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/lunduke-speaking-at-sxsw-2025    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:47:53

• "peacekeepers" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/17/starmer-says-u-k-willing-to-send-peacekeepers-to-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:49:04

• Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/17/russian-strikes-on-ukrainian-energy-infrastructure-trigger-nationwide-emergency-blackouts | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:49:30

• "Ukraine was not informed about talks in Saudi Arabia and will not participate in or recognize them, says Zelensky" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/17/ukraine-was-not-informed-about-talks-in-saudi-arabia-and-will-not-participate-in-or-recognize-them-says-zelensky | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:49:52

• "under Russian occupation" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/17/avdiivka-one-year-later | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:50:16

• Moving a VirtualBox VM to Another Instance: A Step-by-Step Guide ☞ https://linuxiac.com/how-to-move-a-virtualbox-vm-to-another-instance/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:50:51

• Staying with SolveSpace for new trike project ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202502/staying-with-solvespace-for-new-trike-project.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:54:02

• Burn Notice ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/burn-notice/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:54:40

• gt() doesn’t show Euro-Sign € in PDF, showing EUR instead ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/gt-doesnt-show-euro-sign-e-in-pdf-showing-eur-instead/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:55:30

• Creating effectively multi-engine Quarto documents using Quarto’s embed shortcode ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/creating-effectively-multi-engine-quarto-documents-using-quartos-embed-shortcode/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:55:43

• Simple Xcursor Creator PET fixed ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202502/simple-xcursor-creator-pet-fixed.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:56:08

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 7 (Feb 10 – 16, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-7-feb-10-16-2025/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:56:33

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1010328/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 15:58:57

• Kernel prepatch 6.14-rc3 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1010232/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:00:03

• Monitor and Optimize Memory Usage on Ubuntu 22.04 for Peak Performance ☞ https://net2.com/monitor-and-optimize-memory-usage-on-ubuntu-22-04-for-peak-performance/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:00:50

• Cleaning up old repositories ☞ https://archlinux.org/news/cleaning-up-old-repositories/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:01:08

• ClipQR – scan QR codes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/clipqr-scan-qr-codes/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:01:53

• OutFly – 3D space game in the rings of Jupiter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/outfly-3d-space-game-rings-jupiter/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:02:02

• 18 Top Free and Open Source Rust Web Frameworks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-rust-web-frameworks/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:02:55

• Decibels – simple audio player ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/decibels-simple-audio-player/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:03:04

• KDE Connect – wireless communications and data transfer between devices over local networks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kde-connect-wireless-communications-data-transfer/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:03:12

• FIM – universal image viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fim-universal-image-viewer/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:03:20

• Decoder – scan and generate QR codes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/decoder-scan-generate-qr-codes/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:03:54

• LinuxConsole – lightweight distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/linuxconsole-lightweight-distribution/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:04:19

• The "Cool Kids" Are Already Using GNU/Linux, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft is Just Cheating (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/The_Cool_Kids_Are_Already_Using_GNU_Linux_Microsoft_is_Just_Che.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:04:43

• The Attacks on LinuxQuestions.org ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/The_Attacks_on_LinuxQuestions_org.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:05:53

• QEMU – machine emulator and virtualizer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/qemu-machine-emulator-virtualizer/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:09:00

• Hypnotix – IPTV streaming application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hypnotix-iptv-streaming-application/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:09:07

• Magnifiqus – Qt based screen magnifier ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/magnifiqus-qt-based-screen-magnifier/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:09:15

• mothur – analyze microbial communities ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mothur-analyze-microbial-communities/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:09:21

• The FIRST post in linux.com this year is... SPAM https://www.linux.com/news/wanted-skilled-cybersecurity-it-pros/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:10:22

• openSUSE Tumbleweed Ditches AppArmor for SELinux ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Ditches-AppArmor-for-SELinux    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:11:15

• Keir Starmer Offers to Send U.K. Troops to Ukraine as Part of Peace Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/world/europe/uk-keir-starmer-troops-ukraine.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:11:41

• Should EU despatch troops to protect Greenland from Russia's new ally to the "east"?    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:12:53

• Kid Rock Calls Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl Show “the Epitome of DEI Blowing Up” ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/16/kid-rock-kendrick-lamar-dei/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:14:06

• Late Night Linux – Episode 321 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-321/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:15:45

• wayland-protocols 1.41 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2025-February/043980.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:18:17

