Roy Schestowitz

• Time calculation hacks gemini://idiomdrottning.org/timecalc    

posted Thursday, March 06, 2025 at 20:22:12

• "The configuration of the selection has been removed from the GUI so it is changed with dconf. The list in word-char-exceptions are the characters included in words when double clicking text in the terminal. Before I was using xterm but it doesn't support nerd font in a good way." gemini://gmi.noulin.net/2025-03-06-about-terminal-emulators.gmi    

posted Thursday, March 06, 2025 at 20:23:00

• "Of course, a bunch of us are lazy, so we never got past the first week of voting. This project idea got stuck in my mind again, and I decided to do a mini-project where I watched what my friends believe to be the greatest match ever. So I did what any (halfway) rational person does." gemini://superjcup.smol.pub/mini-gme-project-introduction    

posted Thursday, March 06, 2025 at 20:23:48

• "With a project like this, I think it's really right to start off in watching order. I want to start off with the stuff I already found good." gemini://superjcup.smol.pub/villano-iii-vs-atlantis-cmll-03-17-2000    

posted Thursday, March 06, 2025 at 20:24:51

• Now at $480k https://www.fsf.org/appeal    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:06:00

• "IBM play games not to pay severance like put you on a pip." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jnmhav8z    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:20:11

• PIP (Performance Improvement Plan) as an Instrumental But Largely Hidden (From the Public) Extra Layer of IBM's Workforce Reductions http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/07/PIP_Performance_Improvement_Plan_as_an_Instrumental_But_Largely.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:20:35

• "The 1st layoff in the early 90s they did ask for volunteers. My advice is if you are ready for a package tell your manager they can pick you and makes their job easier. Just make sure you’re ready. Ha! 😀" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jnkyjyz7    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:21:24

• "They are not performance based, they are moving jobs to India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jnpeseef    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:23:09

• WSL woes, destructive update gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-03-06-idiot.txt    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:25:17

• Afternoon disease gemini://idiomdrottning.org/afternoon-disease    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:26:58

• "Since then, I have gotten 2 misfin messages outside of the week of a lot of testing of my server with 3 other people. I honestly don't think I'm going to get many more misfin messages." gemini://vigrey.com/journal/considering-getting-rid-of-my-misfin-server.gmi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:27:38

• "Over the past few weeks, I've been working on migrating the website of the _Open Bioinformatics Foundation_[1] (OBF) from being run based on a self-hosted _Wordpress_ blog to _Hugo_[2]." gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2025-03-06-migrating-from-wp.gmi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:28:29

• Junk traffic alone is a good reason to abandon site designs that let visitors trigger a database in ANY way (even search)    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:29:35

• "Pi Day in the United States (because of our strange date format of MM/DD/YYYY [medium-small-large] compared to pretty much the rest of the world [small-medium-large] or [large-medium-small]) is March 14th, as it is the 3rd month and the 14th day of that month" gemini://vigrey.com/journal/an-ominous-pi-day-miracle-total-lunar-eclipse.gmi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:30:40

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1576.jpg    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:31:05

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1226.jpg    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:31:09

• My favourite videogames gemini://voxparlour25.smol.pub/1741294772    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:32:58

• "In the spotlight of the stage, stands alone table. On each side of the table are two chairs. The background consists of props that make it look like an old American bar, streamlined to reflect the era." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2522    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:33:40

• "I got an odd surprise when I opened the Cosmos aggregator yesterday and discovered that one of my posts had "22 responses": [...]" gemini://drmollytov.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-03-06.gmi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:34:29

• "China poaches US talent after being fired in Musk's mass layoffs"    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:57:41

• Mass federal layoffs will have “devastating impact on cybersecurity, former NSA cybersecurity director warns https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/mass-federal-layoffs-will-have-devastating-impact-on-cybersecurity-former-nsa-cybersecurity-director-warns    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 04:58:29

• Seems like IBM is now laying of people of the Fedora Project https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/proposal-to-move-community-blog-to-fedora-discussion/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 05:47:17

• Portions of this are deemed 65% LLM slop. Watch out, Fagioli. https://betanews.com/2025/03/04/expressvpn-finally-brings-gui-to-its-linux-app/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 08:25:26

• next part of The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) delayed till tomorrow for good reasons. OSI is in panic.    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 08:38:15

• "Core Keeper from developer Pugstorm has a fresh major content upgrade coming, the first post-release update and it's going to release really soon on March 10." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mining-sandbox-adventure-core-keeper-gets-its-first-major-post-release-update-on-march-10/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 09:22:51

• "Trailmakers has managed to pull in a lot of happy players since the original 2019 full release" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/trailmakers-2-0-pioneers-is-out-now-and-its-like-a-whole-new-game/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 09:23:04

• "Square Enix have updated FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH and they've managed to cut down the download size for the Steam Deck and by quite a bit too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/final-fantasy-vii-rebirth-gets-a-smaller-download-on-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 09:23:14

• "A reoccurring theme here with THE FINALS from Embark Studios is that it appears to break on Linux / Steam Deck each major upgrade, and it has happened again with the launch of Update 5.12.0." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/the-finals-broken-on-linux-steam-deck-yes-again-with-update-5-12-0/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 09:23:58

• "Grinding Gear Games are showing clear support for Linux / Steam Deck with Path of Exile 2, ensuring it continues working properly." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/path-of-exile-2-gets-a-fix-for-linux-steam-deck-being-detected-as-cheating/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 09:27:46

• "Another new release is available for MangoHud, the Linux gaming overlay, which is also used for the performance stats on Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mangohud-performance-overlay-v0-8-1-reworks-fps-metrics-adds-fex-stats-fixes-bugs/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 09:58:35

• "Developer Eric Engestrom announced the released of Mesa 25.0.1, the first bug-fix release for the Mesa 25.0 series. It should hopefully now be safe enough for you to upgrade from the previous major Mesa release." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mesa-25-0-1-released-with-fixes-for-avowed-and-total-war-warhammer-iii/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 09:58:48

• "America is Trapped in a Burning Tesla - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-is-trapped-in-a-burning-tesla    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:05:29

• "The King must stand up to Cheeto, says Canadian governor" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/03/06/king-must-stand-up-donald-trump-says-danielle-smith/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:05:42

• "Paragon NTFS Shows Why Piracy Will NEVER Die: Revoking Paid Licenses" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/paragon-ntfs-shows-why-piracy-will-never:d    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:06:19

• "Chat Control 2 i långbänk" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/03/06/chat-control-2-i-langbank/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:06:28

• "Fact check: Which of Trump's statements about Mexico to Congress were true?" https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/fact-check-trump-statements-mexico-congress/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:06:40

• "Richard Hogan: Trump is a gaslighting, grotesque narcissist" https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-41586310.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:07:12

• "France provides military intelligence to Ukraine as US steps back" https://www.voanews.com/a/france-provides-military-intelligence-to-ukraine-as-us-steps-back/8000776.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:07:52

• "Cheeto And The Weaponization Of Distrust Toward US Media" https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-weekly-trump-weaponization-of-distrust-toward-us-media/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:08:06

• iophk: trying to shift the blame to the systems instead of the politician https://fedscoop.com/air-traffic-safety-faa-aging-software-technology/ ("Floppy disks and aging software: FAA held back by technology woes")    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:08:51

• "Factbox-What Is the 'Five Eyes' Intelligence-Sharing Alliance?" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-03-06/factbox-what-is-the-five-eyes-intelligence-sharing-alliance    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:09:07

• "Donald Trump’s Golden Age of Bunk" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/donald-trump-address-to-joint-session-of-congress    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:10:28

• "Study: Russian disinformation shapes AI chatbot responses" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/exclusive-russian-disinfo-floods-ai-chatbots-study-finds    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:11:07

• "15 Republican AGs Urge The Supreme Court To Make Affordable Broadband For Poor People Illegal" https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=25/03/05/1555220    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:11:18

• "Veterans Affairs planning to eliminate 72,000 positions" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/03/veterans-affairs-planning-to-eliminate-72000-positions/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:11:29

• iophk: going after small money rather than cutting corporate welfare and handouts https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2025/03/06/vets-are-speaking-out-on-trump-administrations-plans-to-cut-va-budget/ ("Vets are speaking out on Trump administration’s plans to cut VA budget")    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:11:47

• "Trump administration plans to cut 80,000 VA employees, memo says" https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2025/03/05/trump-administration-plans-to-cut-80000-va-employees-memo-says/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:12:01

• iophk: going after small money rather than cutting corporate welfare and handouts https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-lawsuit-conservation-funding-freeze.html ("Trump Administration Sued for Freezing Funds That Help Protect Vulnerable Species Like Rhinos and Elephants")    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:12:23

• "Trump’s new limits on Elon Musk’s role, explained" https://www.vox.com/politics/402970/trump-elon-musk-doge-cabinet-secretaries    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:12:37

• "Ukraine fears Starlink could be cut as White House increases pressure" https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/03/06/ukraine-starlink-musk-cut/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:12:53

• "Opinion: Beware, Donald Trump might go after Canadians’ health data next - The Globe and Mail" https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-beware-donald-trump-might-go-after-canadians-health-data-next/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:14:14

• "Trump's Article I Management" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/06/trumps-article-i-management/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:14:24

• "Bonus Daily Cartoon: Giving Up for Lent" https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/bonus-daily-cartoon-giving-up-for-lent    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:14:33

• "Kansas lawmakers are killing gay kids. And they expect us to be polite about it." https://kansasreflector.com/2025/03/06/kansas-lawmakers-are-killing-gay-kids-and-they-expect-us-to-be-polite-about-it/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:14:43

