Roy Schestowitz

• Dead since October 2023 https://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/linuxjobs/    

posted Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 21:30:55

• Almost there now. $ uptime - 21:38:06 up 499 days, 4:23, 41 users, load average: 1.12, 1.15, 1.04    

posted Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 21:38:50

• "Ubuntu’s HWE backports newer1 Linux kernel and Mesa GPU drivers to LTS users to ensure the latest LTS release works with the latest hardware." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/ubuntu-lts-users-could-get-intel-graphics-driver-updates-more-frequently    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:21:10

• "Linux 6.13 is now the latest stable kernel and Ubuntu users can install it on their machines via the official Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA archive. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to do that via graphical or command-line methods." https://9to5linux.com/you-can-now-install-linux-kernel-6-13-on-ubuntu-heres-how    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:21:32

• "Naturally, you couldn't just take existing Linux software and place it on all of these different devices. Canonical needed new software, so it created the Unity interface." https://www.howtogeek.com/whatever-happened-to-ubuntu-tv/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:21:58

• "The power-profiles-daemon is what those of who run Ubuntu (or Linux Mint 22.1, which finally added PPD) interact with when we switch power mode on the fly, be it using a GUI button, setting, or toggle, or the command line." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/power-profiles-daemon-0-30-preps-support-for-linux-6-14    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:22:18

• Kunai: Open-source threat hunting tool for Linux https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/02/19/kunai-open-source-threat-hunting-tool-for-linux/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:25:39

• Improved load-time checking for BPF kfuncs https://lwn.net/Articles/1007947/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:48:08

• Smarter IRQ suspension in the networking stack https://lwn.net/Articles/1008399/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:48:30

• That's like outsourcing a lot of GNU to Microsoft through proprietary GitHub and Rust that's also controlled by it https://lwn.net/Articles/1007907/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:51:18

• The selfish contributor revisited https://lwn.net/Articles/1007426/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:52:03

• "Arvin’s is a sleepy used car salesman, liar, dishonest and … How can anyone believe in his stupid rambling. He believes that he is a major thinker in today’s world." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmdqxdh4    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:56:35

• "AK wants future ex-IBMers to train their own replacement in India" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmdqxdh4    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 05:56:50

• "If we use 2023 - 2024 numbers and the IBM announcement from 2023 that 4% were the workforce was impacted, you are looking at approx 1200-1500 in 2025 numbers. Hopefully attrition, volunteers, and retirements can absorb that number." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jme9y3jr    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 06:01:24

• "Excellent idea. Is the plan to replace Alvind by IBM's junk AI ?" [sic] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jme9y3jr    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 06:01:33

• "Anyone know what was announced to IBMC partners today? No other information to add, just heard it mentioned that there was an announcement to all Partners in IBMC today and rest of IBMC to hear maybe tomorrow or after? Not the new performance program (checkpoint replacement) as that was already announced." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmfyym5n    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 06:03:37

• "Nothing good. Just the new service line and practice structure. New deck chairs, same titanic. Are there more desk chairs or less on this new Titanic ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmfyym5n    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 06:03:59

• See top 'story', using MICROSOFT LLMs to publish SPAM for Microsoft https://betanews.com/author/brianfagioli/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 06:07:00

• "'Garbage article about OpenSSH at heise.de/iX (German)' - MARC" https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=174001397718529&w=2    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 07:25:32

• Lots of FUD abound regarding OpenSSH, as it generally works http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/09/Using_Microsoft_Chatbot_to_Generate_Microsoft_FUD_Against_SSH_O.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 07:26:22

• "This is the beauty of open source in action - everyone can benefit. Valve are no stranger to open source, and as it turns out they're using a little bit of code from Godot Engine now too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/valve-pinch-a-little-code-from-godot-for-half-life-2-counter-strike-source-day-of-defeat-source-team-fortress-2/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 07:54:27

• "Game didn't sell enough? Staff cuts. Game did incredible! Staff cuts. It seems there's just no winning for some people as Marvel Rivals developer NetEase sends US staff packing." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/even-with-the-incredible-launch-marvel-rivals-developer-netease-sends-us-staff-packing/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 07:54:39

• "Everything except making a store people wanted to use? Ethan Evans, who was previously Vice President of Prime Gaming at Amazon, has a short retrospective of trying to take on Steam." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/amazons-previous-vp-of-prime-gaming-said-they-tried-everything-to-disrupt-steam/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 08:02:44

• "Valve released a fresh update for Proton Experimental today pulling in some more fixes for various Windows games to run on Linux / Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/proton-experimental-adds-fixes-for-rising-storm-2-vietnam-the-finals-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 08:03:10

• "Developer Eric Engestrom announced today the release of Mesa 25.0, bringing lots of open source graphics driver updates and expanded hardware support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/mesa-25-0-open-source-graphics-drivers-released-with-vulkan-1-4-and-initial-amd-rdna4-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 08:05:14

• "HEY HI" nonsense; they just rebrand workloads or "clown computing" as "AI" now ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/19/the-wheels-are-falling-off-albertas-gas-powered-ai-data-centre-proposal/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 08:06:13

• The CIA's Assange Secrets ☛ https://thedissenter.org/burying-the-cias-assange-secrets/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 08:06:31

• "Would https://www.lulu.com/ fit the bill here, they can print / send books on demand, which may be better you still get paid for each copy sold. I know they handle this for the LibreOffice Manuals. In the mean time I am happy to put a link to the book on my blog, even though I think the subject matter is a little above me." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-02/msg00012.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 08:23:23

• "The Afghan brothers worked closely with the American military for years, fighting the Taliban alongside U.S. troops, including the Special Forces" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-refugee-executive-order-afghan-allies | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:23:38

• "Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-to-coverage-hurdles | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:25:19

• "Why is America's Middle East strategy undermining its own global influence" https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/02/19/why-is-americas-middle-east-strategy-undermining-its-own-global-influence/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:30:30

• "Trump calls Mexican cartels ‘terrorists.’ Is military action next?" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2025/0219/mexico-cartel-terrorist-trump-military    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:30:42

• "Trump’s peace talks raise a big security problem for Europe" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0218/ukraine-peace-talks-europe-trump-russia    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:30:54

• "How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/how-to-organize-our-way-out-of-the-trump-musk-putsch/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:36:28

• Vapourware and nonsense https://www.pcworld.com/article/2612235/microsoft-is-replacing-human-gamers-and-even-games-with-ai.html ("Microsoft's Muse WHAM replaces humans with AI for testing games")    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:37:09

