Roy Schestowitz

• Panama on edge https://www.dw.com/en/panama-on-edge-as-us-targets-china-s-canal-influence/a-72207874    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:21:54

• Prostate cancer: A new at-home saliva test beats blood test https://www.dw.com/en/prostate-cancer-a-new-at-home-saliva-test-beats-blood-test/a-72196529    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:22:29

• South Sudan visa dispute exposes diplomatic divide https://www.dw.com/en/south-sudan-visa-dispute-exposes-diplomatic-divide/a-72197664    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:22:55

• Sudan accuses UAE of fueling Darfur 'genocide' https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-accuses-uae-of-fueling-darfur-genocide/a-72209081    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:23:23

• South African Lawmaker Accuses Minister of Trying to Change Law for Musk's Starlink https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-07/south-african-lawmaker-accuses-minister-of-trying-to-change-law-for-musks-starlink    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:23:53

• Holding Meta Accountable in Africa https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/04/07/holding-meta-accountable-in-africa/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:24:15

• Cheeto Mussolini tariffs drive China, EU to diversify trade https://www.dw.com/en/trump-tariffs-drive-china-eu-to-diversify-trade/a-72176478    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:25:17

• Iranian director duo sentenced to prison https://www.dw.com/en/after-berlinale-success-iranian-director-duo-sentenced-to-prison/a-71597907    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:26:00

• Boycott USA! Cheeto Mussolini tariffs prompt backlash against US goods https://www.dw.com/en/boycott-usa-trump-tariffs-prompt-backlash-against-us-goods/a-71899620    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:27:48

• British PM Keir Starmer takes center stage — thanks to Cheeto Mussolini https://www.dw.com/en/british-pm-keir-starmer-takes-center-stage-thanks-to-trump/a-72186695    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:28:15

• EU readies €20 billion retaliation against Cheeto Mussolini's tariffs https://www.dw.com/en/eu-readies-€20-billion-retaliation-against-trump-s-tariffs/a-72182769    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:28:34

• Cheeto Mussolini tariffs hit Africa's exports hard https://www.dw.com/en/trump-tariffs-hit-africa-s-exports-hard/a-72175049    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:29:17

• US Official Reaffirms Washington's Commitment to Peace in East Africa During Rwanda Visit https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-04-08/us-official-reaffirms-washingtons-commitment-to-peace-in-east-africa-during-rwanda-visit    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:29:43

• NATO's Rutte wants closer ties with Japan in changing world https://www.dw.com/en/nato-s-rutte-wants-closer-ties-with-japan-in-changing-world/a-72187682    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:30:29

• The idea you cannot be "influencer" without outsourcing to some social control media says a lot about the meaning of "influencer"    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:38:27

• Very few podcasters own, control etc. their platform    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:38:49

• Over 3,000 active capsules now gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:39:29

• What I have learned from porting DRACONDI onto the TI-74S gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-04-14-ported-dracondi-on-ti74.txt    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:40:58

• "The "ada/asr" subtree on PAL disk 2 is an archive of the "Ada Software Repository" (ASR) which I find interesting because there seems to be a coherent vision of how software should be developed, and tools to back it up." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/dbane/gemlog/2025-04-13.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:42:05

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-14.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:43:08

• [cat] [kitten] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1264.jpg    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:44:14

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1614.jpg    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:44:19

• "In late 1994, I heard an album that was unlike any I had heard. The band was called Ween, and I wanted to help their pony." gemini://rooster.smol.pub/weenone    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:45:23

• Why won't countries buy US meat products? https://www.dw.com/en/trump-tariffs-why-won-t-countries-buy-us-meat-products/a-72181808    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:46:52

• US: Judge orders White House to lift AP restrictions https://www.dw.com/en/us-judge-orders-white-house-to-lift-ap-restrictions/a-72179983    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:47:28

• How should Canada define its relationship with the U.S.? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-poilievre-trump-relationship-analysis-1.7502289    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:48:52

• Tariffs on Canadian goods having a 'devastating effect,' U.S. farmers say https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/canada-us-tariffs-north-south-dakota-farmers-1.7502342    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:50:20

• Should Canada build a foreign spy service like the CIA? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-human-foreign-intelligence-1.7498632    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:51:00

• Canadian Labour Congress blasts U.S. auto union leader on tariffs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/shawn-fain-uaw-tariffs-canada-labour-congress-trump-1.7504140    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:51:25

• rearmament push? https://www.dw.com/en/can-french-war-culture-lead-europe-s-rearmament-push/a-72139551    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:53:52

• recession alarm https://www.dw.com/en/trump-s-tariffs-trigger-recession-alarm/a-72158605    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:54:14

• "insulting" https://www.dw.com/en/us-academic-arrested-in-thailand-for-insulting-monarchy/a-72178326    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:54:36

• forever chemicals https://www.dw.com/en/what-can-be-done-to-tackle-forever-chemicals/a-72129225    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 02:55:00

• "Without GNU, GPL and Richard Stallman, FOSS would not exist in the first place. The GPL forced companies to make FOSS a thing, whether they liked it or not." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645757    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 03:07:29

• "Only the Barfield office is closing for now in Atlanta. All people going to Barfield are relocating to the Brookhaven office which is the last office in Atlanta." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqyrkghq    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 03:08:15

