Roy Schestowitz

• The dangers of performance-based layoffs https://financialpost.com/financial-times/the-dangers-of-performance-based-layoffs    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:01:44

• People losing jobs in their 40s: CEO’s explanation draws mixed response https://www.livemint.com/news/trends/people-losing-jobs-in-their-40s-ceos-explanation-draws-mixed-response-11744628451915.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:02:03

• "No one deserves to be blamed for showing students the danger that human practices are causing." https://stallman.org/archives/2025-jan-apr.html#12_April_2025_(Princeton_climate_research_funding_cuts)    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:03:40

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-15.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:05:33

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1265.jpg    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:06:10

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1615.jpg    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:06:17

• "I went to IndyClassic2025! There's moving images of the event, and a retrospective to be found on my main gopher here: gopher://gopher.linkerror.com:70/1/indyclassic2025 " gopher://gopher.linkerror.com:70/0/phlog/2025/20250414    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:07:03

• How to install Ubuntu Server in under 30 minutes https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-install-ubuntu-server-in-under-30-minutes/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:09:35

• Linux Fu: Stopping A Runaway https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/linux-fu-stopping-a-runaway/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:13:52

• "This release improves handling of set_format results from v4l2 and adds the missing –channel-map long option for pw-loopback." https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-2-adds-extra-midi-checks-to-avoid-100-cpu-usage-on-older-kernels    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:14:16

• "Collabora is already working on updating PanVK’s Vulkan specification to Vulkan 1.2, and plans on moving on to Vulkan 1.3 and 1.4." https://9to5linux.com/panvk-open-source-vulkan-driver-for-arm-mali-gpus-is-now-vulkan-1-1-conformant    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:14:36

• "This one looks like it has a really nice mixture of strategy and a bit of comedy, with some pretty amusing combinations you can do with the deck-building." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/play-cards-manage-clones-explore-unique-planets-and-outsmart-aliens-in-clonizer/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:15:03

• "Spin Rhythm XD is big on customisation, with an included level editor and a suite of accessibility features, unlockable wheel skins and more. Fight your way to the top of the global leaderboards to become the best in the rhythm dimension." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/electronic-music-rhythm-game-spin-rhythm-xd-recently-added-linux-steam-deck-support/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:15:52

• "This is the sixth stable update for MX Linux 23 “Libretto” and it’s based on the Debian GNU/Linux 12.10 “Bookworm” repositories." https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-23-6-is-out-now-based-on-debian-12-10-and-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-14    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:16:54

• Man bribes girlfriend with cruise vaction to use Linux for a week, relationship somehow survives https://boingboing.net/2025/04/14/man-bribes-girlfriend-with-cruise-vaction-to-use-linux-for-a-week-relationship-somehow-survives.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:17:24

• "If the layoffs exceed a limit (I think it's 50, but I could be wrong) they have to post a public notice. This is usually done on a very nondescript piece of paper on the bulleting board beside the Timmie's. You can pick it out because it has an Ontario government logo on it due to it being a gov't form." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrfg3sn5    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:21:43

• "Everyone that is laid off ends up with a do not rehire flag anyway. Nor does IBM provide references other than to say your position and when you worked." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrgn009t    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:24:04

• "DEI Retreat = ‘Fear of losing Fed Contracts’" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrmh9627    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:24:36

• "Slowing Windows 11 adoption due to PC tariffs - The outlook for increasing adoption of Windows 11 is looking grim given the effect that tariffs will have on new personal computer sales. Uncertainty is curtailing business spending plans." https://www.ciodive.com/news/trump-tariffs-uncertainty-cio-enterprise-it-spend/745074/ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrt9h7sh    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:27:52

• "Tech Layoffs: According to data from Layoffs.fyi, more than 23,500 tech employees have lost their jobs this year across 93 companies." https://www.financialexpress.com/life/technology-tech-layoffs-in-2025-continue-google-microsoft-meta-and-others-slash-jobs-3809373/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 04:43:02

• Bureau Brussels: EU Emissions Trading System at risk of money laundering https://www.ftm.eu/newsletters/bureau-brussels-eu-ets-money-laundering    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 05:39:34

• GNU/Linux up in Afghanistan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/afghanistan/#monthly-200902-202504    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 07:55:33

• Android all-time high https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/afghanistan/#monthly-200902-202504    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 07:56:23

• "Spin Rhythm XD is a homage to classic arcade rhythm games (Guitar Hero, DDR), with a modern aesthetic and soundtrack." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/electronic-music-rhythm-game-spin-rhythm-xd-recently-added-linux-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 07:58:25

• "Necesse is a wonderful mixture of base / village building, exploration, adventure and survival with support for solo and co-op play. They've teased the 1.0 update is due out this year, along with The Forgotten Depths update out now." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/co-op-base-building-survival-game-necesse-v1-0-due-this-year-the-forgotten-depths-update-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 07:58:47

• "War for the Overworld from Brightrock Games just recently hit the 10 year anniversary, and so to celebrate the developers released a brand new update to their classic Dungeon Keeper-like." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/dungeon-keeper-like-game-war-for-the-overworld-got-a-surprise-ten-year-anniversary-update/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 07:59:06

• "With Native Linux support and Steam Deck Verified, Dungeons & Degenerate Gamblers is another good pick if you like something a bit different." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/blackjack-roguelike-dungeons-degenerate-gamblers-v1-3-brings-big-improvements-to-controller-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:11:40

• "Clonizer is a fresh tactical roguelike deck-builder about making and managing clones, and attempting to colonize and take over the universe. It's just launched with Native Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/play-cards-manage-clones-explore-unique-planets-and-outsmart-aliens-in-clonizer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:19:24

• "Clonizer is a fresh tactical roguelike deck-builder about making and managing clones, and attempting to colonize and take over the universe. It's just launched with Native Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/play-cards-manage-clones-explore-unique-planets-and-outsmart-aliens-in-clonizer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:41:58

• "With an interface that looks rather inspired by Balatro in many parts, RNG JAM from bryanthaboi will bring arcade styled basketball with roguelite chaos." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/rng-jam-is-an-upcoming-nba-jam-inspired-arcade-styled-basketball-game-with-roguelite-chaos/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:42:09

• "V Rising 1.1 - Invaders of Oakveil is set to release on April 28th and it's going to bring much improved and official support for the Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/v-rising-1-1-invaders-of-oakveil-will-bring-lots-of-new-content-and-official-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:42:31

• "If you don't hear from me much over this week (or for the rest of this month), it's because I'm dedicating my time to playing GNOMES. A new tower defense roguelike hybrid from developer DYSTOPIAN with ever-expanding biomes to battle through." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/gnomes-is-my-new-favourite-tower-defense-game-that-blends-in-roguelike-mechanics/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:43:07

• "Quick tip - if you've never had the chance to experience the Metro series, now you can without paying a penny as 4A Games are giving away Metro 2033 Redux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/4a-games-are-giving-away-metro-2033-redux-free-for-48-hours/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:48:10

• "With the latest update out today, Blood West from Hyperstrange and New Blood Interactive is now Steam Deck Verified and well worth a look." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/merging-a-western-with-eldritch-horror-blood-west-is-awesome-and-now-steam-deck-verified/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:48:20

• The term "first wife" means in polygamy not the same as what the West means, due to "cultural differences"    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:52:20

• "No, I did not watch … | rom" https://my.advocrazy.com/2025/04/13/no-i-did-not-watch.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:57:56

• "More Microsoft Job Cuts Could Hit Non-Coding Staff And Middle Managers" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/04/13/0349258 http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/09/Keeping_Track_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_in_2025.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/Hundreds_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_Net_Headcount_Decrease_in_the_Uni.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:58:31

• iophk" watch out for revisionism here, especially once they get to the 1980s, 1990s, and later https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/a-history-of-the-internet-part-1-an-arpa-dream-takes-form/ ("An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 - Ars Technica")    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 08:58:51

• "So how long until Trump uses his supposed mastery of ‘the art... - Superdavey" https://superdavey.com/posts/2025-04-13-so-how-long-until    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:07:04

• old: "Salt Typhoon Hacks of Telecommunications Companies and Federal Response Implications | Congress.gov | Library of Congress" https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF12798 see http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:07:28

• iophk: promoting Microsoft proprietary file formats which are indirectly a contributor to the ongoing problems by tying people to proprietary software: "Implications of Salt Typhoon Attack and FCC Response | Federal Communications Commission" (old: https://www.fcc.gov/document/implications-salt-typhoon-attack-and-fcc-response )    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:08:07

• "G. Elliott Morris, who ran 538 until ABC killed it (boo) but now has an excellent Substack, Strength in Numbers (yay) has been a leader in data journalism." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-g-elliott-morris ("A Conversation With G. Elliott Morris - Paul Krugman")    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:09:44

• iophk: the "Affordable Care Act" web site fiasco was caused by microsofters being involved and the mess was cleared up by getting them out of the way entirely; that is glossed over in the article https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/14/1114988/doges-tech-takeover-threatens-the-safety-and-stability-of-our-critical-data/ ("DOGE [sic]’s tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data")    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:11:38

• "White House bizarrely denies the existence of Apple's tariff exemption" https://www.macworld.com/article/2685357/white-house-bizarrely-denies-the-existence-of-apples-tariff-exemption.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:11:50

• "Experts told Task & Purpose that the report appears to be legitimate." https://taskandpurpose.com/news/russian-bradley-captured/ ("Russian engineers were blown away by a captured a US Bradley")    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:12:16