• BAD-connected licensing FUD https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-freebsd-is-the-right-choice-for-embedded-devices/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:37:43

• "Elon Musk’s Midnight Takeover – Mother Jones" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-takeover-doge-gsa-opm-secrecy-dei/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:37:52

• resistance https://boingboing.net/2025/02/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-star-wars-welcome-to-the-resistance-2025.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:38:04

• "DOGE [sic] Is a Massive Scam—Even on Its Own Terms" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/doge-results-government-waste-scam/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:38:22

• "Donald Trump’s Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-dei-target-access-disabilities/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:38:36

• "Eric Adams Is a Fascist Collaborator" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/eric-adams-trump-deal-collaborator/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:39:14

• "Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democratic-party-fecklessness/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:39:25

• "Code Club is more than just learning to code; it’s about creating opportunities and encouraging confidence." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/code-club-empowering-the-next-generation-of-digital-creators/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:46:35

• Let me remind you who started the war in Ukraine and how ☞ https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/let-me-remind-you-who-started-the-war-in-ukraine-and-how/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:57:46

• Dictator Fired the People Who Could Dispute His False Claims about Ukraine Aid ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/19/trump-fired-the-people-who-could-dispute-his-false-claims-about-ukraine-aid/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:58:14

• As Convicted Felon Turns Against Ukraine, Republicans in Congress Stay Quiet ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/us/politics/trump-ukraine-russia-republicans.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 09:58:26

• Ukrainians Say They Feel Betrayed by Convicted Felon and U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/ukrainians-trump-voices.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:05:30

• Dictator Calls Zelensky a ‘Dictator’ as Feud Escalates Over Ukraine Peace Talks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/ukraine-zelensky-trump-russia-war.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:05:48

• As Moscow and Washington Discuss Ukraine, Russians Hope for Normalcy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/russia-ukraine-trump-talks.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:05:58

• Dictator Falsely Suggests Ukraine Is to Blame for the War: What to Know ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/trump-zelensky-ukraine-comments.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:10:54

• Monopolies ☛ https://alexgaynor.net/2025/feb/19/tech-workers-monopoly-and-monopsony/ | Source: Alex Gaynor    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:12:06

• Digital Restrictions (DRM): "So I guess I'm not spending money with Amazon any more. I'm moving to Kobo for three main reasons: [...]" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/automatic-kobo-and-kindle-ebook-arbitrage/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:16:34

• "Submarine cables support more than 95 percent of intercontinental internet traffic." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/meta-undersea-cables-internet-connectivity-india/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:17:50

• Meta ☛ https://insidetowers.com/meta-plans-multi-billion-dollar-around-the-world-subsea-cable/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:18:00

• What Cheeto is doing right now harms Americans everywhere, even those who live abroad. In recent years if you saw a Russian (anywhere) or heard someone speak Russian you'd be inclined to know their views on Ukraine. Now it's becoming like that for Americans abroad. "Do you support Ukraine or Trump?"    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:20:25

• "trillion-dollar Public Investment Fund" aka sportwashing ☛ https://dawnmena.org/saudi-arabia-public-investment-fund-meeting-whitewashes-abuses/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:27:57

• "The crackdown is part of growing regional efforts to combat cyber scams run by criminal syndicates in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos" ☛ https://therecord.media/thailand-to-take-in-7000-rescued-from-scam-hubs-myanmar | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:28:21

• "Hanan Khashoggi, the widow of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, has called on British architects working in Saudi Arabia – including Norman Foster" ☛ https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/khashoggis-widow-challenges-architects-to-raise-his-brutal-murder-with-saudis |    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:29:15

• "Hanan Elatr, who was granted political asylum in the U.S. in 2023, five years after Khashoggi was killed and dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6063594/2025/01/26/jamal-khashoggi-saudi-arabia-world-cup/ | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:29:30

• "an oddity on campus." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/02/18/president-of-nyu-college-republicans-is-fired-for-saying-barron-trump-is-an-oddity.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:30:16

• "Still (as multiple disinformation experts noted), Watters offered a perfectly timed explanation of the information warfare the right is conducting." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/19/doge-is-xitter-files-for-government/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:31:29

• "disinformation space" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20144667 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:31:51

• "The two marriage certificates were really just travel documents, signed only for the authorities that required them." ☛ https://sive.rs/married | Source: Derek Sivers    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:32:47

• "Phishing tests are a common cybersecurity practice, but do they truly prepare employees for real-world threats? In some cases, these tests can inadvertently create a false sense of security or even undermine existing security controls." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/kathleen_moriarty/phishing-tests-are-we-doing-this-right/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:34:27

• "Then the US Office of Technology Assessment, an independent office that had been created by Congress about a decade earlier to serve as its scientific consulting arm" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/19/1111573/congress-office-technology-assessment-emerging-innovation/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:34:45

• "The suit, filed in a federal court in Tampa" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/19/trump-media-rumble-sue-brazil-supreme-court-justice-censorship-row/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:36:51

• "knowingly and intentionally sell and transfer, and attempt to sell and transfer, confidential phone records ... without prior authorization." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/us_army_snowflake_theft/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:37:14

• "Altice, parent company of Internet provider Optimum, must disclose the personal details of a hundred alleged music pirates. The request comes from a group of prominent record labels and is part of an ongoing copyright infringement liability lawsuit." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/isp-must-unmask-100-alleged-bittorrent-pirates-in-riaa-lawsuit-250219/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:38:05

• "Jan Wong, who worked with her at The Globe and Mail, is quoted in the book as having the sense that Freeland was a total phoney." ☛ https://breachmedia.ca/foreign-policy-without-diplomacy-will-be-freelands-legacy/ | Source: Breach Media    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:38:40

• Why FreeBSD is the Right Choice for Embedded Devices ☞ https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-freebsd-is-the-right-choice-for-embedded-devices/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:39:34

• "This phenomenon, called immune priming, is similar to how vaccines help humans build immunity but is based on different mechanisms." ☛ https://theconversation.com/how-plants-are-able-to-remember-stress-without-a-brain-246615 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:42:20

• "Electricity is central to the functioning of modern societies and economies" ☛ https://www.iea.org/reports/electricity-2024 | Source: IEA    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:55:10

• "That growth reflects broader changes across the world when it comes to how people consume information and what powers their lives." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/614356/china-us-electricity-demand-ai-data-center-manufacturing-iea-report | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:55:30

• "This study was linked to by The Verge today" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/another-study-on-llm-energy-use/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:56:28