• "No, the Dallas office is not closing. Also, there is a new round of RTO coming, to be announced next week." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqpf83dx    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 03:08:44

• "TikTok is already struggling due to the US tariffs on China in the United States and has now laid off its employees who failed to meet performance expectations last year." https://www.india.com/news/world/bad-news-of-employees-of-tiktok-tech-giant-as-many-to-be-sacked-due-to-non-performance-not-narayana-murthys-infosys-ratan-tatas-tcs-google-microsoft-ibm-7752961/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 03:39:29

• These clickbait titles are becoming annoying    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 03:40:13

• "Ukrainian Soldiers Who Were Surrounded By Russians Held Out For 35 Freezing Days" https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-soldiers-surrounded-toretsk-russia/33381157.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:08:54

• iophk: disinformation when asserting that trees are in the same carbon cycle as fossil fuels https://yle.fi/a/74-20155637 ("Business lobby: Finland must stick to climate target to ensure economic growth")    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:09:27

• "Five charts that explain the US-China trade relationship" https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-04-11/five-charts-that-explain-the-us-china-trade-relationship.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:11:34

• Linus Torvalds selling out to Microsoft and proprietary software? Linus Torvalds should know better; this is an attack on Git. https://github.blog/open-source/git/git-turns-20-a-qa-with-linus-torvalds/ ("Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds - The GitHub Blog")    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:12:19

• "A Financial Crisis Primer, Part I - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-financial-crisis-primer-part-i    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:12:35

• "The Trump Tariffs Just Got Even Worse - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-tariffs-just-got-even-worse    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:12:45

• "Recruitment Ads Attract Chinese Citizens To Fight For Russia" https://www.rferl.org/a/foreign-mercenaries-ukraine-war/33382425.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:12:55

• "Renesas Electronics has introduced the RZ/V2N Evaluation Kit, a platform for developing embedded systems with on-device AI. Built around the RZ/V2N microprocessor, it combines an AI accelerator, image signal processor, and security features for vision-based edge applications." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/renesas-rz-v2n-evaluation-kit-for-real-time-embedded-vision-applications/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:13:27

• "kills more than 20 people" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/13/russian-missile-strike-on-ukraine-s-sumy-kills-at-least-20-people | Source: Meduza    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:14:17

• "117 injured" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/13/at-least-21-killed-and-83-injured-in-russian-missile-attack-on-ukraine-s-sumy | Source: Meduza    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:14:28

• "With a line of cars waiting behind them at the train station, the two women hugged tightly as they said goodbye at the end of a spring break that hadn’t turned out to be the relaxing vacation they’d imagined." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/rumeysa-ozturk-best-friend-inside-story-tufts-trump-louisiana-ice | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:15:59

• One still missing, days after subway construction site collapse in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/one-still-missing-days-after-subway-construction-site-collapse-in-south-korea    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:18:55

• South Korea’s ousted leader Yoon due in court as criminal trial starts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-ousted-leader-yoon-due-in-court-as-criminal-trial-starts    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:19:07

• Psychologist reveals 3 major benefits of being alone — despite the stigma ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/13/health/3-major-benefits-of-being-alone-according-to-a-psychologist/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:19:32

• Hongkongers warned air pollution health risk to remain high into Monday ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/14/hongkongers-warned-air-pollution-health-risk-to-remain-high-into-monday/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:19:42

• "AI companies..." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/intellectual-property-in-the-age | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:20:56

• "Site blocking and similar censorship measures are vulnerable to circumvention" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/block-mirror-dystopian-site-blocking-triggers-circumvention-innovation-250413/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:21:09

• "Meta (then Facebook) bought the photo-sharing startup Instagram for $1 billion in 2012." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ftc-trial-begins-instagram-whatsapp/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:21:34

• "Feeds The Homeless" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/bon-jovi-restaurant-feeds-homeless-why-new-jersey-mayor-bent-shutting-it-down-1732648 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:22:11

• "The story gets more alarming from there." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/408528/trump-el-salvador-alien-enemies-gang-deportation-supreme-court | Source: Vox    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:22:51

• "private prison companies, including GEO Group and CoreCivic" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/04/12/for-profit-immigration-detention-expands-as-trump-accelerates-his-deportation-plans/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:23:29

• "Students and H-1 B Visa holders will, therefore, need to ensure that their stay in the US fulfills compliance requirements." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/us-homeland-security-donald-trump-leave-now-a-30-day-warning-for-foreign-nationals-staying-in-us-8153704 | Source: NDTV    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:24:08

• "As philanthropists [sic] increasingly fill in the funding gaps at news organizations" ☛ https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php | Source: CJR    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:24:38

• "The claimant is a businessman who was a leader of the campaign for the UK to leave the EU." ☛ https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Banks-v-Cadwalladr-judgment-280223.pdf | Source: UK    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:25:24

• Same person who sided with Brexiters vs media https://www.declassifieduk.org/the-tory-appointee-holding-julian-assanges-life-in-her-hands/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:27:00

• "The Harvard faculty chapter of the American Association of University Professors and the national arm of the academic organization said in a lawsuit filed on Friday in a Boston federal court" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-04-12/harvard-professors-sue-over-trumps-review-of-9-billion-in-funding | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:28:17

