Roy Schestowitz

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posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:40:24

• "The marahaja of Bangalore is spewing smoke out all his orifices, what does the mo--n about programming ? How is the stupid AI going to help firmware engineers or system engineers working on operating systems like Z, Linux, AIX … Pure nonsense." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jpgm840w    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:40:31

• "Maybe the thinking is that AI will speed up getting rid of the COBOL systems now that those programmers have retired and/or have been let go by 'forward' thinking management." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jpgm840w    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:40:50

• "Haha we were told computers would improve our lives and we would be able to enjoy more free time. Quite the oppousite happened. AI will make us more needful for free time to learn a real trade like welding or coding jobs we were recently told would replace mining operationing"    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:41:10

• "how about just hiring the americans that created these companies in the first place instead of shoveling money upwards to skillless executives and 'investors' who don't make anything" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jpfp3wqk    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:42:55

• "This is sad: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-performance-management-low-performers-country-club-2025-2 " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkm05hwr    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:43:57

• "Microsoft isn't cutting US staff based on their performance, they are moving jobs to India. The US needs to start charging a tariff on outsourced employees working for US firms." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jnpep676    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:44:27

• "I was trying to find a way to do stacks but found tabs instead. There’s a dispatcher that will toggle the current window into or out of a group of tabbed windows." gemini://thatit.be/2025-03-16-11-16-16.gmi    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:46:45

• Klingnauer Stausee gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-03-16-memories    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:47:28

• Long time, no see gopher://jan.bio:70/1/phlog/20250316-long-time-no-see    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:49:08

• "but TODAY everything is fine. Let's enjoy the now and don't worry - at least for a moment - for the distant future that is tomorrow...." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2536    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:50:10

• Hack the Planet gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/03/17/hack.gmi    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:50:38

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1236.jpg    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:51:05

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1586.jpg    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:51:10

• "A computer program might "hear" something totally different depending on how it pulls the sonic (or MIDI) events apart." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/03/16/primal.gmi    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:52:03

• enshittification speedrun gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-16    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:52:54

• "I am an old acquaintance of the Gemini Protocol, from back when its popularity was waning. I used to maintain the Laika.LK capsule. It wasn't even relevant in the geminispace, but I learned a lot while trying to deploy it on my own VPS." gemini://maimere.my.id/goto/logbook/2025-03-13    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:53:56

• "I've been trying to ease my labor on writing new entries on this logbook. As soon as I achieve it, I'll make the code public. Fingers crossed!" gemini://maimere.my.id/goto/logbook/2025-03-14    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:54:53

• "The rationale behind it is keeping a single text file with all gemlogs, which I call logbook. The gemlog is requested on the URL, by its date, in the form /cgi-bin/logbook/YYYY-MM-DD. The script checks if exists a gemlog written on that date and fetches its content." gemini://maimere.my.id/goto/logbook/2025-03-16    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 02:55:27

• New bio: Richard Stallman Biography – The Rebel Who Freed Software! https://linkg.bio/directory/richard-stallman-biography-the-rebel-who-freed-software/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 03:50:22

• Windows down to about 15% in Papua New Guinea. It used to be 99%. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/papua-new-guinea/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 04:02:51

• Orban ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/03/16/orban-promises-crackdown-on-media-and-civil-society-calls-them-stink-bugs | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:49:34

• Baobab - Intro to Ubuntu Disk Usage Analyzer Program ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/03/baobab-intro-to-ubuntu-disk-usage-analyzer-program.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:50:07

• "Has The Linux Desktop Become Too Popular?" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/has-the-linux-desktop-become-too-popular:3    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:50:35

• "No Project is an Island: Why You Need SBOMs and Dependency Management" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/14/1938229    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:50:45

• "Your Appliances Talk to CHINA" https://odysee.com/@NaomiPrivacyTips:1/tiktok-vs-household-appliances:d    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:50:56

• so-called ai: "How terrorism is taking over the West: One in five British terror suspects are CHILDREN, with fanatics radicalised in just WEEKS thanks to AI propaganda | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14498283/How-terrorism-taking-West-One-five-British-terror-suspects-CHILDREN-fanatics-radicalised-just-WEEKS-thanks-AI-propaganda.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:51:16

• "Seeing Things For What They Are - by Hamilton Nolan" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/seeing-things-for-what-they-are    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:51:39

• "Greenland’s Election Wasn’t a Victory for Donald Trump" https://jacobin.com/2025/03/greenland-trump-independence-election-demokraatit/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:51:49

• "East African Housekeepers Face Rape, Assault and Death in Saudi Arabia" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/africa/saudi-arabia-kenya-uganda-maids-women.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:52:02

• "Spurred by Trump turnabout, European nations debate conscription" https://www.thelocal.dk/20250316/spurred-by-trump-turnabout-european-nations-debate-conscription    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:52:21

• "Economic alarm bells are ringing everywhere" https://www.axios.com/2025/03/15/economic-indicators-recession-risk    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:52:32

• Collaborative writing, Simplified. https://docs.numerique.gouv.fr/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:52:58

• iophk: wrongly conflates m$ github with version control in general; llms waste people's time as they try to prod cargo-cults and plagiarized material into working code https://computinged.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/how-scientists-learn-computing-and-use-llms-to-program/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:53:41

• "Do One Thing | dansinker.com" https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-03-16-one-thing/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:54:08

• "Spells and Prayers of Distributed Localism" https://daniel.industries/2025/03/15/spells-and-prayers-of-distributed-localism/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:54:18

