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  • North Korea criticises US over Aukus nuclear submarine deal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-criticises-us-over-aukus-nuclear-submarine-deal    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:00:13


  • South Korean president’s lawyer says martial law bid sought to stop ‘dictatorship’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/yoon-to-become-south-koreas-first-sitting-president-to-go-on-criminal-trial    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:00:25


  • Seoul says it supports North Korean POWs’ right to asylum in South ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-says-supports-north-korean-pows-right-to-asylum-in-south    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:00:55


  • North Korea’s ‘Day of the Shining Star’ dimmer this year ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/19/north-korea-day-of-shining-star-travel-restrictions/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:01:13


  • UN publishes report detailing human rights violations in North Korea ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/un-publishes-report-detailing-human-rights-violations-in-north-korea/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:01:40


  • South Korea's Yoon becomes first sitting president to stand trial in criminal case ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250219-yoon-to-become-south-korea-s-first-sitting-president-to-go-on-criminal-trial    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:01:56


  • Chinese workers from Myanmar scam centres heading home via Thailand ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-returns-first-batch-of-chinese-scam-workers-to-thailand    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:02:42


  • Nepal Took a Risk on a $500 Million U.S. Grant. It May Now Regret It. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/asia/nepal-trump-foreign-aid.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:03:05


  • An Opening for China, Made in America ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/opinion/trump-tariffs-latin-america-china.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:03:29


  • China Uses Public Shaming to Motivate State Workers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/asia/china-officials-slacking-economy.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:03:53


  • Vietnam Parliament approves $10.7b rail link to China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-parliament-approves-10-3b-rail-link-to-china    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:04:11


  • ‘Drain the swamp’: Australian billionaire Clive Palmer launches Convicted Felon-inspired political party ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-billionaire-clive-palmer-launches-trump-inspired-political-party    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:04:43


  • China promises to always be Latin America’s ‘trustworthy’ friend as Convicted Felon lays out demands ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-promises-latin-america-trustworthy-ties-as-trump-lays-out-demands    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:04:57


  • China opposes Vietnam’s building work on disputed reef in South China Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-opposes-vietnams-building-work-on-disputed-reef-in-south-china-sea    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:05:10


  • China woos Bangladesh with healthcare as India ties sour ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/china-woos-bangladesh-with-healthcare-as-india-ties-sour    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:05:44


  • Myanmar returns first batch of Chinese scam workers to Thailand ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-returns-first-batch-of-chinese-scam-workers-to-thailand    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:06:02


  • China denounces Vietnam’s island building in South China Sea ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/19/vietnam-spratlys-south-china-sea-protest/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:06:19


  • OPINION: China pushes Thailand to act on cross-border scam centers ☞ https://rfa.org/english/opinions/2025/02/19/opinion-china-thailand-myanmar-scam-center-zachary-abuza/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:06:35


  • ‘Time is running out’ for jailed pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/19/china-hong-kong-jimmy-lai-time-running-out/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:06:55


  • Chinese state firms win billions as Hong Kong splurges on cross-border development ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/19/china-hong-kong-state-companies-northern-metropolis-hetao/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:07:40


  • Still not confident enough: China isn’t likely to move on Taiwan in 2025 ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/still-not-confident-enough-china-isnt-likely-to-move-on-taiwan-in-2025/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:08:18


  • Trump is with Putin ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/19/trump-calls-zelensky-a-dictator-and-accuses-him-of-profiting-from-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:08:44


  • "Voice Control" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/be-careful-what-you-ask-for-voice-control/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:09:35


  • Yamming CRT Yokes ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/retrotechtacular-yamming-crt-yokes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:10:03


  • Rotating Cube Demo ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/homebrew-cpu-gets-a-beautiful-rotating-cube-demo/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:11:36


  • Study Reveals How This Artificial Sweetener May Cause Heart Damage ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-how-this-artificial-sweetener-may-cause-heart-damage    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:11:55


  • Going Gluten Free Could Come at a Cost to Your Nutrition And Your Pocket ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/going-gluten-free-could-come-at-a-cost-to-your-nutrition-and-your-pocket    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:13:11


  • Scientists Put a Human Language Gene Into Mice And Changed Their Voice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-put-a-human-language-gene-into-mice-and-changed-their-voice    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:13:22


  • Ozempic Reduces Desire to Binge Alcohol, Suggests Amazing New Study ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ozempic-reduces-desire-to-binge-alcohol-suggests-amazing-new-study    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:13:32


  • Hundreds of Black Hole 'Missing Links' May Have Been Discovered in New Survey ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hundreds-of-black-hole-missing-links-may-have-been-discovered-in-new-survey    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:13:53


  • 3,500-Year-Old Pharaoh's Tomb Found in Egypt Is First Since Tutankhamun's ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/3500-year-old-pharaohs-tomb-found-in-egypt-is-first-since-tutankhamuns    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:14:08


  • Here Are Our Defense Options Against Potential 'City Killer' Asteroid Impact ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/here-are-our-defense-options-against-potential-city-killer-asteroid-impact    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:14:17


  • 'Shocking': Global Glacier Ice Loss Accelerates by 36% in Last Decade ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/shocking-global-glacier-ice-loss-accelerates-by-36-in-last-decade    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:14:38


  • Common Mushroom Fiber May Protect Against Flu, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-mushroom-fiber-may-protect-against-flu-study-finds    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:15:04


  • 90 Dolphins Stranded in Australia Are Being Euthanised. Here's Why They Can't Be Saved. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/90-dolphins-stranded-in-australia-to-be-euthanised-heres-why-they-cant-be-saved    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:15:20


  • Foreign spies seeking AUKUS secrets, Australia intelligence chief says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/foreign-spies-seeking-aukus-secrets-australia-intelligence-chief-says    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:17:02


  • "NCE (New Customer Experience) and price hikes during the last 4 years were all predatory. The selling point of O365 for a while was to lower costs and provide better management. Once you moved, they have a money machine they can manipulate to drive their share price." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jm4wh2cd    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:19:37


  • "Training your own replacement is like biting the hand that feeds ya" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmdqxdh4    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:21:13


  • Insiders say IBM's broader return-to-office plan hits older, more expensive staff hard https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/ibm_colocation_program_described_as/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:22:09


  • "Like it does with every other company. AK wants all expensive dinosaurs gone so that he can keep his $30 million a year job. AK is an expensive dinosaur. IBM is doing fine without him. AKA Age discrimination" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmj6c284    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:22:57


  • "These UK jobs are most likely moving to India, the old British colony. The Brits ra--d India in the past, time to pay back. It is ironic is kicking the Brits. " Is this a part of the massive layoffs for Europe that has been announced this week?" Likely so. See this original post for a link to details" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmhgb5ne    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:24:11


  • "usable is not the right word. Quantum is still not a functioning platform nor will it ever be. There's massive flaws in the entire premise of quantum computing." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmge4e7x    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:26:14


  • "IBM is transforming its business to focus on enterprise software. Logic (yeah, I know) would suggest that R&D in the basic sciences and engineering behind quantum computing are therefore not a priority in the company." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmge4e7x    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:26:38


  • "In fact, I wouldn't look for any real R&D into anything beyond the next 10 years of Z evolution. If an idea cannot be quickly packaged and sold as either a hardware or software product, don't expect IBM to stick with it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmge4e7x    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:26:44


  • Hey Hi (AI) and LLMs aren't the same; this is about plagiarism tools, not intelligence ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/19.02.2025-suspicions-of-ai-use-in-pupil-education-competitions-in-latvia.a588359/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:31:02


  • Dictator Media Group Sues Brazilian Judge Weighing Arrest of Jair Bolsonaro ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/americas/trump-brazil-bolsonaro-judge.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:31:47


  • MElon’s DOGE Seeks Access to Americans’ Data, Alarming Government Employees ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-personal-data.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:31:57


  • Dictator Administration Moves to End New York’s Congestion Pricing Tolls ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/nyregion/trump-congestion-pricing-nyc.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:32:16


  • New Zealand must ‘reset’ Cook Islands ties after China pact: Foreign Minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/new-zealand-must-reset-cook-islands-ties-after-china-pact-foreign-minister-says    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:33:50


  • Taiwan seeks to persuade US that it offers chip cooperation – not competition ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-seeks-to-persuade-the-us-that-it-offers-chip-cooperation-not-competition    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:34:07


  • Myanmar adopts law for foreign firms to provide armed security ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/02/19/law-private-armed-security-china/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:34:24


  • Reeling after Munich, Lithuanian leaders consider new approaches to security ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2492374/reeling-after-munich-lithuanian-leaders-consider-new-approaches-to-security    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:35:06


  • Hong Kong seeks to tighten labour union laws on national security grounds ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/20/hong-kong-seeks-to-tighten-labour-union-laws-on-national-security-grounds/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:35:46


  • Hensoldt launches new data link at Idex 2025 ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/hensoldt-launches-new-data-link-at-idex-2025/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:36:25


  • Energy CISO: Agencies can’t implement zero trust alone ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/zero-trust-federal-government-vendors-interoperable/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:36:49


  • AU adds its voice to calls for DRC ceasefire ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/au-adds-its-voice-to-calls-for-drc-ceasefire/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:37:02


  • Make Europe more energy secure by reforming EU regulations ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/make-europe-more-energy-secure-by-reforming-eu-regulations/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:38:20


  • Windows TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/lee-enterprises-newspaper-disruptions-caused-by-ransomware/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:38:52


  • Multimodal model quantization support through LLM Compressor ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/19/multimodal-model-quantization-support-through-llm-compressor    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:40:20


  • Myanmar scam centre survivors recall torture and coercion ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/myanmar-scam-centre-survivors-recall-torture-and-coercion    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:41:46


  • Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Magnifier ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-microsoft-magnifier/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:43:04


  • Zint – barcode generating solution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zint-barcode-generating-solution/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:43:12


  • 22 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux System Profilers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/systemprofilers/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:43:20


  • Prometheus – systems and service monitoring system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/prometheus-systems-service-monitoring-system/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:43:31


  • Peter Czanik: The syslog-ng Insider 2025-02: Prometheus; RHEL UBI; WSL ☞ https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2025-02-prometheus-rhel-ubi-wsl    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:44:47


  • Promotion of fake security to appease those who outsource, based on false assumptions ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/19/how-deploy-confidential-containers-bare-metal    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 02:46:07


  • Unobtainium PC building in early 2025 ☞ https://rubenerd.com/unobtainium-pc-building-in-2025/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:06:03


  • Reconciling… my brain! ☞ https://rubenerd.com/reconciling-my-brain/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:08:00


  • TTAB Grants Petition to Cancel VIVACE Registration for Microneedling Device: Manufacturer Owns the Mark, Not Distributor ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/02/ttab-grants-petition-to-cancel-vivace.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:09:03


  • New USPTO Leadership on the Horizon: Lutnick Confirmed as Commerce Secretary, Squires Expected as Director ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/leadership-confirmed-secretary.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:09:57


  • Mesa 25.0 Released with Support for Vulkan 1.4 & OpenGL 4.6 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mesa-25-0-vulkan-1-4-amd-rdna4    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:12:34


  • mesa 25.0.0 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2025-February/226464.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:14:02


  • Troubleshooting Ethernet and DNS Issues in Ubuntu 22.04 ☞ https://net2.com/troubleshooting-ethernet-and-dns-issues-in-ubuntu-22-04/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:15:13


  • EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.6.3 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202502/easyos-scarthgap-series-version-663-released.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:17:24


  • Leafpad and SolveSpace compiled in Easy Daedalus ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202502/leafpad-and-solvespace-compiled-in-easy-daedalus.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:17:30


  • EasyOS Daedalus-series version 6.6.3 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202502/easyos-daedalus-series-version-663-released.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:17:35


  • VC Firm Insight Partners Hacked ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vc-company-insight-partners-hacked/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:35:10


  • TikTok layoffs: Job cuts to affect employees in this unit https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/tiktok-layoffs-job-cuts-to-affect-employees-in-this-unit/articleshow/118418541.cms    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 03:59:27


  • Lead CMMC architect returns to Pentagon as DoD CISO ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news/2025/02/lead-cmmc-architect-returns-to-pentagon-as-dod-ciso/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:09:56


  • DIY micro lab analyzes ammonia levels in blood and urine ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/02/19/diy-micro-lab-analyzes-ammonia-levels-in-blood-and-urine/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:24:27


