Roy Schestowitz

• Week 12 data release this morning. England and Wales deaths 2019: 10,567. Now in 2025: 11,554.    

posted Wednesday, April 09, 2025 at 22:15:47

• New offers for buyouts and early retirement offered to Homeland Security staff ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/04/new-offers-for-buyouts-and-early-retirement-offered-to-homeland-security-staff/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:48:18

• Latvia readies foot-and-mouth biosecurity precautions ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/08.04.2025-latvia-readies-foot-and-mouth-biosecurity-precautions.a594727/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:48:56

• Adobe Calls Urgent Attention to Critical ColdFusion Flaws ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-calls-urgent-attention-to-critical-coldfusion-flaws/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:49:17

• DNS: The Secret Weapon CISOs May Be Overlooking in the Fight Against Cyberattacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/dns-the-secret-weapon-cisos-may-be-overlooking-in-the-fight-against-cyberattacks/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:49:46

• SAP Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sap-patches-critical-code-injection-vulnerabilities/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:50:17

• WhatsApp Vulnerability Could Facilitate Remote Code Execution ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/whatsapp-vulnerability-could-facilitate-remote-code-execution/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:50:28

• Microsoft reportedly eyes layoffs targeting middle managers https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2025/04/09/microsoft-middle-managers-layoffs.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:54:53

• Microsoft wants leaner teams: Middle management layoffs coming in May 2025 https://www.peoplematters.in/news/talent-management/microsoft-wants-leaner-teams-middle-management-layoffs-coming-in-may-45121    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:55:04

• Microsoft may announce fresh job cuts in May as part of restructuring: Report https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-may-announce-fresh-job-cuts-in-may-as-part-of-restructuring-report/articleshow/120134124.cms    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:55:15

• “Middle Management” Cuts Coming to Microsoft https://www.tipranks.com/news/middle-management-cuts-coming-to-microsoft-as-microsoft-stock-nasdaqmsft-surges    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 04:55:24

• "Thoughts and prayers to Alvind and Krabanaugh. Hard times — they might have to settle for domestic truffle butter with their remaining tens of millions. How will they manage? Stay strong, kings." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jr8nsdyr    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:02:03

• Building a Better Big Tech Mouse Trap: Designing the Digital Platform Commission ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/building-a-better-big-tech-mouse-trap-designing-the-digital-platform-commission/ "Big Tech keeps getting bigger," they say, but Microsoft is inside their Board https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:27:39

• Climate risks to security in the Indo-Pacific: Indonesia in 2035 ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/climate-risks-to-security-in-the-indo-pacific-indonesia-in-2035/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:29:17

• The EU could respond to Convicted Felon’s tariffs with a new ‘anti-coercion instrument.’ Here’s what to know. ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-eu-could-respond-to-trumps-tariffs-with-a-new-anti-coercion-instrument-heres-what-to-know/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:29:36

• Most of protest-related, national security court cases concluded, Hong Kong’s Judiciary says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/08/most-of-protest-related-national-security-court-cases-concluded-hong-kongs-judiciary-says/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:30:37

• Game of clones: Colossal’s new wolves are cute, but are they dire? ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/08/1114371/game-of-clones-colossals-new-wolves-are-cute-but-are-they-dire/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:31:00

• The Other Side of Signalgate ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-other-side-of-signalgate    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:31:15

• Pakistan's army vows to protect investors in billion-dollar mining sector in conflict zone ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/pakistans-army-vows-to-protect-investors-in-billion-dollar-mining-sector-in-conflict-zone    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:32:45

• Nuclear Testing Not Advised, Convicted Felon’s Nominee Says in Senate Hearing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/science/nuclear-testing-nnsa-williams.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:32:57

• Prince Harry’s Court Case Over Security in the UK, Explained ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/world/europe/prince-harry-security-hearing-court.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:33:11

• Belgian Prince Seeks Pension Benefits ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/world/europe/belgium-prince-social-security-benefits-ruling.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:33:32

• Is War Between Ethiopia, Eritrea Brewing in Tigray? ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/04/is-war-between-ethiopia-eritrea-brewing-in-tigray/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:34:03

• Analysts: Islamic State Group Looks to Expand Beyond Sahelian Strongholds ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/04/analysts-islamic-state-group-looks-to-expand-beyond-sahelian-strongholds/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:34:24

• For safeguarding critical infrastructure, stronger governance alone isn’t a magic bullet ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/04/for-safeguarding-critical-infrastructure-stronger-governance-alone-isnt-a-magic-bullet/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:34:42

• Humanitarian assistance in the Pacific should be led by Pacific countries ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/humanitarian-assistance-in-the-pacific-should-be-led-by-pacific-countries/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:34:54

• Article 23 security law: Hong Kong man jailed for 1 year over publishing 145 seditious comments online ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/09/article-23-security-law-hong-kong-man-jailed-for-1-year-over-publishing-145-seditious-comments-online/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:35:19

• AMD Dragon Range Refresh CPU specs confirmed via early retail listing — Ryzen 9 8940HX sees 100 MHz increase ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-dragon-range-refresh-cpu-specs-confirmed-via-early-retail-listing-ryzen-9-8940hx-sees-100-mhz-increase    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:35:46

• Lithuania considers laws allowing to suspend asylum rights – minister ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2531538/lithuania-considers-laws-allowing-to-suspend-asylum-rights-minister    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:37:11

• ‘Remembrance’ playwright draws on mother’s ‘frightening’ battle with Alzheimer’s ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/08/opinion/remembrance-playwright-draws-on-mothers-frightening-battle-with-alzheimers/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:37:34

• Simplifies 3D Printer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/layerlapse-simplifies-3d-printer-time-lapse-shots/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:38:14

• EPCOT ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/the-computers-of-epcot/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:40:32

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-10.gmi    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:41:34

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1610.jpg    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:42:04

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1260.jpg    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:42:09

• "Yesterday on Bluesky, one of my mutuals wrote that it wasn't until the term was over and they had a bit of uninterrupted time to themselves that they found they wanted to write again." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/4-10.gmi    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:43:07

• "As mentioned a few days ago, I am converting the alternative history "What If Gordon Banks Had Played?" to Gemini text. The original story was posted online in about 26 parts, two decades ago, and is now hard to find. I have converted the first six or so parts to Gemini format, and will release the rest in coming days and weeks." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-04-09_what-if-gordon-banks-had-played.gmi    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:43:47

• "Today is CSS Naked Day! I completely forgot about it until I checked my RSS feed reader and saw that Matthew Graybosch was celebrating again this year. Good thing I prepped for today by getting rid of all CSS on my site preemptively! That can be seen in my post from a few weeks ago, linked below." gemini://vigrey.com/journal/css-naked-day-2025.gmi    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:44:23

• "I recently watched a video on YouTube of a guy who challenged himself to disconnect from modern convenient media sources and only consumed his media from the public library. So that's what I've been doing for a while. My library has a huge selection of CDs, shows, books (duh) and much more." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2570    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:46:51

• LQ’s account of the end gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2571    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:47:43

• "My parents would be out there tilling the garden to drive the snow into the soil, on the theory that doing so incorporates additional nitrogen into said soil." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-04-09    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:48:28

• How Glenn Youngkin, a Diversity Champion, Became an Anti-DEI Warrior ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/glenn-youngkin-dei-carlyle-virginia.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:53:52

• ITN records lowest profit in a decade as non-news revenue dips ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/itn-2024-accounts-lowest-profit-decade/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:54:10

• Designing A Tone Control Properly ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/designing-a-tone-control-properly/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:54:32

• Panama Official Accuses Hong Kong Port Operator of Misconduct ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/panama-ports-ck-hutchison-audit.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:54:47

