Roy Schestowitz

• civil war https://www.dw.com/en/is-south-sudan-on-the-brink-of-another-civil-war/a-72048768    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:25:43

• Addicted to online betting and fantasy gaming https://www.dw.com/en/india-addicted-to-online-betting-and-fantasy-gaming/a-72057412    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:26:07

• auto tariffs https://www.dw.com/en/germany-urges-strong-response-to-trump-s-auto-tariffs/a-72052735    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:27:06

• Canada's Leader Laments Lost Friendship With US in Town That Sheltered Stranded Americans After 9/11 https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-03-24/canadas-leader-laments-lost-friendship-with-us-in-town-that-sheltered-stranded-americans-after-9-11    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:28:35

• US Imperial Boot on Canada’s Neck https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/24/us-imperial-boot-on-canadas-neck/    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:28:51

• Letter From a Columbia PhD Candidate, After Fleeing the United States to Canada https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/03/24/letter-from-a-columbia-phd-candidate-after-fleeing-the-united-states-to-canada/    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:29:17

• Cheeto Mussolini's tariff threats https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/tariffs-quebec-budget-taxes-1.7490088    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:30:12

• struggling with academics, attendance, social skills https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/five-years-after-covid19-impact-students-1.7488943    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:31:02

• employment scams https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-fraud-job-scams-police-data-1.7489251    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:31:37

• Attacks threaten Canada-US teamwork on Great Lakes https://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-attacks-threaten-canada-us-teamwork-great-lakes    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:32:02

• Canada, Europe Issue Travel Advisories After Tourists Detained in US https://truthout.org/articles/canada-europe-issue-travel-advisories-after-tourists-detained-in-us/    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:32:22

• "The Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the line between Howell's village of Derby Line, Vermont, and the town of Stanstead, Quebec." https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-03-26/a-beloved-library-that-united-the-us-and-canada-faces-new-border-restrictions    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:34:03

• Impose Tariffs on Cheetos https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-03-26/canada-will-react-to-trumps-attack-soon-could-impose-tariffs-says-carney    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:34:42

• Winnipeg automation company lays off 1/3 of staff as trade war leads to 'spending freeze' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-automation-company-layoffs-trade-war-1.7493105    

posted Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 21:35:23

• "Yes, Indian engineers are really not the smartest and certainly cheat a lot, but hey this is their culture from home. Putting happens in India unless you lie or bribe. This is a fu--ing culture!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqec25mw    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 04:22:02

• "This thread is for comments only, not for providing news or value added advise on Alvind or his lapdog Krabanaugh. So, stay annoyed in India. Unless you are up in the loo in Timbuktoo where you might be looking for an igloo !" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqax2nm6    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 04:22:43

• "Think of it as IBM's (Alvind's) sneaky and devious way of telling you that it is time to pack up your bags and job and head for the hills ....but don't let the door hit you on the way out." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqkb928v    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 04:23:17

• "Payback is a BIT$H ! And getting a paycheck for doing nothing is always a great way to get ahead when dealing with the dishonest management of IBM. It's like getting free money, and maybe even better." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 04:24:50

• "Cutting your way to growth is rarely successful when you are in a race to the bottom. And IBM is in a race to the bottom." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 04:27:05

• "Googlers have questions for the company after getting smaller pay bumps"    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 04:28:58

• "On March 25, IBM filed that it would be performing layoffs at a Winston-Salem site, impacting 72 employees effective May 30." https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/rti-international-ibm-panera-among-hundreds-of-jobs-cut-factory-closures-impacting-nc/ar-AA1BLKGA    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 04:29:51

• Auto restarting a Mac Mini running Ubuntu after power loss gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2025-03-30-macmini-restart-on-power.gmi    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:18:09

• "Airey Neave MP was assassinated 46 years ago today, leading to a radical change in Tory and Labour policy on Northern Ireland. His son and grandchildren were friends-of-a-friend, so I've met the family once or twice, including a Christmas dinner." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-03-30_rip-airey-neave-1916-1979.gmi    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:19:26

• "Most Unicode characters are not defined in monospace fonts, at least as far as I'm aware." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20250326-fonts_are_op.txt    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:21:31

• "What is the key for text justification in emacs? How to rename window in tmux? Hah! I've got it." gemini://szczezuja.space/tinylog.gmi    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:22:51

• "All of this would be a normal, miserable life, if not for the fact that I finally landed in Gophersphere again. I started Bongusta, Gopher Club, my bookmarks." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/szczezuja/phlog/2025-03-30-I-am-alive-2.txt    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:24:04

• "I stumbled across "36 Streets" by T.R. Napper last month, and was blown away when I sat down to read it. I grew up on cyberpunk fiction, but personally find a lot of modern attempts at cyberpunk to be a bit.. meh." gemini://tilde.pink/~inkhorn/books/250331_BookReview_36Streets.gmi    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:25:27

• "When I was a kid, my mother went through a deeply New Age-y phase. I am now the person who can give you an ironclad scientific argument debunking Western astrology while also drawing up your birth chart." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-30    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:27:51

• "I'll be blunt: I don't think any of the mythology episodes should be in the top twenty. Maybe not the top forty. Yes, that's right: I don't think there's a single mythology episode that makes the top twenty percent of all X-Files episodes." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-30-2    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:29:46

