Roy Schestowitz

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-18.gmi    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:21:45

• "This entry started as en email to @fab@redterminal.org (for the second part of this entry) but I thought it was a good idea to actually publish it here, so here we are :). Today (well, technically it is now yesterday), I updated the tinylog aggregator, both the codebase of GTL (the tool used to generate the aggregator page) and the subscription list." gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2025/04/18/tinylog-aggregator-update/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:22:27

• Crazy stuff gemini://breebee.smol.pub/about_my_plurality_04_16_2025    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:23:34

• "Indeed… I am finally here again! 💪 I am going to dedicate more time to this capsule even though my spare time has shrunk to almost nothing, but I still love the idea to have Gemini to succeed so I won't give up just for the laziness!" gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~freezr/pebcak/index.gmi    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:25:06

• "I've had some trouble implementing my comparator using just op amps and the DG212B analog switches. In my tests, something strange is happening where the analog switches lock up after about a minute or so of use, i.e., they stop responding to the signals from the op amps." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250417-0.gmi    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:25:49

• "Let me preface this by saying that — like the title says — I'm not in the most sober of states while writing this, but the thoughts running through my head are plenty and I can't keep them all to myself, can I? So excuse any grammatical errors I might unknowingly make while writing this" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2586    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:26:26

• Recent Read and Linux is too Easy, Redux gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~slugmax/phlog/2025-04-17-recent-read-linux-easy-redux    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:28:24

• "Ubuntu 25.04 is out of beta today and ready for prime time as the latest Linux distro release from Canonical. While it's only an interim release, there's a lot here to unpack." https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-25-04-released/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:54:33

• Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin is now available: what’s new? https://www.techzine.eu/news/applications/130663/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-is-now-available-whats-new/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:55:14

• "The Manjaro 25.0 release has arrived with updated desktop environments and a newer Linux kernel." https://news.itsfoss.com/manjaro-25/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:56:15

• "This release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.14 kernel series and features the GNOME 48 desktop environment with triple buffering." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:56:54

• MSSQL does not really run on Linux. It's a lie. https://medium.com/@sagarsishir51/restore-mssql-database-file-bak-on-a-linux-server-5f6afb97ddb2    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:58:31

• OCCT is now available on Linux: CPU, GPU and memory testing just like on Windows https://videocardz.com/pixel/occt-is-now-available-on-linux-cpu-gpu-and-memory-testing-just-like-on-windows    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 03:59:14

• How do I prompt for Yes/No/Cancel input in a Linux shell script? https://medium.com/@haroldfinch01/how-do-i-prompt-for-yes-no-cancel-input-in-a-linux-shell-script-fc1f45b667d6    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 04:01:27

• "Mutter received support for falling back to the default color mode when an HDR monitor looses HDR capabilities." https://9to5linux.com/gnome-48-1-desktop-is-out-to-improve-hdr-support-and-fix-various-issues    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 04:04:18

• "This release brings improvements to Dolphin, Konqueror, KDE Connect, Itinerary, Kongress, Merkuro, Kontact, Okular, and many other KDE apps." https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-25-04-applications-suite-officially-released-heres-whats-new    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 04:04:40

• "This release brings improvements to LXQt Panel, LXQt Session, QTerminal, PCManFM-Qt, LXQt Power Management, and LXQt Archiver." https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-2-desktop-environment-released-with-many-wayland-improvements    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 04:05:29

• You can now use OCCT on Linux-based systems https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/joao-silva/you-can-now-use-occt-on-linux-based-systems/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 04:05:58

• Amid layoffs at Infosys, Google, Microsoft, bad news for Flipkart employees as it asks them to work.. https://www.india.com/business/amid-layoffs-at-infosys-google-microsoft-bad-news-for-flipkart-employees-as-it-asks-them-to-work-from-office-7763187/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 04:15:39

• "Canonical has today released Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed "Plucky Puffin", their latest feature upgrade release to one of the most popular Linux distributions. This also includes updates for all the other editions like Kubuntu. It will be supported for 9 months until January 2026 as this is not a long term support release." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:43:45

• "Here's the new up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming for April 17th, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. An easy way to build up your gaming collection with these games coming as part of your Amazon Prime subscription." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/grab-some-great-stuff-for-steam-deck-linux-from-prime-gaming-for-april-17th/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:44:58

• "Time to Return To Metroidvania with this new Humble Bundle, with 8 great games for cheaps. Here's how they'll run on Linux / Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/get-some-great-metroidvania-games-in-this-humble-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:45:20

• "The Last of Us Part II Remastered has been updated with another major patch version 1.2, which brings quite a few essential fixes along with a performance improvement for players on Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/the-last-of-us-part-ii-remastered-v1-2-fixes-excessive-jitter-with-frame-generation-on-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:46:20

• "Elon Musk Decimated the Government and Saved Almost Nothing" https://jacobin.com/2025/04/musk-doge-savings-austerity-spending/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:47:09

• "Whiskey Pete Hegseth Finally Finds Some White Men to Purge" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/17/whiskey-pete-hegseth-finally-finds-some-white-men-to-purge/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:47:18

• "Musk Said He Would Protect Lifesaving Aid for Kids. It Quietly Got Canceled." https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/usaid-doge-children-starvation/682484/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:47:28

• "The Latest: Trump Hints at Firing Federal Reserve Chair Powell After Tariff Comments" https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-04-17/the-latest-doge-targets-americorps-in-latest-cost-cutting-effort    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:47:40

• "New Space Force ‘warfighting framework’ sharpens weaponization plans" https://www.airforcetimes.com/space/2025/04/17/new-space-force-warfighting-framework-sharpens-weaponization-plans/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:47:52

• "I don't feel I can travel to the United States ..." https://risky.biz/RB788/ "Risky Business #788 -- Trump targets Chris Krebs, SentinelOne - Risky Business Media"    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:48:06

• "Judge: "Probable cause exists" to hold Trump in contempt over deportations" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/boasberg-trump-deportation-contempt    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:48:29

• "The Next Day by Melinda French Gates review – Melinda on life, before and after Bill" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/17/the-next-day-by-melinda-french-gates-review-melinda-on-life-before-and-after-bill theguardian took BRIBED from them to do PR. See http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/Journalistic_Malpractice_Helps_Bill_Gates_Cover_Up_His_Marriage.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:49:09

• "Russian state media deletes video of drone strike directed from central Moscow after angry bloggers argue it makes city a legitimate military target" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/16/russian-state-media-deletes-video-of-drone-strike-directed-from-central-moscow-after-angry-bloggers-argue-it-makes-city-a-legitimate-military-target    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:50:02

• "Overheard: "AI is bullshit's superpower."" https://doc.searls.com/2025/04/17/todays-tabs-2/ ("Today’s Tabs")    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:50:19

• iophk: thesis premise is answered by GNU/Linux, yet that is not even mentioned https://www.pcworld.com/article/2660347/i-want-to-upgrade-my-laptop-to-windows-11-microsoft-wont-let-me.html ("I want to upgrade my laptop to Windows 11. Microsoft won't let me"). pcworld = IDG = Microsoft SPAM http://techrights.org/wiki/IDG/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:51:11

• iophk: poorly written spin https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/16/former-cisa-chief-krebs-leaves-sentinelone-after-trump-exec-order.html ("Former CISA chief Krebs leaves SentinelOne after Trump exec order"). Krebs = Microsoft. http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:51:54

• "Krebs resigns from SentinelOne after Trump memo targets him" https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/krebs_quits_sentinelone/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:52:06

• "Trump’s Deranged Land Grabs Would Make Sense to Big Brother" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-greenland-canada-orwell-1984/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:52:16

• "Farvel til CVE | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/farvel-til-cve    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:52:26

• "Cybersecurity Industry Almost Died Today" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/cybersecurity-industry-almost-died-today:e    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:52:39

• "Pro-government journalist detained after CHP takeover claims" https://bianet.org/haber/pro-government-journalist-detained-after-chp-takeover-claims-306537    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:52:46

• "Nice to see more apps like this arrive with official Linux support! OCCT for Linux is here and out of Beta testing bringing a full stress-testing and hardware monitoring suite." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/stress-testing-and-hardware-monitoring-tool-occt-has-officially-released-for-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:53:03

• "Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of the latest Mesa 25.0.4 stable bug-fix release, and we're also closing in on the next feature release with Mesa 25.1 seeing a first release candidate for testing" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mesa-25-0-4-bug-fix-release-out-plus-the-mesa-25-1-feature-update-has-a-first-release-candidate/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:53:27

• "With the hashtag that is actually part of the name, #DRIVE Rally has properly launched out of Early Access with the 1.0 release now available. It arrives with Native Linux support and it's Steam Deck Verified." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/arcade-inspired-rally-driving-experience-drive-rally-1-0-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:53:51

• "Building on top of the latest Fedora 42 release, Bazzite 42 is out now for this increasingly popular SteamOS-like option to put on your handhelds, desktops and more." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steamos-alternative-bazzite-linux-42-brings-beta-support-for-the-msi-claw-handhelds-and-lots-of-other-improvements/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:54:02

• 130,855 gemini requests in techrights yesterday, a lot more than the usual    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:57:50

• "In a recent research seminar, Lukas Höper and Carsten Schulte investigate how to teach school students about data science and Big Data." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/research-insights-to-help-learners-develop-data-awareness/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:58:36

• "Jewish Identity of Anti-Israel Protesters" ☛ https://fair.org/home/fox-news-cant-admit-jewish-identity-of-anti-israel-protesters/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 06:59:11

• "Anna’s Archive is a meta-search engine for shadow libraries that allows users to find pirated books and other related resources" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/alleged-annas-archive-operator-dropped-from-u-s-scraping-lawsuit-250417/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:01:58

• "Wikimedia says the dataset hosted by Kaggle has been “designed with machine learning workflows in mind,” making it easier for AI developers to access machine-readable article data for modeling" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/650467/wikipedia-kaggle-partnership-ai-dataset-machine-learning | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:02:13

• "The US Department of Justice has won its antitrust case against Google, which accused the company of operating a monopoly in the advertising technology industry." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/650665/google-loses-ad-tech-antitrust-monopoly-lawsuit | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:02:46

• "That accounts for roughly 12% of Alphabet's overall business." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/17/google-ad-tech-monopoly-antitrust-ruling | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:02:59

• "Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia determined that Google illegally monopolized parts of its advertising technology business to dominate the programmatic ad market" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/judge-rules-google-ad-business-monopoly/ | Source: Wired https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2018/12/07/leonie-brinkema-trials/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:03:20

• "Our nation has grown prosperous and powerful because of competition and Google’s illegal monopolies are blunting our competitive edge in the tech industry." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/googles-illegal-internet-ad-monopoly-blunts-americas-competitive-edge-in-tech | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:05:08

• "Google just lost a huge antitrust case. A federal judge in Virginia ruled on Thursday that the search giant illegally maintained a monopoly in the online advertising market, leveraging its position to make more money and squash competition." ☛ https://www.vox.com/technology/409384/google-break-up-meta-trial-tech-antitrust | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:12:28

• "Judge Brinkema found Google maintained monopoly power in publisher ad servers and exchanges." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51296814/google-holds-illegal-monopolies-in-ad-tech-us-judge-finds | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:12:42