• "Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party on Sunday received its members' mandate to proceed with steps toward a potential disbandment, part of the erosion of political freedoms as China cracks down on dissent in the southern city." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/hong-kong-china-beijing-british-b2732397.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:29:35

• "With the federal election campaign underway, experts are warning migrant communities could see more misleading and false information before casting their vote." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/the-voters-who-could-see-more-misinformation-this-election/l49dywg3s | Source: SBS    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:30:28

• "Americans increasingly get their news [sic] from right-wing podcasts and social media content, according to a report published in mid-March by the nonprofit Media Matters for America." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/the-kids-are-leaning-right-how-the-manosphere-is-shaping-voters/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:30:39

• "Measles and whooping cough." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/if-you-are-proposing-that-government-regulations-and-process-are-the-problem-you-need-to-be-specific | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:31:43

• "New updates to ChatGPT have made it easier than ever to create fake images of real politicians, according to testing done by CBC News." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/chatgpt-fake-politicians-1.7507039 | Source: CBC    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:31:57

• "Symbols matter. They're the visible signposts of our shared commitment." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-simple-act-of-american-dignity | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:32:19

• [Old] "The Borland suit accused Microsoft of "systematically raiding" its personnel in an "insidious" attempt to weaken the smaller company's efforts to right itself." ☛ https://www.zdnet.com/article/borland-and-microsoft-settle-lawsuit/ | Source: ZDNet    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:32:52

• "Google DeepMind has put some employees with a noncompete on extended garden leave. These employees are still paid by DeepMind but no longer work for it for the duration of the noncompete agreement." ☛ https://www.businessinsider.com/google-deepmind-ai-talent-war-aggressive-noncompetes-2025-4 | Source: Business Insider    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:33:31

• "garden leave" ☛ https://futurism.com/google-top-ai-poaching-leave | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:33:48

• "Each one of these AI models has to sit on a server somewhere, and they tend to be very, very big" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/13/repub/as-demand-for-ai-rises-so-do-power-thirsty-data-centers/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:34:09

• "demand for AI rises" is false. Even Microsoft admits it is down. ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/04/13/repub/as-demand-for-ai-rises-so-do-power-thirsty-data-centers/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:34:52

• [Old] "Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy" ☛ https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy?language=en | "This video has been edited as a result of judgment in the Court of Appeal in England and Wales in a libel action by Arron Banks"    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:35:39

• "she decries the rise of the “broligarchy” — the powerful tech executives who are using their global digital platforms to amass unprecedented geopolitical power, dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world." ☛ https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like?language=en | Source: TED    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:35:53

• "Lessons on Tyranny" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/20-lessons-on-tyranny | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:36:59

• "We have so many child soldiers that nobody can count anymore" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/13/how-sweden-multi-cultural-dream-went-fatally-wrong/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:37:16

• "However accurate Silver Bulletin’s average is, the site is not alone in noting Musk’s unpopularity. Outlets like Fox News, Politico, and Axios have all recently pointed to polls showing a growing distaste for the billionaire." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/647850/elon-musk-americans-unfavorable-views-polls | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:37:49

• "don't let the Guy Fawkes avatars fool you." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/13/hacktivism_is_having_a_resurgence/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:38:13

• "Gov. Greg Abbott Says No." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/texas-muslims-abbott.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:38:46

• "The lawsuit contended that Musk’s ‘DOGE [sic]’ team was composed of “political appointees” who should not have access to Treasury records handled by “civil servants” specially trained in protecting such sensitive information as Social Security and bank account numbers." ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/12/doge-ban-treasury-department-information-00287642 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:39:14

• "Judge Jeannette A. Vargas said in a written opinion late Friday that one DOGE [sic] worker" ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/13/us/doge-us-treasury-access-musk-hnk/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:39:33

• "Google's servers will process the video feed of every Tuscon-area CBP camera to identify approaching people and vehicles." ☛ https://futurism.com/google-border-surveillance | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:40:13

• Windows TCO ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20155682 | Source: YLE    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:41:06

• [Old] ""People ask me: 'What's the single easiest thing that the United States could do to reduce our risk of civil war?' And my answer is always the same: regulate social media," Walter said." ☛ https://www.businessinsider.com/regulate-social-media-to-prevent-civil-war-barbara-f-walter-2023-1 | Source: Business Insider    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:41:27

• "I am going to use only mastodon for a while. I can't manage three social networks." ☛ https://mark.hysted.com/hedging-my-social-media-position/ | Source: Mark Hysted    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:41:55

• "A new documentary, Can’t Look Away, which follows parents suing tech companies after the deaths of their children, is difficult to watch." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/social-media-big-tobacco-moment-is-coming/262233/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:42:09

• "If all that’s needed is the push of a button, we can find someone cheaper than you to push it" ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/04/the-ai-effort-gap/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:42:59

• "AkiraBot's bottom line seems to be directing traffic to its dubious SEO scheme — and with GPT-4o-mini, that process seems to have been automated at scale." ☛ https://futurism.com/openai-spammer-seo | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:43:20

• "The term slopsquatting was coined by PSF Developer-in-Residence Seth Larson and popularized in a recent post by Ecosyste.ms creator Andrew Nesbitt." ☛ https://socket.dev/blog/slopsquatting-how-ai-hallucinations-are-fueling-a-new-class-of-supply-chain-attacks | Source: Socket Inc    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:43:49