• "Redefining security in a hostile world" https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0305/Taiwan-China-Ukraine-invasion-semiconductors    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:15:29

• "US warms to Russia, but Putin’s agenda isn’t bending to Trump" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0305/russia-putin-trump-ukraine-peace    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:15:40

• "The Simple Explanation for Why Trump Turned Against Ukraine" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/republican-theories-foreign-policy/681921/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:15:52

• "This Is What Happens When Reality TV Comes for Democracy" https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/03/donald-trump-second-term-reality-tv-president/681943/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:16:01

• ""Trump trades" like Tesla and bitcoin are falling across markets" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/trump-trades-musk-tesla-bitcoin http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/05/Just_Because_Common_Currencies_Including_the_US_Dollars_Are_Con.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:16:19

• "Close encounters with Trump" https://www.newstatesman.com/diary/2025/03/close-encounters-with-donald-trump    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:16:30

• "Flera bilar i brand på Rosengård – Sydsvenskan" https://www.sydsvenskan.se/artikel/flera-bilar-i-brand-pa-rosengard/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:17:12

• "Swedish Fika Calendar: Why Swedes eat cake on the first Thursday of March" https://www.thelocal.se/20250306/swedish-fika-calendar-why-swedes-eat-cake-on-the-first-thursday-of-march    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:17:24

• "Sweden to send Gripen fighter jets to help patrol Polish air space" https://www.thelocal.se/20250306/sweden-to-send-gripen-fighter-jets-to-help-patrol-polish-air-space    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:17:33

• "A generation of reindeer herders is perishing in the war" https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/a-generation-of-reindeer-herders-is-perishing-in-the-war/425880    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:17:47

• "Trump again casts doubt on his commitment to NATO" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2282965.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:17:58

• Equity Markets Drop as US Layoffs Surge, Tariff Tumult Persists https://www.tradingview.com/news/mtnewswires.com:20250306:A3331680:0-equity-markets-drop-as-us-layoffs-surge-tariff-tumult-persists/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:24:19

• "Leaked memo: Stripe lays off 300 employees, mostly in product, engineering, and operations"    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:26:04

• Bhattacharya ☛ https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2025/03/06/jay-bhattacharyas-attack-chihuahua-smears-orac/ |    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:26:51

• "anti-environmental lawsuit" ☛ https://fair.org/home/if-energy-transfer-prevails-this-could-really-embolden-other-corporations/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:27:29

• How media DIES: "more unlikely that the cable news network will have any role in holding Democrats’ feet to the fire." ☛ https://fair.org/home/msnbc-sidelines-its-most-progressive-anchors/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:28:07

• Mimicking the Bezos "media model" http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/25/The_Fall_of_Corporate_Media_Controlled_by_Oligarchs_Who_Boost_o.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:29:00

• "Learn how educators are integrating generative AI tools into their programming classes to enhance learning and prepare students for the future." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/integrating-generative-ai-into-introductory-programming-classes/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:29:17

• "City Of Portland Pays Nearly $1 Million For Arresting Journalists At Protests" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/city-of-portland-pays-nearly-1-million-for-arresting-journalists-at-protests/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:29:47

• "Each of our new Board members brings a unique expertise that will help strengthen CC’s impact and guide our strategic vision forward." ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2025/03/06/creative-commons-announces-new-board-members/ | Source: Creative Commons    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:35:30

• Right of Publicity ☛ https://www.404media.co/chinese-ai-video-generators-unleash-a-flood-of-new-nonconsensual-porn-3/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:35:54

• "Apple has been told it has to allow alternative app stores on iOS in Brazil within 90 days" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/625753/apple-ios-alternative-app-stores-sideloading-brazil | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:36:26

• "CMA stated in its provisional decision report (PDR)" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/cma_overlooks_factors_hurting_small/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:36:34

• Bribes play a role http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/01/It_s_Cheaper_to_Pay_Bribes_and_Produce_Press_Releases_Than_to_P.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:37:13

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://chrisenns.com/2025/03/apple-gives-away-bono-documentary-apple-vision-pro-not-included/ | Source: Chris Enns    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:38:43

• "It’s been nearly two years since the Mac Studio was updated to M2" ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/03/new-mac-studio-spans-the-generations-with-m4-max-m3-ultra-chips/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:38:56

• "Right-to-repair activist and electronics technician Louis Rossmann posted a video blasting the Japanese" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/brother_firmware_update_toner/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:39:33

• "The company's new strategy involves two particularly devious tactics." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/03/05/brother-printers-joins-the-evil-empire-blocks-third-party-ink-with-stealth-updates.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:39:41

• "KHARPP has paid for and deployed six Starlink terminals in Ukraine during the past two years." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/starlink-replacement-ukraine-eutelsat-oneweb-project-kuiper-amazon-iris2-elon-musk/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:41:45

• United Arab Emirates: Windows almost dead https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/united-arab-emirates/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:43:49

• Apple is bigger than Microsoft/Windows in many countries    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:44:10

• "Those two videos account for ~78% of primary screen reader use. You could stop there and you’d have a good sense of the divergent experience and how it doesn’t match up with the visible text as you might expect." ☛ https://adrianroselli.com/2025/03/dont-use-fake-bold-or-italic-in-social-media.html | Source: Adriaan Roselli    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:44:20

• "Almost one-quarter of countries reported that backlash on gender equality is hampering implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/un-report-finds-women-s-rights-weakened-in-quarter-of-all-countries/8000755.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:56:32

• "The other shoe hasn’t dropped yet." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/postal-workers-brace-for-trumps-wrecking-ball/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:56:51

• "The Danish postal service has said it will deliver its last letter at the end of this year, instead focusing on packages to respond to changing forms of communication." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/06/danish-postal-service-stop-delivering-letters-drop-numbers | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:57:34

• "gender-based oppression codified into law." ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/03/06/taliban-rule-triggers-human-rights-catastrophe/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:57:55

• "It is not clear how AutoRIF has been modified or whether AI is involved in the RIF mandate (through AutoRIF or independently). However, fears of AI-driven mass-firings of federal workers are not unfounded." ☛ https://epic.org/seems-a-bit-doge-y-protecting-federal-worker-rights-in-an-era-of-ai-driven-employment-decisions/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:58:31

• "As per data available in 2023- 2024, the authorities had received information about 180 child marriages in Karnataka; 105 such marriages were prevented and in the remaining 75 instances, police cases were registered." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/video-14-year-old-forcibly-married-physically-carried-off-by-husband-7865209 | Source: NDTV    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:58:44

• "A coalition of international law enforcement has shut down Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, a favorite of now-defunct ransomware crew Conti and others criminals for money laundering." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/international_cops_seize_ransomware_gangs/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:58:54

• "Nebraska voters approved a ballot measure last November to establish a minimum level of paid sick leave for all workers." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/03/06/labor-groups-ring-alarms-over-proposed-changes-to-nebraska-minimum-wage-paid-sick-leave/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:59:30

• "A parliamentary amendment removed an earlier provision that would have granted the Cybersecurity Directorate head the power to conduct searches, make copies, and seize data." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/turkeys-new-cybersecurity-law-allows-home-searches-with-post-search-approval-305176 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 10:59:46

• "Sending letters internationally from Denmark will therefore probably mean using a global courier such as UPS or DHL and sending the letter as part of a small package." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250306/is-it-possible-to-send-letters-in-denmark-without-postnord | Source: The Local DK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:00:06

• "PostNord will cease to deliver letters in Denmark by the end of 2025 and let go 1,500 of its 4,600 employees in the country, the company has announced." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250306/denmarks-postnord-announces-end-of-letter-deliveries | Source: The Local DK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:00:26

• "The Mirror, Express, Star and regional publisher now has new state-of-the-art studios up-and-running in London, Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham, with work ongoing in Liverpool and a revamped space in Newcastle." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/why-opening-of-video-studios-across-uk-is-really-big-moment-for-reach/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:01:16

• "Ridding will remain with parent company Nikkei as a special adviser reporting to its chairman and group CEO Naotoshi Okada." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/financial-times-ceo-john-ridding/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:01:41

• "On the occasion of March 8, International Women's Day, female employees of Hawar News Agency (ANHA) visited the graves of journalists Cihan Bilgin and Nazım Daştan and laid flowers." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/female-journalists-visit-grave-of-cihan-bilgin-killed-in-turkish-drone-attack-in-rojava-78261 | Source: ANF News    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:02:51

• "is implementing additional restrictions to the categories of websites prohibited from government-furnished equipment." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/ssa-bans-news-websites-on-agency-devices/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:03:14

• "nice to have" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/protection-of-free-public-service-news-should-be-national-priority-says-ex-itv-director-of-news/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:04:54

• "Source Rupak Ghose's The $100 billion Bloomberg for academics and lawyers?" ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2025/03/the-oligopoly-publishers.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:05:55

• "enemy of the people" ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2025/03/fall-of-the-mainstream-media | Source: New Statesman    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:06:21

• The Fall of Corporate Media Controlled by Oligarchs Who Boost (or Are Compelled to Boost) Reckless Lies About the Poor While Normalising Rich People's Crimes http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/25/The_Fall_of_Corporate_Media_Controlled_by_Oligarchs_Who_Boost_o.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:06:50

• "JinNews correspondent Öznur Değer was remanded in custody following a raid on her home in the Kızıltepe district of Mardin on 6 February." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/journalist-Oznur-deger-remains-in-prison-78263 | Source: ANF News    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:07:03

• "Hong Kong's top court unanimously overturned on Thursday the convictions of three former members of a pro-democracy group that organized an annual candlelight vigil to mark China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, citing a miscarriage of justice" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/hong-kong-s-top-court-quashes-convictions-of-pro-democracy-tiananmen-group/8000733.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:08:35