• Destination Linux 407: Most Private & Secure Browsers, plus Freedesktop.org in a Funding Crisis ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-407/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:20:06

• These 5 GNU/Linux distros are optimized for gaming on Nvidia GPUs in 2025 ☞ https://linuxbsdos.com/2025/02/16/linux-gaming-on-nvidia-gpus-2025/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:21:12

• Ezurio Veda SL917 Expands Industrial IoT Connectivity with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/ezurio-veda-sl917-expands-industrial-iot-connectivity-with-wi-fi-6-and-bluetooth-le/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:22:24

• ADLINK Introduces OSM MTK510 Featuring MediaTek Genio 510 COM with Yocto GNU/Linux Compatibility ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/adlink-introduces-osm-mtk510-featuring-mediatek-genio-510-com-with-yocto-linux-compatibility/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:22:33

• The GNU Manifesto Turns 40 Next Month ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/The_GNU_Manifesto_Turns_40_Next_Month.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:23:28

• www-zh-cn @ Savannah: Welcome our new member - LS-Shandong ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10727    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:24:05

• How to Correctly Install ChromeDriver on Ubuntu 🐧 ☞ https://tecadmin.net/install-chromedriver-on-ubuntu/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:24:41

• Troubleshooting and Resolving Audio Issues in Ubuntu 22.04 ☞ https://net2.com/troubleshooting-and-resolving-audio-issues-in-ubuntu-22-04/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:25:14

• "To the uninitiated, Linux may be nothing but arcane console commands, but it offers a great desktop experience and a ton of powerful multimedia applications. The distros we’re looking at here focus on helping you get creative work done." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-distos-built-for-creative-work/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:26:04

• "Linux distros might be extremely popular in the server community, but they’re still a niche in the general computing sector, which the Windows lineup continues to dominate." https://www.xda-developers.com/i-cant-go-back-to-windows-after-trying-linux/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:35:22

• How to Disable (or Change) Login Sound in Ubuntu 24.10 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/disable-or-change-ubuntu-login-sound    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:36:09

• Wi-Fi Not Working on Ubuntu? Here’s How to Fix It https://www.howtogeek.com/wi-fi-not-working-on-ubuntu/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:36:51

• In India they sell GNU/Linux, preloaded https://gadgetsnow.indiatimes.com/compare-laptops/dell-latitude-3410-intel-core-i5-10210u-140-inch-fhd-512gb-solid-state-drive-8gb-ddr4-intel-uhd-620-graphics-ubuntu-vs-hp-elitebook-745-g6-14-inch-laptop-r5-pro-3500u8gb512gb-ssdamd-radeon-vega-graphics-silver-window-10    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 16:38:39

• RMS fandom this week https://developer.aliyun.com/article/1652544    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 17:45:29

• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter 879 ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/02/17/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-879/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:02:13

• HandBrake Released 1.9.1 with Various Fixes [Ubuntu PPA] ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/02/handbrake-released-1-9-1/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:02:43

• Monitor GPU Usage in Ubuntu 22.04 for Optimal Performance ☞ https://net2.com/monitor-gpu-usage-in-ubuntu-22-04-for-optimal-performance/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:03:36

• Joan Westenberg on complexity being a trap ☞ https://rubenerd.com/joan-westenberg-on-complexity/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:05:48

• Getting some scones in beautiful weather ☞ https://rubenerd.com/getting-some-scones-in-beautiful-weather/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:05:56

• Offer delete version when rollback ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202502/offer-delete-version-when-rollback.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:07:26

• SolveSpace 20250207 compiled in OE ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202502/solvespace-20250207-compiled-in-oe.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:07:48

• South Korean Actress Kim Sae-ron Is Found Dead ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/world/asia/south-korea-actress-dead.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:08:30

• New FinalDraft Malware Spotted in Espionage Campaign ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-finaldraft-malware-spotted-in-espionage-campaign/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:11:44

• "Doesn’t this look fantastic? Hard to believe it, but the base of this keyboard began life as a cutting board, and there’s a gallery to prove it." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-cutting-board-keyboard/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:12:13

• Dictator congratulates US forces after airstrike kills ‘terrorist leader’ in Syria ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/02/18/us-news/trump-congratulates-us-forces-after-airstrike-kills-terrorist-leader-in-syria/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:13:08

• Red Hat sees nothing wrong with proprietary things of Microsoft, including untrusted compilers the NSA controls ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/17/how-securely-deploy-github-arc-openshift    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:15:00