• "Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia said in a decision that Google illegally maintained and acquired a monopoly in two markets for advertising technology — publisher ad servers and the market for ad exchanges." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-04-17/google-held-a-monopoly-in-online-ad-tech-us-judge-finds | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:13:00

• "Although antitrust regulators prevailed both times, the battle is likely to continue for several more years as Google tries to overturn the two monopoly decisions in appeals while forging ahead in the new and highly lucrative technological frontier of artificial intelligence" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/google-adtech-ruling-1.7512889 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:13:42

• "The federal government and more than a dozen US states filed the antitrust suit against Alphabet-owned Google, accusing it of acting illegally to dominate three sectors of digital advertising -- publisher ad servers, advertiser tools, and ad exchanges." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2295377.html | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:13:59

• Profits DOWN. Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/entertainment/news/a/2295436.html | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:14:38

• "college protesters" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/massive-blue-overwatch-ai-personas-police-suspects/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:15:07

• "led by a frontman as brilliant as he was erratic" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-16/sly-stone-the-artist-who-changed-music-history-and-disappeared-he-had-everything-and-almost-deliberately-threw-it-away.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:15:22

• "more mature partner to ICE" ☛ https://www.404media.co/leaked-palantirs-plan-to-help-ice-deport-people/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:15:36

• "The legal world has been on notice for a constitutional clash ever since Trump resumed office in January, meticulously analyzing a series of court rulings that challenge the White House and following the administration’s reluctant, often defiant, response." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/politics/newsletter/2025-04-17/trump-el-salvador-prison-politics | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:16:04

• "To explore the potential impacts of these laws, LoneStarLive.com spoke to Ricci Levy, president and CEO of the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a human rights organization that advocates for sexual freedom." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/news/2025/04/texas-sex-toy-law-could-lead-to-more-civil-rights-restrictions-advocates-warn.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:16:47

• "These cuts — the biggest in Yle's nearly 100-year history — are as a result of initial plans by the two main government parties, the National Coalition Party and the Finns Party, to reduce Yle's annual funding by more than 100 million euros." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20156630 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:20:15

• [Old] "Just in time for a massive transformation in the way we use and consume media in the United States, I’ll be sending you a lot of letters. They’re based on an introductory media studies course I taught in the spring of 2024 at the University of San Francisco." ☛ https://buttondown.com/thehypothesis/archive/what-is-media-a-primer-for-americans/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:21:20

• "The profound political shifts witnessed in 2024, a year marked by electoral upheavals and changing political landscapes across Europe and the world, are testing the resilience of democratic institutions" ☛ https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Joint-Statement-on-the-European-Commissions-2025-Rule-of-Law-Report.docx-v2.pdf | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:21:39

• "The court also banned them from publishing any content on the [Internet] for three years after they complete their prison sentences." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/04/four-russian-journalists-sentenced-to-five-and-a-half-years-in-prison/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:23:01

• "TechCentral, South Africa’s most powerful B2B technology news and information platform, has a new owner." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/techcentral-acquired-ict-publishing/262526/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:23:15

• "Yensebek’s conviction is a clear example of how Kazakh authorities use such measures to intimidate and silence critical journalists" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/04/kazakh-journalist-temirlan-yensebek-sentenced-to-5-years-of-restricted-freedom/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:23:30

• "This trial has been invented as a scare tactic to intimidate and deter all journalists in Turkey from reporting from the field." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/04/trial-of-5-journalists-who-covered-turkish-protests-set-to-open/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:24:19

• Censorship by "Muslim Jamaat" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/tamil-nadu/all-india-muslim-jamaat-issues-fatwa-against-vijay-over-iftar-party-1873366 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:38:01

• "This is an activist movement that is determined to eliminate access to this content by whatever means necessary. Unfortunately, these groups are being helped along by legislators who believe their personal beliefs should be the only ones protected by the Constitution." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/library-study-shows-its-just-politicians-and-activist-groups-trying-to-get-books-banned/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:38:12

• Chris Krebs = Microsoft (part of the problem). "Reuters noted last week that other large cybersecurity companies have been largely silent about Trump’s memo." ☛ https://therecord.media/krebs-leaves-sentinelone-after-trump-memo | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:38:48

• "a travesty of justice" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/chris-krebs-resigns-sentinelone-fight-trump-executive-order/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:39:06

• Trump appointed from Microsoft, his buddies ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/krebs_quits_sentinelone/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:39:53

• Ex-CISA chief = Microsoft ☛ https://www.reuters.com/technology/ex-cisa-chief-chris-krebs-leaving-sentinelone-following-trump-pressure-sources-2025-04-16/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:40:17

• "Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation" ☛ https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-censorship-and-country-based-moderation/ |    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:40:26

• "While the demands revolve around institutional policies, the freezes and cuts largely threaten scientific research." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/harvard-columbia-demands-trump-vision-universities-influence | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:40:50

• "We discuss how other places regulate the internet, including Europe, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Brazil and more. And how each of their approaches created real burdens — the exact kinds of burdens that Chris Cox and Ron Wyden were trying to avoid while drafting Section 230." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/16/otherwise-objectionable-how-230-let-us-internet-companies-win/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:41:15

• "Russia is automating the spread of false information to fool artificial intelligence chatbots on key topics, offering a playbook to other bad actors on how to game AI to push content meant to inflame, influence and obfuscate instead of inform." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/17/llm-poisoning-grooming-chatbots-russia/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:54:07

• "The increased access comes as part of the Trump administration's push to elevate "new media," which includes nonpartisan digital outlets like Axios and Semafor but also Trump-aligned outlets." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/17/trump-maga-friendly-white-house-press-corps | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:54:19

• "All together, I see these pieces adding up to an avoidance of making our own decisions, exercising our own judgment, trusting our own interpretations. And, fair — we’re all overwhelmed, drowning in content." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/04/17/ceding-the-work-of-interpretation/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:54:30

• "Reality check: As attractive as it might sound to avoid markups, it's often not advisable or not possible to buy directly from Chinese factories." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/17/trump-tariffs-tik-tok-china-manufacturer | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:55:28

• "This acquisition would position OpenAI to better compete with companies offering AI coding services, including Anthropic" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/openai-in-talks-to-acquire-ai-coding-tool-windsurf-for-3-billion-report-1873378 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:57:07

• "democratizing power of technology" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/17/the-de-in-decentralization-stands-for-democracy/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:57:21

• "HPE’s board is expected to meet in coming days to discuss whether to replace CEO Antonio Neri" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/04/17/2025/elliott-activist-ceo-change-hewlett-packard-enterprise | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:57:42

• "Building a cryptocurrency empire" ☛ https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-crypto-empire/ | Source: Molly White    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:57:56

• "I have a hard time blaming the users upon which all of this was forced." ☛ https://www.datagubbe.se/aficion/ | Source: Carl Svensson    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:58:20

• "After all, apart from spending an obscene amount of money and rattling off cringeworthy statements" ☛ https://futurism.com/rich-women-astonished-backlash-trip-space | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:58:42

• "Freedom Fighters" ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/usw/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 07:58:51

• "The 200 cherry trees were planted in 2001 to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Chiune Sugihara" ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2538038/cherry-blossoms-draw-crowds-in-vilnius-photos | Source: LRT    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:05:33

• "Although Concorde’s small dimensions effectively created the sense of a packed-in bank of instruments" ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/04/concorde-cockpit.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:05:57

• "A new report this week from the International Energy Agency (IEA) confirms that the rapid spread of data centres" ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/ai-surge-could-mean-grid-strain-or-gain-depending-on-policy-iea/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:11:45

• "Earth Day is coming up on Tuesday." ☛ https://www.bridgemi.com/outdoors-life/earth-day-events-planned-across-michigan-find-one-your-area | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:12:15

• "The only energy ‘emergency’ the American people face is Trump’s efforts to disregard clean air and water safeguards in order to rush through dirty, dangerous fossil fuel projects" ☛ https://www.mlive.com/native-american-news/2025/04/us-army-engineers-decide-to-fast-track-great-lakes-tunnel-permits-under-trump-energy-emergency-order.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:12:24

• "The researchers found that temperatures above two degrees Celsius and rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to higher inorganic arsenic (iAs) concentrations in rice, which could increase the lifetime health risks of populations across Asia by 2050, a press release from Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health said." ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/rice-arsenic-climate-change.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:12:39

• "Back in November, when I concluded that Trump’s dictatorship was a fait accompli lots of readers thought I was going over the top. In retrospect, and with one exception, I was hopelessly over-optimistic." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/04/17/the-point-of-no-returnonly-days-left-to-stop-a-totalitarian-state-in-the-us/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:19:57

• "A major issue lies in the fact that these providers operate under the direction of the Chinese government, raising the risk of global surveillance, data interception, and exploitation for state-sponsored cyber espionage" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/35-countries-use-chinese-networks-for-transporting-mobile-user-traffic-posing-cyber-risks/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:20:27

• "Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation after a tech staffer at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/whistleblower_nlrb_doge/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:21:02

• "“We now expect a 3°C world” amid setbacks to global decarbonization efforts, Morgan Stanley told clients, in a forecast that SciAm says was “tucked into a mundane research report” on the bright future of air conditioning stocks." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/big-banks-look-for-profits-in-3c-future-and-keep-financing-big-oil/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:23:38

• "The West Philippine Sea has always been labeled on Google Maps. We recently made this label easier to see at additional zoom levels." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/04/17/south-chia-sea-west-philippines-google-maps/ | Source: RFA    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:24:01

• "Is the U.S. facing a constitutional crisis? The answer, unequivocally and emphatically, is yes. But it also could get much worse." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-17/abrego-garcia-el-salvador-donald-trump | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:24:13

• "The new face and ID scanning requirements only apply to Discord users who haven’t previously verified their age on the platform." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/650493/discord-age-verification-face-id-scan-experiment | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:25:24

• "As of 2018, the GDPR is supposed to ensure that Europeans enjoy privacy rights throughout the entire EU." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/eu-pledged-improve-gdpr-cooperation-and-made-it-worse | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:25:53

• "In a press release announcing the collaboration Thursday, the companies revealed that they are now working together through FedStart, a Palantir program meant to aid compliance with FedRAMP. Google Cloud is also a major partner." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/palantir-anthropic-google-government-ai-claude-partnership/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:29:18

• "A report by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) found that there were concerns Beijing – which dominates the market – could effectively eavesdrop on conversations using the vehicles, which are to be introduced for all ministers and officials by the end of 2027." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/17/electric-cars-threaten-national-security-defence-chiefs-war/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:29:34

• "I look forward to all the videos of people hacking this system using various disguises." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/age-verification-using-facial-scans.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:30:05

• "at risk." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/new-jersey-sues-discord/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:30:23

• "There have been a number of protests in the past few months pushing back against President Trump’s most recent policy changes, and we're likely to see more." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-how-americans-are-surveilled-during-protests/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:33:33

• "The Republican representatives — Brett Guthrie from Kentucky, Gus Bilirakis from Florida and Gary Palmer from Alaska — sent a letter to 23andMe interim Chief Executive Joe Selsavage on Thursday requesting answers to several questions by May 1." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-04-17/23-and-me-congressmen-letter | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:33:48

• "Here's how a SIM swap works." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/thats-not-how-a-sim-swap-attack-works/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:34:57

• "After the last visit to the shop, he claimed he noticed something odd: He was burning through a lot more miles for the same trips." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/tesla_faked_odometer_data/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:35:13