• "You might think this whiplash-inducing contrast is just standard political hypocrisy." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/05/trump-brings-back-free-speech-by-checks-notes-threatening-to-imprison-protestors-and-expose-journalist-sources/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:09:05

• "The Take It Down Act is an overbroad, poorly drafted bill that would create a powerful system to pressure removal of [Internet] posts, with essentially no safeguards." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:09:54

• "My presentation had been arranged back in the fall and had already gone through NARA’s routine vetting process" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/03/why-trump-administration-canceled-me/681934/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:10:12

• "So maybe it should come as no surprise that Elon Musk has lately taken time from his busy schedule of dismantling the federal government" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/elon-musk-also-has-a-problem-with-wikipedia | Source: New Yorker    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:52:53

• "Pop singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been given 74 lashes for a song criticizing Iran's mandatory dress code for women, ending a criminal case against him that also included a prison term." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/mehdi-yarrahi-flogged-hijab-law/33338467.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:53:07

• "She informed her employer of her activism, but was fired on the spot when Swedish media revealed her involvement in the spring of 2024." ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250306/swedish-climate-activists-treated-as-criminals-un-expert-warns | Source: The Local SE    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:53:18

• "Adverse appeals court ruling could kill GPL software license" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/adverse_appeals_court_ruling_could/ iophk: OSI and EFF still quiet http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/05/The_Fall_of_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Microsoft_Committing.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:53:58

• "Activists, journalists and regime-critics across Russia have been convicted on the same charges." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/17yearold-faces-10-years-in-prison-for-justification-of-terrorism/425809 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:54:27

• "If forced to guess, however, I’d predict that the first big crack in federal services will come in Social Security." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/america-is-trapped-in-a-burning-tesla |    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:59:04

• "Trump’s misleading appropriation of the video was just the latest example of the new Administration turning digital content, produced in-house or found online, into a form of MAGA agitprop." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/donald-trumps-ai-propaganda | Source: New Yorker    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 11:59:23

• "NewsGuard has seen a significant increase in false claims about Ukraine on US social media in recent weeks, particularly since Donald Trump accused Volodymyr Zelensky of being ungrateful for US military support" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-disinformation-spikes-after-trump-zelenskyy-row/a-71832118 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:00:03

• [Old] "no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2019/09/06/politics/trump-sharpie-hurricane-dorian-alabama/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:00:31

• [Old] "After drawing criticism for inaccurately warning over the weekend that Alabama could get hit by Hurricane Dorian" ☛ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/map-flap-trump-displays-altered-weather-map-showing/story?id=65384094 | Source: ABC    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:01:07

• [Old] "Sharpie-drawn extension to show the storm hitting Alabama — an apparent attempt to defend an incorrect tweet he posted on Sunday" ☛ https://time.com/5670168/trump-hurricane-map-alabama-weather-law/ | Source: Time    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:01:35

• "Over the past few days, Russian news talk shows have consisted almost entirely of translated clips of Trump-administration officials and Trump surrogates—Vice President J. D. Vance" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/03/trump-ukraine-russian-television/681941/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:02:00

• "Let's stop pretending that "The Market" has anything to do with driving digital technology in 2025." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/brutal/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:02:53

• "All of this is written based on real archaeological data and prior work by other researchers." ☛ https://softwaremaniacs.org/blog/2025/03/06/the-dawn-of-everything/en/ | Source: Ivan Sagalaev    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:03:29

• "The original web was inherently about redistribution of power from a small number of gatekeepers to a large number of individuals, even if it never quite lived up to that promise." ☛ https://werd.io/2025/the-web-was-always-about-redistribution-of-power-lets-bring | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:03:42

• "The [Internet] in 2024 is no longer the place where things end up—it’s the place where things start. In the beginning, everyone was online." ☛ https://www.8ball.report/p/productive-misunderstandings | Source: Sean Monahan    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:16:46

• "OpenAI's CEO returns to political fundraising" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/openais-ceo-returns-to-political-fundraising/articleshow/118750099.cms | Source: India Times http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2024/01/19/Links_19_01_2024_US_Military_Bailing_Out_Microsoft_Again_Open_A.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:17:49

• "If Trump’s meme coins have ‘no use’ and are marketed as a way to simply ‘celebrate’ his leadership, then Trump requiring payment for his memes may constitute illegal solicitation of gifts" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/if-meme-coins-have-no-use-why-is-trump-charging-for-them | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:18:02

• "In other words, a company with a fantastic profit/earning ratio has its own money-printer that produces currency that can be used to buy labor and even acquire companies." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/06/privacy-last/#exceptionally-american | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 12:18:30

• "Environmentalists are urging the Trump administration to reverse a decision to freeze funding for important conservation work aimed at protecting iconic at-risk species, which includes anti-poaching patrols for vulnerable elephants and rhinos." ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/trump-lawsuit-conservation-funding-freeze.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:12:02

• "Now, a new study funded by the U.S. Geological Survey has finally compiled all that data — and found some bad news. Populations declined 22 per cent between 2000 and 2020, reports the new study published in the journal Science Thursday." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/butterfly-loss-1.7476479 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:12:17

• "Researchers analyzed 12.6 million records of butterflies based on over 76,000 surveys conducted all over the US. Between 2000 and 2020, total butterfly numbers fell by 22% across the 554 species counted." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/us-butterfly-populations-have-plummeted-in-the-last-decade/a-71847852 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:12:29

• ML "will help fight the invasion of so-called pink (humpback) salmon in three rivers in the county of Finnmark in northern Norway this summer, NRK reports." ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/ai-to-help-fight-invasive-fish-in-norway/424708 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:12:52

• "On its own, new Aussie registrations for Tesla's Model 3 tanked by a stomach-churning 81.4 percent in February, compared to the same month last year." ☛ https://futurism.com/tesla-sales-australia-catastrophic | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:13:21

• "That's what some Cybertruck drivers discovered firsthand at a Lundi Gras parade on Monday — the "Fat Monday" preamble to the famed Mardi Gras" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-bombarded-trash-mardi-gras-parade | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:13:40

• "Ola’s artificial intelligence (AI) venture, Krutrim, on Wednesday said that it is partnering with Lenovo to develop Krutrim 3, a 700-billion-parameter large language model (LLM), while also building India’s largest supercomputer." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ola-partners-with-lenovo-to-develop-krutrim-3-build-indias-largest-supercomputer/articleshow/118741155.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:13:56

• "already plays a really big role" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/03/06/2025/air-conditioning-during-summer-heatwaves-drove-surge-in-fossil-fuels-report-finds | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:14:32

• "as summer nears" ☛ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/yucatan-peninsula/cfe-approves-major-electrical-grid-upgrade-as-summer-approaches/ | Source: Mexico News Daily    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:14:59

• "Article posted by Maurits Fennis, based on a talk given at the MCH2022 Hacker Conference in Zeewolde, The Netherlands on the 24th of June 2022." ☛ https://nflatrea.bearblog.dev/an-ontology-of-electronic-waste/ | Source: Noë Flatreaud    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:15:41

• "This era that we're moving into that's going to be defined by renewably generated electricity and digital technology. Can't make that stuff without critical metals." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/critical-minerals-explainer-1.7473183 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:15:59

• "Most importantly, attention is paid to ensuring people feel safe from attack, judgement or pressure. People can sense a mile away if we have an agenda." ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/05/the-u-s-has-never-been-more-divided-on-climate-heres-how-to-build-bridges-and-it-may-surprise-you/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:17:05

• "if the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs begins disciplinary proceedings against them or if their plans are found to be noncompliant with the law." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/hawaii/articles/2025-03-06/honolulu-will-allow-some-developers-to-ok-their-own-projects | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:17:52

• "Companies are profiting in Kabwe from mining, removing, and processing lead waste at the expense of children’s health." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/rights-organization-condemns-zambia-mining-activities-causing-lead-poisoning-to-children/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:18:09

• "Thirty-six companies are responsible for more than half of these emissions, according to the analysis. Further, the 2023 emissions total increased 0.7% compared to 2022." ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/global-carbon-emissions-companies-responsible.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:18:31

• "PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are man-made chemicals used for their water and heat resistant properties." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/pfas-restriction-canada-1.7475443 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:18:51

• "NOAA houses the National Weather Service, which provides the data and analysis that informs virtually all the weather forecasts Americans receive, whether via TV or radio broadcasts or their phone apps." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/noaa-weather-service-budget-cuts-trump/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:19:10

• "Hydrologists and ecologists from Natuurmonumenten report that excessive water drainage, industrial pollution, and fertilizer runoff are causing widespread harm." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2025/03/06/dutch-nature-reserves-crisis-water-pollution-drought-intensify | Source: NL Times    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:19:32

• "We do not have the luxury of waiting for action on climate change and environmental justice as communities grapple with the crisis on a daily basis." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/entertainment/news/a/2282958.html | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:20:07

• "The European Union's highest court on Thursday handed Germany a fine of €34 million ($36.7 million) for failing to adequately protect whistleblowers." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/germany-fined-34-million-for-late-whistleblower-protection/a-71843936 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:21:20

• "Shocker, but it's sure sounding like Musk was fibbing about this whole saga." ☛ https://futurism.com/nasa-astronauts-puzzled-elon-musk-outburst | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:26:27

• "At 49, Branden Spikes isn’t just one of the oldest technologists who has been involved in Elon Musk’s Department [sic] of Government Efficiency (DOGE [sic])." ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/who-is-the-doge-and-x-technician-branden-spikes/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:26:59

• "Led by the American Civil Liberties Union, at least 20 major privacy groups this week urged Gabbard to declassify information concerning Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)—the nation’s cornerstone wiretap authority" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/tulsi-gabbard-declassify-details-of-secret-surveillance-program/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:27:42