  • How scammers use fake sales posts on Facebook (Farcebook) ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-scammers-use-fake-sales-posts-on-facebook-azBHi5u0bEXM    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:26:07


  • ModRetro Chromatic Review: The Premium Game Boy You Always Wanted ☞ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/02/19/modretro-chromatic-review-the-premium-game-boy-you-always-wanted/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:27:10


  • New Orders are Scrubbing the Internet of Equity, Dismantling Transparency, and Making it Harder To Implement Bipartisan Law ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/scrubbing-the-internet-of-equity/ publicknowledge itself needs more "Transparency"; it's stacked by Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:28:04


  • Microsoft backtracks controversial account sign-in change ☞ hhttps://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-backtracks-controversial-account-change/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:39:31


  • technologyreview is promoting Microsoft lies and vapourware again    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:41:08


  • Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Features ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/business/apple-iphone-16e-ai.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:45:55


  • Jimmy Lai denies condoning violence despite urging solidarity between protesters, as nat. sec trial continues ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/19/hong-kongs-jimmy-lai-denies-condoning-violence-despite-urging-solidarity-between-protesters-as-nat-sec-trial-continues/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:46:18


  • Kontron 3.5″-SBC-AML/ADN 3.5-inch Amston Lake/Alder Lake-N single board computer offers three DisplayPort video outputs ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/20/kontron-3-5-sbc-aml-adn-3-5-inch-amston-lake-alder-lake-n-single-board-computer-offers-three-displayport-video-outputs/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:52:20


  • Raspberry Pi Pico SDK 2.1.1 release adds 200MHz clock option for RP2040, various Waveshare boards, new code samples ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/20/raspberry-pi-pico-sdk-2-1-1-release-adds-200mhz-clock-option-for-rp2040-various-waveshare-boards-new-code-samples/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:53:06


  • "But rather than admire the light show from afar, they decided to recreate it at a scale suitable for a 1U server rack." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/add-a-little-wopr-to-your-server-rack/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:58:11


  • Lange: The secret maze of Debian images ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1010855/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 04:58:38


  • In First 5 Weeks of 2025 67,630 People Died in England and Wales Compared to 58,461 in the Same Period in 2019 ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/02/19/first-5-weeks-of-2025/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:02:29


  • Pulsed Deposition Points A Different Path To DIY Semiconductors ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/pulsed-deposition-points-a-different-path-to-diy-semiconductors/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:10:27


  • ‘I want to defect to South’: North Korean soldier captured in Kursk breaks silence ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/19/north-korea-soldier-interview-02192025/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:10:52


  • Hong Kong’s Democratic Party will not rule out discussion of potential disbandment, says party head ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/19/hong-kongs-democratic-party-to-discuss-potential-disbandment-reports/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:11:19


  • Vietnam parliament approves US$8 billion rail link to China, boosting links between 2 communist-ruled countries ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/19/vietnam-parliament-approves-us8-billion-rail-link-to-china-boosting-links-between-2-communist-ruled-countries/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:11:45


  • Microsoft PowerShell ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31700    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:12:39


  • Using ES&QL in Kibana to Queries DShield Honeypot Logs, (Thu, Feb 20th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31704    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:13:32


  • The NovaCustom V54 Series 14.0 inch coreboot laptop is Qubes certified! ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2025/02/19/novacustom-v54-series-qubes-certified/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:14:10


  • Patent case: Huang v. Amazon.com, Inc, USA ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/02/19/patent-case-huang-v-amazon-com-inc-usa/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:15:25


  • Patents ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-could-block-intel-sale-due-to-a-cross-licensing-agreement    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:16:34


  • UPC is illegal. JUVE knows it is illegal. But JUVE got paid by Team UPC to prop up and try to legitimise these constitutional violations and a kangaroo court. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/upc-to-hire-multiple-new-judges-in-2025/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:17:37


  • Mesa 25.0.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1010898/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:18:09


  • SQLPage v0.33: Build Custom UIs, and now Hey Hi (AI) — All in SQL! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/sqlpage-v033-build-custom-uis-and-now-apis-all-in-sql-3017/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:21:04


  • Now available: combined print/ebook bundles direct from my bookstore ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/23992    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:28:38


  • KDAB at Embedded World 2025 ☞ https://www.kdab.com/kdab-at-embedded-world-2025/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:36:44


  • RISC-V and Fedora: All Aboard! - Fedora Magazine ⚓ https://fedoramagazine.org/risc-v-and-fedora-all-aboard/ ䷉ Source: Fedora Magazine | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//fedoramagazine.org/risc-v-and-fedora-all-aboard/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1010857/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:37:55


  • Pgpool-II 4.6 beta1 is now released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgpool-ii-46-beta1-is-now-released-3013/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:40:24


  • HP laptop: top - 05:45:28 up 500 days, 12:30, 41 users, load average: 0.63, 0.51, 0.50    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:45:43


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1562.jpg    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:47:07


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1212.jpg    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:47:27


  • "No scheduling, no easy toggling, no time outs (like “don’t disturb for the next N minutes”), no allowlist for specific numbers to punch through, no “if they call twice let them through”. gemini://idiomdrottning.org/lock-screen-design    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:51:12


  • The Sentinel gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2502    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:53:00


  • "This been IBM''s game plan since Sam Palmisano. They've miss the ship with cloud saying it would never take off and paying billions buying companies to try and catch up. Anywhere they can reduce except the executives taking smaller bonuses as if a million isn't enough. I've Been Misled" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmj6c284    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:58:07


  • "Wouldn't it be nice if all the Red Hat people walk out knowing IBM's reputation" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmbge75p if you leave Red Hat as a specialist in that sort of stuff, there are not many employers with similar needs    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 05:59:23


  • "smart socket"??? ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/19/xcrhom-t4s-wifi-outdoor-smart-socket-features-power-meter-function-tasmota-open-source-firmware/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 06:31:39


  • GDPR Procedural Regulation: A critical opportunity to strengthen cross-border enforcement ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/gdpr-procedural-regulation-a-critical-opportunity-to-strengthen-cross-border-enforcement/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:04:26


  • The EDPB’s Rorschach Test: What the data protection body’s Opinion on Hey Hi (AI) training Means for GDPR Enforcement ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/the-edpbs-rorschach-test-what-the-data-protection-bodys-opinion-on-ai-training-means-for-gdpr-enforcement/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:04:38


  • 12 civil society organisations tell delivery platforms it’s time to deliver answers on how they use algorithms to manage their workers ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/12-civil-society-organisations-tell-delivery-platforms-its-time-to-deliver-answers-on-how-they-use-algorithms-to-manage-their-workers/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:05:59


  • The ePrivacy Regulation proposal has been withdrawn, but the fight for your privacy is far from over ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/the-eprivacy-regulation-proposal-has-been-withdrawn-but-the-fight-for-your-privacy-is-far-from-over/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:06:13


  • EDRi-gram, 19 February 2025 ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-19-february-2025/ "the latest digital rights news in our bi-weekly newsletter."    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:06:47


  • 15 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Session Recording ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-session-recording/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:08:00


  • hascard – minimal command-line utility for reviewing notes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hascard-minimal-command-line-utility-reviewing-notes/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:08:10


  • Drum Machine – create and play drum beats ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/drum-machine-create-play-drum-beats/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:08:18


  • New FrigidStealer macOS Malware Distributed as Fake Browser Update ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-frigidstealer-macos-malware-distributed-as-fake-browser-update/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:12:17


  • QRab – QR code reader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/qrab-qr-code-reader/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:13:39


  • AliView – alignment viewer and editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/aliview-alignment-viewer-editor/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:16:29


  • Self-host Your Own VPN Using PiVPN ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/self-host-pivpn/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:20:29


  • BUZZWORD "Governance".... Hey Hi (AI) Scientific Panel ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/publication/oral-statement-at-the-gdc-stakeholder-consultation-ai-scientific-panel/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:22:30


  • Oral statement at the Informal Meeting of the UNGA Third Committee ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/publication/oral-statement-at-the-informal-meeting-of-the-unga-third-committee/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:23:12


  • Hong Kong taxi group halts strike plan after city’s leader warned against ‘drastic action’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/19/hong-kong-taxi-group-halts-strike-plan-after-citys-leader-warned-against-drastic-action/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:23:31


  • Australia, Papua New Guinea vow to strike defence treaty ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-papua-new-guinea-vow-to-strike-defence-treaty    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:24:01


  • Ex-Karabakh official held by Azerbaijan declares second hunger strike amid terrorism trial ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/ex-karabakh-official-held-by-azerbaijan-declares-second-hunger-strike-amid-terrorism-trial    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:24:28


  • The REDATAM format and its challenges for data access and information creation in public policy ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/the-redatam-format-and-its-challenges-for-data-access-and-information-creation-in-public-policy/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:25:18


  • cpp11armadillo: An R package to use the Armadillo C++ library ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/cpp11armadillo-an-r-package-to-use-the-armadillo-c-library/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:25:31


  • "They brought results" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/19/they-brought-results-putin-comments-on-u-s-russia-negotiations-in-saudi-arabia | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:26:39


  • "worsening transatlantic relations" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/19/they-have-only-themselves-to-blame | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:26:57


  • European Leaders Try to Recalibrate After Convicted Felon Sides With Russia on Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/europe-trump-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:27:28


  • Kremlin Message to Convicted Felon: There’s Money to Be Made in Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/trump-russia-ukraine-putin-trump.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:27:40


  • With Convicted Felon’s Prostration to Putin, Expect a More Dangerous World ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/opinion/trump-putin-europe.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:28:03


  • Dictator Flips the Script on the Ukraine War, Blaming Zelensky Not Putin ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/us/politics/trump-zelensky-russia-ukraine-war.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:28:29


  • Dictator Calls Zelenskyy 'Dictator Without Elections,' Urges Him To 'Move Fast' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskiy-putin-isolation-trump-peace-saud/33320502.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:29:23


  • Dictator Repeats Harsh Criticism Of Zelenskyy, Says He Could Have Attended Riyadh Talks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-putin-trump-zelenskyy-dictator/33321224.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:29:37


  • 🔴 Follow live: Convicted Felon brands Zelensky 'a dictator' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250219-live-trump-criticises-zelensky-suggests-he-could-meet-putin-by-month-s-end    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:30:00


  • Why Europe’s leadership is skeptical of negotiating with Putin ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250219-why-europe-leadership-skeptical-negotiating-putin-ukraine-war-trump    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:30:20


  • How Europe can pay for rearmament ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-europe-can-pay-for-rearmament/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:30:54


  • FLOSS Weekly Episode 821 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/19/floss-weekly-episode-821-rocky-linux/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:48:14


  • KOL453 | Objections to Argumentation Ethics, Libertarian Property Rights, Scarcity, Intellectual Property: Discussion with a Student ☞ https://stephankinsella.com/as_paf_podcast/kol453-argumentation-ethics-discussion-student/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:48:40


  • [Podcast] RPKIViews: The archive of RPKI states ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/20/podcast-rpkiviews-the-archive-of-rpki-states/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:49:01


  • How to Tell a Really Smart Home From a Not-So-Smart Home That Only Thinks It’s Smart ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/02/how-to-tell-a-really-smart-home-from-a-not-so-smart-home-that-only-thinks-its-smart/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:49:32


  • Cybersecurity Chief Says MElon Can Use Purloined IRS Data Against Taxpayers ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/02/cybersecurity-chief-says-musk-can-use-purloined-irs-data-against-taxpayers/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:49:51


  • 'Linux' Foundation SPAM! ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/02/foss-force-deal-of-the-week-open-source-software-month-sale-at-linux-foundation/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:50:09


  • 11-year-old Texas girl dies by suicide after being bullied over family’s immigration status: report ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/02/19/us-news/11-year-old-texas-girl-dies-by-suicide-after-being-bullied-over-familys-immigration-status-report/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:53:04


  • LLMStick – An Hey Hi (AI) and LLM USB device based on Raspberry Pi Zero W and optimized llama.cpp ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/20/llmstick-an-ai-and-llm-usb-device-based-on-raspberry-pi-zero-w-and-optimized-llama-cpp/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:53:47


  • Software Patent: $4,000 for STT WebOS web-based communication patents prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/19/4000-for-stt-webos-web-based-patents-prior-art    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:54:21


  • TikTok’s Head of Music Ole Obermann Reportedly Exiting for Fashion Company Apple Music ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/19/ole-obermann-leaving-tiktok-joining-apple-music/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:54:56


