Roy Schestowitz

• When you outsource the India this might happen https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2025/03/11/microsoft-employees-compensation-survey.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:39:57

• "Mi e was the same amount but based on my new salary a smaller percentage. The interesting thing is as a high performer there was no indication I got any addition bonus" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp0jgbrp    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:41:40

• Murena 2.8 is out https://e.foundation/leaving-apple-join-e-os-installation-workshop-in-argentina/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:44:52

• AUSTRUMI 5.0.2 is out http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:45:35

• CalculateLinux 20250302 is out https://www.calculate-linux.org/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:46:25

• FunOS 24.04.2 is out. See https://funos.org/install-funos-avoid-live-cursor-issue/ https://funos.org/desktop-notifications-funos/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:47:30

• Kumander 2.0 is out https://www.kumander.org/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:50:39

• LFS and BLFS 12.3 are released. https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/lfs-announce/2025-03/msg00000.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:53:38

• CentOS 10-20250303 out some days ago    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:54:37

• Volumio 3.795 is out https://volumio.com/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:55:21

• DynFi 4.04 is out https://dynfi.com/en/dynfi-firewall/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:55:56

• Clonezilla 3.2.1-9 released https://clonezilla.org/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:56:25

• Accessible-Coconut 24.04-beta is out https://distrowatch.com/ac https://zendalona.com/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:57:12

• Stable Clonezilla live 3.2.1-9 Released https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/news/2025/03/stable-clonezilla-live-321-9-released/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 04:58:08

• "Education Department starts massive layoffs for half of ALL staff"    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:00:21

• X Outages Have Increased Since Elon Musk’s Takeover, ‘Massive Cyberattack’ Follows Mass Layoffs https://www.ccn.com/news/technology/x-twitter-outages-increased-since-elon-musk-takeover/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:00:56

• Scathing Speech https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-calls-out-trumps-outrageous-lie-on-social-security-in-scathing-speech/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:02:26

• Supreme Court declines to weigh in on FQHC’s patient data security liability https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/supreme-court-declines-weigh-fqhcs-patient-data-security-liability    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:02:53

• Enterprise Linux Security Episode 110 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=e07XVAV-HKc    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:04:08

• Collective Bargaining https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-03-07/us-ends-collective-bargaining-for-50-000-airport-security-officers    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:04:46

• Threaten British Security https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-03-05/iran-refutes-accusations-that-tehran-is-trying-to-threaten-british-security    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:05:48

• Media and democracy in the Western Balkans and Turkey: alarming trends unveiled https://bianet.org/yazi/media-and-democracy-in-the-western-balkans-and-turkey-alarming-trends-unveiled-305103    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:06:58

• Türk-Iş: Hunger threshold in Turkey surpasses minimum wage https://anfenglishmobile.com/news/turk-is-hunger-threshold-in-turkey-surpasses-minimum-wage-78196    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:09:08

• In Turkey, 5 Halk TV journalists face trial for influencing judiciary with broadcast https://cpj.org/2025/03/in-turkey-5-halk-tv-journalists-face-trial-for-influencing-judiciary-with-broadcast/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:10:07

• The future of media in Turkey: Democratic decline, pressures, and the need for reform https://bianet.org/haber/the-future-of-media-in-turkey-democratic-decline-pressures-and-the-need-for-reform-305051    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:10:17

• Stagnant https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/labour-force-survey-february-1.7477391    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:11:37

• Assault on DEI https://www.projectcensored.org/meta-right-big-tech-project-2025-dei/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:15:47

• CN v NewsGuard https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/06/judge-orders-defendants-in-cn-v-newsguard-usg-to-respond-to-trump-executive-order-on-censorship/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:16:24

• Workers Strike Back Conference https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/01/chris-hedges-full-speech-at-workers-strike-back-conference/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:17:36

• social control media https://www.thelocal.dk/20250303/small-number-of-users-send-most-hate-speech-on-danish-social-media    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:18:56

• At Tesla, being a nazi is OK. Being against Nazis gets you fired. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/free-speech-musk-not-his-staff-tesla-fires-worker-criticising-ceos-nazi-post-1731619    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:20:04

• Cheeto Mussolini’s Speech Vowed a New “Golden Age,” But His Policies Drive Us Into the Dust https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-speech-vowed-a-new-golden-age-but-his-policies-drive-us-into-the-dust/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:22:05

• GDPR violation: ANSPDCP (Romania) - PPC Energy Muntenia SA https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=ANSPDCP_(Romania)_-_PPC_Energy_Muntenia_SA    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:26:17

• Stupid "hey hi" hype, as if it's some magic solution to everything https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/03/01/can-ai-solve-food-and-energy-crises-in-the-global-south/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:26:58

• energy upheavals https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/03/04/arctic-partnerships-and-energy-upheavals/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:27:44

• Oil Reserve https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-03-07/us-energy-chief-to-seek-20-billion-to-refill-oil-reserve-bloomberg-news-reports    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:27:55

• We’re all drawn to bad news. Here’s how to fight it. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/402077/bad-news-bias-climate-change-economy-trump-negativity-good-news-optimism    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:28:36

• Climate Moon Shot Beneath Our Feet https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/geothermal-power-is-a-climate-moon-shot-beneath-our-feet    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:28:52

• Who Should Pay for Climate Disasters? https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/03/who-should-pay-for-climate-disasters/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:29:16

• Why Environmentalists Are Still Losing https://jacobin.com/2025/03/environmentalism-climate-activism-ngos-policy/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:29:30

• Combat Climate Change https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/04/we-urgently-need-a-global-peace-movement-to-combat-climate-change-and-avoid-nuclear-apocalypse/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:29:45

• Disaster Movies Can’t Keep Pace With a World of Catastrophes https://jacobin.com/2025/03/natural-disasters-twisters-politics-climate/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:29:59

• Climate Multilateralis https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-03-05/defense-of-climate-multilateralism-key-to-brazils-leadership-cop30-president-says    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:31:46

• Can we stop a cyclone in its tracks? https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/like-preparing-to-fight-a-war-can-we-stop-a-cyclone-in-its-tracks-20250305-p5lh3b.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:32:19

• climate diplomacy https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/what-on-earth-us-climate-diplomacy-1.7476170    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:33:01

• United States Quits Board of UN Climate Damage Fund https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-03-07/united-states-quits-board-of-un-climate-damage-fund-letter-shows    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:33:32

• Brazil Presses for Climate Action https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2025-03-07/brazil-presses-for-climate-action-with-grandson-of-a-champion-of-israel    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:34:04

• Is climate science threatened as US slashes jobs, funding? https://www.dw.com/en/is-climate-science-threatened-as-us-slashes-jobs-funding/a-71859646    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:34:28

• Cuts to U.S. weather forecasting, climate science create dark clouds for Canadian counterparts https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/united-states-weather-service-cuts-1.7476756    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:34:45

• 7 Ways to Restart Linux from Terminal https://www.maketecheasier.com/restart-linux-from-terminal/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:37:11

• Firefox 136 Released With Vertical Tabs, Official ARM64 Linux Binaries https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/03/04/2215249/firefox-136-released-with-vertical-tabs-official-arm64-linux-binaries    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:38:01

• Is ‘Sophienwald’ a geographical indication? Yes says the General Court, no the German Patent Court http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/03/is-sophienwald-geographical-indication.html Why would a "Patent Court" deal with geographical indication??    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:40:12

• The patent extremists want the patent booster as a judge https://www.patentdocs.org/2025/03/judge-newman-files-reply-brief-in-newman-v-moore-et-al.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:40:56

• nature protection https://www.dw.com/en/world-agrees-on-how-to-fund-nature-protection/a-71773827    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:41:48

• MCE - How to? https://blogs.perl.org/users/mohammad_s_anwar/2025/03/mce---how-to.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:42:30

• Enterprise Linux Security Episode 109 - TuxCare's Industry Report 2025 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ycojST_VxeY    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:43:16

• Social Security Administration to Cut 7,000 Workers https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-02-28/u-s-social-security-administration-to-cut-7-000-workers    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:43:46

• "Valve released a new stable update for the Steam Client across Desktop and Steam Deck. There's a couple of new features, along with a lot of bug fixes." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/steam-update-adds-game-notes-to-the-web-demo-installs-on-profile-game-list-8bitdo-micro-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:45:33

• "Heroic Games Launcher v2.16.1 Hotfix has been released with a few bug fixes, like a critical issue with changing the language" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/heroic-games-launcher-v2-16-1-improves-epic-games-logins-and-brings-a-language-change-fix/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:45:56

• "Inspired clearly by the likes of classic Zelda and the Game Boy Color, Isle of Reveries is one for fans of retro games that want something new and fresh." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/isle-of-reveries-looks-like-a-fun-classic-zelda-like-with-some-interesting-game-mechanics/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:46:08

• "Remember the classic Worms 2? Modders continue improving it with the Worms 2 Plus patch, which recently had a major update that makes playing online way easier." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/worms-2-plus-patch-for-the-team17-classic-gets-revamped-online-multiplayer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:46:22

• "STRAFTAT originally launched in October 2024, and just recently the developer added a Linux version. It's a completely ridiculous competitive 1v1 online shooter with quick rounds and lots of weapons." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/completely-ridiculous-online-1v1-shooter-straftat-added-a-linux-version/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:46:41

• "Microsoft Admits GitHub Used to Store Malware That Infected Almost a Million Devices" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/10/1151258    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:47:53

• "It's Not the Shameless Executive Power Grab in Plain Sight, It's the Attempt to Retcon It Afterwards" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/11/its-not-the-shameless-executive-power-grab-in-plain-sight-its-the-attempt-to-retcon-it-afterwards/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:48:09

• "The Economic Excuse Industry is Booming - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-economic-excuse-industry-is-booming    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:48:22

• "Time for a bit of modernisation. With the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release, Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand announced a big change for NVIDIA GPU users." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/mesa-25-1-will-default-to-zink-nvk-instead-of-the-old-nouveau-opengl-driver-for-nvidia-on-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:49:45