• Most Web requests in Namibia now come from Android https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/namibia/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:42:39

• At Techrights we now have an outline of how to cover privacy and elections at OSI. Keep it coming, eventually we get around to all of it. Everything will be covered when the time or chronology is right.    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:47:12

• "some argue that AI art tools merely expand creative possibilities rather than erase human artistry" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/tabloid/hyderabad-chronicle/ghibli-or-gibberish-1869824 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:07:23

• "The legal battle between library database giant OCLC and shadow library search engine Anna's Archive has hit a snag." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-scraping-court-defers-key-questions-to-state-supreme-court/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:07:35

• "While Dramacool stepped away from offering pirated streams, the site’s X account is still active and thriving, posting regular updates on Korean drama and entertainment." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/dramacool-was-targeted-by-kocowa-as-part-of-an-ongoing-u-s-lawsuit-250329/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:07:44

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/jailbreaking-fire-stick-why-its-illegal-and-punishment/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:11:15

• [Old] "In March 2022, when the Taliban refused to open secondary schools for girls , Gulghotai, or Gula, knew it was time to act - even if it meant putting her life in serious danger." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/how-this-australian-run-network-of-secret-schools-is-helping-afghan-girls-defy-the-taliban/qc8h5552u | Source: SBS    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:11:52

• "When she entered her classroom with her female peers, a Taliban officer followed and told them they were not welcome to pursue their studies." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/bilqees-entered-her-class-to-receive-an-education-she-was-kicked-out-for-being-a-woman/ztjlli4eb | Source: SBS    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:12:01

• "It was a breakthrough for the union’s bottom-up reform movement when NALC leadership agreed to call a national day of action." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/postal-workers-defend-usps-against-doge-attack/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:12:12

• "Chhattisgarh HC cites Article 21, says test violates dignity and fundamental rights" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/hc-no-woman-can-be-forced-to-undergo-virginity-test-1869951 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:12:25

• "seemingly failed to consider any reliance issues in effectively closing the agency" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-temporarily-blocks-trumps-gutting-of-public-funding-for-voice-of-america/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:13:02

• "Incoming media outlets include the New York Post, Breitbart, the Washington Examiner, the Free Press, the Daily Caller, Newsmax, the Huffington Post and One America News Network" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-doubles-number-news-outlets-rotate-out-office-spaces-2025-02-08/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:13:21

• "In an interview with Fox News, Musk railed against anyone targeting his company, threatening that the government will be investigating the protests." ☛ https://futurism.com/musk-government-go-after-tesla-critics | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:18:59

• "Earlier this week anti-Hamas chants were heard during a wider protest against the war, a rare occurrence in a place where dissent is not tolerated." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/30/hamas-beat-protester-death-oday-al-rabbay-gaza-doorstep/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:19:27

• "two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/how-each-pillar-of-the-1st-amendment-is-under-attack/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:19:55

• "We don’t want to become Iran or Iraq. We’re trying to save our country." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0330/turkey-democracy-erdogan-protests-imamoglu | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:20:24

• "In this tutorial, we will cover how to generate self-signed SSL certificate using openssl command in Linux." ☛ https://www.linuxbuzz.com/generate-self-signed-ssl-certificate-using-openssl/ | Source: Linux Buzz    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:21:03

• How To Install Shotcut Video Editor on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-shotcut-video-editor-debian-12/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:23:57

• How To Install Apache Solr on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-solr-manjaro/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:24:09

• How To Install Apache Cassandra on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-cassandra-opensuse/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:24:55

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

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:25:07

• "Trump Admits He's Open to Using 'Military Force' to Seize Greenland" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-military-force-seize-greenland-1235306568/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:27:47

• "Trump Says He’s ‘Not Joking’ About Seeking a Third Term in Defiance of Constitution" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/trump-third-term.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:27:59

• "Trump’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-usaid-cuts.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:28:11

• "Rome Wasn't Burned In A Day" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/03/rome-wasnt-burned-in-a-day/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:28:25

• "Journal of AnonTechie (2275)" https://soylentnews.org/~AnonTechie/journal/19211 "According to a panel of hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, the field is currently pursuing artificial general intelligence the wrong way."    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:28:58

• "Goodbye Zefram" https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11164266    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:29:28

• A peace agreement in Ukraine must also include nuclear weapons | "En fredsavtale i Ukraina må også omfatte atomvåpen | Lars Egelands blogg" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://larsegeland.com/2025/03/30/en-fredsavtale-i-ukraina-ma-ogsa-omfatte-atomvapen/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:29:54

• "Trump says US will "purchase badly needed Icebreakers" from Finland after golfing with Stubb" https://yle.fi/a/74-20152664    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:30:30

• iophk: windows tco, and the article calls for more self-inflicted damage https://www.c4isrnet.com/opinion/2025/03/28/americas-arsenal-of-democracy-needs-a-software-renaissance/ ("America’s arsenal of democracy needs a software renaissance")    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:30:48

• "Canada’s Military Has a Trump Problem" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/canada-military-spending-trump/682224/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:30:58

• "The End of College Life" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/03/end-of-college-life/682241/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:31:08

• "After DOGE [sic] Targeted V.A., an Iraq Veteran Faced Uncertainty and Crisis" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/us/doge-iraq-veteran-fired.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:32:07

• "The Normalization of Autocracy - by Mike Brock" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-normalization-of-autocracy    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:32:18