• iophk: important. schumer's capitulation was one of the worst incidents so far https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-strategic-poverty-of-shutdown ("The Strategic Poverty of Shutdown or Surrender") "Consider what genuine opposition might have looked like: ..."    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:54:51

• "ICE Adds 700,000 Immigrants With Removal Orders to Criminal Database. Majority-Black Ohio Town Left to Defend Itself. | BaronHK's Rants" https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/ice-adds-700000-immigrants-with-removal-orders-to-criminal-database/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:55:12

• "Afraid of letting Satan loose in the Kansas Statehouse? Then check your religion at the door, too." https://kansasreflector.com/2025/03/16/afraid-of-letting-satan-loose-in-the-kansas-statehouse-then-check-your-religion-at-the-door-too/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:55:38

• "Will Dems Draw a Line? Budget Capitulation Raises Questions Over Fights to Come. | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/will-dems-draw-a-line-budget-capitulation-raises-questions-over-fights-to-come/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:55:50

• "Pankaj Mishra, essayist: Trump and Putin are ‘two gangsters coming to a deal among themselves’" https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-03-16/pankaj-mishra-essayist-trump-and-putin-are-two-gangsters-coming-to-a-deal-among-themselves.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:56:02

• "No more letter stack calculation catalysts" | "Ikkje fleire bokstabelberegningskatalysatorer – Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2025/03/16/ikkje-fleire-bokstabelberegningskatalysatorer/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 06:56:29

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 16th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-16th-2025    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:05:34

• Comet GL-RM1 Enables Remote Control with 2K Video Resolution ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/comet-gl-rm1-enables-remote-control-with-2k-video-resolution/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

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

• Planet Ubuntu - or Ubuntu Planet - Has an LLM Slop Problem (Called Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Planet_Ubuntu_or_Ubuntu_Planet_Has_an_LLM_Slop_Problem_Called_F.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:10:42

• MOAR slop in the SLOPFEST of Planet Ubuntu: https://hamradio.my/2025/03/unlocking-the-power-of-gridtracker-for-amateur-radio-operators/ see https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Planet_Ubuntu_or_Ubuntu_Planet_Has_an_LLM_Slop_Problem_Called_F.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:12:46

• Also SLOP https://hamradio.my/2025/03/unlocking-performance-the-power-of-custom-linux-kernels-and-liquorix/ see https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Planet_Ubuntu_or_Ubuntu_Planet_Has_an_LLM_Slop_Problem_Called_F.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:13:27

• Canonical or Ubuntu is enabling LLM slop and feeding it to people. Awful.    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:13:49

• Zelenskyy Shuffles Military Brass, While Moscow Presses Demand For 'Neutral' Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-zelenskyy-trump-putin-witkoff-rubio-kursk-hnatov/33350113.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:15:16

• Latvia provides reminder that Crimea is in Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/16.03.2025-latvia-provides-reminder-that-crimea-is-in-ukraine.a591714/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:15:36

• In a divided world, momentum behind negotiations grows ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/in-a-divided-world-momentum-behind-negotiations-grows/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:16:05

• 'Coalition of the willing': UK hosts virtual summit while US talks with the Kremlin ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250316-coalition-of-the-willing-uk-hosts-virtual-summit-while-us-talks-with-the-kremlin    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:16:15

• Russia paramilitary unit leader sentenced to life for war crimes by Finland court ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/russia-paramilitary-unit-leader-sentenced-to-life-for-war-crimes-by-finland-court/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:16:28

• Russia, Ukraine Exchange Strikes As US, European Leaders Push For Cease-Fire ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-war-diplomacy-coalition-willing/33348764.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:16:42

• "EU accusing China of backing Russia in its war with Ukraine" ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-xi-jinping-declines-eu-invitation-to-anniversary-summit-ft-reports    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:17:07

• How Ukraine’s Offensive in Russia’s Kursk Region Unraveled ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/europe/ukraine-kursk-retreat-russia.html    

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

• Ukraine Retreats From Most of Russia’s Kursk Region ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/europe/kursk-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:17:35

• Goodbye World | LINUX Unplugged 606 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/606/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:18:47

• "OpenAI said that it could not compete with China — which the company insists on calling the People's Republic of China, or PRC for short, throughout — if regulations stymie AI access to copyrighted works for training data." ☛ https://futurism.com/openai-over-copyrighted-work | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:19:15

• "Any time that someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you but won't give you the key, that lock's not there for you." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/towards-extracting-content-from-an-lcp-protected-epub/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:19:37

• "The displacement caused by the recent Los Angeles–area fires has renewed attention on price gouging in rental housing." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/03/rent-control-price-gouging-landlords/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:20:36

• "The headscarf ruling, which comes on the back of several previous directives on women's appearance, has received a strong reaction privately." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/turkmenistan-color-clothing-women-rules-repression/33349460.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:20:49

• "The comments echoed earlier comments where Orban targeted NGOs and media who received funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development and billionaire George Soros." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/hungary-magyar-orban-protests/33349014.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:26:11

• "During its 55-year history, NPR’s funding scares have come almost on schedule, heralded by the arrival of a new Republican administration (Ronald Reagan, 1981)" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-14/npr-pbs-public-broadcasting-corporation-for-public-broadcasting | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:26:24

• "you must cease all work immediately and are not permitted to access any agency buildings or systems." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/donald-trump-admin-begins-mass-layoffs-at-voice-of-america-other-us-funded-media-101742178278461.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:26:47

• "As Scott Adams says, Facts don’t matter. What matters is how much we hate the person talking." ☛ https://doc.searls.com/2025/03/16/gag-of-america/ | Source: Doc Searls    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:27:13

