Roy Schestowitz

• 'turbo' construction boost https://www.dw.com/en/housing-crisis-germany-plans-turbo-construction-boost/a-72212980    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 01:54:21

• bailouts for Argentina https://www.dw.com/en/imf-world-bank-approve-new-bailouts-for-argentina/a-72225989    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 01:54:37

• Albania https://www.dw.com/en/italy-sends-40-rejected-asylum-seekers-to-albania/a-72225909    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 01:55:15

• air quality worse than any other city in the world. https://www.dw.com/en/recommended-pollution-levels-are-spiking-in-nepal-s-kathmandu-leaving-its-residents-with-air-quality-worse-than-any-other-city-in-the-world/a-72173192    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 01:55:44

• "Call it collaboration, RTO, market focus, whatever - it is just a layoff without having to say it’s a layoff and without offering a buyout." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqyrkghq    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:01:50

• "Barfield office in Atlanta is closing by Aug 2025. Everybody has to move to the last office standing in Atlanta, Brookhaven, which is only 2 floors already occupied by Digital Sales. There is not going to be any space for everyone. Atlanta used to have so many big offices, 10-15 of them. Only one left after August!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrxqv3x6    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:03:58

• "You nailed it. All the illogical things we are seeing is to achieve that. That is the logic behind it all" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js4j2d38    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:04:49

• "Train your own replacement in India or get PIpped…" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js4j2d38 https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/18/Sounds_Like_IBM_is_Preparing_for_Mass_Layoffs_Redundancies_in_R.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:05:17

• "b0+1js4j2d38 is correct. [IBM CEO] AK wants to retire in the next year but wants the stock at $300 before he does. That's what all this bloodletting is about." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js4j2d38    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:05:27

• "They are going to lose a lot of talent with this move. Several people I know who are impacted have told me they are leaving the company. These are very skilled and knowledgeable people in their respective areas. They just won’t or cannot move to the sites IBM is requiring." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js53f2dh    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:06:40

• competitor   

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:06:45

• "That is going to mean IBM customers will suffer and go to a competitor and IBM will lose more." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js53f2dh    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:06:52

• "IBM... ...Caste system at its best! :)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js7v2kde    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:08:16

• "Indian techies in crisis: How the American dream is fast turning into desi nightmare" By Himanshi Lohchab and prachi verma    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:18:39

• "23,000 IT Employees Fired In 2025 By Meta, Microsoft & Other IT Firms"    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:19:13

• A misleadingly small number    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 02:19:43

• Microsoft's 'Lawsuit Diplomacy' (SLAPPs Riding UK Libel Law and Piggybacking UK GDPR, Inapplicable!) Will Only Give a Worse Image to Microsofters (and Microsoft), Give Exposure to Even More Suppressed Facts and Scandals http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/20/Microsoft_s_Lawsuit_Diplomacy_SLAPPs_Riding_UK_Libel_Law_and_Pi.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:02:58

• Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin is Released with Download Links, Mirrors and Torrents ☛ https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/04/ubuntu-2504-plucky-puffin-is-released-with-download-links-mirrors-and-torrents.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:18:37

• "The April 18th update of DietPi v9.12 introduces new software options including the fish shell and Amiberry v7/Amiberry-Lite" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-april-2025-update-version-9-12/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:18:59

• "Vibe Coding _ !@#$% Kids!" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/04/18/0334256    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:19:26

• "Kilmar Abrego Garcia case: The facts on the Maryland man deported to El Salvador" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/14/timeline-kilmar-abrego-garcia-deported-case    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:19:36

• "The Constitution Does Not Speak for Itself - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-constitution-does-not-speak-for-itself/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:19:48

• "Biden Paved the Way for Trump’s Leniency on Corporate Crime" https://jacobin.com/2025/04/biden-trump-white-collar-crime/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:19:58

• iophk: note the reddit censorship https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-ai-hallucination-policy-customer-service/ ("An AI Customer Service Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess")    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:20:20

• "Another round of anti-Trump protests hits US cities" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2295902.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:20:31

• "Anti-Trump protesters rally again in cities across U.S." https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-04-19/anti-trump-protesters-turn-out-to-rallies-in-new-york-washington-and-other-cities-across-country    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:20:46

• "What We Lose When We’re Priced Out of Our Hobbies" https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/04/hobby-inflation-fishing-knitting/682497/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:20:54

• "Dolores Huerta: ‘Trump is a fascist and his goal is to hurt and destroy’" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-19/dolores-huerta-trump-is-a-fascist-and-his-goal-is-to-hurt-and-destroy.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:21:11

• "Trump’s popularity in his first quarter is lower than that of any other president" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-18/trumps-popularity-in-his-first-quarter-is-lower-than-that-of-any-other-president.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:21:18

• "I’ve thought about removing the image from Pixsy altogether just so I can live in blissful ignorance. But two things stop me." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/travel-photography/people-stealing-my-favorite-chimpanzee-photo-makes-me-furious-heres-how-i-deal-with-copyright-theft | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:25:32