• Article 19 of the Marco Civil – Guarantee or Threat to the Future of the Brazilian Internet? ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/04/article-19-of-the-marco-civil-guarantee-or-threat-to-the-future-of-the-brazilian-internet/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:58:02

• Dihydroxyacetone Man signs executive order to 'turbocharge' coal mining across the US ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250408-trump-coal-mining-united-states    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 05:58:15

• Fedora change aims for 99% package reproducibility https://lwn.net/Articles/1014979/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 06:07:59

• The first part of the 6.15 merge window https://lwn.net/Articles/1015414/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 06:10:00

• "IBM always uses buzzwords and get more & more into debt doing so which leads to more ra's and another company no one will remember after IBM changes it's work system" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jr8ah1ja    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 06:18:14

• "Need to also tax the companies from revenue brought in that support US accounts from offshore" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jr0prmfr    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 06:18:42

• GAFAM: people are OBJECTS. To be MONETISED and socially controlled.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 06:35:22

• No, it will collectively discredit it ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/will-ai-save-the-news    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:05:39

• When your CEO does not even know what "AI" means https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/shopify-ceo-teams-must-prove-ai-cant-do-a-task-before-asking-for-new-hires-resources    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:06:59

• Dihydroxyacetone Man signs executive orders to boost coal industry ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250408-trump-signs-executive-orders-to-boost-coal-industry    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:07:28

• What’s it like inside the intelligence community anyway ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/intelligence-community/2025/04/whats-it-like-inside-the-intelligence-community-anyway/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:08:44

• Demanted bigot pushing a Ponzi scheme, "Hey Hi (AI)" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2025/04/trumps-ai-policy-shifts-focus-to-high-impact-use-cases/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:09:23

• (Demented)    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:09:33

• Robert W. McChesney, Who Warned of Corporate Media Control, Dies at 72 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/business/media/robert-w-mcchesney-dead.html https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/25/The_Fall_of_Corporate_Media_Controlled_by_Oligarchs_Who_Boost_o.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:10:00

• Who’s suing Hey Hi (AI) and who’s signing: 14 publishers join lawsuit against start-up Cohere ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:10:19

• They're PART of the problem https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Why_is_UK_Press_Gazette_Jingoistic_About_Plagiarists_and_LLM_Sl.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/The_UK_s_Press_Gazette_Has_No_Credibility_Anymore_It_Celebrates.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/21/Paywalls_Bots_Spam_and_Spyware_is_Future_of_the_Media_According.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:10:56

• Microsoft patches zero-day actively exploited in string of ransomware attacks ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-april-2025/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:12:07

• But back doors will be left for Trump's NSA, as usual https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-patches-125-windows-vulns-including-exploited-clfs-zero-day/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:13:11

• Dozens Die in Floods Hitting Congo’s Capital ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/world/africa/congo-kinshasa-floods.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:13:43

• Apple aims to beat the tariff cutoff, reportedly shipped five extra planeloads of goods from India to the U.S. in March ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/apple-beat-the-tariffs-shipped-five-extra-planeloads-of-goods-from-india-to-the-u-s-in-march    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:14:01

• You can manufacture all sorts of things in India, but reaching the precision and quality levels of CJK is impossible for several more decades. Apple's devices were already unreliable; it'll get worse.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:15:02

• Investigatory Powers Tribunal rejects Government secrecy over Fashion Company Apple encryption case ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/investigatory-powers-tribunal-ipt-apple-rejects-secrecy-encryption-bare-details/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/Unlike_GAFAM_Free_Software_Serves_You_It_Does_Not_Serve_Governm.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:15:38

• Non-Tariff Countermeasures to U.S. Tariff Hikes: IP, Services, and Investment Implications ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/countermeasures-investment-implications.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:17:28

• UPC is patently illegal and an attack on democracy by the litigation industry and corrupt EPO. The very existence of this kangaroo 'court' demonstrates that Rule of Law was abandoned for corporations' gain. ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/04/08/patent-attorneys-democracy-and-the-upc/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:18:45

• Marketing spam, i.e. more of the usual from JUVE, which also bags money to lobby for illegal things such as UPC (for Team UPC) ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/ones-to-watch-uk-2025-emily-bottle/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:20:57

• Banks not planning to exit Lithuania, SEB headquarters issue still open – PM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2531427/banks-not-planning-to-exit-lithuania-seb-headquarters-issue-still-open-pm    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:21:19

• IBM i 7.6 Delivers “Massive Security Improvement” With Built-In MFA ☞ https://www.itjungle.com/2025/04/08/ibm-i-7-6-delivers-massive-security-improvement-with-built-in-mfa/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:23:01

• GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP ☞ https://kittenlabs.de/blog/2025/04/06/gpd-pocket-4-speaker-dsp/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:23:42

• Spooky HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/aurascape-banks-hefty-50-million-to-mitigate-shadow-ai-risks/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:24:18

• Rakudo Weekly 2025.14 Diving ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/04/08/2025-14-diving/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:25:24

• How Can Canada Tackle Foreign Interference Without a U.S. Ally? ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/04/how-can-canada-tackle-foreign-interference-without-a-u-s-ally/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:26:42

• Apple outsourced it to Microsoft https://www.phoronix.com/news/CUPS-2.4.12-Released    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:28:40

• Openwashing   

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:29:43

• Openwashing ☞ https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-rag-reality-check-new-open-source-framework-lets-enterprises-scientifically-measure-ai-performance/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:29:59

• Openwashing garbage again ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/08/deep-cogito-releases-open-source-language-models-outperform-llama/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:50:53

• Google accused of paying employees to do nothing for up to a year to stifle Hey Hi (AI) talent migration ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-accused-of-paying-employees-to-do-nothing-for-up-to-a-year-to-stifle-ai-talent-migration    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:51:29

• Google tools required for classwork are allegedly being used to build data profiles of each student ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/google-tools-for-required-for-classwork-are-allegedly-being-used-to-build-data-profiles-of-each-student    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:51:52

• Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: A "Deep Dive" Into the Complaint at the California Privacy Protection Agency (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/08/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Privacy_Fiasco_in_Detail_A_Deep_Dive.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:58:29

• Davidson Kempner entity, QPrivacy, data security patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/7/qprivacy-data-security-patent-challenged    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 07:59:16

• Privacy fights over expiring surveillance law loom after House hearing ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/house-judiciary-committee-privacy-protections-fisa-section-702-reform-2024/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:00:47

• How to Stay Safe if You’re Traveling and an Earthquake Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/travel/earthquake-safety.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:01:14

• China vows to fight back as many scramble to strike tariff deals with Convicted Felon ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/08/china-us-trup-additional-tariff/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:04:58

• US considering using drone strikes against cartel members in Mexico ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/president-trump-considers-drone-strikes-against-cartel-members-mexico/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:05:36

• Gabonese authorities must ensure internet access throughout upcoming elections ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/gabon-must-keepiton-throughout-elections/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:05:59

• #KeepItOn: authorities in Gabon must safeguard open and secure internet access during elections ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/keepiton-authorities-in-gabon-elections/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:06:28

• "it's not about how many hits you make, it's about how many hits you can take and keep moving forward." Techrights vs Microsoft.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:07:51

• Old: Brett Wilson LLP Does Not Deny Microsoft or Another "Third Party" Secretly Funds the SLAPPs Against Techrights, Bankrolling Despicable People Who Deserve Criticism https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/12/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Does_Not_Deny_Microsoft_or_Another_Third_Party.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:08:33

• Stolen Credit Card and LinkedIn. DHS Spies on Immigrant Social Media. ☞ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/04/08/stolen-credit-card-and-linkedin-dhs-spies-on-immigrant-social-media/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:08:39