• "An international team of researchers analyzed data from 157 previous studies related to plastics and photosynthesis" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/microplastics-are-disrupting-photosynthesis-and-the-impact-could-be-huge | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:28:23

• "While it might restrict visibility, this misty mass also provides a solution to water shortages. How? It's harvested in the world's largest fog collection system." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/fog-harvesting-how-to-get-water-from-the-clouds/a-71892254 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:28:32

• "this reputation has taken a hit." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/how-the-far-right-afd-creates-divisions-in-german-society/a-71911100 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:29:14

• "If you spoke out against the Communist Party," ☛ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/republicans-re-invent-soviet-psychiatric-abuse-spread-measles-and-invoke-law-allowing-deportation-of-americans/ | Source: DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer)    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:29:49

• "An EU-funded project is providing the Libyan coast guard with new capacities. After eight years and expenditure of almost €60 million" ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2025/03/16/externalisation-of-migration-fortress-europe-now-has-a-watch-tower-in-libya/ | Source: Site36    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:31:40

• "We may access or disclose information ... to protect the rights or property of Microsoft." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/2014/3/21/5533814/google-yahoo-apple-all-share-microsofts-troubling-email-privacy-policy | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:34:54

• "The company says its decision is justified." ☛ https://money.cnn.com/2014/03/21/technology/security/microsoft-email/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:35:06

• "Our recent interest in Cellebrite arises from two key developments. First, we have seen a surge of activists asking us to examine phones that were returned after being seized." ☛ https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/03/a-deep-dive-into-cellebrite-how-it-came-to-be/ | Source: Osservatorio Nessuno    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:35:19

• "In the previous blog post, we summarized part of the Cellebrite product history, and grasped some insights on the market of surveillance software and equipment aimed at mobile forensics." ☛ https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/03/a-deep-dive-into-cellebrite-android-support-as-of-february-2025/ | Source: Osservatorio Nessuno    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:35:57

• "Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices." ☛ https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-vulnerabilities/ | Source: Signal    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:36:24

• Surveillance by KSA: "Importantly, Niantic's popular live events, community-building apps, and real-world exploration features will remain a key focus under Scopely's management. " ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/saudi-arabia-speeds-gaming-hub-vision-it-acquires-pokemon-go-game-developer-35-billion-1731898 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:37:05

• "your California privacy rights" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/privacy-laws-for-slacker-states/ | Source: Don Marti http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/07/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Reported_to_the_California_Privacy_P.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:37:40

• "DOGE’s “nearly unlimited” access violates privacy laws and presents massive information security risks, they said." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-considers-blocking-doge-from-accessing-social-security-data-of-millions-of-americans/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:37:51

• Windows TCO: "Akira is a ransomware attack aimed at high-profile targets, first discovered in 2023 and known for ludicrously high ransom requests" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/akira-ransomware-cracked-with-rtx-4090-new-exploit-to-brute-force-encryption-attack | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:38:33

• "add explicit labels to generated and synthesized content." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/china-will-enforce-clear-flagging-of-all-ai-generated-content-starting-from-september | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:40:38

• "Now, it’s lifting the lid on Ernie X1, which it says delivers performance on par with DeepSeek R1 at just half the price of its rival." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/03/16/baidu-debuts-first-ai-reasoning-model-compete-deepseek/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:40:44

• "In this post, I’ll provide a short overview of generative LLM inference and go over DistServe’s internals." ☛ https://michalpitr.substack.com/p/paper-journal-disaggragated-serving | Source: Michal Pitr    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:41:07

• "This report developed jointly with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute should serve as an early warning for potential malicious uses and abuses" ☛ https://unicri.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/Malicious%20Use%20of%20AI%20-%20UNCCT-UNICRI%20Report_Web.pdf |    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:41:14

• "This essay examines the disappearance of proprietary hosted AI models and the implications of that on research, accountability" ☛ https://vale.rocks/posts/ai-model-history-is-being-lost | Source: Declan Chidlow    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:41:22

• "I was impressed with how much effort the scientists that she studied put into checking what the LLMs produced. [...] And yet, the LLMs still inserted bugs that the scientists missed." ☛ https://computinged.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/how-scientists-learn-computing-and-use-llms-to-program/ | Source: CER http://techrights.org/o/2023/02/10/copilot-in-court/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:42:04

• "Across all bots, over 60% of answers were wrong. Perplexity was least-worst at 37% wrong, and Grok was 94% wrong." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/16/cjr-llms-are-still-really-bad-search-engines/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:42:14

• "The AI didn't stop at merely refusing—it offered a paternalistic justification for its decision" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/ai-coding-assistant-refused-to-write-code-suggested-user-learn-himself/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:42:21

• Netanyahu Moves to Fire Israel’s Domestic Intelligence Chief ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/middleeast/israel-netanyahu-firing-intelligence-chief.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:43:04

• "Hmm, yeah. Life is strange sometimes. The answers don't grow on trees; they seem to be buried deep underground. It just takes the courage to start digging." ☛ https://yordi.me/lost-in-work/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:45:46

• "We observed associations between cumulative marijuana use and multiple epigenetic markers across time" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-use-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-scientists-find | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:46:09

• "No, it's not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be." ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/human-intelligence-declining-trends | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:46:27

• "Hippocratic AI initially promoted a rate of $9 an hour for its AI assistants, compared with about $40 an hour for a registered nurse." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/as-ai-nurses-reshape-hospital-care-human-nurses-are-pushing-back/articleshow/119094427.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:47:04

• "For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/good-times-are-over/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:50:06