• "The sustainability of large language models is no new topic." ☛ https://kmaasrud.com/blog/ai-vs-shower.html | Source: Knut Magnus Aasrud    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 10:56:37

• "Effectively, DOGE is using Trump’s own mismanagement of COVID to justify their assault on the federal government." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/19/trump-fired-the-people-who-could-dispute-his-false-claims-about-ukraine-aid/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:05:09

• "To be super clear, this executive order instructs federal employees of the federal government to ignore Supreme Court rulings and congressional actions if the President or Attorney General tell them to." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/trumps-latest-executive-order-plainly-states-no-one-has-authority-over-him/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:11:56

• "Deprived of USAID funding, the Fews Net program is currently offline. The international development firm Chemonics, which staffs a large portion of the project, says it has furloughed 88 percent of its US-based workforce." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/usaid-famine-system-dismantled/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:12:28

• "Big Balls" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/doge-cisa-coristine-cybersecurity/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:13:31

• "admin/root access to all components of the Notify.gov system" ☛ https://www.404media.co/musk-ally-demands-admin-access-to-system-that-lets-government-text-the-public/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:13:57

• "Signal's popularity among common targets of surveillance and espionage activity—such as military personnel, politicians, journalists, activists, and other at-risk communities—has positioned the secure messaging application" ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger | Source: Google    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:14:25

• "By tricking users into scanning malicious QR codes embedded in phishing pages or disguised as group invite links, Mandiant says APT groups linked to the Kremlin are secretly adding their own device as a linked endpoint." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/how-russian-hackers-are-exploiting-signals-linked-devices-for-real-time-spying/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:15:37

• "Significant cuts to CHIPS staff could hobble the agency's ability to deliver on its mission of distributing funds to subsidize the construction of semiconductor fabs in the USA and funding domestic R&D" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/trump_layoffs_nist/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:21:45

• "Donald Trump's nominee for a critical DoD cybersecurity role sports a resume that outshines many of his past picks, despite previously suspended security clearance." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/trumps_pentagon_ciso_pick_was/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:21:51

• "What remains vulnerable are asymmetric encryption (e.g., RSA, ECDSA, ECDH) and digital signatures (e.g., RSA, ECDSA, ECDH)." ☛ https://www.netmeister.org/blog/pqc-2025-02.html | Source: Jan Schaumann    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:26:29

• "In a lawsuit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the Center for Taxpayer Rights" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/doge-access-irs-systems-elon-musk-lawsuit/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:30:11

• "From October to December 2024, you all came together to support an essential fundraising campaign." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/celebrating-2024-yec/ | Source: Tor    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:30:24

• "The technique is known as device code phishing. It exploits “device code flow" ☛ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/02/russian-spies-use-device-code-phishing-to-hijack-microsoft-accounts/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:35:02

• Windows TCO: "Security researchers are warning of a dangerous malware that targets Windows systems." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2613599/this-high-risk-keylogger-malware-is-a-threat-to-windows-users.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:39:31

• Windows TCO: "critical infrastructure, schools and universities, healthcare, government networks, religious institutions" ☛ https://therecord.media/ghost-cring-ransomware-activity-fbi-cisa-alert | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:40:00

• Windows TCO: "Salt Typhoon’s campaign remains active in and has hit multiple additional networks worldwide since being outed last year." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/salt-typhoon-telecom-breach-remarkable-for-its-indiscriminate-targeting-fbi-official-says/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:40:12

• "LLMs are not databases: they do not do precise, deterministic, predictable data retrieval, and it’s irrelevant to test them as though they could. But that’s not quite what we’re trying to do here - this is a rather more complex and interesting test." ☛ https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2025/2/17/the-deep-research-problem | Source: Benedict Evans    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:50:09

• "Humane, creator of the fabulous and literally nonfunctional Ai Pin gadget — that’s “Ai,” not “AI” — has finally thrown in the towel." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/19/humane-ai-finally-shuts-down-hp-pays-116m-for-the-pieces-not-including-the-ai-pin/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:50:29

• "I don't think we draw many interesting lessons from Humane." ☛ https://jmduke.com/posts/post/inhumane/ | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:50:49

• "Well, that is not exactly correct. As Engadget has pointed out" ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-humane-ai-pin-a-700-brick-of-e-waste/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:53:57

• "Computers turned out fine for the creative industries." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/2025/02/19/because-x-doesnt-mean-y.html | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:54:23

• "The interest in AI appears to have heightened of late, and while the hype levels are impressive even for an industry that can get totally fixated on hype, the deliverables so far still appear to fall somewhat short." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/19/network-automation-and-ai-at-nanog-93/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:55:19

• "highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/ai_activists_seek_ban_agi/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:57:20

• Event Wrap: NANOG 93 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/20/event-wrap-nanog-93/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:57:49

• Event Wrap: JANOG 55 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/20/event-wrap-janog-55/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:58:17

• IRS union: Probationary hires at KC division are laid off https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/news/2025/02/19/irs-layoffs-doge-trump-musk.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:02:27

• Microsoft proxy Infosys layoffs https://www.india.com/business/infosys-layoffs-narayan-murthysudha-rohan-microsoft-wipro-cognizant-tata-consultancy-services-tcs-infosys-wipro-hcltech-tech-mahindra-larsen-toubro-infotech-lti-7628953/ Microsoft layoffs in India (Microsoft's go-to contractor that looks after Microsoft's own infra)    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:05:28

• "Which means I can learn AWS by getting LLMs to write custom one-off tools for me!" ☛ https://til.simonwillison.net/aws/s3-triggers-dynamodb | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:15:18

• "Among the many employees at the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health terminated were staff reviewing the implantable brain computer interface" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/musks-doge-operatives-should-leave-the-fda-alone | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:16:04

• "Some years ago, I worked for a professional services firm." ☛ https://brothke.medium.com/how-not-to-hire-for-a-senior-information-security-role-4bf71ce7ee26?sk=9cab2444ee1ead944e41ab61445aea4c |    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:16:11

• "I’m sure I’m not the first to observe this, but the price of graphics cards seem way out of balance again." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/unobtainium-pc-building-in-2025/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:38:00

• "Anyway, that’s enough of that bullshit. Apologies for the overload on curse words in this post" ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/02/no-rules-are-implicit-rules/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:43:12

• "In our family, we definitely don’t have anyone nearby who we could regularly count on." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/02/19/home-office-gift-for-parentsmd | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:43:32

• "set the record straight" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/weve-been-misreading-a-major-law-of-physics-for-almost-300-years | Source: Science Alert    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:45:07