• N.C. Lawmakers: "Members of a bipartisan committee of North Carolina senators are asking the state auditor to investigate how money intended to stop human trafficking had been spent and managed, in response to ProPublica’s reporting." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/north-carolina-human-trafficking-commission-funding-investigation-call | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:10:31

• "Freezes 600 Cases" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/homeland-security-crcl-civil-rights-immigration-border-patrol-trump-kristi-noem | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:11:31

• Bosch magnetic-field quantum sensors leverage synthetic diamonds, lasers, and microwaves for ultra-precise measurements ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/08/bosch-magnetic-field-quantum-sensors-leverage-synthetic-diamonds-lasers-and-microwaves-for-ultra-precise-measurements/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:12:38

• Man sentenced in Lithuania over Fentanylware (TikTok) killing ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2531963/man-sentenced-in-lithuania-over-tiktok-killing "murdering a man during a livestream on the social control media platform TikTok."    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:13:44

• Extended Fentanylware (TikTok) Forced-Sale Deadline Draws Congressional Pushback: ‘A Clear Violation of the Law’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/08/tiktok-sale-deadline-criticism/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:14:13

• The US ceased to have a Rule of Law. The law isn't being enforced and routinely broken, just like in EPO.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:14:59

• So the US is legally speaking a "rogue state"    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:15:16

• Put another way, right now in the US the SUPREME COURT and CONGRESS are "just for show". A demented bigot and oligarchs are kings.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:16:32

• IOW, the population gets to vote for people who don't decide or do anything. A "mafia element" runs everything.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:17:12

• "What’s the RA process like for the US ? Your badge won't work and your login accesses will be revoked. At best you will get a 2 minute scripted zoom call with your manager announcing your imminent departure since you are a "at will" employee." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jre8eqbw    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 08:59:13

• "The Linux Mint team has released their monthly blog post detailing upcoming improvements, with the Nemo file manager getting regular expression search and LMDE 7 poised for an OEM install option." https://www.webpronews.com/linux-mint-adds-regex-search-in-nemo-lmde-7-oem-install-option/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:00:07

• wikipedia is adspace, not an encyclopedia. quality control is just "in theory" and depends on who's paying or who's paid to be more persistent in "edit war" (marketing)    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:02:36

• wikipedia is not the only adspace, there are many adspaces out there and some companies let you buy ads, i.e. some space somewhere online or office.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:03:30

• You can lie to people. That's what ads are for.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:03:40

• there are more ads than literal assholes and rational people don't pay attention to them, as they're merely ads. geeks know how to block all ads.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:04:08

• everyone with basic literacy skills and an asshole can write a wikipedia page (in a language of one's choosing/choice), either about oneself or anything else, so that does not count for much. when it boils down to edit wars it's about patience (or getting paid to pretend to be patient). http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/06/Fernanda_Weiden_Google_FSFE_Wikipedia_vanity_pages.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:05:23

• "Don't have a spare computer? Afraid the installation will be too difficult? Here's a simple way to try out the OS without so much as a reboot." https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-easiest-way-to-try-out-ubuntu-linux/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:07:00

• Serial Slopper or SS isn't "SS" by coincidence. It's not Social Security.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:07:24

• An SS is an author you can safely assume is just pasting chatbot junk, pretending to be a journalist    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:07:53

• Canonical Adds the Orange Pi RV2 to Its List of Officially-Supported Ubuntu-Capable RISC-V Boards https://www.hackster.io/news/canonical-adds-the-orange-pi-rv2-to-its-list-of-officially-supported-ubuntu-capable-risc-v-boards-950a207644e7    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:08:31

• "Sundar Pichai reaffirms planned $75 billion capital spending in 2025"    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:13:13

• WOOHOO!!! Let's boast about money we do NOT have! https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/No_Microsoft_Does_Not_Invest_80B_in_Hey_Hi_AI_It_s_Just_Full_of.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 09:15:00

• iophk: Today is the 100th day of the year 2025    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 15:44:59

• "The tech press has been full of announcements over the last day or two regarding GPMI. It’s a new standard with the backing of a range of Chinese hardware companies" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/10/everyones-talking-gpmi-should-you/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 15:49:48

• "A recent update to Monster Hunter Wilds has been causing problems for players on Linux platforms including SteamOS / Steam Deck. Valve has now put out an update to Proton Hotfix to work around it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/proton-hotfix-updated-to-fix-monster-hunter-wilds-on-linux-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 15:51:14

• "Developer .Gravity announced recently that Little Sim World will be entering Early Access on May 1st, and it appears it will also get Linux / Steam Deck support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/cute-life-sim-little-sim-world-comes-to-early-access-on-may-1/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 15:51:34

• "Might and Delight have revealed Twinkleby, a new cosy decoration game where you map out an archipelago of floating islands and build dioramas for a society of spacefaring neighbours." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/cosy-floating-island-decoration-game-twinkleby-revealed-by-meadow-and-shelter-devs-might-and-delight/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 15:52:16

• "Red Rogue Sea is one high up on my wishlist! After being completely hooked by FTL: Faster Than Light when it originally released, I'm always keen to see more like it and now a demo is available." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/become-a-pirate-captain-in-red-rogue-sea-that-combines-ftl-and-deckbuilding-with-a-demo-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 15:52:27

• "SEGA have revealed that Sonic Rumble, their attempt at a sorta-of racing Battle Royale, is scheduled to release on May 8. It's also Steam Deck Verified, which I already wrote about earlier this month." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/sonic-rumble-releases-may-8-and-its-steam-deck-verified/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 15:52:45

• "Pool body sued by transgender player forced to crowdfund money for defence" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/2025/04/09/transgender-harriet-haynes-pool-crowdfund-defence/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:04:12

• "The Sound of Teeth on Bone: You Are Here" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/09/the-sound-of-teeth-on-bone-you-are-here/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:04:24

• "le Cryptosystème RSA | Noë Flatreaud" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https://nflatrea.bearblog.dev/le-cryptosysteme-rsa/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:04:35

• "China retaliates with additional 50 percent tariff on US goods | The Verge" https://www.theverge.com/news/645730/china-tariffs-us-retaliatory-84-percent    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:04:49

• "DOGE [sic] cuts bring chaos, long waits at Social Security for seniors" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-04-09/trump-doge-social-security-cuts-seniors    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:05:01

• "What’s So Screwy About the Trump Tariffs" https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/american-manufacturing-tariffs-trump/682358/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:05:12

• iophk: these 'cuts' lead to much higher society costs in short order https://yle.fi/a/74-20154957 ("Parliament backs cabinet over cuts to health, social services and education") ping Sompi    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:05:39

• "Surveillance footage from Ukrainian restaurant debunks Moscow’s claims that soldiers were present before deadly missile strike" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/07/surveillance-footage-from-ukrainian-restaurant-debunks-moscow-s-claims-that-soldiers-were-present-before-deadly-missile-strike    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:05:53

• "Women holding baby thrashed by neighbours in Dombivli for saying ‘excuse me’ in English not Marathi" https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/women-holding-baby-thrashed-in-dombivli-for-saying-excuse-me-in-english-not-marathi-101744187689029.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:06:18

• "Women assaulted in Thane for speaking English" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/women-with-baby-assaulted-in-thane-for-saying-excuse-me-instead-of-marathi-1871768    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:06:28

• "Climate Expert Who Studied WW2 Shares How Canada Can Win Trump’s Trade War" https://www.desmog.com/2025/04/08/climate-expert-who-studied-ww2-shares-how-canada-can-win-trumps-trade-war/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:06:39