  • Pluralistic: Pluralistic is five (19 Feb 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/19/gimme-five/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 07:55:14


  • "Airport X-Ray Simulator from developer Rainbow Lab has a fresh Beta available on Steam, which includes some overhauled controls for gamepads and Steam Deck. Currently in Early Access the game isn't finished." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/airport-x-ray-simulator-gets-a-gamepad-and-steam-deck-beta/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:19:11


  • "While Valve continue building up their next MOBA with Deadlock, their current Dota 2 is still as popular as ever and the Wandering Waters update for Dota 2 sounds pretty awesome." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/theres-been-a-flood-in-the-wandering-waters-update-for-dota-2/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:19:35


  • "The huge hit deck-builder Monster Train is getting a sequel, with Monster Train 2 getting an announcement and demo in the same day so you can try it early." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/monster-train-2-announced-with-a-demo-live/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:23:59


  • "A name you might know from the likes of Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon and VVVVVV. This is not a single game but a collection of various experiments done by Terry Cavanagh over many years." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/take-a-trip-through-an-indie-dev-brain-in-terrys-other-games-from-terry-cavanagh/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:24:11


  • "Recently I highlighted a fight that had broken out between the OBS Studio team and the Fedora Linux developers. The issue was centred around the Fedora Flatpak of OBS Studio but it seems to have calmed down now." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-obs-versus-fedora-drama-seems-to-have-calmed-down-no-more-legal-threats/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:32:52


  • "One for the creative types and people who love doing chores. The House Flipper and Friends Humble Bundle has an assortment of simulator treats available." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/house-flipper-and-friends-humble-bundle-has-some-fun-looking-sims/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:40:39


  • why does Liam at gamingonlinux give lip service to obvious vapourware from Microsoft in "hey hi" clothing?    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:41:06


  • If slop makes slop games, then nobody will buy or play these; just like slop turns into books that never sell, more so when people realise those are slop    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:41:46


  • "It's been a little bit over a year now since Palworld arrived in Early Access, with developer Pocketpair announcing how well it's done along with another patch out now. ICYMI: Pocketpair recently launched Pocketpair Publishing." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/a-year-later-palworld-hits-32m-players-while-continuing-to-fight-off-nintendo/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:44:27


  • "Surprisingly, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been given the Steam Deck Verified checkmark by Valve, after the latest patch was released with more updates planned. Valve verified it against the latest Proton 9.0-4" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/marvels-spider-man-2-is-now-steam-deck-verified/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:44:50


  • "Chat Control 2 – omvända roller i ministerrådet" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/02/19/chat-control-2-omvanda-roller-i-ministerradet/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:51:20


  • "Mexico Threatens To Sue Google Over ‘Gulf Of America’ Change" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/mexico-threatens-to-sue-google-over-gulf-of-america-change/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:51:32


  • "Trump Hands the World to China" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/foreign-policy-mistake-china/681732/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:51:43


  • "Incompetence Leavened With Malignity" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/rubio-putin-trump-ukraine/681730/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:52:02


  • "A New International Campaign Rises in Ukraine" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/putin-ukraine-war-civilians-rusia-zelensky/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:52:17


  • "Vox’s The Logoff: Trump’s “mass deportations” promise isn’t happening — yet" https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/400441/the-logoff-trump-makes-another-power-grab    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:53:51


  • "Holding Trump’s Operatives Accountable | Washington Spectator" https://washingtonspectator.org/under-color-of-law-holding-trumps-operatives-accountable/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:54:11


  • "Propaganda posters for our new fascist oligarchy" https://boingboing.net/2025/02/20/propaganda-posters-for-our-new-fascist-oligarchy.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:54:42


  • "Former NFL Punter Chris Kluwe Arrested at City Council Meeting After MAGA Protest" https://www.thedailybeast.com/former-nfl-punter-chris-kluwe-arrested-at-city-council-meeting-after-maga-protest/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:56:26


  • "Re: Free book on software architecture" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-02/msg00016.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 08:56:40


  • "Russia asked US for Nato withdrawal from eastern Europe, says Romania" https://archive.ph/w3qGn#selection-2391.0-2395.260    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:08:21


  • "AlienBOB Shouts Out Regarding Ukraine" https://soylentnews.org/~turgid/journal/19107 "AlienBOB has just posted to his blog a heartfelt piece about the situation in Ukraine and Donald Trump's shockingly ignorant announcements today, basically blaming Ukraine for the invasion."    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:09:01


  • "Doctors who change gender are allowed to scrub past wrongdoing from public record" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/20/doctors-change-gender-scrub-records/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:11:41


  • "The DOGE [sic] Fraud Is Coming from Inside the House" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/20/the-doge-fraud-is-coming-from-inside-the-house/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:11:57


  • "Ephemeral content" https://manuelmoreale.com/ephemeral-content    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:13:04


  • "The New York Times’ Absurd Strategic Forecasting of the U.S. Annexing Canada – Pixel Envy" https://pxlnv.com/linklog/nyt-forecasting-annexing-canada/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:13:15


  • Microsoft stenography or LLM slop? nytimes already admits doing LLM slpp. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/technology/microsoft-quantum-computing-topological-qubit.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:14:00


  • "'This Is Urgent, Elon': Grimes Begs For Billionaire's Help Amid Child's Medical Crisis, How Many Do They Have?" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/this-urgent-elon-grimes-begs-billionaires-help-amid-childs-medical-crisis-how-many-do-they-1731245    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:17:44


  • "Leader of Nation’s Largest Progressive Organizing Group Calls for Democrats to Obstruct Proceedings for Trump’s Unqualified and Dangerous Cabinet Picks Amid Musk’s Corporate Coup" https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/leader-of-nations-largest-progressive-organizing-group-calls-for-democrats-to-obstruct-proceedings-for-trumps-unqualified-and-dangerous-cabinet-picks-amid-musks-corporate-coup    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:18:03


  • "We’d Never Had a King Until This Week" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/wed-never-had-a-king-until-this-week    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:18:23


  • "DOGE [sic] is getting lists of military’s probationary workers from Pentagon" https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/02/19/doge-is-getting-lists-of-militarys-probationary-workers-from-pentagon/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:18:36


  • "Presidential Management Fellows ‘at a loss’ after Trump orders program’s elimination" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/02/presidential-management-fellows-at-a-loss-after-trump-orders-programs-elimination/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:19:07


  • "Elon Musk Is Such a Garbage-Tier Dad That His Kids Find Out About Their New Siblings While Browsing Reddit" https://futurism.com/elon-musk-vivian-wilson-reddit-discovery    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:21:35


  • "Economist Warns That Elon Musk Is About to Cause a "Deep, Deep Recession [sic]"" https://futurism.com/economist-elon-musk-recession    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:21:52


  • "A form of resistance | Technology education and me" https://ambersettle.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/a-form-of-resistance/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:22:10


  • "Microsoft Power Pages websites attacked via security hole" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/microsoft_patch_power_pages/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:22:33


  • "In one of the AI lawsuits faced by Meta, the company stands accused of distributing pirated books. The authors who filed the class-action lawsuit allege that Meta shared books from the shadow library LibGen with third parties via BitTorrent." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/meta-says-it-made-sure-not-to-seed-any-pirated-books/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:26:16


  • "Embrace of Far-Right" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/20/elon-musks-embrace-of-far-right-energizes-transatlantic-climate-denial/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:28:24


  • "ARC" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/20/canadian-fossil-fuel-advocate-stewart-muir-among-arc-attendees/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:28:34


  • OSI is rogue like that https://blog.luke.wf/2025/02/im-running-for-osi-board-maybe.html see https://www.freesoftwhere.org/2022/05/01/engaging-with-the-osi-elections-2022-1/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:33:14


  • "Users transitioning from Windows to Linux through the Upgrade to Freedom campaign can use openSUSE’s tools to protect sensitive data" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/02/20/setup-fde-on-opensuse/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:41:30


  • LLM slop!! "Open-Source Code Influencing the Development of Bots" ☛ https://www.unixmen.com/how-does-open-source-code-influence-the-development-of-bots/ | Source: Unix Men    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:42:55


  • "On 17 December 2024, the EDPB released its long-awaited ‘Opinion 28/2024 on certain data protection aspects related to the processing of personal data in the context of AI models.’" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/the-edpbs-rorschach-test-what-the-data-protection-bodys-opinion-on-ai-training-means-for-gdpr-enforcement/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:50:07


  • "These cases can end one of three ways: rightsholders win, everybody settles, or developers win. As we’ve noted before, we think the developers have the better argument" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/copyright-and-ai-cases-and-consequences | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:51:05


  • "Sources tell Billboard that Eric Greenspan of Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobster Younger & Light has been spearheading a recorded music catalog deal" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/19/rhcp-recorded-music-catalog-sale-rumors/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:51:20


  • "The stakes are high, because ML is critical to helping us interpret the world around us." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/ai-and-copyright-expanding-copyright-hurts-everyone-heres-what-do-instead | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:51:33


  • "In Thompson Reuters Vs Ross Intelligence, US Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas ruled that Ross Intelligence's use of editorial content owned by Thompson Reuters did not fall under fair use." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/using-copyrighted-material-to-train-ai-isnt-always-fair-use-judge-rules-but-what-are-the-implications-for-photographers | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:52:07


  • "After the gloves came off earlier this week, Cloudflare has asked a Spanish court to declare LaLiga's “disproportionate” piracy blocking measures illegal" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-asks-court-to-end-laligas-illegal-blocking-response-to-encrypted-client-hello-250220/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:52:20


  • "incredibly impractical" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/xbox/microsoft-xbox-showcases-an-incredibly-impractical-ai-model-for-gameplay-ideation | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:52:47


  • Right of Publicity ☛ https://futurism.com/netflix-clone-voice-ai-true-crime-doc | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 09:53:23


  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/02/20/liz-pelly-at-umass-spotify-the-mood-machine/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:09:42


  • "Some 1.6 million, or 55%, of the combined 2024 digital magazine circulation came from services like Apple News+, Cafeyn, Kindle Unlimited and Readly." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/digital-magazine-abcs-2024/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:10:04


  • "As of earlier this week, they are no longer on Amazon at my direction. Instead, I put them on Gumroad as .epub files. They are still DRM-free, so once you have a copy, you can shove them onto all of your devices without having something "phone home" to approve it first." ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/02/20/books/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:10:16


  • "After working toward this goal for some months, we're pleased to present a first look at the new RIPEstat: [...]" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/ties/introducing-the-new-ripestat-ui/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:10:57


  • "Algorithmic management of workers has become the norm for gig-economy platforms." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/12-civil-society-organisations-tell-delivery-platforms-its-time-to-deliver-answers-on-how-they-use-algorithms-to-manage-their-workers/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:11:29


  • "The phrase “no harm, no foul” doesn’t apply to law enforcement personnel" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/court-grants-immunity-to-da-who-shared-nude-photos-from-a-searched-phone-with-local-law-enforcement/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:11:52


  • "Students rallied to walk out onto the University Lawn with the Students Organizing Against Repression Coalition (SOAR), Anakbayan Northridge, M.E.Ch.A de CSUN, Students for Justice in Palestine and others to voice their frustrations with CSUN’s compliance with ICE." ☛ https://sundial.csun.edu/190271/news/we-will-not-be-erased-students-rise-against-ice/ | Source: California State University Northridge    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:12:15


  • "criminally responsible for persecuting Afghan girls and women" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/taliban-withdraw-afghanistan-from-international-criminal-court/7981683.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:13:31


  • "Conservative cities and states across the country have taken to President Donald Trump’s deportation plans and are increasing cooperation with federal authorities" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/02/18/heres-the-latest-on-how-states-are-cooperating-with-trumps-deportation-plans/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:13:40


  • "If" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-federal-workers-labor-rights/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:13:47


  • "Microsoft Hosted Explicit Videos of This Startup Founder for Years. Here's How She Got Them Taken Down" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-survivor-breeze-liu-microsoft/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:14:18


  • "But that concern is misplaced, finds new research co-authored by a Cornell economist." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-struggling-men-noncollege-women-marriage.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:14:55


  • "As of the first week of February, office occupancy remained stable at 54.1 percent on average in those 10 cities, according to Kastle. Houston led at 65.1 percent, while San Francisco brought up the rear at 43.2 percent." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/20/rto-mandates-office-record/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:15:28