• "Since it's launch in 2017, the Alliance for Entertainment and Creativity has established itself as the most powerful coalition of its type on the planet." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/ace-mpa-quietly-seized-dozens-of-pirate-domains-in-q1-2025-250419/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:25:55

• "As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and Andrew Sean Greer, are individually worthless." ☛ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/meta-ai-lawsuit | Source: Vanity Fair    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:26:10

• "This is emblematic of the chicaneries and two-faced logic that Meta, and the AI industry at large, deploys when it's pressed about all the human-created content it devours." ☛ https://futurism.com/meta-copyrighted-books-no-value | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:26:26

• "As Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of Napster, we look back at the creation of the controversial file-sharing service, the impact it made and where the brand stands today." ☛ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2024/06/01/napster-music-25th-anniversary-music-industry-impact/73871612007/ | Source: Gannett    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:26:39

• "A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the [Internet] for allowing people to swap songs for free, long before the music industry had come up with a model for the digital age." ☛ https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/25/napster-pioneered-music-sharing-25-years-ago-bought-for-207-million-.html | Source: CNBC    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:26:50

• "One of the most widespread arguments in favor of Napster was the platform’s promotional power, especially for artists whose songs weren’t widely played on radio and television." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-04-19/when-metallica-took-on-napster-25-years-of-the-trial-that-changed-the-music-industry-forever.html | Source: El País    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:27:03

• 2025-04-20 Picture Page 🖼 Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-20.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:28:51

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1620.jpg    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:29:26

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1270.jpg    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:29:42

• Palm Day cometh gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2025/APR2025/entry-3    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:32:56

• Microsoft has long had "moles" or "operatives" inside the competition. This includes FOSS and Linux. Techrights gets "punished" for merely "unmasking" or showing the evidence about them: https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/20/Microsoft_s_Lawsuit_Diplomacy_SLAPPs_Riding_UK_Libel_Law_and_Pi.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:33:49

• "To tell the truth, I can’t think of a time I wasn’t interested in technology. We always had a family computer growing up and it seemed like magic to toddler me." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2025-04-19-blog-questions-challenge-technology-edition.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:36:38

• "Recently I got a new phone since because everything nowadays relies on js frameworks my old one is too slow at opening apps. While searching for a virtual keyboard to replace stock one I have found Unexpected Keyboard." gemini://namno.duckdns.org/blog/2025-04-20.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:37:26

• In the context of TLS, for at least 99% of cases, being a nuisance isn't about guarding your security, it's about blocking access for irrelevant technical reasons. The WWW is a pile of garbage, by design. We let GAFAM and Pentagon control the specs.    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:38:36

• "A few chapters into Mark Carney's 2021 book 'Value(s)', I must have had a sour look on my face, because my spouse asked me what was wrong. I explained what the book was, and started to read a couple paragraphs out loud. She winced and cut me off almost immediately: "What is this, a textbook?"" gemini://gemini.patatas.ca/posts/mark-carney-values.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:39:44

• "The adage goes something along the lines of "to make music, one must listen to music"." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2590    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:40:39

• "After participating in a Good Friday service (2025-04-18) I stopped briefly at the lookout parking spot at UAF West Ridge (8:15pm). The sky was partly cloudly, but I had a great view of some mountains in the Alaska Range, which is about 60 miles S of Fairbanks" gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250419-0.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:41:14

• "I started movies again after some time recently I watched Old Boy a 2003 Korean movie. I found it pretty interesting really had me thinking me thinking and guessing. Have a few favorite parts of the movie but the one I still remember the best was the 3 minute fight scene without any cuts." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2588    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:42:06

• "Sunday dusk, I was sitting on the wooden bench at the plaza near the town's cemetery. There was this man, an elderly man, who came and sat on the same bench as me. Something slightly felt off with him, but I couldn't tell what it was, but all of a sudden, we started to talk." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2589    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 06:42:42

• Preparing for hard times gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-04-19-prep.txt    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:04:12

• "Antitrust experts said two big antitrust wins for the government against a single company" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-makes-history-with-rapid-fire-antitrust-losses/articleshow/120422419.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:24:27

• "I do not think it is nitpicking to dispute calling margins of 35% on hardware “tight”." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-ads-forecast/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:24:40

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/652364/synology-nas-third-party-hard-drive-restrictions | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:25:00

• "The founder of Mumsnet has said she feared it would be destroyed by trans activists after she stood up for women’s rights." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/18/trans-boycott-nearly-put-out-business-mumsnet-founder/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:25:27

• [Old] "Copts also suffer persecution from Islamic extremists. ISIS has targeted them and massacred over 100 in recent years." ☛ https://www.hudson.org/human-rights/are-egypt-s-christians-persecuted-why-some-copts-say-no | Source: Hudson Institute    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:26:06

• [Old] "Christians in Egypt are facing unprecedented levels of persecution, with attacks on churches and the kidnap of girls by Islamist extremists intent on forcing them to marry Muslims, a report says." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/10/christians-egypt-unprecedented-persecution-report | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:26:40

• "But Templeton acknowledged that surge pricing creates winners and losers, particularly if it cannot expand vehicle supply to soften price hikes." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/autonomous-cars/652010/robotaxi-surge-pricing-waymo-uber-price-demand | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:26:48