• "EU ångrar GDPR och sin nya AI Act" https://femtejuli.se/2025/04/09/eu-angrar-gdpr-och-sin-nya-ai-act/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:07:09

• "Get your Enemies of Democracy trading cards! Collect 'em all!" https://boingboing.net/2025/04/09/get-your-enemies-of-democracy-trading-cards-collect-em-all.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:07:19

• iophk: misleading by blaming 'tariffs' While the tariffs are a general problem, there are more serious money problems here with Microsoft https://boingboing.net/2025/04/09/microsoft-cancels-1bn-data-center-planned-in-ohio-suggests-they-use-land-for-farms.html    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:07:40

• "Why Trump Scaled Back His Global Tariff War" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-tariff-math-stupid-1235314290/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:07:53

• "Inside a Powerful Database ICE Uses to Identify and Deport People" https://www.404media.co/inside-a-powerful-database-ice-uses-to-identify-and-deport-people/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:08:17

• "After recently switching over from Easy Anti-Cheat to BattlEye for DUCKSIDE, tinyBuild have confirmed they're now looking to enable it for players on Steam Deck / Linux with Proton." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/duckside-from-tinybuild-may-get-battleye-anti-cheat-enabled-for-steam-deck-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:09:09

• "Fanatical have given all GamingOnLinux readers a chance to grab some games even cheaper than usual, with a special discount code on their Play on the Go Bundle Elite Collection Bundle." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/save-an-extra-10-on-the-fanatical-play-on-the-go-bundle-elite-collection-with-our-code/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:09:23

• "Driveloop: Survivors is another attempt to blend the survivor-like bullet heaven whatchamacallit genre made popular by Vampire Survivors with vehicles." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/do-screeching-doughnuts-and-mow-enemies-down-with-saw-blades-in-driveloop-survivors/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:09:36

• "Canonical has identified several key strategies to help network equipment vendors" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/sonic-the-open-source-network-operating-system-for-modern-data-centers | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:12:10

• Canonical promoting Microsoft again!    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:12:31

• More LLM slop!! https://linuxtechlab.com/advanced-git-branching-and-merging-scenarios-top-git-interview-questions-part-2/ see https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/08/Slopwatch_LinuxTechLab_linuxsecurity_com_Cyber_Security_News_an.shtml    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:13:12

• "Security vulnerabilities in IT are often presented like bridge failures that make news headlines" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/repair-bridge-it-cracks-understanding-vulnerabilities-and-weaknesses-modern-it | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:14:08

• Red Hat is singing buzzwords, not substance ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ai-future-of-ai | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:15:26

• How to Fix Ubuntu Freezes ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/fix-ubuntu-when-it-freezes/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:16:07

• "The Topaz Tz170 J484 Development Kit is a compact platform" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/topaz-tz170-j484-development-kit-with-256-mbit-x32-lpddr4-at-1-6-gbps-mipi-d-phy/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:21:29

• "Let’s face it — measuring ad performance is challenging in a shifting privacy landscape." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/advertising/anonym-zenjob/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:21:54

• "When UEFA’s Men’s Club Competitions Online Store (operated by Event Merchandising Ltd) set out to run a TikTok campaign during the 2024 finals" ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/advertising/anonym-uefa-tiktok-campaigns/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:22:17

• Mozilla is a defunct company if, having put in charge executives from Facebook and Twitter, it now panders to social control (manipulation) networks and manipulation ("media") giants    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:24:55

• Mozilla is basically looking for a "market" or "users" who don't exist while betraying those who helped Mozilla succeed in the first place.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:25:34

• "Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) has been accepted" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-foundation-joins-unescos-global-education-coalition/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:26:30

• Saving America’s National Parks ☛ https://therevelator.org/saving-national-parks/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:26:56

• whistleblowers murdered? now revisionism??? ☛ https://thedissenter.org/boeing-says-attacks-on-whistleblowers-all-part-of-the-past/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:28:40

• Boeing’s 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers?leadSource=reddit_wall    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:29:01

• "Netgraph is FreeBSD’s powerful, graph-based networking subsystem that enables modular, real-time packet processing inside the kernel." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/inside-freebsd-netgraph-advanced-networking/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:32:57

• "The core problem is that there is no way to automatically discover all of the information that you need to know in order to start OIDC authentication." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OIDCGeneralOPSupportProblem | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:33:13

• "This Tuesday (the 9th) we’re celebrating CSS Naked Day. You see, CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets, which is basically the “clothes” of a website — a super simple yet powerful language for styling web pages. Take a look at ours." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/css-naked-day/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:33:31

• "Ideally, I want to show that SSR can still have snazzy animations." ☛ https://dgerrells.com/blog/chasing-the-dragon | Source: David Gerrells    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:33:45

• How To Install R and RStudio on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-r-and-rstudio-linux-mint-22/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:34:24

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

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:35:07

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

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:35:15

• How To Change Hostname on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/change-hostname-manjaro/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:38:21

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

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:38:42

• How To Install Warp Terminal on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-warp-terminal-opensuse/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:39:01

• How To Install Neovim on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-neovim-manjaro/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:39:07

• "The ‘Great 78 Project‘ received praise from curators, historians" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/internet-archive-v-music-labels-500m-copyright-rift-edges-toward-settlement-250409/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:40:51

• "Meanwhile, the heftier legislation dives into a variety of penalties" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/09/no-fakes-act-reintroduced/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:41:18

• "Also in 2018 (and then again in 2023)" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/09/quavo-lawsuit-daniel-arsham-april-2025/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:41:39

• "new technical and operational changes were reported" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/tech-giants-propose-critical-piracy-shield-regulation-amendments-250409/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:41:58

• "He thinks the “non-standard signals” in robots.txt files" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/ietf_ai_preferences_working_group/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:42:15

• Digital Restrictions (DRM): "I don’t see any of them." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/life-without-advertisements-is-a-great-life/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:42:50

• "The EC received thoughtful and valuable input during the consultation." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/09/share-your-thoughts-on-the-proposed-by-laws-changes/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:43:47

• "Amid all this noise" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-trying-to-axe-collective-bargaining-for-1-million-federal-employees/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:44:09

• "In its procedural ruling on Trump v. J.G.G." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-revived-the-law-used-to-intern-japanese-americans-and-scotus-let-him/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:44:20

• "post-NAFTA world" ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/an-international-minimum-wage | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:44:35

• "The University of Vermont was not the first school with students providing local news coverage, but it is central to this burgeoning national movement." ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/04/09/university-students-report-local-news/index.html | Source: uni Northwestern    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:45:08

• "Why it matters: It's a huge victory for both the AP and the free press." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/08/ap-news-lawsuit-white-house-first-amendment | Source: Axios    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:45:21

• "CPJ’s emails requesting comment from Ethiopia’s federal ministry of justice were unanswered." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/04/at-least-7-journalists-detained-in-ethiopia-on-terror-allegations/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:45:32

• LLM "generated post depicting schlubby Americans toiling in dingy" ☛ https://futurism.com/china-mocking-ai-video-americans-sweatshop | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:46:27

• "EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen will present the measure on Wednesday." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/europe-wants-to-lighten-ai-compliance-burden-for-startups/articleshow/120113253.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:48:08

• "The sweeping tariffs he imposed last week will squeeze Apple's iPhone supply chain and make it much more expensive for Amazon, Meta, Google and Microsoft" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/tech-ceos-spent-millions-courting-donald-trump-it-has-yet-to-pay-off-/articleshow/120113575.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:48:32

• "designed to gain notoriety and cause maximum disruption to this highly anticipated event." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/americas/microsoft-fires-workers-after-israel-contract-protest-1871665 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:49:03