  • "Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said around 7,000 individuals are awaiting transfer to Thailand and confirmed the government was working as quickly as possible to remedy the issue." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/thailand_ready_to_welcome_7000/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:16:41


  • "The mainframe giant's recent return-to-office (RTO) push is already arguably achieving that, namely forcing out those kinds of workers, but we're told that Big Blue is taking a broader approach, echoing a 2016 initiative from then marketing chief Michelle Peluso." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/ibm_colocation_program_described_as/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:26:36


  • "The complaint says that OPM’s egregious firings were made on false pretenses and violate federal law" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/public-service-unions-and-state-democracy-defenders-fund-challenge-unlawful-mass-federal-firings | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:26:55


  • "The misfortunes that have ravaged local journalism—some self-inflicted, some not—have been unfolding for more than a decade. Spending cuts by owners have hollowed out local newsrooms" ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/local-news-is-dying-the-consequences-are-worse-than-you-think/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:27:42


  • "A United States judge dismissed a lawsuit pursued by four American attorneys and journalists" ☛ https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/20/burying-the-cias-assange-secrets/ | Source: Scheerpost    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:27:54


  • "The capitulation of Apple and Google validates a widespread fear that it isn’t just Elon Musk who is doing Trump’s dirty work to undo democracy, but that the Big Tech community generally has lined up to stay in the good graces of executive power." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/letting-trump-have-his-way-with-words-erodes-the-first-amendment/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:28:06


  • "hey, don’t bother ruling on this appeal, we’re working on a settlement." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/extwitter-pays-trump-10m-to-settle-case-it-had-already-won/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:28:37


  • "Near-universal facial recognition in the hands of this administration — what a frightening prospect. Keep an eye on that terrible settlement." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/clearview-ceo-resigns/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:28:50


  • "So Chris Kluwe, 43-year-old Huntington resident and decent guy, showed up at Tuesday's City Council meeting to tell them what he thought of their “propaganda” and offer a calm but robust indictment of what MAGA really means." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/further/no-nazis-be-like-chris-kluwe-and-all-who-came-before | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:29:07


  • "The suspension comes after Azerbaijani state-run media last week reported that the Azerbaijani government wanted to reduce the number of BBC staff working in the country to one." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/azerbaijan-suspends-bbc/7982159.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:29:26


  • "But the claim is misleading. The video, taken out of context, ignores interactions between the two leaders earlier in the event. The 22-second video was shared on X on Feb. 11." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/factcheck/2025/02/19/afcl-macron-modi-ai-summit/ | Source: RFA    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:30:38


  • "Chinese social media app, Xiaohongshu — known as RedNote in English — has been flooded with unfounded anti-Korean claims, warned professor Seo Kyoung-duk, a longtime advocate of Korean culture." ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/02/281_392573.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:30:49


  • "The Philippines has detected foreign attempts to access intelligence data, but its cyber minister said on Tuesday no breaches have been recorded so far." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/philippines-reports-intrusions-targeting-intelligence-data/7978813.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:30:59


  • "President Trump this week falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war that has cost tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives, causing outrage and alarm in a country that has spent nearly three years fighting back the invasion of a much larger Russian military." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-02-19/trump-says-ukraine-started-the-war-thats-killing-its-citizens-what-are-the-facts | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:32:25


  • "Journalists from The Associated Press and other media outlets were on the Philippine aircraft and witnessed the incident" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/china-falsely-accuses-philippines-of-illegal-intrusion-after-midair-standoff-over-south-china-sea/7982520.html | Source: VOA News    

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


  • "While Obermann oversaw TikTok’s music strategy during a period of meteoric growth, there are mixed sentiments about his strategy in the industry." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/19/ole-obermann-leaving-tiktok-joining-apple-music/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:33:08


  • "Given recent pricing decisions, one has to ask if Microsoft is going out of business." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/microsoft-going-out-of-business/ | Source: Logikal Solutions    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:33:25


  • "The lesson for me is not that anything resembling this product was doomed to fail." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/02/19/humane-pin-wrapup.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:34:05


  • "This whole thing is written in neutral language, but almost certainly motivated by a longstanding belief that technology companies are biased against U.S. conservatives." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ftc-tech-censorship-redux/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:34:22


  • "The FTC issued a Request for Information (RFI) requesting public comment on how consumers may have been harmed by technology platforms that limited their ability to share ideas or affiliations freely and openly." ☛ https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/02/federal-trade-commission-launches-inquiry-tech-censorship | Source: Federal Trade Commission    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:34:34


  • "The relationship between Scam Altman and Elon Musk goes back to the early days of OpenAI—then a nonprofit research lab." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-15-sam-altman-elon-musk/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:35:01


  • "CISA (Cyber security and Infrastructure Security Agency) has been doing its best to thwart security threats and deter the spread of misinformation about government security." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/20/donald-trump-is-turning-cisa-into-the-embodiment-of-his-election-conspiracy-theories/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:35:22


  • "The measure will allow Infineon to complete the MEGAFAB-DD project, which will be able to produce a wide range of different types of computer chips, the Commission said." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/eu-approves-960-million-in-german-aid-for-infineon-chips-plant/7981638.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:35:37


  • "Vietnam approved plans on Wednesday for a multibillion-dollar railway with China, boosting links between the two communist countries." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/china-s-sprawling-rail-projects-around-asia/7981628.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:36:15


  • "Inspired by Dave’s “Cars and Motorcycles” page, these are the cars I’ve driven over the years." ☛ https://mihobu.lol/old-motors | Source: Michael Burkhardt    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:36:55


  • "If that sounds familiar, it may be because there’s been a constant stream of headlines about energy demand recently, largely because of the influx of data centers—especially those needed to power the AI that’s spreading seemingly everywhere." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/20/1112119/electricity-demand-2025/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:37:18


  • "The Commissariat (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, or CEA) announced that its CEA WEST Tokamak maintained plasma for more than 22 minutes last week." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/france_tops_chinas_tokamak_record/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:37:33


  • "So in response, we kicked off a ‘Railway Metal’ project last year." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/21/so-you-want-to-build-your-own-data-centre/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:37:58


  • "Dark mode is a popular dark-theme colour content scheme and research has found that, for some devices, switching to dark mode can reduce device power consumption." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/dark_mode_energy_saving/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:38:20


  • "It seems likely that the object once belonged to a Falcon 9 rocket that made an "uncontrolled reentry" over Poland early Wednesday morning, according to the Polish Space Agency." ☛ https://futurism.com/chunk-spacex-rocket-crashed-garden | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:38:35


  • "Activists filed a lawsuit in 2022 arguing that the state violates the European Convention on Human Rights by not doing enough to limit climate change, or mitigate its effects, and the case has since been subject to review on procedural grounds." ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/02/501_392613.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:39:32


  • "Over the weekend, the Trump administration appeared to begin the process of rolling back enforcement of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the “Magna Carta” of federal environmental law" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/02/nepa-federal-environment-law-trump/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:39:48


  • "He is the lead author of an article published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials that addresses new findings regarding the toxins." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-bird-larger-volumes-toxic-pfas.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:41:10


  • "The average global temperature has already risen by 1.5 °C above preindustrial levels. We reached this grim milestone just last year." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/places-on-earth-too-hot-for-humans-will-triple-this-century-scientists-warn | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:42:17


  • "Elon Musk, richest man in the world and federal government up-ender, has been discovered to follow an account on X that exclusively posts Nazi content" ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/news/2025/02/elon-musk-caught-following-x-account-posting-only-nazi-content-and-soft-core-porn.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:43:38


  • "Take a trip into the world of systems administration, programming, networking, tech support, and living in Silicon Valley." ☛ https://rachelbythebay.gumroad.com/l/bozo-loop-epub |    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:44:06


  • "It has been nearly a thousand years since we last saw the total number of humans on this planet decrease year by year." ☛ https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-handoff-to-bots/ | Source: Kevin Kelly    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:44:39


  • "Secretaries of state and municipal clerks fear those moves could expose voter registration databases and other critical election systems to hacking" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/02/20/election-officials-blast-trumps-retreat-from-protecting-voting-against-foreign-threats/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:45:40


  • "Labor unions have sued to try to stop the mass firings, but a federal judge in Washington ruled that they can continue for now" ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51257750/irs-fires-6000-employees-as-trump-slashes-us-government | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:46:25


  • "GSA SmartPay Travel and Purchase Cards issued to GSA employees and contractors are being paused" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/doge-government-credit-cards/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:46:57


  • "Sometimes a piece of journalism is so wildly off-base that it perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with political coverage." ☛ https://www.readtpa.com/p/stop-analyzing-trumps-unhinged-ideas |    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:47:22


  • "So we can't count on Congress or the Courts. We probably shouldn't wish for a military coup. What does that leave us?" ☛ https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/we-are-the-bad-guys.html | Source: Chris O'Donnnell    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:47:43


  • "Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts" ☛ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:48:22


  • "Not satisfied with controlling the federal government" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/elon-musk-wisconsin-supreme-court-election/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:48:50


  • "PHR calls on the global community to hold perpetrators of attacks on health to account and support Ukraine" ☛ https://phr.org/news/1762-attacks-on-health-care-over-three-years-as-russia-escalates-its-war-on-ukraines-doctors-and-hospitals-phr/ | Source: PHR    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:50:21


  • "Two plus two equals four. Russia invaded Ukraine. Mass graves don’t tweet." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-nobody-saw-this-coming-brigade | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:50:34


  • "This is, after all, a philosophy blog. And as I've warned readers, in between my polemics" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-perilous-incoherence-of-democratic | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:50:52


  • "Now, that's just the data brokers." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/20/privacy-first-second-third/#malvertising | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:51:02


  • "In theory, DOGE [sic] exists to promote efficiency. And the need for efficiency is real. The federal government is deeply in debt" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/musk-terror-reign/681731/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:51:56


  • "The decision came in a lawsuit filed by 14 Democratic states challenging DOGE [sic]’s authority to access sensitive government data." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/02/judge-declines-to-immediately-block-elon-musk-or-doge-from-federal-data-or-layoffs/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:52:17


  • "The project, dubbed the Drone Line, was announced by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on Feb 9" ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/industry/2025/02/18/ukrainian-defense-planners-envision-a-drones-only-front-line/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:52:35


  • "At the time, Wired didn’t have a solid bead on the origins of the data" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/lithuanian-adtech-firm-and-florida-data-broker-trafficked-in-sensitive-u-s-military-and-intelligence-worker-location-data/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:53:04


  • "With this case the plaintiff states are swinging for the fences, asking for one big injunction to knock Musk and DOGE [sic] out of every agency." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/state-plaintiffs-lose-a-disappointing-battle-while-musk-and-doge-get-closer-to-losing-the-war/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:53:38


  • "Parasitic Illegal Immigrant" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/bannon-musk-parasitic-illegal-alien | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:54:10


  • "The country's rubber-stamp parliament gave the go-ahead to the project, with 455 of the 459 members voting for the project." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/vietnam-parliament-approves-8-billion-railway-with-loan-from-china/7981524.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:54:53


  • "David Joice, the company's director of networks, said it's suspected that an anchor or a piece of gear, such as a trawling net" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/bell-subsea-fibre-optic-cable-newfoundland-1.7461963 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:55:49


  • "EPIC Counsel Suzanne Bernstein testified before the Vermont Senate Committee on Institutions on February 18 in support of S. 69" ☛ https://epic.org/epic-testifies-in-support-of-vermont-age-appropriate-design-code/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:57:02


  • "Google has given itself - and the advertising industry it dominates - permission to use a form of tracking" ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm21g0052dno | Source: BBC    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:57:30


  • "Ton-That has long been the public face of Clearview and its facial recognition tool." ☛ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidjeans/2025/02/19/clearview-ai-ceo-resigns/ | Source: Forbes    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:57:47


  • "And where exactly was this cybercriminal goldmine? At a flea market next to Weelde airbase, obviously." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/hundreds_of_dutch_medical_records/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:58:04


  • "request to block DOGE [sic]" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/judge-doge-musk-federal-data-agencies-ruling/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:58:32


  • "The data could easily be leaked in a breach, experts and civil liberties advocates say" ☛ https://therecord.media/doge-access-to-social-security-irs-data-poses-risks | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:58:57