• "Still I wondered what the little rectangles had been used for. It turns out that the purpose is this: [...]" ☛ https://blog.plover.com/2025/03/06/#reflector-grids | Source: Mark-Jason Dominus    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:27:53

• "Congress, the courts, or a grand gesture will not save us." ☛ https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/this-is-how-we-win.html | Source: Chris O'Donnnell    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:29:11

• "The working paper is in response to a request for information from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/pentagon-cuts-nukes-chemical-weapons-wmd/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:29:59

• "Silk Typhoon" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/silk-typhoon-campaign/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:30:47

• "The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 12 Chinese nationals" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/05/justice-department-indicts-chinese-officials-contractors-cyber-intrusion-campaign/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:31:15

• "sale" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-may-put-hundreds-of-federal-buildings-up-for-sale-including-usda-and-doj/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:31:54

• "Somali officials told VOA it appears that the IS fighters, rather than trying to hold their positions" ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/islamic-state-in-retreat-after-offensive-in-somalia-puntland/7999111.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:35:05

• "Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen on Wednesday banned the use or download of applications" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/pillen-order-expands-ban-on-china-based-software-on-nebraska-state-networks/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:35:19

• "The first agent is embedded directly into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/06/new-microsoft-sales-agents-aim-automate-tasks-improve-deal-management/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:37:19

• "Our non-American vultures who obtain media visas to work a stint" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/uscis_social_media/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:37:32

• "curb exploitation" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/why-the-new-europol-regulation-is-a-trojan-horse-for-surveillance/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:37:43

• "Chat Control" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/poland-searches-for-silver-bullet-for-csa-regulation/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:37:58

• Yes to Af, no to Velociraptor — Finland's Naming Board publishes list of approved, rejected names | Yle News | Yle ⚓ https://yle.fi/a/74-20148208 ䷉ Source: YLE | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//yle.fi/a/74-20148208    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:40:37

• Windows TCO: "For those who made credit card transactions between January 2022 and April 2023, card details such as the last four digits of the number and expiration dates were also lifted." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/toronto_zoo_ransomware/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:40:49

• Windows TCO: "Dozens of public schools across the country reported data breaches to regulators in Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont and several other states this week" ☛ https://therecord.media/thousands-of-public-school-workers-impacted-data-breach | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:42:28

• Windows TCO: "A spokesperson for the company told Recorded Future News that Arctic Wolf is aware of at least 20 organizations or executives who have received these letters." ☛ https://therecord.media/cisa-fbi-warn-bianlian-mail-scam-extortion | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:42:46

• "Weimer’s spokesperson, Master Sgt. Daniel Carter said the decision was made by Weimer himself and that the goal is to extend the reach of the Army’s primary platforms which have a larger following." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/sergeant-major-army-social-media/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:43:18

• "On Wednesday, Rose announced that he had bought back Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, a digital media company, and would rebuild it to take on Reddit. And he is doing it with an unlikely ally: Ohanian." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/the-return-of-digg-a-star-of-an-earlier-internet-era/articleshow/118752052.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:43:36

• "At its peak in 2008, Digg was reportedly valued at about $160 million. But the rise of Facebook and other social sites caused traffic to Digg to plummet." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/05/alexis-ohanian-kevin-rose-team-up-to-buy-and-revive-digg.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:44:29

• "Will a reboot of Digg do anything to help the social web?" ☛ https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/will-a-reboot-of-digg-do-anything-to-help-the-social-web/ |    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:44:56

• "Digg is a valuable domain being passed around to find a sustainable business model." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/digg-reboots-again/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:45:44

• "If you want to test how well you manage without your accounts before committing to deletion, consider deactivation." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/06/how-leave-facebook-instragram-meta/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:45:55

• "On the Notion of Centering Consent on the Web" ☛ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2025/consent-in-protocols/ | Source: Jacky Alciné    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:46:24

• "If you only post on social media, I won't see it. If you don't have an RSS feed, I won't follow it, I won't subscribe to it." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/if-your-content-is-only-on-social-media-im-not-going-to-see-it | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:47:06

• "MDP assumed that the agent knew about its environs. Reinforcement learning took the next step and assumed agents knew nothing about the environment or its rewards" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/reinforcement-learning-pioneers-honored-with-acm-turing-prize/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:48:10

• "MDP assumed that the agent knew about its environs. Reinforcement learning took the next step and assumed agents knew nothing about the environment or its rewards" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/reinforcement-learning-pioneers-honored-with-acm-turing-prize/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:48:44

• "Barto, a professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Sutton, a professor at the University of Alberta, trailblazed a technique known as reinforcement learning" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/pioneers-of-reward-based-machine-learning-win-turing-award/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:49:01

• "Catch up quick: Sutton, now a computer science professor at Canada's University of Alberta, was Barto's student at the University of Massachusetts in the late 1970s." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/03/05/turing-award-reinforcement-learning-artificial-intelligence | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:49:40

• "In my testimony, I will discuss why it is so critical that Maryland take immediate action to place common-sense regulations on the development and use of high-risk AI systems" ☛ https://epic.org/documents/maryland-s-b-936-regulating-high-risk-ai/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:50:30

• "Unlike conventional computer programs, generative AI is designed not to produce precise answers to certain questions, but to generalize." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/chatbots-benchmark-tests/681929/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:50:50

• "Our testing showed that the automated site's content permeated the top search and News results for multiple Google queries" ☛ https://futurism.com/google-ai-fake-spacecraft | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:51:25

• "fly.pieter.com was initially made in just 30 minutes with AI tools and is now generating thousands of dollars a month." ☛ https://www.404media.co/this-game-created-by-ai-vibe-coding-makes-50-000-a-month-yours-probably-wont/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:52:01

• "An example of AI attempting to summarizing nuanced reviewed of Hitler's Nazi manifesto turned into an example of algorithms eating themselves." ☛ https://www.404media.co/google-amazon-ai-search-mein-kampf-reviews/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:52:16

• "Will the future of software development run on vibes?" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/6/vibe-coding/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:52:49

• "When you run a transcription model on some sample audio clip and get back wingdings, curse words or nothing at all, it’s hard to know what went wrong." ☛ https://petewarden.com/2025/03/06/debugging-disposable-ml-frameworks/ | Source: Pete Warden    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:53:22

• More buzzwords ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/ilya-sutskever-ex-openai-gets-2b-funding-not-to-release-anything-until-he-has-super-intelligence/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 13:53:51

• "My hottest take is that multi-agents are a broken concept and should be avoided at all cost." ☛ https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/03/06/pid-controllers | Source: Tim Kellogg    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:38:07

• "I write to you from the past, a human philosopher contemplating what it might mean for you to be reading these words with true awareness." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/my-letter-to-the-first-conscious | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:38:58

• "The issue affects users trying to access EAC to administer Exchange Online for their users" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/04/microsoft_exchange_admin_center/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:40:01

• "I, for one, am in a personal hell with no personal email access since the weekend and absolutely no Microsoft support." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/outlook_outage_day_5/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:40:13

• "But aside from the strangeness of the launches, Apple also made a few decisions that have us scratching our heads." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2629431/go-home-apple-youre-drunk-5-recent-decisions-that-make-no-sense.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:40:23

• "Today I canceled my Amazon Prime subscription." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/03/06/Canceled-Prime | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:40:37

• "The study found that those who spent more time looking at screens and using mobile devices experienced more symptoms of stress and depression than those who did not." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20147922 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:41:07

• "The survey results reported here assess Americans’ awareness and understanding of the health harms of global warming; their beliefs about who should take action to protect people from these harms" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/americans-climate-change-awareness-2025.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:41:28

• "Just last fall, the American Psychological Association (APA) warned that election stress can harm your health." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tariffs-anxiety-1.7476203 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:41:54

• "Trump says scrap CHIPS Act" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/05/trump_speech_scrap_chips_act/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:43:09

• [Old] "Because of these differences, most graduates of elite schools—including me—start out being completely unable to identify which work is actually important." ☛ https://www.benkuhn.net/hard/ |    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:43:57

• "During the 2023/2024 winter semester, women made up 50.9% of all registered students, according to a study from the Center for Higher Education (CHE)" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/women-still-majority-at-german-colleges-study-shows/a-71843287 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:44:13

• "DNA of Marseille" ☛ https://www.404media.co/french-university-to-fund-american-scientists-who-fear-trump-censorship/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:44:38

• "The coverage in European Pharmaceutical Manufacturer, Pharma Industrial India, and Pharmaceutical Daily emphasizes JuliaHub’s role in streamlining compliance while enhancing the capabilities of data-driven pharmaceutical research." ☛ https://info.juliahub.com/blog/next-gen-pharmaceutical-modeling-simulation | Source: Julia Programming Language    

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

• "Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered techniques to bestow superpowers upon sapphire, a material that most of us think of as just a pretty jewel." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-03-super-sapphire-nanostructures-resist-glare.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:45:50

• "You probably know that NOAA has weather satellites. NOAA operates 18 satellites in total" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/06/noaa-the-biggest-little-agency-in-america/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:46:09

• "And if you don’t? That’s fine too. But at least now, you’ll know" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/these-notes-from-the-circus | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:47:23

• "Maybe you've been inspired by the work of a specific member of the free software community" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2025-awards-nomination-extension | Source: FSF    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:48:35

• "This is also not for when you are programming a time library." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/timecalc | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:49:14

• "Another thoughtful take on the fragility of our digital infrastructure, an evergreen topic" ☛ https://loudpoet.com/2025/03/06/five-things-march-6-2025/ | Source: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:49:52