• "Of course I took notes. This was the conference where everyone laughed at each other for taking notes." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/03/pkm-summit-2025/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:51:19

• "With the latest phase finally delivered, I wanted to conduct a detailed postmortem to understand why my perception of the actual work was so off" ☛ https://davestewart.co.uk/blog/the-work-is-never-just-the-work/ |    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:51:55

• "Tiny Pointers" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:55:22

• "Around the world, on separate continents that had no contact with each other, multiple groups of ancient humans invented farming more or less simultaneously — and scientists still don't know how or why." ☛ https://futurism.com/human-development-simultaneous-revolution-farming | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:55:39

• "Every year on March 14 — Albert Einstein’s birthday — math lovers can raise a piece of pie to Pi (π) Day, an international celebration of one of math’s most famous constants: the irrational, never-ending number π." ☛ https://nflatrea.bearblog.dev/happy-pi-day/ | Source: Noë Flatreaud    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:55:53

• "The LSST camera completed construction in April of 2024, but moving the world’s largest digital camera (which weighs over 3,000 kilograms / 6,000 pounds) proved to be a long and complex process." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/astrophotography/the-car-sized-camera-that-can-see-a-golf-ball-from-15-miles-away-is-nearly-ready-to-start-taking-epic-images-of-the-galaxy | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:57:03

• "Questlove defends the “audacity” Maria Shriver showed — in an old interview that’s central to his film — by trying to get Sly Stone to acknowledge he “blew it” in letting drugs derail his career." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/sly-lives-questlove-interview-earth-wind-and-fire-dangelo-1235297460/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:57:48

• "Sly and the Family Stone achieved unprecedented success in the late Sixties, with number one records, a star turn at Woodstock, a cover on Rolling Stone magazine." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/film/2025/03/exploration-of-sly-stones-genius | Source: New Statesman    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:58:03

• "In computing the DEC PDP-11 is something of a geologic feature." ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/03/more-pro-for-dec-professional-380.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:58:30

• "To get the pictures off the cartridge I built an ESP8266-based WiFi printer emulator." ☛ https://www.xythobuz.de/2025_03_16_gameboy.html | Source: Thomas Buck    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 07:58:47

• We Were Badly Misled About Covid ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/covid-pandemic-lab-leak.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:04:43

• Separatist suicide attack in southwestern Pakistan kills at least five ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/separatist-suicide-attack-in-southwestern-pakistan-kills-at-least-five    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:05:08

• How To Install Realtek Wifi Drivers on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-realtek-wifi-drivers-debian-12/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:07:12

• How To Install XFCE Desktop Environment on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-xfce-desktop-environment-manjaro/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:07:23

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

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:07:40

• "The obvious general approach is for your program to run a little HTTP server that listens on some port on localhost, and capture the code when the (local) browser gets the HTTP redirect to localhost and visits the server." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OIDCRedirectUriNotes | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:12:00

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

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:12:19

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

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:12:31

• "Peter Eckel has been busy adding support for describing DNSSEC Key and DNSSEC Policy templates to NetBox DNS." ☛ https://jpmens.net/2025/03/16/dnssec-policy-and-key-template-support-in-netbox-dns/ | Source: Jan Piet Mens    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:12:51

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

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:13:08

• How To Install Symfony Framework on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-symfony-framework-linux-mint-22/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:13:56

• "When I wrote about how SAML and OIDC differed in sharing information, where SAML shares every SAML 'attribute' by default and OIDC has 'scopes' for its 'claims'" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OIDCScopesAndPrograms | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:14:15

• From The Daily Weekly: UMich receives Antisemitism Warning, Plans a Satellite Launch and More. ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/podcasts/from-the-daily-weekly-umich-receives-antisemitism-warning-plans-a-satellite-launch-and-more/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:15:58

• Finding invoices for our first family PC from 1992! ☞ https://rubenerd.com/finding-the-invoice-for-our-first-family-pc/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:16:39

• plagiarism services ☞ https://danielmiessler.com/blog/thinking-coding    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:22:52

• "This post explores how GNU Assembler and LLVM integrated assembler generate relocations, an important step to generate a relocatable file." ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/2025-03-16-relocation-generation-in-assemblers | Source: MaskRay    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:23:09

• "You are given a typewriter with lowercase english letters a to z arranged in a circle." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/time-balls.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:24:07

• "Through the power of Go, it’s impossible to just pass data around without additional ceremony. I can’t overstate how strange it is that in the world of Go, calling a function and being able to store the result in a list is the exception, and not the rule" ☛ https://herecomesthemoon.net/2025/03/multiple-return-values-in-go/ |    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:24:29

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Progress ShareFile ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-progress-sharefile/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:32:29

• Framework 13 AMD Setup with FreeBSD ☞ https://euroquis.nl/freebsd/2025/03/16/framework.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:33:08

• Overheard coffee shop chatter, week 12 2025 ☞ https://rubenerd.com/coffee-shop-chatter-week-12-2025/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:35:29

• 6 Best Free and Open Source PHP Microframeworks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-php-microframeworks/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:36:09

• O3DE – multi-platform 3D engine ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/o3de-multi-platform-3d-engine/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:36:24

• IncreaseOS – Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/increaseos-debian-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:36:44

• Many Reports About Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Layoffs Are LLM Slop Based on Other LLM Slop (From Microsoft-controlled LLMs That Downplay the Layoffs or Give Badly Outdated Data) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/15/Many_Reports_About_Microsoft_Layoffs_Are_LLM_Slop_Based_on_Othe.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:37:42

• Expect GNU/Linux to Rise Sharply in China (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Expect_GNU_Linux_to_Rise_Sharply_in_China.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:37:49