• "When building one-off projects, it’s common to draw up a plan on a sheet of paper or in CAD" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/parametric-design-process-produces-unique-speakers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:16:33

• Reach told by ASA to stop posting ad features on social control media without flagging ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/reach-hull-live-ads-asa/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:17:22

• New London newspaper launches with promise to revitalise Fleet Street ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/new-london-newspaper-launches-with-promise-to-revitalise-fleet-street/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:18:06

• "The “Unbreakable” Beer Glasses Of East Germany" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/the-unbreakable-beer-glasses-of-east-germany/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:19:49

• Measuring Local Variances In Earth’s Magnetic Field ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/measuring-local-variances-in-earths-magnetic-field/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:48:15

• Commodore 64 Magazine ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/probably-the-most-esoteric-commodore-64-magazine/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:48:40

• A Forgotten Consumer PC Becomes A Floating Point Powerhouse ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/a-forgotten-consumer-pc-becomes-a-floating-point-powerhouse/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:49:10

• Notts TV to close in November when licence ends ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/notts-tv-local-closure-2025/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:50:28

• SCC dispatch: Canada’s top court questions the future of legal remedies for intimate partner violence ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/scc-dispatch-canadas-top-court-questions-the-future-of-legal-remedies-for-intimate-partner-violence/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:50:55

• ‘Save big bucks’: Shopper shares supermarket self-checkout hack ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/lifestyle/save-big-bucks-shopper-shares-supermarket-self-checkout-hack/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:51:47

• Intense Flu Surge Gripping The US Is The Worst in Years, CDC Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/intense-flu-surge-gripping-the-us-is-the-worst-in-years-cdc-says    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:52:22

• CDC Report Suggests Bird Flu Is Spreading Undetected to Humans ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cdc-report-suggests-bird-flu-is-spreading-undetected-to-humans    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:52:34

• Scientists Just Found The Perfect Disguise to Sneak Into a Termite Colony ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-found-the-perfect-disguise-to-sneak-into-a-termite-colony    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:53:00

• Most Birds-of-Paradise Are Secretly Biofluorescent, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/most-birds-of-paradise-are-secretly-biofluorescent-study-finds    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:53:15

• Supreme Court Patent Challenges February 2025 ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/sotus-patent-2025.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:54:22

• The Burden of Proving Prior Art Enablement ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/burden-proving-enablement.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:54:51

• Three stable kernels under the sky ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1010352/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:55:24

• IBM Going International (and India) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/IBM_Going_International_and_India.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:55:39

• IBM's Chronic Neglect Won't Save Anything and It Might Even Get I.C.B.M. Sued ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/IBM_s_Chronic_Neglect_Won_t_Save_Anything_and_It_Might_Even_Get.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:55:49

• Back From a Short Break ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/Back_From_a_Short_Break.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:56:31

• In Europe and in India Richard Stallman Need Not Duck Anymore, People Trying to Cancel His Talk Have No Sway ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/In_Europe_and_in_India_Richard_Stallman_Need_Not_Duck_Anymore_P.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:56:38

• GeekWire: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Bribes Us While We Cover Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Affairs (Spin Doctoring), Hence We Are "Independent" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/17/GeekWire_Microsoft_Bribes_Us_While_We_Cover_Microsoft_Affairs_S.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:56:47

• Alex Oliva, the Potential 'Successor' of RMS, Has a New Web Site ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/15/Alex_Oliva_the_Potential_Successor_of_RMS_Has_a_New_Web_Site.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:57:02

• Promoting Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows With LLM Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/16/Promoting_Microsoft_Windows_With_LLM_Slop.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:57:10

• Richard Stallman Confirms His Next Talk, "Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital Society" (Next Monday in Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Richard_Stallman_Confirms_His_Next_Talk_Free_Libre_Software_and.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:57:18

• $2,000 for Eric Zautner entity, Conexus, web applications patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/17/2000-for-eric-zautner-entity-conexus-web-applications-patent-prior-art    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 18:58:19

• The New York Times adopts LLM slop, so nothing it publishes is reliable anymore https://www.techinasia.com/york-times-adopts-ai-tools-strict-guidelines    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:04:50

• Commissioner Lahbib's Speech at Egmont Institute & International Rescue Committee High-Level Discussion on Fragility ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_536    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:26:56

• German Election Spotlight Turns to Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/16/world/europe/germany-election-trump.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:28:00