• "We still need to validate the sources" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/13/how-to-sell-ai-slop-to-the-us-military-with-vannevar-labs-and-mit-tech-review/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:44:28

• "This is a critical component of the AI snake oil. They know that nobody who uses an LLM checks the output — you sell these machines to people because they don’t want to double-check the output. Even better when you’re looking for targets!"    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:44:43

• "Crosswalk buttons in at least three California cities appear to have been hacked this weekend to give them the seemingly AI-generated voices of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/647830/crosswalk-hack-musk-zuckerberg-voices-california | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:45:01

• "But this power comes at a cost. Training a model with hundreds of billions of parameters takes huge computational resources." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/why-researchers-are-turning-to-small-language-models/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:45:35

• "As the United States' biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, readers remain unimpressed." ☛ https://futurism.com/americans-ai-news-poynter | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:45:56

• "In a new poll conducted by Poynter and the University of Minnesota, nearly half of the survey's respondents said they don't want AI reporting the news to them — and 20 percent say that news publishers shouldn't be using the technology at all."    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:46:18

• "Today marks 8 days since I disabled my account. I thought muscle memory would bring me to the login page regularly for a few days at least, but that has not been an issue." ☛ https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/8-days-without-facebook.html | Source: Chris O'Donnnell    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:46:54

• "The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/children-vaccines-trump-new-mexico-people-b2732451.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:47:12

• "You already know how that works out for the U.S., because it’s one of the biggest single differences between the cost of living in other first world countries and the U.S." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/13/this-is-your-social-safety-net-on-doge/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:48:34

• "In a similar vein, the desire to get those foreign and synthetic particulates out of one's blood, and to clean one's blood in general, makes some degree of sense." ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/microplastic-blood-cleansing-clinic | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:48:49

• "As a University of New Mexico (UNM) press release explains, researchers at the institution's medical school believe they've found a link between oxalic acid — a molecule found in foods as disparate as sweet potatoes, spinach, chocolate and almonds" ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/mri-scan-contrast-dye-toxic | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:49:19

• "Making a connection with a physical book is a reminder that you and it are of the world." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/04/13/a-century-ago-an-explosion-of-free-thought-burst-from-kansas-it-filled-pockets-and-minds/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:50:02

• "These weather forecasts are critical for the transportation industry and many other industries." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-doge-weather-forecast-noaa-climate-1235316419/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:50:43

• "As we approach the moment when all information everywhere from all time is available to everyone at once, what we find is not new artistic energy, not explosive diversity, but stifling sameness." ☛ https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-new-control-society | Source: The New Atlantis    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:51:03

• "For the DJs of WFMU, free-form radio is not simply a means to play music without boundaries. It is a vital alternative to corporate streaming platforms like Spotify, which treat music as nothing other than monetizable data." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/wfmu-radio-counterculture-spotify-punk/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:51:15

• "With every personal website made, every web page published, every story told, every experiment embarked on, we can expand the aperture of the web. We can introduce people to its potential." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/04/13/what-we-see-in-our-websites | Source: James G    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:51:26

• "We can expand the potential of the web, too. I sometimes hear people talk about the “old web”, a term that I increasingly think is not apt. While speaking to a creative time on the web, I am more excited about the question: given all that we have done with the web, what can we do now? What excites you?"    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:51:57

• Richard Stallman Turns 72 and Will Be Giving Talks in Europe Soon ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/13/Richard_Stallman_Turns_72_and_Will_Be_Giving_Talks_in_Europe_So.shtml    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:54:19

• More EV misinformation from mainstream media ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202504/more-ev-misinformation-from-mainstream-media.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 04:55:10

• "It is still around and still works with a surprising number of protocols – and after the current, second alpha version" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/13/pidgin_chat_client_uopdate/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:47:38

• "Go 1.24's "tool" directive" ☛ https://rednafi.com/go/tool_directive/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:48:34

• "In this blog, we explored how to set up cross-validation in R using the caret package, a powerful tool for evaluating machine learning models. Here’s a quick recap of what we covered: [...]" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/setting-up-cross-validation-caret-package-in-r-a-step-by-step-guide/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:49:31

• "Data preprocessing is a crucial step in any machine learning workflow. It ensures that your data is clean, consistent, and ready for modeling." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/data-splitting-and-preprocessing-rsample-in-r-a-step-by-step-guide/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:50:12

• "Will software development change? Yes, of course. Will we stop making software? No, we’ll still be creating software, just not in the same way as before." ☛ https://arjenwiersma.nl/posts/20250413-doomed-software-developers/ | Source: Arjen Wiersma    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:50:33

• "When trying to write fast functions operating over many bytes, we sometimes use ‘SWAR’. SWAR stands for SIMD Within A Register" ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/04/13/detect-control-characters-quotes-and-backslashes-efficiently-using-swar/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:50:54

• "At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious, software delivery is about much more than churning out code — it’s about solving hard, unique problems in ways that create value." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/13/efficiency-trap-obsessing-ai-productivity-will-destroy-engineering-culture/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:52:21

• "Fallacies of Code Generation" ☛ https://olano.dev/blog/fallacies-of-code-generation/ | Source: Facundo Olano    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:52:36