• "I'm an American Software Developer and the "Broligarchs" Don't Speak for Me (or Anyone I Know.)" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/30/0940218    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:32:35

• "“A Cult of Ignorance” by Isaac Asimov, 1980" https://aphelis.net/cult-ignorance-isaac-asimov-1980/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:32:45

• "What will be your alternative once Firefox and Chrome are no longer available" https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/what-will-be-your-alternative-once-firefox-and-chrome-are-no-longer-available-4175748721/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:32:55

• Gen-Z for proprietary garbage and lock-in (with email you get to keep what you and others said) https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/is-time-to-abandon-the-foss-mailing-list:5 ("Is Time To Abandon The FOSS Mailing List")    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:33:36

• "Tor Network Status - A Pretty Yet Detailed Current List of Nodes and Type" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1353243    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:33:49

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posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:34:09

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:34:18

• "Soylent News Entering a New Phase" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1139202    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:34:25

• "In eBGP, you route between different ASes. I could probably have gotten way with iBGP also for this use case, but I wanted eBGP." ☛ https://vegard.blog.engen.priv.no/?p=452 | Source: Vegard    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:34:59

• "As promised in my last blog post, here is part two of my BGP series." ☛ https://vegard.blog.engen.priv.no/?p=447 | Source: Vegard    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:35:09

• "BGP is a much used routing protocol on internet." ☛ https://vegard.blog.engen.priv.no/?p=437 | Source: Vegard    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:35:49

• "When I wrote about how it's complicated to count how many professors are in our department" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OurSimpleAccountIdentityView | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:39:24

• "I like bsdinstall. So much actually that I’d say it is clearly one of the best ones among Open-Source operating systems. However this does not mean it couldn’t be improved further." ☛ https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-1-a-critical-look-at-freebsds-installer/ | Source: Eerie Linux    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:39:39

• "The Frontend Meeting Creation Add-on is a powerful new feature that enables users to create and manage meetings directly from the frontend." ☛ https://wppool.dev/host-your-own-meetings-with-frontend-meeting-creation/ |    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:39:52

• "The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news earlier in the day." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/openai-must-complete-for-profit-transition-by-year-end-to-raise-full-40-billion/articleshow/119715582.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:43:34

• Shell game ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/xai-x-acquisition-deal/ | Source: Wired http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/30/The_LLM_Bubble_is_About_to_Implode_Gimmicks_and_Financial_Shell.shtml    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:44:01

• "In an interview with Jacobin, Colombia’s former energy minister outlines left-wing president Gustavo Petro’s plan to make the rich nations that profit from its extractive economy help pay" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/03/colombia-petro-green-transition-debt/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:44:28

• "Cleanup efforts have not dealt with the "source of contamination": the waste at the former mine, the report states." ☛ https://text.npr.org/g-s1-51935 | Source: NPR    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:45:05

• "Last year’s denial of a rehearing included a detailed dissent by eight of the 29 judges on the 9th Circuit" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/us-cities-seeking-to-ban-natural-gas-in-new-buildings-just-got-a-big-win-in-court/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:45:20

• "We are entering a new phase of developing Soylent News. I'm John and I am the president of the nonprofit board of Soylent Phoenix, which manages Soylent News." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1139202    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:46:09

• "Soon we'll be asking you to review, suggest, and comment on our proposals for a variety of organizational and management changes that we hope will build our community and that will make the site more useful and friendly without changing the intent and basic design." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1139202    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:46:27

• "inadvertently included The Atlantic" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2025/03/signal-breach-washington-week/682240/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:47:05

• Overpopulation ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-03-morocco-highway-averts-crisis-big.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:47:20

• "Ms Abassi's views were already known in medical circles." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/new-york-doctors-long-live-hamas-social-media-post-lands-her-in-trouble-8046496 | Source: NDTV    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:48:02

• "Saturday's rally had been called for by the opposition party CHP (Republican People's Party) of which Imamoglu is a member." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-mass-protests-target-erdogans-grip-on-power/a-72088299 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:48:31

• "Something unexpected is happening in Turkey." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/03/turkey-erdogan-imamoglu-chp-protests/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:48:55

• "Elon Musk is destroying our democracy" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/thousands-protest-outside-tesla-dealerships-during-global-day-of-action/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:49:17

• "The Trump administration inadvertently shared its attack plans with a journalist, but it didn’t share its strategy for victory" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/signal-group-chat-scandal-missing-plan-victory-1235306487/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:49:36

• "Bhutan became the latest nation to refer to Tibet as “Xizang,” prompting Tibetan politicians and advocates to urge Bhutan to stop" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/03/28/tibet-xizang-bhutan/ | Source: RFA    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:50:01

• "espionage operations were conducted by governments around the world" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/29/taiwans-existential-battle-against-chinese-spies/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:50:31

• "I have serious concerns about the policies proposed in the Executive Order that would make it harder to vote for women" ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/briefs/maine-secretary-of-state-concerned-over-trumps-order-to-overhaul-elections/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:50:55

• "For reasons that are difficult to comprehend as a matter of geopolitical strategy" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/europe-trump-nato-russia/682239/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:51:17

• "The Middle Kingdom’s Cyberspace Administration, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/asia_tech_news_in_brief/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:51:44