• When You Don't Want to Tinker Much You Just Use GNU/Linux, Not backdoored Windows (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/When_You_Don_t_Want_to_Tinker_Much_You_Just_Use_GNU_Linux_Not_W.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:37:54

• ICE Adds 700,000 Immigrants With Removal Orders to Criminal Database. Majority-Black Ohio Town Left to Defend Itself. ☞ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/03/17/ice-adds-700000-immigrants-with-removal-orders-to-criminal-database/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:57:19

• Illuminating Microsoft's Code of Conduct (CoC) Hypocrisy ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Illuminating_Microsoft_s_Code_of_Conduct_CoC_Hypocrisy.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:58:08

• Facebook REALLY, REALLY, R E A L L Y Does Not Want You to Read This Book ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Facebook_REALLY_REALLY_R_E_A_L_L_Y_Does_Not_Want_You_to_Read_Th.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 08:58:18

• Slow News Cycles Are Part of a Trend, Technology Gravitating Towards Rich People's Interests ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Slow_News_Cycles_Are_Part_of_a_Trend_Technology_Gravitating_Tow.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:00:35

• Coming Soon, the Next Chapter About the Crisis of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Coming_Soon_the_Next_Chapter_About_the_Crisis_of_the_Open_Sourc.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:00:56

• Mozilla Firefox is Probably Already Below 2% in the UK (United Kingdom) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Mozilla_Firefox_is_Probably_Already_Below_2_in_the_UK_United_Ki.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:01:04

• Recent Site Changes and Looking Towards 2026 (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Recent_Site_Changes_and_Looking_Towards_2026.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:01:22

• Garuda GNU/Linux Might Be the Best Looking Desktop OS on the Market ☞ https://thenewstack.io/garuda-linux-might-be-the-best-looking-desktop-os-on-the-market/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:02:23

• "By default, PostgreSQL uses synchronous commit, meaning when your application commits a transaction, PostgreSQL: [...]" ☛ https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/75/selective-asynchronous-commits-in-postgresql-balancing-durability-and-performance/ | Source: Shayon Mukherjee    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:09:39

• "powerful toolkit for data recovery, system repair, and disk management, has just released version 12, which includes a major upgrade to the LTS Linux kernel, moving to v6.12.19." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/systemrescue-12-released-with-bcachefs-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:10:34

• "I was not disappointed." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/garuda-linux-might-be-the-best-looking-desktop-os-on-the-market/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:10:43

• "We brought back some of the tactile controls with GUIs—graphical user interfaces. We skeumorphed the heck out of our screens, with digital switches, flat sliders, and folder icons." ☛ https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/our-interfaces-have-lost-their-senses |    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:11:31

• South Korea calls to avoid impact on US cooperation after ‘sensitive’ country designation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-calls-to-avoid-impact-on-us-cooperation-after-sensitive-country-designation    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:13:07

• South Korea’s ruling party says will respect Yoon impeachment verdict ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-ruling-party-says-will-respect-yoon-impeachment-verdict    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:13:17

• South Korea's opposition says delay of Yoon impeachment ruling is irresponsible ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-koreas-opposition-says-delay-of-yoon-impeachment-ruling-is-irresponsible    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:13:26

• South Korea’s cable car boom: Not everyone is excited ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-koreas-cable-car-boom-not-everyone-is-excited    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:13:42

• South Korea protestors rally for anticipated impeachment verdict against President Yoon ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/south-korea-protestors-rally-for-anticipated-impeachment-verdict-against-president-yoon/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:13:53

• Troubled times for Malaysia aid initiatives with USAid funding freeze ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/troubled-times-for-malaysia-aid-initiatives-with-usaid-funding-freeze    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:14:32

• Malaysia’s Subang Airport soars again with Batik Air’s expansion ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-subang-airport-soars-again-with-batik-airs-expansion    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:14:55

• China looks to boost consumption amid consumer squeeze ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-looks-to-boost-consumption-amid-consumer-squeeze    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:15:13

• Thai officials set to visit China to check on Uighur deportees ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-officials-set-to-visit-china-to-check-on-uighur-deportees    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:15:27

• Houthis Vow Retaliation After U.S. Strikes in Yemen ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/middleeast/houthis-us-airstrikes-yemen-response.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:16:05

• Did you see this Linux DE running on Android? https://www.androidpolice.com/thread/did-you-see-this-linux-de-running-on-android/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:17:12

• "Using Linux isn't just a practical way to use a computer. It's a way of life—one that can forever change the way you think about computing." https://www.howtogeek.com/tidbits-of-wisdom-you-gain-from-using-linux/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:17:35

• "SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview Brings Linux Kernel 6.11, Newer Arch Linux Base, Plasma 6.2.5, and Many Updates for Input and Connectivity" https://wccftech.com/valve-rolls-out-steamos-3-7-0-preview/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:17:55

• "From your everyday talking cows to upside-down, rainbow-colored, ASCII art made from ridiculously large prime numbers, these Linux commands range from mildly humorous to outright bizarre. Just because these commands are useless doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use them!" https://www.howtogeek.com/useless-linux-commands-everyone-needs-to-know/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:18:20

• "Adding tabs makes it easier to multitask, as you can issue commands without having to wait for a process to complete." https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-terminal-tabs-3535373/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:18:47

• alternative search engines most users did not know exist ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/03/16/alternative-search-engines-most-users-did-not-know-exist/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:19:19

• US Officials Pledge To Keep Hitting Huthi Targets In Yemen ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/yemen-huthis-iran-gulf-us-attacks/33349678.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:20:50