• "For the past 70 years, the federal government and research institutions have maintained a partnership to support the infrastructure" ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/nih-budget-cuts-are-a-short-sighted-setback-for-us-science-72707 | Source: LabX Media Group    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:45:34

• "interactive proof systems" ☛ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/19/how-to-prove-false-statements-part-3/ | Source: Cryptography Engineering    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:45:53

• "Let’s correct the points here: [...] " ☛ https://danq.me/2025/02/19/reply-to-blogging-for-traffic-not-design/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:52:21

• "I've written an annual rumination on this most years since." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/19/gimme-five/#jeffty | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:53:03

• "The last few weeks have been a wild ride. After deciding to push my skills forward and release the app I developed for myself, I pushed myself further than I expected." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/2025/02/19/saying-no.html | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:54:06

• "Editor’s note: A blogger with absolute bangers like “Why Your Blog Post Didn’t Go Viral” and “How to write blog posts that convert” wrote a post titled, “Blogging for traffic not design” and then vanished from the Internet." ☛ https://www.lkhrs.com/blog/2025/blogging-for-number-go-up/ | Source: Luke Harris    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:54:48

• "I started blogging here precisely 25 years ago on 19 February 2000. I was 22 when I started and I am now 47." ☛ https://interconnected.org/home/2025/02/19/reflections | Source: Matt Webb    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:55:25

• "For example, next time, instead of feeling frustrated, I could try to focus on the fact that they are engaged and eager to learn, even if their communication style isn't my cup of tea." ☛ https://birming.com/non-stop-talkers/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:55:48

• "Choose accordingly." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/02/confusing-status-with-skill/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:56:03

• "I am keen to have more conversations with people as I go out and about; chatting with baristas, speaking to people on the lift, making small-talk in the times when there would otherwise be silence." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/02/18/working-on-my-confidence | Source: James G    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:56:37

• "One of the nice things about following people online is that sometimes they give you an entirely new reason to follow them. So it was with Fractal Kitty. I came for strangely wonderful crochet and then discovered her journaling habits and processes, which made me think about mine." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/how-i-journal | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:57:10

• "As much as I wished I’d be able to share her positive look on life, I haven’t been able to reach the same conviction. I enjoy the good things to the fullest but I also mull over on the negative experiences and most days and weeks are in either extreme." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/my-mom-believes-theres-a-silver-lining/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:57:25

• "Part of the “Unlocked 4 Life” extortion scheme included threatening to murder victims if they didn’t cooperate, according to the criminal complaint." ☛ https://www.404media.co/meta-lawsuit-unlocked-4-life-idriss-qibaa-instagram-extortion/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 12:57:43

• Sam Thursfield: Status update, 19/02/2025 ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/status-update-19-02-2025/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:04:26

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1010853/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:05:04

• "One of the talks from the DNS Devroom at FOSDEM 2025 I watched online was by Peter Eckel about Netbox." ☛ https://jpmens.net/2025/02/19/netbox-dns-and-a-pinch-of-octodns/ | Source: Jan Piet Mens    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:07:14

• "Every year, we take a moment to reflect on the contributions we made to the open source movement, and the many ways our community has made a huge difference. As we publish the latest Open Source Report, we are proud to say 2024 was another year of remarkable progress and achievements." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/02/19/the-2024-arduino-open-source-report-is-here/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:09:06

• "The newly minted chipmaking startup AheadComputing Inc. said today it has raised $21.5 million in seed funding to develop and commercialize a new artificial intelligence chipset based on the open-source architecture RISC-V." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/19/risc-v-chip-startup-aheadcomputing-raises-21-5m-fix-cpu-bottlenecks/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:09:24

• "The Pico SDK contains necessary libraries, headers, and files to program RP-series microcontrollers in C, C++, and Assembly languages." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/the-raspberry-pi-picos-rp2040-has-been-certified-for-200-mhz-clock-speeds-up-from-133-mhz | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:10:22

• "The map was designed from scratch by Bicapitate and 3D printed just for this project. It has colored lines that represent each of the transit lines and they are fitted with optical fiber lines along them." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/this-raspberry-pi-map-of-manhattan-shows-real-time-subway-train-status | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:10:27

• "Today I learned that you can stop FreeBSD jails in reverse order from when they were started." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/stopping-freebsd-jails-in-reverse-order/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:17:24

• "FreeBSD stands out as the ideal OS for embedded devices, offering true open-source freedom without GPL restrictions." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/why-freebsd-is-the-right-choice-for-embedded-devices/ | Source: Klara    

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

• MemSed – New Cheat Engine Alternative App for GNU/Linux ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/02/memsed-cheat-engine-alternative-linux/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:28:06

• Mesa 25.0 GNU/Linux Graphics Stack Brings Vulkan 1.4 Support on RADV, ANV, and NVK ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mesa-25-0-linux-graphics-stack-brings-vulkan-1-4-support-on-radv-anv-and-nvk    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:30:52

• Slopwatch: Wayne Williams is Making Up for His Workers' Slop Party, LinuxSecurity.com Still Publishes Fake Articles ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/Slopwatch_Wayne_Williams_is_Making_Up_for_His_Workers_Slop_Part.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:45:30

• LLM Slopfarms: LinuxSecurity.com and FUDZilla Doing 'Linux' (Fake Articles) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/LLM_Slopfarms_LinuxSecurity_com_and_FUDZilla_Doing_Linux_Fake_A.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 13:46:04

• "Can AK be sent back to...never mind." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmdqxdh4    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:26:40

• "reduce the partner level resources since they can't sell to anyone other than their buddies in client companies. The number of D and above is crazy. Making band 9 & 10 into sales leaders and remain 100% billable is unrealistic." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmcfvkdd    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:27:24

• "rewards for work done, profits to the shareholders? what is this thing called stock, bonus and salary increase?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmaj5zq3    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:27:54

• "3657 vs 380 today." IBM India vs US jobs https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jma144j9    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:28:37

• "Is this a part of the massive layoffs for Europe that has been announced this week?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmhgb5ne "@ae yes… it starts with volunteer layoffs and then mid march they show the axe and fire with no notice"    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:29:18

• "Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC) is a JDK project, initiated by Azul. With CRaC, you can start Java programs" ☛ https://webtechie.be/post/2025-02-19-demo-application-with-crac-and-loading-data-in-memory/ | Source: Frank Delporte    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:31:09

• "This time, I went with a different tactic: just delete the damn things and start over." ☛ https://jmduke.com/posts/post/yolo-squashing/ | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:31:36