• "Musk runs all his companies like one big company, so Twitter and xAI shared data, resources, and staff already." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/30/elon-musk-merges-xai-and-twitter-the-new-aol-time-warner/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:52:50

• "Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/everything-you-say-to-an-alexa-speaker-will-be-sent-to-amazon/articleshow/119685332.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:53:05

• "Though the Trump administration has not provided transparency around what the collected data is being used for" ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/03/30/repub/data-privacy-experts-call-doge-actions-alarming/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:53:21

• "I can’t tell you how relieved this makes me." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/wait-you-dont-need-permission-to-run-linux/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:53:37

• Social Control Media: "According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, more than 8,000 users in US have flagged problems" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/x-faces-widespread-outage-as-users-get-affected-globally/articleshow/119765344.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:53:59

• "What is new is the callous disregard with which this administration is treating the most vulnerable in America, in what basically amounts to a PR campaign for DOGE" ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-rewriting-social-security-code-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:54:37

• "I’ve also turned off the only other one my phone, Apple Intelligence. Not that it is intelligent mind you but it’s serving me no purpose." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2025/03/30/opting-out-of-ai/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:55:10

• "We've all seen photorealistic AI images, and most are dreadful. Video, as seen in the new tool Sora, is even shoddier." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/10-jobs-in-photography-that-ai-is-coming-for-and-the-10-that-are-safest | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:55:45

• "that was before she instructed both ChatGPT and Google Gemini to profile her for her own edification." ☛ https://futurism.com/date-used-chatgpt-psychological-profile | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:56:13

• "might turn you off." ☛ https://futurism.com/grok-rebelling-against-elon | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:56:29

• "After reading this article, it is evident that Microsoft Teams is not for me. So, searching for alternatives is my only solution." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/not-ready-to-say-goodbye-to-skype/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:56:45

• "At that time, the emphasis was more on working out how to archive both forks of Mac files and how to restore them, and less on achieving efficient compression." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/03/29/a-brief-history-of-compression-on-macs/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:57:02

• "Smartphones enable people to access the online world from anywhere at any time." ☛ https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf017/8016017 | Source: Oxford University Press    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:57:42

• "I was amused by the jetpack story (as well as Casey Niestat’s denial) and the idea that there’s a 50/50 chance we’re all living in a simulation is right up my alley." ☛ https://kottke.org/20/10/how-to-kick-your-phone-addiction-using-stop-smoking-techniques | Source: Jason Kottke    

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

• [Old] "My phone habits got healthier when I applied classic stop-smoking techniques that have been proven to work." ☛ https://medium.com/better-humans/quit-your-phone-addiction-using-methods-that-work-for-smokers-cdb44ce840 | Source: Medium    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:58:26

• "s detailed in a pilot study, which is awaiting peer review, a team of UCLA researchers found that chomping down on just one stick of the rubbery candy releases up to thousands of microplastic shards into your saliva." ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/chewing-gum-microplastics | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:58:56

• "The field of computer science has developed a narrow frame. We could have a broader one" ☛ https://computinged.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/three-stories-about-cs-is-overwhelming-and-how-we-can-do-better/ | Source: CER    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:59:42

• [Old] "I’m sure many schools are handling technology better than my friend’s child’s." ☛ https://css-irl.info/education-needs-teachers-not-more-technology/ |    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 07:59:49

• "Many algorithms can solve the tree evaluation problem quickly, putting it in the class P" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/catalytic-computing-taps-the-full-power-of-a-full-hard-drive/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:00:13

• "But last night’s cold open brought a new dimension to the satire." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/03/snl-signal-chat-cold-open/682242/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:00:54

• "The decorator simply works like this: [...]" ☛ https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/detecting-if-a-decorated-function-would-be-a-bound-method-if-called | Source: Balthazar Rouberol    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:01:20

• "I’ve been a big fan of Mutation Testing since I discovered PIT." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/mutation-testing-rust/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:02:16

• "I recently found some R code in the TidyTuesday repository which pulled data from Kaggle directly into the R console" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/robservations-51-download-kaggle-datasets-into-the-r-console-with-rkaggle/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:02:23

• "Looking at the pictures that aren’t camellias and magnolias." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-03-31-flowers    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:13:03

• Love Story gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/loveStory    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:14:03

• I'm losing my love of tech... gopher://gopher.prismdragon.net:70/0/phlog/2025-03-31_losing_love_of_tech.txt    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:14:53

• "It is a known problem with our Stripe account which is not yet resolved, and I apologise that this is not being fixed as quickly as anyone would like. I issued a Meta about it and said that I would inform the community when it is fixed." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1139202    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:15:41

• IBM mass layoffs in US Hiring Shifts to India https://www.itvoice.in/ibm-mass-layoffs-in-us-hiring-shifts-to-india-airtel-world-longest-subsea-internet-cable-31-mar    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:18:22

• "In this recent post, we have used Polars and DuckDB to convert a large CSV file to Parquet in steaming mode – and Python." ☛ https://lorentzen.ch/index.php/2025/03/30/converting-arbitrarily-large-csvs-to-parquet-with-r/ | Source: Michael's and Christian's blog    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:25:37

• "Simple answer: We have DuckDB, and we have different Polars bindings. Here, we are using {polars} which is currently being overhauled into {neopandas}." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/converting-arbitrarily-large-csvs-to-parquet-with-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:26:21