• "In the remainder of this piece, I want to chart out a better way to put both of these into practice." ☛ https://alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/06/things-have-reasons/ | Source: Alex Gaynor    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:50:10

• "This is today’s Pivot story, read out just before I finished it up and posted it." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/pivot-to-ai-pivots-to-video/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:50:33

• Huawei’s New Laptops May Run Linux, not HarmonyOS Next https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/huawei-matebook-laptops-linux-leak https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/china/#monthly-200902-202503 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/china/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:56:39

• OnixOS – Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/onixos-arch-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 14:57:38

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

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:00:25

• "The sad state of affairs is that there is no major mainstream producer of mp3 players these days." ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/the-innioasis-y1-mp3-player/ | Source: Brandon    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:01:35

• "This article presents my research and benchmark data comparing the performance and power consumption of workloads running under virtualization and emulation." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/performance-and-energy-consumption-comparing-cpu-virtualization-and-emulation-efficiency | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:12:33

• "Today I want to talk about some of the specific features available within Ansible Automation Platform that directly support your community of practice, particularly as you work together to: [...]" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-ansible-automation-platform-supports-your-automation-community-practice | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:13:16

• "In layman's terms, OpenShift Virtualization runs VMs inside of pods on a namespace on a cluster." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/charge-back-cost-openshift-virtualization-red-hat-insights-cost-management | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:14:12

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

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:16:00

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

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:16:12

• What is DNF Package Manager ☞ https://idroot.us/dnf-package-manager/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:16:50

• "Suppose, not entirely hypothetically, that you have some backup servers that use swappable HDDs as their backup media and expose that 'media' as mounted filesystems." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PrometheusCountingThingsGotcha | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:17:27

• "SimpleSAMLphp is a SAML identity provider (and other stuff)" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SSPAttributeAlterNewTargetGotcha | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:17:39

• "I've already written about how the fact that the initial value of a custom property is a guaranteed-invalid value can lead to unexpected results." ☛ https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2025/invalid-custom-properties-in-shorthands | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:17:52

• "This is where Carter was brought in." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/03/05/phone-book-typography-bell-centennial-ink-trap/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:18:16

• "Apache Solr is an open-source search platform built on Apache Lucene, designed to create powerful application search and indexing capabilities." ☛ https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-apache-solr-on-ubuntu-24-04-server/ | Source: HowTo Forge    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:18:27

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

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:18:43

• "Sometime ago, Mozilla reinvented itself as a ad-company. The users are no longer their customers, that role moved to the advertisement market." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/replaced-firefox-with-librewolf.txt    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:24:57

• "I’m not sure what I’ll write about here. I got a broken tooth removed last week. And earlier this week we visited some hot springs and an old monastery. Both things very cool. Hot springs and monastery, I mean. Not the tooth." gemini://tilde.team/~jmcs/gemlog/2025-03-06-visiting-churches-and-other-things.gmi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:26:50

• 🔤SpellBinding: UEFISTB Wordo: TURVS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-03-07.gmi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:27:28

• "David Harper is also a great interviewer. He really responds to the guests and lets the conversation develop naturally. He's also not afraid to include his own views and experiences in it, which I like as an interview style." gemini://sdf.org/diggy/posts/2025/03/tradd-moore-on-off-panel.gmi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:28:26

• "I refactored the frontend API client and fixed the token refresh flow in both the front- and back-end. It's almost certainly not production-ready, but at least now I can keep using the app for testing without authentication failing, which is nice." gemini://sporiff.dev/2025/03/07/devlog_12/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:29:10

• Sobre fuçar em computadores. gemini://janeladigital.smol.pub/2025-03-07-fucar-pc    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:30:16

• "On Monday, LuGRE picked up signals from both America's Global Positioning System (GPS) and the EU's Galileo satnav constellations" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/06/blue_ghost_lugre_module_acquires/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:31:38

• "Bluetooth 5.0 was officially announced almost nine years ago. The wireless technology has undergone several updates up to the current version (5.4), but we had to wait a long time for the next big thing." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2619165/bluetooth-6-arrives-meet-its-powerful-next-gen-features.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:31:47

• "In this global race, Europe’s falling behind. In the 5G era, we’re trailing." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/europes-biggest-telecoms-say-europe-is-not-winning-5g-war/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:31:56

• "Carr says that while GPS has been “indispensable,” the technology “isn’t infallible” and that “disruptions to GPS have the potential to undermine the nation’s economic and national security.”" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/625671/fcc-vote-gps-911-technologies-inquiry | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:32:27

• "I also just learned that WINZ/940, one of Miami's landmark signals, will drop six of its seven towers, go from 50,000 watts by day and 10,000 watts by night down to just 16 (sixteen!) watts at night, meaning hardly on the air at all." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/03/06/radios-death-knells/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:32:44

• "Stacked middleware vs embedded delegation in Go" ☛ https://rednafi.com/go/middleware_vs_delegation/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:33:37

• "Paul Gauthier has an innovative solution for the challenge of helping end user" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/6/aider-using-uv-as-an-installer/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:34:08

• [Old] "These uv install methods are especially helpful for aider" ☛ https://aider.chat/2025/01/15/uv.html |    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:34:14

• "It offers a set of functions inspired by ggplot2, with the advantage of making it much easier to add text following a (curved) path." ☛ https://r-graph-gallery.com/package/geomtextpath.html | Source: The R Graph Gallery    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:34:54

• "In my first developer job, I worked on the software I had used in a different role at the same company." ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/tips-on-extensible-and-maintainable-components/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:35:02

• [Old] "In my own personal interest I have created this minimal guide for Haskell developers learning Lean." ☛ https://blog.cofree.coffee/2024-03-03-lean-for-haskell-developers/ | Source: Solomon Bothwell    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:35:37

• "A Bot is defined as a sort of variation of a Mealy Machine which produces many monadic results via ListT: [...]" ☛ https://blog.cofree.coffee/2025-03-05-chat-bots-revisited/ | Source: Solomon Bothwell    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:35:55

• "Occasionally this confuses people, so I thought I should write something about it." ☛ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/quasiblog/git-no-forge/ | Source: Chiark    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:36:06

• "So what are succinct data structures?" ☛ https://blog.startifact.com/posts/succinct/ | Source: Martijn Faassen    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:36:21

• "The solution I landed upon is not, I’m sure, a novel one, but googling “recursive filter schema” was unsuccessful and I am really happy with the result so here it is in case you need something like this: [...]" ☛ https://jmduke.com/posts/post/filters/ | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:36:54

• Open Data ☛ https://www.404media.co/archivists-recreate-pre-trump-cdc-website-are-hosting-it-in-europe/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:37:10

• "The 2025 APNIC Fellowship program runs over five months and is designed to help participants build key skills in Internet operations" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/03/06/apply-now-for-the-2025-apnic-fellowship-program/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:37:49

• "The Baltic networking community now has a dedicated collaboration and knowledge-sharing platform - BalticNOG (Baltic Network Operators Group)." ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/paulius-judickas/introducing-balticnog-a-new-hub-for-network-professionals-in-the-baltic-region/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:38:00

• "The Travel Grant Application for the FreeBSD Developer Summit/BSDCan 2025 is now open. The Foundation can help you attend BSDCan and the Dev Summit through our travel grant program." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/bsdcan-2025-travel-grant-application-now-open/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:38:19

• "I began reacquainting myself with Craft CMS" ☛ https://jeffbridgforth.com/wordpress-to-craft-cms/ | Source: Jeff Bridgforth    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:38:38

• "B-Trees are one of the few specialized data structures which truly stood the test of time" ☛ https://cedardb.com/blog/optimistic_btrees/ |    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:39:16

• "All told, the company delivered net income of $15.8 million" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/05/mongodb-finally-turns-profit-shares-plunge-weak-guidance/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:39:48

• "I recently switched to LibreWolf as my default browser" ☛ https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2025/libre-wolf-default-browser-macOS | Source: Manuel Matuzović    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:40:19

• "The PipeWire team has announced the release of PipeWire 1.4" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/pipewire-1-4-delivers-broad-midi2-and-bluetooth-improvements/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:41:38

• "The main highlight is that videos in memories are now playable on the web, letting users relive special moments without leaving their browser." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/immich-1-129-photo-and-video-backup-solution-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:42:01

• "Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first Android Progress Report of 2025." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/thunderbird-for-android-january-february-2025-progress-report/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:42:52

• "With Thunderbird version 136 for Windows, macOS, and Linux, Mozilla is officially launching a new desktop release channel, which will now be the standard deployment channel for updates." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2629380/thunderbird-136-officially-switches-to-monthly-releases-matching-firefox.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:43:45

• "Six months after its previous 4.21 release" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/samba-4-22-brings-smb3-directory-leases/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:44:16

• "I've been a proponent of high-refresh rate displays for years now" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/im-setting-the-bar-too-low/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:46:14

• "We’re gearing up for Embedded World, the leading event for embedded systems, industrial automation" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/03/06/come-visit-arduino-at-embedded-world-2025/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:47:14

• This Raspberry Pi Pico protractor has all of the angles covered! ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/this-raspberry-pi-pico-protractor-has-all-of-the-angles-covered    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:48:08

• "Among the most noteworthy additions is a new feature that helps detect problems with Wi-Fi hardware." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tails-6-13-released-with-improved-wi-fi-detection/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:49:24

• New Release: Tails 6.13 | The Tor Project

     

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:49:30

• "Problems with Wi-Fi are unfortunately quite common in Tails and Linux in general." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6-13/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:49:55

• "Today, exactly a month after its previous 24.12.2 release, KDE has rolled out the latest version of its app collection, KDE Gear 24.12.3, as the third (and last) update to the 24.12 series, focuses on enhancing performance, resolving bugs, and improving user experience." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-gear-24-12-3-apps-collection-rolls-out/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:51:44