• "For years, a sort of dogma has prevailed in the world of embedded systems and real-time control: if you're using a high-level language like Python or R for modeling and simulation, you must rewrite your code in C for deployment" ☛ https://info.juliahub.com/blog/c-code-generation-julia | Source: Julia Programming Language    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:34:55

• "Only 3% of engineers feel the data quality of their metadata repository is completely trustworthy and 50% have doubts about its accuracy." ☛ https://www.getport.io/state-of-internal-developer-portals |    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:35:09

• "In industries like automotive and aerospace, every piece is built to perform—and to fail without falling apart." ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=973 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:35:38

• "When specifying systems, I may not encounter nondeterminism more often than in real systems, but I am definitely more aware of its presence." ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/five-kinds-of-nondeterminism/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:35:57

• "The three-day event welcomed 700 participants onsite and 67 participants online and featured keynote presentations from Yun Freund" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/20/event-wrap-nanog-93/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:37:51

• "The event welcomed 4,096 registrants who participated in sessions on topics including network automation, AI, security and much more." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/20/event-wrap-janog-55/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:38:02

• "In the previous posts, we've explored the SQLite file format and built a simple SQL parser." ☛ https://blog.sylver.dev/build-your-own-sqlite-part-5-evaluating-queries | Source: Geoffrey Copin    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:38:52

• "popular open source implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/openssh-patches-vulnerabilities-allowing-mitm-dos-attacks/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:40:57

• "OpenSSH heavily uses the following idiom throughout its code base: [...]" ☛ https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=173986993304277&w=2 | Source: Mailing list ARChives    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:41:17

• "The question came up as a consequence of the renewed regulatory activism of several countries and regions." ☛ https://blog.powerdns.com/a-survey-on-open-source-software-in-the-dns | Source: PowerDNS    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:45:16

• "One of the most significant highlights of Postfix 3.10 is its forward compatibility with OpenSSL 3.5 post-quantum cryptography." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/postfix-3-10-mta-arrives-with-openssl-3-5-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:45:29

• "As lua has been embedded into the pihole-FTL binary for some time now, we have been able to leverage this to rewrite the web interface." ☛ https://pi-hole.net/blog/2025/02/18/introducing-pi-hole-v6/ |    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:46:47

• "This eliminates the need for Lighttpd and PHP, reducing the installation footprint and boosting overall performance." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/pi-hole-6-is-here-now-faster-smarter-and-more-secure/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:46:57

• "It's all happening in KDE land. KDE Plasma 6.3 arrived early last week" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/kde_plasma_63/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:48:56

• "I recently read Comments on Shared Unix Hosting vs. the Cloud (via), which I will summarize as being sad about how old fashioned shared hosting on a (shared) Unix system has basically died out, and along with it web server technology like CGI." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SharedHostingAndResourceLimits | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:49:41

• "Yesterday I wrote about how one problem with shared Unix hosting was the lack of good support for resource limits in the Unixes of the time." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SharedHostingAndResourceLimitsII | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:49:54

• "My tasks at work has me looking up the two-letter country codes a lot recently." ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/02/20/made-a-small-thing-yesterday.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:50:36

• "I’ve been working on a transition to using light-dark() function in CSS." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/css-space-toggles/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:51:59

• "Today I wanted to update a bit markup in my blog and it took me some time to get it right." ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2025/02/19/replace-text-in-multiple-files/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:52:23

• Somebody should tell Cheeto to send US troops to Finland; he'd interpret that roughly same as Kim sending sending troops to Kursk https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/19/finns-aghast-that-trump-could-think-their-country-is-part-of-russia    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:53:48

• "With the Elastic released of version 8.17.0" ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31704 | Source: SANS    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:54:21

• How To Fix 401 Unauthorized Error ☞ https://idroot.us/fix-401-unauthorized-error/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:55:27

• How To Install Ajenti Control Panel on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ajenti-control-panel-debian-12/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:55:48

• Bash Case Statement ☞ https://idroot.us/bash-case-statement/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:56:08

• How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Debian 11 to 12 ☞ https://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig-php-debian/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:56:51

• How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Ubuntu 22.04 - 24.04 ☞ https://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig-php-ubuntu/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:56:59

• How To Add Swap Space on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/add-swap-space-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 14:58:33

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

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 15:05:16

• How To Install Pi-Hole on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-pi-hole-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 15:05:44

• How to Create a Symbolic Link in Ubuntu 24.04 or 22.04 ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-create-a-symbolic-link-in-ubuntu-24-04-or-22-04/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 15:12:25

• How-To Geek Sort of Supersedes MakeUseOf (MUO) for GNU/Linux Coverage (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/How_To_Geek_Sort_of_Supersedes_MakeUseOf_MUO_for_GNU_Linux_Cove.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 15:14:36

• Baltic region prepares for war as Russia and US debate Ukraine's fate ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250219-baltic-region-prepares-war-as-russia-us-debate-ukraine-fate    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 15:20:39

• Andrey Kurkov: 'You can't write fiction when your houses, cities are shelled with missiles, drones' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250219-andrey-kurkov-you-cannot-write-fiction-when-your-houses-cities-are-shelled-with-missiles-and-drones    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 15:20:58

• Lithuania suspends transit of Belarusian rapeseed oil from occupied parts of Ukraine ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2491969/lithuania-suspends-transit-of-belarusian-rapeseed-oil-from-occupied-parts-of-ukraine    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 15:21:07

• Dictator calls Ukranian president "dictator", Zelensky says Convicted Felon living in "disinformation space" ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250219-trump-calls-ukranian-president-dictator-zelensky-says-trump-living-in-disinformation-space    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 15:22:57

• Lithuanian president to join 2nd European summit on Ukraine remotely ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2491871/lithuanian-president-to-join-2nd-european-summit-on-ukraine-remotely    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 15:23:10

• Dictator Appears To Blame Ukraine For War But 'Confident' Of Reaching Peace Deal ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-rubio-lavrov-ukraine-saudi-arabia-talks/33319922.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:19:26

• Dictator Praises MElon For Work Cutting Government Waste ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-musk-doge-waste-cut-budget-spending-ukraine-afghanstan/33319962.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:19:37

• France Prepares To Host Second Ukraine War Summit ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/europe-macron-paris-ukraine-summit-russia-trump-rutte/33318549.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:19:51

• Putin won 2024 elections https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/putins-poodle-loses-manbaby-donald-34712703 https://i2-prod.dailystar.co.uk/article34712724.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200e/0_1739989487540-b5660be9-d3c2-4918-ae77-59e73286dce6_1.jpg    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:20:53