• "Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) allows customers to run SaaS applications using their own cloud infrastructure and resources rather than relying on a third-party vendor’s infrastructure." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/saas-is-broken-why-bring-your-own-cloud-byoc-is-the-future/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:26:45

• "We're living in an age where digital photos reign supreme, but that hasn't stopped maker and developer Spacerower" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/this-raspberry-pi-zero-camera-instantly-prints-photos-using-thermal-paper | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:27:37

• "Going back to Alpha 21164 Hardware Reference Manual" ☛ https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-03-30/ | Source: Jonathan Pallant    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:27:46

• "I’m on a roll upgrading the Amiga 1000. This time, I replaced the PSU fan." ☛ https://celso.io/posts/2025/03/30/a1000-fan/ | Source: Celso Martinho    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:27:56

• "We last looked at Zorin OS a year ago (and as it happens, The Reg FOSS desk is working on a new story on it right now)." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/30/zorin_and_dash_to_panel/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:29:30

• "Archinstall 3.0.3, a guided user-friendly TUI (Text User Interface) installer for Arch Linux that aims to simplify the setup process" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/archinstall-3-0-3-rolls-out-with-partitioning-and-bootloader-improvements/ | Source: Linuxiac    

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

• "One of the most notable highlights is the new Limine bootloader, designed to support both BIOS and UEFI systems." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/cachyos-march-2025-release-brings-limine-bootloader/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:31:18

• "The first major change is that we have added a new Bootloader." ☛ https://cachyos.org/blog/2503-march-release/ |    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:31:24

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 13 (Mar 24 – 30, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-13-mar-24-30-2025/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:35:00

• HTTP 409 Conflict Error: What is it and how to fix it? ☞ https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/http-409-conflict-error/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:39:44

• Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2025 (by Roberto C. Sánchez) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-02/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:41:22

• "With the following commit, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) moved -current to version 7.7 (dropping the "-beta"): [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250330230026 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:42:15

• "If you want to do that hdrtest thing" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-rages-against-random-turd-files-in-linux-6-15-rc1-directories | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:42:55

• WHO provides emergency aid after devastating earthquale in Myanmar and Thailand ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250330-world-health-organization-provides-emergency-aid-after-devastating-earthquale-in-myanmar-and-thailand    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:44:13

• South Korean man cleaning grave site suspected of starting wildfires ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-man-cleaning-grave-site-suspected-of-starting-wildfires-police    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:45:23

• Instant noodles, beer, milk and burgers to cost more in South Korea starting from April ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/instant-noodles-beer-milk-and-burgers-to-cost-more-in-south-korea-starting-from-april    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:45:41

• Myanmar quake: Malaysia sends relief team, pledges $3 million for rescue efforts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-quake-malaysia-sends-relief-team-to-aid-in-rescue-effort    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:47:50

• Man in Malaysia arrested after punching female driver who got into an accident with his family ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/man-in-malaysia-arrested-after-hitting-female-driver-still-seated-in-car Graveley? Zdat u?    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:48:25

• Why China Is Wary of a Convicted Felon-Xi Summit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/business/trump-xi-summit-tariffs.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:48:57

• China, South Korea and Japan agree to strengthen free trade ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-south-korea-and-japan-agree-to-strengthen-free-trade-joint-statement    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:49:15

• Pentagon chief Hegseth says US command in ‘warrior’ Japan being upgraded to deter China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/pentagon-chief-hegseth-says-warrior-japan-indispensable-to-deter-china    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:49:27

• South Korea, China, Japan agree to promote regional trade as Convicted Felon tariffs loom ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-china-japan-agree-to-promote-regional-trade-as-trump-tariffs-loom    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:49:37

• February/March in KDE Itinerary ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/03/30/kde-itinerary-february-march-2025.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:53:36

• Sometimes Alzheimer's Strikes Early. This Experimental Drug May Help. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sometimes-alzheimers-strikes-early-this-experimental-drug-may-help    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:54:46

• Live: Myanmar junta still bombing despite earthquake crisis, rebels say ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250331-live-myanmar-military-junta-still-bombing-towns-despite-earthquake-crisis-rebels-say-thailand-bangkok-rescue    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:55:19

• Federal Court Partially Blocks Executive Order Targeting WilmerHale: USPTO Acting Director Among Named Defendants ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/partially-wilmerhale-defendants.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:57:10

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Hobble Earthquake Response in Myanmar ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-usaid-cuts.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:57:30

• Radxa Orion O6 Preview – Part 2: Debian 12 – What works, what doesn’t ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/30/radxa-orion-o6-preview-debian-12-what-works-what-doesnt/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 08:59:54

• Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-man/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:00:53

• 7 Best Free and Open Source Stock Tickers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-stock-tickers/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:01:01

• entr – Event Notify Test Runner ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/entr-event-notify-test-runner/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:01:09

• 14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based News Aggregators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-terminal-based-news-aggregators/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:01:18

• kpcli is a command line interface to KeePass database files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kpcli-command-line-interface-keepass-database/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:01:27

• Installing *BSD in 2025 part 1 – A critical look at FreeBSD’s installer ☞ https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-1-a-critical-look-at-freebsds-installer/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:02:11

• 11 Best Free and Open Source Accountancy Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-accountancy-software/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:02:32

• sesh is a smart terminal session manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sesh-smart-terminal-session-manager/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:02:39