• The Tale of the Tinkering Tech | A Framework Fiasco ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2025/02/16/the-tale-of-the-tinkering-tech-a-framework-fiasco/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:28:29

• Waveshare ESP32 robotic arm kit with 5+1 DoF supports ROS2, LeRobot, and Jetson Orin NX integration ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/17/waveshare-esp32-robotic-arm-kit-with-51-dof-supports-ros2-lerobot-and-jetson-orin-nx-integration/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:29:41

• ModelScan - Protection Against Model Serialization Attacks, (Mon, Feb 17th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31692    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:30:33

• My Very Personal Guidance and Strategies to Protect Network Edge Devices, (Thu, Feb 6th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31660    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:30:59

• 8-month-old Hong Kong infant becomes 2nd patient to receive organ donation from mainland China, gov’t says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/17/8-month-old-hong-kong-infant-becomes-2nd-patient-to-receive-organ-donation-from-mainland-china-govt-says/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:32:25

• Shark Bites Tourist Who Was Trying to Take Photo of It ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/world/shark-bite-turks-caicos.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:32:53

• ADLINK OSM-MTK510 – An OSM Size-L module with MediaTek Genio 510 Hey Hi (AI) SoC, up to 8GB RAM and 128GB eMMC flash ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/18/adlink-osm-mtk510-osm-size-l-module-with-mediatek-genio-510-ai-soc/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:33:24

• 127 Servers of Bulletproof Hosting Service Zservers Seized by Dutch Police ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/127-servers-of-bulletproof-hosting-service-zservers-seized-by-dutch-police/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:33:47

• ACS Password Leaks Are A Security Issue On I.C.B.M. i ☞ https://www.itjungle.com/2025/02/17/acs-password-leaks-are-a-security-issue-on-ibm-i/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:34:32

• What to do about SQLITE_BUSY errors despite setting a timeout ☞ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-brief-post-on-sqlite3-database-locked-despite-timeout/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:35:01

• StorPool unveils Disaster Recovery Engine for Linux KVMs https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/02/17/storpools-sw-defined-disaster-recovery-for-linux-vms/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:36:46

• OCCT, the PC stress testing tool, is coming to Steam and Linux https://overclock3d.net/news/software/occt-the-pc-stress-testing-tool-is-coming-to-steam-and-linux/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:37:24

• Surprisingly simple coding trick can slash data center energy usage by 30% https://www.livescience.com/technology/computing/surprisingly-simple-coding-trick-can-slash-data-center-energy-usage-by-30-percent    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:38:02

• These 7 TUIs Will Bring Your Terminal Experience Up-to-Date https://www.howtogeek.com/these-tuis-will-bring-your-terminal-experience-up-to-date/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:38:35

• IBM still works for Microsoft and for Windows instead of competing https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/fedora-42-on-wsl-is-almost-here-and-you-can-help-test-it-out-today    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:39:37

• #TripwireBookClub - Black Hat Bash: Creative Scripting for Hackers and Pentesters https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/tripwirebookclub-black-hat-bash-creative-scripting-hackers-and-pentesters    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:40:16

• "More about it: "Final Outpost is a survival strategy base-builder. You lead the last survivors of the apocalypse. Assign roles, craft tools, and manage resources carefully. Construct buildings, level up your citizens, and fortify your town against hordes of zombies. How many days can you survive?" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/final-outpost-is-hopping-over-from-mobile-to-pc-with-a-definitive-edition-demo-available-now/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:40:46

• "Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. The developer said they took what they liked about writing shaders, and turned it into a game. Here you solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/check-out-the-demo-for-replicube-an-open-ended-programming-puzzle-game-from-walaber/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:41:14

• Another one self-immolates https://www.inkl.com/news/head-of-top-apple-mac-linux-distro-resigns-citing-burnout-and-slamming-linus-torvalds-leadership see https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/When_It_Comes_to_Social_Control_Media_Linus_Torvalds_is_Channel.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:41:59

• OpenSUSE becoming even more useless https://news.itsfoss.com/opensuse-dropping-legacy-boot/ see http://techrights.org/o/2022/04/08/planned-obsolescence-ibm/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:43:36

• "One of the most striking things about Linux is the sheer number of terminal emulators available. There are dozens, each offering different features, philosophies, and levels of customization. This naturally leads to the question: Why are there so many choices?" https://www.howtogeek.com/why-there-are-so-many-linux-terminal-emulators/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:44:01