• US ally Australia says Ukraine conflict must be resolved on Ukraine's terms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/us-ally-australia-says-ukraine-conflict-must-be-resolved-on-ukraines-terms    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:39:18

• Kazakhstan to contact Ukraine over drone attack on Caspian pipeline, official says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/kazakhstan-to-contact-ukraine-over-drone-attack-on-caspian-pipeline-official-says    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:39:41

• Event series at Latvian National Art Museum for Ukraine's support ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/culture/art/20.02.2025-event-series-at-latvian-national-art-museum-for-ukraines-support.a588537/ "inviting everyone to print a piece of clothing with a design by artist Elīna Brasliņa"    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:44:51

• "Something that you generally don’t expect as a North-America-based enthusiast" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/the-us-militarys-unsecured-ufo-satellites-and-their-use-by-russia/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:45:23

• ">Russian attack on Ukraine’s Odesa knocks out power and heating in hundreds of apartment buildings" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/19/russian-attack-on-ukraine-s-odesa-knocks-out-power-and-heating-in-hundreds-of-apartment-buildings | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:45:57

• "Ukrainian and Latin American migrants" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/19/u-s-suspends-immigration-applications-from-certain-ukrainian-and-latin-american-migrants-cbs | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:46:15

• How Russian Hackers Are Exploiting Signal ‘Linked Devices’ Feature for Real-Time Spying ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/how-russian-hackers-are-exploiting-signals-linked-devices-for-real-time-spying/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:46:36

• Google report warns of Russian threat groups targeting Signal Messenger ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/19/google-report-warns-russian-threat-groups-targeting-signal-messenger/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:47:41

• North Korea building possibly its ‘largest’ warship with Russian help: report ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/20/north-korea-largest-ship-chongjin-russia/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:51:22

• Device Code Phishing ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/device-code-phishing.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:51:44

• Prison drone delivery caught by Latvian police ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/20.02.2025-prison-drone-delivery-caught-by-latvian-police.a588526/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:52:37

• "Who else would they glorify?" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/19/who-else-would-they-glorify | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:52:59

• "Rubio told European allies that U.S. won’t lift sanctions against Russia until war is over" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/19/marco-rubio-told-european-allies-that-u-s-won-t-lift-sanctions-against-russia-until-war-is-over-bloomberg | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 16:53:34

• "U.S. Ukraine special envoy Keith Kellogg arrives in Kyiv" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/19/u-s-ukraine-special-envoy-keith-kellogg-arrives-in-kyiv | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:01:15

• "E.U. preparing to send six billion euros in military aid to Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/19/e-u-preparing-to-send-six-billion-euros-in-military-aid-to-ukraine-politico | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:01:33

• "Ukraine peace" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/19/the-strong-versus-the-weak | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:01:52

• "U.K. considering deploying Typhoon fighter jets to Ukraine as part of peacekeeping mission" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/19/u-k-considering-deploying-typhoon-fighter-jets-to-ukraine-as-part-of-peacekeeping-mission-the-times | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:02:25

• "Weakness leads to war" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/19/weakness-leads-to-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:02:54

• "We’ll have to win it militarily" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/19/we-ll-have-to-win-it-militarily | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:05:48

• "U.S. Vice President Vance says Zelensky endangers Ukraine’s ‘existence’ by criticizing Trump publicly" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/19/u-s-vice-president-vance-says-zelensky-endangers-ukraine-s-existence-by-criticizing-trump-publicly | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:06:11

• Maksim Samorukov ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/20/why-would-russia-concede-anything-when-it-s-already-winning | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:06:36

• Dictator "is very interested in doing business with Russia": analyst ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250219-trump-is-very-interested-in-doing-business-with-russia-analyst    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:06:52

• Fact-checking The Insurrectionist’s statements on Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250219-fact-checking-donald-trump-s-statements-on-ukraine    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:07:37

• Ukrainians dismiss Convicted Felon's broadside against Zelensky ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250219-ukrainians-dismiss-trump-s-broadside-against-zelensky    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:07:52

• Dictator blames Ukraine war on 'dictator' Zelensky ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250220-trump-blames-ukraine-war-on-dictator-zelensky    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:08:08

• Russia-aligned threat groups dupe Ukrainian targets via Signal ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/russia-threat-groups-target-ukraine-signal/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:08:32

• Association: Basic hygiene items always needed for Ukrainian soldiers ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/19.02.2025-association-basic-hygiene-items-always-needed-for-ukrainian-soldiers.a588355/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:08:46

• Name change trend observed in Latvia after Russian invasion of Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/19.02.2025-name-change-trend-observed-in-latvia-after-russian-invasion-of-ukraine.a588414/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:09:05

• Altice USA Ordered to Disclose Subscriber Names, Addresses, and More in Warner Music Copyright Battle ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/19/altice-usa-subscriber-identities/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:09:58

• Trump-era mandates threaten USPTO stability, trademark filings ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/02/trump-era-mandates-threaten-uspto-stability-trademark-filings/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:10:29

• GNU/Linux and Android Convicted Felon Abusive Monopolist Microsoft in Saudi Arabia, Bing Down Since the LLM Hype/Hysteria Began ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/GNU_Linux_and_Android_Trump_Microsoft_in_Saudi_Arabia_Bing_Down.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:15:16

• The Free Software Foundation's Position on I.C.B.M. Taking Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux 'Private' is Articulated Almost 2 Years Late ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/The_Free_Software_Foundation_s_Position_on_IBM_Taking_Red_Hat_E.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:15:24

• LLM Slop is Now Filling the Web With Pure Fiction/Fabrication/Misinformation About GNU/Linux ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/LLM_Slop_is_Now_Filling_the_Web_With_Pure_Fiction_Fabrication_M.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:15:43

• KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released with Numerous Bug-fixes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/02/kde-plasma-6-3-1-released-with-numerous-bug-fixes/ "KDE announced the first maintenance update for Plasma 6.3 just a week after it was originally released. As you may know, Plasma 6.3 introduced new feature to resize or move the area of drawing tablet. However, some GNU/Linux Distributions are NOT supported due to outdated libinput library."    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:16:29

• KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/02/kde-plasma-6-3-1-released-with-numerous-bug-fixes/ "KDE announced the first maintenance update for Plasma 6.3 just a week after it was originally released. As you may know, Plasma 6.3 introduced new feature to resize or move the area of drawing tablet. However, some GNU/Linux Distributions are NOT supported due to outdated libinput library."    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:16:52