• Bought past the problem | "BuyFromEU: Am Problem vorbei gekauft" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/buyfromeu-am-problem-vorbei-gekauft/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:12:42

• "Activist Mahmoud Khalil Plans to Appeal Deportation Ruling" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2025/0412/Explained-The-legal-fight-to-stop-Mahmoud-Khalil-s-deportation    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:12:52

• "Trump Has Found His Class Enemy" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-waging-war-professional-class/682409/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:13:04

• iophk: The support for Iran's Hamas spun as something else ("pro-palestinian") https://michiganadvance.com/briefs/pro-palestinian-university-student-groups-march-in-and-outside-of-the-michigan-capitol/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:13:36

• iophk: kudos to SJVN for calling out the EFF's BS on the topic https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/miyazaki_ai_and_intellectual_property/ ("ChatGPT's Studio Ghibli-style images are no laughing matter") http://techrights.org/o/2020/09/10/sjvn-senior-moment/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:14:28

• iophk: could hae been a good article but devolves into nothing more than 'cheeto sez' https://variety.com/2025/politics/news/trump-honored-sue-60-minutes-cbs-urges-fcc-maximum-fines-1236368760/ ("Trump Honored to Sue 60 Minutes, CBS; Urges FCC to Impose Maximum Fines")    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:14:50

• "Nobel literature prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa dies" https://www.dw.com/en/nobel-literature-prize-winner-mario-vargas-llosa-dies/a-72234872    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:15:27

• "Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-winning novelist, dies at 89" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/nobel-peruvian-novelist-mario-vargas-llosa-dies    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:15:43

• Den stora älgvandringen 2025 https://arenan.yle.fi/1-73929029    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:18:31

• iophk: spam; no mention of better options like GNU/Linux https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-is-digging-its-own-grave-with-windows-11-and-it-has-to-stop ("Microsoft is digging its own grave with Windows 11, and it has to stop") for better coverage see http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:19:04

• "Sarah Palin, New York Times to face off in defamation retrial" https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/sarah-palin-new-york-times-face-off-defamation-retrial-2025-04-10/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:19:14

• "Jury selected for Sarah Palin's libel suit against The New York Times" https://apnews.com/article/sarah-palin-new-york-times-libel-trial-997ab5d59f80f4f36aea2641342dc6be    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:19:25

• "Palin v. New York Times Co., No. 22-558 (2d Cir. 2024) :: Justia" https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca2/22-558/22-558-2024-08-28.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:19:44

• "Hashem Abedi's horrific attack on three prison guards leaves us with one chilling question... what do we do with him now? DANIEL HANNAN | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14610245/Hashem-Abedis-horrific-attack-DANIEL-HANNAN.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:19:58

• "It is the work of the writer to reclaim the language - annie's blog" https://anniemueller.com/posts/it-is-the-work-of-the-writer-to-reclaim-the-language    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:20:12

• "The Deadly Seriousness Behind Trump and Bukele’s “Joke”" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-bukele/ "The Trump administration is learning dangerous lessons from El Salvador’s president, but there’s also much that the US left can learn from Salvadoran antifascists."    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:20:46

• "Trump administration refuses to help Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia" https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/408720/trump-defying-supreme-court-wrongful-deportation    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:21:00

• "Point the Finger - Wikipedia" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_the_Finger "In the story, Crumb goes after then real estate businessman Donald Trump and imagines having an argument with him."    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:22:01

• "Gretchen Whitmer: I shouldn’t have hid my face in White House visit" https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/gretchen-whitmer-i-shouldnt-have-hid-my-face-white-house-visit    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:22:18

• "Elon Musk is not a savior, he’s a grifter" https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/elon-musk-is-not-a-savior-hes-a-grifter/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:22:27

• "Trump Hosts Bukele to Reveal El Salvador Migrant Deportation Plan" https://ticotimes.net/2025/04/14/trump-hosts-bukele-to-reveal-el-salvador-migrant-deportation-plan    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:22:37

• "You shouldn't be allowed to travel by train without the state knowing." | "Du ska inte få åka tåg utan att staten vet" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/04/14/du-ska-inte-fa-aka-tag-utan-att-staten-vet/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:25:27

• regeringen dead, blocking many people who are not bots https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/04/okad-tillgang-till-passageraruppgifter-i-brottsbekampningen/ blocked by gratuitous javascript / surveillance    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:26:29

• "Ex-French PM Michel Barnier: ‘Trump would like to make separate deals with each EU country, to divide and conquer’" https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-04-14/ex-french-pm-michel-barnier-trump-would-like-to-make-separate-deals-with-each-eu-country-to-divide-and-conquer.html https://techrights.org/wiki/Michel_Barnier/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:26:46

• "A bigger hole: Trump has already spent $155bn more than Biden. Musk now claims DOGE only saved $150bn" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/musk-trump-bigger-debt-150-billion-b2733310.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:27:02

• More LLM slop? https://linuxtechlab.com/advanced-git-interview-questions-scenarios/ see https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/08/Slopwatch_LinuxTechLab_linuxsecurity_com_Cyber_Security_News_an.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:27:41

• "When news broke in January that the Trump Justice Department was freezing significant work on civil rights litigation, including police reform cases, attention immediately focused on two cities: Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-freeze-police-reform-abuse-phoenix-trenton-louisville-minneapolis | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:35:07

• ESP32 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/a-cheap-yellow-display-makes-a-video-walkie-talkie/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:35:29

• "The Metis Compute Board is a compact single-board computer designed for AI applications requiring high computational performance at the edge." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/updated-metis-compute-board-with-rk3588-and-ai-acceleration-for-edge-applications/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:36:05

• "Armbian has expanded its support for cloud infrastructure with a new line of dedicated cloud images designed for generic x86 and aarch64 platforms." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/armbian-introduces-optimized-cloud-images-for-x86-and-aarch64-deployments/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:36:39

• Replace Windows, Not Your Device ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/04/14/replace-windows-not-your-device/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:37:14

• Chris Krebs = Microsoft ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/trump-revenge-tour-targets-cyber-leaders-elections/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:37:59

• Chris Krebs, Government Censorship, the EFF, and Panicking Leftist Programmers ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/chris-krebs-government-censorship    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:40:26

• "Hayao Miyazaki, the artist and animator who co-founded Studio Ghibli and who still serves as its chairman" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/miyazaki_ai_and_intellectual_property/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:43:29

• "major publishers and copyright law experts are weighing in" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/meta-ai-piracy-lawsuit-publishers-and-professors-challenge-fair-use-defense-2250414/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:44:06

• "As part of his lobbying efforts, Zuckerberg contributed to Trump's inauguration fund and overhauled content moderation policies." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250414-meta-faces-landmark-us-antitrust-trial | Source: France24    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:45:31

• "If the FTC successfully convinces U.S. District Judge James Boasberg (yes, that Boasberg) that Meta used its acquisition of Instagram and WhatsApp to lock in an illegal social media monopoly" ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/13/meta-zuckerberg-ftc-washington-court-00288044 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:45:49

• "Acquiring these competitive threats has enabled Facebook to sustain its dominance—to the detriment of competition and users—not by competing on the merits, but by avoiding competition" ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/ftc-meta-instagram-whatsapp-lawsuit.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:46:27

• "It is better to buy than compete." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/meta-instagram-federal-trade-commission-donald-trump-mark-zuckerberg-b2732859.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:46:41

• "anticompetitive conduct." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/14/media/meta-ftc-trial/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:46:55

• "The [FTC's] argument is the acquisition of Instagram was a way of neutralising this rising competitive threat to Facebook" ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cedy2ygy50do | Source: BBC    

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

• "This is going to be a fascinating trial. It seems clear based on evidence in emails, chats, and underhanded tactics that Instagram and WhatsApp were acquired to neutralize their competitive power." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ftc-meta-antitrust-trial/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:47:42

• "FTC lawyer Daniel Matheson sought to use Zuckerberg’s previous comments and company documents to show that Facebook prioritized helping users connect with people they knew." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/14/meta-antitrust-whatsapp-instagram-ftc/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:47:55

• "Zuckerberg on Monday again took the hot seat, this time as the marquee witness in the Federal Trade Commission's landmark lawsuit accusing Meta of breaking antitrust law." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/mark-zuckerberg-serial-witness-takes-the-hot-seat-again/articleshow/120289238.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:48:09

• "Micheroni, who was born in Massachusetts, was confused. The message, titled, “Notification of Termination of Parole,” included no client name or case number." ☛ https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/13/metro/dhs-immigration-deportation-parole-termination/ | Source: Boston Globe    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:50:34

• "Amid increasing reports that U.S. citizens have been caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration dragnet, a dozen members of Congress have written to the government with pointed questions. None has received a reply." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-ice-immigration-detained-americans-congress-questions-unanswered | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:50:46

• "Wang’s case has raised concerns among academics that a shuttered Department of Justice program called the China Initiative is being revived under the new Trump administration." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/professor-xiaofeng-wang-update/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:50:56

• "You could be forgiven, then, for thinking grandparents are shirking their duty. But the truth is quite the opposite: America is in an age of peak grandparenting—particularly grandmothering." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/04/grandparents-child-care-work-retirement/682395/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:51:16

• "But G/O Media chief executive Jim Spanfeller has now hit back at those who have accused his company of turning Quartz into a “zombie brand” filled with “AI slop”." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/quartz-sale-go-media-jim-spanfeller/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:52:35