• Blocking Linux and Steam Deck users reduced cheaters in Apex Legends... apparently https://www.xda-developers.com/blocking-linux-steam-deck-users-apex-legends-cheaters/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/04/GNU_Linux_Users_Are_Not_Cheaters.shtml    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:44:46

• What was lost though? https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20250216-marcan-resign-asahi-linux-project-lead/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:45:23

• How To Install Linux Apps on Chromebook? https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/how-to/how-to-install-linux-apps-on-chromebook/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 19:45:45

• Earthquake Swarm Mystifies Scientists as Greek Island Tremors Continue ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earthquake-swarm-mystifies-scientists-as-greek-island-tremors-continue    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:02:00

• Study Reveals What Would Happen if You Were Struck by a Tiny Black Hole ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-what-would-happen-if-you-were-struck-by-a-tiny-black-hole    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:02:15

• Amazing Fossil Reveals Turtle-Like Scales on Jurassic Plesiosaur ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/amazing-fossil-reveals-turtle-like-scales-on-jurassic-plesiosaur    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:02:27

• Earthquakes Under Alaskan Volcano Could Be Sign It's About to Erupt ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earthquakes-under-alaskan-volcano-could-be-sign-its-about-to-erupt    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:02:48

• 30-Million-Year-Old Hypercarnivore Skull 'Dream Find' For Paleontologists ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/30-million-year-old-hypercarnivore-skull-dream-find-for-paleontologists    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:02:58

• "I've had a license key for this blog site for a while now, but have moved onto other apps. While I'm happy on Bear for regular blogging, I still want to use this space for something. It's meant to just write, and not be too image heavy, so maybe I'll make it a link blog, or a "tiny" blog." gemini://binarydigit.smol.pub/tiny-notes    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:04:05

• Report: Broadcom and TSMC in talks to carve up defective chip maker Intel ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/16/report-broadcom-tsmc-talks-carve-intel/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:08:30

• South Korea Bans Downloads of DeepSeek, the Chinese Hey Hi (AI) App ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/business/south-korea-deepseek-china-ai.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:09:07

• Jay-Z, Diddy Rape Accuser Drops Lawsuit After Numerous Inconsistencies Surface — Diddy’s Attorneys Promise ‘First of Many’ Dismissals Ahead ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/16/jay-z-diddy-rape-accuser-drops-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:09:27

• Decoy Killswitch ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/17/decoy-killswitch-triggers-alarm-instead/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:10:03

• Top Social Security Official Leaves After MElon Team Seeks Data Access ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/social-security-musk-team-access.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:10:23

• Chatbot vs national security? Why DeepSeek is raising concerns ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chatbot-vs-national-security-why-deepseek-is-raising-concerns    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:10:35

• Chinese, Australian military officials had 'in-depth' exchange of views, China's defence ministry says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinese-australian-military-officials-had-in-depth-exchange-of-views-chinas-defence-ministry-says    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:10:47

• Chinese minister meets Myanmar scam centre workers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/chinese-minister-meets-myanmar-scam-centre-workers    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:11:05

• China warns Philippines of ‘red line’ in the South China Sea ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/02/17/munich-security-conference-south-china-sea/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:11:22

• Hong Kong pollster to end public opinion research amid crackdown ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/17/china-hong-kong-pollster-ends-public-opinion-research/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:11:37

• China wants tunnel, basement rooms at planned London ‘mega-embassy’ ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/17/china-uk-super-embassy-basement-tunnel/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:11:50

• Lithuanian leaders maintain faith in NATO unity after shocks at Munich Security Conference ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2490023/lithuanian-leaders-maintain-faith-in-nato-unity-after-shocks-at-munich-security-conference    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:12:05

• Pseudoscience ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2490367/foreigners-would-be-subjected-to-lie-detector-testing-under-proposal-by-lithuania-s-mod    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:12:51

• Former Lithuanian FM Landsbergis becomes Munich Security Conference’s advisor ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2490429/former-lithuanian-fm-landsbergis-becomes-munich-security-conference-s-advisor    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:13:02

• Lithuanian MoD says Europe will raise military spending ‘without delay’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2490502/lithuanian-mod-says-europe-will-raise-military-spending-without-delay    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:13:10

• Hong Kong nat. security police take in 3rd relative of wanted activist Carmen Lau to assist investigation ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/17/hong-kong-nat-security-police-take-in-3rd-relative-of-wanted-activist-carmen-lau-to-assist-investigation/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:13:41