• "Small experiments in the use of libliftoff to try out the modern Linux graphics stack drove home quite how slow DRM “dumb buffers” can be, but also that it’s reading that’s slow, not writing." ☛ https://eighty-twenty.org/2025/03/06/kms-drm-dumb-buffers | Source: Tony Garnock-Jones    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:52:43

• "Progress is sometimes hard to see, especially when you have been part of it or otherwise lived through it. Often, it is easier to see if you compare modern educational material, and the problems discussed with older material." ☛ https://blog.koehntopp.info/2023/05/06/50-years-in-filesystems-1984.html | Source: Koehntopp    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:53:49

• "In Linux (and Unix in general), this is easy." ☛ https://blog.koehntopp.info/2023/05/05/50-years-in-filesystems-1974.html | Source: Koehntopp    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:53:57

• "Ted Unangst published dude, where are your syscalls? on flak yesterday, with a neat demonstration of OpenBSD’s pinsyscall security feature" ☛ https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/03/06/ | Source: Chris Wellons    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:54:02

• Using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with bare metal and on-prem Red Bait OpenShift ☞ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/using-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-bare-metal-and-prem-openshift    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:57:05

• "Here’s why investing in your team’s attendance is a strategic move for your organization:  [...]" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/top-5-reasons-go-your-team-red-hat-summit-2025 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:57:16

• How pre-tuned real-time bootable containers work ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/03/06/how-pre-tuned-real-time-bootable-containers-work    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:57:39

• How to access and run a Quarkus workshop in Developer Sandbox ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/03/06/how-access-and-run-quarkus-workshop-developer-sandbox    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 15:58:18

• Red Hat Teams Up with Axiom Space to Launch, Optimize the Space Company’s Data Center Unit-1 On Orbit https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-teams-axiom-space-launch-optimize-axiom-spaces-data-center-unit-1-orbit    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:01:37

• Red Hat talks 5G, 6G and the VMware effect https://www.lightreading.com/5g/red-hat-talks-5g-6g-and-the-vmware-effect    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:02:06

• Orange eyes cloud native gains with Red Hat deal https://www.itpro.com/cloud/cloud-computing/orange-red-hat-openshift    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:02:45

• Disclosure MISSING here: they do not admit Red Hat bribes them for PR. https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/02/red-hat-cozies-telecom-providers-open-standards-gain-traction/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:03:38

• Fedora Community Blog: Proposal to move Community Blog to Fedora Discussion ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/proposal-to-move-community-blog-to-fedora-discussion/ " new category with new team of curators. Why this change you ask? Here is the list of improvements that this would bring us: [...]"    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:05:44

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1013209/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:06:22

• Doorstep by President von der Leyen with President Costa and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy ahead of the special European Council meeting of 6 March 2025 ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_701    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:07:38

• If Convicted Felon’s US abandons liberal idealism, others must pick up the baton ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/if-trumps-us-abandons-liberal-idealism-others-must-pick-up-the-baton/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:08:14

• How European leaders are responding to Convicted Felon’s approach to Ukraine and Europe ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react/how-european-leaders-are-responding-to-trumps-approach-to-ukraine-and-europe/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:08:31

• Is Convicted Felon’s Russia reset overshadowing the Ukraine peace process? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/is-trumps-russia-reset-overshadowing-the-ukraine-peace-process/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:08:49

• US peace initiative can help bring Ukraine’s abducted children home ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/us-peace-initiative-can-help-bring-ukraines-abducted-children-home/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:09:28

• The real reason Russia invaded Ukraine (hint: it’s not NATO expansion) ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-real-reason-russia-invaded-ukraine-hint-its-not-nato-expansion/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:09:56

• US, Ukraine teams to hold talks in Saudi Arabia, Zelensky says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250306-us-ukraine-teams-to-hold-talks-in-saudi-arabia-zelensky-says    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:10:23

• 'Things have become too important for silly political games', analyst says as Hungary sidelined ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250306-things-have-become-too-important-for-silly-political-games-analyst-says-as-hungary-sidelined    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:10:36

• No, the French President did not declare the Minsk agreements as ‘worthless’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250306-no-the-french-president-did-not-declare-the-minsk-agreements-as-worthless    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:10:51

• Dihydroxyacetone Man to decide whether to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250306-trump-plans-to-revoke-legal-status-of-ukrainians-who-fled-to-us-reuters-sources-say    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:11:04

• Europe's new Ariane 6 rocket successfully puts French spy satellite into orbit ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250306-%F0%9F%94%B4european-rocket-ariane-6-launches-on-first-commercial-mission    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:11:13

• Report sees Russian ‘war crimes’ and ‘crimes against humanity’ against Ukrainian POWs and detainees ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/human-rights-group-issues-report-on-russias-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity-against-ukrainians/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:11:36

• Ukraine's Opposition Leaders Reject Holding Wartime Elections ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-opposition-elections-poroshenko-zelenskyy/33338598.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:12:08

• Russian Attacks Target Ukrainian Civilians As Zelenskyy Attends EU Defense Summit ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-zelenskyy-ukraine-war-intelligence-military-weapons-eu/33338256.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:12:19

• Macron Suggests Extending Nuclear Umbrella To European Allies In Face Of Russian Aggression ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/macron-russia-trump-ukraine-france-nuclear-europe/33337684.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:12:31

• China says Russia ties are a ‘constant in a turbulent world’, Ukraine tragedy avoidable ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-russia-ties-a-constant-in-a-turbulent-world-says-ukraine-tragedy-avoidable    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:12:45

• As Convicted Felon proves unreliable, Europe rushes to firm up defenses on its own ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0306/europe-ukraine-summit-brussels-security    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:12:58

• US moves on Ukraine make Europeans wonder: Is America an ally? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0306/europe-ukraine-us-transatlantic    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:13:08

• U.S. and Ukrainian Officials to Meet Next Week About Path to End War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/ukraine-zelensky-trump-russia.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:13:18

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Delayed Most New Tariffs on Canada and Mexico ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/briefing/trump-tariffs-mexico-canada-ukraine-talks-saudi.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:13:28

• During the War in Ukraine, a Military Orchestra Has a Key Task ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/world/europe/ukraine-funeral-orchestra.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:13:40

• Missile Strikes Hotel in Zelensky’s Hometown in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/world/europe/ukraine-russia-strikes-zelensky.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:13:57

• New Zealand Dismisses Top Diplomat in U.K. After His Remarks on Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/world/asia/new-zealand-uk-phil-goff-trump.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:14:14

• Friday Briefing: A ‘Watershed Moment’ for Europe ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/briefing/europe-ukraine-trump-tariffs-britain-donations.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:14:25

• EU leaders vow to re-arm Europe amid US retreat on Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250307-eu-leaders-vow-to-re-arm-europe-amid-us-retreat-on-ukraine    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:14:40

• "quick ceasefire " ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/07/trump-wants-to-tie-ukraine-minerals-deal-to-demand-for-quick-ceasefire-bloomberg | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:14:54

• "Moscow invests in pro-Russian influencers to spread propaganda" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/06/thanks-uncle-vova | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:15:54

• USSA "Ukraine meeting" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/06/zelensky-says-u-s-and-ukrainian-delegations-will-meet-for-talks-next-week | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:16:22

• "invasion forces find themselves on backfoot in some areas" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/06/ukrainian-troops-try-to-seize-initiative-from-russia | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:16:47

• "to discuss possible early elections in Ukraine"... to help Putin ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/06/behind-the-president-s-back | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:17:17

• "to revoke legal status of 240,000 Ukrainian refugees"... instead of punishing Putin they help Putin ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/06/trump-administration-to-revoke-legal-status-of-240-000-ukrainian-refugees-reuters | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:17:52

• "incoming Russian strikes" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/06/u-s-pause-on-intelligence-sharing-with-ukraine-affects-info-about-incoming-russian-strikes-nyt | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:18:05

• "proxy war" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/06/rubio-says-u-s-is-engaged-in-proxy-war-with-russia-by-helping-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:18:20

• Kozlovskis calls on EU to stop issuing Schengen visas to Russian tourists ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/06.03.2025-kozlovskis-calls-on-eu-to-stop-issuing-schengen-visas-to-russian-tourists.a590454/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:18:45

• As faith in the US wavers, can France’s nuclear umbrella deter Russia? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250306-as-faith-in-the-us-wavers-can-france-s-nuclear-umbrella-deter-russia    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:19:01

• EU countries greenlight plan to boost bloc's defence: spokeswoman ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250306-eu-countries-greenlight-plan-to-boost-bloc-s-defence-spokeswoman    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:19:31

• EU leaders gather at 'historical, unprecedented juncture' for the bloc ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250306-eu-leaders-gather-at-historical-unprecedented-juncture-for-the-bloc    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:20:00

• Lithuanian president says Macron’s nuclear deterrence suggestion ‘interesting idea’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2505688/lithuanian-president-says-macron-s-nuclear-deterrence-suggestion-interesting-idea    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:20:10

• Russia, Southeast Asia draw closer in pursuit of multipolar political, trade ties ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/03/06/russia-southeast-asia-trade/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:20:19

• Myanmar sends first workers to Russia; junta chief to Belarus ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/03/06/workers-russia-belarus/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:20:28

• North Korea to have first early warning aircraft, satellite image shows ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/03/06/north-korea-military-aircraft-radar-russia-china/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:21:02

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Tells NATO Allies To Hike Spending Or Don't Count On US Help ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-nato-russia-france-macron-military-spending/33339348.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:21:17

• Two Lithuanians suspected of spying for Belarus ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2505467/two-lithuanians-suspected-of-spying-for-belarus    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:21:30