• "Oracle misses expectations and guidance was also weak, sending its stock lower" https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/10/oracle-misses-expectations-guidance-also-weak-sending-stock-lower/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:50:13

• "Trump Drops the Mask" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-ukraine-russia-war/681993/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:50:28

• "Elon Musk Teases Big Cuts to Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-musk-cuts-social-security-medicaid-medicare-1235293407/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:50:39

• Crucifixion, Slavery, and Death: The Hermanos Penitentes of the Southwest https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8g5008gq&chunk.id=d0e8169&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e8163&brand=ucpress    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:51:21

• "Market selloff: Nasdaq logs worst day since 2022 as Trump's tariffs spark recession fears - Business" https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250310-market-selloff-nasdaq-logs-worst-day-since-2022-as-trump-s-tariffs-spark-recession-fears    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:51:31

• "Trump vs. Europe: America Is Now an Adversary - DER SPIEGEL" https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/trump-vs-europe-america-is-now-an-adversary-a-bdfa687c-69d7-4b5a-9689-9086d2a928f8#ref=rss    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:51:42

• "Russian doctors performed abortions without anesthesia, women report" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/10/next-time-you-ll-know-better    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:51:53

• "Slavery, Abolition, and Islam: Debating Freedom in the Islamic Tradition" https://www.danielpipes.org/22531/slavery-abolition-and-islam    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:52:04

• "Health Update – Kevin Drum" https://jabberwocking.com/health-update-100/ "With a heavy heart, I have to tell you that after a long battle with cancer my husband Kevin Drum passed away on Friday, March 7, 2025."    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:52:43

• iophk: OSI and LF enable situations like this by allowing what is effecrtively proprietary Linux. If the routers ran stock OpenWRT or a /legal/ derivative instead of an /illegal/, stolen OS, these problems would be unlikely to occur. https://www.securityweek.com/edimax-says-no-patches-coming-for-zero-day-exploited-by-botnets/ https://therecord.media/ballista-botnet-tp-link-archer-routers    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:53:16

• "Trump’s Dirty Tricks Were Tried in Argentina First" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/javier-milei-argentina-musk-inflation/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:53:28

• "Opinion | Democracy Dies in Dumbness" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/opinion/trump-tariffs-recession-ukraine.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:53:38

• "Greenland's pro-business opposition wins election amid Trump control pledge" https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-election-tests-independence-ambitions-us-interest-looms-2025-03-11/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:54:16

• "Bill Burr says Elon Musk ‘evidently is a Nazi,’ calls tech tycoon an ‘idiot’" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/bill-burr-says-elon-musk-evidently-is-a-nazi-calls-tech-tycoon-an-idiot-101741742665846.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:54:37

• "How Trump turned against Ukraine and Europe" https://www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/analysis/1263833/how-trump-turned-against-ukraine-and-europe/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:54:51

• "Looks like we're set for a bunch more interesting game reveals! The Triple-i Initiative gaming showcase has announced a return for 2025 and it's likely another good one." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/the-triple-i-initiative-gaming-showcase-returns-for-2025-with-a-teaser/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:56:12

• "From developer 8BitSkull (BORE BLASTERS, Void Scrappers) their next game is Skull Horde, an auto-battling dungeon crawler where you raise up an undead army while floating around." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/first-trailer-live-for-skull-horde-where-you-command-an-army-of-dead-soldiers-as-a-floating-skull/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:56:49

• "Tellus Games have released Oblin Party, a physics-based 2D party party brawler where you have direct control over your two hands made with Godot." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/hilarious-physics-based-2d-multiplayer-brawler-oblin-party-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:57:21

• "With a first episode that's completely free, Muffles' Life Sentence is a really weird dark comedy 2D RPG where have to swap your face and it's well worth a look." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/muffles-life-sentence-is-a-new-dark-comedy-rpg-where-you-swap-your-face/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 05:57:37

• "In what appears to be a significant law enforcement operation, police say over 150 task force officers from Bavaria" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/police-shut-down-pirate-streaming-network-that-cost-broadcaster-millions-250311/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:22:54

• "Among its duties, the Library of Congress preserves films, TV programs, radio broadcasts and sound recordings. The field changes more than you might think." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/03/this-library-of-congress-office-will-never-run-out-of-things-to-do/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:24:17

• "Even with part of the lawsuit dismissed, things don’t look good for Meta. Discovery in the case has shown that Meta employees discussed internally the use of copyrighted works to train the company’s LLMs." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/10/federal-judge-ai-copyright-case-meta/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:27:25

• "I tired three different large language models (LLMs) to rewrite a potential article. I started with seven paragraphs and decided to see if one of the GenAI systems could help me with punctuation and sentence structure." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/11/guest-post-trying-to-write-a-paper-with-llm-assistance/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:27:44

• "Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly infringing activity" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/authors-put-a-spotlight-on-metas-bittorrent-leeching-activity-250311/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:28:31

• "After being deformed, the smart materials return to their original shape, allowing the researchers to induce movement in them and use them to transport minute-sized particles" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/ibm-secures-patent-for-4d-printing-smart-material-uses-ml-for-transporting-microparticles | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:36:44

• Monopsonies ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/outlook_ios_problems/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:38:46

• "Instead of tackling any of this, new Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has spent the lion’s share of his first months in office engaged in erratic zealotry" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/trump-fcc-boss-brendan-carr-harasses-google-for-not-carrying-right-wing-religious-programming/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:45:14

• "When you run traceroute -T for both IPv4 and IPv6, you’ll see that, in this case, IPv6 ends one hop earlier than IPv4. Alternatively, the last hop might loop back to itself." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/03/11/ipv6-is-hard/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:45:40

• "The advancement of women’s rights in the Americas has been shaped by decades of struggle and perseverance by activists, feminists, community leaders, judges, lawyers, doctors, politicians, and journalists." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/women-leaders-of-latin-america/2025-03-10/eight-women-take-on-sexism-in-the-americas.html | Source: El País    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:46:58

• "The tiny university where I worked spent big bucks buying gear for the campus police, including two four-wheel-drive vehicles and new long barrelled weapons." ☛ https://louplummer.lol/acab-or-not/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:47:17

• "In a memoir set to be published Tuesday, a former Facebook employee lays out allegations of misconduct at the company" ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/facebook-alleges-harassment-sandberg-kaplan-sarah-wynn-williams-rcna195130 | Source: NBC    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:47:44

• "You see, when Hawai'i was forcibly annexed and its power was usurped by American imperalism from its queen" ☛ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2025/sovereignity-nations/ | Source: Jacky Alciné    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:49:20

• "So where does this leave us? If the most powerful and wealthiest parts of society will not form the vanguard of the resistance, who will?" ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-more-you-have-the-less-you-fight | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:55:13

• "Bill Burr says Elon Musk ‘evidently is a Nazi,’ calls tech tycoon an ‘idiot’" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/bill-burr-says-elon-musk-evidently-is-a-nazi-calls-tech-tycoon-an-idiot-101741742665846.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:55:32

• "Since the purpose of a reincarnation is to carry on the work of the predecessor" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/11/dalai-lama-successor-born-outside-china-voice-for-the-voiceless | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:57:47

• "The Dalai Lama has revealed in his new book, Voice for the Voiceless, that his successor will be born outside China" ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/will-be-born-in-free-world-dalai-lama-declares-successor-will-be-born-outside-china-beijing-counters/articleshow/118887922.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:58:09

• "His book marks the first time the Dalai Lama has specified that his successor would be born in the "free world," which he describes as outside China." ☛ https://www.voanews.com/a/dalai-lama-says-his-successor-to-be-born-outside-china/8006345.html | Source: VOA News    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 06:59:42

• "Back in the 60s, we fought to gain the right to vote" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/03/09/tens-of-thousands-commemorate-60th-anniversary-of-bloody-sunday-in-selma/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:01:02

• "FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor expressed deep concern over the potential consequences of this executive order" ☛ https://ffrf.org/news/releases/ffrf-condemns-president-trumps-impending-order-to-dismantle-education-department/ | Source: Freedom From Religion Foundation    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:04:01

• "Research Professor Jari Hakanen told Finnish news agency STT that remote workers now reported less strain" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20148844 | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:04:16

• "Total regional daily circulations fell 16% compared with 2023 while those at non-dailies dropped 14%." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/regional-newspaper-abcs-no-daily-circulation-20000/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:05:25

• "The decline began when 538’s founder, Nate Silver, left the company two years ago when his Disney contract expired." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/05/abc-news-538-shut-down | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:05:46

• "During its run, FiveThirtyEight partnered with The New York Times and ESPN before being moved to ABC News in 2018 and rebranded as 538." ☛ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/538-polling-site-shutting-down_n_67c87910e4b006fc455c20a8 | Source: BuzzFeed Inc    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:06:07

• "Thus ends a site launched in 2008 by Nate Silver, best known for its near-perfect prediction of Barack Obama’s victory in that year’s presidential election." ☛ https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/538-disney-abc-layoffs-shut-down-nate-silver/ | Source: Poynter Institute    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:06:40

• "ABC News layoffs have resulted in the shutdown of FiveThirtyEight, leaving 15 employees jobless overnight." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/abc-news-layoffs-fivethirtyeight-shutdown-disney-job-cuts-media-restructuring/articleshow/118806425.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:06:57

• "The Index Librorum Prohibitorum was there to keep all that at bay." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/03/it-is-forbidden-to-think-for-yourself/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:08:10

• "The U.N. cybercrime convention is a blank check for surveillance abuses" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/un-cybercrime-treaty-autocrat-human-rights/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:08:28

• "US Immigration and Customs Enforcement reportedly showed up at Mahmoud Khalil’s university-owned apartment in Manhattan on Saturday and arrested him without telling him or his pregnant US citizen wife why." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/403454/mahmoud-khalil-palestinian-student-columbia-trump | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:08:52

• "Schools across America have a choice: Defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-trump-universities/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:09:23