  • "Google had previously allowed advertisers to shadow users with cookies, which only track people across websites and sometimes across sessions." ☛ https://therecord.media/new-google-tracking-pandoras-box | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:59:44


  • "ICE is experiencing an uptick in visible criticism" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/ice-wants-to-set-up-a-social-media-dragnet-so-it-can-figure-out-whos-criticizing-the-agency/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 10:59:56


  • "EFF’s mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/saving-internet-europe-defending-privacy-and-fighting-surveillance | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:00:28


  • "The employee’s account, along with the accounts of several others across federal agencies" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/02/doge-god-mode-access/681719/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:00:50


  • "King, who was with the agency for more than 30 years before becoming its acting director last month" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/02/18/social-security-head-leaves-as-musk-led-doge-seeks-americans-data/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:03:53


  • "It’s official – the ePrivacy Regulation proposal has been withdrawn" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/the-eprivacy-regulation-proposal-has-been-withdrawn-but-the-fight-for-your-privacy-is-far-from-over/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:04:23


  • "As EU negotiators continue trilogue discussions on the GDPR Procedural Regulation" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/gdpr-procedural-regulation-a-critical-opportunity-to-strengthen-cross-border-enforcement/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:05:14


  • Windows TCO: "The group behind Ghost ransomware allegedly operates out of China and has targeted organizations in more than 70 countries, including critical infrastructure, schools, healthcare, government networks and businesses, for financial gain." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/20/cisa-fbi-warns-ghost-ransomware-targeting-critical-infrastructure-businesses/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:32:53


  • Windows TCO: "The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-24919, allows attackers to access sensitive data on Check Point’s Security Gateway." ☛ https://therecord.media/china-linked-hackers-target-european-health-orgs | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:33:16


  • Windows TCO: "Norwegians fell victim to a prolonged Microsoft Azure outage today, which impacted businesses and took down multiple government websites delivering online services to citizens." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/microsoft_azure_outage_norway/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:33:24


  • Windows TCO: "Previously known as Virgin Care and now owned by Twenty20 Capital, HCRG runs child and family health and social services across the UK for the NHS and local authorities" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/medusa_hcrg_ransomware/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:33:56


  • Windows TCO: "The operators of Ghost ransomware continue to claim victims and score payments" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/fbi_beware_of_ghost_ransomware/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:34:05


  • Windows TCO: "Researchers at Symantec and Trend Micro separately discovered sophisticated tools, once deployed exclusively for nation-state level cyberespionage, in financially motivated extortion schemes" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-apt-tools-found-in-ransomware-schemes-blurring-attribution-lines/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:34:16


  • Windows TCO: "A Ghost ransomware group also referred to as Cring, has been actively exploiting vulnerabilities in software and firmware as recently as January 2025" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ghost-ransomware-attacks/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:34:23


  • Windows TCO: "A class-action lawsuit filed against the surgeon claims he also did nothing to protect his patients’ data, including their financial information and nude photos of them." ☛ https://www.404media.co/beverly-hills-plastic-surgeon-sued-for-not-telling-his-patients-he-got-hacked-twice/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:34:30


  • "Right now, there is a crisis in adolescent mental health." ☛ https://www.the-scientist.com/a-state-of-flux-leaves-teen-brains-sensitive-to-experiences-72700 | Source: LabX Media Group    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:35:27


  • "Flash forward to the present day, and X-formerly-Twitter has lost upward of 79 percent of its original value after neo-Nazis flocked to the platform and big-name advertisers fled in droves." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-investors-gullible-twitter-x | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:35:41


  • "ELIZA was a simple program created in the 1960s by Joseph Weizenbaum, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was interested in human-computer interfaces." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/eliza-chatbot-1.7459487 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:36:06


  • "simple jailbreaks" ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-new-grok-ai-vulnerable-jailbreak-hacking | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:36:17


  • "The Chinese company stunned the tech industry in January with low-cost AI models that can match or even outperform Western rivals at a fraction of the cost, stirring doubts about the lead US has in the race to dominate the technology." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/deepseeks-outside-funding-draws-interest-from-alibaba-chinese-state-funds/articleshow/118403004.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:36:36


  • "But that doesn’t describe the things sold as agents. In practice, they’re any old AI rubbish that promises it might do something in the future. Because it certainly doesn’t do it in the present." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/20/businesses-still-dont-know-what-an-ai-agent-is-and-they-dont-really-want-one/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:36:56


  • "wait and see." ☛ https://lmnt.me/blog/humane.html | Source: Louie Mantia    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:37:24


  • "Hoopla, a service that provides public libraries around the country with ebooks, announced that it will do more to prevent the spread of low quality AI-generated books after a 404 Media investigation showed that they were common on its platform." ☛ https://www.404media.co/public-library-ebook-service-to-cull-ai-slop-after-404-media-investigation-3/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:38:53


  • "But there’s another way the field of artificial intelligence has been transformed in the past 10 years: Concerns about the societal effects of artificial intelligence are now being taken much more seriously." ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/5/13/18525571/ai-safety-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:39:08


  • "The initial complaint [PDF], a federal securities investor lawsuit, was filed on September 9, 2024, and subsequently amended [PDF] with more detail on February 5, 2025." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/gitlab_thrice_sued/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:39:49


  • "Technically, fixing this kind of problem is a good thing." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/616719/fitbit-versa-3-sense-overheating-battery-wearables | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:40:49


  • "Cisco Talos said it hasn’t identified any evidence to confirm Salt Typhoon’s exploitation of other known Cisco vulnerabilities. The company declined to answer questions." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/cisco-talos-salt-typhoon-initial-access/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:41:03


  • "How do you respond to uncertainty? Do you jump straight into action" ☛ https://nesslabs.com/experimentalist | Source: Ness Labs    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:43:17


  • "That post really solidified to me that there might be something to this blogging" ☛ https://atthis.link/blog/2025/36390.html | Source: At This Link    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:43:41


  • "Sleeping while traveling has been my favorite pastime lately, when I travel, that is, almost never." ☛ https://lucas.art/blog/about-30h-or-so-sleeping-until-arriving-in-japan/ | Source: Lucas da Silva    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:43:56


  • "No scheduling, no easy toggling, no time outs (like “don’t disturb for the next N minutes”)" ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/lock-screen-design | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:44:16


  • "Instead, Musk argued, the station should be destroyed within two years" ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-huge-headache-new-head-nasa | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:45:12


  • "Before Apollo astronauts set foot upon the moon, much remained unknown about the lunar surface." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-years-ranger-moon-photos-aid.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:45:47


  • "The NSF confirmed the cuts to us in an email" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/nsf_staff_cut/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:46:56


  • "Plasma arc cutting (PAC) is a thermal cutting technique widely used in manufacturing applications" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-plasma-arc-scientists-decode-gas.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:47:12


  • "On Tuesday February 18, NASA staffers on probationary status who were warned by managers" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/nasa_comment_piece/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:47:39


  • Geographically, USA is only tens of KMs from Russia and thousands of KMs from Europe. How many states can rebrand as "oblasts"?    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:52:30


  • "I also plan to host a monthly morning edition so friends in other time zones can join." ☛ https://micro.webology.dev/2025/02/19/office-hours-at-a-glance/ | Source: Jeff Triplett    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:52:54


  • "He’s not wrong, but his initial question about how we make time is one that haunts me often." ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/too-many-hobbies-and-not-enough-time/ | Source: Brandon    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:53:04


  • "Melanie Punz lives in Austria and has been using GNU/Linux and free software enthusiastically" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/interview-with-melanie-punz | Source: FSF    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:53:20


  • "This freedom to share whatever they found exciting kept the sessions fun, engaging and low pressure." ☛ https://gcollazo.com/demo-days/ | Source: Giovanni Collazo    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:54:01


  • "So you have to spoon feed the hiring manager. Sounds easy." ☛ https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/20/target-practice | Source: Tim Kellogg    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 11:54:10


  • "adding full storage space" ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/catalytic-computing-taps-the-full-power-of-a-full-hard-drive-20250218/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:39:03


  • "We have created a new state of matter called a topological superconductor" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-topological-quantum-processor-majorana-modes.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:39:20


  • "For a few years I've had my eye on getting a "dumb" TV from Sceptre." ☛ https://davidjohnmead.com/posts/2025-02-18-set-up-cec-on-sceptre-tv/ | Source: David Mead    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:39:50


  • "The sum represents a tiny sliver of program funding the USDA suspended after the White House's broad freeze" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-02-20/usda-says-it-will-release-20-million-of-frozen-farmer-funds | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:41:46


  • "While there remains a lot of uncertainty and questions in the wake of the 2024 elections" ☛ https://writing.jasonheppler.org/2024/11/08/becoming-newsresilient/ |    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:42:58


  • "It’s true. If you don’t, somebody else will." ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/if-you-dont-somebody-else-will | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:43:39


  • "Texas judge ordered Dr. Margaret Carpenter — a New York abortion doctor — to pay at least $100,000" ☛ https://www.vox.com/abortion/400484/abortion-maggie-carpenter-mifepristone-medication-texas-new-york-rfk-louisiana-paxton | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:44:06


  • "the USDA paused" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/usda-layoffs-throw-climate-and-crop-projects-into-chaos/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:44:22


  • Make American Hepatitis Again (MAHA)    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:44:53


  • "Under pressure, we can indeed accomplish more work in less time, but this often comes at the expense of accuracy" ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2025/02/20/although-time-pressure-makes-us.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:46:34


  • "An Arduino Nano board controls the whole process through a custom PCB." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/02/19/diy-micro-lab-analyzes-ammonia-levels-in-blood-and-urine/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 12:46:49


  • "What’s new on CPAN" ☛ https://www.perl.com/article/what-s-new-on-cpan-january-2025/ | Source: Perl    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:52:17


  • "Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-national-institute-of-standards-and-technology-braces-for-mass-firings/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:52:57


  • "The Korea Agency for Technology and Standards (KATS), a standards agency under the ministry" ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/tech/2025/02/133_392551.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:53:21


  • "In the last blog posts, we looked at different ways to compare strings in Zig. A few posts back, we introduced Zig's @bitCast." ☛ https://www.openmymind.net/Comparing-Strings-as-Integers-with-bitCast/ | Source: Karl Seguin    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:54:25


  • "Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report. More detailed information is on the RcppDE page, or the repository." ☛ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/02/18/#rcppde_0.1.8 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:54:44


  • "As of today, Rcpp stands at 3001 reverse-dependencies on CRAN." ☛ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/02/20/#rcpp_3000_packages | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:54:58


  • Dirk Eddelbuettel: Rcpp now used by 3000 CRAN packages! ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/02/20#rcpp_3000_packages    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:55:35


  • "There are two driving passions in my work. One is the love of creating beautiful, elegant code — making Open Source libraries and APIs that focus on clear design and reusability" ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/2/20/ugly-code/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:57:20


  • "Pico Gets A Speed Bump" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/pico-gets-a-speed-bump/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:57:47


  • "The Sovereign Tech Agency has announced an investment of €515,200 to strengthen the Eclipse Foundation’s ecosystem" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/sovereign-tech-agency-injects-e515k-into-eclipse-foundation/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:59:05


  • "Delphi is still very much with us, but the FOSS world also has its own, largely compatible, GUI-based Object Pascal environment – and it's worth a look." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/delphi_turns_30/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:59:21


  • "Back in 2017, I got tired of manually checking and creating git tags." ☛ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/svu3/ | Source: Carlos Becker    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 13:59:40


  • [Old] "Trojan Source: Invisible Vulnerabilities" ☛ https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2021/11/01/trojan-source-invisible-vulnerabilities/ | Source: Light Blue Touchpaper    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:01:20


  • "The November coworking session welcomed Stefanie Butland from Openscapes as a co-host. She shared Openscapes’ approach of “Forking as a worldview”." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/the-dynamic-relationship-of-forks-with-their-upstream-repository/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:02:15


  • "Beej's Guide to Git" ☛ https://beej.us/guide/bggit/html/split/ | Source: Beej    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:02:43


  • gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-02-21.gmi   

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:12:42


  • Cats in japanese now in gemini space gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-02-21.gmi    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:12:49


  • 🔤SpellBinding: ACDETVX Wordo: GRAMS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-21.gmi    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:13:53


  • "Me: I don't know. Maybe I'm just meant to be a sort of starving FOSS community volunteer who lives with his parents for the foreseeable future." gemini://hyperreal.coffee/gemlog/2025-02-21-the-foreseeable-future.gmi    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:14:56