• "The dismantling of the Middle East Broadcasting Networks and Radio Free Asia, whose news outlets report on the reality of highly censored environments in the Middle East and Asia, is a betrayal of the U.S.’s historical commitment to press freedom" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-joins-legal-effort-to-defend-mbn-and-rfa-following-trump-executive-order/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:52:51

• Gulagboy publicly announcing the dog's health/digestive problems (filthy water?) is the dumbest thing since publicly signalling having TB    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:56:54

• Social control media incentivises or "rewards" people for saying and doing dumb things    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:57:36

• "According to HRW, there are allegations that the Vietnamese police, in coordination with China's Ministry of State Security, detained Humkar Dorje on March 25. He reportedly died four days later" ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/04/concerns-mount-over-alleged-chinese-involvement-in-death-of-tibetan-leader/ | Source: The Vietnamese Magazine    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:57:45

• "The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/harvard-wont-comply-with-demands-from-trump-administration/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:58:10

• "maintain [our] financial relationship with the federal government" ☛ https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/ |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 09:59:19

• "While Columbia University capitulated to President Donald Trump’s demands, Harvard’s defiance marks a major rebuke to his crackdown on higher education." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2025/harvard-refuses-to-comply-with-trump-admin-demands-imperiling-billions-in-funding | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:17:54

• "The United States has invested in Harvard University’s operations because of the value to the country of scholarly discovery and academic excellence. But an investment is not an entitlement" ☛ https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:19:01

• "In this no-holds-barred documentary, we delve into the past of one of Britain's most unlikely family entertainers - a man whose mere theme tune is enough to bring back memories for anyone of a certain age." ☛ https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/the-cancellation-of-benny-hill/ |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:19:12

• Techrights aims to run the OSI series well into May if not longer. We have explosive material.    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:21:49

• "For more than a decade now, Russian propaganda has pushed the idea that America is Russia’s eternal enemy, and that U.S. policy is rooted in hatred and fear of our country." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/14/it-s-all-about-raw-exaggerated-emotion | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:22:00

• "Chinese influencer videos" ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/us-tiktok-users-get-bombarded-with-chinese-influencer-videos-mocking-tariffs-101744681291264.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:22:13

• "Today, I wanted to share something, not written by me, but written by Arnold Schwarzenegger." ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/stop-whining-by-arnold-schwarzenegger/ | Source: Brandon    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:32:29

• "The toddler puts on a show of having an argument, but they are holding a tantrum in reserve." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/04/how-to-win-an-argument-with-a-toddler/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:33:08

• "Sara and James spent the evening reflecting on what gardening – and, by extension, Nature – means to both of them." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/04/14/gardening-fruit-and-nature | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:34:16

• "geometric regularity" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crows-may-grasp-basic-geometry-study-finds-the-brainy-birds-can-tell-the-difference-between-shapes-180986425/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:34:27

• "African Elephants at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park instinctively created an "alert circle" during the earthquake." ☛ https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/watch-elephants-form-alert-circle-during-earthquake-at-san-diego-zoo-safari-park/3803807/ |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:34:49

• "Video shared by the San Diego Zoo Safari Park shows elephants Ndlula, Umngani and Khosi circling youngsters Zuli and Mkhaya after the shaking disrupted a calm Monday morning." ☛ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/14/elephants-protective-circle-san-diego-earthquake/83088633007/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:35:09

• "It was really neat to see them come together as a herd to protect the juvenile and then immediately try to survey their habitat" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-14/elephants-form-alert-circle-to-protect-their-young-as-quake-shakes-san-diego-zoo-safari-park | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:35:19

• "The main reason you have to get to the airport so early is for the security theatre." ☛ https://derekkedziora.com/notes/2025-04-14-two-hours-faster | Source: Derek Kędziora    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:49:46

• “dangerous” ☛ https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/dca-crash-waiting-to-happen-why-not-stop-it | Source: The New Atlantis    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:50:09

• "Tove Jansson’s beloved stories, which turn 80 this year, are not cute: they are angry tales of apocalypse and breakdown." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2025/04/dark-side-of-the-moomins-tove-jansson | Source: New Statesman    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:51:01

• "That's a pretty bold claim. And the thing about the "dire wolves" brought back from extinction is that they're not really dire wolves." ☛ https://futurism.com/trump-official-endangered-species | Source: Futurism    

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

• "A new study published in the Journal of Remote Sensing has revealed that current satellite systems underestimate total CO₂ emissions from U.S. thermal power plants by 70% (±12%)." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-04-satellites-underestimate-power-emissions-reveals.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:51:33

• "I keep writing about how Trump keeps retconning what he is doing legally, attempting to alter his explanations for what he’s doing, legally, when a first legal theory runs into trouble." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/14/things-go-boom-when-you-attempt-to-retcon-the-economy/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:52:10

• "So the only way to really compare is square footage, which they make hard to find in online listings." ☛ https://mitten.lol/blog/2025/04/toilet-paper-math/ | Source: Laura Fisher    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 10:52:23

• "The case, as well as the one brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington last week, asks a federal judge to require OMB to restore the website that publicly shared the data for years." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/04/14/repub/lawsuit-filed-after-trumps-budget-office-shuts-down-public-information-about-spending/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:00:43

• "Here are a few dozen times when Trump has praised, thanked, supported or excused Putin: [...]" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-04-14/the-literally-dozens-of-times-donald-trump-has-praised-vladimir-putin | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:17:09

• "Former inmates have spoken about a war in a number of prisons between Islamist gangs and rival groups involving acts of grotesque violence" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/14/islamist-gangs-british-prisons/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:18:01

• "This was my first Substack post after leaving the New York Times. Reposting now — new post coming in a few hours — because it holds up pretty well, although I underestimated the damage Musk would cause" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/repost-the-fraudulence-of-waste-fraud | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:18:35

• "For the past decade, this group of FSB hackers—including “traitor” Ukrainian intelligence officers—has used a grinding barrage of intrusion campaigns to make life hell for their former countrymen and cybersecurity defenders." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/gamaredon-turncoat-spies-hacking-ukraine/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:19:01

• "For more than 100 years, Jenner has stood firm and tirelessly advocated for our clients against all adversaries" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/law-firms-should-sue/682417/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:19:20

• "What’s going on now is not unconventional swashbuckling—it’s wild incompetence." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/14/1114988/doges-tech-takeover-threatens-the-safety-and-stability-of-our-critical-data/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:19:56

• "This means ChatGPT will learn more about the user over time to personalize its responses, above and beyond just a handful of key facts." ☛ https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/chatgpt-can-now-remember-and-reference-all-your-previous-chats/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:20:22

• "Microsoft is hoping that the concessions requiring opt-in and the ability to pause Recall will help quell the collective revolt that broke out last year." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-recall-returns-privacy/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:20:51

• "the film still wasn’t Star Wars as 1977 audiences had seen it, so in 2010, a small band of fans" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/star-wars-original-print-george-lucas-bfi/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:21:22

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/medusa-ransomware-hacked-nascar | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:21:52

• "so here's a way to archive high-fidelity Twitter data" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/you-dont-need-an-api-key-to-archive-twitter-data/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:22:22

• "The academics also warn" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/ai-hallucinations-create-a-new-software-supply-chain-threat/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:23:15

• "Rather more recently, Synergy Research Group said in January that mergers and acquisitions of datacenter businesses throughout 2024 swelled to record highs of $73 billion, and yet more investors are lining up for a piece of the action." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/datacenter_spending_ai/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:24:16

• "A number of Silicon Valley crosswalks were hacked to sound like U.S. big-tech broligarchs" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/crosswalks-in-silicon-valley-hacked-to-play-satirical-messages-from-musk-and-zuckerberg-sound-a-likes | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:24:53

• "amplified by studies predicting mass job displacement, including in white-collar fields once thought immune to automation." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/21/how-to-survive-the-ai-revolution | Source: New Yorker    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:25:43

• "But scientists and builders of AI say it’s not that simple." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/13/repub/ai-holds-promise-in-scientific-research-but-cant-substitute-for-humans-experts-say/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:26:16

• "Dewald was originally going to use a separate service called Tavus to create an AI avatar of his face, but ran out of time. (It's unclear whether Tavus and Pro Se Pro are in any way related)." ☛ https://futurism.com/judge-ai-generated-video-court | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:26:32

• "writes his housing plan with ChatGPT" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/14/new-york-mayoral-candidate-andrew-cuomo-writes-his-housing-plan-with-chatgpt/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:27:23

• "Google and DeepMind fans: enjoy the long-overdue rebirth." ☛ https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/google-is-winning-on-every-ai-front |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:27:54

• "This news comes on the heels of environmental and community groups saying that xAI has increased its usage of gas turbines without permission." ☛ https://512pixels.net/2025/04/xai-paying-far-less-in-local-taxes-than-forecasted/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:28:15

• [Old] "infiltrated at least eight U.S. communications companies" ☛ https://www.fcc.gov/document/implications-salt-typhoon-attack-and-fcc-response | Source: US FCC    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:29:14

• "The complex cyberattack, carried out by a group of Chinese hackers dubbed Salt Typhoon, began as far back as 2022." ☛ https://umbc.edu/stories/what-is-salt-typhoon-a-security-expert-explains-the-chinese-hackers-and-their-attack-on-us-telecommunications-networks/ |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:30:10

• "At least nine major US telecommunications companies, including Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, were affected." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/salt-typhoon-wake-up-call-critical-infrastructure | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:30:26

• "The admission wasn’t explicit: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/china-sort-of-admits-to-being-behind-volt-typhoon.html | Source: Bruce Schneier on NATO back doors. http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:30:55