• "utterly shameful" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/09/labour-dropped-grooming-gang-inquiries-offending-pakistanis/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:49:25

• "Trump dismissed Krebs, a highly esteemed Department of Homeland Security official, in November 2020 after what he viewed as actions not sufficiently loyal to the president." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/trump-chris-krebs-executive-order-2020-election/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:49:51

• "specifically naming Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, and the Houthi movement." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/dhs-announces-its-surveilling-immigrants-social-media-for-antisemitism/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:50:23

• "Other elements of the memo, such as claims that the 2020 election was rigged, have been disproved many times. Because those claims weren't at all true." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/trump_cisa_investigation_memo/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:50:36

• "So here we are $40 in almost 2 years. Not setting any records am I or even covering the site costs but it’s something that does pay a little portion of it." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2025/04/09/how-much-money-have-i-made-with-wallpaper-packs/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:51:15

• "Elon Musk orchestrated a plan to rip off consumers with impunity when he tweeted ‘Delete CFPB’ and Congress just rubber-stamped it." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/congress-allows-musks-x-money-to-fleece-consumers | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:51:28

• "Reviving or extending coal to power data centers would force working families to subsidize polluting coal on behalf of Big Tech billionaires and despoil our nation’s public lands." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/trumps-abuse-of-emergency-declaration-to-force-ratepayers-to-prop-up-inefficient-coal-power-plants-is-breathlessly-stupid | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:52:10

• "Airlines are increasingly implementing restrictions or outright bans on carrying power banks during flights due to safety concerns." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/why-power-banks-are-being-banned-on-flights-essential-facts-you-should-know-101744194631166.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:52:33

• "effective immediately" ☛ https://futurism.com/trump-justice-department-crypto-fraud | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:52:59

• "Swedish energy company OX2 announced last week that it would invest 700 million euros in the Rajamäenkylä and Halsua wind farms. They will have a capacity of 472 megawatts (MW)." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20155015 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:53:20

• "The main issue with power banks is the lithium-ion batteries they contain, which, if damaged or faulty, can pose a fire hazard." ☛ https://itwire.com/your-it-news/home-it/why-airlines-are-banning-power-banks-on-flights-what-passengers-need-to-know.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:53:52

• "While I have enjoyed watching the funny Amazon carts drive around, I had not dug into their backstory. Let us change that." ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/amazon-cargo-bikes-in-brooklyn/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:54:08

• "There’s a shortage of airline pilots." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/09/single-pilot-operations-lets-replace-airline-copilots-with-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:54:34

• "not be moving forward at this time with our plans to build datacenters at the Licking County sites. We will continue to evaluate these sites in line with our investment strategy." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/microsoft_puts_more_datacenter_builds/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:55:03

• "This is all the more concerning that the principle of a moratorium — a way of laying the foundations for democratic control of data centers" ☛ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2025/04/09/simplification-law-stop-the-data-center-boom/ | Source: La Quadature Du Net    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:55:17

• "The shortages have been driven by factors including poor harvests due to hot weather in 2023 and panic-buying prompted by a "megaquake" warning last year." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250409-japan-to-sell-more-rice-reserves-as-prices-soar | Source: France24    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:55:54

• "Just leaving this here because I'm sure I'll be referring to it regulalry." ☛ https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/climate-change-in-one-sentence.html | Source: Chris O'Donnnell    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:56:06

• "Overpopulation’s central role in environmental degradation is intermittently challenged." ☛ https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8392/5/2/45 | Source: MDPI    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:56:20

• "Here’s a brief summary of what emerges about each of these global challenges." ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/overpopulation-a-new-survey-confirms-the-cause-of-the-planets-environmental-crises/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 16:56:46

• "Neiman Lab has some good advice on how to leak a story to a journalist." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:06:04

• "I spoke with eight journalists about how to leak in a safe, smart way. Disclaimer you probably knew was coming: No method of leaking is 100% secure, and the tips here reduce risk but cannot eliminate it completely." ☛ https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist/ | Source: Nieman Lab    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:06:19

• "A former global policy director at Meta told a Senate committee Wednesday that top executives at the social media giant" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/09/meta-wynn-williams-facebook-china-congress/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:06:40

• "Shockingly, however, Cuomo has entered the New York City mayoral race and catapulted directly into the polling lead" ☛ https://fair.org/home/nyt-covers-up-for-cuomo/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:06:56

• "threatening submarine cables" ☛ https://therecord.media/estonia-bill-sink-ships-sabotaging-undersea-cables | Source: The Record    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:07:29

• "But what about TikTok’s presence on the App Store and the Play Store?" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/07/tiktok-app-store-update-april-2025/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:08:36

• "Last we checked, TikTok is available on both the iOS App Store and Google Play Store, though this situation is volatile." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/07/tiktok-rollercoaster-ride-continues/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:08:48

• "The big picture: The former global public policy director at Facebook, now Meta, will allege that Facebook cooperated with China's ruling Communist Party, per her opening testimony, as seen by Axios." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/09/facebook-whistleblower-meta-china-congress-testimony-read | Source: Axios    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:09:17

• "Time will tell exactly what the criticism (coming only from the senator, with no co-signers on the letter) means for TikTok’s possible U.S. sale." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/08/tiktok-sale-deadline-criticism/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:10:17

• "These days, it's more of a second-row seat – I work remotely" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/09/cases-and-controversy/#brocolli-haired-brownshirts | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:11:45

• "with a new occupant in the White House" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/nso-group-the-vogel-group-lobbying-trump-administration/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:13:01

• "More than 1 million Californians and Texans" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-09/california-texas-zip-codes-financial-surveillance-200 | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:14:08

• "We asked Microsoft if this would be an opt-in feature" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/08/microsoft_new_copilot_features/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:15:19

• "Microsoft has started testing a new update to its Copilot app" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/645666/microsoft-copilot-vision-windows-beta-testing | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:15:32

• Windows TCO ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/treasury-bureau-notifies-congress-that-email-hack-was-a-major-cybersecurity-incident/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:16:04

• "Waymo describes it as a simple “road trip” for collecting data about the nuances of Japanese driving, including left-hand traffic and navigating a dense urban environment." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/645777/waymo-japan-autonomous-test-robotaxi-international | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:16:35

• "As more people start hacking around with implementations of MCP (the Model Context Protocol, a new standard for making tools available to LLM-powered systems) the security implications of tools built on that protocol are starting to come into focus." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/9/mcp-prompt-injection/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:16:49

• "The baffling appearance suggested that McMahon somehow doesn't know how to pronounce one of the most ubiquitous acronyms in modern society." ☛ https://futurism.com/trump-education-secretary-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:17:16

• apple ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/04/08/locked-out-of-apple-developer-accounts/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:23:42

• "The issue is the latest in a long line for Windows 11 24H2" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/microsoft_resets_the_days_since/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:23:54

• "The spoofing flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-30401" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/08/whatsapp_windows_bug/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:24:06

• crashes ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2669593/aprils-security-update-for-older-office-version-is-causing-app-crashes.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:24:21

• "Speculation says that the prices of Apple products are headed up." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2661902 | Source: Macworld    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:24:36

• "I think these kinds of bugs do drive customers away, but did it really happen" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/04/09/why-companies-dont-fix-bugs/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:24:54

• "Among the announcements was a promise to introduce" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/10/google_agentic_ai_cloud_next/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:25:10

• "The new device samples the air in real time, running the samples past a specialized biosensor every five minutes." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/09/1114252/new-bird-flu-sensor-disease-outbreaks/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:26:13

• "Under federal law, all people who arrive at an ER must be assessed and treated, regardless of their ability to pay, researchers noted." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-04-09/americas-ers-in-peril-report-says | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:26:31