  • "I'm not going to lie - the future is scary. Even though I don't live in the US, having the most powerful nation in the world nose dive into fascism is a concern for us all. One way I'm preparing is overhauling my internet hygiene and I just wanted this post to show what I'm doing, much of it likely being old hat for Geminauts." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2503    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:16:18


  • "I'm still working on it, but I've hacked a bit of PHP to create a functional mechanism for placing orders for my FRST Computer stuff via Gopher." gopher://jonsharp.net:70/0/gl2/02-20-2025-FRST-Gopher-Store.md    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:17:06


  • "Last year I bought a Japanese abacus, called a soroban (そろばん). I had played with slide rules extensively at that point, and I wanted to learn about other forms of mechanical calculation." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202502/20250220-mechanical-shortcuts.gmi    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:17:56


  • "There is a sea of Firefox browsers, all with varying degrees of quality and usability, I will attempt to review the three most popular "old" ones against modern Firefox." gemini://hanzbrix.pollux.casa/gemlog/20250221.gmi    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:18:26


  • For sure Greenland is BOYCOTTING GAFAM, right? RIGHT?    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:19:50


  • Counties need alliances with leaders, not flags. The meaning and allegiances of some flags change a lot this year. Adapt.    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:20:57


  • New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Stories from Sol, and Dawnfolk - 2025-02-19 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-02-19-edition/index.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:30:08


  • US National Park Workers Reckon With Fear, Anger After Layoffs https://www.barrons.com/news/us-national-park-workers-reckon-with-fear-anger-after-layoffs-871b2cc6    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:58:33


  • "This follows 2024, which saw 280,991 jobs lost globally as companies struggled with economic uncertainty, declining revenues, and shifting market conditions." https://www.capacitymedia.com/article-tech-layoffs-continue-into-2025    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 14:59:54


  • Microsoft Copilot Down: Company Investigates and Resolves Copilot Features and Service Disruption https://www.latestly.com/socially/technology/microsoft-copilot-down-company-investigates-and-resolves-copilot-features-and-service-disruption-6658866.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:00:43


  • "It's OK. The God-bit Majorana will save us all." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jm995aej http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Hype_Watch_Weeks_After_Microsoft_Disappointed_Investors_With_He.shtml    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:02:36


  • What Kind of Job Can You Get if You Learn Linux? ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/linux-careers-beginners/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:06:39


  • Build CachyOS Kernel 6.13.3 on Debian Testing (Trixie) ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2025/02/build-cachyos-kernel-6133-on-debian.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:06:48


  • "A key priority for this version has been smoothing out the installation process and ensuring upgrades remain as seamless as possible. In this release: [...]" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-24-04-2-lts-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:08:20


  • OpenRazer 3.10 Brings Support for Latest Razer Peripherals ☞ https://linuxiac.com/openrazer-3-10-brings-support-for-latest-razer-peripherals/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:09:12


  • FSF Blogs: Working together for free software: Our interview with Melanie Punz ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/interview-with-melanie-punz    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:10:08


  • Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS released ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/02/20/ubuntu-24-04-2-lts-released/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:11:02


  • Open Data ☛ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2025/02/19/digital-archivists-on-the-offensive-against-trump-s-unprecedented-purge-of-government-websites_6738342_13.html | Source: Le Monde    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:12:59


  • "This is not the first time Raspberry Pi has been to Embedded World" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/meet-the-raspberry-pi-team/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:14:37


  • "we'll be watching and discussing Louise Grandjonc Leinweber's talk" ☛ http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2025/02/postgresql-hacking-patch-review.html | Source: Robert Haas    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:14:45


  • "I originally wrote this article in 2004." ☛ https://brothke.medium.com/yoran-and-spafs-law-in-memory-of-amit-yoran-952d9fb1fe16 | Source: Ben Rothke    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:14:54


  • "Maybe it’s a mild OCD thing (yes, I’m allowed to use that term!)" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/i-wish-i-could-delete-spreadsheet-columns/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:16:47


  • "It also has two critical security flaws, researchers at OPSWAT revealed today" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/mongoose_flaws_mongodb/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:17:14


  • "You can see the (awful) code here. But how does this work?" ☛ https://eieio.games/blog/running-pong-in-240-browser-tabs/ | Source: Nolen Royalty    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:17:45


  • "GitLab Duo Self-Hosted" ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/data/gitlab-announces-general-availability-of-gitlab-duo-self-hosted.html | Source: IT Wire https://techrights.org/o/2023/07/29/writing-about-github-and-gitlab-state-today/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:19:20


  • "Every now and then, you'll find a maker with an itch to spruce up their hardware with a Raspberry Pi" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-pico-brings-a-wopr-of-a-feature-to-a-server-rack | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:20:16


  • "Cofounded by several former Intel central processing unit (CPU) engineers and executives" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ex-intel-executives-raise-21-5-million-for-risc-v-chip-startup/articleshow/118394352.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:20:26


  • "Larry the Qcow2 We are very happy to announce new official downloads on our website and our mirrors" ☛ https://www.gentoo.org/news/2025/02/20/gentoo-qcow2-images.html | Source: Gentoo    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:21:50


  • Judging someone's importance or achievements of a person by the amount of press is like implying that becominf a terrorist or mass murderer is the same as "importance". The media should quit feeding Cheeto.    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:23:37


  • "These releases include minor fixes and enhancements over their previous versions" ☛ https://www.arcanoae.com/driver-updates-now-available/ | Source: Arca Noae    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:28:17


  • "Arca Noae is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new release of our AMouse driver package." ☛ https://www.arcanoae.com/amouse-driver-package-4-01-released/ | Source: Arca Noae    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:28:39


  • "The disappearance of the building's backbone router took out all local networking" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OfflineNetworkingContacts | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:29:51


  • "To answer a rhetorical question: Indeed." ☛ https://gkeenan.co/avgb/how-to-make-an-audioblog/ | Source: Keenan    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:29:59


  • "Laptops, however, saw little to no advances, with most brands remaining difficult to mend." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/laptop_manufacturers_repairability/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:30:42


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

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:36:27


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

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:36:59


  • How To Install BleachBit on AlmaLinux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-bleachbit-almalinux-9/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:37:14


  • How To Install Syncthing on Fedora 41 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-syncthing-fedora-41/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:37:30


  • How To Install Syncthing on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-syncthing-opensuse/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:37:51


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

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:38:35


  • How To Use the Docker exec Command ☞ https://thenewstack.io/how-to-use-the-docker-exec-command/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:39:14


  • Zelensky calls for strong ties with US, MElon slams Ukraine's leader as 'despised' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250221-zelensky-calls-for-strong-ties-with-us-musk-slams-ukraine-s-leader-as-despised-russia-trump-putin    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:40:58


  • Dictator upends decades of foreign policy in pivot towards Putin ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250220-trump-upends-decades-of-foreign-policy-in-pivot-towards-putin    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:41:09


  • Macron says France won't send troops to Ukraine 'tomorrow' but may give security guarantees ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250220-macron-says-france-wont-send-troops-ukraine-tomorrow-security-guarantees-trump-putin    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:41:25


  • Zelensky meets US envoy after Convicted Felon brands him a 'dictator' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250220-zelensky-meets-us-envoy-after-trump-brands-him-a-dictator-1    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:41:37


  • Putin using Convicted Felon ties as 'legitimisation' in Russia, exiled opponent Khodorkovsky says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20250220-putin-using-trump-ties-as-legitimisation-in-russia-exiled-opponent-khodorkovsky-says    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:41:56


  • Zelenskyy Stresses Need For Strong Agreements With U.S. After Meeting Envoy ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-zelenskiy-kellogg-trump-ukraine-putin-macron-trudeau/33322572.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:42:06


  • The Insurrectionist’s Putinization of America ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/trumps-putinization-of-america    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:42:18


  • Trump-Putin summit prospect brings Moscow in from the cold ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0220/trump-putin-ukraine-talks-russia    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:42:36


  • Thomas Friedman on Convicted Felon’s Desire to Be President for Life ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/opinion/trump-putin-ukraine-europe.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:43:07


  • Dictator Elevates Kremlin Talking Points, a Familiar Pattern From His First Term ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/trump-putin-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:43:23


  • "photos of rocket launchers in Kursk region" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/20/moscow-s-media-shares-photos-of-rocket-launchers-in-kursk-region-as-ukraine-denies-putin-s-claim-about-border-breach | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:44:14


  • Latvian president cautious on peacekeeper possibility ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/president/20.02.2025-latvian-president-cautious-on-peacekeeper-possibility.a588544/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:44:32


  • Latvia's defense has developed rapidly since beginning of war ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/20.02.2025-latvias-defense-has-developed-rapidly-since-beginning-of-war.a588539/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:44:43


  • Ukrainians are proudly democratic but resoundingly reject wartime elections ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukrainians-are-proudly-democratic-but-resoundingly-reject-wartime-elections/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:45:14


  • Issue brief: A NATO strategy for countering Russia ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/issue-brief-a-nato-strategy-for-countering-russia/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:45:33


  • What Europeans think of Convicted Felon’s approach to Ukraine (and what they might do next) ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react/what-europeans-think-of-trumps-approach-to-ukraine-and-what-they-might-do-next/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:45:52


  • Ukraine can unleash energy investment even amid war ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/global-energy-agenda/ukraine-can-unleash-energy-investment-even-amid-war/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:46:07


  • NATO US security guarantee, credibility of Article 5 already weakened, former NATO official says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250220-nato-us-security-guarantee-credibility-of-article-5-already-weakened-former-nato-official-says    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:46:24


  • Zelensky, Convicted Felon envoy give no statement after Kyiv meeting ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250220-zelensky-trump-envoy-give-no-statement-after-kyiv-meeting    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:46:58


  • Germany's crunch elections: Can mainstream parties blunt surging far right? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250220-germany-s-crunch-elections-can-mainstream-parties-blunt-surging-far-right    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:47:23


  • Ukrainian filmmaker, and soldier, Vadym Adamov warns “Russia won’t stop” ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250220-from-the-frontline-a-ukrainian-soldier-speaks-to-france-24    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:47:37


  • Zelensky meets US envoy after Convicted Felon brands him a 'dictator' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250220-zelensky-meets-us-envoy-after-trump-brands-him-a-dictator    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:47:51


  • Twenty-four hours in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, where life goes on despite the war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250220-ukraine-kharkiv-24-hours-where-life-goes-on-despite-war-russia-invasion    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:48:05


  • Press conference between Zelensky and The Insurrectionist’s Ukraine envoy is canceled by US ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250220-a-news-conference-between-zelenskyy-and-donald-trump-s-ukraine-envoy-is-canceled-at-u-s-request    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:48:24


  • Lithuania strips former Ukrainian PM of state award ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2493012/lithuania-strips-former-ukrainian-pm-of-state-award    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:48:37


  • Lithuanian FM says Convicted Felon’s statements false, but not ‘Russian narrative’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2492869/lithuanian-fm-says-trump-s-statements-false-but-not-russian-narrative    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:49:04


  • Lithuanian president proposes 2030 as ‘reference’ for Ukraine’s EU membership ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2492825/lithuanian-president-proposes-2030-as-reference-for-ukraine-s-eu-membership    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:49:15


  • Dictator 'Very Frustrated' With Zelenskyy, U.S. National Security Adviser Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/gop-ukraine-senior-republicans-trump-stance/33321583.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:49:29


  • How Norway Fed Russia's War Machine Despite EU Sanctions ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/norway-russia-auto-parts-sanctions-ukraine-war-kongsberg-turkey/33321368.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:49:45


  • China backs Convicted Felon's Ukraine peace bid at G20 as US allies rally behind Zelenskiy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-backs-trumps-ukraine-peace-bid-at-g20-as-us-allies-rally-behind-zelenskiy    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:50:02


  • U.S. Objects to Calling Russia ‘Aggressor’ in G7 Statement on Ukraine Invasion ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/europe/us-g7-russia-ukraine-war.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:51:35


  • With Explosive Goggles, Ukraine Sought to Blast Russian Drone Operators ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/europe/urkaine-russia-explosive-goggles.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:51:50


  • Thanks to Convicted Felon, Saudi Arabia Gets a Big Week in Diplomacy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/middleeast/trump-saudi-arabia-diplomacy.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:52:11


  • Bucha, Site of Massacre, Feels Sting of Convicted Felon Shift on Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/europe/bucha-russia-massacre-trump.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:52:24