• "the first arrest of many to come." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/us/trump-rubio-khalil-columbia-student-protests.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:09:41

• "Radical Foreign Pro-Hamas Student." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/mahmoud-khalil-ice-detention/682001/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:10:06

• "Since it replaced aging SAP finance software with Oracle's cloud-based Fusion for HR, payroll, ERP, and finance in April 2022" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/birmingham_oracle_auditors/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:11:36

• "Brutal videos and images about violence against Alawites in Syria are circulating online. Some are true, many are false. A DW fact check." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-fake-news-about-violence-in-syria/a-71879244 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:11:43

• "Researchers at Staffordshire University and the University of Birmingham, did three different studies with over 1,000 Brits." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/03/11/spite-turns-normal-people-into-horse-paste-eating-conspiracy-addicts-says-study.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:11:51

• "HB 342, sponsored by Rep. Susan DuBose, R-Hoover, would force local school boards to give academic credit to students participating in religious instruction programs." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/03/10/the-danger-of-mixing-law-and-religion-in-two-alabama-bills/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:12:53

• "This report aims to map and evaluate existing best practices for managing and mitigating risks related to open-source software across various organisational contexts." ☛ https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/661ff8b83771f5b3ee757fc5/Open_Source_Software_Best_Practices_and_Supply_Chain_Risk_Management.pdf | Source: UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:13:09

• "The weaknesses include a lack of industry-specific practices (affecting both sector and company size)" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/uk-government-report-calls-for-stronger-open-source-supply-chain-security-practices/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:13:32

• "You probably have noticed, just like me, that online culture has been a bit chaotic of late, and it’s been hard to even have a conversation without it feeling like a fresh argument is about to break out." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/03/11/gamergate-lessons-internet-culture/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:13:54

• "Joe Rogan built his empire by presenting himself as an entertaining, independent commentator. He gave it up for the 2024 election." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/03/joe-rogan-podcast-manosphere-influencer/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:14:14

• "Trail of Tears" ☛ https://futurism.com/facebook-employees-zuckerberg-catan | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:14:30

• "According to Kbank, all transaction fees will be waived nationwide starting April 1. Previously, fees were charged for ATM transactions, except at Kbank’s own ATMs, bank-affiliated ATMs and machines inside GS25 convenience stores." ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/biz/2025/03/126_393742.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:15:13

• "Blue-lined octopuses are tiny, measuring just six inches across, but their venom packs a serious punch." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-male-octopuses-use-venom-to-subdue-female-mates-and-avoid-being-eaten-after-sex-180986208/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:15:44

• [Old] "Last week we saw the announcement of the new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, which is basically an improved quad-core version of the Pi Zero — more comparable in speed to the Pi 3B+" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2021/11/01/the-pi-zero-2-w-is-the-most-efficient-pi/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:16:23

• "Euro zone finance ministers are worried that the change of policy under the new US administration to embrace cryptocurrencies could affect euro zone monetary sovereignty and financial stability" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eu-worries-us-embrace-of-crypto-assets-could-impact-europe-financial-stability/articleshow/118869701.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:17:06

• "As of 30 April 2025, Directive 9 will introduce stricter requirements for tracking and reporting [cryptocurrency] asset transactions." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/crypto-crackdown-in-south-africa/260473/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:17:21

• "The formerly anti-establishment bitcoin movement abandons its principles in favor of number-go-up, applauds federal plan to stockpile seized [cryptocurrency] with no clear benefit to national interest" ☛ https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-reserves-no-public-good-no-principles/ | Source: Molly White    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:17:40

• "But this expansion isn't without its challenges, and powering those multiplying bit barns is one of them." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/datacenter_coal_mine_methane/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:17:59

• "pump and dump self-enrichment scheme." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-united-tates-of-pump-and-dump/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:18:15

• "Universities pride themselves on being engines of progress, knowledge, and public good—and students are increasingly drawn to institutions with strong sustainability commitments." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/fossil-fuel-giants-walk-back-climate-pledges-universities-keep-taking-their-cash/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

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

• "Perhaps, but it’s also clear that the entire right-wing network of policymakers, think tanks and MAGA influencers setting the second Trump administration’s agenda have a vendetta against NOAA" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-11/trump-noaa-national-weather-service | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:19:26

• "As often happens when Pierson gets going, we need to back up. Boeing has had a hellacious stretch. In 2018, a Boeing Max dove into the sea." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/boeing-whistleblower-737-max/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:19:58

• "The FTC filed a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) in January 2024 seeking answers to dozens of questions about the ransomware attack that involved customer and employee data as well as troves of business information." ☛ https://therecord.media/trump-admin-ends-ftc-ransomware-case | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:20:10

• "The ruling, the first of its kind, marked an early victory for advocates seeking to force DOGE [sic] to become more transparent about its role" ☛ https://koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/03/501_393938.html | Source: The Korea Times    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:20:48

• "NASA paid for access to Clearview AI’s “Investigator Tool + Cloud Database,” according to a set of procurement documents obtained by 404 Media under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)." ☛ https://www.404media.co/here-is-nasas-contract-with-clearview-ai-2/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:21:08

• "As the leader of the Office of Special Counsel, Hampton Dellinger’s role was to get wrongfully fired civil servants back on the job—until he got fired himself." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/03/hampton-dellinger-whistlebower-office-special-counsel/681995/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:21:25

• "If the Trump administration pursues such charges, it will represent a concerted attack on potential whistleblowers or media sources that share information about ICE operations." ☛ https://thedissenter.org/ice-leaks-trump-officials-push-for-charges-against-press-and-whistleblowers-2/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:21:49

• "Küntzel concludes his groundbreaking analysis by documenting the ways how Nazi ideas continue to influence Muslim attitudes and actions vis-à-vis Jews." ☛ https://www.danielpipes.org/22527/nazis-islamic-antisemitism-and-the-middle-east | Source: Daniel Pipes    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:23:14

• "citing a 2024 Reuters report on a Commerce Department investigation into the matter." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/chinese-telecoms-questioned-about-their-u-s-operations/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:24:22

• "The misinterpretation of Jefferson and erosion of foundational rules and standards of democracy has become an international crisis, he said." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/03/10/kansas-public-administration-professor-calls-for-action-in-wake-of-eroding-democratic-norms/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:24:44

• "A succession of major incidents has raised alarm bells and called into question the security of pipelines that are increasingly important for the continent’s communications and energy" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-03-11/submarine-cables-the-weakest-link-in-europes-strategic-infrastructure.html | Source: El País    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:25:15

• "If we are not going to do the return hubs, what will we do instead is my question? We have tried other systems for many years, it doesn't work" ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250311/eu-to-pave-way-for-controversial-return-hubs-for-migrants | Source: The Local DK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:25:50

• "DOGE [sic] cut our entire red team and all support roles — over 100 people impacted. The following Wednesday, DOGE [sic] cut a second CISA red team also doing mission-critical work." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/cisa_staff_layoffs/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:26:28

• "However, despite the hard work during the last year we haven’t been able to ship Ed25519 in Chrome." ☛ https://blogs.igalia.com/jfernandez/2025/02/28/can-i-use-secure-curves-in-the-web-platform/ |    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:34:07

• "At the time of discussion in 2019, Marsalek was chief operating officer of Wirecard, the Germany payments processor." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/11/how-russian-spymaster-worked-with-un-official/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:35:03

• "I had to recall just how one hands over notes and coins, and how to hold out my hand to accept a complicated assortment of cash as change from someone." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/a-weekend-paying-for-everything-with-cash/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:35:30

• "EDRi, together with the Equinox Initiative For Racial Justice, today published a joint statement signed by 168 organisations and experts." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/stop-europols-trojan-horse-168-organisations-and-experts-call-to-reject-insidious-police-powers-expansion/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:35:57

• "Has this changed anything? I was paying with Apple Pay ever since it became available here, but I try to de-phone myself." ☛ https://crys.site/blog/2025/re-cash/ | Source: Michał Sapka    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:36:08

• "Ever since Apple revealed their AI strategy to lean into on-device models, there has been a sort of tension with the approach from other companies like OpenAI, Google, and Amazon" ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/03/10/apples-response-to-ai.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:36:35

• "Major international media outlets such as the BBC, the New York Times, and the NDR maintain mailboxes in the [Tor] network" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2611973/is-the-tor-network-still-secure-key-online-anonymity-tools-explained.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:36:47

• "According to Mark Gurman at Bloomberg, who references “people who asked not to be identified because the deal hasn’t been announced" ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/11/google-reportedly-negotiating-115m-deal-eye-tracking-startup-adhawk-microsystems/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:37:49

• "More than 86,000 records containing nurses' medical records, facial images, ID documents and more sensitive info linked to health tech company ESHYFT was left sitting in a wide-open misconfigured AWS S3 bucket for months" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/uber_for_nurses_exposes_86k/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:38:15

• "monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion" ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/ice-social-media-surveillance-critics/?doing_wp_cron=1741754086.4560160636901855468750 | Source: Project Censored    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:38:28

• Windows TCO: "Bottom line? This attack isn’t just about one platform or one group—it’s a sign of things to come." ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/ddos-attack-on-social-media-platform-x.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:41:17

• Windows TCO: "Web traffic analysis experts who tracked the incident on Monday were quick to emphasize that the type of attacks X seemed to face—distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks—are launched by a coordinated army of computers" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/x-ddos-attack-march-2025/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:41:27

• Social Control Media ☛ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2025/you-got-it/ | Source: Jacky Alciné    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:42:09

• "OpenAI wants to convert from a charity with a for-profit subsidiary into just an ordinary commercial company." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/11/openais-for-profit-plan-is-in-trouble/ | Source: Pivot to AI http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:44:24

• "Small models are not used as general-purpose tools like their larger cousins" ☛ https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-do-researchers-care-about-small-language-models-20250310/ | Source: Quanta Magazine    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:44:37

• "At first glance, the situation does not look like the slow process of blogging is an idea worth pursuing." ☛ https://pawelgrzybek.com/decade-of-blogging/ | Source: Paweł Grzybek    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:44:49