• DRC among four African trouble spots named by Guterres at top AU meeting ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/drc-among-four-african-trouble-spots-named-by-guterres-at-top-au-meeting/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:14:16

• Securing Australia’s interests in a Convicted Felonian trade world ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/securing-australias-interests-in-a-trumpian-trade-world/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:14:48

• Acting head of Social Security Administration resigns after dispute with MElon’s DOGE: report ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/02/17/us-news/acting-head-of-social-security-administration-michelle-king-resigns-after-dispute-with-doge-report/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:15:26

• Xerox has a history there. Proprietary drivers led to GNU.☞ https://www.securityweek.com/xerox-versalink-printer-vulnerabilities-enable-lateral-movement/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:16:16

• Dictator administration wants the Supreme Court to let the firing of whistleblower agency head proceed ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/02/trump-administration-wants-the-supreme-court-to-permit-the-firing-of-whistleblower-agency-head/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:18:01

• Intel 8th, 9th and 10th Gen processors absent from Microsoft’s backdoored Windows 11 24H2 CPU support list for new OEM systems ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/intel-8th-9th-and-10th-gen-processors-absent-from-microsofts-windows-11-24h2-cpu-support-list    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:18:46

• Wall-mountable defective chip maker Intel N100 mini PC features three HDMI outputs, three USB ports, GbE and WiFi 6 connectivity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/17/wall-mountable-intel-n100-mini-pc/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:20:03

• HaLowLink 1 Wi-Fi HaLow gateway turns legacy devices into Wi-Fi HaLow clients via Ethernet, USB, or 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/17/halowlink-1-wi-fi-halow-gateway-turns-legacy-devices-into-wi-fi-halow-clients-via-ethernet-usb-or-2-4-ghz-wi-fi/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:20:19

• This Week in KDE Apps ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/02/17/this-week-in-kde-apps/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:21:02

• PocketBeagle 2 SBC combines TI AM6232 dual-core Cortex-A53 SoC with MSPM0 MCU ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/18/pocketbeagle-2-sbc-combines-ti-am6232-soc-with-mspm0-mcu/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:21:43

• Rakudo Weekly 2025.07 Unexpected Quora ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/02/17/2025-07-unexpected-quora/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:22:48

• No Evidence of Hate Crime in Transgender Man’s Killing in Upstate N.Y., Investigators Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/nyregion/sam-norquist-killing-transgender-hate-crime.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:23:19

• HRW: Iran intensifies repression of Azeri minority amid crackdown on dissent ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/hrw-iran-intensifies-repression-of-azeri-minority-amid-crackdown-on-dissent/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:23:49

• Building a secure test environment for an IXP ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/18/building-a-secure-test-environment-for-an-ixp/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:24:04

• 2025 ISIF Asia applications now open ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/18/2025-isif-asia-applications-now-open/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:24:15

• Atlas of Surveillance ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/atlas-of-surveillance.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:24:39

• Josef Strzibny: Combining multiple sitemaps with a sitemap index ☞ https://nts.strzibny.name/multiple-sitemaps-index/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:24:59

• This website is available without encryption, and yours should be too ☞ https://box.matto.nl/this-website-is-available-without-encryption-and-yours-should-be-too.html    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:25:48

• South Korea says DeepSeek removed from local app stores pending privacy review ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korea-says-deepseek-removed-from-local-app-stores-pending-privacy-review    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:26:02

• China’s Hey Hi (AI) chatbot DeepSeek removed from South Korea app stores pending privacy review ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/17/chinas-ai-chatbot-deepseek-removed-from-south-korea-app-stores-pending-privacy-review/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:26:14

• South Korea pauses DeepSeek downloads over privacy concerns ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/17/south-korea-pauses-deepseek-downloads-privacy-concerns/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:26:40

• Downloads of DeepSeek’s Hey Hi (AI) Apps Paused in South Korea Over Privacy Concerns ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/downloads-of-deepseeks-ai-apps-paused-in-south-korea-over-privacy-concerns/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:26:56

• ‘The Com’ https://databreaches.net/2025/02/09/teen-on-musks-doge-team-graduated-from-the-com/    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 20:46:39

• "I came across this interesting discussion on the opinion that 'Naming sum types is often hard' [1] and I guess I have never even thought about this problem before." gemini://charptr.fyi/post/2025-02-18.gmi    

posted Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 22:28:21