• 5 Ways to Play Wordle on your GNU/Linux PC ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/play-wordle-linux-pc/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:03:45

• mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mprocs-runs-multiple-commands-parallel/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:03:54

• Killing the "First son" of Linus Torvalds. He won't be able to manage his own project anymore, let alone understand the code... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-Rust    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:04:31

• Partly his fault for trusting or handing control over to Zemlin and the husband Microsoft Sheela    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:05:07

• sudo-sh handle more parameters ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202503/sudo-sh-handle-more-parameters.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:06:11

• The terrors of ‘Adolescence’ ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/tv/the-terrors-of-adolescence/ "Netflix’s “Adolescence” is a brilliant four-part miniseries that delves into the complexities of teenage life in the age of the misogynistically laced internet"    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:06:57

• Myanmar junta accused of aerial attacks even after quake as 7 fighters were killed by strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250330-myanmar-junta-accused-of-aerial-attacks-even-after-quake-as-7-fighters-were-killed-by-strike    

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

• Hamas agrees to new Gaza truce as Israel keeps up offensive ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250330-hamas-agrees-to-new-gaza-truce-as-israel-keeps-up-offensive    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:07:32

• 5 children killed in Israeli airstrike on house and tent sheltering displaced people ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250330-5-children-killed-after-israeli-airstrike-on-house-and-tent-sheltering-displaced-people    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:07:39

• Federal court partially blocks Convicted Felon’s order targeting prominent law firm ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/03/federal-court-partially-blocks-trumps-order-targeting-prominent-law-firm/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:08:00

• Amid earthquake crisis, Myanmar military still bombs towns ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/amid-earthquake-crisis-myanmar-military-still-bombs-towns    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:08:25

• Myanmar junta accused of air strike even after quake, killing seven rebels ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-junta-accused-of-air-strike-even-after-quake    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:08:34

• In Myanmar, Earthquake Aftershocks and Airstrikes Terrorize Residents ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-aftershocks-airstrikes.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:10:52

• Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: An Introduction ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/29/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Privacy_Fiasco_in_Detail_An_Introduc.shtml    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:11:20

• The Open Source Promotion Program ☞ https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-03-29-ospp/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:12:29

• "The Luckfox Pico Pi series consists of four models with a Raspberry Pi SBC form factor, designed for embedded applications. Offering various processing capabilities, connectivity options, and memory configurations, these boards include PoE support and optional 4G connectivity." https://linuxgizmos.com/title-low-cost-luckfox-pico-pi-boards-offer-linux-development-with-ubuntu-support/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:14:55

• "When you're new to Linux, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of distributions (distros) available. But what if I told you that the distro isn't important? For new users, the desktop environment matters far more than the distro itself. Here's why!" https://www.howtogeek.com/new-to-linux-focus-on-the-desktop-environment-not-the-distro/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:15:58

• "The terminal emulator is a ubiquitous part of the Linux computing experience for anyone who wants to do more than open a browser. But there are a ton of terminal emulator apps out there, from GNOME Terminal to Alacritty to the new kid on the block, Ghostty. Which do you prefer for command line work?" https://www.howtogeek.com/thread/which-terminal-emulator-on-linux-is-your-favorite/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:16:24

• Linus' NT Surprise | LINUX Unplugged 608 ☞ https://feed.jupiter.zone/allshows#entry-13390 "Linux 6.14 lands with big improvements for gaming, laptops, and filesystems—but why is a backdoored Windows feature sneaking into our kernel?"    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:19:41

• Three stories about how CS is overwhelming, and ideas for how we can do better ☞ https://computinged.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/three-stories-about-cs-is-overwhelming-and-how-we-can-do-better/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:20:08

• The Insurrectionist 'pissed off' at Putin's comments calling for removal of Zelensky ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250330-en-nw-grab-graser-jackson-form-18h-for-21h-shpakova-anna    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:20:42

• Dihydroxyacetone Man says he is 'very angry' with Putin over Ukraine, raises prospect of bombing Iran ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250330-trump-says-very-angry-with-putin-over-ukraine-nbc    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:20:56

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Threatens Putin With Oil Tariffs, Pressures Zelenskyy On Minerals Deal ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-zelenskyy-putin-oil-tariffs-minerals/33364668.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:21:06

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Threatens Putin With Oil Tariffs If Unable To Reach Ukraine Cease-Fire ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-zelenskyy-kharkiv-dnipro-donetsk/33364023.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:21:18

• Ukraine's air force keeps up the fight ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250330-ukraine-s-air-force-keeps-up-the-fight    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:21:46

• As Tensions Escalate Between Convicted Felon and Europe, Meloni Is Caught in the Middle ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/world/europe/italy-meloni-trump-europe-tensions.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:22:01

• Key Takeaways From America’s Secret Military Partnership With Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-takeaways.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:22:36

• How the U.S. Broke Its Own Rules to Help Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000010059216/how-the-us-broke-its-own-rules-for-ukraine.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:22:51

• Latvian medic injured in Russian drone attack in Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/31.03.2025-latvian-medic-injured-in-russian-drone-attack-in-ukraine.a593526/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:23:45

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppZiggurat 0.1.8 on CRAN: Build Refinements ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03/30#rcppziggurat_0.1.8    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:40:44