• "Of course, small language models are not necessarily small — they’re just smaller relative to other models." "Red Hat and Google are sponsors of The New Stack." Very small grey fonts to disclose the company covered paid for the 'article'. ☛ https://thenewstack.io/why-red-hat-thinks-ais-future-is-small-language-models/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:45:27

• "Last month, GitClear published an analysis of 211 million lines of code in its AI Copilot Code Quality report. One of the key findings is that refactoring signals are crashing while code duplication and churn is increasing." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/whats-missing-with-ai-generated-code-refactoring/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:46:26

• "low grade flea market mixed with a liquidation store" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/slop-refinement-e-books/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:46:58

• "My thought process was immediately broken as I contemplated what an absolutely obscene thing it would be to send in that moment." ☛ https://rachsmith.com/in-the-way/ | Source: Rach Smith    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:47:20

• "The nonprofit publication evaluated the AI voice cloning services from six companies: Descript, ElevenLabs, Lovo, PlayHT, Resemble AI, and Speechify." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/ai_voice_cloning_safeguards/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:47:34

• "The Mac is still a vastly better platform than Windows for “work”" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/being-keen-for-new-macos-releases/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:48:59

• "The revamp, which is loosely based on Vision Pro's software, would include a style update of icons, menus, apps, windows and system buttons" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/apple-preparing-for-a-major-software-overhaul-1866258 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:49:59

• "I am trying not to get too far in my thoughts until I see it for real, but I do not like the sound of more glassy, translucent effects." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/gurman-2025-apple-redesign/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:50:14

• "The hacker behind the malware, who they believe is based in Italy, has been exploiting a firmware vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-1389" ☛ https://therecord.media/ballista-botnet-tp-link-archer-routers | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:50:36

• "For those who have already tried a factory reset, and even for those who haven't, there's still hope for getting your gear functional again." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/google_chromecast_outage/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 07:50:58

• "Our primate brains — orders of magnitude out of our evolutionary depths! — have been ragdolled by a frothy, relentless, unceasing media tsunami." ☛ https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/part-1-the-shitball/ | Source: Brad Frost    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:01:07

• "Not in the nostalgic, “things were better in my day" way." ☛ https://www.joanwestenberg.com/im-entering-my-curmudgeon-era/ | Source: Westenberg    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:01:23

• "The Tesla driver is now calling out the company's CEO, Elon Musk, after experiencing the issue with the car's pop-out door handles." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/womans-nail-allegedly-ripped-off-tesla-door-handle-its-more-common-you-think-1731797 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:02:06

• "No matter how healthy you are at baseline, it very efficiently enters the body through the upper airway" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-how-measles-can-kill-texas-new-mexico-outbreak-vaccines-vitamin-a/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:03:05

• "He and two other military retirees who rose to high-ranking positions in the military medical establishment testified Tuesday about ways to prepare the military’s surge capacity" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/pay-benefits/military-benefits/health-care/2025/03/11/military-medical-system-unprepared-for-future-conflict-experts-say/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:04:02

• [Old] "That being said, I don't really see the appeal of creating a project in a day anymore." ☛ https://mirawelner.com/posts/hackathons.html |    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:04:57

• "It was nice while it lasted." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/death-of-big-bird/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:05:05

• "aligned with and fulfill the administration’s science objectives" ☛ https://futurism.com/nasa-fired-eliminated-chief-scientist | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:05:31

• "My research is focused on genomic data science." ☛ https://blog.system76.com/post/bioinformatics-thelio-astra-rjnowling-interview/ | Source: System76    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:05:42

• "Let's examine each of Musk's claims in light of what Bowersox and Stich said Friday evening." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-stranded-astronauts-nasa-spacex-boeing/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:05:56

• "This comes shortly after the American space agency was told to get ready to lay off 1,000 employees." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/nasa_science_budget_comment/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:06:38

• "Now, using genetic testing, researchers have discovered that pet cats likely arrived in China around 600 C.E.—over 1,500 years after their introduction to Europe." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-new-study-finds-that-domestic-cats-traveled-the-silk-road-to-china-about-1400-years-ago-180986206/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:07:00

• "The latest firings would affect 10 percent of the agency's remaining workforce, though it's unclear which departments would be hit in the new round after 1,2000 were let go late last month." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/noaa-layoffs-doge-trump-federal-cuts-b2713188.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:09:55

• "The consumer watchdog separately released its review of all things scammy in 2024 on Monday, saying the dollars lost to online miscreants keep rising" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/ftcs_255m_scam_refund/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:10:48

• "The problems started on Saturday and were investigated by Gandi from the early hours of Sunday." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/11/gandi_domain_registrar_outage/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:11:01

• "Languages differ in their characters and spelling, so we can use a common tool of linguists to effectively compare how they sound." ☛ https://pudding.cool/2025/03/language/ |    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:11:12

• "In practical terms, it means you can't do this: [...]" ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/03/11/xhtml/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:12:43

• [Repeat] "I’ve got a longer post about mixed-language support in HTML and XML documents pending" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/the-iso-639-1-language-code-for-japanese-is-ja/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:12:51

• "Every modern programming language needs a formatter to make your code look pretty and consistent." ☛ https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/03/11/formatters/ | Source: Miguel Young de la Sota    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:13:51

• "Creating a personalized recommendation system for a blog doesn't require massive machine learning models or complex neural networks." ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-03-11-recomendation-system | Source: Eliseo Martelli    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:14:03

• "Increasingly often, I find myself wondering: why don’t we apply the same thinking to codebases?" ☛ https://blog.danieljanus.pl/2025/03/02/cleaner-codebase/ | Source: Daniel Janus    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:14:11

• "That the web browser is a cross platform environment means that I get these applications (including the Fediverse itself) essentially 'for free'" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/BrowserEnablesMinorityPlatforms | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:15:46

• "As most Pi-havers know, one of the many cool things you can do on a Raspberry Pi is run a webserver." ☛ https://mirawelner.com/posts/website_howto.html |    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:15:52

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

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:17:22

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

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:17:36

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

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:17:47

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

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:18:06

• How To Install RPM Fusion on Fedora 41 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-rpm-fusion-fedora-41/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:19:09

• How To Install Android Studio on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-android-studio-linux-mint-22/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:19:20

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

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:19:25

• "You are thinking this applies mostly to neuro typicals, but you'd be wrong. I got some good feedback on my last entry, so I figured I would keep it going until the feedback runs out. 😂" gemini://hanzbrix.pollux.casa/gemlog/20250311.gmi    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:31:20

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1231.jpg    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:31:53

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1581.jpg    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:31:58

• Wordle clone 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-03-12_Wordle_clone.gmi    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:32:42

• The fog clears gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2529    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:33:16

• "A long time ago you would use finger to see if other users were logged into a system. They could share .plan or .project files that were accessible via finger." gemini://funkaoshi.smol.pub/2024-03-plan-files    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:34:45

• can we please stop pretending generative AI has a future gemini://drmollytov.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-03-11.gmi gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-11    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 08:36:20

• Humans Can Host a Variety of Parasitic Worms. Here's How to Spot The Signs. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-can-host-a-variety-of-parasitic-worms-heres-how-to-spot-the-signs    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:04:20

• Ricardo Garcia: Device-Generated Commands at Vulkanised 2025 ☞ https://rg3.name/202503111630.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:05:13

• "The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) booth will offer a 20% discount on LPI exams and exclusive merchandise." ☛ https://www.lpi.org/articles/lpi-at-fossasia2025/ | Source: Linux Professional Institute Inc    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:07:24

• "The FOSSASIA Summit is an annual event that has been at the forefront of open technologies for over 15 years, bringing together a global community of developers, innovators, enterprises, and educators." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/event/fossasia-2025/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:07:33

• "FOSSASIA PGDay 2025 is an event focused on the PostgreSQL database, held in conjunction with the FOSSASIA Summit in Bangkok, Thailand." ☛ https://www.postgresql.org/about/event/fossasia-pgday-2025-2525/ | Source: PostgreSQL    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:08:12

• "I am not the official spokesperson for the group. I just got into the habit of summarizing the meetings every month, and adding my own opinions about things." ☛ https://macadie.info/2025/03/11/2025-03-austin-emacs-meetup/ | Source: Eric MacAdie    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:08:44

• "We invite abstracts on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to: [...]" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/shiny-in-production-2025-abstracts-deadline-extension/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:08:56

• "The concept of a stable monthly release channel has been in discussion for many years and I’m happy to share that we recently changed the default download on Thunderbird.net to point at our most feature-rich and up-to-date stable version." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/03/thunderbird-monthly-development-digest-february-2025/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:11:31

• "Kitty, one of the best GPU-accelerated and highly efficient cross-platform terminal emulators, has just unveiled its latest update—version 0.40." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kitty-0-40-terminal-emulator-brings-variable-font-sizes/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:12:07

• "Crucially, they benchmark themselves against GNU’s own tests." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/rust-coreutils-shows-impressive-progress/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:12:51

• "Tribal2's version integrates with his smart home setup, specifically a home assistant system." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/this-smart-raspberry-pi-led-world-map-has-global-appeal | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:13:55

• "Exploitation of all these security holes requires authentication" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/details-disclosed-for-scada-flaws-that-could-facilitate-industrial-attacks/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:14:52

• "Furthermore, the repository lists are now converted to a new format, effectively guiding the transition to Trixie. " ☛ https://linuxiac.com/sparky-semi-rolling-2025-03-brings-linux-kernel-6-12/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:15:55

• "Although this proposal remains subject to approval by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo)" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-linux-43-to-feature-rpm-6/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:25:37

• "The IPFire project has announced a new update to its distribution for firewalls and routers." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12376 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:26:25

• "Additionally, a small but welcome patch addresses a MinGW build regression for Qt6" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-3-3-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:30:39

• "One of the most significant changes is the attention paid to the Wayland session. Distributions can now define a default compositor and screen locker system-wide, and brand-new man pages have been added for easier reference. Also, configuration files have been updated to support the latest compositor version." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/what-to-expect-from-lxqt-2-2-desktop-environment/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:31:56