• Why the US ordered air strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250316-why-us-ordered-military-assaults-on-iran-backed-houthi-rebels-in-yemen    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:20:58

• Iran denies aiding Yemen's Houthi rebels after US strikes and a threat from Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250316-iran-denies-aiding-yemen-s-houthi-rebels-after-us-strikes-and-a-threat-from-trump    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 09:21:19

• Panasonic ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/a-look-at-the-panasonic-fs-a1fm/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:49:04

• Distances ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/transmitting-wireless-power-over-longer-distances/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:49:27

• When Brands Need a Wild Shoe, They Hire This Man ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/style/mens-shoes-shintaro-yamamoto-kids-love-gaite.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:49:49

• Indonesia’s ex-president Jokowi plans to form ‘Super Party’ to boost political influence ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesias-ex-president-jokowi-plans-to-form-super-party-to-boost-political-influence    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:50:05

• 📝 16 March 2025 at 22:30 - Just read thewk post on building his Polar Explorer II... ☞ https://kevquirk.com/notes/20250316-2230    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:50:50

• Current Probe ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/inside-a-budget-current-probe/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:51:46

• Amiga ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/the-amiga-no-one-wanted/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:52:46

• Do Cats Have Friends? Experts Reveal The Truth About Feline Friendship ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/do-cats-have-friends-experts-reveal-the-truth-about-feline-friendship    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:53:13

• Whale Pee Transports Nutrients Across Thousands of Miles, Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/whale-pee-transports-nutrients-across-thousands-of-miles-study-reveals    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:53:31

• NeoAPT simplified replacement for apt utility ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202503/neoapt-simplified-replacement-for-apt-utility.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:53:55

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 11 (Mar 10 – 16, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-11-mar-10-16-2025/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:54:17

• Seems like a real article from Brian Fagioli, for a change ☞ https://betanews.com/2025/03/16/debian-linux-1210-st-patricks-day/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:55:39

• Updated PineTab-V RISC-V tablet ships with Debian 12-based GNU/Linux image ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/16/updated-pinetab-v-risc-v-tablet-ships-with-debian-12-based-linux-image/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:56:59

• How to list upgradeable packages on FreeBSD using pkg ☞ https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/pkg-command-list-upgradeable-packages-freebsd/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:57:44

• Ubuntu to Explore Rust-Based “uutils” as Potential GNU Core Utilities Replacement ☞ https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/ubuntu-to-explore-rust-based-uutils-as-potential-gnu-core-utilities-replacement/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:58:07

• Beekeeper Studio – cross-platform SQL editor and database manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/beekeeper-studio-cross-platform-sql-editor-database-manager/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:59:17

• Leaf – slim and lightweight PHP framework ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/leaf-slim-lightweight-php-framework/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 14:59:35

• SysD Manager – GUI tool to manage systemd units ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sysd-manager-gui-tool-manage-systemd-units/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:00:00

• Canonical/Ubuntu will go against GPL, just like GAFAM http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/24/In_Case_Rust_Censors_It_Rust_Has_Long_Been_All_About_Censorship.shtml    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:01:44

• Interpretable probabilistic kernel ridge regression using matern 3/2 kernels ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/interpretable-probabilistic-kernel-ridge-regression-using-matern-3-2-kernels/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:02:44

• Dihydroxyacetone Man orders strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen and issues new warning ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250316-trump-orders-strikes-on-iran-backed-houthi-rebels-in-yemen-and-issues-new-warning    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:04:18

• Frank Ch. Eigler: moment of zen ☞ http://web.elastic.org/~fche/blog4/posts/moment_of_zen/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:05:00

• Fedora 40 approaching end of life ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2025/03/16/fedora-40-approaching-end-of-life/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:05:31

• Lazy Reading for 2025/03/16 ☞ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/03/16/lazy-reading-for-2025-03-16/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:06:27

• Zeeshan Ali ☞ http://zee-nix.blogspot.com/2025/03/making-stm32wl55-work-with-rust-i.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:06:56

• Commissioner Computer vs. Daniela Klette: Use of Hey Hi (AI) in RAF investigations raises questions ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/03/16/commissioner-computer-vs-daniela-klette-use-of-ai-in-raf-investigations-raises-questions/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:11:20

• IP as an Antitrust Exception: SCOTUS Denies Review in $1.6B BMC-IBM Dispute ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/antitrust-exception-dispute.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:12:22

• Kernel prepatch 6.14-rc7 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1014317/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:12:41

• Don’t Fool Yourself Into Thinking It Will Stop With Mahmoud Khalil ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/opinion/trump-khalil-columbia-speech.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:19:24

• The Case of Mahmoud Khalil ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/24/the-case-of-mahmoud-khalil    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:19:36

• U.S. Atari parts store still open after 41 years, has spent $100K+ designing new parts — last original Atari hardware launched 32 years ago ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/u-s-atari-parts-store-still-open-after-41-years-has-spent-usd100k-designing-new-parts-last-original-atari-hardware-launched-32-years-ago    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:20:55

• "But there’s an even older technology that recorded voice on hair-thin stainless steel wire and [Mr. Carlson] happened upon a recorded reel of wire. Can he extract the audio from it? Of course! You can see and hear the results in the video below" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/wire-recording-speaks-again/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:21:37

• "After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/blue-ghost-watches-lunar-eclipse-from-the-lunar-surface/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:22:01

• Mysterious Twist Revealed in Saga of Human-Neanderthal Hybrid Child ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-twist-revealed-in-saga-of-human-neanderthal-hybrid-child    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:22:12