• "This means that the Trump administration has detained Abrego Garcia in the CECOT prison in El Salvador, against the rulings of the Supreme Court and a Maryland District Court" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/cop-who-alleged-abrego-garcias-gang-ties-was-deemed-unfit-by-states-attorney/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:27:12

• "The recent death of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, a revered Tibetan Buddhist lama, in Hồ Chí Minh City has raised serious concerns among human rights organizations and the international community" ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/04/the-silent-passing-of-tulku-hungkar-dorje-a-call-for-transparency-and-justice/ | Source: The Vietnamese Magazine    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:27:49

• "What is the rationale for the IRS revisiting Harvard’s exemption status?" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/harvard-trump-irs-nonprofit/682507/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:28:15

• "That was just the first DOGE-related funding cut to hit the Internet Archive" ☛ https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/doge-neh-funding-cuts-sf/ | Source: The San Fancisco Standard    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:28:25

• "The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has proven invaluable to researchers, journalists, and archivists, allowing users to go back in time and see how websites looked in the past." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-cuts-funding-for-internet-archive | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:28:36

• "Kozyreva, 19, also faced charges stemming from an interview she gave to RFE/RL's North Realities, where she discussed her political views, among other things." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-activist-ukraine-protest-poet/33389509.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:28:47

• "They support Nazism" ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/the-children-of-severomorsk-are-told-that-neighbouring-nordic-countries-support-nazism/428315 | Source: The Barents Observer    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:30:01

• "The EU is still expected to press ahead with fines and the cease-and-desist orders intended to make Apple and Meta further comply with the Digital Markets Act." ☛ https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/04/18/eu-puts-apple-fine-on-hold-while-us-trade-talks-continue | Source: AppleInsider    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:30:26

• "I believe that humans sometimes do greedy and malicious things. That’s why market capitalism is a problem in the first place! It amplifies and rewards those impulses in a way that’s a net negative for society." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/are-you-an-anarchist | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:30:45

• "But here's what even the reactionaries don't understand: coherence is not emergent, but ontological." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-ground-approaches | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:31:05

• "costs the company tens of millions of dollars" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-spends-millions-to-process-polite-phrases-such-as-thank-you-and-please-with-chatgpt | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:42:03

• Scam Altman. "A late 2024 survey found that 67 percent of US respondents reported being nice to their chatbots." ☛ https://futurism.com/altman-please-thanks-chatgpt | Source: Futurism http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:42:54

• "Higher temperatures and CO2 levels are increasing rice’s uptake of inorganic arsenic from soil." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/carcinogen-rising-in-rice-supply-due-to-climate-change/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:43:17

• "The Bravest People on Earth" ☛ https://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2025/04/anti-hamas-protests-persist | Source: Daniel Pipes    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:43:45

• "We must recognize this for what it is: the constitutional crisis in action. This is not about legal technicalities or reasonable disagreements about procedure" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-bleeding-constitution | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:44:30

• "the executive branch is seizing more and more power" ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/04/18/sen-king-gives-dire-warning-on-250th-anniversary-of-paul-reveres-ride/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:44:45

• "Far from being sidelined, those who rioted, assaulted police officers or broke into congressional offices during the violent attack are now being spotlighted as honored guest speakers at local Republican events around the country." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2025-04-19/some-jan-6-rioters-pardoned-by-trump-are-now-embraced-as-heroes-and-candidates-for-office | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:45:25

• "He has fused Turkish nationalism and Islamism with a renewed reverence for the Ottoman Empire" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/04/trump-turkey-erdogan-israel/682492/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:45:44

• "When Recall was first introduced in May 2024, security practitioners roundly castigated it for creating a gold mine for malicious insiders, criminals, or nation-state spies" ☛ https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:46:31

• "Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is planning to bring together data from a wide variety of other U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)" ☛ https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-central-database-of-health-labor-housing-agency-data-to-find-targets/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:46:43

• "Some users of OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini models report the chatbot using their name unprompted, even when memory settings are turned off." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/creepy-chatgpt-calls-users-by-nameeven-when-it-shouldnt/articleshow/120432715.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 10:46:58

• Windows TCO ☛ https://therecord.media/alleged-smokeloader-operator-charged-in-vermont | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:00:23

• Social Control Media ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/was-chatgpt-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-openai/682509/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:00:38

• "Amid these issues, the Foundation has announced a partnership with Google-owned firm Kaggle to roll out a new dataset in beta, filled with structured Wikipedia content in English and French" ☛ https://www.pcmag.com/news/wikipedia-rolls-out-solution-to-ai-bots-draining-its-bandwidth | Source: PC Mag    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:01:30

• "Many community colleges offer online courses. When students flood in, the teachers are delighted! Then they find that out of over 100 students, maybe 15 are real" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/19/ai-bot-scammers-flood-california-community-colleges/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:01:40

• "The rest are scammers who signed up to get state and federal financial aid, using a stolen identity."    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:01:52