• [Old] "Every uncomfortable situation, awkward interaction or moment of boredom — soma gets rid of them all. Just reach into your pocket and feel the metaphysical weight of it." ☛ https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2023/11/modern-soma |    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:26:45

• "Despite his public change of heart regarding the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, it's not exactly shocking that Kennedy is privately talking out of both sides of his mouth." ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/rfk-jr-measles-father-vaccine | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:27:06

• "Secondly, while magnetic tape is correctly identified as a 70-year-old technology for information storage" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/08/doge_tape_storage_diss/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:27:43

• "As reported yesterday, Apple has been stockpiling iPhone inventory in the United States ahead of Trump’s tariffs." ☛ https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/08/trump-thinks-the-us-has-the-resources-needed-to-make-iphones/ | Source: 9to5Mac    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:27:53

• "Steve Jobs candidly told Barack Obama in 2011 that iPhone manufacturing was unlikely to ever come back to the US, and Apple's current leader Tim Cook has echoed similar sentiments." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/iphones_manufacture_unlikely_in_us/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:28:06

• "Three core principles of effectiveness and productivity. It starts with identifying the right tasks that contribute to your goals and priorities." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2025/04/08/do-the-right-thing-in.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:28:40

• "Here's an overview of some of the top jobs and career paths for ECE majors." ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/what-can-you-do-with-an-electrical-and-computer-engineering-degree.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:30:42

• [Old] "I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google." ☛ https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373&count=1 |    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:31:06

• "Reflecting on 18 Years at Google" ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/04/09/reflecting-on-18-years-at-google/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:31:22

• "Experts have begun putting in place a complex metal structure to support the hull, which more than 60 years after its salvage has begun to sag in the Stockholm museum custom-built for it." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/entertainment/news/a/2292958.html | Source: RTL    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:32:16

• "Previously in The Scholarly Kitchen, I have written about a wide range of flaws of our current peer-review systems (on several occasions, lately)" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/09/peer-review-has-lost-its-human-face-so-whats-next/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:32:28

• "They're the contractors, NASA is the customer." ☛ https://futurism.com/jared-isaacman-nasa-spacex | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:32:57

• "We overweight “intelligence” compared with culture in people’s decision-making, and are quick to blame stupidity although cultural incentives encourage people to disregard empirical evidence and act tribally." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/04/08/dumbness-is-emotional-not-intellectual/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:33:31

• "It's April already! Time to look back and see what could be accomplished in the first quarter of 2025. (And if you are into XML Namespaces, get excited ;-) )" ☛ https://linuxphoneapps.org/blog/additions-of-q1-2025/ | Source: Linux Phone Apps    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:34:00

• "I bring this story up, because the idea of having an online persona fascinates me." ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/contemplating-the-online-face/ | Source: Brandon    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:34:28

• "All those “best” who sit on their hands, who have been taught throughout their school years not to think seriously about the products of our culture. [...]" ☛ https://filmfreakcentral.net/2025/04/a-minecraft-movie-2025/ |    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:38:09

• "More than 130 years after van Gogh painted Tree Roots, the painting is still stirring controversy in Auvers-sur-Oise, a usually serene town of less than 7,000 people, around 17 miles from the center of Paris." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/who-should-own-the-hillside-where-van-gogh-made-his-last-painting-180986401/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:38:20

• Wesley Gardner presents: Draw and Paint Better with Krita ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/draw_and_paint_better_with_krita/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:47:30

• Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.4 Released ☞ https://linuxiac.com/proxmox-virtual-environment-8-4-released/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:48:29

• "Almost five months after its previous 8.3 release, Proxmox, a powerful" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/proxmox-virtual-environment-8-4-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:49:23

• FreeDOS 1.4 Now Available — A Major Update for the Beloved DOS Revival ☞ https://linuxiac.com/freedos-1-4-now-available/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:50:03

• Linkwarden 2.10 Brings Hey Hi (AI) Tagging, Advanced Search, and More ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linkwarden-2-10-bookmark-manager-released/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:51:06

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1016923/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:54:00

• Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Preparations for Trixie, Updated debvm, DebConf 25 registration website updates and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-03-2025/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:54:14

• "Here’s something sure to bring a nostalgic smile to the faces of longtime computer enthusiasts." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/freedos-1-4-now-available/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:55:19

• "This release follows a little over three years after FreeDOS 1.3" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/09/freedos_14/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:55:48

• "Before I take everyone on a long yak-shaving expedition" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/FedoraGettingOldUpdates | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:58:25

• "Here’s something you don’t see every day: a major update to apt" ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/apt-3-debian-2/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:59:37

• "Linux Mint has released its regular monthly newsletter" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/mints-lmde-7-to-feature-full-oem-install-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 17:59:47

• "Proxmox is a commercial company offering specialised products" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12400 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:00:01

• "This was the first project where I got to use a speed reducer on the Shopsmith, so it took me some extra time to set it up and figure out how it works" ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2025/04/08/oak-fruit-bowl/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:00:53

• "The Laptop 12 is Framework’s smallest laptop yet, and its first convertible touchscreen model. It comes with a 13th Gen Intel Core i3 or i5 chip" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/645694/framework-laptop-12-preorders-delayed-us | Source: The Verge    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:01:04

• "Framework announced a bunch of stuff last month: powerful AMD upgrades for its bread-and-butter Laptop 13 design" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2656156/framework-delays-laptop-12-pre-orders-in-the-u-s-due-to-tariffs.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:01:19

• "Note that our system configuration pricing combines a Taiwan-origin system (the laptop/desktop itself) and China-origin modules (Bezels, Expansion Cards" ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/tariff-driven-price-and-availability-changes-for-us-customers | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:01:39

• "As a reminder, we’re partnering with Hack Club, a non-profit that helps student makers and coders build incredible projects." ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/framework-laptop-12-pre-orders-are-now-open | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:01:54

• "removing support" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/openssh-10-released-makes-bold-cryptographic-changes/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:02:38

• "fix a few bugs" ☛ https://blog.powerdns.com/2024/04/09/powerdns-recursor-5-0-10-5-1-4-5-2-2-released | Source: PowerDNS    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:03:08

• "This version includes important security updates to Firefox." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-145a6/ | Source: Tor    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:03:36

• "Unlike relational databases" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/why-use-a-nosql-database-for-ai-there-are-many-great-reasons/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:03:58

• "The official Zig website now builds using standalone Zine." ☛ https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-04-09 | Source: Zig    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:04:20

• "Based on the structured way the Chinese foreign ministry" ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/no-its-not-new-russia-and-china-have-been-best-buddies-for-decades/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:04:42

• "Mark Nelson’s reading on Librivox comes highly recommended." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/a-princess-of-mars-by-edgar-rice-burroughs/ | Source: Darren Goossens    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:05:00

• "Today, let’s discuss the not-too-frequently-used final specifier." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/04/09/no-final-mock | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:05:34

• "The OpenBSD kernel has a set of functions to help detect memory corruption" ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/what-if-the-poison-were-rust | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:05:47

• "Hello! Today, we will explore functional programming with the concepts" ☛ https://www.thecoder.cafe/p/functors-applicatives-monads |    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:06:08

• "If you managed to stay in this industry for 20 years" ☛ https://tomscii.sig7.se/2025/04/The-Barium-Experiment |    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:06:27

• "You are given a list of words." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/subcircular.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:07:03

• "One thing I love about Python is how it comes with its very own" ☛ https://susam.net/elliptical-python-programming.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:07:28

• "Here’s the basic service: [...]" ☛ https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/04/08/llm-query-understand |    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:07:43

• "We all know their use: to display given parts of documents." ☛ https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/fun-unix-fact-there-are-no-cats-in-your-terminal/ | Source: Michał Sapka    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:08:09