• Stranded NASA Astronauts Embrace Relief Crew in Joyous Scenes ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/stranded-nasa-astronauts-embrace-relief-crew-in-joyous-scenes    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:22:26

• Looking at Images of Nature Does Something Powerful in The Brain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/looking-at-images-of-nature-does-something-powerful-in-the-brain    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:22:49

• Ebola May Be Cured With a Pill, Monkey Experiment Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ebola-may-be-cured-with-a-pill-monkey-experiment-suggests    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:23:01

• Live Nation’s DOJ Antitrust Battle to Continue Under Convicted Felon — Live Nation Motion to Dismiss Denied ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/16/live-nation-doj-antitrust-battle-trump/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:23:39

• Dihydroxyacetone Man administration moves to dismiss lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma over immigration laws ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/trump-administration-moves-to-dismiss-lawsuits-against-iowa-and-oklahoma-over-immigration-laws/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:24:07

• Baluch Militants Attack Pakistani Security Convoy, Killing At Least 5 ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-baloch-attack-afghanistan/33349542.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:24:18

• US immigration authorities arrest Palestinian Columbia student following protest fallout ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/us-immigration-authorities-arrest-palestinian-and-indian-columbia-students-following-protest-fallout/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:25:20

• Commenting on, or criticising, court cases is both legal and helpful in Hong Kong ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/16/commenting-on-or-criticising-court-cases-is-both-legal-and-helpful-in-hong-kong/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:25:52

• Netanyahu moves to oust domestic security chief amid tensions over Oct.7 attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250316-netanyahu-moves-to-oust-domestic-security-chief-amid-tensions-over-oct-7-attacks    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:26:09

• Bits from Debian: Debian Med Sprint in Berlin ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2025/03/debian-med-sprint-2025.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:26:42

• CarConnectivity and the ID.Buzz ☞ https://www.thelins.se/johan/blog/2025/03/carconnectivity-and-the-id-buzz/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:27:42

• Mirai Bot now incroporating (malformed) DrayTek Vigor Router Exploits, (Sun, Mar 16th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31770    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:29:03

• Pope seen in photo for first time since admitted to hospital ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/italy/20250316-pope-seen-for-first-time-since-admitted-to-hospital-in-photo-released-by-vatican    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:29:38

• Russell Coker: Article Recommendations via FOSS ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/03/16/article-recommendations-foss/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:30:26

• Is a Blanket Music Licensing System Ahead for Generative Hey Hi (AI) Platforms? ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/16/blanket-music-licensing-system-genai/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:31:00

• Google Weighs In On the ‘US Hey Hi (AI) Action Plan’ — With an Unsurprising Take on Copyrighted Content ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/14/google-weighs-in-on-us-ai-action-plan/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:31:20

• UN chief warns of rising Islamophobia amid widespread anti-Muslim government rhetoric ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/un-chief-warns-of-rising-islamophobia-amid-widespread-anti-muslim-government-rhetoric/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:31:58

• Kurdish rule in northeast Syria under pressure after deal with Damascus ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250316-kurdish-rule-in-northeast-syria-under-pressure-after-deal-with-damascus    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:32:22

• Reporters Without Borders demands release of detained Iraqi Kurdistan journalists ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/reporters-without-borders-demands-release-of-detained-iraqi-kurdistan-journalists/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:33:01

• New Huawei Kirin X90 chip revealed in state report — possible server and PC chip set to replace the aging Kunpeng 920 design ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/new-huawei-kirin-x90-chip-revealed-in-state-report-possibly-set-to-replace-the-aging-kunpeng-920-design    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:42:21

• Children Try to Cheer Pope Francis During His Hospital Stay ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/europe/children-cheer-pope-francis-hospital.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 15:42:53

• Playboi Carti’s New Album Sets Spotify Record for 2025 ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/03/16/playboi-cartis-new-album-sets-spotify-record-for-2025/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:20:52

• Scenes From Eight States Battered by Weekend Storms ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/us/storms-south-midwest-tornado-photos-video.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:21:15

• ‘My team and I are similarly fearless’: Leader John Lee praises Chinese animation hit ‘Ne Zha 2’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/17/my-team-and-i-are-similarly-fearless-leader-john-lee-praises-chinese-animation-hit-ne-zha-2/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:21:52

• Bangladesh court upholds death sentence of 20 students in 2019 murder case ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/bangladesh-court-upholds-death-sentence-of-20-students-in-2019-murder-case    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:22:41

• Jetway F35-ASL1 – A 3.5-inch defective chip maker Intel Atom x7433RE SBC with dual 2.5GbE, six COM ports, and triple 4K display outputs ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/17/jetway-f35-asl1-a-3-5-inch-intel-atom-x7433re-sbc-with-dual-2-5gbe-six-com-ports-and-triple-4k-display-outputs/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:23:11

• Waveshare CM5-NANO-B is a compact Raspberry Pi CM5 carrier board with the same dimensions as the Compute Module 5 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/17/waveshare-cm5-nano-b-compact-raspberry-pi-cm5-carrier-board/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:23:42

• "Haha we were told computers would improve our lives and we would be able to enjoy more free time. Quite the oppousite happened. AI will make us more needful for free time to learn a real trade like welding or coding jobs we were recently told would replace mining operationing" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jpgm840w    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:33:51

• "According to HR and staffing the layoffs, non hiring of US citizens and bringing in more visa workers, laying off US resources and certain ethnic groups only hiring 'their own' (staffing words, not mine) is not discrimination and it is tuff luck as far as IBM is concerned." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp9my5y3    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:35:14