• There Is a Way Out in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/opinion/ukraine-trump-putin-zelensky.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:22:28

• Estoppel Timing and Procedural Traps in Patent Challenges ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/estoppel-procedural-challenges.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:23:00

• linuxsecurity.com is 100% Slopfarm, Nonstop Fake 'Articles' About Security and "Linux" (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/linuxsecurity_com_is_100_Slopfarm_Nonstop_Fake_Articles_About_S.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:26:01

• What Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Really, Really, REALLY Do Not Want You to See or Know About ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/05/What_Microsoft_and_GitHub_Really_Really_REALLY_Do_Not_Want_You_.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:26:22

• Notes from "Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement" ☞ https://evanhahn.com/beyond-measure-book-notes/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:27:33

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 589 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/03/05/this-week-in-rust-589/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:28:04

• Antoine Beaupré: Nix Notes ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2025-03-06-nix/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:29:40

• Godot XR update - February 2025 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/godot-xr-update-feb-2025/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:30:19

• Smarter Containers: How to Optimize Your Dockerfiles for Speed, Size and Security ☞ https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/cloudnativedevelopment/docker/smarter-containers-how-to-optimize-your-dockerfiles-for-speed-size-and-security/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:34:16

• How to stay good with EEO even without DEI ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/03/how-to-stay-good-with-eeo-even-without-dei/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:35:21

• ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED and How To Fix It? ☞ https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/err_name_not_resolved-and-how-to-fix-it/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:35:47

• "Whether you're on backdoored Windows or Mac"... THAT'S IT?? Only two possibilities??? ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-back-up-important-files-on-your-computer-azL1W7J0aaUB    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:36:25

• "plenty of options for iOS and Android users" https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-back-up-important-files-on-your-phone-or-tablet-aQtfa7l8CMPa    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:36:53

• Destination Linux 409: Hacking the Hackers: Interview with Cybersecurity Expert about GNU/Linux Tower Defense ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/409    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:37:44

• "LILYGO has introduced the T-Watch S3 Plus, an upgraded version of its ESP32-based smartwatch." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/lilygo-upgrades-t-watch-s3-with-gps-and-a-940mah-battery/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:41:49

• "This can be due to poor design, poor implementation, poor compliance, or failure to address unintended consequences." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/eu-digital-markets-act/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:42:12

• Eitan Isaacson: New Contrast Control Settings ☞ https://blog.monotonous.org/2025/03/06/New-Contrast-Control-Settings/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:43:51

• Thunderbird 136.0 is out! The First Release in New Monthly Channel ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/03/thunderbird-136-0-first-monthly-release/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:44:53

• Thunderbird 136 Release Adds New Appearance Controls ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/thunderbird-136-release-adds-new-appearance-controls    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:46:13

• Public Schools ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/valere-public-schools-superintendent-salary-texas | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:52:30

• townhouse ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/roommates-steve-berger-mike-johnson-andy-ogles-right-wing-influence-townhouse | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:53:12

• EPA’s Science on Toxic Chemicals ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/legislation-targets-epa-science-toxic-chemicals | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:53:32

• openrightsgroup once again moves to the lane of mass immigration, not privacy ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/home-office-announces-further-delays-to-the-e-visa-scheme/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:54:34

• BadBox Botnet Powered by 1 Million Android Devices Disrupted ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/badbox-botnet-powered-by-1-million-android-devices-disrupted/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:58:22

• Rights group urges Egypt to cease reprisals against prisoners on hunger strike ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/rights-group-urges-egypt-to-cease-reprisals-against-hunger-striking-prisoners/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 16:59:03

• "The Google broker snap for Authd is available for free on Ubuntu Desktop and Server 24.04 and it works with both personal and Workspace Google accounts." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/google-authd-broker-ubuntu-desktop-server | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:01:11

• Intuitive Machines’ Athena Lander Is on the Moon, but Its Fate Is Unclear ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/science/intuitive-machines-athena-moon-lander.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:30:55

• SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Disrupts Florida Airports With Unsuccessful Test Flight ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/science/spacex-starship-launch.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:31:09

• When slash-and-burn plantation fires spread, these Indonesian women douse the flames ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2025/0306/indonesia-forest-fires-women-fighters    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:31:41

• Latvia's new Education, Welfare, Transport ministers confirmed ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/06.03.2025-latvias-new-education-welfare-transport-ministers-confirmed.a590366/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:35:08

• Pope Francis, still hospitalised, thanks faithful in rare audio message ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250307-pope-francis-still-hospitalised-thanks-faithful-in-rare-audio-message    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:35:56

• Unvaccinated New Mexico Resident Dies of Suspected Measles ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/health/measles-death-new-mexico.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:36:16

• As Ebola Spreads in Uganda, Convicted Felon Aid Freeze Hinders Effort to Contain It, U.S. Officials Fear ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/health/ebola-uganda-usaid.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:36:25

• Defunded Aid Programs Are Asked by Convicted Felon Administration to Prove Their Value, on a Scale of 1 to 5 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/health/usaid-freeze-review.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:36:56

• Flu incidence still on the rise in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/06.03.2025-flu-incidence-still-on-the-rise-in-latvia.a590443/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:37:18

• Play video games natively on GNU/Linux ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/293/Gaming-with-Bazzite    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:38:07

• Welcoming new GNU/Linux users ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/293/maddog-s-Doghouse    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:41:27

• Re-inventing the Ubuntu experience ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/293/Distro-Walk-Rhino-Linux    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:43:02

• FreeBSD Foundation is Trying to Improve "Laptop Support", But It Has Outsourced Everything to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Proprietary Software ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/FreeBSD_Foundation_is_Trying_to_Improve_Laptop_Support_But_It_H.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:44:59

• Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part IV - Physical Health, Mental Health, and Debilitating Anxiety ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/07/Social_Control_Media_as_a_Rapid_Race_to_the_Bottom_Part_IV_Phys.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:47:33

• LLM Slop Versus Richard Stallman (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/07/LLM_Slop_Versus_Richard_Stallman.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:50:41

• Just Because Common Currencies (Including the US Dollar) Are Considered Uncertain Doesn't Mean People Should Adopt Volatile Multi-Level (Pyramid) Schemes ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/05/Just_Because_Common_Currencies_Including_the_US_Dollars_Are_Con.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:50:59

• New Short Clip of Richard Stallman's Thoughts on the "Hey Hi" (AI) Hype, Courtesy of Manuel Cuda News ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/05/New_Short_Clip_of_Richard_Stallman_s_Thoughts_on_the_Hey_Hi_AI_.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 17:51:13

• The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The Problems Are Much Bigger Than the Rigged Elections ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/The_Fall_of_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_The_Problems_Are_Muc.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:05:47

• Reputation is Not a Human Right, It's Something One Earns ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/Reputation_is_Not_a_Human_Right_It_s_Something_One_Earns.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:05:56

• Why We No Longer Hear About "Red Hat Layoffs" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/Why_We_No_Longer_Hear_About_Red_Hat_Layoffs.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:06:06

• LLM Slop Versus Richard Stallman ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/07/LLM_Slop_Versus_Richard_Stallman.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:06:14

• Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part III - Foreign Interference and Chaff/Flare (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/Social_Control_Media_as_a_Rapid_Race_to_the_Bottom_Part_III_For.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:06:27

• Commissioner Lahbib's Speech on Inclusive Futures: Shaping Gender Equality in Europe's Hey Hi (AI) Era ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_708    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:07:35

• Rumour: After FSF Abandons Office in Boston LibrePlanet Will Also Leave Boston (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/Rumour_After_FSF_Abandons_Office_in_Boston_LibrePlanet_Will_Als.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:08:16

• Microsoft Reduced to Almost Nothing in the Congos (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/Microsoft_Reduced_to_Almost_Nothing_in_the_Congos.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:08:23

• Microsoft Laid Off Several Thousands of Workers (Not Counting Those Driven Out) in 3+ Waves of Layoffs in 2 Months in 2025 (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/Microsoft_Laid_Off_Several_Thousands_of_Workers_Not_Counting_Th.shtml    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:08:29

• Commissioner Lahbib's Speech at the European Parliament on Strengthening the Women, Peace and Security Agenda ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_698    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:12:25

• "In EVE Online there is a "early game goal" with the usual rewards for completion. However, the goal is to mine (and another goal to reprocess) some amount of Kernite, an ore that is generally only found in lowsec or more dangerous systems." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/03/07/leap.gmi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:14:55

• "I originally wrote this blurb, it got very dark, very negative, very quick. So I figured I'd give it a retry. The diagnosis was recent and I have been mulling it over, it never actually occured to me that I might be autistic, which as I have found out, is very normal for autistic people." gemini://hanzbrix.pollux.casa/gemlog/20250307.gmi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:15:39

• Lost gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2523    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:16:38

• "In general, I can talk about how shocked I am at some omissions from the people who replied. I sure saw a chunk of Will Ospreay, but I did not see a bunch of El Hijo del Santo. I did not see Dandy vs. Satanico, the choice AAA matches that I at least expected somebody to say as a solid answer" gemini://superjcup.smol.pub/hijo-del-santo-villano-iv-vs-compadres-del-diablo-02-25-2012    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:17:40

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Is an Angry Little Boy on a Great White Horse ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/opinion/trump-speech-approval.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:25:17

• Olympic Casino fined after Lithuanian fund manager gambles millions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2505432/olympic-casino-fined-after-lithuanian-fund-manager-gambles-millions    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:29:26

• Steam Deck Users Get A Special ‘Final Fantasy VII Rebirth’ Update ☞ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2025/03/06/steam-deck-users-get-a-special-final-fantasy-vii-rebirth-update/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 18:30:17