• Ubuntu LTS Users Might Soon Get Frequent defective chip maker Intel GPU Updates ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/ubuntu-lts-users-could-get-intel-graphics-driver-updates-more-frequently    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:20:53

• FOSS Weekly #25.08: Ubuntu 25.04 Features, Conky Setup, Plank Reloaded and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-08/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:21:26

• "SolidRun has launched a single-board computer tailored for Industrial Internet of Things and Human-Machine Interface applications" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/updated-solidrun-hummingboard-i-mx8m-iiot-sbc-with-nvme-rs232-rs485-and-lte-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:23:00

• "In this article, we will guide you step-by-step on how to install Genymotion Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/genymotion-run-android-apps-on-ubuntu/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:23:54

• "The Bit-Brick K1 is a single-board computer designed for industrial and edge computing applications." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/spacemit-x60-risc-v-processor-enables-ai-and-high-speed-storage-in-bit-brick-k1-embedded-board/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:24:57

• "Seeed Studio has expanded its XIAO MG24 and XIAO MG24 Sense development board lineup with new variants, including pre-soldered versions and 3PCS packs." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/silicon-labs-based-xiao-mg24-series-expands-with-new-pre-soldered-and-multi-pack-versions/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:25:48

• "Mitchell Baker ends her tenure as Chair and a member of MoFo and MoCo boards." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-leadership-growth-planning-updates/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:28:38

• IBM Red Hat is all about buzzwords, barely about substance: "The UK Government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan defines the strategic initiatives to advance AI adoption." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-red-hat-openshift-ai-can-help-transform-public-services-and-infrastructure-uk | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:31:48

• Instead of 'DoS Protection' Clownflare is Allegedly Conducting 'DoS Attacks' on Users of Browsers Other Than Firefox and GAFAM's DRM Sandboxes (Chrome, Safari and Others) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/Instead_of_DoS_Protection_Clownflare_is_Allegedly_Conducting_Do.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:32:20

• Zizian, transgender, Surveillance Giant Google & Debian open source extremist cult phenomena ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/Zizian_transgender_Google_Debian_open_source_extremist_cult_phe.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:36:39

• How to 'Sell' Software Freedom to People ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/How_to_Sell_Software_Freedom_to_People.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:37:31

• By Buying Twitter, MElon and Cheeto Now Control EU Politicians, Even at the Highest Levels ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/By_Buying_Twitter_MElon_and_Cheeto_Now_Control_EU_Politicians_E.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:37:46

• FUDZilla Has Turned Into LLM Slop and Machine-Generated FUD (New York Times Has Also Just Admitted Moving in That Direction) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/FUDZilla_Has_Turned_Into_LLM_Slop_and_Machine_Generated_FUD_New.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:37:54

• Michael Meeks: "Published the next strip: looking at donations" ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-02-19.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:38:21

• Breaking language barriers: Fine-tuning Whisper for Hindi ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/breaking-language-barriers-fine-tuning-whisper-for-hindi.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:39:14

• A Gift That Keeps on Giving: Microsofters Reveal a Campaign of SLAPP, Seeking to Censor Critical Information About Lawsuits Against Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/A_Gift_That_Keeps_on_Giving_Microsofters_Reveal_a_Campaign_of_S.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:42:48

• It's Not Even Hidden Anymore: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft is Passing Bribes for Media to Publish Puff Pieces About Itself ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/It_s_Not_Even_Hidden_Anymore_Microsoft_is_Passing_Bribes_for_Me.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:42:57

• Microsoft Paying People Who Harass and SLAPP Techrights, Demanding Censorship ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/Microsoft_Paying_People_Who_Harass_and_SLAPP_Techrights_Demandi.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:43:07

• Springtime Layoffs at I.C.B.M. (2025) and Statement From I.C.B.M. European Works Council ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/Springtime_Layoffs_at_IBM_2025_and_Statement_From_IBM_European_.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:43:19

• Techrights Publication Topics ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/Techrights_Publication_Topics.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:43:29

• The Free Software Foundation is More Financially Independent From Large Corporations Right Now ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/The_Free_Software_Foundation_is_More_Financially_Independent_Fr.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:44:57

• Michael Meeks: 2025-02-18 Tuesday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-02-18.html "Planning call - managed to fit it inside an hour this week by some radical update-it-and-read-through-it-first-ness."    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:45:24

• “Open Source” Really Does Miss the Point, We Can Do Better Than That ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/Open_Source_Really_Does_Miss_the_Point_We_Can_Do_Better_Than_Th.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:45:35

• Sites Reporting Crimes and Getting Harassed for Reporting Crimes ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/Sites_Reporting_Crimes_and_Getting_Harassed_for_Reporting_Crime.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:45:46

• New Year's Resolutions Scoreboard ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/New_Year_s_Resolutions_Scoreboard.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:56:20

• FSF Talk: "Free Software Teaching Materials" by Dr. Miriam Bastian ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/FSF_Talk_Free_Software_Teaching_Materials_by_Dr_Miriam_Bastian.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:56:30

• The Interplay Between Free Software and Journalism Based on Truths, Suppressed Facts ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/The_Interplay_Between_Free_Software_and_Journalism_Based_on_Tru.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:56:42

• Mixing Real With Fake in One 'Article' (by "Director of Content, Help Net Security") ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/Mixing_Real_With_Fake_in_One_Article_by_Director_of_Content_Hel.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:56:52

• Chicago Transit Authority Has Dumped Ex-Twitter (X), As Did Many Others Without Announcing It (Due to Fear of Right-Wing Mobs) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/Chicago_Transit_Authority_Has_Dumped_Twitter_X_As_Did_Many_Othe.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:57:05

• IBM's CEO Has Become a Stochastic Buzzword-Generating Machine (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/IBM_s_CEO_Has_Become_a_Stochastic_Buzzword_Generating_Machine.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:57:16

• Microsoft Has "Made the Customer the Product." (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/Microsoft_Has_Made_the_Customer_the_Product.shtml    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 17:57:25

• loSt in the LaByRinTh gemini://wolfinthewoods.pollux.casa/gemlog/2025_02_19_LaByRinTh.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:24:06

• "The pubnices of circumlunar.space have a shared internal BBS and IRC. Since not very long ago, there have been 'musters' on the 10th of each month: coordinated spikes in activity, such that if you go on irc there will actually be a gathering of people instead of barely another person." gemini://soviet.circumlunar.space/pjvm/log/000014-muster-and-past-year.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:25:16

• "I haven't been able to place my analog parts order yet. Even after the last paycheck, the budget is very tight, and I don't want to run short on grocery money." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250219-0.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:26:11