• The von der Leyen Commission marks 100 days in office striving for European competitiveness, defence, and a sovereign Ukraine ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ac_25_744    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:34:41

• Two detained on suspicion of espionage in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/11.03.2025-two-detained-on-suspicion-of-espionage-in-latvia.a591045/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:35:01

• Ukraine accepts US ceasefire proposal, backs immediate negotiations with Russia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250312-ukraine-endorses-ceasefire-proposal-as-us-lifts-aid-freeze    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:35:42

• Tina Khidasheli: 'Without transatlantic dialogue, there is no security for Europe or for the world' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250311-without-transatlantic-dialogue-there-is-no-security-for-europe-or-for-the-world    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:36:26

• The ceasefire proposal is 'excellent for Ukraine', analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250311-the-ceasefire-proposal-is-excellent-for-ukraine-analyst-says    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:37:02

• Rubio says 'ball now in court' of Russia to accept Ukraine truce ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250311-rubio-says-ball-now-in-court-of-russia-to-accept-ukraine-truce    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:37:21

• Zelensky says US must now 'convince' Russia to accept ceasefire proposal ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250311-zelensky-says-us-must-now-convince-russia-to-accept-ceasefire-proposal    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:39:02

• 🔴 US to lift pause on Ukraine aid, intel sharing as Kyiv backs proposal for 30-day ceasefire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250311-%F0%9F%94%B4-us-to-lift-pause-on-ukraine-aid-intel-sharing-as-kyiv-backs-proposal-for-30-day-ceasefire    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:39:20

• In Jeddah, US 'cajoling' Ukraine into accepting concessions, no mention of Russia offering anything ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250311-ukraine-us-discuss-partial-truce-as-drones-hit-russia    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:39:51

• Lithuanian volunteer killed in Ukraine: ‘There are few heroes, and Tadas was one of them’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2506793/lithuanian-volunteer-killed-in-ukraine-there-are-few-heroes-and-tadas-was-one-of-them    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:40:18

• Ball In Russia’s Court As Ukraine Agrees To US Cease-Fire Proposal ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-agrees-us-ceasefire-proposal/33344511.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:40:31

• European Military Chiefs Discuss Blueprint For Peacekeeping Force In Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/nato-europe-peacekeeping-mission-ukraine-paris-meeting/33344276.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:41:01

• Kyiv Launches Deadly Drone Attack On Moscow As US, Ukrainian Diplomats Meet ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-moscow-ukraine-dron-attack-casulaties-airports-sobyanin-vorobyov-war/33343625.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:41:18

• Ukraine Will Need To Make Land Concessions In Any Peace Deal, Rubio Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-zelenskyy-saudi-jeddah-trump/33342270.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:41:37

• Ukraine Didn't Take Twitter/X Down, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft or backdoored Windows Likely Did ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/11/Ukraine_Didn_t_Take_Twitter_X_Down_Microsoft_or_Windows_Likely_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:42:03

• Ukraine Supports 30-Day Cease-Fire as U.S. Says It Will Resume Military Aid ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/world/europe/ukraine-us-saudi-cease-fire-talks.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:42:35

• Europe Weighs Peacekeeping Role in Ukraine Amid Convicted Felon’s Embrace of Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/world/europe/ukraine-russia-peace-ceasefire-trump-europe.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:43:11

• Russia Begins Assault on Ukrainian-Occupied Town of Sudzha in Kursk Region ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/world/europe/ukraine-sudzha-russian-forces.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:43:22

• Ukraine Targets Moscow With Large-Scale Drone Attack ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/world/europe/ukraine-russia-moscow-war-drones.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:43:37

• U.S. and Ukraine Hold Talks on the War: What to Know ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/world/europe/us-ukraine-talks-rubio-saudi-arabia.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:43:52

• Wednesday Briefing: U.S. Resumes Aid to Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/briefing/ukraine-aid-trump-tariffs-duterte-arrest.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:44:19

• Live: Russia says it could hold talks with US over Ukraine in 'next few days' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250312-live-russia-says-it-could-hold-talks-with-us-over-ukraine-in-next-few-days    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:44:34

• "NATO-linked security guarantees for Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/12/french-president-macron-again-advocates-nato-linked-security-guarantees-for-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:44:53

• Sportwashing, then peacewashing ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/11/ukrainian-delegation-arrives-in-saudi-arabia-for-talks-with-u-s | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:45:24

• "337 Ukrainian drones" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/11/moscow-hit-as-russia-reports-largest-ukrainian-drone-attack-since-full-scale-war-began | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:46:01

• Kursk ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/11/a-pipeline-surprise | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:46:45

• The US dividing Russia from China? Forget about it ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-us-dividing-russia-from-china-forget-about-it/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:47:06

• Bolloré media empire’s pro-Russia stance sparks tensions with Élysée Palace ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250311-french-right-wing-media-s-russia-tilt-irks-elysee    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:47:25

• EU Sanctions Deadlock? Hungary And Slovakia Pressure Brussels Over Russia Blacklist ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-russia-sanctions-hungary-slovakia-blacklist-deadlock/33344214.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:47:44

• Top Romanian Court Upholds Ban On Nationalist Calin Georgescu Running For President ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-calin-georgescu-election-ban-vance-trump-russia/33344226.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:48:07

• New rules for the patenting of “Use” Inventions in Russia ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/03/11/new-rules-for-the-patenting-of-use-inventions-in-russia/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:48:36

• To Russia, with love? Why some in West are heading east to start over. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0311/russia-migrants-canada-west-melting-pot    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:49:48

• Hundreds of Civilians in Syria Take Shelter at Russian Air Base ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/world/europe/civilians-shelter-russian-air-base-syria.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:50:11

• "clerks refuse to sell him more alcohol" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/12/drunk-russian-man-sets-fire-to-grocery-store-after-clerks-refuse-to-sell-him-more-alcohol | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:52:12

• Bucha came home to roost?    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:52:30

• "House arrest for Sasha Mitroshina Russian blogger" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/12/house-arrest-for-sasha-mitroshina | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:53:08

• Georgescu ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/12/romanian-constitutional-court-upholds-rejection-of-presidential-candidacy-for-calin-georgescu-the-pro-russian-politician-who-won-last-december-s-vote | Source: Meduza http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/27/When_Social_Control_Media_in_the_European_Union_is_Controlled_b.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:53:54

• "ball is in Russia’s court" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/11/u-s-says-ball-is-in-russia-s-court-after-kyiv-agrees-to-proposed-30-day-ceasefire | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 11:54:13

• "Sources close to the investigation told KrebsOnSecurity the Lithuanian national Aleksej Besciokov, 46, was apprehended while vacationing on the coast of India with his family" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/alleged-co-founder-of-garantex-arrested-in-india/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

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

• More bug doors ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/microsoft-6-zero-days-in-march-2025-patch-tuesday/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:01:22

• The Copyright Office takes on the sticky issue of [LLM slop]☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/03/the-copyright-office-takes-on-the-sticky-issue-of-artificial-intelligence/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:02:16

• Ultra Publishing Fires Off Amended Infringement Action Against Sony Music, Says the Major Label Is ‘Willfully Committing Blatant, Ongoing, and Massive Piracy’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/11/ultra-publishing-sony-music-amended-lawsuit/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:02:34

• George Clinton Files $100 Million Lawsuit Against Bridgeport Music Alleging Copyright Theft ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/11/george-clinton-100-million-lawsuit-bridgeport-music/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:02:53

• Hell Toupée Formally Nominates John Squires as USPTO Director ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/president-formally-nominates.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:04:02

• Kursk ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/11/pushback-in-kursk | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:04:22

• "if Russia follows suit" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/03/11/ukraine-pledges-immediate-ceasefire-if-russia-follows-suit | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:04:37

• Moscow ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/03/11/trump-s-middle-east-envoy-steve-witkoff-plans-to-meet-with-putin-in-moscow-bloomberg | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:05:05

• Retrocomputer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/classy-paper-tape-reader-complements-homebrew-retrocomputer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:05:30

• Join Canonical at NVIDIA GTC 2025 ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/join-canonical-at-nvidia-gtc-2025    

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

• A carnival of buzzwords and meaningless labels ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/using-ai-hybrid-cloud-environments-benefits-and-use-cases | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:08:15

• "This article provides an overview of Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.0, including information for existing OpenShift Service Mesh users on how to migrate." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-openshift-service-mesh-3 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:08:37

• "Next month’s event is shaping up to have a great line up of end-users who will be sharing use cases, insights into their workloads and lessons learned along the way." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/get-ready-openshift-commons-gathering-london-0 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:09:47

• Retrieval-augmented generation with Node.js, Podman Hey Hi (AI) Lab & React ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/03/10/retrieval-augmented-generation-nodejs-podman-ai-lab-react    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:11:22

• Discover packaging parallel database streams in RHEL 10 ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/03/11/discover-packaging-parallel-database-streams-rhel-10    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:16:52

• New data today. England and Wales deaths, week 9: 11,905. In 2019 it was 11,044. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/datasets/weeklyprovisionalfiguresondeathsregisteredinenglandandwales/2025    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:19:22

• LibreArts Weekly recap — 9 March 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/03/week-recap-9-mar-2025/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:21:37

• KDE Plasma 6.3.3 Desktop Environment Released ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-3-3-desktop-environment-released/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:21:44

• Slopwatch: Reckless FUD and Machine-Generated Spam from LinuxSecurity.com, cybersecuritynews.com, and gbhackers.com (Google Boosts LLM Slop About "Linux") ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/11/Slopwatch_Reckless_FUD_and_Machine_Generated_Spam_from_LinuxSec.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:33:25

• "Today I'm releasing my super simple #FreeBSD #Sandbox script. This script creates a sandbox per directory, allowing you to run untrusted code while preventing access to your home directory. No setup or configuration needed, just cd into a directory and run "sandbox.sh"." gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:43:19