• "The 1st layoff in the early 90s they did ask for volunteers. My advice is if you are ready for a package tell your manager they can pick you and makes their job easier. Just make sure you’re ready. Ha! 😀" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jnkyjyz7    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:19:40

• "Where does 30 percent come from, Isn't it 15 percent on both ends and 70 in the middle?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jnkyjyz7    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:19:44

• IBM "Canada Consulting layoffs weekending Friday 7 March. Please share what you can. Last day, duration of notice, amount of severance, business unit, others that you know are affected. Thx" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jns0qkrm    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:20:53

• "Why move jobs overseas when there is a huge resurgence in American business and manufacturing due to deregulation and reduction in corporate taxation?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jnpeseef    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:21:57

• Syrian Forces Battle With Assad-Linked Fighters In New Surge Of Violence ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/syria-assad-hts-war-militias-iran/33339007.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:43:14

• Deadly clashes erupt between Syrian forces and Assad loyalists ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250306-deadly-clashes-erupt-between-syrian-forces-and-remnants-of-assad-s-militias    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:43:24

• Deadly Clashes Pose Test for Syria’s New Leaders ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/world/middleeast/syria-clashes-assad.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:43:32

• The Combined Cipher Machine ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/the-combined-cipher-machine.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:44:06

• Hijacking the name "Turing" to do something VERY unethical! https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/06/ai-training-data-provider-turing-closes-111m-investment/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:44:33

• HPE’s stock craters on mixed earnings results, tariffs and layoffs ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/06/hpes-stock-craters-mixed-earnings-results-tariffs-layoffs/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:45:12

• Home Assistant 2025.3 released with dashboard view headers, tile card improvements, better SmartThings integration ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/07/home-assistant-2025-3-released-with-dashboard-view-headers-tile-card-improvements-better-smartthings-integration/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:46:16

• STMicro STM32WBA6 2.4 GHz wireless MCU gets up to 2MB flash, 512KB SRAM, USB OTG, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/06/stmicro-stm32wba6-2-4-ghz-wireless-mcu-gets-up-to-2mb-flash-512kb-sram-usb-otg-and-more/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 19:46:36

• "What is the miracle of life? Is it childbirth, is it human emotion, the fact that we are able to think as beautiful, complex beings, and have been able to spread coherent thought and idea for millennia upon end?" gemini://superjcup.smol.pub/war-dogs-vs-united-empire-02-11-2024    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:13:19

• 🖥 Self Host All The Things - Redux gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/korruptor/blog/2025-03-07-SelfHostRedux.gmi    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:13:47

• Ramadan bazaar traders in Johor grapple with cooking oil shortage ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/ramadan-bazaar-traders-in-johor-grapple-with-cooking-oil-shortage    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:18:26

• Bad Voltage 3×70: Swallowed up in Crimethink ☞ https://www.badvoltage.org/2025/03/06/3x70-swallowed-up-in-crimethink/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:19:12

• Pretending Microsoft is the expert when it is in face the prime culprit ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/silk-typhoon-targets-it-services/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:20:24

• Microsoft quietly updates Copilot to cut down on unauthorized backdoored Windows activations ☞ https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-quietly-updates-copilot-to-cut-down-on-unauthorized-windows-activations    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:20:58

• One of many dead Microsoft "products" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/06/the-strange-afterlife-of-the-xbox-kinect/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:21:24

• South Korea says number injured in fighter jet misfire rises to 29 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-says-number-injured-in-fighter-jet-misfire-rises-to-29    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:25:00

• South Korean Fighter Jets Mistakenly Bomb Village, Leaving 7 Injured ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/world/asia/south-korea-jets-bomb-village.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:25:10

• How the Crypto Exchange Bybit Lost $1.5 Billion to North Korean Hackers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/bybit-crypto-hack-north-korea.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:25:59

• South Korea fighter jets accidentally drop bombs on homes, injuring 15 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/7-hurt-in-south-korea-after-shell-lands-on-village-during-suspected-military-training-accident    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:26:20

• North Korea criticises US, South Korea joint military drills ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-criticises-us-south-korea-joint-military-drills    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:26:32

• South Korean jets drop bombs by mistake, at least 29 hurt ☞ https://rfa.org/english/asia/2025/03/06/us-korea-drill-jet-bomb/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:27:00

• North Korea issues vague appeal to boost cement production amid shortage ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/03/06/north-korea-cement-shortage-construction/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:27:10

• Malaysia to build $1.5b reservoirs, water treatment plants to boost Johor’s self-sufficiency ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-build-s1-5b-reservoirs-water-treatment-plants-to-boost-johors-self-sufficiency    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:27:36

• Thai court denies Thaksin’s request to attend Asean meeting in Indonesia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-court-denies-thaksins-request-to-attend-asean-meeting-in-indonesia    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:28:11

• Vietnamese monk enters Malaysia after Myanmar proves an insurmountable obstacle ☞ https://rfa.org/english/vietnam/2025/03/06/monk-thailand-pilgrimage-malaysia/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:28:20

• As Convicted Felon hails taking back of Panama Canal, Hong Kong Inc walks tightrope ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/as-trump-hails-taking-back-of-panama-canal-hong-kong-inc-walks-tightrope    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:28:39

• Thailand’s deportation of Uighurs was to avert China ‘retaliation’: Minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thailands-deportation-of-uighurs-was-to-avert-china-retaliation-minister    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:28:53

• ‘Fight to the finish’: China vows to resist trade war, back more tech and innovation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/fight-to-the-finish-china-vows-to-resist-trade-war-encourage-more-tech-and-innovation    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:29:08

• China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi says US tariffs have not improved the lives of Americans ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-foreign-minister-wang-yi-says-us-tariffs-have-not-improved-lives-of-americans    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:29:30

• China will 'resolutely counter' US pressure on fentanyl, foreign minister says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-will-resolutely-counter-us-pressure-on-fentanyl-foreign-minister-says    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:29:45

• EXPLAINED: How China holds officials in secret, solitary detention ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/03/06/china-liuzhi-incommunicado-detention-solitary/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:30:04

• China’s propaganda machine raises profile of model soldier Lei Feng ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/03/06/china-ccp-propaganda-learn-from-lei-feng/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:32:44

• Hong Kong court overturns Tiananmen vigil group convictions ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/03/06/hong-kong-court-ruling-tiananmen-vigil/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:32:55

• In reversal, Thai official acknowledges other countries offered Uyghurs resettlement ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/03/06/thailand-uyghurs-deported/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:33:30

• China’s Two Sessions: Tibet lawmakers vow ‘high pressure’ against alleged separatists ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/06/chinas-two-sessions-tibet-lawmakers-vow-high-pressure-against-alleged-separatists/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:33:50

• Two Sessions: Chinese economy faces rising international ‘uncertainty,’ top official says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/06/two-sessions-chinese-economy-faces-rising-international-uncertainty-top-official-says/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:34:26

• China will ‘firmly counter’ US trade pressure – top diplomat ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/07/china-will-firmly-counter-us-trade-pressure-top-diplomat/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:34:51

• US-China armed conflict 'no longer unthinkable' analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250306-us-china-armed-conflict-no-longer-unthinkable-analyst-says    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:35:15

• US working for Putin in Ukraine ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/06/top-trump-aides-hold-secret-talks-with-zelensky-s-political-opponents-about-possible-early-elections-politico | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:35:43

• KDE Gear 24.12.3 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/24.12.3/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:36:10

• US now engages in election interference in Ukraine. It used to accuse Russia of doing that. Now it's interfering in Putin's favour.    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:37:08

• Turkey’s new cybersecurity law allows home searches with post-search approval ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkeys-new-cybersecurity-law-allows-home-searches-with-post-search-approval-305176    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:37:50

• House Passes Bill Requiring Federal Contractors to Implement Vulnerability Disclosure Policies ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/federal-contractor-cybersecurity-bill-passes-house/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:38:07

• Nigerian Accused of Hacking Tax Preparation Firms Extradited to US ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nigerian-accused-of-hacking-tax-preparation-firms-extradited-to-us/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:38:23

• Financial Organizations Urge CISA to Revise Proposed CIRCIA Implementation ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/financial-organizations-urge-cisa-to-revise-proposed-circia-implementation/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:38:50

• Exploited VMware ESXi Flaws Put Many at Risk of Ransomware, Other Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/exploited-vmware-esxi-flaws-put-many-at-risk-of-ransomware-other-attacks/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:39:15

• The Quad can help Australia monitor China’s naval behaviour ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-quad-can-help-australia-monitor-chinas-naval-behaviour/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:39:54

• Exclusive: World’s ‘largest online black market’ loses banking license ☞ https://rfa.org/english/cambodia/2025/03/06/huione-cambodia-cyberscam-cryptocurrency/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:40:33

• Top officials of Latvian Central Bank reappointed ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/06.03.2025-top-officials-of-latvian-central-bank-reappointed.a590480/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:40:45

• This is how cobalt credits are helping mines become fairer ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/03/06/this-is-how-cobalt-credits-are-helping-mines-become-fairer/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:41:17

• UK Court of Appeal denies Tesla a pool licence ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/uk-court-of-appeal-denies-tesla-a-pool-licence-avanci-interdigital/    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:41:42

• Gesture Tech sensor patent monopoly invalidity confirmed by Fed. Circuit ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/3/4/gesture-tech-sensor-patent-invalidity-confirmed-by-fed-circuit    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:42:03

• Federal Circuit offers Another Important Expansion of the Domestic Industry Requirement for USITC Jurisdiction ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/important-requirement-jurisdiction.html    

posted Friday, March 07, 2025 at 20:42:59