• We joined the AAUP to defend science — and you should too ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/08/we-joined-the-aaup-to-defend-science-and-you-should-too/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:11:58

• China-US trade war sends peso above 21 to the dollar ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/china-us-trade-war-sends-peso-spiraling/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:12:32

• Taavi Väänänen: Writing a custom rsync server to automatically update a static site ☞ https://taavi.wtf/posts/custom-rsync-server-static-site/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:14:29

• "Lives cut short Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih says goodbye to the children killed in Russia’s latest strike on the city" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/09/lives-cut-short | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:15:41

• "Russia releases L.A. woman arrested over Ukrainian charity donation in prisoner swap with U.S." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/10/russia-releases-l-a-woman-arrested-over-ukrainian-charity-donation-in-prisoner-swap-with-u-s | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:16:13

• Sumy and Kharkiv ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/09/ukraine-s-top-commander-says-russian-offensive-on-sumy-and-kharkiv-has-already-begun | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:16:40

• "Ukraine aid hub in Poland" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/09/u-s-to-withdraw-troops-and-equipment-from-polish-base-used-for-military-aid-to-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:17:19

• "Overnight Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/09/overnight-russian-drone-attacks-on-ukrainian-cities-damage-civilian-businesses-and-injure-at-least-20 | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:17:27

• "Moscow drafts terms for foreign firms’ return to Russia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/10/moscow-drafts-possible-terms-for-foreign-companies-to-return-to-russia | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:18:01

• "U.S.–Russia talks begins in Istanbul" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/10/latest-round-of-u-s-russia-talks-begins-in-istanbul | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:18:18

• "Overnight Russian drone attacks target Kyiv and Mykolaiv" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/10/overnight-russian-drone-attacks-target-kyiv-and-mykolaiv-injuring-at-least-12 | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:18:33

• "repeated bomber crashes" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/09/it-feels-like-a-real-war | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:18:51

• "France reportedly detains Russian official" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/09/france-reportedly-detains-russian-foreign-ministry-employee-prompting-moscow-to-summon-ambassador | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:28:56

• "In a crisis, it’s every country for itself" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/09/in-a-crisis-it-s-every-country-for-itself | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:29:08

• IBM Axes "Outdated" DEI Policies ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ibm-axes-outdated-dei-policies    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:30:02

• Open-Source 3D-Printed Robot ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/04/open-source-3d-printed-robot/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:30:58

• Open Source: A capitalistic value engine ☞ https://opensource.net/open-source-capitalistic-value-engine/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:31:33

• Getting Started with Open Source ☞ https://opensource.net/getting-started-with-open-source/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:31:39

• "Normally, videos over at The Signal Path channel on YouTube have a certain vibe, namely teardowns and deep dives into high-end test equipment for the microwave realm." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/making-liquid-oxygen-far-from-easy-but-worth-the-effort/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:34:34

• Shiny in Production 2024 Videos ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/shiny-in-production-2024-videos/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:36:04

• Extending the Theta forecasting method to GLMs and attention ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/extending-the-theta-forecasting-method-to-glms-and-attention/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:36:27

• Self-Hosting ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/self-hosting-a-cluster-on-old-phones/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:38:05

• Linux Mint Monthly News – March 2025 ☞ https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4825    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:38:30

• OpenSSH 10 Released, Makes Bold Cryptographic Changes ☞ https://linuxiac.com/openssh-10-released-makes-bold-cryptographic-changes/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:40:51

• openSUSE’s Agama Installer Lands with Enhanced Web UI ☞ https://linuxiac.com/opensuse-agama-installer-lands-with-enhanced-web-ui/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:41:32

• Fwupd 2.0.8 Released with Enhanced UEFI Support ☞ https://linuxiac.com/fwupd-2-0-8-released-with-enhanced-uefi-support/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:42:26

• Mint’s LMDE 7 to Feature Full OEM Install Support ☞ https://linuxiac.com/mints-lmde-7-to-feature-full-oem-install-support/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:44:34

• The Commodore 65 [sic] and MEGA65 ☞ https://rubenerd.com/the-commodore-64-and-mega-65/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:46:04

• Google Targets SOC Overload With Automated Hey Hi (AI) Alert and Malware Analysis Tools ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-targets-soc-overload-with-automated-ai-alert-and-malware-analysis-tools/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:46:42

• Federal disaster response is now on GAO’s high-risk list. What to do before another disaster strikes ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/04/federal-disaster-response-is-now-on-gaos-high-risk-list-what-to-do-before-another-disaster-strikes/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:47:43

• US drone strikes on cartels ‘wouldn’t resolve anything,’ says Sheinbaum: Tuesday’s mañanera recapped ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/sheinbaum-doesnt-believe-trump-drone-strikes-mexico-tuesdays-mananera-recapped/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:48:01

• Tariffs on China to increase to 104% as White House talks about building iPhones in the US ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/08/tariffs-china-increase-104-white-house-talks-building-iphones-us/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:48:31

• Why Developer Tools? ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/04/08/Why-Developer-Tools/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:49:12

• Dihydroxyacetone Man orders DOJ to investigate pair who disputed his allegation of election fraud ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/09/trump-orders-doj-investigate-pair-disputed-allegation-election-fraud/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:49:49

• "Andreas Tille , who is in his first term as DPL, is running again" https://lwn.net/Articles/1016107/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:50:43

• Zig-a-zig-ah: Tiny Cryptic #6 ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/04/tiny-cryptic-6    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:51:07

• Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss’ Retrofuturism ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/modern-babylon-ziggurat-skyscrapers-and-hugh-ferriss-retrofuturism    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:51:20

• Wyden to block CISA nominee over telecom security ‘cover up’ ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/04/wyden-to-block-cisa-nominee-over-telecom-security-cover-up/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:51:38

• Treasury’s OCC Says Hackers Had Access to 150,000 Emails ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/treasurys-occ-says-hackers-had-access-to-150000-emails/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:52:18

• CISA Urges Urgent Patching for Exploited CentreStack, backdoored Windows Zero-Days ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-urges-urgent-patching-for-exploited-centrestack-windows-zero-days/ http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:52:35

• IRS acting commissioner is resigning over deal to send immigrants’ tax data to ICE, AP sources say ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2025/04/internal-revenue-service-agrees-to-send-immigrant-tax-data-to-ice-for-enforcement/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:53:14

• Oracle Faces Mounting Criticism as It Notifies Customers of Hack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/oracle-faces-mounting-criticism-as-it-notifies-customers-of-hack/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:53:48

• Fortinet Patches Critical FortiSwitch Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fortinet-patches-critical-fortiswitch-vulnerability/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:53:56

• Vulnerabilities Patched by Ivanti, VMware, Zoom ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilities-patched-by-ivanti-vmware-zoom/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:54:04

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 594 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/04/09/this-week-in-rust-594/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:54:55

• Best practices for migration from Jaeger to Tempo ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/09/best-practices-migration-jaeger-tempo    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:55:41

• X-Ray Machine ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/you-shouldnt-build-an-x-ray-machine-but-you-could/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:58:29

• Earth's First Crust May Have Looked Surprisingly Like The One We Have Today ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-first-crust-may-have-looked-surprisingly-like-the-one-we-have-today    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:59:02

• 'City Killer' Asteroid's Origin Traced to an Unexpected Part of The Solar System ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/city-killer-asteroids-origin-traced-to-an-unexpected-part-of-the-solar-system    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:59:10

• These 7 Common Daily Habits Could Be Damaging Your Kidneys ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/these-7-common-daily-habits-could-be-damaging-your-kidneys    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:59:23