  • Zelensky Meets Kellogg, U.S. Envoy to Ukraine, Amid Public Spat With Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/europe/ukraine-zelensky-kellogg-trump.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:52:41


  • What to Know About the Saudi Crown Prince’s Role in Global Diplomacy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/middleeast/mbs-saudi-crown-prince-what-to-know.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:52:53


  • China backs Convicted Felon’s Ukraine peace bid at G-20 as US allies rally behind Zelensky ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-backs-trumps-ukraine-peace-bid-at-g-20-as-us-allies-rally-behind-zelensky    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:53:06


  • "Ukraine’s surprise incursion into the Kursk region" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/20/25-russian-conscripts-were-killed-last-summer-in-ukraine-s-surprise-incursion-into-the-kursk-region-vertska-media | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:53:34


  • "Ukrainian military intelligence head says he expects a ceasefire deal before the end of the year" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/20/ukrainian-military-intelligence-head-says-he-expects-a-ceasefire-deal-before-the-end-of-the-year | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:53:58


  • "aerial bomb hits apartment building in Ukraine’s Kherson" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/20/russian-guided-aerial-bomb-hits-apartment-building-in-ukraine-s-kherson | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:54:19


  • "have the cards" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/20/trump-says-the-russians-have-the-cards-in-negotiations-to-end-war-in-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:54:47


  • "minerals" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/20/trump-may-keep-pursuing-ukrainian-minerals-deal-seeking-simplified-agreement-first-and-details-later-reuters | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:55:04


  • power outages ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/20/russia-pummels-ukraine-s-odesa-with-drones-for-second-day-causing-more-power-outages | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:55:24


  • Russian property purchase ban moves forward in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/20.02.2025-russian-property-purchase-ban-moves-forward-in-latvia.a588590/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:55:37


  • Contract signed to put surveillance systems on Latvian-Russian border ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/20.02.2025-contract-signed-to-put-surveillance-systems-on-latvian-russian-border.a588597/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:56:03


  • North Korea’s ‘largest’ warship under construction with Russian aid: report ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/20/north-korea-largest-ship-chongjin-russia/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:56:32


  • 3 Tajik Migrants 'Killed In Russian Security Forces Raid' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/three-tajik-migrants-killed-in-fsb-raid-in-pskov-relatives-said/33321865.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:57:00


  • In Private Remarks on Russia, Rubio Tries to Reassure Europeans ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/us/politics/rubio-russia-europe.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:57:22


  • Next Likely Chancellor Promises a Tougher Germany ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/europe/germany-merz.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:57:40


  • "Three tankers damaged by explosions in the Mediterranean after recent visits to Russian ports" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/20/three-tankers-damaged-by-explosions-in-the-mediterranean-after-recent-visits-to-russian-ports-reuters | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:58:08


  • "Latvia expels Russian human rights activist recently exposed for lying about her past" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/02/20/latvia-expels-russian-human-rights-activist-recently-exposed-for-lying-about-her-past | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:58:25


  • Rights group urges Poland to reject bill suspending asylum rights at border with Belarus ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/rights-group-urges-poland-to-reject-bill-suspending-asylum-rights-at-border-with-belarus/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:59:06


  • Dictator and Putin seek economic reset but businesses may not rush back to Russia ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/trump-and-putin-seek-economic-reset-but-businesses-may-not-rush-back-to-russia/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 15:59:45


  • Mr. President: Putin is THE dictator and 9 other Ukraine-Russia war truths we ignore at our peril ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/02/20/opinion/putin-is-the-dictator-and-9-other-ukraine-russia-war-truths-we-ignore-at-our-peril/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 16:00:47


  • Why developers should use MicroShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/20/why-developers-should-use-microshift    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 16:01:41


  • LibreOffice 24.8.5 is available for download ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/02/20/libreoffice-24-8-5-is-available-for-download/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 16:02:46


  • Leaked Recording Confirms Apple's Discriminatory DEI Hiring Policies ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/leaked-recording-confirms-apples    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 16:04:08


  • "Majorana 1, currently can do nothing." ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsoft-creates-new-form-of-quantum    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 16:04:22


  • gbhackers.com is Not Hackers, It's LLM Slop Outputs (Fake 'Articles') That Attack 'True Hackers' ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/gbhackers_com_is_Not_Hackers_It_s_LLM_Slop_Outputs_Fake_Article.shtml    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:38:12


  • linuxsecurity.com Continues to Spread Lies or Machine-Generated FUD (Microsoft LLMs Likely the Source) About OpenSSH and GNU/Linux (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/linuxsecurity_com_Continues_to_Spread_Lies_or_Machine_Generated.shtml    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:38:19


  • Red Hat's Bluewashing to be Further Completed This Year ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Red_Hat_s_Bluewashing_to_be_Further_Completed_This_Year.shtml    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:41:21


  • Join the Cooperation SIG to help shape the WSIS+20 Review process ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/20/join-the-cooperation-sig-to-help-shape-the-wsis20-review-process/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:41:46


  • Asian Insider: Panama’s out, who’s next? | Saving Kolkata’s big yellow taxis ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/asian-insider-panamas-out-whos-next-saving-kolkatas-big-yellow-taxis    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:42:16


  • BSD Now 599: Core Infrastructure Control ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/599    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:43:47


  • Solar-powered LLM over Meshtastic solution may provide live-saving instructions during disasters and emergencies ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/20/solar-powered-llm-over-meshtastic-solution-may-provide-live-saving-instructions-during-disasters/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:44:44


  • "Open-Source Random Numbers" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/open-source-random-numbers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:45:25


  • The Responsible Lithium Partnership ends… with a new beginning ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/02/20/the-responsible-lithium-partnership-ends-with-a-new-beginning/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:47:24


  • People Who Came From Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Demanding Removal of Articles About Them, About Microsoft, and About Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub is "Generous" (According to Them) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/People_Who_Came_From_Microsoft_Demanding_Removal_of_Articles_Ab.shtml    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:48:03


  • IBM Layoffs in Europe Already Happening or Underway (UK and Spain). They Try Not to Call These "Layoffs". ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/IBM_Layoffs_in_Europe_Already_Happening_or_Underway_UK_and_Spai.shtml    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:48:14


  • Possibly a Third Round of Mass Layoffs at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft in 2025 ("Cloud Solution Architects, Customer Roles"), Report Removed or Censored ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/20/Possibly_a_Third_Round_of_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_in_2025_Clo.shtml    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:48:21


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

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:48:33


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

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:48:45


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

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:48:55


  • Dictator media companies sue Brazil justice involved in Bolsonaro coup investigation ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/trump-media-companies-sue-brazil-justice-involved-in-bolsonaro-coup-investigation/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:51:45


  • The Convicted Felon Administration Trashes Europe and NATO ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-trump-administration-trashes-europe-and-nato    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:52:00


  • FCC launches probe into censorship on Big Tech platforms ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/20/fcc-launches-probe-censorship-big-tech-platforms/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:52:47


  • Reimagining Patent Examination: A (Half-Baked) Proposal for Pre-Filing Certification ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/reimagining-examination-certification.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:53:12


  • IPVal entity, 5G IP Holdings, 5G patent monopoly found invalid ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/2/19/ipval-entity-5g-ip-holdings-5g-patent-found-invalid "The '163 patent monopoly generally relates to discontinuous reception (DRX) and utilizing slots within subframes to adapt DRX to function within the 5G frame structure."    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:53:50


  • Unified Patent Court is illegal, so this Team UPC-funded rag is asking the qrong question. It's just EPO corruption crossing over to the EU. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/how-transparent-is-the-unified-patent-court/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:54:56


  • Unions sue over federal worker firings, alleging Convicted Felon administration misused probationary periods ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2025/02/unions-sue-over-federal-worker-firings-alleging-trump-administration-misused-probationary-periods/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:55:47


  • Hong Kong university student union axes Burmese film screening, citing last-minute gov’t warning ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/20/hong-kong-university-student-union-axes-burmese-film-screening-citing-last-minute-govt-warning/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:57:11


  • ‘Upgrade from the usual monitor lizard sighting’: Visuals of crocodile in KL river go viral online ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/upgrade-from-the-usual-monitor-lizard-sighting-visuals-of-crocodile-in-kl-river-go-viral-online    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:58:28


  • STMicro expands the STM32C0 Cortex-M0+ MCU family with STM32C051, STM32C091, and STM32C092 (with CAN FD) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/20/stmicro-expands-the-stm32c0-cortex-m0-mcu-family-with-stm32c051-stm32c091-and-stm32c092-with-can-fd/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 19:59:23


  • PostgreSQL 17.4, 16.8, 15.12, 14.17, and 13.20 Released! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-174-168-1512-1417-and-1320-released-3018/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:00:31


  • Microsoft Patches Exploited Power Pages Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-exploited-power-pages-vulnerability/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:05:24


  • Microsoft trims File Explorer's Recent, Favorites, and Recommended content in Europe ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-trims-file-explorers-recent-favorites-and-recommended-content-in-europe    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:06:09


  • "ethnic recognition" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/20/officials-in-st-petersburg-are-about-to-equip-surveillance-cameras-with-ethnic-recognition-technology | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:07:51


  • China’s homegrown tech boosts global surveillance, social controls: report ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/20/china-ai-neuro-quantum-surveillance-security-threat/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:08:19


  • Mexico president threatens to take legal action against Surveillance Giant Google over Gulf name change ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/mexico-president-threatens-to-take-legal-action-against-google-over-gulf-name-change/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:09:03


  • Protect Not Surveil position paper: Stop Europol’s expanding digital surveillance against migrants! ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/protect-not-surveil-position-paper-stop-europols-expanding-digital-surveillance-against-migrants/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:10:23


  • Australia, Papua New Guinea eye defence treaty as China woos region’s island nations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-papua-new-guinea-vow-to-strike-defence-treaty    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:11:24


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

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:11:40


  • Avoid Microsoft altogether ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-avoid-microsoft-365-price-rises-aGNYY5O92as9    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:12:31


  • An LLM Trained to Create Backdoors in Code ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/an-llm-trained-to-create-backdoors-in-code.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:12:47


  • What Students Lose When School Becomes a Political Battleground ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/what-students-lose-when-school-becomes-a-political-battleground    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:13:14


  • Apps Updates Round-up #1: Xournal++ 1.2.6, qBittorrent 5.0.4 & More ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/02/apps-updates-round-up-1-xournal-1-2-6-qbittorrent-5-0-4-more/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:13:45


  • Paul Tagliamonte: boot2kier ☞ https://notes.pault.ag/boot2kier/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:14:26


  • Niko Matsakis: Rust 2024 Is Coming ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/02/20/rust-2024-is-coming/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:15:30


  • Electrarc240 explains switch mode power supplies ☞ https://rubenerd.com/electrarc240-explains-switch-mode-power-supplies/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:16:04


  • 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 Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:16:28


  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1011056/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:17:50


  • Evgeni Golov: Unauthenticated RCE in Grandstream HT802V2 and probably others using gs_test_server DHCP vendor option ☞ https://www.die-welt.net/2025/02/unauthenticated-rce-in-grandstream-ht802v2-and-probably-others-using-gs_test_server-dhcp-vendor-option/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:18:42


  • Mike Blumenkrantz: Againicl ☞ https://www.supergoodcode.com/againicl/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:19:50


  • OBS Issues Legal Threats to Fedora Linux—Here’s What’s Happening ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/videos/obs-issues-legal-threats-to-fedora-linux-heres-whats-happening/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:20:25


  • Femtofox Pro v1 LoRa and Meshtastic development board runs Linux-based Foxbuntu OS on Rockchip RV1103 SoC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/21/femtofox-pro-v1-lora-and-meshtastic-development-board-runs-linux-based-foxbuntu-on-rockchip-rv1103-soc/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:21:42


  • Tool update: sigs.py - added check mode, (Fri, Feb 21st) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31706    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:22:06


  • Redot Engine – multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/redot-engine-multi-platform-2d-3d/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:22:48


  • Eloquent – proofreading software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/eloquent-proofreading-software/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:23:03


  • SME Server – GNU/Linux Server distribution for small to medium sized enterprises ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sme-server-linux-server-distribution/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:23:25


  • multiClock – track the time around the world ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/multiclock-track-time-world/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:23:44