• "In Safari 18.3 and earlier on macOS, it’s been possible to access details about SSL certificates used by the websites being visited using the following process: [...]" ☛ https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/accessing-ssl-certificate-details-in-safari-18-4-and-later/ | Source: Rich Trouton    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:31:04

• "Their story stopped me. Not because they were thanked, but because it was so rare—and so disorienting—that it elicitedan emotional response." ☛ https://brilliantcrank.com/kindness-feels-radical/ |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:33:36

• "HB 380, sponsored by Rep. Phillip Rigsby, R-Huntsville, makes it a Class C felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to engage in human cloning." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/04/14/alabama-house-votes-to-make-human-cloning-a-felony/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:33:46

• "Under current law, when that trust fund is empty, Social Security can pay benefits only from dedicated tax revenues, which would, by that point, cover only about 79% of promised benefits" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-04-social-fund-money-sooner-due.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:34:03

• "Walton can personally directly compare what it’s like to manufacture in China versus the US" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/tariffs-small-businesses-why-make-things-in-china/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:34:29

• "Ever curious which retracted papers have been most cited by other scientists? Below, we present the list of the 10 most highly cited retractions as of December 18, 2024." ☛ https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-leaderboard/top-10-most-highly-cited-retracted-papers/ |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:35:02

• "Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory publishers, ignored conflicts of interest, and research so bad it refuses to die, even after retraction." ☛ https://www.acsh.org/news/2025/04/07/dangers-junk-science-49402 |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:35:18

• "These journals differ from legitimate journals because they don't conduct peer reviews—heck, some clearly don't even read the papers!" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/04/12/predatory-journals-even-worse-since-get-me-off-your-fckng-mailing-list-was-accepted-for-publication.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:35:47

• "Don’t be the person who calls people unannounced. Send a text or an email ahead of time. Ask if the recipient has time to discuss a particular topic." ☛ https://thenewsprint.co/2025/04/13/the-sunday-edition-04-13-25/ | Source: The Newsprint    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:49:58

• "And isn't that the truth of it all? Everyone begins their journey at some point. No one is born an expert, fully formed and ready to conquer the world." ☛ https://robertbirming.com/gotta-start-somewhere/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:50:18

• "Is college for everybody? According to Chelsea Waite, a senior researcher at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, the answer is no. And more students, parents, and educators are realizing it." ☛ https://www.vox.com/explain-it-to-me/408282/college-post-high-school-decision | Source: Vox    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:52:10

• "Universities are reeling. The Trump administration has executed a flurry of research grant terminations at large" ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/one-countrys-leading-alzheimers-projects-jeopardy-rcna199788 | Source: NBC    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:52:50

• "There’s so many amazing people who want to come in, and we can’t take them" ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/nobel-winning-scientist-researchers-fleeing-us-trump | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:53:00

• "Since I started browsing minifeed.net more frequently, I've found myself reading more and more articles and subscribing to more RSS feeds, this also makes me feel more connected to the indie web." ☛ https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2025-04-14-updates-from-last-week | Source: Eliseo Martelli    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:56:39

• "Writing as a cure for negativity. Writing as a way to rescue your attention from increasingly dangerous capitalistic endeavours (screaming press, aggressive ads, toxic social media, …) and deliberately focus it on topics that genuinely interest you." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/04/writing-is-redirecting-attention/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:56:56

• "Each post sits within a web of references, tags, dates, and links—forming a layered geography of thought over time." ☛ https://thejaymo.net/2025/04/10/marking-the-occasion-100425/ |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:57:26

• "The economics prize is a fake Nobel that was made up in 1968 by economists who were desperate to have their work recognized as an empirical science on par with, say, physics." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/14/timmy-share/#a-superior-moral-justification-for-selfishness | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 11:58:01

• "Montrealers will be au fait with these some of the physical reminders of Europe which decorate downtown’s cityscape, and may even consider them as mostly there to attract tourists wanting the perfect selfie." ☛ https://heliomass.com/posts/2507-three-european-icons-in-montreal/ | Source: Heliomass    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:25:10

• "The word “recreation” itself means, if you follow the etymological bread crumbs, “create again.” If we go on, without rest — the word whispers — we slowly become whittled down versions of ourselves" ☛ https://mbird.com/everyday/success-and-its-discontents/ |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:25:37

• "it was Lynch’s wish that memorial tributes and expressions of sympathy be made in the form of support for library technology, archiving, or preservation projects, such as the Internet Archive, EveryLibrary, or other similar organizations." ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/in-memoriam-clifford-lynch | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:26:01

• "For the man who effectively invented underground comics in the 1960s, rubbing his readers’ faces in his sexual proclivities was always the point." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/r-crumb-dan-nadel-cartoonists-life-review/682118/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:26:21

• [Old] "His aston­ish­ing cre­ative out­put nev­er flagged, but he hat­ed the cul­ture and strug­gled to make ends meet: [...]" ☛ https://www.openculture.com/2016/06/r-crumb-takes-down-donald-trump-in-a-1989-cartoon.html | Source: Open Culture LLC    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:27:06

• "Q-Day—the moment when quantum computing becomes powerful enough to break current encryption" ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/world-quantum-day-embracing-post-quantum-encryption-for-a-secure-future/ | Source: Purism    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:29:35

• "We have been very happy with the feedback after the launch of the PineNote Community Edition." ☛ https://pine64.org/2025/04/13/april_2025/ | Source: Pine64    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:42:51

• "Linux-powered ARM computer that boots up into a custom word processor" ☛ https://jcs.org/2025/03/14/dm250 | Source: JCS    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:43:00

• "The MX Linux project has announced a new version, MX Linux 23.6, which is based on Debian 12. [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12406 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:43:15

• Alireza Shabani: Journey to GNOME Circle: Community, App Ideas, and Getting Started ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/alirezash/2025/04/13/journey-to-gnome-circle-community-app-ideas-and-getting-started/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:45:01

• Live Raizo – live Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/live-raizo-live-debian-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:45:34

• DB Browser for SQLite – create, design, and edit database files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/db-browser-sqlite/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:45:56

• "Google launched a Linux terminal app for Android that gives you full command-line access. Here's what you can do with it." https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-things-to-do-with-the-linux-terminal-on-your-android-phone-including-my-favorite/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:47:02

• "Until Valve releases an official version of SteamOS, Bazzite has you covered for gaming on a Linux PC." https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-steamos-clone-is-the-best-linux-distro-for-gamers/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:47:24

• "Gentoo and Arch Linux require advanced technical skills and demand manual installations and updates." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distributions-worst-beginners/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:47:47

• "the number of blocks allocated for this object" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixFilesTwoSizes | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:52:41

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

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:53:10

• Apache Web Server Security Hardening ☞ https://idroot.us/apache-security-hardening/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:53:30

• How To Install Docker Swarm on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-docker-swarm-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:53:45

• How To Install Cacti on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-cacti-linux-mint-22/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:54:01

• PinePods is a Rust-based podcast management system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pinepods-rust-based-podcast-management-system/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:56:06

• Destination Linux 415: Gitting Deepin to Immutability ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-415/ https://destinationlinux.net/415    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 12:56:49

• Late Night Linux – Episode 329 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-329/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:14:28

• Glorious Saturday Morning (publ. 2025-04-14) gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250414-0.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:15:38

• "I was very busy with some other things for a week or two, but I am working on my analog computer again. Right now I am adding a comparator to the board." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250414-1.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:16:13

• 🔤SpellBinding — AEFNRYU Wordo: OGRES gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-15.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:16:37

• [Japan] [Flowers] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-04-15.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:17:48

• "The error was rectified within 48 minutes of the notification. Within 48 hours, APNIC reset all maintainer and IRT passwords for all whois objects in the APNIC Whois Database." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/14/whois-data-incident-resolved-2/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:24:22

• [Old] "... where vim's -u is like bash's --rcfile." ☛ https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2149340 | Source: GitLab    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:24:46

• "For me, I use a combination of Facebook" ☛ https://www.raymondcamden.com/2025/04/14/build-your-own-localized-events-calendar-using-diffbots-knowledge-graph | Source: Raymond Camden    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:25:14

• "distinction between compiled and interpreted languages is obvious" ☛ https://ntietz.com/blog/python-is-an-interpreted-language-with-a-compiler/ | Source: Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:25:22

• "You can use CPAN module CPAN::Audit to scan installed modules for known CVEs." ☛ https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/cve-in-perl/ |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:25:53

• [Old] "We should not forget the lesson we have learned from it: Nonfree programs are dangerous to you and to your community." ☛ https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/mcvoy.en.html | Source: GNU    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:27:09

• "I thought I’d share just a couple of the changes that jumped out at me as I was reading." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/r-version-4-5-0-is-out/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:27:18

• "Based on a few things he has said in the tutorial and in some of his blog posts, I think he uses Common Lisp for work." ☛ https://macadie.info/2025/04/14/thoughts-on-a-common-lisp-tutorial/ | Source: Eric MacAdie    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:27:30

• "Whenever anyone describes a piece of software to me, I think about how I would build it. Software engineers do this a lot, but many of them don’t do it very well." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/planning-software/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:27:53

• "When you have a website that you think is accessible, you want to test it to see what you may have missed. There are numerous ways to do that, however none of the tools catch absolutely everything." ☛ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/website-accessibility-tests-not-perfect/ | Source: Gregory Hammond    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:28:15

• "But what is a target triple, and where did they come from?" ☛ https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/14/target-triples/ | Source: Miguel Young de la Sota    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:29:19