• New Virus-Trapping Gum Could Help Neutralize Herpes Infections ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-virus-trapping-gum-could-help-neutralize-herpes-infections    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:59:33

• Mass Anthrax Outbreak Kills Dozens of Hippos in African National Park ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mass-anthrax-outbreak-kills-dozens-of-hippos-in-african-national-park    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:59:46

• Dissection of 130,000-Year-Old Baby Mammoth Reveals Glimpse Into Lost World ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dissection-of-130000-year-old-baby-mammoth-reveals-glimpse-into-lost-world    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 18:59:58

• Earth's Oceans Were Once Green, Says Study of Volcanic Waters ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-oceans-were-once-green-says-study-of-volcanic-waters    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:00:29

• Could Stonehenge Be a Copy of This Even More Ancient Monument? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/could-stonehenge-be-a-copy-of-this-even-more-ancient-monument    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:00:55

• Inflation rises for second straight month, but remains within Banxico target ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-inflation-3-80-march-2025/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:01:19

• OpenSSH 10.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1016924/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:02:17

• IBM bribes for fake "journalism" again https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/09/three-ways-ibm-advancing-enterprise-ai-strategy-ibmaiops/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:06:30

• Poem: Justice for the Other ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/08/poem-justice-for-the-other/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:07:06

• This Bizarre Shape-Shifting Liquid Bends The Laws of Thermodynamics ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-bizarre-shape-shifting-liquid-bends-the-laws-of-thermodynamics    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:07:22

• The Forrest Dump administration is also trying to save money while fighting the many lawsuits regarding agency directives these days ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/04/the-trump-administration-is-also-trying-to-save-money-while-fighting-the-many-lawsuits-regarding-agency-directives-these-days/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:07:41

• "Raspberry Pi Elevator" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/going-to-the-top-with-a-raspberry-pi-elevator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:08:03

• John Goerzen: Announcing the NNCPNET Email Network ☞ https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10768-announcing-the-nncpnet-email-network    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:08:38

• ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Addressed by Rockwell, ABB, Siemens, Schneider ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ics-patch-tuesday-vulnerabilities-addressed-by-rockwell-abb-siemens-schneider/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:09:13

• Packaging Python Command-Line Apps the Modern Way with uv ☞ https://thisdavej.com/packaging-python-command-line-apps-the-modern-way-with-uv/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:10:52

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: AsioHeaders 1.28.2-1 on CRAN: New Upstream ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04/08#asioheaders_1.28.2-1    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:11:27

• Hardening the Firefox frontend ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1016978/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:11:44

• CodeSecure and FOSSA partner to enhance visibility into open source and binary code ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/09/codesecure-fossa-partner-enhance-visibility-open-source-binary-code/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:12:21

• "Vibe coding is the buzzword of the moment." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/ask-hackaday-vibe-coding/ | Source: Hackaday http://techrights.org/o/2023/02/10/copilot-in-court/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:12:55

• Share your thoughts on the proposed by-laws changes ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/09/share-your-thoughts-on-the-proposed-by-laws-changes/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:13:28

• Event Wrap: MMNOG 7 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/10/event-wrap-mmnog-7/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:13:37

• Introducing a new section on snapshot fuzzing for kernel-level testing in the Testing Handbook ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/09/introducing-a-new-section-on-snapshot-fuzzing-for-kernel-level-testing-in-the-testing-handbook/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:14:14

• "Incus Inception" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/floss-weekly-episode-828-incus-inception/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:14:49

• "“Happy to be out here. … It’s the best week. And more to come" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/the-first-48-wrongful-conviction-edgar-barrientos-quintana | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:15:16

• Local versus remote RSS readers ☞ https://rubenerd.com/local-versus-remote-rss-readers/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:16:31

• TikTok ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/10/at-least-155-chinese-citizens-are-fighting-for-russia-some-recruited-via-tiktok-zelensky-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:16:57

• Pentagon welcomes back troops discharged over COVID-19 vaccine, offers back pay ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2025/04/pentagon-welcomes-back-troops-discharged-over-covid-19-vaccine-offers-back-pay/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:17:40

• How to Build an HTPC With Linux and a Mini PC https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-build-an-htpc-with-linux-and-a-mini-pc/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:19:21

• "Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre published today a new edition of their monthly newsletter talking about some of the new features and improvements coming to Linux Mint, LMDE 7, and related components." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-debian-edition-is-getting-support-for-oem-installations-with-lmde-7    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:19:49

• "For some specifics — the latest major update to Monster Hunter Wilds (Ver. 1.010.00.00) also updated the version of DirectStorage used, which then caused black screens and freezing issues when played via Proton." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/proton-hotfix-updated-to-fix-monster-hunter-wilds-on-linux-steam-deck/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:20:05

• "This week, Jonathan Bennett and Rob Campbell talk to Stéphane Graber about LXC, Linux Containers, and Incus! Why did Incus fork from LXD, why are Fortune 500 companies embracing it, and why might it make sense for your home lab setup? Watch to find out!"https://hackaday.com/2025/04/09/floss-weekly-episode-828-incus-inception/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:20:30

• "IPFire 2.29 Core Update 193 has been released today for this powerful, open-source, and secure Linux-based firewall distribution designed to protect networks against evolving cyber threats introducing post-quantum cryptography." https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-linux-firewall-gets-post-quantum-cryptography-support-for-ipsec-tunnels    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:20:50

• "What is it? Pretty simple really. Think of Rust but you're a Duck. An open world survival game that features PVP, PVE, crafting, base building and hat wearing ducks that wield weapons." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/duckside-from-tinybuild-may-get-battleye-anti-cheat-enabled-for-steam-deck-linux/    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:21:05

• "This release also adds the updated UEFI database as a new HSI attribute and fixes various bugs." https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-8-adds-new-plugins-to-update-the-uefi-signature-database-and-kek    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:22:06

• "AI is going to take a majority of jobs over the next 10 years. Bill Gates said this. And IBM will be leading the way. Just not sure what the world is going to look like with 50 %+ unemployment." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jr8ah1ja Bill Gates selling his own bubble; automation is not "AI", they just rebrand everything to excuse bad economics    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:29:10

• "Yeah, how many Z customers in China? That will be ugly. That may end up being the time the Chinese get rid of the BIG IRON. That tariff stuff is going to be very ugly for IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jr0prmfr    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:29:56

• Microsoft is doomed. Too many layoffs. TOO FAST.    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:31:46

• Website down... gopher://gopher.prismdragon.net:70/0/phlog/2025-04-10_website_down.txt    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:52:17

• The Secret of Happiness gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~spring/phlog/2025-04-10__Secret_Of_Happiness.txt    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:53:23

• "FreeBSD combines the power of bhyve, the hypervisor/virtual machine manager, with the power of ZFS." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/snapshot-and-rollback-of-virtual-machines.txt    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:54:16

• smartphones gemini://ploum.net/2025-04-10-smartphone_ado.gmi    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:56:59

• 🔤SpellBinding: AEWIRVH Wordo: DOILY gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-10.gmi    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:57:40

• "Looking back I think I enjoy most things by myself rather than with company, the best example is going to the cinema, I mean, even with company you normally don't talk a lot during the movie, so the company can be enjoyed only after that." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2572    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:58:34

• "I have recently had to get back on two of the worst proprietary network services (Facebook and Discord... Gross...) to coordinate IRL activities I care a great deal about." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2574 (Proprietary Services and Hypocrisy)    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:59:29

• NATMOS:R A7| LQ’s account of the end gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2573    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 19:59:58

• "I've been overthinking POSSE (Publish n Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) for a while now, and I think I'll go on doing it right now, thanks." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-04-10    

posted Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 20:00:51