• "How do you know that the XZ release tarballs was actually derived from its version control sources?" ☛ https://blog.josefsson.org/2025/04/17/verified-reproducible-tarballs/ | Source: Simon Josefsson    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:35:47

• Openwashing: "“So, when you see a big vendor do something in open source, you naturally question the motives. Like, you can’t ignore that particular truth.” So what does it mean when we use “AWS” and “open source” in the same sentence?" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/kelsey-hightower-awss-eswar-bala-on-open-sources-evolution/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:40:15

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/dutch_ransomware_study/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:41:46

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.fortra.com/blog/ransomhouse-ransomware-what-you-need-know |    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:42:12

• "Last year, Smirnov pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges—including making a false statement about the Bidens—and was sentenced to six years in prison, so it’s difficult to discern, based on the new DOJ filing, what might cast fresh doubt on his conviction." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/alexander-smirnov-trump-biden-impeachment-doj/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:43:18

• "If it goes ahead, it sounds reminiscent of how X directly integrates Musk's Grok AI model into the website, where it operates both as a standalone chatbot, while also being capable of responding directly to users' posts at their request." ☛ https://futurism.com/openai-building-social-network | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:43:41

• "In light of the recent news that the Trump administration is using the IRS to target a private university, I wondered: what has to happen before we can legitimately use the term fascism? So I had a short chat with Claude. Here’s the transcript: [...]" ☛ https://mihobu.lol/chats-with-claude-on-fascism | Source: Michael Burkhardt    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:46:34

• "It wasn’t immediately clear how many crosswalk buttons were impacted" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/jeff-bezos-seattle-crosswalk-buttons-b2734742.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:46:49

• "Hello fellow kids! Doing crimes is TIGHT!" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/04/hello-fellow-kids-doing-crimes-is-tight/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:47:06

• "Massive Blue is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters.”" ☛ https://www.404media.co/this-college-protester-isnt-real-its-an-ai-powered-undercover-bot-for-cops/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:47:50

• "because to create art, you need to touch the soul." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2025-04-17/dj-alok-coachella-urban-theory-artificial-intelligence-brazil | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:48:05

• "The entire front of the vehicle was ripped off, sending the SUV spinning. Huan was pronounced dead hours after being taken to the hospital" ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-call-government-autopilot | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:48:18

• Old: Tesla engineer says company faked "full autopilot" video: Report https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer-says-company-faked-full-autopilot/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:48:40

• "After getting the iPad I immediately regretted that. It was so much worse than I could’ve ever imagined." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/i-miss-foss | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:49:26

• "Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a partnership with DevSecOps tooling provider GitLab Inc. that will integrate it with agentic artificial intelligence development assistant Q Developer." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/17/amazon-partners-gitlab-bring-q-developer-devsecops-workflows/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:49:39

• "Cisco’s ThousandEyes observability outfit analyzed the incident and picked it as a DNS problem that meant top-level domain nameservers did not have the records for zoom.us." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/zoom_outage_godaddy_blamed/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:50:10

• "The mom spoke for a certain population segment that often gets neglected in society: The person who thinks that what we have is already good enough, who isn’t convinced by things like whiz-bang graphics or cool accessories." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/04/14/windows-10-forgotten-tech-users/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:50:31

• "It’s been reported that the cost of a 2nm wafer is $30,000, versus $18,000 for 3nm chips." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2692710/tariffs-arent-the-only-reason-why-your-next-apple-device-might-be-more-expensive.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:50:46

• "But here is the strange part: when I looked at the breakdown Screen Time gave me, the numbers didn’t add up." ☛ https://matanabudy.com/my-iphones-screen-time-is-gaslighting-me/ | Source: Matan Abudy    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:52:03

• "Yet do it often enough, and you’re submerged in piss." ☛ https://zottmann.org/2025/04/17/sarcasm-is-poison.html |    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:53:02

• "All of those things affect our time and our ability to care for our veterans." ☛ https://www.airforcetimes.com/veterans/2025/04/17/nurses-rally-outside-va-hospitals-to-highlight-staff-cuts-vacancies/ | Source: Air Force Times    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:53:38

• "BPS, like BPA, is a hormone-disrupting chemical that mimics estrogen and can disrupt the normal functioning of the body, including metabolism, growth and development, and reproduction. Studies show that BPS can be absorbed through skin when handling receipt paper–even for short periods" ☛ https://ceh.org/latest/press-releases/touching-1-receipt-for-10-seconds-results-in-exposure-to-the-chemical-bps-above-the-safe-limit/ |    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:54:00

• "According to new research from the Center for Environmental Health, the tiny paper documents used by major US retailers contain alarmingly high levels of Bisphenol S (BPS), an industrial chemical used in plastics manufacturing — high enough to be dangerous even in the brief period it takes you to stuff one into your pocket." ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/do-not-touch-receipts-research | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:54:53

• "the death penalty was a “political stunt” that corrupted the grand jury process and deprived him of his constitutional right to due process." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/luigi-mangione-brian-thompson-donald-trump-manhattan-pam-bondi-b2735497.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:55:40

• "A federal complaint against Mangione was unsealed in December but he had not been indicted on those charges until Thursday." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/17/luigi-mangione-indicted-federal-murder-charges-ny | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:56:11

• "TSMC's top brass insist it is not entertaining a joint venture with beleaguered chip biz Intel, though it is steeling itself for potential effects from the Trump administration's ever-changing tariff schemes." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/tsmc_tariffs_intel/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:57:12

• "Here’s the thing about tariffs that may not be clear to folks just hearing numbers: They have a cascading effect." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/04/16/used-electronics-advice-tariffs/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:57:40

• "any change in customer behaviour" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/chip-giant-tsmc-sees-net-profit-rise-60-3-in-march-quarter/articleshow/120372894.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:58:02

• "A U.S. congressional investigation suspects that Chinese AI company DeepSeek has trained its large language model using tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs, many covered by U.S. export controls" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/lawmakers-demand-answers-from-nvidia-over-suspected-gpu-diversions-to-china-nvidia-denies-any-wrongdoing | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:58:47

• "an independent leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing cluster in the U.S." ☛ https://www.axios.com/local/phoenix/2025/04/17/tsmc-arizona-manufacture-advanced-chips-semiconductor | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 08:59:00

• "This post is about what YOU can do as a senior IC to self-onboard." ☛ https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/staff-self-onboarding-questions | Source: Alex Ewerlöf    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:06:16

• "I’m starting a new career chapter soon, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." ☛ https://mangoumbrella.com/post/on-what-drives-me | Source: Yilei Yang    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:06:37

• Propaganda services... over? https://redmonk.com/kfitzpatrick/2025/04/11/three-things-that-matter/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:09:44

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:10:22

• Because they relay BS for their client, Microsoft https://techrights.org/o/2022/03/30/microsoft-osi-and-redmonk/ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/13/RedMonk_September_the_Month_of_the_Mouth_of_Redmond_Still.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:10:27

• You get BA in HISTORY and that makes you... wait, what? TECH EXPERT??? https://redmonk.com/team/stephen-ogrady/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:11:59

• Senior Industry Analyst at RedMonk "Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals"    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:16:09

• "Yes – there are benefits to more freely and quickly sharing science. But preprints join predatory publishers and paper mills to fuel a growing challenge for our society: distinguishing credible science from inaccurate, biased, and misleading work." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/17/guest-post-preprints-serve-the-anti-science-agenda-this-is-why-we-need-peer-review/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:19:57

• "It's difficult to overstate the importance of the NIH to the development of scientific breakthroughs that affect our health and that of our loved ones." ☛ https://bobmonsour.com/blog/the-personal-effects-of-nih-funding-cuts/ | Source: Bob Monsour    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:20:12

• "The NIOSH researchers collected the tissue samples as part of experiments to determine how Americans may be impacted by chemicals and other substances they are exposed to at their jobs" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/cdc-job-cuts-niosh-human-samples/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:21:20

• "the situation may not be so clear cut. While dimethyl sulfide is an organic material on our planet, there's a body of evidence suggesting that nonbiological processes elsewhere in the cosmos could produce the compound, notes science writer Corey S. Powell in a Bluesky thread." ☛ https://futurism.com/flaw-claim-detecting-alien-life | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:21:44

• "We say you should never waste a good crisis" ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250417/never-waste-a-good-crisis-how-sweden-wants-to-attract-us-talent-fleeing-trump | Source: The Local SE    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:22:09

• "So, is retention the only measure of PMF? Strictly speaking, no, but it is probably the most telling. If you can’t keep your customers happy and around for the long term you can’t really claim to have a strong fit." ☛ https://www.elliotcsmith.com/is-retention-is-the-only-real-measure-of-product-market-fit/ | Source: Elliot C Smith    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:23:17

• "R.L. Dane enquired about how one maintains a regular blogging habit, and counted my number of posts with a simple bash script." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/brolific/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:23:36

• "I’ve slowly been improving my email usage over time, since my tendency left unchecked is to be verbose." ☛ https://justinvollmer.com/posts/2025/04/operating-rules-for-email-collaboration/ | Source: Justin Vollmer    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:23:54

• "I’ve got another post coming up soon comparing a few different blogging tools for people who want to dip their toes into this wonderful form of self-expression (present writer notwithstanding), but in the meantime I’m so happy to add Stefano’s blog to Clara’s and my RSS reader." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/stefano-marinelli-is-expanding-his-blogging-presence/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:24:55

• "One above all: too many things I've written on social media have disappeared into nothingness after a few days. Content there is meant to be momentary, ephemeral. It's not for nothing that we talk about microblogging: posts appear in timelines and then vanish in the continuous flow of new content" ☛ https://my-notes.dragas.net//2025/04/17/why-i-m-expanding-my-blogging-presence/ |    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:25:34

• "In what appears to be the latest move in this administration’s total incompetence with regards to critical government tech infrastructure, MITRE announced yesterday that funding had run out for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) system" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/16/us-government-almost-kills-critical-cybersecurity-database/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:27:17

• "Launched in 1999, CVE provides information about cybersecurity vulnerabilities in software products." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/16/us-extends-contract-fund-cve-vulnerability-database/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:27:35

• "As reported by Kenneth B. Warner, 1BHW, in the June 1925 edition of QST: [...]" ☛ https://www.arrl.org/news/view/world-amateur-radio-day-international-amateur-radio-union-formed-100-years-ago | Source: ARRL    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:28:15

• [Old] "Probably the single most important lesson I’ve learned in my career" ☛ https://dylanbeattie.net/2025/04/11/the-problem-with-vibe-coding.html |    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:29:49

• "I was confident this could be done with moderate effort." ☛ https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-04-17-wasm-ghci-browser/ | Source: Modus Create LLC    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:30:06

• "I’ve been using a lot of Git Trailers in my commit messages recently and as my thinking on which trailer keys to use has evolved, it’s been useful to look back at which ones have been used before." ☛ https://calebhearth.com/tally-git-trailers | Source: Caleb Hearth    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:30:29

• "Erlang/OTP is a collection of libraries, middleware and other tools designed for creating scalable soft real-time systems that require high availability, such as e-commerce, banking, and communications applications." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-erlang-otp-ssh-flaw-exposes-many-servers-to-remote-hacking/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:31:01