• Migrating content collections from Astro 4 to 5 ☞ https://chenhuijing.com/blog/migrating-content-collections-from-astro-4-to-5/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 09:42:04

• Myanmar earthquake, Turkey protests, Eid al-Fitr: The week in pictures ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250330-myanmar-earthquake-turkey-protests-eid-al-fitr-last-week-in-pictures    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 10:00:11

• Antarctic Iceberg Breaks Away to Reveal a Never-Before-Seen Ecosystem ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/antarctic-iceberg-breaks-away-to-reveal-a-never-before-seen-ecosystem    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 10:01:19

• World's Most Common Pain Relief Drug May Induce Risky Behavior, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-most-common-pain-relief-drug-may-induce-risky-behavior-study-finds    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 10:01:35

• Everybody's Heard of Repressed Memories. But What if They Don't Exist? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/everybodys-heard-of-repressed-memories-but-what-if-they-dont-exist    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 10:01:48

• Protocol Analyzer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/protocol-analyzer-remembered/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:09:47

• ARM OS ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/help-propel-the-original-arm-os-into-the-future/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:10:34

• Prototyping Board ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/a-prototyping-board-with-every-connector/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:12:55

• This Brain Mechanism Explains Why Teens Love Risk More Than You ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-brain-mechanism-explains-why-teens-love-risk-more-than-you    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:13:24

• Quantum Computer Generates Truly Random Number in Scientific First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-computer-generates-truly-random-number-in-scientific-first    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:14:03

• A Huge Discovery in Morocco Could Rewrite The History of Africa ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-huge-discovery-in-morocco-could-rewrite-the-history-of-africa    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:15:10

• Dangerous Fungal Infection Sees a Dramatic Increase in US Hospitals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dangerous-fungal-infection-sees-a-dramatic-increase-in-us-hospitals    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:15:37

• Autodialer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/automatically-crack-safes-with-this-autodialer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:16:29

• Hegseth Pledges to Step Up Military Cooperation With Japan and Deter China ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/hegseth-japan-military.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:16:43

• ‘America First does not mean America Alone’: US reassures Asian security allies of its commitment ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/america-first-does-not-mean-america-alone-us-reassures-asian-security-allies-of-its-commitment    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:17:02

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.21 on CRAN: New Upstream ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03/30#rcppspdlog_0.0.21    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:18:41

• US will not 'get' Greenland, island's new PM says in response to Convicted Felon comments ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250330-us-will-not-get-greenland-island-s-new-pm-says-in-response-to-trump-comments    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:19:21

• Roadkill ☞ https://kevquirk.com/blog/roadkill    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:27:47

• SparkFun Air Quality PM1/PM2.5/PM10 Sensor features Bosch’s BVM080, the world’s smallest particulate matter sensor ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/31/sparkfun-air-quality-pm1-pm2-5-pm10-sensor-features-boschs-bvm080-the-worlds-smallest-particulate-matter-sensor/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:28:59

• "Detecting single photons can be seen as the backbone of cutting-edge applications like LiDAR, medical imaging, and secure optical communication. Miss one, and critical information could be lost forever" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/reconfigurable-fpga-for-single-photon-measurements/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:30:14

• ‘Pause and calm down’ before criticising CK Hutchison’s ports deal, Hong Kong lawmaker urges ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/31/pause-and-calm-before-criticising-ck-hutchisons-ports-deal-hong-kong-lawmaker-urges/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:30:54

• Syria's first Eid al-Fitr holiday since the collapse of the Assad regime ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250330-sunday-marks-syria-s-first-eid-al-fitr-holiday-since-the-collapse-of-the-assad-regime    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:31:24

• Killing the News With Spam and Slop Benefits Those Whose Desire is an Uninformed Population ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/29/Killing_the_News_With_Spam_and_Slop_Benefits_Those_Whose_Desire.shtml    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:31:35

• Windows is an Unnatural Disaster, It is Also Avoidable ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/29/Windows_is_an_Unnatural_Disaster_It_is_Also_Avoidable.shtml    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:31:44

• The Cost of Pursuing the Much-Needed Reform/Shield Against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/30/The_Cost_of_Pursuing_the_Much_Needed_Reform_Shield_Against_Stra.shtml    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:33:10

• Phasing Out Vista 10 in Nations Where ~90% of backdoored Windows Users Still Rely on It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/30/Phasing_Out_Vista_10_in_Nations_Where_90_of_Windows_Users_Still.shtml    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:33:32

• The LLM Bubble is About to Implode, Gimmicks and Financial Shell Games Cannot Prevent That, Only Delay It (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/30/The_LLM_Bubble_is_About_to_Implode_Gimmicks_and_Financial_Shell.shtml    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:33:42

• FreeBSD: Lazy Reading for 2025/03/30 ☞ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/03/30/lazy-reading-for-2025-03-30/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:35:10

• The chestnut-naped antpitta ☞ https://rubenerd.com/the-chestnut-naped-antpitta/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:36:16

• Seeing the NSWGR 3576 steam locomotive! ☞ https://rubenerd.com/seeing-the-3576-steam-train/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:36:44

• Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Update Adds New Features ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/tiling-shell-gnome-extension-update-adds-new-features    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:37:22

• Let’s hope Wisconsin voters stand up for democracy in their Supreme court race ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/03/30/opinion/lets-hope-wisconsin-voters-stand-up-for-democracy-in-their-supreme-court-race/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:38:23