• "Okay, so inner loop agents still do all that parsing. The only difference is that they handle the tool calling themselves instead of letting the client handle the tool call and making another API response." ☛ https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/04/19/inner-loops | Source: Tim Kellogg    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:02:36

• "In Seattle this week, some crosswalks started playing AI-generated messages spoofing tech tycoon Jeff Bezos." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/us_crosswalk_button_hacking/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:03:01

• "This marks the latest instance of AI confabulations (also called "hallucinations") causing potential business damage." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-ai-hallucination-policy-customer-service/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:03:23

• "a phenomenon where, in a large language model (LLM)—often a generative AI chatbot or computer vision tool—the system perceives patterns or objects that are non-existent or imperceptible to human observers, creating outputs that are nonsensical or altogether inaccurate." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/smarter-but-less-accurate-chatgpts-hallucination-conundrum/articleshow/120432220.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:03:44

• "Apple’s quiet rebrand of its search ads business to the more assertive “Apple Ads” may seem like a modest semantic update but in the context of platform power plays, language rarely shifts without intention." ☛ https://digiday.com/marketing/when-it-comes-to-ads-apple-isnt-playing-coy-anymore/ | Source: Digi Day    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:05:27

• "Apple today announced that it has officially rebranded Search Ads as ‘Apple Ads’, reflecting the expanding scope of Apple’s advertising business." ☛ https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/14/apple-rebrands-search-ads-business-as-apple-ads/ | Source: 9to5Mac    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:05:50

• "HP Inc has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit in the US that alleged it used deceptive pricing tactics on its website, including fake discounts and misleading limited-time offers" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/19/hp_deceptive_pricing_lawsuit/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:06:00

• Richard Stallman Sigma https://www.instagram.com/reel/DIon9JKBHmp/ 17 h ago    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:08:03

• "Prop 65 is often presented as a story of overregulation, but I think it's a matter of underregulation." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/19/gotcha/#known-to-the-state-of-california-to-cause-cancer | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:10:18

• "Some firms tested their robots for weeks before the race." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/china-pits-humanoid-robots-against-humans-in-half-marathon/articleshow/120422196.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:10:46

• "The researchers say that this is one of the first simultaneous recordings of conscious perception" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-think-theyve-found-the-brain-region-that-regulates-conscious-perception/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:11:29

• "Several years ago, I gave my teammates a virtual tour of my home office as part of a virtual retreat day." ☛ https://jeffbridgforth.com/getting-to-know-me-through-the-treasures-in-my-office/ | Source: Jeff Bridgforth    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:11:53

• "When you have a seemingly intractable problem — there’s an impenetrable door we can’t open — rather than focus on the door itself, you take a step back and realize the door may be impenetrable but the wall enclosing it is not." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/as-strong-as-your-weakest-point/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:12:09

• "As I’m sure any longtime reader of this site could have guessed by now, the concept of a blog or website as a virtual home is not a new idea, and I’m definitely not the first to use that phrasing." ☛ https://justinvollmer.com/posts/2025/04/a-digital-home/ | Source: Justin Vollmer    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:12:20

• "Emotional security doesn’t come from pretending everything is fine." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-path-forward | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:12:35

• "Disco introduced significant use of synthesizers, electronic pianos and orchestral instruments, such as brassy horns and silky strings, and often featured repetitive lyrics." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/fifty-years-ago-this-irresistible-disco-song-and-dance-craze-swept-the-nation-and-changed-the-music-landscape-180986460/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:12:59

• "Outside the US, Google has incurred fines for anticompetition charges and had to make business changes to comply with international regulations." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/652170/google-search-ad-tech-remedies-antitrust-chrome-breakup | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:13:18

• "USB Type-C is the most flexible connection for notebooks and smartphones." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2331534/the-bewildering-world-of-usb-c-charging-explained.html | Source: PC World    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:13:53

• "GlassFish is a free and open-source implementation of the Java EE Platform developed by Eclipse." ☛ https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-glassfish-application-server-with-nginx-reverse-proxy-on-debian-12/ | Source: HowTo Forge    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:14:19

• "You are given an array of words and a word." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/friendly-acronyms.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:14:36

• "After nearly a decade of building embedded systems in C, C++, and Rust, I’ve somehow ended up writing Haskell for a living." ☛ https://bitbashing.io/haskell-concurrency.html |    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:20:35

• "And these are all relatively similar programming languages. Naming conventions start to diverge wildly when you start talking about languages like SQL, HTML, or COBOL." ☛ https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/mostly-true-naming-rule/ | Source: Alex Petros    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:20:44

• "I’ve been thinking recently about what sets apart my coworkers who’ve done the best work." ☛ https://www.benkuhn.net/impact/ | Source: Ben Kuhn    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:21:09

• "An early, small hurdle diving into WebAssembly was allocating my allocator." ☛ https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/04/19/ | Source: Chris Wellons    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:21:36

• "I'm delight to announce the first release of my opinionated HTML Pretty Printer for new versions of PHP." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/introducing-pretty-print-html-for-php-8-4/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:22:06

• "I just released a new open source package, SwiftTitleCase. This package contains a Swift function that tries its best to transform strings to AP style title case." ☛ https://mangoumbrella.com/post/new-open-source-package-swifttitlecase | Source: Yilei Yang    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:22:45