• "There’s a lot of hype these days around patterns for building with AI." ☛ https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/04/12/how-i-made-a-useful-ai-assistant-with-one-sqlite-table-and-a-handful-of-cron-jobs.html | Source: Geoffrey Litt    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:53:32

• "The code itself is an HTTP server that offers a single endpoint. For the sake of the demo, I wanted it to return the flavour of the underlying image." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/high-cardinality-values-build-flags-rust/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:53:43

• Gunnar Wolf: Culture as a positive freedom ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/04/culture-as-a-positive-freedom.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:58:02

• Keith Packard: sanitizer-fun ☞ http://keithp.com/blogs/sanitizer-fun/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:58:31

• SSL / TLS & SDL Ported to MacOS 9 ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ssl-tls-and-sdl-ported-to-macos-9    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 05:59:14

• Russian Attack on Sumy in Ukraine Kills and Wounds Dozens ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/world/europe/sumy-ukraine-russia-strikes.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:01:21

• As Ukraine’s Politics Heat Back Up, a Former President Sees an Opening ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/world/europe/ukraine-petro-poroshenko-zelensky-politics.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:01:34

• Dozens Killed In 'Horrific' Russian Missile Strike, Prompting EU, US Condemnation ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-missile-strike-sumy-kills-civilians-ukraine-missiles/33383716.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:01:57

• More than 30 killed in Russian missile strike on Sumy, officials say ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250413-dozens-of-dead-wounded-in-russian-missile-strike-on-sumy-zelensky-says    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:02:09

• 🔴 'Dozens of dead and wounded' in Russian missile strike on Sumy, Zelensky says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250413-%F0%9F%94%B4-dozens-of-dead-and-wounded-in-russian-missile-strike-on-sumy-zelensky-says    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:02:24

• More than 20 killed in Russian strike on Ukrainian city ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250413-more-than-20-killed-in-russian-strike-on-ukrainian-city    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:02:43

• Ukraine: Russia strikes Sumy's crowded city centre ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250413-ukraine-russia-strikes-sumy-s-crowded-city-centre    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:02:50

• Girls in rural Lithuania miss school due to lack of female hygiene products ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2533764/girls-in-rural-lithuania-miss-school-due-to-lack-of-female-hygiene-products    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:03:05

• How To Install Hestia Control Panel on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-hestia-control-panel-debian-12/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:04:06

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

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:04:29

• How To Install Passbolt Password Manager on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-passbolt-password-manager-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:06:49

• How To Install Vivaldi Browser on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-vivaldi-browser-opensuse/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:07:16

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

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:07:47

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

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:08:05

• How to install Wireguard on GNU/Linux to turn your VPS into VPN ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-wireguard-on-linux-to-turn-your-vps-into-vpn/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:08:15

• How to Install Apache on Ubuntu 22.04 ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-apache-on-ubuntu-22-04-2/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:08:32

• Banking with dementia: how to manage your money and access support ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/banking-with-dementia-how-to-manage-your-money-and-access-support-aOk0P0a9C7nU    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:09:07

• How to spot Hey Hi (AI) influence in Australia’s election campaign ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-to-spot-ai-influence-in-australias-election-campaign/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:09:31

• Pinta 3.0 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu 24.04 | 22.04 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/pinta-3-0-released-how-to-install-it-in-ubuntu-24-04-22-04/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:10:03

• Pinta is Microsoft Mono. Use GIMP instead, maybe Krita.    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:10:31

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 15 (Apr 7 – 13, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-15-apr-7-13-2025/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:13:53

• Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in November 2024 ☞ https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2025/04/13/foss-activity-in-november-2024.html Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in December 2024 ☞ https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2025/04/13/foss-activity-in-december-2024.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:15:20

• Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in March 2025 ☞ https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2025/04/13/foss-activity-in-march-2025.html Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in February 2025 ☞ https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2025/04/13/foss-activity-in-february-2025.html Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in January 2025 ☞ https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2025/04/13/foss-activity-in-january-2025.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:15:37

• "Day Three dawns. We have a compressed schedule today before we break for individual workshops/breakouts - plus some people will be leaving us early in order to get home - so let's get to work." ☛ https://kodi.tv/article/devcon-2025-tirana-part-iii/ | Source: Kodi Foundation    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:17:34

• "We kicked off the session with a bit of administrative insight from keithah - how the Board operates, our bank account structure" ☛ https://kodi.tv/article/devcon-2025-tirana-part-ii/ | Source: Kodi Foundation    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:17:44

• "The URL could convey more context about the linked resource but it is not." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/04/13/what-if-youtube-had-slug-based-urls | Source: James G    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:19:36

• "OrangePi is fairly famous by now as an alternative manufacturer for Raspberry Pi-like mini-computer boards, usually based on ARM processors (but not only)." ☛ https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-rv2-new-risc-v-board-review/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:20:25

• "Lately, I’ve been very busy, but haven’t had many interesting things to blog about happen. That will change soon, but today I thought I would cover a repair that came in for an A3640 CPU card." ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/amiga-a3640-cpu-card-repair/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:20:51

• "You'd think that a home computer would be easy to repair, but it turned out to be a challenge.1 The chips in early PETs are notorious for failures and, sure enough, we found multiple bad chips" ☛ https://www.righto.com/2025/04/commodore-pet-repair.html | Source: Ken Shirriff    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:21:05