• "The first step in planning and creating good error messages is to identify the different types of errors that could occur within our user experience. For example: [...]" ☛ https://piccalil.li/blog/how-to-write-error-messages-that-actually-help-users-rather-than-frustrate-them/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:31:32

• "In the dynamic realm of scientific computing and data analysis, the importance of maintaining the integrity of every artifact and computational process cannot be overstated. Meticulous tracking and documentation of every action on data and code are crucial for valid research and regulatory compliance." ☛ https://info.juliahub.com/blog/juliahub-audit-features | Source: Julia Programming Language    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:31:47

• "Apparently, it’s a BTC 1853L with an embedded ESS AudioDrive 1868F chip—something I did not realise when pressing that buy button. OEM cards are not necessarily a bad thing but can require their own set of drivers." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/04/about-a-broken-ess-audiodrive-card/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:38:48

• "Hello and welcome to the second part of my descend into maelstrom assembly. First of all: I've learned that I am not learning to write assembler. Assembler is program which converts assembly language into machine code. Does this change anything?" ☛ https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/commodore-64-assembly-part-2-registers-memory-labels-constants-and-numbers/ | Source: Michał Sapka    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:40:55

• "Following on from our guide to setting up an acoustically treated recording space at home, it’s time to get to the hardware." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/build-a-home-recording-studio-with-raspberry-pi-500-choosing-your-equipment/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:41:07

• "A self-taught drone and UAV builder, Aarrejoki carried out his project in a small windowless lab at the university, filled with 3D printers. The printers were used to manufacture most of the parts for both Aarrejoki's drone and a ground robot designed by Captain Andersson." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20156841 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:41:20

• "The coreboot project has always thrived on community contributions and collaboration." ☛ https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2025/04/17/expanding-collaboration-new-ways-to-engage-with-the-coreboot-project/ | Source: Coreboot (Official)    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:41:45

• "The first reviews of the new Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series) are now live, and the first Batch 1 customer systems start shipping tomorrow! This is our 7th version of Framework Laptop 13, and the refinement that comes from iteration really comes through in the reviews." ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/reviews-on-the-new-framework-laptop-13-are-live | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:43:26

• "It wasn’t just kids who found the Armatron so special." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/17/1114456/toy-armatron-modern-robotics-ai-nostalgia/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:44:21

• "In a sea of laptops that make it hard, if not impossible, to upgrade your system post-purchase, Framework has always believed in giving customers more options." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/ultrabooks-ultraportables/framework-laptop-13-amd-ryzen-ai-300-series-review | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 09:44:55

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:06:49

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel Capture ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-corel-capture/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:06:54

• "You can use the Windows XP interface (as well as other Windows versions) on the Linux distribution Q4OS. Here's how you can set it up." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2660380/forget-windows-11-these-mad-lads-made-linux-look-like-windows-xp.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:08:13

• "Big tech companies, including Amazon, Google, and Oracle, forked Redis to create Valkey" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/arch-says-goodbye-to-redis-adopts-valkey/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:08:57

• "Meanwhile, if you just save the original bytes, you can fix everything later. Plus, given the amount of data your own social media posts consist of (... and which this post was primarily concerned about), a few Python scripts can go through them every single time you're looking for something." ☛ https://simonsafar.com/2025/throw_it_into_postgres/ |    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:11:18

• "anticrawl is a simple go http handler. Stick it in the affected service." ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/anticrawl | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:12:43

• "I miss when the feeds were available natively on browsers, setup similarly to bookmarks." ☛ https://jetgirl.art/bring-back-rss-feeds-to-browsers/ |    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:12:51

• "That’s why I’ve decided to share with you the #1 tip to speed up your Emacs - defer the load time of your packages" ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2025/04/17/using-use-package-the-right-way/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:13:11

• "Under the hood, systemd v257.4 arrives with vital upstream changes and the removal of some legacy functionalities." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:18:23

• "I wanted to see if this could replace my full-size 100 TB hard drive NAS." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/almost-perfect-mini-nas-my-mini-rack | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:22:56

• "This comprehensive guide will help you understand how traceroute works, interpret its results and recognize common network problems it can reveal." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/how-to-read-a-traceroute-for-network-troubleshooting/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:23:09

• "A while ago I wrote an entry about (not) finding which NFSv4 client owns a lock on a Linux NFS(v4) server, where the best I could do was pick awkwardly through the raw NFS v4 client information in /proc/fs/nfsd/clients." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NFSv4ServerLockClientsII | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:23:21

• "Here’s the problem. Both lines can’t run. Only one will run. The incoming ssh key will match, and that command will be run. Instead. I added a second ssh key: [...]" ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/17/using-ssh-authorized-keys-to-decide-what-the-incoming-connection-can-do/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:23:33

• "A while ago I wrote an entry about (not) finding which NFSv4 client owns a lock on a Linux NFS(v4) server, where the best I could do was pick awkwardly through the raw NFS v4 client information in /proc/fs/nfsd/clients." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/NFSv4ServerLockClientsII | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:24:51

• "Here’s the problem. Both lines can’t run. Only one will run. The incoming ssh key will match, and that command will be run. Instead. I added a second ssh key: [...]" ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/17/using-ssh-authorized-keys-to-decide-what-the-incoming-connection-can-do/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:25:02

• Fedora 42 Network Configuration Guide ☞ https://idroot.us/fedora-42-network-configuration/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:25:58

• How To Disable SELinux on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/disable-selinux-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:26:20

• How To Install EPEL Repository on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-epel-repository-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:26:34

• How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-25-04    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:26:57

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

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:27:22

• How To Install ClamAV on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-clamav-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:27:38

• How to upgrade to Fedora Silverblue 42 and roll back if needed ☞ https://www.neowin.net/guides/how-to-upgrade-to-fedora-silverblue-42-and-roll-back-if-needed/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:28:18

• How To Install Python on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-python-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:28:57

• How To Install CUPS Print Server on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-cups-print-server-ubuntu-24-04/    

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

• "The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces “devpacks” for popular frameworks like Spring" ☛ https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin | Source: Canonical    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:35:44

• Distribution Release: Xubuntu 25.04. "The Xubuntu project has released Xubuntu 25.04, an interim release which features the latest applications from Xfce" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12420 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:36:11

• Distribution Release: Ubuntu Budgie 25.04. "The Ubuntu Budgie team has announced the release of Ubuntu Budgie 25.04." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12421 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:36:29

• "The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces “devpacks” for popular frameworks like Spring" ☛ https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-releases-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin | Source: Canonical    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:38:13

• Distribution Release: Ubuntu Budgie 25.04. "The Ubuntu Budgie team has announced the release of Ubuntu Budgie 25.04." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12421 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:38:21

• Distribution Release: Ubuntu Budgie 25.04. "The Ubuntu Budgie team has announced the release of Ubuntu Budgie 25.04." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12421 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:38:28

• Distribution Release: Lubuntu 25.04. "The Lubuntu project has released Lubuntu 25.04, an interim release which will receive nine months of support." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12419 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:40:06

• Distribution Release: Ubuntu Studio 25.04. "The Ubuntu Studio team has announced the release of Ubuntu Studio 25.04 which offers a range of creative and multimedia tools." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12418 | Source: Distro Watch    

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

• Distribution Release: Ubuntu MATE 25.04. "Martin Wimpress has announced the availability of Ubuntu MATE 25.04." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12417 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:41:58

• Distribution Release: Kubuntu 25.04. "The Kubuntu project has announced the release of Kubuntu 25.04 which features version 6.3 of the Plasma desktop." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12416 | Source: Distro Watch    

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

• Distribution Release: Ubuntu 25.04. "Canonical has announced the release of Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin" which introduces the Linux 6.14 kernel" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12415 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:42:15

• "EU OS is a proof-of-concept operating system based on Fedora and built by developer Robert Riemann" ☛ https://thelibre.news/lets-talk-about-this-eu-os/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:42:36

• "Today, over a month after the last update to the 24.12 series, KDE has released the brand-new KDE Gear 25.04 apps collection, bringing a range of new features to the table." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-gear-25-04-apps-collection-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:46:20

• "One of the headline improvements is its enhanced Wayland support. The team has addressed a long-standing quirk in multi-screen setups by adopting screen names instead of screen numbers — a necessary shift, as Wayland does not define a “primary screen” in the traditional sense." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/lxqt-2-2-released-with-enhanced-wayland-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:47:09

• "In addition to Windows XP, you can also choose interfaces that mimic Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. While you can install and use Linux applications, the system offers a familiar graphical user interface that behaves like Windows, making it easier [sic] to navigate." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2660380/forget-windows-11-these-mad-lads-made-linux-look-like-windows-xp.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:48:05

• "We should improve libzfs somewhat, Accurate Effective Storage Performance Benchmark, Debugging aids for pf firewall rules on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Thunderbolt issue on ThinkPad T480s, Signing Git Commits with an SSH key, Pgrep, LibreOffice downloads on the rise, and more" ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/607 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:49:24

• KDE ⚙️ Gear 25.04 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.0/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:53:18

• Mozilla comments on its sugar daddy while pretending to be a rival ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/internet-policy/mozilla-ceo-on-google-antitrust/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 10:56:54

• It's back to the future II; skinnerbox, no hoverboard yet, and Google News has become MElon X!! Because who needs news anyway????    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:05:51

• Kubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin released ☞ https://kubuntu.org/news/kubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-released/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:08:21

• StatCounter Shows the Market Share of Vista 11 is Decreasing in Ukraine This Year ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/StatCounter_Shows_the_Market_Share_of_Vista_11_is_Decreasing_in.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:23:59

• Massive 366% chip shipment surge to Malaysia amid increased Nvidia Hey Hi (AI) GPU smuggling curbs, ahead of looming sectoral tariffs ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/massive-366-percent-chip-shipment-surge-to-malaysia-amid-increased-nvidia-ai-gpu-smuggling-curbs-ahead-of-looming-sectoral-tariffs    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:24:09

• "I decided on Aoostar GEM12 Pro Mini-PC and ordered it." ☛ https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/aoostar-gem12-pro-max-openbsd/ | Source: Rafael Sadowski    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:25:26

• "Obviously, we’re short one modifier key here, but that’s not a big deal in practice." ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2025/04/17/my-favorite-tilde-keybindings/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:25:53

• "Don’t worry, this is a common issue that simply means that the file or directory you’re trying to remove is currently being used by the system or by a currently running process." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/rm-cannot-remove-device-or-resource-busy/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:28:49

• "Valkey, a high-performance key/value datastore, will be replacing redis in the [extra] repository." ☛ https://archlinux.org/news/valkey-to-replace-redis-in-the-extra-repository/ | Source: ArchLinux    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:30:33

• "Within the report and in collaboration with Red Hat Insights, “IBM X-Force found that more than half of Red Hat Enterprise Linux customers' environments had not deployed a patch for at least one critical CVE in their environment, and 18% had not patched five or more." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/numbers-security-insights-red-hat-and-ibm | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:31:35

• "Connectivity checks are expected to work properly on multi-homed, e.g. wifi + LAN, workstation in the F42 release by defaulting Workstation to use IPv6_rpfilter=loose . This helps avoid certain scenarios that can degrade user experience when switching between modes of connectivity." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/announcing-fedora-42    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:38:32

• MOAAAARRR BUZZWORDS: MOC!! "MASS OPEN CLOUD PLATFORM" https://research.redhat.com/mass-open-cloud/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:39:10