• "OPKSSH (also) is a clever way of using OpenID Connect (OIDC) to authenticate your OpenSSH sessions (it's not the only way to do this)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OpenPubkeyAndOPKSSHCleverness | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:46:29

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

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:47:25

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

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:48:16

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

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:49:55

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

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:50:11

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

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 11:50:24

• 🔤SpellBinding: XEIMOTA Wordo: BLIMP gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-20.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:08:26

• On IBM: "Atlanta used to have so many big offices, 10-15 of them. Only one left after August!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrxqv3x6    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:09:53

• "my friend Alec Wong suggested that I switch storing data from CSV files to SQLit" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/exploring-rsqlite-with-dbi-a-note-to-myself/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:17:14

• "The main highlight – Caddy now offers fully automated support for Encrypted ClientHello (ECH)." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/caddy-2-10-web-server-debuts-enhanced-tls-privacy/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:18:04

• "Quite a bit of the complicated work (calculating a bounding box and figuring out the scaling) is actually automated" ☛ https://www.sevarg.net/2025/04/19/prision-mail-part-2-pdfxup/ | Source: Russell Graves    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:18:23

• "Developed by Uri Herrera and based on Debian" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/nitrux-a-debian-based-linux-distro-with-modern-apps/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:18:53

• "EU OS is not a brand-new Linux distribution in the traditional sense. Instead, it is a proof-of-concept built atop Fedora’s immutable KDE Plasma spin (Kinoite)." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/eu-os-a-european-proposal-for-a-public-sector-linux-desktop/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:22:14

• "Fedora 42 was recently released, capturing much of the attention, as expected. However, their Atomic Desktops brand comes alongside it, which unifies all of Fedora’s rpm-ostree-based (immutable) spins under one umbrella and introduces several exciting updates in their version 42." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/whats-new-in-fedora-42s-atomic-desktops/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:22:49

• "UEK is heavily optimized for enterprise workloads, such as databases and cloud applications." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/oracle-releases-unbreakable-enterprise-kernel-8/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:25:27

• "FreeDOS is an open source operating system that is largely compatible with MS-DOS and behaves just like it." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/how-to-run-freedos-an-open-source-version-of-dos-on-any-pc | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:25:41

• "One of the strong points of Linux has always been how solid the experience of installing and managing software is." ☛ https://thelibre.news/the-wonderful-world-of-linux-package-managers/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:25:51

• "In a dream world, I'd have a laptop setup so minimally, that each of these were always open" ☛ https://chrishannah.me/posts/2025/04/my-ideal-work-laptop/ | Source: Chris Hannah    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:26:09

• This Week in Plasma: many many things ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/04/19/this-week-in-plasma-many-many-things/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:27:05

• Electric updated ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Electric    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:27:39

• Ahmed Siam: My first post and writing plans ☞ https://ahmedsiam.com/posts/2025/my-first-post-and-writing-plans/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:28:19

• Leaf Node Monitoring v2025.01 released with Import/Export and Connectivity Check ☞ https://raymii.org/s/blog/Leaf_Node_Monitoring_v2025.01_released.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:28:49

• US appeals court upholds protections for Venezuelans facing deportation ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/us-appeals-court-upholds-protections-for-venezuelans-facing-deportation/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:32:46

• The Forrest Dump Billionaires Who Run the Economy and the Things They Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/us/politics/trump-musk-billionaires-economy.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:33:16

• New chip cooling technique is 7X more more effective than standard approaches ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/liquid-cooling/researchers-develop-two-phase-cooling-technique-that-dissipates-7x-more-heat    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:34:30

• Intel's next-gen Nova Lake CPUs will seemingly use a new LGA1954 socket ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intels-next-gen-nova-lake-cpus-will-seemingly-use-a-new-lga1954-socket    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:36:34

• Hubble Revisits Magnificent Sombrero Galaxy in Stunning New Image ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hubble-revisits-magnificent-sombrero-galaxy-in-stunning-new-image    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:37:21

• Vagus Nerve Stimulation Has Lasting Effects in People With Severe Depression ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/vagus-nerve-stimulation-has-lasting-effects-in-people-with-severe-depression    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:37:30

• Hailstorms on Jupiter Pelt Giant Slushee Balls of Ammonia And Water ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hailstorms-on-jupiter-pelt-giant-slushee-balls-of-ammonia-and-water    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:37:44

• Enoki mushroom packages recalled for possible listeria contamination ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/lifestyle/enoki-mushroom-packages-recalled-for-possible-listeria-contamination/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:38:06

• 2025-04-18 white alice ☞ https://computer.rip/2025-04-18-white-alice.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:41:34

• Zelenskyy Says Will Observe Easter Truce But Accuses Russia Of Immediate Violations ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-pushes-ukraine-from-kursk-village-oleshnya/33390054.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:41:56

• Russia court sentences 19-year-old activist for poetic protest of Ukraine conflict ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/russia-court-sentences-19-year-old-activist-for-poetic-protest-of-ukraine-conflict/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:42:16