  • A functional analysis of doomscrolling gemini://smol.diy/gemlog/doomscrolling.gmi    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:25:07


  • "i was washing some berries for breakfast in the morning and remembering all the time spent at my grandparents' allotment when i was younger. how often my sister (well, cousin) would fail to join us, because she was just so busy." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/sociallifemystery    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:25:53


  • Picket – screen color picker ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/picket-screen-color-picker/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:26:58


  • 14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Image Viewers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-image-viewers/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:27:05


  • Checkmk – IT monitoring platform ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/checkmk-it-monitoring-platform/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:30:14


  • Oboete – simple flashcard application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/oboete-simple-flashcard-application/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:30:21


  • abPOA – adaptive banded Partial Order Alignment ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/abpoa-adaptive-banded-partial-order-alignment/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:30:28


  • What's new on CPAN - January 2025 ☞ https://www.perl.com/article/what-s-new-on-cpan-january-2025/ "new CPAN uploads for your reading and programming pleasure. Enjoy!"    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:31:32


  • "It can be difficult to integrate all of the tools needed to provide these functions, and to ensure that they all seamlessly and efficiently interoperate with each other." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/event-driven-architecture-modern-applications | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:34:21


  • Red Hat is posting in an LLM slop site that it is funding https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/red-hat-tops-t-mobiles-common-cloud-edge-extension/2025/02/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/10/13/SDxCentral_which_the_Linux_Foundation_Paid_to_Produce_Marketing.shtml    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:38:47


  • How RamaLama runs Hey Hi (AI) models in isolation by default ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/02/20/how-ramalama-runs-ai-models-isolation-default    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:41:30


  • LLM slopper Brian Fagioli stopped 'writing' about "Linux" https://betanews.com/topic/linux/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:49:08


  • Gunners show their mettle in border protection ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/border-security/gunners-show-their-mettle-in-border-protection/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:54:13


  • A model in crisis: Germans head to polls amid economic downturn ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/people-profit/20250220-a-model-in-crisis-germans-head-to-the-polls-amid-economic-downturn    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:55:03


  • Rubenerd Show 430: The two mugs episode ☞ https://rubenerd.com/show430/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:55:51


  • "Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS also brings an updated hardware enablement stack (HWE). This is composed of a newer Linux kernel and updated graphics drivers—Linux 6.11 and Mesa 24.2.8 respectively—back-ported from Ubuntu 24.10." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/ubuntu-24-04-2-lts-is-now-available-to-download    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:58:01


  • "A lot of people using Ubuntu prefer to stick with the old reliable LTS builds. They're not as bleeding edge, but they're supported for a long time—even over a decade if you're willing to pay. Now, Ubuntu is getting a new minor LTS update." https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-linux-240-4-2-lts-release/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:58:19


  • "After a week’s delay, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS was published today by Canonical for all official flavors as the second point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-2-lts-is-now-available-for-download-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-11    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 20:58:48


  • This is CLASSIC fake new. Outright FALSE. Also, the headline is NOT supported by the body! https://www.tekedia.com/how-elon-musk-saved-twitter-with-ubuntu-spirit-as-valuation-returns-to-44b/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:02:35


  • "AMD RDNA4 graphics sees initial support in the RadeonSI Gallium3D (OpenGL) and RADV (Vulkan) drivers is present, the former worked on by AMD themselves and the latter by engineers at gaming company Valve." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mesa-25-0-vulkan-1-4-amd-rdna4    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:03:12


  • "Ubuntu is one of the most widely used Linux distributions out there, catering to both individuals and enterprises, offering a wide variety of releases that cover general computing, edge computing, IoT, and more." https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-25-04-features/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:03:39


  • "Whether you’re a confirmed command line-dweller, or just terminal-curious, you’ve maybe wondered how easy it is to search the web with a simple text command. Well, Linux being Linux, there are several options at your disposal." https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-to-search-the-web-from-the-linux-terminal/    

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


  • "The Mesa 25.0 open-source graphics stack has been released today as a major update introducing new features and improvements for several of the included graphics drivers." https://9to5linux.com/mesa-25-0-linux-graphics-stack-brings-vulkan-1-4-support-on-radv-anv-and-nvk    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:26:13


  • Dairy Workers May Have Passed Bird Flu to Pet Cats, CDC Study Suggests ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/health/bird-flu-cats-michigan.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:29:11


  • Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/health/usaid-freeze-hiv-tb-nutrition.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:29:28


  • "AI is so good at IBM then use it to replace the front office. Any AI can dribble the same nouns and verbs as the CEO et al." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmdqxdh4    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:48:30


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posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:50:07


  • "Yes you are redundant after they cloned your job in India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmhgb5ne    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:50:12


  • "The European Ham Radio Show is a weekly YouTube live-show about everything amateur radio. I discovered it late 2023 (when they were guests at the Ham Radio Workbench podcast) and quickly found my way into the friendly community on their Discord server." gemini://blog.raek.se/2025/02/21/i-guested-the-european-ham-radio-show/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:55:37


  • mental health problems gemini://gbryant.co.uk/gemlog/2025-02-18_gendery-thoughts.gmi    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:56:24


  • "This is the first work of fiction featuring James Bond and I'm sure a lot has been said of it since, so I'll try to take a different approach with this review." gemini://sdf.org/diggy/posts/2025/02/casino-royale-by-ian-fleming.gmi    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 21:57:41


  • Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by GNU/Linux Kernel 6.11 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-2-lts-is-now-available-for-download-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-11    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:01:56


  • Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is Available to Download ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/ubuntu-24-04-2-lts-is-now-available-to-download    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:02:03


  • The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.85.0 and Rust 2024 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/02/20/Rust-1.85.0.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:03:22


  • The Fridge: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS released ☞ https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/02/20/ubuntu-24-04-2-lts-released/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:03:31


  • Ubuntu Studio: Ubuntu Studio 24.04.2 LTS Released, and Financial Help Needed ☞ https://ubuntustudio.org/2025/02/ubuntu-studio-24-04-2-lts-released-and-financial-help-needed/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:05:32


  • Ey, fuhgeddaboudit ☞ https://rubenerd.com/ey-fuhgeddaboudit/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:07:29


  • How a new Europol reform threatens digital war on migrants ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/new-europol-reform-threatens-digital-war-on-migrants/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:08:38


  • Hong Kong police intercept 8 cars over suspected illegal hire after cab union chief apologises for strike threat ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/20/hong-kong-police-intercept-8-cars-over-suspected-illegal-hire-after-cab-union-chief-apologises-for-strike-threat/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:09:50


  • Director Bong Joon Ho 'proud' of South Koreans overcoming martial law bid ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/director-bong-joon-ho-proud-of-south-koreans-overcoming-martial-law-bid    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:10:37


  • South Korean drivers cleared in death of woman who leapt from taxi, fearing kidnapping ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-drivers-cleared-in-death-of-woman-who-leapt-from-taxi-fearing-kidnapping    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:11:05


  • South Korean teacher who fatally stabbed 8-year-old girl ‘laughed in ER’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-teacher-who-fatally-stabbed-8-year-old-girl-laughed-in-er    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:11:33


  • South Korea’s ousted PM says he tried to stop martial law decree ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-ousted-pm-says-he-tried-to-stop-martial-law-decree    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:11:45


  • North Korea’s ‘Day of the Shining Star’ festivities muted amid travel restrictions ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/02/19/north-korea-day-of-shining-star-travel-restrictions/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:12:11


  • Korean Music Groups Call for Anti-Tampering Law Amid Ugly NewJeans v. Hybe Contract Battle ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/20/k-pop-industry-newjeans-law/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:12:45


  • "Trump’s sudden turn against Zelensky came as a shock to many Americans. It shouldn’t have." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/02/20/trump-s-sudden-turn-against-zelensky-came-as-a-shock-to-many-americans-it-shouldn-t-have | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:13:58


  • Beijing says China, US should show ‘mutual respect’ on trade tensions ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/20/beijing-says-china-us-should-show-mutual-respect-on-trade-tensions/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:14:31


  • Uyghur freed from captivity in Morocco arrives in United States ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/02/20/uyghur-rights-activist-idris-hasan-arrives-us/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:14:46


  • Hong Kong’s Democratic Party to discuss disbanding: leader ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/02/20/china-hong-kong-democratic-party-discusses-dissolution/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:15:03


  • China repatriates 200 citizens from Myanmar scam centers amid crackdown ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/02/20/thailand-china-scam-centers-myawaddy/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:15:18


  • ST Picks: Does the Philippines need a China rethink in the Convicted Felon era? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/st-picks-does-the-philippines-need-a-china-rethink-in-the-trump-era    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:15:41


  • China faces talent shortage amid DeepSeek-fuelled Hey Hi (AI) jobs surge ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ai-job-boom-in-china-after-deepseeks-success-but-not-enough-skilled-talent-to-fill-demand    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:16:02


  • Malaysia set to grab bigger share of US glove market with new Convicted Felon tariffs on China goods ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-set-to-grab-bigger-share-of-us-glove-market-with-new-trump-tariffs-on-china-goods    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:16:33


  • China says 'doing its best' to push for tariff negotiations with EU ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-doing-its-best-to-push-for-tariff-negotiations-with-eu    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:17:10


  • More ryokan inns in Japan encouraging guests to eat out due to staff shortage ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/more-ryokan-inns-in-japan-encourage-guests-to-eat-out-due-to-staff-shortage    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:17:20


  • China Defends South Africa’s G20 Ambitions as Rubio Snubs Meeting ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/africa/south-africa-g20-rubio.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:18:12


  • Chinese Embassy Plan in London Sets Off Opposition ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/world/europe/china-embassy-britain.html    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:18:21


  • Gawkin’ in a winter wonderland: The festival in Harbin, China, is as cool as it looks ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/2025/0220/harbin-china-winter-ice-festival    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:18:32


  • Philippine police arrest over 450 in ‘Chinese-run’ scam centre raid ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippine-police-arrest-over-450-in-chinese-run-scam-centre-raid    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:18:55


  • Hours ago: Did you know? 🤔 Richard Stallman once held an auction for a GNU toy! -- and it sold for 120 euros! https://www.instagram.com/itsfoss/reel/DGWCZlxN7AC/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 22:20:30


  • "Microwave Motion Detector Notifies Your Smart Phone" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/microwave-motion-detector-notifies-your-smart-phone/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:27:47


  • "DEC tapes" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/unix-archaeology-turns-up-1972-v2-beta/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:28:26


  • White House posts 'dehumanising' ASMR video mocking migrants in shackles ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250220-white-house-posts-dehumanising-asmr-video-mocking-migrants-in-shackles    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:29:58


  • "DIY Yagi Antenna Sends LoRa Signals Farther" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/diy-yagi-antenna-sends-lora-signals-farther/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:30:55


  • "3D Print Yourself A Split Flap Display" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/02/20/3d-print-yourself-a-split-flap-display/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:31:15


  • Dropbox’s stock slides on weak forecast and stalled customer acquisition ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/20/dropboxs-stock-slides-weak-forecast-stalled-customer-acquisition/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:33:48


  • Chevron staffers absorb long-awaited layoffs as CEO pledges accountability    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:36:32


  • Your Takeaway Food Packaging Could Increase Your Risk of Heart Failure ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-takeaway-food-packaging-could-increase-your-risk-of-heart-failure    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:39:26


  • Your Scented Wax Melts Can Pollute Indoor Air as Much as a Diesel Engine ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-scented-wax-melts-can-pollute-indoor-air-as-much-as-a-diesel-engine    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:39:36


  • The Cause of Alzheimer's Might Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-cause-of-alzheimers-might-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:39:51


  • Sexual Competition May Actually Boost Men's Semen Quality ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sexual-competition-may-actually-boost-mens-semen-quality    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:40:01


  • Ghostly Glow of Nuclear Power Station Detected in Water 150 Miles Away ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ghostly-glow-of-nuclear-power-station-detected-in-water-150-miles-away    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:40:15


  • Ancient Fossils Reveal A Surprising Truth About Australian Dinosaurs ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-fossils-reveal-a-surprising-truth-about-australian-dinosaurs    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:40:33


  • Mark Carney says he’s a pragmatic outsider—but he’s a banker selling yesterday’s failed ideas ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carney-pragmatic-outsider-but-banker-selling-failed-ideas/ greenwashing    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:41:19


  • Rust 1.85.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1011122/    

posted Friday, February 21, 2025 at 23:41:47



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