• "DjangoCon Europe is an international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework" ☛ https://www.paulox.net/2025/04/25/djangocon-europe-2025/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:35:54

• "This week I saw an announcement about a rebooted Gazette — even with a print edition" ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/computes-gazette-revived-for-july-2025.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:36:04

• "I added a feature that automatically adds the hours, minutes, and seconds" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/04/13/ordering-posts | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:36:29

• "In this article, we'll compare the different approaches that Servo and Ladybird are taking to shake up the current browser engine scene" ☛ https://thelibre.news/servo-vs-ladybird/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:37:17

• "I decided to experiment with a feature in Artemis" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/04/14/experiments | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:37:26

• "For those nostalgic for a simpler time, the new “90s” style layout offers a throwback experience complete with a classic treeview sidebar." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/peazip-10-4-brings-smarter-error-checking-and-full-dark-mode-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:38:56

• "The service files within PipeWire now depend on DBus, which helps eliminate startup race conditions. In addition, the SPA (Simple Plugin API) layer includes more robust checks for MIDI devices on older kernels, ensuring that users no longer encounter unexpected spikes in CPU usage." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/pipewire-1-4-2-brings-stability-improvements-and-midi-fixes/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:39:03

• "For a while now, I have been working intermittently on the Wii U Linux kernel. In December, for reasons that aren’t important right now3" ☛ https://loganius.org/2025/04/i-bought-a-mac/ |    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:40:44

• "Like basically all filesystems, ZFS doesn't immediately start writing data to disk when you do a write() system call." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/ZFSDelayedCompression | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:40:59

• "As more bad sectors build up, they can seriously impact your storage device’s performance, reduce its capacity, or even lead to complete hardware failure" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/check-linux-hard-disk-bad-sectors-bad-blocks/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:50:36

• "In this article, we will show you how to delete files in a directory, excluding certain file extensions or types, using the rm, find, and globignore commands." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/delete-files-except-certain-file-extensions/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:51:10

• Once again IBM Red hat peddles proprietary Microsoft spyware with back doors ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/managed-identity-workload-identity-azure | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:52:56

• Chasing buzzwords and hype, calling everything "hey hi" when it is fashionable ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/simplify-rhel-ai-management-red-hat-insights | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:53:37

• How Developer Hub and OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) work with OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/14/how-developer-hub-and-openshift-ai-work-openshift    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 13:55:18

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

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:01:56

• Sanctions a 'fools errand': 'Putin not beholden to ceasefire agreements, economy remains resiliant' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250414-sanctions-a-fools-errand-putin-not-beholden-to-ceasefire-agreements-economy-remains-resiliant    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:02:15

• Hype. ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250414-quantum-computing-revolution-or-cybersecurity-threat http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/19/IBM_s_CEO_Has_Become_a_Stochastic_Buzzword_Generating_Machine.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Hype_Watch_Weeks_After_Microsoft_Disappointed_Investors_With_He.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:03:30

• Strikes during Palm Sunday celebrations: 'Vladimir Putin doesn't really care' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250414-russian-missiles-hit-ukrainian-city-of-sumy-during-palm-sunday-celebrations-vladimir-putin-doesn-t-really-care    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:04:19

• "deals with Putin" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/14/zelensky-urges-trump-to-visit-ukraine-before-making-any-deals-with-putin | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:04:39

• Putin Condemned Over Sumy Attack As Zelenskyy Invites Convicted Felon To See Destruction ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-missile-strike-sumy-kills-civilians-ukraine-missiles/33383716.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:04:46

• Suspect Arrested in Arson Attacks on New Mexico G.O.P. Office and a Tesla Dealer ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/tesla-arson-arrest-new-mexico.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:05:40

• Tahir in Newsweek on the effect of US aid cuts on Ukrainian media ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/insight-impact/in-the-news/tahir-in-newsweek-on-the-effect-of-us-aid-cuts-on-ukrainian-media/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:07:26

• European leaders condemn Sumy attack as war crime ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250414-european-leaders-condemn-sumy-attack-as-war-crime    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:07:51

• Russia's attack on Ukraine's Sumy: 'It doesn't really look like a mistake' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250414-russia-s-attack-on-ukraine-s-sumy-it-doesn-t-really-look-like-a-mistake    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:08:18

• Ukrainian forces receive Lithuanian-funded long-range weapons ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2536510/ukrainian-forces-receive-lithuanian-funded-long-range-weapons    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:08:46

• Lithuania summons Russian embassy representative in Vilnius after attack in Sumy ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2536215/lithuania-summons-russian-embassy-representative-in-vilnius-after-attack-in-sumy    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:08:55

• Drone Attack On Kursk Kills Elderly Woman, Injures 9, Russian Authorities Say ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/kursk-ukraine-russia-drone-attack-sumy/33385425.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:09:05

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Calls Russia’s Strike on Sumy a ‘Mistake’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/world/europe/trump-ukraine-sumy-russia-attack.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:09:16

• Why a Ukrainian Lawmaker Is Pushing to Legalize Pornography ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/world/europe/ukraine-pornography-onlyfans.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:09:37

• "Russia says it shot down F-16" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/14/one-day-after-ukraine-reports-fighter-jet-pilot-s-death-russia-says-it-shot-down-f-16 | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:10:05

• "open to sending long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/14/germany-s-friedrich-merz-says-country-open-to-sending-long-range-taurus-missiles-to-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:10:21

• "immediate results" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/14/kremlin-says-not-to-expect-immediate-results-from-u-s-russia-negotiations | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:10:42

• "Russia's Palm Sunday strike on Sumy" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/14/once-again-russia-has-brought-death | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:10:58

• "Sweden’s security service has gone a little crazy" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/14/sweden-s-security-service-has-gone-a-little-crazy | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:11:30

• "Trump comments on Sumy strike" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/14/trump-comments-on-sumy-strike-saying-he-was-told-russia-made-a-mistake | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:11:49

• Pressure on Latvian-Belarusian border rises with warmer weather ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/14.04.2025-pressure-on-latvian-belarusian-border-rises-with-warmer-weather.a595414/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:14:06

• Jack Dorsey and MElon Call for Abolition of “All IP Law” ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/jack-dorsey-abolition.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:16:24

• TTAB Dismisses LIVE RESIN Oppositions Under Rule 2.132(a) for Failure to Prosecute ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/04/ttab-dismisses-live-resin-oppositions.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:17:01

• German dissent on Palantir: Several federal states oppose the US software for the police ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/04/14/german-dissent-on-palantir-several-federal-states-oppose-the-us-software-for-the-police/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:18:06

• Frontex significantly expands drone operations: Number of flight hours increases by 50 per cent ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/04/14/frontex-significantly-expands-drone-operations-number-of-flight-hours-increases-by-50-per-cent/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:18:16

• Insights from the Prague InstallFest 2025 Conference ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/14/insights-from-the-prague-installfest-2025-conference/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:18:40

• Number of Accounts Exposed in Hacks Now Nearly 2X Earths Population ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/number-of-accounts-exposed-in-hacks http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:19:29

• "We want to share our journey of designing innovative and user-centric solutions for complex technical systems." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-we-ran-an-effective-sprint-to-refresh-our-website-part-1 | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:20:09

• How to Evade Taxes in Ancient Rome? A 1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Offers a Guide. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/science/archaeology-papyrus-tax-fraud-trial.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:20:35

• Ninth-graders might have higher exam passing bar next year ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/14.04.2025-ninth-graders-might-have-higher-exam-passing-bar-next-year.a595434/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:20:56

• No deposit, no treatment: More patients from Myanmar shut out from Thai hospitals ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/04/14/myanmar-thailand-health-care-migrants/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:21:30

• Over 50% of Hongkongers do not support healthcare subsidy reform, survey finds ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/15/over-50-of-hongkongers-do-not-support-healthcare-subsidy-reform-survey-finds/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:21:53

• Whooping cough outbreak prompts new alert from health officials ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/whooping-cough-outbreak-alert/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:22:22

• Specific cancer treatment machine finally operational in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/14.04.2025-specific-cancer-treatment-machine-finally-operational-in-latvia.a595337/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:22:46

• Signatures collected for optional 'menstrual leave' in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/14.04.2025-signatures-collected-for-optional-menstrual-leave-in-latvia.a595358/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:22:57

• 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 Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:24:56

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

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:25:29

• South Korea, Vietnam agree to boost economic ties amid looming US tariffs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-vietnam-agree-to-boost-economic-ties-amid-looming-us-tariffs    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:25:50

• Ousted S. Korean president Yoon’s criminal trial begins as supporters continue to rally ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/ousted-s-korean-president-yoons-criminal-trial-begins-supporters-continue-to-rally    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:26:08

• Choe Ryong Hae’s power network threatens Kim Jong Un’s grip in North Korea: report ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/04/14/north-korea-choe-ryong-hae/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:26:44

• Malaysia to seek ceasefire extension in Myanmar for quake relief efforts to go on ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-seek-ceasefire-extension-in-myanmar-for-quake-relief-efforts-to-go-on    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:27:10

• Malaysia Customs seizes $6m worth of cannabis buds hidden in pet food at KL airport ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-customs-seize-over-s5-9m-worth-of-cannabis-buds-hidden-in-pet-food-at-kl-airport    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:27:34

• Chinese leader Pooh-tin warns protectionism ‘leads nowhere’ as he arrives in Vietnam ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/14/chinese-leader-xi-warns-protectionism-leads-nowhere-as-he-arrives-in-vietnam/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:28:11