• Red Hat just made three big changes to its developer hub – here’s what you need to know https://www.itpro.com/software/development/red-hat-developer-hub-updates    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:39:39

• A "partnership with Red Hat and ByteDance" makes one wonder why IBM would want to go down this road again https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/google-bytedance-and-red-hat-improve-ai-on-kubernetes    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:40:49

• Bengaluru techie shares ‘horrible interview experience’ with IBM, says company ‘lied about CTC’ - Trending News | The Financial Express ⚓ https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/techie-shares-horrible-interview-experience-with-ibm-bengaluru-says-company-lied-about-ctc/3811390/ ䷉ Source: Financial Express, Bangladesh    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:43:16

• "Lowballing salaries in India too ? What is the world coming to under Alvind and Krabanaugh in 2025 ? A bigger $100 million bonus for Alvind in 2025 ? or just more Vindaloo curry with an extra large helping of diarrhea ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js3hjzth    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:44:03

• "Gary Cohn, IBM vice chairman and former director of the National Economic Council, joins CNBC's 'Money Movers' to discuss outlooks on U.S. trade policy, markets, probability of a recession, and much more." https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/04/15/ibm-vice-chairman-gary-cohn-probably-of-recession-is-higher-but-still-policy-dependent.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:45:12

• IBM orders US sales to locate near customers or offices https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/18/ibm_orders_us_sales_staff/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:46:59

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posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:48:21

• They say it like it's a good thing. They got themselves a mole. https://www.itpro.com/business/leadership/cyberone-appoints-microsofts-tracey-pretorius-to-its-advisory-board Microsoft = back door. http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 11:48:28

• "Banana Pi has introduced the BPI-RV2, an open-source gateway platform developed in collaboration with Siflower. The board is based on the SF21H8898 SoC, a quad-core RISC-V processor designed for industrial and enterprise networking applications such as routers, access points, and control gateways." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/banana-pi-bpi-rv2-gateway-board-integrates-siflower-sf21h8898-risc-v-soc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 12:45:53

• "The Minichord is a compact, chord-focused musical instrument developed by Benjamin Poilve through a co-creation effort with Seeed Studio. Designed for musicians of all skill levels" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/minichord-synthesizer-offers-open-source-platform-for-chord-based-music-creation/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 12:52:17

• Society is moving backwards. It is becoming primitive. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/health/measles-texas-mexico-canada.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 12:57:06

• The Firefighter With O.C.D. and the Vaccine He Believed Would Kill Him ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/nyregion/firefighter-mental-health-ocd.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 12:57:22

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration’s Immigration Policies and Rhetoric Block Access to Health Care: PHR Research Brief ☞ https://phr.org/news/trump-administrations-immigration-policies-and-rhetoric-block-access-to-health-care-phr-research-brief/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 12:57:38

• So health is just for smart of rich people now. Eugenics but veiled?    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 12:58:13

• (or)    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 12:58:24

• LibreNMS Service health file disabled ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2025/04/17/librenms-service-health-file-disabled/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 12:58:52

• South Korea Shipbuilding Strength Could Help in Tariff Talks With U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/asia/skorea-trump-tariffs-ships.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:00:08

• Dihydroxyacetone Man includes US troop costs in tariff talks with Asian allies ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/trump-includes-us-troop-costs-in-tariff-talks-with-asian-allies    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:00:26

• “Dihydroxyacetone Man May Be Triggering the Fastest Nuclear Weapons Race Since the Cold War”    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:00:45

• Malaysia PM to hold talks with Myanmar opposition after meeting junta chief ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/malaysia-pm-to-hold-talks-with-myanmar-opposition-after-meeting-junta-chief    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:02:03

• Malaysia PM met Myanmar junta chief amid opposition to talks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-pm-set-to-meet-myanmar-junta-chief-amid-opposition-to-talks    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:08:45

• Malaysia trade minister to head to U.S. next week for tariff talks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/malaysia-trade-minister-to-head-to-u.s.-next-week-for-tariff-talks    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:09:01

• Kudos for Xi’s visit to Malaysia eclipsed by flag furore ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/kudos-for-xis-visit-to-malaysia-eclipsed-by-flag-furore    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:09:27

• Xi Jinping talks of former fights and future shocks on Southeast Asian tour ☞ https://rfa.org/english/cambodia/2025/04/17/asean-malaysia-vietnam-xi-jinping/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:09:51

• Myanmar junta chief meets Malaysian PM in Bangkok, frees 5,000 in prisoner amnesty ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/04/17/myanmar-new-year-amnesty-release/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:10:03

• Here’s What to Know About Rare Earth Minerals and Renewable Energy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/climate/rare-earth-minerals-renewable-energy.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:11:16

• China Wants Countries to Unite Against Convicted Felon, but Is Met With Wariness ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/asia/china-trump-tariffs-trade.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:11:33

• Nvidia C.E.O. Meets With Chinese Trade Officials in Beijing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/business/nvidia-china-tariffs-chips-jensen-huang.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:11:50

• California designs a trade plan to blunt tariffs. Be careful, China expert says. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0417/california-tariffs-china-trade    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:12:25

• Slapped with tariffs, some US trade partners lean toward Beijing ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/2025/0417/china-trade-allies-us    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:12:58

• Heavy rain, flash floods to continue in Penang amid monsoon transition ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/heavy-rain-flash-floods-to-continue-in-penang-amid-monsoon-transition    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:13:44

• China's former agriculture minister faces graft charges ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-former-agriculture-minister-faces-graft-charges    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:14:24

• China commends Cambodia when asked about Taiwanese deportation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-commends-cambodia-when-asked-about-taiwanese-deportation    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:14:52

• China, US at impasse over who should start trade talks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-us-at-impasse-over-who-should-start-trade-talks    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:15:25

• China’s Pooh-tin Jinping arrives in Cambodia for state visit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/chinas-xi-jinping-arrives-in-cambodia-for-state-visit    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:15:37

• China’s Plan to Fight Convicted Felon’s Trade War ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/chinas-plan-to-fight-trumps-trade-war    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:15:58

• China appoints new trade negotiator as US tariff tensions mount ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/17/china-appoints-new-trade-negotiator/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:16:20

• Chinese artist fined for filming Uyghur folk music in Xinjiang ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/04/17/china-uyghur-filming-fine/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:16:44

• 5 mainland Chinese visitors jailed for 3 weeks after Coldplay ticket scalping arrests ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/17/5-mainland-chinese-visitors-jailed-for-3-weeks-after-coldplay-ticket-scalping-arrests/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:17:39

• Hong Kong Originals: Two Moons Distillery infuses city’s heritage into handcrafted gin ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/18/hong-kong-originals-two-moons-distillery-infuses-citys-heritage-into-handcrafted-gin/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:18:12

• Dihydroxyacetone Man says Fed Chair Jerome Powell's termination "cannot come fast enough" ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250417-trump-says-fed-chair-jerome-powell-s-termination-cannot-come-fast-enough    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:18:30

• Microsoft Infosys Layoffs: IT Giant Lays Off More 240 Trainees Who Failed Internal Assessments, Offers Free Upskilling https://www.latestly.com/technology/infosys-layoffs-it-giant-lays-off-more-240-trainees-who-failed-internal-assessments-offers-free-upskilling-6791174.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:22:11

• Modernizing An Enigma Machine ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/17/modernizing-an-enigma-machine/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:23:28

• "and my manager would ask "what is code" ? [...] There are still a few good managers at IBM, my FLM is great. I would not trade him in for anyone else." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrw6p1yn    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:24:35

• "What has this guy, Gary Cohn, done for IBM? [...] Cohn does nothing but get a huge salary for doing interviews on TV and appearing for photo opportunities on quantum computing." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js3bk692    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:25:26

• Bicycle Gearbox ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/17/bicycle-gearbox-does-it-by-folding/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:26:55

• Designing An FM Drum Synth From Scratch ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/17/designing-an-fm-drum-synth-from-scratch/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:28:18

• "How Robots Are Changing Dairy Farms" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/17/rise-of-the-robots-how-robots-are-changing-dairy-farms/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:30:20

• Spain’s Sagrada Familia creating space to curb tourist crowds as public area reaches ‘saturation point’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/17/lifestyle/spains-sagrada-familia-will-curb-tourist-crowds-by-creating-separate-selfie-space/ "Many travelers to Barcelona, Spain, may find themselves at one of the most beautiful sacred places in the world: the Sagrada Familia."    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:31:03

• Non avere nulla da nascondere gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~cage/archive/le-scommesse-che-non-ho-mai-fatto.gmi    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:37:10

• Why I do not use social media gemini://73v3n.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-04-18.gmi    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:38:05

• 🔤SpellBinding — ACEIURQ Wordo: DIVAN gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-18.gmi    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 13:39:39

• Judge Delays a Resentencing Hearing for the Menendez Brothers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/menendez-brothers-resentencing-hearing.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:01:11

• Canada Federal Court of Appeal upholds assault-style firearms ban ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/canada-federal-court-of-appeal-upholds-assault-style-firearms-ban/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:01:45

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visits Beijing following US chip export restrictions ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/17/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-visits-beijing-following-us-chip-export-restrictions/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:02:11

• Seems like a dumb "accomplishment". The hard part is getting back to the top of a cliff again and again, perhaps up to a thousand times a day. https://mexiconewsdaily.com/lifestyle/acapulco-cliff-divers-guinness-record-5-million-dives/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:05:13

• Mysterious 3-Toed Footprints in Canada Reveal New Ankylosaur Species ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-3-toed-footprints-in-canada-reveal-new-ankylosaur-species    

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

• Meet Zhúlóng, The Milky Way 'Twin' That Shakes Up Our Cosmic Timeline ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/meet-zhlng-the-milky-way-twin-that-shakes-up-our-cosmic-timeline    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:06:13

• Study on Mice Suggests Surprising Link Between Nose-Picking And Alzheimer's ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-on-mice-suggests-surprising-link-between-nose-picking-and-alzheimers    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:06:20

• There's A Sky Full of Meteors in April! Here's What's on This Easter Weekend ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-sky-full-of-meteors-in-april-heres-whats-on-this-easter-weekend    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:06:42

• Curiosity Finds First In Situ Evidence of Carbon Cycle on Ancient Mars ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-finds-first-in-situ-evidence-of-carbon-cycle-on-ancient-mars    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:06:53

• Half The Universe's Matter Was Missing. Astronomers Just Found It. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/half-the-universes-matter-was-missing-astronomers-just-found-it    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:07:22

• Windows TCO ☞ https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/04/17/crisis-management-beacon-in-the-storm/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:08:18

• Nvidia CEO visits China as US tech curbs, trade war threaten sales ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/17/nvidia-ceo-visits-china-as-us-tech-curbs-trade-war-threaten-sales/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:21:23

• 'Paris Noir': A cultural crossroads for Black artists ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/france-in-focus/20250417-paris-noir-a-cultural-crossroads-for-black-artists    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:23:32

• Strawser | Stanford must never surrender ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/17/strawser-stanford-must-never-surrender/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:24:55

• Costa Rica Violated Rights of 81 Migrant Children Deported by U.S., Lawsuit Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/americas/costa-rica-migrants-lawsuit.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:25:12

• School Vouchers Won in Texas. Next Up, the Nation. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/school-choice-trump.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:25:48