• social network gopher://triapul.cz/0/social-network.txt    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:43:51

• 🔤SpellBinding: WOPRTUH Wordo: STASH gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-03-12.gmi    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:44:22

• FSF News: FSF launches pre-bid phase for silent memorabilia auction ☞ http://www.fsf.org/news/2025-silent-auction-pre-bid-phase    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:51:56

• Pangolin – tunneled mesh reverse proxy server with access control ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pangolin-tunneled-mesh-reverse-proxy-server-access-control/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:52:21

• Prolong Laptop Battery Life in GNU/Linux by Limiting Charging Levels ☞ https://itsfoss.com/limit-battery-charging-linux/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 12:52:42

• Oh. #soylent :Cannot join channel (+r) - you need to be logged into your NickServ account. So it's back to 'bunker mode'...    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 13:38:42

• Texas Instruments Introduces MSPM0C1104 as the Smallest Available Microcontroller ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/texas-instruments-introduces-mspm0c1104-as-the-smallest-available-microcontroller/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:19:21

• Radxa CM3J with Built-in Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 for Industrial Applications ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-cm3j-with-built-in-wi-fi-5-and-bluetooth-5-0-for-industrial-applications/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:20:01

• Expanding Open-Source Support for MediaTek’s Genio IoT Platforms with Collabora ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/expanding-open-source-support-for-mediateks-genio-iot-platforms-with-collabora/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:20:38

• LXQt 2.2 Desktop Promises Many Wayland Improvements, QTerminal Updates ☞ https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-2-desktop-promises-many-wayland-improvements-qterminal-updates    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:22:39

• IPFire Hardened GNU/Linux Firewall Distro Is Now Powered by GNU/Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-hardened-linux-firewall-distro-is-now-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-12-lts    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:22:46

• Debian 13 to Offer KDE Plasma 6.3.5 Desktop Environment ☞ https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-to-offer-kde-plasma-6-3-5-desktop-environment/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:22:54

• KDE Plasma 6.3.3 Implements Battery Charge Threshold Support for More Devices ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-3-3-implements-battery-charge-threshold-support-for-more-devices    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:23:09

• Mesa 25.1 to Replace Nouveau Driver with Zink/NVK by Default for NVIDIA GPUs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mesa-25-1-to-replace-nouveau-driver-with-zink-nvk-by-default-for-nvidia-gpus    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:23:17

• First Look: Garuda GNU/Linux Introduces New COSMIC Edition ☞ https://9to5linux.com/first-look-garuda-linux-introduces-new-cosmic-edition    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:23:24

• GStreamer 1.26 Open-Source Multimedia Framework Released, Here’s What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gstreamer-1-26-open-source-multimedia-framework-released-heres-whats-new    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 14:23:33

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1013717/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:27:56

• poke @ Savannah: GNU poke 4.3 released ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10734    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:44:56

• Next part of the OSI series scheduled for tonight. If not (lack of time), then tomorrow.    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:45:26

• experiencing life again ☞ https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-03-12-experiencing-life-again.en.html lxo fixing things in the hot climate    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:46:31

• Dolphin Emulator 2503 Released! Improved Mapping & Cheat Code Whitelist ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/03/dolphin-emulator-2503-released-improved-mapping-cheat-code-whitelist/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:47:02

• Microsoft Has Not Much Left to Show Investors, Shares Fall Almost 20% (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/11/Microsoft_Has_Not_Much_Left_to_Show_Investors_Shares_Fall_Almos.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:47:25

• The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Worse Than What the Media Has Focused on, Losing Sight of Who Owns and Runs the OSI ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/11/The_Fall_of_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Worse_Than_What_the_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:47:33

• Crossbow murders: prevention, missed opportunities ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/11/Crossbow_murders_prevention_missed_opportunities.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:47:41

• Apple Seems to Have Run Out of Things to Boast About After Fashion Company Apple Vision Pro Failed Spectacularly ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/11/Apple_Seems_to_Have_Run_Out_of_Things_to_Boast_About_After_Appl.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:47:50

• Illuminating Injustice is Critical When Reckless Microsofters and Law Firms Try to Silence Reporters of Violence Against Women ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/11/Illuminating_Injustice_is_Critical_When_Reckless_Microsofters_a.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:47:58

• EPO Central Staff Committee: "The Strategy of the Office Lacks Transparency and Cannot be Understood" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/11/EPO_Central_Staff_Committee_The_Strategy_of_the_Office_Lacks_Tr.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:48:06

• The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): The OSI Election is Rigged, Biased Against People Who Oppose the Openwashing of GPL-Violating Bots Operated by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for Profit (OSI Gets Paid to Promote This) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/10/The_Fall_of_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_The_OSI_Election_is_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:48:15

• In Vietnam, statCounter Sees Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows Falling Below 7% "Market Share" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/10/In_Vietnam_statCounter_Sees_Microsoft_Windows_Falling_Below_7_M.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:48:22

• The Ludicrous Mythology of Commonality as Signal of Value, Merit, Popularity ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/10/The_Ludicrous_Mythology_of_Commonality_as_Signal_of_Value_Merit.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:48:31

• Goodbye Nouveau GL. Hello Zink! ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/goodbye-nouveau-gl-hello-zink.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:49:36

• Where Are Convicted Felon CBP Chief Mike Banks’ Communications from His Time as Texas Border Czar? ☞ https://americanoversight.org/where-are-trump-cbp-chief-mike-banks-communications-from-his-time-as-texas-border-czar/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 15:50:11

• Mozilla contributes to this problem by promoting dissemination of LLM slop and hype ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/ai/ai-misinformation/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:05:44

• Mozilla is funded by Google ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/internet-policy/proposed-remedies-browsers/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:07:26

• Saturn Gains 128 New Moons, Bringing Its Total to 274 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/science/saturn-new-moons.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:07:55

• SpaceX Launches NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH Missions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/science/spacex-nasa-spherex-punch-launch.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:08:22

• Tuberculosis Resurgent as Convicted Felon Funding Cut Disrupts Treatment Globally ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/health/tuberculosis-kenya-us-cuts.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:09:03

• RFK Jr. Rattles Food Companies With Vow to Rid Food of Artificial Dyes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/health/rfk-jr-food-safety-artificial-dyes.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:09:48

• "Tech giant that moved from Silicon Valley to Texas laying off 2,500"    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:10:56

• South Korean pastor vows revolt against Yoon's impeachment ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-pastor-vows-revolt-against-yoons-impeachment    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:14:51

• South Korean R&B Singer Wheesung Is Found Dead at 43 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/world/asia/south-korean-singer-wheesung-dead.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:15:14

• South Korea’s Kia denies responsibility for anti-Musk ad ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-kia-denies-responsibility-for-anti-musk-ad    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:15:37

• Marriage, childbirth evoke fear, not joy among young South Koreans, study finds ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/marriage-childbirth-evoke-fear-not-joy-among-young-south-koreans-study-finds    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:16:02

• Pyongyang says accidental bombing by South Korea jets shows armed conflict possible ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-says-south-korea-jets-accidental-bombing-shows-armed-conflict-possible-kcna    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:16:18

• South Korea police disclose identity of teacher who fatally stabbed 8-year-old pupil ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/south-korea-police-disclose-identity-of-teacher-that-fatally-stabbed-8-year-old-student    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:16:33

• Hyundai to build Ulsan fuel cell plant, targeting mass production by 2028 ☞ https://www.h2-view.com/story/hyundai-to-build-ulsan-fuel-cell-plant-targeting-mass-production-by-2028/2122815.article/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:16:51

• Malaysia radio station operator fined $75,400 after DJs mock Hindu religion ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-radio-station-era-fm-operator-fined-75400-but-licence-remains-active-after-djs-mock-hindu    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:17:06

• It's not cheating if you write the video game solver yourself ☞ https://robertheaton.com/cocoon/    

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

• China Facing Resistance as it Moves to Tighten Grip on African Media ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/03/china-facing-resistance-as-it-moves-to-tighten-grip-on-african-media/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:23:54

• Volkswagen’s Profit Under Pressure From Tariffs and Competition ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/world/europe/volkswagen-tariffs-competition.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:24:34

• Ex-Philippine president Duterte arrested over deadly drug war after ICC issues warrant ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/ex-philippine-president-duterte-arrested-over-deadly-drug-war    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:26:08

• China’s unions say employers should not ask female job seekers about marital, childbearing status ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-unions-say-employers-should-not-ask-female-job-seekers-about-marital-childbearing-status    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:27:14

• Infection blamed for top Chinese lawmaker’s absence from key Parliament session ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/infection-blamed-for-top-chinese-lawmakers-absence-from-key-parliament-session    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:28:33

• EXPLAINED: Taiwan’s military manpower crisis and search for solutions ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/03/11/china-taiwan-military-shortage-explained/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:28:45

• Chinese defense company builds industrial estate in Cambodia ☞ https://rfa.org/english/cambodia/2025/03/11/cambodia-china-defense-sargeras-industrial-park-c01/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:28:56

• 5 takeaways from China’s National People’s Congress ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/03/11/china-npc-economic-growth-fiscal-stimulus-tariffs-taiwan/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:29:09

• Hong Kong social worker convicted of rioting for her role in 2019 protests ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/03/11/hong-kong-social-worker-retrial-interview/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:29:42

• UK changes rules to allow freer travel by Hong Kongers ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/03/11/china-hong-kong-uk-travel-rules/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:29:55

• Dalai Lama says his successor will be born in ‘free world,’ outside China ☞ https://rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/03/12/china-tibet-dalai-lama-succession/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:30:05

• Beijing warns UK against ‘provoking tensions’ over South China Sea following British foreign secretary’s comments ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/11/beijing-warns-uk-against-provoking-tensions-over-south-china-sea-following-british-foreign-secretarys-comments/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:30:34

• Two Sessions: China wraps up key political meet with call for ‘unrelenting struggle’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/11/two-sessions-china-wraps-up-key-political-meet-with-call-for-unrelenting-struggle/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:31:05