• "When simulating board games on a computer, one of the challenges is keeping track of the game pieces. Bitboards are an efficient way to store game state in (usually) 64-bit integers." ☛ https://healeycodes.com/visualizing-chess-bitboards | Source: Andrew Healey    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:29:28

• "Myst became one of my favorite games of all time, so of course I played Riven." ☛ https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/myst-1993/ | Source: Michał Sapka    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:29:41

• "This new post was created after I added a new spare via Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD" ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/13/r730-03-5/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:31:25

• "In the meantime, while I think and research, I’ve removed the hot spare." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/13/adding-in-a-hot-spare-for-zfs-on-freebsd/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:31:37

• Michael Prokop: OpenSSH penalty behavior in Debian/trixie #newintrixie ☞ https://michael-prokop.at/blog/2025/04/13/openssh-penalty-behavior-in-debian-trixie-newintrixie/ https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/08/Edward_Brockelsby_how_expelled_hacker_took_over_Debian_s_SSH2_p.shtml    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:35:02

• "UK snubs Council of Europe over Assange inquiry" https://www.declassifieduk.org/uk-snubs-council-of-europe-over-assange-inquiry/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 06:48:28

• Beta for Amarok 3.3 available ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/13/beta-for-amarok-3.3-available/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:13:42

• "sixth refresh of the MX-23 series" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/mx-linux-23-6-arrives-with-debian-12-10-base/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:15:47

• Xi Jinping Travels to Southeast Asia Amid Tariff War with U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/world/asia/china-xi-us-trade-war-southeast-asia.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:19:38

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Signals New Tariffs on Chips, Calling Exclusions Temporary ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/politics/trump-tariffs-china-chips-technology.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:19:54

• China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/business/china-rare-earths-exports.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:20:05

• China's Pooh-tin vows to Indonesia's Prabowo to deepen partnership, Xinhua says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-xi-vows-to-indonesias-prabowo-to-deepen-partnership-xinhua-says    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:20:38

• How China went from courting Convicted Felon to ‘never yield’ tariff defiance ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/how-china-went-from-courting-trump-to-never-yield-tariff-defiance    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:20:55

• China’s Pooh-tin calls for greater cooperation with Vietnam ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/chinas-xi-calls-for-greater-cooperation-with-vietnam    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:22:08

• China calls on the US to 'correct its mistakes' by canceling reciprocal tariffs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250413-china-calls-on-us-to-completely-cancel-reciprocal-tariffs    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:22:57

• Birth of Unix ☞ https://itsfoss.com/birth-of-unix/ "metimes it feels like Unix has been around forever, at least to users who have used Linux, or BSD in any form for a decade or more now."    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:23:52

• Software Project Pieces Broken Bits Back Together ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/13/software-project-pieces-broken-bits-back-together/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:24:40

• Israel Strikes Hospital in Northern Gaza and Captures Key Part of South ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-hospital.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:27:00

• Israel strikes hospital in northern Gaza, forcing evacuations ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250413-gaza-hospital-hit-israel-intensifies-military-campaign-gaza-city    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:27:55

• $3,500 awarded for Morris Routing network patents prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/13/3500-awarded-for-morris-routing-network-patents-prior-art    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:28:35

• New EPO Leaks: Replacing Patent Examiners and Classifiers With Deficient Bots (Without Even Asking for Permission) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/12/New_EPO_Leaks_Replacing_Patent_Examiners_and_Classifiers_With_D.shtml    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:28:44

• UPC is illegal and EPO is a pile of corruption; both need to be stopped. They operate outside the Rule of Law. ☞ https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/04/13/upc-vs-epo-oppositions-lessons-from-recent-upc-case-law/id=188127/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:29:33

• Kernel prepatch 6.15-rc2 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1017325/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:30:00

• Australian airline refunding overcharged passengers ☞ https://rubenerd.com/australian-airline-overcharged-passengers/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:30:50

• Microsoft SLAPPs Against Techrights Losing Momentum (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/13/Microsoft_SLAPPs_Against_Techrights_Losing_Momentum.shtml    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:31:29

• Exposing Corruption and Crimes Against Women Isn't a Crime, It's an Imperative (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/12/Exposing_Corruption_and_Crimes_Against_Women_Isn_t_a_Crime_It_s.shtml    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:31:45

• Influencers: Red Hat, Inc's IPO, 1999, post-mortem on the directed share offer to open source developer community ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/Influencers_Red_Hat_Inc_s_IPO_1999_post_mortem_on_the_directed_.shtml    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:32:04

• Revisionism and Lies by LLM Slop and Lazy "Media" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/13/Revisionism_and_Lies_by_LLM_Slop_and_Lazy_Media.shtml    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:32:20

• Battery-powered Seeed Studio IoT Button features ESP32-C6 SoC, supports ESPHome or Zigbee firmware ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/13/battery-powered-seeed-studio-esp32-c6-iot-button-esphome-zigbee-firmware/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:35:24

• Update: xorsearch.py Version 0.0.2 ☞ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2025/04/14/update-xorsearch-py-version-0-0-2/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:36:19

• "High-Voltage Urges" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/13/satisfy-your-high-voltage-urges-with-this-printable-flyback-transformer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:37:31