• Little bites, big returns: India’s snacks industry draws foreign investors ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/little-bites-big-returns-indias-snacks-industry-draws-foreign-investors    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:26:10

• Why UK’s contempt of court laws need reform for digital age ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/why-uks-contempt-of-court-laws-need-reform-for-digital-age/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:26:45

• Texas judge blocks federal rule intended to reduce credit card late fees ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/texas-judge-blocks-federal-rule-intended-to-reduce-credit-card-late-fees/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:27:38

• Drake Elevates the Heat on Universal Music With Amended ‘Not Like Us’ Defamation Suit: ‘UMG Will Be Held Accountable’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/17/drake-lawsuit-amended-april-2025/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:28:19

• GEO holds rally in support of international graduate workers ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/administration/geo-holds-rally-in-support-of-international-graduate-workers/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:30:15

• anticrawl ☞ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/anticrawl    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:30:46

• Expanding Collaboration: New Ways to Engage with the coreboot Project ☞ https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2025/04/17/expanding-collaboration-new-ways-to-engage-with-the-coreboot-project/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:38:19

• OpenChainWashing ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/raising-the-bar-for-open-source-standards-through-openchain.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:39:07

• Supercon 2024 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/17/supercon-2024-exploring-the-ocean-with-open-source-hardware/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:40:06

• Arturo Borrero González: My experience in the Debian LTS and ELTS projects ☞ https://ral-arturo.org/2025/04/17/lts.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:40:49

• Code faster with the new Arduino Hey Hi (AI) Assistant ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/04/17/code-faster-with-the-new-arduino-ai-assistant/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:42:07

• UPC itself is not legal; this case and the unconstitutional kangaroo court should be dissolved ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/novartis-and-accord-settle-upc-dispute-over-drug-administration-with-apple-sauce/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:43:09

• Classic spam from JUVE, albeit disguised as journalism ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/ones-to-watch-uk-2025-edmund-eustace/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:43:59

• $32,000 for AutoConnect Holdings automotive patents prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/17/32000-for-autoconnect-holdings-automotive-patents-prior-art    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:44:37

• I Know I’m Going to Love a Brief That Repeatedly Cites Marbury v. Madison ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/repeatedly-marbury-madison.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:45:29

• Software Patent https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/04/17/cafc-scraps-xerox-patent-wins-snap-meta-x/id=188284/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:48:14

• When You Fail to Filter Your Clients You End Up SLAPPing Reporters on Behalf of Bad People From Abusive Monopolist Microsoft in Another Continent ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/17/When_You_Fail_to_Filter_Your_Clients_You_End_Up_SLAPPing_Report.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:48:29

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Authority (CA) With a Convicted Felon NSA is All About Security, But Whose? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Dihydroxyacetone Man_Authority_CA_With_a_Dihydroxyacetone Man_NSA_is_All_About_Security_But_W.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:49:22

• You Should Probably Self-Host Your E-mail and Never Use a Web Browser for Mail ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/You_Should_Probably_Self_Host_Your_E_mail_and_Never_Use_a_Web_B.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:49:30

• LLM Slop Says Slop is "coming for white-collar jobs. Microsoft’s layoffs are just the start" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/LLM_Slop_Says_Slop_is_coming_for_white_collar_jobs_Microsoft_s_.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:49:39

• Reporting Facts About Violence Against Women Deserves Awards, Not Frivolous Lawsuits and Threats ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Reporting_Facts_About_Violence_Against_Women_Deserves_Awards_No.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:49:47

• GSC questions The Daily on free speech policies and source anonymity ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/17/gsc-questions-the-daily-on-free-speech-policies-and-source-anonymity/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:51:49

• IOM reports Pakistan forcibly deported nearly 60,000 Afghan refugees since start of April ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/iom-reports-pakistan-forcibly-deported-nearly-60000-afghan-refugees-since-april/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:52:57

• UN Security Council urged to take united action in DR Congo as conflict deepens ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/un-security-council-urged-to-take-united-action-in-dr-congo-as-conflict-deepens/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:53:16

• Nat. sec amendments to Hong Kong union laws to be submitted to ‘patriots only’ legislature at end of month ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/17/nat-sec-amendments-to-hong-kong-union-laws-to-be-submitted-to-patriots-only-legislature-at-end-of-month/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:53:48

• One million Haitian children face 'critical' food shortage, says UN ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250417-haiti-children-food-un    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:54:14

• Rhino poaching crackdown: Kruger staff’s efforts lead to major sentences ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/border-security/rhino-poaching-crackdown-kruger-staffs-efforts-lead-to-major-sentences/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:54:41

• Amnesty calls for justice over reckless security force violence in Mozambique ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/amnesty-calls-for-justice-over-reckless-security-force-violence-in-mozambique/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:56:01

• Hype and hysteria over a passing fad that makes FUD ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/deepseek-house-ccp-committee-report-national-security-data-risks/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:56:47

• How the National Energy Dominance Council can set the US on the path to energy security ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-the-national-energy-dominance-council-can-set-the-us-on-the-path-to-energy-security/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:57:15

• The US must sustain counterterrorism operations in Somalia—the costs of retreat are too high ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-us-must-sustain-counterterrorism-operations-in-somalia-the-costs-of-retreat-are-too-high/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 14:57:48

• Ruby 3.5.0 preview1 Released ☞ https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/04/18/ruby-3-5-0-preview1-released/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:08:21

• Chinese brain computer interface user reportedly plays 'Black Myth: Wukong,' other games ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/controllers-gamepads/chinese-brain-computer-interface-user-reportedly-plays-black-myth-wukong-other-games    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:09:55

• Can We Trust Our Eyes Anymore? The Dark Side of Apple's New Hey Hi (AI) Clean Up Tool ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/can-we-trust-our-eyes-anymore-the-dark-side-of-apples-new-ai-clean-up-tool    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:12:04

• Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison should ‘take responsibility for own mistake’ over ports deal, says pro-Beijing politician ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/17/hong-kongs-ck-hutchison-should-take-responsibility-for-own-mistake-over-ports-deal-says-pro-beijing-politician/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:13:18

• 3D Printing ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/17/budget-schlieren-imaging-setup-uses-3d-printing-to-reveal-the-unseen/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:16:26

• 85: George is Asleep ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24068    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:16:57

• Age Verification Using Facial Scans ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/age-verification-using-facial-scans.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:17:40

• Qt World Summit and KDAB Training Day 2025 ☞ https://www.kdab.com/qt-world-summit-and-kdab-training-day-2025/    

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

• Gambia former paramilitary soldier convicted under US Torture Act ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/gambia-former-paramilitary-soldier-convicted-under-us-torture-act/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:18:27

• HoneyComb Ryzen V3000 – An AMD Ryzen V3C18I mini-ITX motherboard with dual 10Gbps SFP+, 2.5GbE, dual SATA III ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/17/honeycomb-ryzen-v3000-an-amd-ryzen-v3c18i-mini-itx-motherboard-with-dual-10gbps-sfp-2-5gbe-dual-sata-iii/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:19:07

• Thin PoE HAT for Raspberry Pi 5 features isolated SMPS, fits inside the official case, works with the active cooler ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/17/thin-poe-hat-for-raspberry-pi-5-fits-inside-the-official-case-works-with-the-active-cooler/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:19:18

• Simon Ser: Status update, April 2025 ☞ https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/status-update-75/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:19:47

• Adam Young: Decomposing Vector X Matrix ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2025/04/decomposing-vector-x-matrix/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:20:37

• What to Know About Convicted Felon’s Antitrust Efforts Against Google, Meta and Other Tech Giants ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/technology/trump-tech-antitrust-cases.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:21:04

• Retrospective: Five Years Blogging About Cryptography as a Gay Furry Online ☞ https://soatok.blog/2025/04/17/retrospective-five-years-blogging-about-cryptography-as-a-gay-furry-online/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:21:36

• A Professor Reflects on a Decades-Long Effort to Deport Pro-Palestinian Protesters ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-professor-reflects-on-a-decades-long-effort-to-deport-pro-palestinian-protesters    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:22:25

• Google Is Illegally Monopolizing Online Advertising Tech, Judge Rules ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/google-ad-tech-antitrust-ruling.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:22:48

• A Judge Ruled That Surveillance Giant Google Acted Illegally to Dominate Ad Tech ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/briefing/judge-google-ad-tech-obesity-pill.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:23:03

• Jonathan Dowland: Hledger UI themes ☞ https://jmtd.net/log/hledger/ui/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:26:12

• Benefits worries nag at federal employees ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2025/04/benefits-worries-nag-at-federal-employees/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:27:48

• Man Helped Chinese Nationals Get Jobs Involving Sensitive US Government Projects ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/man-helped-chinese-nationals-get-jobs-involving-sensitive-us-government-projects/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:28:10

• Vulnerabilities Patched in Atlassian, Cisco Products ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilities-patched-in-atlassian-cisco-products/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:28:35

• CISA Issues Guidance After Oracle Clown Hack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-issues-guidance-after-oracle-cloud-hack/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:29:02

• Google holds illegal monopolies in online ad tech, US judge rules ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250417-us-judge-rules-google-monopolized-online-ad-tech-market https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2018/12/07/leonie-brinkema-trials/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:30:53

• MITRE Hackers’ Backdoor Has Targeted backdoored Windows for Years ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/mitre-hackers-backdoor-has-targeted-windows-for-years/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:33:29

• SonicWall Flags Old Vulnerability as Actively Exploited ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-flags-old-vulnerability-as-actively-exploited/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:33:37

• Chinese APT Mustang Panda Updates, Expands Arsenal ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-apt-mustang-panda-updates-expands-arsenal/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:33:49

• Court rules against Surveillance Giant Google in advertising technology antitrust case ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/17/court-rules-google-advertising-technology-antitrust-case/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:41:11

• Public Knowledge Urges Federal Court To Adopt Strong Remedies in Surveillance Giant Google Ad Tech Monopoly Decision ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-urges-federal-court-to-adopt-strong-remedies-in-google-ad-tech-monopoly-decision/ Public Knowledge does not disclose Microsoft is inside its Board https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:42:59

• Civil society to European Commission: Act now to defend fundamental rights from Hungary’s Pride ban and the use of facial recognition against protesters ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-to-european-commission-act-now-to-defend-fundamental-rights-from-hungarys-pride-ban-and-the-use-of-facial-recognition-against-protesters/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:43:56

• Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: In Conclusion and Enforcement Action Proceeds Against OSI at the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/17/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Privacy_Fiasco_in_Detail_In_Conclusi.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:44:32

• US Air Strikes Targeting Yemeni Oil Port; Huthis Say Attack Killed 20 People ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-yemen-air-strike-port-ras-isa-oil/33389009.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:45:05

• Hamas rejects Israel's latest ceasefire proposal, calls for comprehensive deal ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250418-hamas-israel-ceasefire    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:45:14

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Waved Off Planned Israeli Strike on Iranian Nuclear Sites ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-israel-iran-nuclear.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:45:28

• Israel Strikes Area With Tent Camps for Displaced Gazans ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-strike-mawasi.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:45:42

• Israel continues pounding on Gaza, at least 40 killed in strikes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250417-israel-continues-pounding-on-gaza-at-least-40-killed-in-strikes    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:45:55

• G7 and EU denounce two-year-old Sudan war ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/g7-and-eu-denounce-two-year-old-sudan-war/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:46:13