• China’s Pooh-tin Courts Vietnam as Trade War With the U.S. Mounts ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/world/asia/china-vietnam-tariffs-trump.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:28:37

• With Convicted Felon’s Tariffs, Europe Fears a Flood of Cheap Goods From China ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/world/europe/europe-china-dumping-tariffs.html "Hell Toupée’s tariffs on China could lead to a hazardous scenario for European countries: the dumping of artificially cheap products that could undermine local industries"    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:29:16

• China, Vietnam sign deals as Pooh-tin visits Hanoi amid US tariff tensions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/chinas-xi-calls-for-greater-cooperation-with-vietnam    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:29:39

• Philippines says it voiced South China Sea concerns during Asean-China negotiations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-says-voiced-south-china-sea-concerns-during-asean-china-negotiations    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:30:12

• Cambodia deports unknown number of Taiwanese to China on fraud charges, says Taiwan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/cambodia-deports-unknown-number-of-taiwanese-to-china-on-fraud-charges-taiwan-says    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:30:40

• China imposes visa restrictions on US personnel over Tibet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-imposes-visa-restrictions-on-us-personnel-over-tibet    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:30:52

• China, Vietnam sign agreements on supply chains, railway cooperation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-vietnam-sign-agreements-on-supply-chains-railway-cooperation    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:33:57

• India and China discuss resuming flights, no date set ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/india-and-china-discuss-resuming-flights-no-date-set    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:35:00

• ‘The sky will not fall’: Can HK’s free port status cushion impact of US-China tariff war? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/the-sky-will-not-fall-can-hks-free-port-status-cushion-impacts-of-tariff-war    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:35:17

• Taipei vows crackdown on fake ‘Made in Taiwan’ labels as fresh US tariff threats loom ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/taipei-vows-crackdown-on-fake-made-in-taiwan-labels-as-fresh-us-tariff-threats-loom    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:36:04

• Xi calls on China, Vietnam to ‘oppose unilateral bullying’ on regional tour ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/xi-calls-on-china-vietnam-to-oppose-unilateral-bullying-on-regional-tour    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:36:16

• Xi Eyes Inroads In Asia, Europe Amid Convicted Felon's Tariffs And US-China Tensions ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/china-vietnam-asia-trade-war-tariffs-europe-spain/33384694.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:36:41

• China told Hong Kong’s last major opposition party to shut down: members ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/14/china-hong-kong-democratic-party/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:36:57

• Taiwan says Cambodia deported its nationals to China after fraud arrests ☞ https://rfa.org/english/cambodia/2025/04/14/china-taiwan-cambodia-deportation/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:38:09

• China’s Pooh-tin seeks stronger Vietnam trade ties at start of SE Asia tour ☞ https://rfa.org/english/vietnam/2025/04/14/china-vietnam-xi-jinping-trade/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:38:22

• Chinese exports soared in March ahead of The Insurrectionist’s tariffs on ‘Liberation Day’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/14/chinese-exports-soared-in-march-ahead-of-us-president-donald-trumps-tariffs-on-liberation-day/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:46:05

• Landmark US antitrust trial against Meta begins ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250414-landmark-us-antitrust-trial-against-meta-begins    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:46:29

• Bookshelf: How China sees things ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/bookshelf-how-china-sees-things/    

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

• Converting The C64 Mini Into A C64C ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/converting-the-c64-mini-into-a-c64c/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:48:09

• Elastic Bands Enable Touchable Volumetric Display ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/elastic-bands-enable-touchable-volumetric-display/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:52:51

• Plasmonic Modulators Directly Convert Terahertz Waves To Optical Signals ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/plasmonic-modulators-directly-convert-terahertz-waves-to-optical-signals/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:56:19

• Pornography's Prevalence Could Have a Dire Impact on Our Brain, Studies Show ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/pornographys-prevalence-could-have-a-dire-impact-on-our-brain-studies-show    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:56:56

• DIY Tornado Tower ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/building-a-diy-tornado-tower/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:57:47

• Long-serving Daily Mail travel and property editor Mark Palmer to stand down ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/mail-travel-property-editor-mark-palmer/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 14:58:36

• Allan Day: GNOME Foundation Update, April 2025 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/04/14/gnome-foundation-update-april-2025/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:04:18

• Towards a transition from KWallet to Secret Service ☞ https://notmart.org/blog/2025/04/towards-a-transition-from-kwallet-to-secret-service/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:04:41

• PeaZip 10.4 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with UI Enhancements ☞ https://9to5linux.com/peazip-10-4-open-source-archive-manager-released-with-ui-enhancements    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:06:02

• MX GNU/Linux 23.6 Is Out Now Based on Debian 12.10 and Powered by GNU/Linux Kernel 6.14 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-23-6-is-out-now-based-on-debian-12-10-and-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-14    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:06:14

• PipeWire 1.4.2 Adds Extra MIDI Checks to Avoid 100% CPU Usage on Older Kernels ☞ https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-2-adds-extra-midi-checks-to-avoid-100-cpu-usage-on-older-kernels    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:06:22

• PanVK Open-Source Vulkan Driver for ARM Mali GPUs Is Now Vulkan 1.1 Conformant ☞ https://9to5linux.com/panvk-open-source-vulkan-driver-for-arm-mali-gpus-is-now-vulkan-1-1-conformant    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:06:32

• T2 GNU/Linux SDE 25.4 Released with Latest AMD ROCm for RISCV-64 and ARM64 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/t2-linux-sde-25-4-released-with-latest-amd-rocm-for-riscv-64-and-arm64    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:07:01

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1017396/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:07:48

• BleachBit Released 4.9.2 as The Last Dev Version for Next 5.0.0 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/bleachbit-released-4-9-2/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:08:26

• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 887 ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/04/15/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-887/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:08:47

• Ubuntu 25.10 is Officially Named ‘Questing Quokka’ ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-25-10-named-questing-quokka    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:09:28

• I’m on the Ye Olde Blogroll! ☞ https://rubenerd.com/im-on-blogroll-org/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:11:17

• Windows TCO? ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-resolverrat-targeting-healthcare-pharmaceutical-organizations/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:12:04

• Israel attack put last Gaza City hospital out of service: UN ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/israel-attack-put-last-gaza-city-hospital-out-of-service-un/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:12:57

• How to install Linux Mint 22.1 on a MacBook Air ☞ https://linuxbsdos.com/2025/04/13/install-linux-mint-22-1-on-a-macbook-air/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:13:47

• What Open Source Pros Look for in a Job Role ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/What-Open-Source-Pros-Look-for-in-a-Job-Role    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:15:55

• Rights group urges EU border agency to facilitate timely rescue by aerial surveillance ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/rights-group-urges-eu-border-agency-to-facilitate-timely-rescue-by-aerial-surveillance/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:17:36

• How Geo Group’s Surveillance Tech Is Aiding Convicted Felon’s Immigration Agenda ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/technology/trump-immigration-tech-geo-group.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:18:22

• Ismael Olea: A Wikibase call for action at the Wikimedia Hackathon 2025 ☞ https://olea.org/diario/2025/04/14/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2025-proposals-Wikibase.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:20:10

• Consultation on Draft ‘Governance Document for the Recognition, Maintenance, and Derecognition of Regional Internet Registries’ ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/14/consultation-on-draft-icp2/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:21:07

• Ruby 3.4.3 Released ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/04/14/ruby-3-4-3-released/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:21:33

• Pimoroni Presto – A Raspberry Pi RP2350-powered 4-inch wireless desktop touch display ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/14/pimoroni-presto-raspberry-pi-rp2350-4-inch-wireless-desktop-touch-display/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:22:07

• China's Moore Threads polishes homegrown CUDA alternative — MUSA supports porting CUDA code using Musify toolkit ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinas-moore-threads-polishes-homegrown-cuda-alternative-musa-supports-porting-cuda-code-using-musify-toolkit    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:22:26

• Xero MCU is a compact USB-C board based on STM32F411 microcontroller (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/15/xero-mcu-small-usb-c-board-based-on-stm32f411-microcontroller/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:22:59

• Tech Talk Preview: Strengthening Open Source Through Security Standards and Global Policy ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/04/14/tech-talk-preview-strengthening-open-source-through-security-standards-and-global-policy/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:23:32

• "The biggest problem with DEI is the people that oppose it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrmh9627 so they say...    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:26:07

• "'where as Google generated $1.92 million.' google is a giant stock scam much like beta if those 2 disappeared tomorrow our lives would probably improve " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrrtnbwh    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:27:13

• "You can get s-b stories about IBM and IBM mismanagement all over the Web. IBM is one of the worst tech companies to work for, judging from the comments posted at this site." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrw6p1yn    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:28:08

• "The vast majority of our employees have experience in dealing with this because you just described the typical manager here." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrw6p1yn    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:28:22

• Google layoffs to impact Indian employees? Here’s what we know https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrw6p1yn    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:29:58

• $14,000 for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, video streaming patents prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/14/14000-for-key-patent-innovations-entity-malikie-innovations-video-streaming-patents-prior-art    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:31:54

• PanVK is officially Vulkan 1.1 conformant ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/panvk-is-officially-vulkan-11-conformant.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:32:35

• DOGE’s tech takeover threatens the safety and stability of our critical data ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/14/1114988/doges-tech-takeover-threatens-the-safety-and-stability-of-our-critical-data/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:33:16

• Tweak your Fairbuds EQ settings like a pro ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/04/14/tweak-your-fairbuds-eq-settings-like-a-pro/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:34:30

• German Federal Patent Court upholds Xtandi patent monopoly in win for Astellas ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/federal-patent-court-upholds-xtandi-patent-in-win-for-astellas/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:34:49