• Can Convicted Felon Really Negotiate Peace in Ukraine, Russians Wonder ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/world/europe/russia-ukraine-putin-trump.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:42:36

• Putin Declares Easter Truce, Drawing Skeptical Ukrainian Response ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/world/europe/russia-ukraine-easter-truce.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:42:49

• Russia's Putin announces an Easter ceasefire in Ukraine until end of Sunday ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250419-%F0%9F%94%B4-putin-announces-two-day-ceasefire-from-tonight-until-monday    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:43:20

• Russia's Putin declares unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250419-russia-s-putin-declares-unilateral-easter-ceasefire-in-ukraine-1    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:43:44

• Ukraine accuses Russia of breaching Easter ceasefire with ongoing attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250419-live-russia-s-putin-announces-a-one-day-easter-ceasefire-in-ukraine    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:44:05

• Putin announces an Easter ceasefire as Russia and Ukraine swap hundreds of POWs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250419-putin-announces-an-easter-ceasefire-as-russia-and-ukraine-swap-hundreds-of-pows    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:44:20

• Putin's Easter ceasefire will be ‘cautiously observed’ by Ukrainians ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250419-ceasefire-will-be-cautiously-observed-by-ukrainians    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:45:19

• Zelensky commits to Easter truce, accuses Russia of breaking it ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250419-zelensky-commits-to-easter-truce-accuses-russia-of-breaking-it    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:45:29

• Don Marti: Surveillance Giant Google Ads Shitshow Report 2024 ☞ https://blog.zgp.org/google-ads-shitshow-report-2024/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:46:20

• mintCast 459 – Travel Digital Hygene ☞ https://mintcast.org/459-travel-digital-hygene/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:47:16

• Here's How to Interpret The Concerning Link Between Cooking Oil And Cancer ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/heres-how-to-interpret-the-concerning-link-between-cooking-oil-and-cancer    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:47:32

• How to install Signal on Ubuntu ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-signal-on-ubuntu/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:47:57

• How to install Slack on Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-slack-on-arch-linux/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:48:18

• Slack is proprietary spyware; use IRC or Jabber or something else instead.    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:49:16

• EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.6.7 ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202504/easyos-scarthgap-series-version-667.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:50:13

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Drive Rally, Viscerafest and Hollow Survivors - 2025-04-16 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-04-16-edition/index.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:50:27

• Initial Thoughts of the Framework 13 ☞ https://kevquirk.com/blog/initial-thoughts-of-the-framework-13    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:51:39

• KubeTUI: Your Kubernetes Dashboard Right Inside Your Terminal ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/kubetui/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:51:53

• Nitrux, a Debian-Based GNU/Linux Distro With Modern Apps ☞ https://thenewstack.io/nitrux-a-debian-based-linux-distro-with-modern-apps/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:54:58

• Firefighters tackle several wildfires in western Germany   

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:57:09

• Firefighters tackle several wildfires in western Germany https://www.dw.com/en/firefighters-tackle-several-wildfires-in-western-germany/a-72230355    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:57:32

• Fact check: Will Bulgarians lose their savings once they join the euro? https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-will-bulgarians-lose-their-savings-once-they-join-the-euro/a-72199640    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:58:00

• Driscoll's strawberry plant patent infringement claim finally squashed http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/driscolls-strawberry-plant-patent.html patents must never be granted on naure in the first place, but EPO is corrupt and defunct http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/driscolls-strawberry-plant-patent.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 12:59:54

• Kangaroo Court of EPO http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/beware-of-boilerplate-practical-lessons.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:00:20

• sig_atomic_t is a long on most architectures on FreeBSD https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3811    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:01:02

• Poland president asks constitutional tribunal to review criminal amendment on LGBTQ+ hate crime ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/poland-president-asks-constitutional-tribunal-to-review-criminal-amendment-on-lgbtq-hate-crime/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:02:42

• All Your "Github Projects" Will be Gone One Day (Just Like Skype) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/18/All_Your_Github_Projects_Will_be_Gone_One_Day_Just_Like_Skype.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:03:00

• Microsoft's Attack Dogs Have Failed. Now What? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/18/Microsoft_s_Attack_Dogs_Have_Failed_Now_What.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:03:12

• Sounds Like I.C.B.M. is Preparing for Mass Layoffs/Redundancies in Red Hat, Albeit in "PIP" (Performance Improvement Plan) or "Relocation" Clothing ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/18/Sounds_Like_IBM_is_Preparing_for_Mass_Layoffs_Redundancies_in_R.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:03:31

• Free Software and Standards - Not Marketing Blitz - Needed Amid Growing Severity of Dependency on Hostile Suppliers (or Another Country's Sovereignty) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/19/Free_Software_and_Standards_Not_Marketing_Blitz_Needed_Amid_Gro.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:06:36

• Microsofters Say They Cannot Find a Job (That They Want) Because of Techrights, But Techrights Merely Reported on Their Behaviour ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/19/Microsofters_Say_They_Cannot_Find_a_Job_That_They_Want_Because_.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:06:46