• "With the new administration, if you can call it that, backing anti DEI/woke mentality and the courts bought, trying to do anything legal once you get the axe will be a tuff go at best. Document document document. Good luck folks, you are going to need it as IBM carries little weight outside their walls. Big blue ain't agile in the eyes of the rest of world." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jp9my5y3    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:35:21

• "Layoffs in the US?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jpj8mm5e    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:35:46

• Freeware image editor GIMP 3.0 arrives after seven years of incubation | Tom's Hardware ⚓ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/freeware-image-editor-gimp-3-0-arrives-after-seven-years-of-incubation iophk: "The editorial team there is very well aware of the difference between freeware and free software and even open source software."    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:38:55

• iophk: has staffing changed at Tom's Hardware lately? This is not the first microsofism they have used in the last few weeks...    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 16:39:48

• That time when I ordered a watch but got something more gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-03-17-that-time-when-ordered-a-watch.txt    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:16:22

• "It's been five years since the coronavirus 19 pandemic arrived in my country. I embargoed these journal entries, but now all parties have retired. I lightly edited for length, clarity, redaction." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-03-16-pandem.txt    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:17:42

• How forced labor became the “liberal” agenda gemini://idiomdrottning.org/arbetslinjen    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:18:25

• "If 40000 people have a problem it’s not very helpful that a thousand people are loudly and repeatedly clamoring that they don’t have that problem. That’s true whether that’s 40000 out of 50000 or it’s 40000 out of 1000000." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/noise-positivity    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:18:57

• What do I want to do before that? gemini://idiomdrottning.org/do-before    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:20:47

• Employers hate extrinsic motivation gemini://idiomdrottning.org/paycheck    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:21:23

• "Over the past few months, I've been slowly wiping my old presence from traditional online spaces- my social media, Google, and other accounts are completely gone." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2537    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:26:26

• "When I first started programming Metalium. Memory was a "you do this and that then it works" kind of thing. Which doesn't sit well with me - at that point I understand each Tensix core only has direct access to it's own SRAM. But never figured out how all the magic parameters in DRAM allocation works." gemini://gemini.clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/03-17-memory-on-tenstorrent.gmi    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:27:08

• 🔤SpellBinding: BFGLURO Wordo: BURGS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-03-17.gmi    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:27:41

• "i had two dreams, but forgot the second one. my sleep hasn't been the best lately... my condition makes it so that i can't sleep continuously without having to wake up in the middle of the night :(" gemini://angelai.smol.pub/07    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:32:11

• Steven universe: vCJD edition chapter 5/ Entry for side E of vCJD gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2538    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:33:06

• "and he performed in the US for the first time in 40 years just recently this month?? wow!! that is so insane to me that this guy is out performing at 71 YEARS OLD. what a legend." gemini://angelai.smol.pub/08    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:34:01

• 🎧 BRASILIAN SKIES - masayoshi takanaka (8/10↺): mar 17, 2025 gemini://angelai.smol.pub/09    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:34:35

• Richard Stallman performs as Saint IGNUcius in the Church of Emacs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubzS1j4vh9Y    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:50:47

• EPO leaks up next at Techrights    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 17:54:13

• "The universe ended unexpectedly on a March Monday in 2025. To the relief of many, it came back a few days later much as before, but with one very significant change. One that may herald significant changes for all of us, inside its sphere or not." https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/17/universe_today_opinion/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 18:47:03

• GNU/Linux around all-time high in Chile https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/chile/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 18:49:40

• Layoffs loom as Intel’s new CEO moves to fix slow decision-making and chip production https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sju7afshkg    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 19:15:22

• Creative Technology cuts workforce, adding to global wave of tech layoffs https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/jobs/creative-technology-cuts-workforce-continues-wave-of-tech-layoffs    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 19:16:11

• "I recently found myself wondering how big various man pages are. Some are so long, they seem impenetrable, while others have very little detail at all. What can their size tell us about the Linux or macOS system they are on?" https://www.howtogeek.com/explored-biggest-linux-man-pages-what-i-learned/    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 19:24:24

• Researcher releases free GPU-Based decryptor for Linux Akira ransomware https://securityaffairs.com/175494/cyber-crime/free-decryptor-linux-akira-ransomware-brute-force.html    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 19:25:15

• Hands on: I tried the latest version of Zorin OS - here's what I thought of this Linux distro https://www.techradar.com/pro/zorin-os-17-review    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 19:57:11

• Hands on: I tried the latest version of Rocky Linux - read how it compares to other distros https://www.techradar.com/pro/rocky-linux-9-3-review    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 19:57:36

• "With visual change and new features in GNOME 48 to account for, the design team working on Yaru have dutifully update the theme to accommodate." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/ubuntu-25-04-yaru-theme-update-brings-new-icons    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 20:00:19

• "If you want to connect docker to access any port on your computer's localhost, here is what worked for me." gemini://xoc3.io/blog/2025-03-17    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 20:02:20

• 17 March 2025 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/170325.txt "While the weather begins to warm up, i somehow have the feeling that everything around is getting colder. There are calls to boycott products from the US emerging"    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 20:03:17

• "For a while now, I've been somewhat obsessed with them, due to their interesting nature that's somewhere between the sacred and the profane." gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2025-03-17-wayside-shrines-mapcomplete.gmi    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 20:04:17

• Goodbye, trees gemini://gem.sdf.org/beej/blog/2025-03-17-trees.gmi    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 20:05:36

• calm gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2539    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 20:15:08

• GNU/Linux at 6% in Bosnia And Herzegovina https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bosnia-and-herzegovina/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Monday, March 17, 2025 at 20:25:11