• Another InfoGation navigation patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/14/another-infogation-navigation-patent-challenged    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:35:02

• Software Patent: Jeffrey Gross entity, Lattice Technologies, alarm monitoring patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/14/jeffrey-gross-entity-lattice-technologies-alarm-monitoring-patent-challenge-instituted "patent monopoly relates to an emergency response system that cycles through contacts in an order of priority until reaching someone."    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:35:30

• $500 awarded for Omni MedSci medical device patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/14/500-awarded-for-omni-medsci-medical-device-patent-prior-art    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:35:47

• "how the EPO interprets the claims an application during examination, or the claims of a patent monopoly during opposition." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/beware-of-boilerplate-practical-lessons.html?showComment=1744630409375#c9218688421231096076    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:37:50

• "In that sense, the word “boilerplate” may be misleading in that it could incorrectly suggest that boilerplate statements might not be really binding." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/beware-of-boilerplate-practical-lessons.html?showComment=1744626063370#c571571819734920570    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:38:31

• There is nothing fair or reasonable about these ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/04/14/the-rise-of-frand-interim-licenses/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:39:55

• Announcing Istio 1.24.5 ☞ https://istio.io/latest//news/releases/1.24.x/announcing-1.24.5/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:41:10

• Announcing Istio 1.25.2 ☞ https://istio.io/latest//news/releases/1.25.x/announcing-1.25.2/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:41:17

• Hundreds of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Layoffs (Net Headcount Decrease) in the United Kingdom (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/Hundreds_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_Net_Headcount_Decrease_in_the_Uni.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:41:28

• What Really Matters to Companies is Net Income or Profit (Bankruptcy is Possible Even With High Revenue) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/What_Really_Matters_to_Companies_is_Net_Income_or_Profit_Bankru.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:41:34

• Carole Cadwalladr Talks About How Big Business Tried to Silence Her (and Why You Might be Next) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/Carole_Cadwalladr_Talks_About_How_Big_Business_Tried_to_Silence.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:41:41

• The Dilemma of Web Browsers Lying About What They Are (in Order to Bypass Discriminatory Gateways Like Clownflare) Worsens Due to LLM Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/The_Dilemma_of_Web_Browsers_Lying_About_What_They_Are_in_Order_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:41:49

• Companies Conspiring to Keep Salaries Down and Undermine Competition ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/Companies_Conspiring_to_Keep_Salaries_Down_and_Undermine_Compet.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:41:56

• LLM Slop and SEO SPAM Take Us Further Away From Facts (the Case of I.C.B.M. Layoffs) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/LLM_Slop_and_SEO_SPAM_Take_Us_Further_Away_From_Facts_the_Case_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:42:06

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

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:42:13

• "Linux" Foundation has truly trashed linux.com. More spam: https://www.linux.com/news/thrive-annual-subscription/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:44:43

• Page-Turning Technology: The Tactile Side of Digital Reading ☞ https://peppe8o.com/page-turning-technology-the-tactile-side-of-digital-reading/ seems a bit like LLM slop    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:55:58

• Fisher-Price recalls popular baby toys due to frightening choking hazard ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/14/lifestyle/fisher-price-recalls-popular-baby-toys-due-to-frightening-choking-hazard/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:56:18

• 21 Heartwarming Images Reveal The Human Side of Life in Space ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/21-heartwarming-images-reveal-the-human-side-of-life-in-space    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:56:59

• 'Landmark Moment': New Breast Cancer Treatment Approved in UK ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/landmark-moment-new-breast-cancer-treatment-approved-in-uk    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:57:08

• Striking Evidence of Water Imbalance on The Moon Hints at a Collision ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/striking-evidence-of-water-imbalance-on-the-moon-hints-at-a-collision    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:57:19

• Astroforensics Reveals Surprise Twist in Death of Planet Swallowed by Star ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/astroforensics-reveals-surprise-twist-in-death-of-planet-swallowed-by-star    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:57:37

• CT Scans Projected to Result in 100,000 New Cancers in The US ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ct-scans-projected-to-result-in-100000-new-cancers-in-the-us    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:58:00

• Our Galaxy's Neighbour Is Potentially Being Torn Apart by Its Bigger Sibling ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/our-galaxys-neighbour-is-potentially-being-torn-apart-by-its-bigger-sibling    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:58:13

• Life Deep Beneath The Soil Dominated by Mysterious New Phylum of Bacteria ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/life-deep-beneath-the-soil-dominated-by-mysterious-new-phylum-of-bacteria    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:58:30

• Largest Single Flood May Have Filled Mediterranean 5 Million Years Ago ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/largest-single-flood-may-have-filled-mediterranean-5-million-years-ago    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:58:57

• There's Something Special About Meteors That Collide With Earth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-something-special-about-meteors-that-collide-with-earth    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:59:07

• A vision for the future of automation ☞ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/14/1114796/a-vision-for-the-future-of-automation/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 15:59:54

• "Businesses are battling rising costs and inflation, coupled with a shrinking labor force, with more than half a million unfilled manufacturing jobs in the U.S. alone". They want sweat shops, not skills. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/14/1114796/a-vision-for-the-future-of-automation/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:00:37

• Massive freeze devastates crops across Turkey, sparking food inflation concerns ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/massive-freeze-devastates-crops-across-turkey-sparking-food-inflation-concerns-306440    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:01:20

• Qt licking the Microsoft boot https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-extension-1.4.0-for-vs-code-released    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:02:39

• MElon is not a savior, he’s a grifter ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/elon-musk-is-not-a-savior-hes-a-grifter/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:03:05

• Kaplan survey examines the lack of clarity for [LLM plagiarism] usage in law school admissions essays ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/kaplan-survey-examines-the-lack-of-clarity-for-ai-usage-in-law-school-admissions-essays/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:04:18

• Mario Vargas Llosa ‘put Peru on the world’s literary map’ ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2025/0414/mario-vargas-llosa-appreciation    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:04:32

• To Microsoft proxy ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-sells-51-percent-of-altera-fpga-business-to-silver-lake-for-usd4-46-billion https://www.extremetech.com/computing/147646-dell-sold-to-microsoft-silver-lake-for-24-billion-what-it-means-for-the-pc    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:05:31

• Meta to train its Hey Hi (AI) models on public data of European users ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250414-meta-to-train-ai-models-on-european-users-public-data    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:06:56

• Live Nation/Ticketmaster Faces a New Round of Bipartisan Antitrust Scrutiny — This Time on the Sports Side ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/14/fanatics-tickets-live-nation-scrutiny/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:08:53

• Key Takeaways from VulnCon 2025: Insights from the OpenSSF Community ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/04/14/key-takeaways-from-vulncon-2025-insights-from-the-openssf-community/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/ It is not what it seems http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:12:18

• Harvard has $2.2 billion in funding paused after rebuffing Convicted Felon demands ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250415-harvard-has-2-2-billion-in-funding-paused-after-rebuffing-trump-demands    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:13:09

• Ecuadorians may not love their new president, but they voted for his ‘iron fist’ ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2025/0414/ecuador-noboa-correa-reelection-violence    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:13:33

• Japan sees record population drop in 2024 as financial security trumps marriage ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-sees-record-population-drop-in-2024-as-financial-security-trumps-marriage    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:13:49

• China accuses US of launching 'advanced' cyberattacks, names alleged NSA agents ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-accuses-us-of-launching-advanced-cyberattacks-names-alleged-nsa-agents    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:14:19

• Lithuania denies entry to 10 people from Central Asia over radicalism fears ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2536277/lithuania-denies-entry-to-10-people-from-central-asia-over-radicalism-fears    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:14:40

• Lithuania ‘aspires’ to restore diplomatic ties with China, says official ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2536538/lithuania-aspires-to-restore-diplomatic-ties-with-china-says-official    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:15:00

• Lithuania appoints new intelligence chief, ambassador to NATO ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2536597/lithuania-appoints-new-intelligence-chief-ambassador-to-nato    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:15:11

• Hong Kong chief secretary calls US tariffs ‘blackmail,’ links them to national security ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/14/hong-kong-chief-secretary-calls-us-tariffs-blackmail-links-them-to-national-security/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:16:29

• Greens to back nationalisation of British Steel as parliament recalled ☞ https://greenparty.org.uk/2025/04/14/greens-to-back-nationalisation-of-british-steel-as-parliament-recalled/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:16:55

• Australia can learn from Britain on cyber governance ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-can-learn-from-britain-on-cyber-governance/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:17:29

• It's not even security but "theatre" thereof   

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:19:31

• It's not even security but "theatre" thereof ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/14/ssl-tls-certificate-lifespans-reduced-47-days-2029-new-industry-standard/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:19:55

• NPM is Microsoft, so Microsoft transmits malware again, gets "free pass" from the media ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/malicious-npm-packages-target-cryptocurrency-paypal-users/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:21:01

• Threat Actor Allegedly Selling Fortinet Firewall Zero-Day Exploit ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/threat-actor-allegedly-selling-fortinet-firewall-zero-day-exploit/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:21:35

• Huntress Documents In-The-Wild Exploitation of Critical Gladinet Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/huntress-documents-in-the-wild-exploitation-of-critical-gladinet-vulnerabilities/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:21:57

• Lawmakers call on National Archives to investigate use of Signal and Gmail by top government officials ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/04/lawmakers-call-on-national-archives-to-investigate-use-of-signal-and-gmail-by-top-government-officials/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:22:11