• Adjusting Mouse Edge Stickiness in KDE Plasma ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2025/04/19/adjusting-mouse-edge-stickiness-in-kde-plasma/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:08:34

• Slop retrofitted for DOS, as slop has nothing of value left to show others than useless gimmicks? ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/19/will-it-run-llama-2-now-dos-can/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:11:01

• Hydroplaning RC Jet Boat Steers Clear Of Convention ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/19/hydroplaning-rc-jet-boat-steers-clear-of-convention/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:11:29

• Exploring Pages, Links, Tags, and Block References in Logseq ☞ https://itsfoss.com/logseq-pages-links-tags-blocks/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:11:50

• 🌟The Bright Side: Robots race alongside humans in China half-marathon ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250419-%F0%9F%8C%9Fthe-bright-side-robots-race-alongside-humans-in-china-half-marathon    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:12:55

• Japanese warships dock at Cambodia's Chinese-renovated naval base ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/japanese-warships-dock-at-cambodias-chinese-renovated-naval-base    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:13:24

• What Convicted Felon Isn’t Telling You About His Trade War With China ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/opinion/trump-china-trade-war.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:13:37

• How China and the E.U. Are Reacting to Convicted Felon’s Tariffs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/100000010111503/how-china-and-the-eu-are-reacting-to-trumps-tariffs.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:14:24

• Malaysia’s trade minister heading to US, seeks to avert tariff war ‘that benefits none’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-trade-minister-heading-to-us-seeks-to-avert-tariff-war-that-benefits-none    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:15:33

• ‘Choose Europe!’: Macron invites scientists to work in France amid US funding cuts ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250419-choose-europe-macron-invites-scientists-to-work-in-france-amid-us-funding-cuts    

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

• "They Hacked A Nuclear Power Plant!" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/19/they-hacked-a-nuclear-power-plant-whoops-dont-make-a-sound/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:17:11

• "While ham radio operators have been embracing digital mobile radio (DMR), the equipment is most often bought since — at least in early incarnations — it needs a proprietary CODEC to convert speech to digital and vice versa." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/19/open-source-dmr-radio/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:17:50

• CM5-DUAL-ETH-MINI-BOX is a dual gigabit Ethernet router box for the Raspberry Pi CM5 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/19/cm5-dual-eth-mini-box-is-a-dual-gigabit-ethernet-router-box-for-the-raspberry-pi-cm5/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:18:38

• Fedora Already Lost Its Soul Under I.C.B.M. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/18/Fedora_Already_Lost_Its_Soul_Under_IBM.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:18:56

• China’s TMSR-LF1 Molten Salt Thorium Reactor Begins Live Refueling Operations ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/19/chinas-tmsr-lf1-molten-salt-thorium-reactor-begins-live-refueling-operations/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:20:38

• Frankenflair ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/19/frankenflair-58-manual-roots-advanced-brew/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:21:14

• When It Comes to the Web, Surveillance Giant Google is Evil and It Destroys the Web's Integrity With LLM Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/19/When_It_Comes_to_the_Web_Google_is_Evil_and_It_Destroys_the_Web.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:21:34

• Egypt is Controlled by Google, Not Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/19/Egypt_is_Controlled_by_Google_Not_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:21:43

• Israeli Attacks Kill Dozens in Gaza, Health Ministry Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-strikes-death-toll.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:22:04

• More than 70 killed in deadliest US attack on Yemen, Huthis say ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250419-more-than-70-killed-in-deadliest-us-attack-on-yemen-huthis-say    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:22:19

• Israeli strikes on Gaza kill more than 90 people in two days ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250419-israel-strikes-on-gaza-kill-more-than-90-people-in-two-days-netanyahu-hamas    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:22:39

• Israel still weighing strikes against Iran nuclear facilities, despite US diplomacy efforts ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/19/world-news/israel-still-weighing-strikes-against-iran-nuclear-facilities-reports/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:23:15

• Heading out for long service leave ☞ https://rubenerd.com/heading-out-for-long-service-leave/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:23:51

• unifont @ Savannah: Unifont 16.0.03 Released ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10757    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:25:54

• riscv: Add support for riscv-gnu (GNU/Hurd on RISC-V) https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=869f2ab30ad53033ad6ac82569d74ce3a99fe510    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:26:37

• Why GNU/Linux is Growing ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/20/Why_GNU_Linux_is_Growing.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:27:25

• Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU: Understanding Yagi-Uda’s dipole Program for Antenna Analysis ☞ https://hamradio.my/2025/04/understanding-yagi-udas-dipole-program-for-antenna-analysis/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:28:42

• 11 Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 25.04 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-25-04-post-install-tasks    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:30:20

• Proprietary Parallels Desktop 20.3 Brings GNU/Linux VM Fixes to Mac Users ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/parallels-20-3-fixes-linux-vm-issues-mac    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:30:53

• NVIDIA 575.51.02 Added Smooth Motion for Better GNU/Linux Gaming ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/nvidia-575-51-02-smooth-motion/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:35:41

• PCLinuxOS Recent Updates ☞ https://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=5951    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 13:36:07