• Ex-student from mainland China jailed after using fake credentials to study at Chinese University of Hong Kong ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/12/ex-student-from-mainland-china-jailed-after-using-fake-credentials-to-study-at-chinese-university-of-hong-kong/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:32:26

• A Deep Dive Into Canon Autofocus Lenses ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/a-deep-dive-into-canon-autofocus-lenses/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:34:10

• IGBT ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/lies-damned-lies-and-igbt-datasheets/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:36:02

• "A Magic Eye Tube Does All The Work In This Kit" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/a-magic-eye-tube-does-all-the-work-in-this-kit/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:36:11

• 128 New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn in Mindblowing Discovery ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/128-new-moons-found-orbiting-saturn-in-mindblowing-discovery    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:36:29

• Lightning Over Shipping Lanes Suddenly Halved Following New Regulations ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/lightning-over-shipping-lanes-suddenly-halved-following-new-regulations    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:36:55

• Philippine ex-president Rodrigo Duterte earned international infamy but praise at home ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/rodrigo-duterte-philippine-ex-president-earned-international-infamy-but-praise-at-home    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:37:54

• Migrating Databases ☞ https://www.thelins.se/johan/blog/2025/03/migrating-databases/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:38:50

• where are the kernel modules? (how to find the now xz packed ko files) ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/03/09/where-are-the-kernel-modules-how-to-find-the-now-xz-packed-ko-files/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:39:33

• Or how to commit GPL violations and have no idea what code you work with (it does not work well, either) ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/how-to-use-llms-for-programming-tasks/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:43:10

• Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Debian.Social administration, DebConf 25 preparations, Fixing Time-based test failure in Python requests package and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-02-2025/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:44:25

• The Best Open Source Cloud Management Tools ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/03/the-best-open-source-cloud-management-tools/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 16:45:18

• This yt-dlp Bug Report Shows Us That the Future of YouTube is DRM and It's Time to Leave (yt-dlp Should Also Leave Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub , Which Censors YouTube Downloaders) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/11/This_yt_dlp_Bug_Report_Shows_Us_That_the_Future_of_YouTube_is_D.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:39:51

• Batwing Typewriter ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/11/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-batwing-typewriter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:40:29

• Underrated Gems in R: Must-Know Functions You’re Probably Missing Out On ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/underrated-gems-in-r-must-know-functions-youre-probably-missing-out-on/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:41:57

• Creating data-driven art ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/creating-data-driven-art/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:42:05

• Sparky 2025.03 ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2025-03/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:46:27

• clipse – TUI-based clipboard manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/clipse-tui-based-clipboard-manager/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:46:36

• PopuraDNS – build of CoreDNS ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/popuradns-build-coredns/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:48:24

• 9 Useful Free and Open Source GNU/Linux 3D Printer Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-linux-3d-printer-tools/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:48:32

• Konsave – save and apply KDE Plasma customizations ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/konsave-save-apply-kde-plasma-customizations/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:48:39

• Communique – RSS reader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/communique-rss-reader/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:48:49

• LPTK – stateless password manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lptk-stateless-password-manager/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:48:57

• "As a manager I can say that the amount I was given to distribute was higher than last year but I've been instructed to allocate 0.5-1% to low performers, 2.5-3% to the mid performers and 4% to the top performers." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp0jgbrp    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:50:46

• "Manager from India here. Amount was comparable to last year. Plus here we get Performance Award which is more or less the same amount as GDP." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp0jgbrp    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:51:02

• "The future of IBM is 0 employees in US, Canada, Western Europe. 80% of employees will be in India. 20% will be in low cost nearshore locations like LatAm (Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica), Eastern Europe, SE Asia (Vietnam, Philippines). Over time, even the 20% will reduce and move roles to India." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp2zgxef    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:52:58

• "Alvind has no loyalty to this country . All he cares about are his investors and being a simp for India. AI means All India. Immigrants showed appreciation for this country before 1965. India was a third world country up until a few decades ago. You’d think Alvind would appreciate being in this country"    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:53:32

• "That’s 300 openings on the IBM website, but when you look at GOM there are as of today only 7 internal US postings and only 145 globally." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp2zgxef    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:54:10

• "You’re being an obnoxious A Hole when generalizing all Americans as being lazy. Of course there are the lazy ones but we are one of the only countries that if you’re not a Doctor or Cop you’re on call especially with IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp2zgxef    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:54:51

• "Many of you have gotten the weekend call or slacks as well as off hours too. Americas rate of production of its workers have gone up over the past 20 years. Choose your words wisely." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp2zgxef    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:54:57

• "Indians work hard, much harder than most Americans. And yes, I am an American. This country is an idiocracy. Wake up you losers and get back to work!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp2zgxef    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:55:27

• phoronix has been dreary this year, but at least the volume of Microsoft stories there went down    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:58:18

• Ubuntu 24.04 Fixes Bluetooth Audio Connection Issues ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/ubuntu-2404-bluetooth-connect-fix    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:58:55

• The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 882 ☞ https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/03/11/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-882/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 17:59:16

• "We used to look foward to Mac OS X releases!" ☞ https://rubenerd.com/being-keen-for-new-macos-releases/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:00:42

• A succinct email in just a subject line ☞ https://rubenerd.com/a-succinct-email-in-just-a-subject-line/ "consider using just the subject line to relate your message."    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:01:17

• "created under President Joe Biden to address disparities in how the federal government provides disability compensation to military service members." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-trump-disparities-benefits-office-equity-assurance | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:02:41

• Maine ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/maine-trump-janet-mills-transgender-girls-sports-education-social-security | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:02:57

• Eric Adams ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/eric-adams-nypd-community-response-team-police-nyc-misconduct-transparency | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:03:25

• "Fabricated Bite Mark Analysis" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/louisiana-jimmie-duncan-bite-mark-analysis-death-row-junk-science | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:04:43

• “SSH Mastery” now available in print direct from me ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24012    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:05:16

• Firefox Nightly: Turn Tabs To Their Side – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 177 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/03/11/turn-tabs-to-their-side-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-177/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:06:07

• Submission on India’s draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/publication/submission-india-draft-dpdp-rules-2025/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:06:44

• Comments on MeitY’s report on Hey Hi (AI) governance guidelines ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/publication/comments-meity-india-ai-governance-guidelines-report/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:07:09

• Fighting LLMs https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/a-season-on-iocaine/ "It will not save you from all bad visitors, but it will significantly reduce the load on your servers. Give it a try. Lets poison the plagiarism machines together."    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:08:29

• 2,000 Striking N.Y. Prison Officers Fired and Barred From Public Jobs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/nyregion/new-york-prison-strike-officers-fired.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:09:07

• Why John Mearsheimer Thinks The Insurrectionist Is Right on Ukraine ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-thinks-donald-trump-is-right-on-ukraine    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:09:42

• Google hits privacy rights again ☞ https://alirezahayati.com/2025/03/12/google-hits-privacy-rights-again/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:10:43

• New York sues Allstate and subsidiaries for back-to-back data breaches ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/new-york-lawsuit-allstate-national-general-data-privacy/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:10:56

• Ukraine Agrees To US-Brokered Cease-Fire Deal, Unlocking Military Aid And Intelligence Sharing ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-putin-ukraine-war-talks-deal-jeddah-concessions-minerals/33343776.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:11:24

• Haiku Activity & Contract Report, February 2025 ☞ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-03-11-haiku_activity_contract_report_february_2025/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:11:53

• Smart Home News – ESPHome 2025.2.0 Firmware, Home Assistant gets Matter certified, and (some) ChromeCast devices hit troubles ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/11/smart-home-news-esphome-2025-2-0-firmware-home-assistant-gets-matter-certified-and-some-chromecast-devices-hit-troubles/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:12:50

• UN concerned over deteriorating fundamental freedoms and civic space in Slovakia ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/un-express-concerns-over-deteriorating-fundamental-freedoms-and-civic-space-in-slovakia/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:13:41

• Pressure is now on Putin as Ukraine agrees to Convicted Felon’s ceasefire proposal ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/pressure-is-now-on-putin-as-ukraine-agrees-to-trumps-ceasefire-proposal/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:14:00

• Press remarks by Executive Vice-President Ribera and Commissioner Várhelyi on the Critical Medicines Act ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_749    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:15:14

• Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS 14.1 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/03/11/kiwi-tcms-141/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:15:57

• Top 7 Open Source Technologies to Learn and Master in 2025 ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/03/top-7-open-source-technologies-to-learn-and-master-in-2025/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:16:39

• USAID cuts cause closure of support program for Iraqi torture and disappearance survivors ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/us-aid-cuts-cause-closure-of-iraqi-torture-and-forced-disappearances-support-program/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:17:30

• Italy and Libya's murky migrant deals ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250311-italy-and-libya-s-murky-migrant-deals    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:17:59

• Study Reveals Critical Age When Your Thinking Begins to Decline ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-critical-age-when-your-thinking-begins-to-decline    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:23:57

• Ancestor of Black Death Has Been Discovered in Bronze-Age Sheep ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ancestor-of-black-death-has-been-discovered-in-bronze-age-sheep    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:24:21

• Latest Alzheimer's Drugs Can Add Years of Independence to Patient Lives ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/latest-alzheimers-drugs-can-add-years-of-independence-to-patient-lives    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:24:55

• Scientists Turned Cockroaches Into Cyborgs, Giving Them Navigation Superpowers ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-turned-cockroaches-into-cyborgs-giving-them-navigation-superpowers    

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

• Decarbonisation tech “highly inflationary” warns BlackRock CEO ☞ https://www.h2-view.com/story/decarbonisation-tech-highly-inflationary-warns-blackrock-ceo/2122795.article/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:25:57

• Noel Clarke claims woman who says he asked her for sex is a ‘fantasist’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/noel-clarke-guardian-high-court-day-three-fantasist-cult-leader/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:26:41

• African Air Chiefs Focus On Disaster Response ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/03/african-air-chiefs-focus-on-disaster-response/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=african-air-chiefs-focus-on-disaster-response    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:27:21