• What If Mark Kapo-berg Had Not Bought Instagram and WhatsApp? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/technology/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-instagram-whatsapp.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:22:56

• More like hype waves, spread in part by Microsoft inside the Board ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/emerging-tech-2025/ More like hype waves, spread in part by Microsoft inside the Board https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:24:31

• Watchtroll founder says they have financial issues, wants to "monetise" https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/04/14/ipwatchdogs-new-publication-policy-no-paywall-no-free-ride/id=188173/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/Watchtroll/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:25:31

• Apple Music Quietly Adds Dolby Atmos Support for backdoored Windows ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/13/apple-music-quietly-adds-dolby-atmos-support-for-windows/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:26:43

• Ozempic Reshapes The Kinds of Food People Eat. Here's What Happens. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ozempic-reshapes-the-kinds-of-food-people-eat-heres-what-happens    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:27:04

• W6300-EVB-Pico2 board combines RP2350 MCU with WIZnet W6300 QSPI Ethernet controller for 80+ Mbps data rate ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/14/w6300-evb-pico2-board-combines-rp2350-mcu-with-wiznet-w6300-qspi-ethernet-controller-for-80-mbps-speeds/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:27:27

• Repeating Hey Hi (AI) lies for a CORPORATION https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-aims-to-build-usd500-billion-worth-of-ai-servers-in-the-usa-by-2029 recall https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/No_Microsoft_Does_Not_Invest_80B_in_Hey_Hi_AI_It_s_Just_Full_of.shtml and see http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/11/Microsoft_in_Trouble_as_Azure_Breaks_and_Only_Days_After_Promis.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:28:37

• HEY-HI-WASHING: "I.C.B.M. Time To Ramp AI-Accelerated" https://www.itjungle.com/2025/04/14/z17-mainframes-give-ibm-time-to-ramp-ai-accelerated-power11-systems/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:29:09

• China Sort of Admits to Being Behind Volt Typhoon ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/china-sort-of-admits-to-being-behind-volt-typhoon.html http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:29:40

• Some Love For Interoperable Apps ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/love-for-interoperability/ "So all I have to do is download a new RSS client, login to Feedbin, and boom!"    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:30:47

• xorsearch.py: Searching With Regexes, (Mon, Apr 14th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31854    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:31:19

• WordCamp Europe 2025: Sali, Basel! ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2025/04/wordcamp-europe-2025-sali-basel/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:32:02

• Allwinner T536 quad-core Arm Cortex-A55 & RISC-V industrial SoC supports ECC RAM, up to 3 TOP Hey Hi (AI) accelerator ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/14/allwinner-t536-quad-core-arm-cortex-a55-risc-v-industrial-soc-supports-ecc-ram-up-to-3-top-ai-accelerator/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:32:30

• ESP32-Powered ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/14/esp32-powered-clock-brings-aviation-style-to-your-desk/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:32:55

• Serigy – New Concept to Selectively Pin Clipboard for GNOME ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/serigy-pin-clipboard-gnome/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:33:26

• "I would classify Codeberg as being underrated. It provides a valuable service not enough people know about." ☞ https://rubenerd.com/over-under-with-lazybear/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:35:46

• Writing an Op-Ed is Not Grounds for Deportation ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/writing-an-op-ed-is-not-grounds-for-deportation    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:37:04

• lions ☛ https://therevelator.org/lion-conservationist-homecoming/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:37:19

• "the sad history of linux, from fighting microsoft, to becoming, and microsoft corp becomes the most powerful corp after 20 years of linux. with debian and richar stallman loving each other to hating each other. and debian founder kd himself for mysterious reasons. and redhat become deepstate." https://x.com/xah_lee/status/1911956182803354046    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:40:36

• Pluralistic: Machina economicus (14 Apr 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/14/timmy-share/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:42:58

• Echoes of an outbreak: What did Europe learn from the Covid pandemic? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2535089/echoes-of-an-outbreak-what-did-europe-learn-from-the-covid-pandemic    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:43:36

• How to install Gimp on Linux Mint ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-gimp-on-linux-mint/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:44:46

• New Public Knowledge Paper Outlines How To Design a Digital Regulator To Enhance Competition, Protect Consumers ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/new-public-knowledge-paper-outlines-how-to-design-a-digital-regulator-to-enhance-competition-protect-consumers/ Leaves out important fact like conflict of interest; Microsoft inside the Board https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:45:56

• 10 linux tail commands you should know ☞ https://owlhowto.com/10-linux-tail-commands-you-should-know/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:47:05

• Gemini Protocol Milestone (3,000 Active Capsules) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/15/Gemini_Protocol_Milestone_3_000_Active_Capsules.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:47:18

• New Public Knowledge Paper ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/new-public-knowledge-paper-outlines-how-to-design-a-digital-regulator-to-enhance-competition-protect-consumers/ Leaves out important fact like conflict of interest; Microsoft inside the Board https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:47:47

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 13th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-april-13th-2025    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:49:22

• qBittorrent 5.0.5 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Brings Various Improvements ☞ https://9to5linux.com/qbittorrent-5-0-5-open-source-bittorrent-client-brings-various-improvements    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:49:53

• SageMath: Deeper Insights into Cybersecurity ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/04/sagemath-deeper-insights-into-cybersecurity/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:51:00

• The apply() Family of Functions in R ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/the-apply-family-of-functions-in-r/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:51:43

• Mastering Data Preprocessing in R with the `recipes` Package ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/mastering-data-preprocessing-in-r-with-the-recipes-package/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:51:57

• Debian 12-based MX GNU/Linux 23.6 is the backdoored Windows 11 alternative of your dreams ☞ https://betanews.com/2025/04/14/debian-12-mx-linux-236-windows-11-alternative-dreams/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:52:07

• "Entering the account password for SSH key is a pain. Here's how to fix it." ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/ssh-enter-passphrase-for-key/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:52:42

• Retro Boy Review: Play Game Boy Games Directly in Your Browser ☞ https://linuxwebdevelopment.com/retro-boy-review/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:53:15

• Adam Young: Javac for Building the PrismLauncher on Ubuntu ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2025/04/javac-for-building-the-prismlauncher-on-ubuntu/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:53:46

• Installing Gnome Tweaks in Ubuntu 24.04 GNU/Linux to Customize it ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/installing-gnome-tweaks-in-ubuntu-24-04-linux-to-customize-it/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:54:07

• swappy is a Wayland native snapshot editing tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/swappy-wayland-native-snapshot-editing-tool/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:55:09

• 10 Free and Open Source Game Engines – Part 3 ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-game-engines-part3/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:55:16

• Lexi is a self-driven dictionary app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lexi-self-driven-dictionary-app/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:55:24

• 14 Best Free and Open Source Remote Desktop Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-remote-display-clients/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:55:33

• rbw is an unofficial Bitwarden CLI ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rbw-unofficial-bitwarden-cli/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:55:51

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Dilemma: A Trade War That Threatens Every Other Negotiation With China ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/trump-trade-war-china-dilemma.html    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:58:29

• TikTok Reportedly Bagged Nearly $39 Billion in the US Last Year — Though That Doesn’t Guarantee a Deal Will Happen ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/14/tiktok-reportedly-bagged-nearly-39-billion-in-the-us-last-year/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 16:58:49

• Fisheyes, Mixtapes, and Innocent bystanders: A Love Letter To The Skate Video gemini://dobody.srht.site/gemlog/posts/2025-04-15-love-letter-to-skate-videos.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 17:01:20

• FormerWeb: Re-discovering Web 1.0 gemini://dazlab.uk/log/2025/0002.gmi    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 17:02:51

• "I might not be able to post new parts for approximately two-three weeks. If I dont post anymore tomorrow, then it means that I wont post until May 6, 2025. So if I dont, post anything tomorrow, goodbye." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2580    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 17:03:47

• People who hate reading gemini://cyi1341.smol.pub/random51    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 17:04:49

• Fedora Linux New Leader Has Been Revealed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4d9T-HTDCs    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 21:30:15

• Fedora Linux 42 Is Here With GNOME 48 https://www.howtogeek.com/fedora-42-full-release/    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 21:32:07

• "Fedora Linux 42 includes an x86 emulation layer for ARM PCs, much like Apple’s Rosetta 2 compatibility layer for Apple Silicon Mac computers." https://www.howtogeek.com/fedora-linux-x86-emulat    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 21:33:30

• "You seem to be unaware of the impact of Google o life. Without google map and its GPS tracking, millions of car drivers will be disoriented. Without Google Pay, most retail economy in India collapses." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrrtnbwh    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 21:39:43

• "So, in 20 years, Google was able to position itself from a search engine to become a key tool in 100 of millions of people. At the same time, IBM shrunk to become a dinosaur on its way to extinction." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrrtnbwh    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 21:39:48

• "Many folks seem unable to conceive of a life where they consume less while not living under conditions of miserable austerity. This ideological blind spot is going to wind up thrusting us all into miserable austerity." gemini://degrowther.smol.pub/20250425_tarrifs_luxuries    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 21:41:13

• LQ’s account of the end gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2581    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 21:42:21

• "The post at the link talks about spring as a time of renewal. As a librarian, though, the word "renewal" immediately makes me think about book renewals." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-04-15    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 21:43:41

• "the project i'd been working for was paused, but i was able to bounce back onto another job. thankfully. don't know when the project will be un-paused, but hopefully it'll be soon." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2582    

posted Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at 21:44:42

• Google layoffs https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-layoffs-may-hit-these-teams-in-india/articleshow/120299749.cms    

posted Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 02:33:28