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1017919/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:46:35

• New report: How Meta is monetising the migrant crisis ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-how-meta-is-monetising-the-migrant-crisis/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:52:56

• Bad Ads: Targeted Disinformation, Division and Fraud on Meta’s Platforms ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/bad-ads-targeted-disinformation-division-and-fraud-on-metas-platforms/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:53:15

• Jlink integration with OpenShift tech preview release ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/17/jlink-integration-openshift-tech-preview-release    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:53:43

• Professor J. Thomas McCarthy: "What is the 'Zone of Natural Expansion' Doctrine?" ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/04/professor-j-thomas-mccarthy-what-is.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:54:53

• Stuart Langridge: Serving streaming video that adapts to bandwidth from your own website ☞ https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2025/04/16/serving-streaming-video-that-adapts-to-bandwidth-from-your-own-website/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:55:27

• LibreOffice: Annual Report 2024: The Document Foundation’s activities ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/17/annual-report-2024-the-document-foundations-activities/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:57:22

• ‘Unsustainable status quo’: Hey Hi (AI) companies and publishers respond to Govt copyright monopoly consultation ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/uk-government-govt-ai-copyright-consultation-responses/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/The_UK_s_Press_Gazette_Has_No_Credibility_Anymore_It_Celebrates.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/21/Paywalls_Bots_Spam_and_Spyware_is_Future_of_the_Media_According.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:58:04

• Internet Trust: Why We Need It and How to Achieve It ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/04/internet-trust-why-we-need-it-and-how-to-achieve-it/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:58:40

• How to install Docker on AlmaLinux ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-docker-on-almalinux/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:59:01

• "No doubt many readers have at times wished to try their hand at blacksmithing, but it’s fair to say that acquiring an anvil represents quite the hurdle." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/17/a-blacksmith-shows-us-how-to-choose-an-anvil/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 15:59:51

• Fifth failed auction of 'Moscow House' in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/17.04.2025-fifth-failed-auction-of-moscow-house-in-riga.a595932/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:01:52

• Openwashing stupid hype around so-called (not!) Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/04/how-open-source-llms-are-shaping-the-future-of-ai/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:03:00

• The abusive OSI starts pushing meaningless papers, just like Microsoft LF ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/advance-your-career-and-organization-with-the-code-certification    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:03:55

• Microsoft's (salaried by Microsoft) Nick Vidal once again shows how OSI and LF aren't operating for what they're called after.    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:04:44

• Petter Reinholdtsen: Gearing up OpenSnitch for a 1.6.8 release in Trixie ☞ http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Gearing_up_OpenSnitch_for_a_1_6_8_release_in_Trixie.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:06:05

• "Today, alongside clearing out about an inch-high stack of physical paperwork, I hacked back the hypertrophy in my ~/.alias file. This is the file that sets up the abbreviations and utilities that are available on the commandline for me, beyond the system defaults." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-04-18_digital-housekeeping-alias.gmi    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:07:54

• "I agree with the all things described in last commit. The tinylog format should be easy (as the Gemini protocol is) and human manageable. So the simplification of date format and in the same manner simplification of response format will help us to use tinylogs." gemini://szczezuja.space/tinylog.gmi    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:09:50

• "MX Linux 23.6 is here, taking the baseline of Debian 12.10 and adding some selected tweaks and updates of its own." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/17/mx_linux_236/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:12:34

• "This is only the start though, as they said they will "keep enhancing OCCT's monitoring capabilities on Linux" although it's already "fully polished". Next up their priority is to provide the "highly anticipated SSD testing feature"." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/stress-testing-and-hardware-monitoring-tool-occt-has-officially-released-for-linux/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:12:56

• "The project continues to grow quite nicely too, and they've shared another snapshot of recent statistics that show Bazzite as having around 29.5K active users as of April. Which is up from the 26.3K they showed back in February." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steamos-alternative-bazzite-linux-42-brings-beta-support-for-the-msi-claw-handhelds-and-lots-of-other-improvements/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:13:19

• "Additionally, the enhancement of running x86 programs on ARM systems out of the box on Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 42. Using some of the work originally developed for Fedora Asahi Remix for Apple systems." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/fedora-linux-42-is-out-now-with-kde-plasma-desktop-promoted-and-x86-programs-on-arm/    

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

• Intel’s Bartlett Lake-S Desktop CPUs Might Be Pretty Near To Launch, Now Gaining Support In Linux and Other Applications https://wccftech.com/intels-bartlett-lake-s-desktop-cpus-might-be-pretty-near-to-launch/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:16:10

• "...Fedora Asahi Remix is now available, bringing microphone support for MacBooks with Apple Silicon when running this GNU/Linux distribution." https://liliputing.com/lilbits-cybersecurity-funding-single-board-pcs-for-ai-saving-text-from-screenshots-and-linux-on-macbooks/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:17:39

• "For the GeForce RTX 5060 series the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB / 8GB) is out today, and the GeForce RTX 5060 (8GB) arrives in May." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/nvidia-575-51-02-beta-driver-brings-nvidia-smooth-motion-support-to-linux-geforce-rtx-5060-series-announced/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:18:15

• "Name-Change Law" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-law-transgender-name-changes | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:19:36

• "Thiel-Backed Firm" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-peter-thiel-ramp-gsa-smartpay-expense-payment-system | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:21:22

• terrorgram ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-assassionation-plot-nikita-casap-terrorgram-wisconsin-frontline | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:21:45

• Postal voting in the 2025 Australian election ☞ https://rubenerd.com/postal-voting-in-the-2025-election/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:22:27

• KDE Applications 25.04 Snaps and Kubuntu Plucky Puffin 25.04 Released! ☞ https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/kde-applications-25-04-snaps-and-kubuntu-plucky-puffin-25-04-released/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:24:44

• Xubuntu 25.04 released! ☞ https://xubuntu.org/news/xubuntu-25-04-released/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:26:38

• Extended Security Maintenance for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa) begins May 29, 2025 ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/04/17/extended-security-maintenance-for-ubuntu-20-04-focal-fossa-begins-may-29-2025/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:26:56

• Top Things to Do After installed Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/top-things-to-do-ubuntu-2504/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:27:27

• FSF Blogs: US Social Security Administration reverses freedom-impeding identity verification policy ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/us-social-security-administration-reverses-freedom-impeding-id-policy    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:27:49

• Fedora Community Blog: Fedora Ops Architect Report ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-ops-architect-report-2/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:28:53

• Fedora GNU/Linux 42 Is Out Now, and Yes… the Answer Is 42 ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/videos/fedora-linux-42-is-out-now-and-yes-the-answer-is-42/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:30:12

• Avaota F1 – A tiny camera board based on Allwinner V821 RISC-V SoC with built-in WiFi and 64MB DDR2 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/17/avaota-f1-a-tiny-camera-board-based-on-allwinner-v821-risc-v-soc-with-built-in-wifi-and-64mb-ddr2/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:30:41

• 10 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Document Processors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/documentprocessors/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:31:41

• OpenNumismat is coin collecting software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/opennumismat-coin-collecting-software/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:31:50

• Restic Robot – wrapper for Restic ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/restic-robot-wrapper-restic/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:32:04

• xfce4-dict – client program to query dictionaries ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xfce4-dict-client-program-query-dictionaries/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:32:16

• The "Gold" Rule: Taking Money for Reputation Laundering and Openwashing Under the "Linux" Banner ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/The_Gold_Rule_Taking_Money_for_Reputation_Laundering_and_Openwa.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:32:58

• Linux.com as Spamfarm of the 'Linux' Foundation, Partner of the Gates Foundation ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Linux_com_as_Spamfarm_of_the_Linux_Foundation_Partner_of_the_Ga.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:33:10

• Perl Screenshot Tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/perl-screenshot-tool/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:33:25

• FreedomBox – Debian-based distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/freedombox-debian-based-distribution/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:33:33

• EasyDict-GTK is a simple translator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/easydict-gtk-simple-translator/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:33:42

• Ubuntu 25.04 Released! GNOME 48 & Linux Kernel 6.14 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/ubuntu-25-04-released/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:34:44

• Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) Released ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/04/17/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-released/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:35:05

• Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-25-04-release-now-available-for-download    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:42:31

• FOSS Weekly #25.16: Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, ParticleOS and a Lot More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-16/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:43:37

• My Conf KDE India 25 Experience ☞ https://chucklesdroid.gitlab.io/posts/cki25/cki25/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:49:11

• KDE Gear 25.04 Applications Suite Officially Released, Here’s What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-25-04-applications-suite-officially-released-heres-whats-new    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:50:39

• LXQt 2.2 Desktop Environment Released with Many Wayland Improvements ☞ https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-2-desktop-environment-released-with-many-wayland-improvements    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:50:52

• GNOME 48.1 Desktop Is Out to Improve HDR Support and Fix Various Issues ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnome-48-1-desktop-is-out-to-improve-hdr-support-and-fix-various-issues    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:51:00

• Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:51:08

• Tor Browser 14.5 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1017923/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:52:56

• "local production and technology transfer requirements" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/17/russia-drafting-legal-framework-for-return-of-western-firms-including-local-production-and-technology-transfer-requirements-bloomberg | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:54:01

• Journalists identify Russian teen arrested for arson attacks ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/17/journalists-identify-russian-teen-arrested-for-arson-attacks-as-son-of-regular-participant-in-state-duma-events | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:59:14

• "Serbia’s fast-tracked citizenship for well-connected Russians" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/17/my-house-is-your-house | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 16:59:39

• "construction of anti-tank barriers" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/17/russia-has-arrested-the-kursk-region-s-ex-governor-he-oversaw-the-construction-of-anti-tank-barriers-which-later-crumbled-from-rain-and-snow | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:00:12

• "seized American company to supply food to Russian army" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/17/moscow-planning-to-use-seized-american-company-to-supply-food-to-russian-army-reuters | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:00:36

• "no longer a terrorist group" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/17/russia-says-the-taliban-is-no-longer-a-terrorist-group | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:00:49

• "Czech Republic declares oil independence from Russia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/17/czech-republic-declares-oil-independence-from-russia | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:01:13

• Russia Removes Afghanistan's Taliban From Terror List In Step Toward Recognition ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-court-ruling-ban-taliban-afghanistan-recognition/33388428.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:01:26

• Moldova Sets Elections For September 28 In Battle Between EU and Russian Camps ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/moldova-elections-battle-eu-russia-sandu-stoianoglo/33388507.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:01:42

• Russian nationals in Lithuania to lose visas for frequent trips home ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2539489/russian-nationals-in-lithuania-to-lose-visas-for-frequent-trips-home    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:02:02

• Russian media identifies embassy worker in Vilnius as FSB officer ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2539411/russian-media-identifies-embassy-worker-in-vilnius-as-fsb-officer    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:02:11

• Former governor of Russia’s Kursk region detained over alleged fraud tied to border fortifications ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/former-governor-of-russias-kursk-region-detained-over-alleged-fraud-tied-to-border-fortifications/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:02:34

• Russia Sanctions Database: November 2024 ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/russia-sanctions-database-november-2024/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:03:02

• Dnipro ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/17/i-ve-done-my-job-no-worse-than-other-deputies | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:03:24

• Zelensky says Ukraine will present evidence that China is supplying weapons to Russia ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/17/zelensky-says-ukraine-will-present-evidence-that-china-is-supplying-weapons-to-russia | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:03:45