• Ecuador: GNU/Linux above 5% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/ecuador/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:29:25

• Windows down below Android https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/ecuador/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:30:11

• Scam Altman says Proprietary Chaffbot Company has trained a fiction writing Hey Hi (AI) model that’s actually decent, says publisher FUNDED by Scam Altman's handler/employer. siliconangle is now a parrot of scammers... as long as they pay siliconangle.    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:32:39

• But it seems like never a crime for a media publisher or news publisher to actively participate and promote SCAMS https://juristgate.com/en/media/2024/11/14/edouard-bolleter-pme-magazine-article-like-advertisement/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:33:31

• So there is basically a rogue industry called "the media" but isn't in fact media, only misusing this label. Or lawyers [sic] who in practice do PR: http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/28/When_the_Business_Goal_is_to_Protect_the_Image_of_Criminals_Fro.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:34:25

• The Servo Blog: This month in Servo: new elements, IME support, delegate Hey Hi (AI) and more! ☞ https://servo.org/blog/2025/03/10/this-month-in-servo/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 18:56:11

• Latest Diddy Sexual Assault Lawsuit Names Druski and Odell Beckham Jr. as Defendants — Total Lawsuits Against Diddy Now Top 100 ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/10/diddy-lawsuit-names-odell-beckham-jr-druski/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:01:02

• American Oversight Applauds Court Ruling that DOGE’s Inner Workings Cannot Be Concealed from Public View ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-applauds-court-ruling-that-doges-inner-workings-cannot-be-concealed-from-public-view/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:01:50

• Pakistan rescues 155 hostages from train, dozens still held, sources say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/pakistan-rescues-155-hostages-from-train-dozens-still-held-sources-say    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:02:37

• National security hearings excluded from Hong Kong top court’s 2-year livestream pilot programme ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/12/national-security-hearings-excluded-from-hong-kong-top-courts-2-year-livestream-pilot-programme/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:03:47

• On The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon ☞ https://soatok.blog/2025/03/12/on-the-insecurity-of-telecom-stacks-in-the-wake-of-salt-typhoon/ CALEA is back doors, not insecurity http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:05:03

• Law firm behind the Steele dossier sues Convicted Felon over executive order stripping its security clearances ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/03/12/us-news/steele-dossier-law-firm-perkins-coie-sues-trump-executive-order-stripping-security-clearances/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:05:22

• Patch Tuesday: Critical Code Execution Bugs in Adobe Acrobat and Reader ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/patch-tuesday-critical-code-execution-bugs-in-acrobat-and-reader/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:05:42

• "Ubuntu is based on Debian, but they're not the same. To help you choose which to install, we compare support, pre-installed software, release cycle, user-friendliness, and more." https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-vs-debian-7-key-differences-help-determine-which-distro-is-right-for-you/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:22:54

• "Garuda Linux has introduced the first ISO builds of its COSMIC offering. Users can test out what it has to offer." https://news.itsfoss.com/garuda-cosmic-early-build/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:25:06

• Wheatstone To Unveil Linux Audio Driver At 2025 NAB Show https://www.tvtechnology.com/news/wheatstone-to-unveil-linux-audio-driver-at-2025-nab-show    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:25:33

• CrossOver 25 Brings Even More Windows Software to Linux & Mac https://www.howtogeek.com/crossover-25-mac-linux-release/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:26:06

• How to easily run Windows apps on Linux with Wine https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-easily-run-windows-apps-on-linux-with-wine/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:26:47

• CIQ Delivers Technical Preview of Security Hardened Enterprise Linux www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ciq-delivers-technical-preview-of-security-hardened-enterprise-linux-302398546.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:27:27

• SUSE cannot talk about freedom https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/SUSE-CEO-Enterprise-Linux-where-choice-happens    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:28:06

• Will you use Android's native Linux Terminal app? https://www.androidpolice.com/thread/will-you-use-androids-native-linux-terminal-app/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:29:39

• Proprietary "Linux" things www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-pricing-makes-foundriesfactory-service-more-affordable-for-smaller-oems-and-easier-for-linux-product-developers-to-evaluate-302397310.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:30:33

• "Prolong your laptop's battery life in long run by limiting the charging to 80%." https://itsfoss.com/limit-battery-charging-linux/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:31:01

• There is a big hidden cost to this https://menafn.com/1109301218/NVIDIAs-Rust-Based-NOVA-Driver-Poised-For-Linux-Kernel-Integration http://techrights.org/o/2022/09/21/going-rusty-faster/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:32:02

• and this https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/rust_drivers_expected_to_become/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:32:43

• "Always one to make a spectacle, the Arch-based Linux distribution Garuda Linux has released a major update that comes with several visually impressive additions and redesigns." https://www.howtogeek.com/garuda-linux-broadwing-update/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:33:02

• "A really over the top game for when you and a friend (or a random person online) fancy blasting each other to pieces for a few rounds when you have some free time." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/completely-ridiculous-online-1v1-shooter-straftat-added-a-linux-version/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:33:48

• Dangers - Black Magic gemini://lantashifiles.com/gemlog/entries/2025-03-12.gmi    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:54:17

• Försöken att rädda världen gemini://idiomdrottning.org/pourmohktari    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:54:51

• SSH ServerAliveInterval gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/03/12/ssh-serveraliveinterval.gmi    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:56:36

• "Sì, il software (di seguito, se ci penso: SW) libero ha a che fare con la politica, ciò mi appare evidente se consideriamo che, con questo nome si raccolgono un insieme di principi che definiscono i diritti degli utenti in materia di uso dei programmi per computer" gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/il-software-libero-è-politica…Sì.gmi    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:57:05

• Cataloging Books gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2530    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:57:53

• "With Niantic deciding not to sell Ingress (AR game originally developed by Google) with the reason being how it helps them with data for their VPS system, it made me realise how it solidify the way I think about a lot of things operating at the world and the influences I've had before it." gemini://cyi1341.smol.pub/random49    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:58:44

• (Lifehack) How to make ramen gemini://willowashmaple.smol.pub/2025-03-12-how-to-make-ramen    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 19:59:23

• Things about MElon (and how easy for anyone to fall from people's grace) gemini://willowashmaple.smol.pub/2025-03-12-things-about-elon-musk    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:00:18

• in which today turns out pretty well, thanks gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-12    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:01:00

• The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Microsoft-Sponsored OSI is Probably Not Even the Real Steward of the Open Source Definition, It's More Like an Identity Thief at This Point (Like "FSFE", a Microsoft-Sponsored Imposter of FSF) https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/12/The_Fall_of_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Microsoft_Sponsored_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:42:56

• Ottawa parking garage collapse https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/vehicles-could-be-trapped-for-weeks-after-ottawa-parking-garage-collapse-1.7471044    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:45:36

• Quebec's controversial pandemic curfew https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-pandemic-curfew-1.7470532    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:45:53

• Calls for more security in Adelaide shopping centres https://www.theage.com.au/national/calls-for-more-security-in-adelaide-shopping-centres-20250303-p5lglx.html    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:46:34

• Haha, “Ponzi Scheme” King projecting! https://truthout.org/articles/elon-musk-spreads-falsehoods-about-social-security-calling-it-a-ponzi-scheme/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:47:08

• Drugs and fake hair won't elongate the life of MElon, only his ego    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:47:38

• Suicide Bombing https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-03-04/suicide-bombing-rips-through-security-installation-in-north-west-pakistan-police-sources-say    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:48:03

• Canada, the Northern Outpost of Sanity https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/canada-the-northern-outpost-of-sanity except some mentally insane people who live there    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:48:55

• Fired US Government Workers With Top Security Clearances Were Not Given Exit Briefings https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-03-04/exclusive-fired-us-government-workers-with-top-security-clearances-were-not-given-exit-briefings-sources-say    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:49:28

• union vows https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/auto-sector-union-leaders-emergency-meeting-tariffs-1.7476498    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:50:13

• Public Pension Recipients https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-public-pension-recipients-receive-one-time-social-security-payments-immediately-under-new-law-1731597    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:50:36

• Benefits Disruption and a System Collapse Within the Next 30 to 90 Days https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/former-us-social-security-chief-warns-benefits-disruption-system-collapse-within-next-30-90-1731604    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:50:58

• residential school book controversy https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/quesnel-mayor-ron-paull-1.7474916    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:51:41

• Wake-Up Call for Canada in an Era of Strategic Autonomy https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/03/05/the-trump-zelensky-meeting-a-wake-up-call-for-canada-in-an-era-of-strategic-autonomy/    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:51:58

• usmca https://www.vox.com/politics/403011/trump-canada-mexico-tariffs-reverse-usmca    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:52:20

• By 6, kids think boys are better than girls at computer science. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/compsci-girls-stem-1.7473378    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:52:46

• lost loved ones to COVID-19 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/covid-19-deaths-five-years-later-1.7474989    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:53:45

• The first lockdowns in Europe and North America were around this time half a decade ago. Time flies, COVID-19 survived and still spreads. Still no good cures, nobody even talks about those vaccines anymore...    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:54:45

• Of course many people got very rich out of it, not just selling solutions (with patents) but also driving smaller rivals into bankruptcy    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:55:31

• Esp. small rivals that didn't have "apps" or do "online" (because this barely scales for small, workers-owned businesses)    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:56:28

• 5 years later China still exports masks to the West and handshakes to Vladimir's USSR2.0    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:57:24

• Also exports "bats in a wet market in Wuhan" bedtime stories. Blame those darn bats.    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:58:28

• We had a virus lab in Wuhan. Bat shit happens.    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:59:05

• And who cares what happened anyway? That would just be "conspiracy theory" and "Racism" anyway...    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 20:59:43

• Calls for Ceasefire in Ukraine Are Not New https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/03/12/calls-for-ceasefire-in-ukraine-are-not-new/ "Today’s media really sucks. It tries to change history, maybe for clickbait."    

posted Wednesday, March 12, 2025 at 21:34:36