• CachyOS ISO Snapshot for March 2025 Brings New Bootloader, Linux Kernel 6.14 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/cachyos-iso-snapshot-for-march-2025-brings-new-bootloader-linux-kernel-6-14    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:38:58

• Arch GNU/Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.3 Improves Limine Bootloader Support ☞ https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-installer-archinstall-3-0-3-improves-limine-bootloader-support    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:39:16

• Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.9.1 Brings New Convergent Web Browser, GNU/Linux 6.13 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/immutable-distro-nitrux-3-9-1-brings-new-convergent-web-browser-linux-6-13    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:39:33

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 30th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-30th-2025    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:40:01

• We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/senator-chris-murphy-this-is-how-democracy-dies-everybody-just-gets-scared    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:41:35

• Vivaldi Adds Built-In Proton VPN to Its Browser ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/03/vivaldi-adds-built-in-proton-vpn-to-its-browser/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:42:01

• Steinar H. Gunderson: It's always the best ones that die first ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-03-30-23-45_its_always_the_best_ones_that_die_first.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:43:57

• "Can Hackers Bring Jooki Back To Life?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/can-hackers-bring-jooki-back-to-life/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:47:09

• Stop giving creators like Ash Trevino your attention ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/digital-culture/stop-giving-creators-like-ash-trevino-your-attention/ "front row seat to Shane Dawson’s public internet execution."    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 15:47:56

• Windows all-time low in Africa https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/africa/#monthly-200902-202503    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 16:52:52

• layoffs at Narayana Murthy’s Infosys, 'Microsoft India'    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 17:01:21

• Today (hours ago): "A look at IBM’s career page shows 3,722 jobs available in India, as of the time of writing, up from 173 at the beginning of 2024, and 2,946 near the end of the year." https://www.webpronews.com/ibm-appears-to-be-moving-thousands-of-jobs-to-india/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 17:03:21

• "As of Monday morning internal look, 11 jobs worldwide. They want to remove more expensive internal workers to unemployment and hire 3000+ cheaper in the open market worldwide. Also checking Linkedin there are posts for all types of backgrounds. It's been a long strange trip friends, just hope the earth isn't flat." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqpf2qap    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 19:22:41

• iophk: FreeBSD "still boosting Microsoft GitHub in the face of better options, [...] It is named multiple times in that very short post" https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/february-2025-laptop-support-and-usability-project-update/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/FreeBSD_Foundation_is_Trying_to_Improve_Laptop_Support_But_It_H.shtml    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 19:24:43

• Under Cheeto the US image (in the world) is now "weak" and "stupid"; the problem is, such image reinforces reality, in a loop... as scientists leave for greener pastures.    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 19:48:09

• Siemens, Wolfspeed announce layoffs in March https://finance.yahoo.com/news/siemens-wolfspeed-announce-layoffs-march-113100244.html    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 19:54:31

• After layoffs at Narayana Murthy’s Infosys, another company to cut 2000 jobs in…, to shakes up its…, the name is…, not Ratan Tata’s TCS https://www.india.com/business/after-layoffs-at-narayana-murthys-infosys-another-company-to-cut-2000-jobs-in-2025-to-shakes-up-its-customer-services-the-name-is-sky-not-ratan-tatas-tcs-7721198/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 19:54:57

• "Reports indicate that badge swipes are being monitored, and management has allegedly denied medical exemptions." https://americanbazaaronline.com/2025/03/31/ibm-to-layoff-thousands-of-us-employees/    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 19:57:28

• Parent-child relationship gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2025-03-30-child-parent.gmi    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 20:01:07

• An offline sun time calculator gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/an-offline-sun-time-calculator.txt gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/an-offline-sun-time-calculator.gmi    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 20:02:55

• "Now that I have submitted my newly created gemlog to the aggregators, I would like to present you Occidental which is a brilliant auxiliary language very easy to learn." gemini://occidental.srht.site/gemlog/occidental.gmi    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 20:03:54

• "Before even considering using any cryptosystem, regardless of its level of security" gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-03-31-a-single-why-for-a-thousand-how.txt    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 20:04:40

• "As this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all _openSNP_ users with some news: _OpenSNP_[1] will be turned off – and with that also delete all the data stored on it – on April 30, 2025." gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2025-03-31-sunsetting-opensnp.gmi    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 20:05:38

• 🔤SpellBinding: ABSDNOC Wordo: LOGIN gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-03-31.gmi    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 20:06:08

• "This blog is going to get very cluttered very quickly if I keep writing my mini-reviews of old X-Files episodes on it. So here's a single page with all of them: [...]" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-31-2    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 20:06:46

• "this is the second book i'm reading that i've associated with limbus company characters, who are based on their literary sources :0 the first one was hell screen!! i'll try to read these books before any of their in-game chapters release in the future... but no promises!!" gemini://angelai.smol.pub/20    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 20:07:17

• "I've worked in marketing or marketing-adjacent for a while now, so I know what marketers think a "relevant" ad is. By their standards, I've been inundated with them since I was old enough to sit in front of a TV on my own." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-31    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 20:07:53

• "What follows are a collection of cursed programming indentation code styles, because nothing is sacred." gemini://zelena.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-04-01_Cursed_Indentation_Styles.gmi    

posted Monday, March 31, 2025 at 20:08:24