• "There are no shortage of CNC machines in the DIY space these days, but sometimes you just need to do things your own way." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/13/3d-printed-milling-machine-is-solid-as-a-rock/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:37:50

• Tech industry braces for fresh tariffs as Convicted Felon insists nobody is ‘getting off the hook’ ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/13/tech-industry-braces-fresh-tariffs-trump-insists-nobody-getting-off-hook/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:38:26

• Look Up! Two Stunning Meteor Showers Are About to Light Up The Sky ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/look-up-two-stunning-meteor-showers-are-about-to-light-up-the-sky    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:38:46

• Researchers Identify New Blood Group After 50 Year Mystery ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-identify-new-blood-group-after-50-year-mystery    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:38:55

• siliconangle mindlessly repeating LIES for its SPONSOR. Microsoft has ALREADY admitted usage was DOWN. https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/13/openai-doubles-users-800m-1b-thanks-ghibli-style-image-generation/ also see http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:40:09

• siliconangle is participating in a Ponzi scheme, which is stands to profit from    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:40:48

• UK Laws Are Not ‘Fit for Social Media Age,’ Says Report Into Summer Riots ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/world/europe/uk-riots-social-media-contempt.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:41:17

• 15 Best Free Resources for Malicious URLs and Phishing Links for Cybersecurity Testing ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/2025/04/14/malicious-urls-phishing-links-cybersecurity-testing-resources/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:44:42

• Rubio Says 10 More People Have Been Expelled to El Salvador ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/politics/rubio-deportions-el-salvador-trump-bukele.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:44:56

• This Is Your Social Safety Net on DOGE ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/13/this-is-your-social-safety-net-on-doge/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:45:16

• Hong Kong's last major opposition party moves towards disbanding ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/hong-kongs-last-major-opposition-party-moves-towards-disbanding    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:45:45

• Crosswalks in Silicon Valley hacked to play satirical messages from MElon and Kapo-berg sound-a-likes ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/crosswalks-in-silicon-valley-hacked-to-play-satirical-messages-from-musk-and-zuckerberg-sound-a-likes    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:46:00

• Part 4 of SOK 2025 ☞ https://nidhishchauhan.onrender.com/blog/blog-4-of-SOK-2025    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:46:51

• SoK '25 Weeks 5 to 10 ☞ https://pinotnoir04.github.io/posts/weeks5-10/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:47:11

• This Week in KDE Apps ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/13/this-week-in-kde-apps/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:47:30

• powa-archivist 5.0.2 is out! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/powa-archivist-502-is-out-3055/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:49:56

• KDE is kind of Qt    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:50:17

• Rnote 0.12 Released with Improved GNU/Linux Note-Taking Features ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/rnote-0-12-released-with-improved-linux-note-taking-features    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:53:02

• Jim talking like his wife the scammer, seeing "Linux" as just some "BS" to make lots of money from https://techrights.org/n/2024/03/17/Jim_Zemlin_Says_Linux_Foundation_Should_Combat_Fraud_Together_W.shtml    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:54:26

• This is what happens when a geek (Torvalds) lets some unqualified charlatan inherit a "boss" responsibility, running Linux into the hands of its opponents https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/jim-zemlin-on-taking-a-portfolio-approach-to-linux-foundation-projects/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:56:35

• "This week, we got a new major release of the Pinta paint program, a major OpenSSL release, some exciting news about the upcoming LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 distribution, as well as minor updates to DXVK, fwupd, and IPFire projects." https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-april-13th-2025    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 08:57:15

• "Using Linux in 2025 is more viable than you may think. Although the operating system (OS) has powered much of the world's servers for decades, it remains a severely unpopular choice for desktop and laptop systems." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-features-that-might-surprise-windows-users/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:00:03

• PCLinuxOS Recent Updates ☞ https://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=5945    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:00:50

• Teller is a multi provider secret management tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/teller-universal-secret-manager-developers/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:02:03

• Commodore OS is a fan-made Commodore inspired GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/commodore-os-fan-made-linux-distribution/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:02:13

• Mail Notification Tools: 7 Best Free and Open Source Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-mail-notification-tools/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:02:30

• memegen generates memes from the command line ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/memegen-generates-memes-command-line/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:02:37

• Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/obituaries/mario-vargas-llosa-dead.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:03:29

• Blog questions challenge: TV shows ☞ https://rubenerd.com/blog-questions-challenge-tv-shows/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:03:37

• Screen Time In Bed May Increase Insomnia Odds, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/screen-time-in-bed-may-increase-insomnia-odds-study-suggests "And not just social control media"    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:04:35

• Command-Line Screen Capture Tools: 7 Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Apps ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-command-line-linux-screen-capture-tools/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:05:12

• MonetDB is a high performance relational database system for analytics ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/monetdb-relational-database-system-analytics/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:05:25

• Resticker runs automatic restic backups ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/resticker-runs-automatic-restic-backups/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 09:05:37

• Will FTC antitrust trial force Mark Zuckerberg to sell Instagram and WhatsApp? Here's all we know https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/technology/news/story/will-ftc-antitrust-trial-force-mark-zuckerberg-to-sell-instagram-and-whatsapp-heres-all-we-know-2708669-2025-04-14    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 14:47:38