• If "Made in China" and "sold to Europe" turned out to mean Europe funds weapons that are used against Europe, the impact would be bigger than 155+ Chinese soldiers fighting against Ukraine. What exactly is the "threshold" for calling this "WW3"?    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:05:28

• "mineral resources deal" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/18/u-s-and-ukraine-sign-memorandum-on-intent-to-reach-mineral-resources-deal | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:05:53

• Europe and America, at Odds Over Ukraine, Try Talking to Each Other ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/europe/europe-france-ukraine-talks.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:06:06

• "Vitalii Dribnytsia engages with Russians online to correct Kremlin propaganda about Ukraine." ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/europe/ukraine-history-russian-falsehoods.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:09:00

• Ukraine and U.S. Sign Agreement in Lead-Up to Full Minerals Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/world/europe/ukraine-us-minerals-agreement.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:09:23

• Russian Attack On Dnipropetrovsk Kills At Least 5, Including Child, Injures Dozens ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-dnipro-drone-attack-zelenskyy-defense-production/33387952.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:11:20

• France Says Europe Now 'At The Table' As Paris Peace Talks End ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/paris-ukraine-peace-talks-rubio-macron-zelenskyy/33388198.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:11:36

• Ukraine, US Sign Memorandum On Economic Partnership, Ukrainian Official Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-svyrydenko-rare-earth-minerals-trump-russia/33388674.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:12:03

• North Korean troops may enter Ukraine soon, Kyiv warns ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/04/17/north-korea-russia-ukraine-territory/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:13:17

• Macron hosts talks on Ukraine, Middle East and Iran with US in Paris ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250417-macron-hosts-talks-on-ukraine-middle-east-and-iran-with-us-in-paris    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:13:43

• Who is Steve Witkoff, Convicted Felon's longtime envoy and friend ? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250417-who-is-steve-witkoff-trump-s-longtime-envoy-and-friend    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:14:03

• Steve Witkoff in Paris: Who’s Convicted Felon’s Mr Fix It? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250417-steve-witkoff-in-paris-who-s-trump-s-mr-fix-it    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:14:14

• Ukrainians see minerals deal as 'typical of Convicted Felon's gangster-style diplomacy', observer says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250417-ukrainians-see-minerals-deal-as-typical-of-trump-s-gangster-style-diplomacy-observer-says    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:14:42

• 🔴 Ukraine, US sign 'memorandum of intent' on resources deal ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250417-%F0%9F%94%B4-ukraine-us-sign-memorandum-of-intent-on-resources-deal    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:14:51

• Ukraine, US sign 'memorandum of intent' on critical minerals deal ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250417-ukraine-us-natural-resources-minerals    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:15:02

• The Ukrainian army is now Europe’s most credible security guarantee ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/the-ukrainian-army-is-now-europes-most-credible-security-guarantee/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:15:20

• Latvian 'Atlas Aerospace' produces reconnaisance drones for Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/17.04.2025-latvian-atlas-aerospace-produces-reconnaisance-drones-for-ukraine.a595861/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:15:28

• Putin is attempting to intimidate Merz with yet more Russian red lines ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-is-attempting-to-intimidate-merz-with-yet-more-russian-red-lines/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:16:16

• How short-lived credentials in Quay improve security ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/17/how-short-lived-credentials-quay-improve-security    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:17:01

• The cheetoian attacks on the SS (Social Security) are doubly dumb as the support based of Cult Cheeto is many unproductive people on SS    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:19:21

• So SS being attacked, US market sagging, Cheeto saying he'd fire anyone who states the obvious (Powell) is more reason for Moscovian Popcorn    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:20:28

• China doesn't care as long as some countries are still craning away those containers with sweatshopware    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:21:09

• So the clear winner is China. People are addicted to "cheap stuff".    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:21:32

• China's economic woes are more temporary than Russia's and EU's. US economy died in 2008 already. It's just printing a lot of money and gets drunk on debt.    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:23:10

• Chris H-C: Perfect is the Enemy of Good Enough ☞ https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/17/perfect-is-the-enemy-of-good-enough/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:24:04

• AI scraper violations and what we can do about them: New research reveals scale of problem ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/ai-scraper-violations-and-what-we-can-do-about-them-new-research-reveals-scale-of-problem/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/21/Paywalls_Bots_Spam_and_Spyware_is_Future_of_the_Media_According.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/The_UK_s_Press_Gazette_Has_No_Credibility_Anymore_It_Celebrates.shtml    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:27:51

• The Insurrectionist Dihydroxyacetone Man signals tit-for-tat China tariffs may be near end; Fentanylware (TikTok) deal on ice ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/trump-signals-tit-for-tat-china-tariffs-may-be-near-end-tiktok-deal-on-ice    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:31:07

• At Meta Antitrust Trial, Sheryl Sandberg Testifies About Competition and Instagram Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/technology/meta-antitrust-trial-sheryl-sandberg.html    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:31:24

• TikTok trials it’s own take on X-style “community notes” against misinformation ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250417-tiktok-trials-it-s-own-take-on-x-style-community-notes-against-misinformation    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:31:57

• Fentanylware (TikTok) Exodus Continues: US Head of Policy Steps Down Amid Ongoing Negotiations ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/17/tiktok-us-head-of-policy-steps-down/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:32:24

• "IBM is quite simply a global liar. Go out of business." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js3hjzth    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:44:34

• "Alvind and his Pipmunks will be fine ... Next year will probably be 100 million for him and Krabanaugh will probably get at least 50 million ... All for being wh0res for Wall Street and sending jobs to India ... Alvinds IBM India Business Mafia" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js3bk692    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:45:11

• "My Manager is just a glorified admin. All he does is coordinate meetings and tries to sound smart while using cringy buzzwords like Circle Back" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrw6p1yn    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 17:45:49

• "The upcoming release also promises support for GLX front buffer rendering on Xwayland and better support for Marvel Rivals and Minecraft games." https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-575-linux-graphics-driver-enters-public-beta-with-nvidia-smooth-motion    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 18:08:12

• Ubuntu 25.04 launches with host of new features https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/ubuntu-25-04-launches-with-host-of-new-features    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 18:21:16

• "Yesterday I noted I was having some kind of Thought. I have now read so many articles on identity and technofeudalism that I'm losing my own plot. Here's a first shot at an abstract slash summary of whatever point I'm attempting." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-04-18    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 18:39:38

• "I’ll put this link up front not because it’s likely that you’ll need to refer to it to understand what I’m writing here — you won’t — but more on general principle" gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/games/nintendo-game-prices/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 18:41:00

• GNU/Linux up in Spain, Windows down to lowest level in years https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/spain/#monthly-200902-202504    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 18:52:20

• "According to the German mass-circulation newspaper Bild, the attack had been traced back to hacker group APT 29, also known as “Cozy Bear.”" https://www.dw.com/en/germany-suspects-russian-cyber-attack-on-research-group/a-72175406    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:04:25

• Cheeto Mussolini Envoy's Embrace of Russian Demands Worries Republicans https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-11/trump-envoys-embrace-of-russian-demands-worries-republicans-u-s-allies    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:05:27

• 'Foreign Agent' https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-11/russia-designates-yeltsin-era-foreign-minister-turned-putin-critic-a-foreign-agent    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:05:45

• Lavrov Praises Cheeto Mussolini https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-12/russias-lavrov-praises-trumps-understanding-of-ukraine-conflict    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:06:27

• 'Shadow Fleet' Tanker https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-14/german-court-to-review-seizure-of-russian-shadow-fleet-tanker    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:07:39

• Russia jails former DW journalists over Navalny ties https://www.dw.com/en/russia-jails-former-dw-journalists-over-navalny-ties/a-72182640    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:15:24

• Zelenskiy Says Ukraine Has Evidence of China Supplying Russia With Artillery https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-17/zelenskiy-says-ukraine-has-evidence-of-china-of-supplying-russia-with-artillery    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:17:12

• Wealth of Russia's Richest People Rises to Record $625.5 Billion https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-17/wealth-of-russias-richest-people-rises-to-record-625-5-billion    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:18:10

• tiktok can advocate bulimia, too https://www.vox.com/culture/407535/remi-bader-weight-loss-tiktok-backlash-internet    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:21:05

• TikTok's Of China Exposing Luxury Brands Go Viral Driving DHgate to Top of US App Charts https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tiktoks-china-exposing-luxury-brands-go-viral-driving-dhgate-top-us-app-charts-1732730    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:21:40

• Maybe Bill Epstein Gates should invest in TikTok then https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/15/zwolle-man-accused-online-sex-abuse-34-young-girls-recruited-tiktok-snapchat    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:22:37

• TikTok Content Moderator dies https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-17/funeral-held-in-kenya-for-tiktok-content-moderator-following-death-in-unclear-circumstances    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:23:00

• Charge Thousands for Factory-Produced Goods Worth £30 https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/chinese-tiktoks-reveal-how-luxury-brands-charge-thousands-factory-produced-goods-worth-30-1732754    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:23:26

• the smallest animals survive Antarctica https://theconversation.com/how-insects-and-the-smallest-animals-survive-antarctica-250314    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:24:44

• global conflict has spilled into outer space https://theconversation.com/new-uk-system-to-protect-satellites-against-attack-shows-how-global-conflict-has-spilled-into-outer-space-253963    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:25:14

• I DON'T like my web browsing options in 2024... https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=YSs9C45OIlg    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:26:14

• Linux Gaming News https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=dK1880usvOs    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:26:36

• How to install GhostBSD 25.01 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=2gNGP3qsItU    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:26:51

• siduction 24.1.0 Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=0Z4vqZr2ZkI    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:27:07

• Microsoft wants a slice of Valve's pie (and more Deck gaming news) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=YK3T_wSEIs0    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:27:27

• Xubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin overview https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=xlB5PNfeP3E    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:27:40

• I Used Arch Linux for a Week After Years on Ubuntu – Here's What Happened! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=-vnXS0FCk9A    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:28:06

• TPM https://walledculture.org/canadas-new-right-to-repair-exemptions-to-copyright-law-are-as-useful-as-a-chocolate-teapot/    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:29:32

• Wait... Systemd Made A Linux Distro??? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=sR1_Jwx6oHQ    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:33:07

• Nvidia Cares About Open Source... Sometimes https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=llC2RQ1sHmo openwashing    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:33:27

• ArcoLinux Is Shutting Down...Now What? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=4hj60sw1nks    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:33:54

• This Is Why I Love Linux Desktops https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=geKDXux1e94    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:34:09

• Fedora Linux New Leader Has Been Revealed https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=Z4d9T-HTDCs    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:34:22

• Death Of A Beloved Arch Linux Based Distro https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=XkW1ZUp9lvo    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:34:37

• The Linux Kernel Drama Needs To Stop!! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=6UR8TgY8NUY    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:35:12

• Don't Associate With THAT Person!(He/She Wrong Thinks!) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ASla8uJgYw0    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:36:17

• Solus 4.7 Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=2DazfMRggmU    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:36:33

• Enterprise Linux Security Episode 112 - Oh Data, Where Art Thou? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=XWIoSefMr0g    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:36:54

• "What is so great with Austin? How many customers IBM has in Austin vs Dallas? Makes no sense at all!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js4j2d38    

posted Friday, April 18, 2025 at 19:45:16