• "I picked this up after listening to an interview with writer Kyle Higgins on the Off Panel podcast." gemini://sdf.org/diggy/posts/2025/02/radiant-black-vol-1.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:27:38

• 🔤SpellBinding — AHVKNSI Wordo: ARGUE gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-20.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:28:33

• "I've been doing a lot of work, though I've not yet pushed anything to the repository because I want to get it in a somewhat working state first. I took a sojourn to Leipzig this past weekend, so I didn't get a chance to work on it then. This week has also been full of other tasks, so you could say life is getting in the way." gemini://sporiff.dev/2025/02/20/devlog_10/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:31:35

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1561.jpg    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:32:43

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1211.jpg    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:32:48

• "Some of you might now that I launched an orbit (like webring, but for gemini) in the summer of 2022. For two and a half years it has been running pretty much unchanged." gemini://raek.se/gemlog/2025-02-20-news-for-the-space-elevator-orbit.gmi    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:33:38

• tarot: form forcing function gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/formforcingfunction    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:36:25

• Desorden I (2024) gemini://3rr0r.smol.pub/desorden_i    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:37:08

• Hello World gemini://janeladigital.smol.pub/2025-02-20-hello-world    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:37:33

• Appeals to conscience in Damascus ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0219/Appeals-to-conscience-in-Damascus    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:39:26

• How Earth can defend itself against the 'city killer' asteroid ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/science/20250219-how-earth-can-defend-itself-against-city-killer-asteroid-2024-yr4    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:39:43

• Governmentwide firings ‘devastating’ to probationary federal employees ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/02/governmentwide-firings-devastating-to-probationary-federal-employees/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:40:11

• Health Ministry considers taking over regional hospitals in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/20.02.2025-health-ministry-considers-taking-over-regional-hospitals-in-latvia.a588529/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:40:31

• Updates on Pope Francis’ Health Leave Room for Speculation ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/pope-francis-health.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:40:54

• Dictator Administration Has Fired Health Inspectors at Some Border Stations ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/health/trump-border-health-inspections.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:41:09

• DOGE Cuts 9/11 Survivors’ Fund, and Republicans Join Democrats in Rebuke ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/nyregion/doge-ground-zero-health-care-cuts.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:41:21

• RFK Jr. Announces New HHS Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/us/politics/rfk-jr-hhs-sex-genders.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:42:20

• Parents weigh in on teens’ non-surgical cosmetic procedures ☞ https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/1-6-parents-support-teens-getting-non-surgical-cosmetic-procedures    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:42:34

• Study examines how to cut wasteful pre-surgery testing ☞ https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/how-can-we-cut-wasteful-pre-surgery-testing    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:42:48

• Rohingya in limbo as some aid groups suspend health services at Bangladesh camps ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/02/20/bangladesh-rohingya-aid-groups-health-operations/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:43:02

• Lithuania is a unique case in cutting alcohol consumption – experts ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2492088/lithuania-is-a-unique-case-in-cutting-alcohol-consumption-experts    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:43:11

• That alarm bell about the nation’s fiscal health is growing louder and louder ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/financial-management/2025/02/that-alarm-bell-about-the-nations-fiscal-health-is-growing-louder-and-louder/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:43:55

• South Korean Officials Convicted Over Forcibly Sending North Koreans Home ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/asia/north-korea-fishermen-court.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:44:26

• Top South Korean judge faces disinformation deluge as Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment looms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/top-south-korean-judge-faces-disinformation-deluge-as-president-yoon-impeachment-looms    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:44:36

• Wallpaper Competition for Ubuntu 25.04 is Open Now! ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/02/wallpaper-competition-ubuntu-2504/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:48:10

• Mozilla Announce Leadership Changes, Plans to ‘Diversify’ ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mozilla-announces-leadership-changes-in-an-effort-to-diversify    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:49:33

• Mozilla announces leadership updates and next chapter ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1010922/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:50:50

• Spidermonkey Development Blog: Making Teleporting Smarter ☞ https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/02/19/Making-Teleporting-Smarter.html    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:51:28

• Java security: If you ain’t cheatin,’ you ain’t tryin’ ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/java-applications-security-op-ed/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:52:05

• Chrome 133, Firefox 135 Updates Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-133-firefox-135-updates-patch-high-severity-vulnerabilities/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:53:07

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 587 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/02/19/this-week-in-rust-587/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:53:51

• The Servo Blog: This month in Servo: new webview Hey Hi (AI) relative colors, canvas buffs, and more! ☞ https://servo.org/blog/2025/02/19/this-month-in-servo/ Servo seems to have been entirely outsourced to proprietary prison of Microsoft; how hopeless.    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 18:55:58

• Jordan Petridis: The Fedora Project leader is willfully ignorant about Flathub ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/02/19/the-fedora-project-leader-is-willfully-ignorant-about-flathub/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:01:15

• The Open Source Initiative Has No Control of "Open Source" (but they want it!) ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-open-source-initiative-has-no    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:09:04

• Thomas Lange: The secret maze of Debian images ☞ http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/cdimages-maze/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:10:20

• Saying "open source" helps the side that attacks it, or rather those looking to destroy Free software by calling proprietary "open source" (openwashing). So avoid saying "open source".    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:12:01

• How to Fix the “sudo systemd-resolved command not found error Ubuntu” ☞ https://net2.com/how-to-fix-the-sudo-systemd-resolved-command-not-found-error-ubuntu/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:12:36

• South Korea court finds former officials guilty of forcible return of North Korean fishermen ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-court-finds-former-officials-guilty-of-forcible-return-of-north-koreans    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:14:44

• North Korea reopens to tourists, including Singapore visitors ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/as-north-korea-re-opens-for-tourism-visitors-including-those-from-singapore-are-raring-to-go    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:14:52

• ReKernel: Linux on a 386, again https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/02/19/rekernel-linux-on-a-386-again/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:16:09

• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing for Microsoft/LF-funded site, pushing Rust (Microsoft GitHub) agenda https://thenewstack.io/rust-integration-in-linux-kernel-faces-challenges-but-shows-progress/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:17:38

• CERT-In flags security risk in Google Chrome on Windows, Macs, Linux https://www.financialexpress.com/life/technology-cert-in-flags-security-risk-in-google-chrome-on-windows-macs-linuxnbsp-3753871/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:18:18

• "CachyOS introduces a kernel builder tool designed for Debian-based distributions, simplifying the process of creating custom kernels." https://news.itsfoss.com/cachyos-kernel-builder/    

posted Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 19:18:49