• PS5 Prices Rise in Europe and Australia — US Gamers May Be Next https://www.ccn.com/news/technology/ps5-prices-rise-in-europe-and-australia-us-gamers-may-be-next/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 14:48:08

• Microsoft’s Controversial Recall AI Feature Begins Rollout, Privacy Concerns Remain https://www.ccn.com/news/technology/microsoft-makes-another-attempt-launching-recall/ see http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 14:48:51

• Microsoft cuts hundreds of UK jobs even as profits soared https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-cuts-hundreds-of-uk-jobs-even-as-profits-soared    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 14:50:08

• Microsoft cuts UK jobs as sales near £10bn and profit surges https://www.cityam.com/microsoft-cuts-uk-jobs-as-sales-near-10bn-and-profit-surges/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 14:51:11

• "Catch up on the latest Linux news: OpenSSH 10, KDE Frameworks 6.13, Mint’s LMDE 7 to feature full OEM install support, ArcoLinux winds down, Linux swap explained, and more." https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-15-apr-7-13-2025/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 18:00:54

• "I’ve been using Linux in one capacity or another for nearly twenty years, but my tastes haven’t changed – I’m a Debian and Ubuntu fanboy at heart. However, there are a few unconventional Linux distributions out there that I admire, thanks to some interesting design choices." https://www.howtogeek.com/most-unconventional-linux-distributions/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 18:01:21

• "Linux distros tend to look the same after you've tried a few. One distro aims to shake up how files are managed on Linux. Is GoboLinux worth using?" https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-gobolinux/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 18:02:07

• IBM slop about IBM slop https://www.techinasia.com/ai-pump-82b-indonesian-factories-adoption-lags LLM slop as "press"    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 18:04:34

• "Nobody works harder than IBM Management, so the layoffs are YOUR fault. Yes, YOU should have worked harder. Now the company is in trouble and we have to get rid of YOU and all YOUR slackoff IBMer peers." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrrtnbwh    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 18:05:49

• "No I was on the list a few times never once labeled low performance just downsizing. Don’t take it personal you’re just a number to them." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrgn009t    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 18:06:11

• "In Canada it’s a violation of human rights to misgender someone. Also that Canadian state run healthcare system. Why do many Canadians come here for surgery?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrn9p8w5    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 18:07:49

• Amazon’s Reduction of Managerial Ranks Increases White-Collar Worries https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/amazons-reduction-of-managerial-ranks-increases-white-collar-worries/91175840    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:08:15

• Game Industry Layoffs Amid Broader Economic Struggles https://www.cgmagonline.com/articles/game-industry-layoffs-economic/    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:08:50

• "Tonight I caught up on the scuttlebutt with gopher aggregators." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-04-14-drama.txt    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:11:16

• OH BROTHER gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-04-14Oh_Brother.txt    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:12:19

• [japan] [jp] [food] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-04-14.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:14:42

• "Vous l’avez certainement vu passer : Un journaliste américain s’est fait inviter par erreur sur un chat Signal où des personnes très haut placées de l’administration américaine (y compris le vice-président) discutent de l’organisation top secrète d’une frappe militaire au Yémen le 15 mars." gemini://ploum.net/2025-04-14-recherche-attention-perdue.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:15:20

• Li idiot secun Dostoyevsky gemini://occidental.srht.site/gemlog/idiot.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:16:23

• 🔤SpellBinding: YHIPRTC Wordo: PLUSH gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-14.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:16:49

• "Sometimes when I'm sat in front of a computer I'll find myself moving the mouse cursor around in patterns, as a kind of fidgeting. It's not to navigate through anything or interact with an application, I'm just zoned out and I'm moving something to see it move." gemini://sdf.org/diggy/posts/2025/04/olauncher-and-decorating-imaginary-places.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:17:37

• [cat] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-04-13.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:18:33

• LQ’s account of the end gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2579    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:21:15

• "My website is not broken... today is CSS Naked Day. I must say, it doesn't look as bad as I expected 😅" gemini://capsule.heyloura.com/2025/04/09/my-website-is-not-broken.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:21:54

• "The last two books I read were The Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis and Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov." gemini://sdf.org/diggy/posts/2025/04/the-silver-pigs-and-more-foundation.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:22:46

• "I've got to figure something out with the arrangement of my bedroom/office. Right now, I have two desks in the shape of an L in the corner. This corner is necessary because that's where the outlets are" gemini://hyperreal.coffee/gemlog/2025-04-05-i-really-dislike-computers-sometimes.gmi    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:23:26

• "I haven't seen any self-hosted solutions for sharing code samples along the same lines of embedding something from Codepen.io. Any suggestions? I want to start sharing more interactive code samples but I want to have them hosted on my blog (or something I can host elsewhere and then embed) 🤔" gemini://capsule.heyloura.com/2025/04/05/i-havent-seen-any-selfhosted.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:23:50

• "I'm not finished but I did some digital spring cleaning and updated my website theme[1] a bit. I wanted to explore making it more of a digital garden and less chronological. Part of that was implementing backlinks. I wrote up the steps here Backlinks on a Micro.blog hosted website[2]." gemini://capsule.heyloura.com/2025/04/05/im-not-finished-but-i.html    

posted Monday, April 14, 2025 at 19:24:15

• Linus' Next Big Thing | LINUX Unplugged 610 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/610/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 03:54:37