• "Hardware compatibility and kernel optimization: integrated 6.6/6.12 kernel updates; NVIDIA graphics driver upgrades; Intel/AMD CPU microcode updates for comprehensive improvements in hardware compatibility and low-level performance." https://www.deepin.org/en/deepin-23-1-release/    

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

• "Since we released Yonada in December 2024 we worked hard to get the next release of Manjaro out there. We call it Zetar." https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-25-0-zetar-released/177008    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:19:51

• Ultramarine Linux 41 is Plugging In ⚓ https://blog.fyralabs.com/ultramarine-linux-41-image-drop/ ䷉ Source: | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.fyralabs.com/ultramarine-linux-41-image-drop/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:21:17

• CentOS 10-20250414.0 and AUSTRUMI 5.0.4 are out    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:22:36

• T2 25.4 "It Only Does Everything" http://t2sde.org/#news-2025-04-14    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:24:00

• Live Raizo 16.25.04.12 is out    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:26:00

• MX-23.6 now available! https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-23-6-now-available/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:26:57

• MX News Week Ending April 18 2025 https://mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-ending-april-18-2025/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:27:44

• MidnightBSD 3.2.3 https://www.midnightbsd.org/news/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:29:36

• Edmond cybersecurity CEO accused of planting malware on hospital computers https://www.koco.com/article/edmond-cybersecurity-ceo-accused-major-hack-at-hospital/64505584    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:33:01

• Enterprise Linux Security Episode 113 - Black Basta Exposed https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=Y8Vv5LWsygc    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:33:23

• Biden attacks Cheeto Mussolini on Social Security in rare public speech https://www.dw.com/en/biden-attacks-trump-on-social-security-in-rare-public-speech/a-72256934    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:34:27

• BakerHostetler’s 2025 Data Security Incident Response Report Finds Less Malware Used in 2024 https://admin.bakerlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-DSIR-Report.pdf    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:35:45

• German Coalition’s Troubling Plans on Social Security https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/04/15/german-coalitions-troubling-plans-social-security    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:36:33

• alt-right media https://www.theage.com.au/politics/campaign-security-concern-as-albanese-ambushed-by-alt-right-media-at-melbourne-hotel-20250415-p5ls27.html    

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

• Biden Re-Emerges to Defend Social Security as Cheeto Mussolini Cuts Agency Staff https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-04-15/biden-reemerges-to-defend-social-security-as-trump-cuts-agency-staff    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:37:45

• Joe Biden Will Speak About Social Security in His Return to the National Stage https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-04-15/joe-biden-will-speak-about-social-security-in-his-return-to-national-stage    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:40:28

• Social Security https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-04-15/trump-signs-memo-barring-undocumented-immigrants-from-receiving-social-security-benefits    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:40:37

• How to Use Linux Exit Codes to Troubleshoot Your Linux System https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-linux-exit-codes-troubleshoot-linux-system/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:41:55

• Linux cut Command Usage Guide https://www.maketecheasier.com/linux-cut-command/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:43:10

• Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (15/2025): Boot your phone from USB https://linmob.net/weekly-update-15-2025/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:44:46

• 'Linux Mint Debian Edition 7' Gets OEM Support https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04/12/0518218/linux-mint-debian-edition-7-gets-oem-support    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:45:38

• Fedora Targets 99% Package Reproducibility by October https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04/11/2143211/fedora-targets-99-package-reproducibility-by-october    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:46:52

• Replace Your Regular Linux Commands With These Better Alternatives https://www.maketecheasier.com/linux-commands-alternatives/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:47:24

• After 2 years of war, Sudan no closer to peace https://www.dw.com/en/after-2-years-of-war-sudan-no-closer-to-peace/a-72219165    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:54:19

• US remains by far the top market for German exports https://www.dw.com/en/us-remains-by-far-the-top-market-for-german-exports/a-72237171    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:54:48

• antitrust trial https://www.dw.com/en/us-meta-faces-landmark-antitrust-trial/a-72240476    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:55:25

• Windows TCO https://databreaches.net/2025/04/10/physicians-billing-and-revenue-management-firm-hit-by-lockbit/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:56:37

• Preservation notice sent to Radford University in widening data leak case https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2025/04/10/preservation-notice-sent-to-radford-university-in-widening-data-leak-case/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:58:38

• Patient data leaked from cyberattack on Brunswick Medical Center https://www.montrealgazette.com/news/article871867.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 15:59:14

• No need to hack when it’s leaking: SavantCare edition https://databreaches.net/2025/04/11/no-need-to-hack-when-its-leaking-savantcare-edition/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:00:11

• In Secret Meeting, China Acknowledged Role in U.S. Infrastructure Hacks https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/in-secret-meeting-china-acknowledged-role-in-u-s-infrastructure-hacks-c5ab37cb http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/05/Credit_to_Jessica_Lyons_at_The_Register_for_Covering_the_Commun.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:00:59

• UnitedHealth is demanding some struggling doctors immediately repay loans issued after last year’s cyberattack https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/unitedhealth-makes-doctors-repay-loans-issued-after-change-cyberattack.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:01:29

• SK.com allegedly hacked by Qilin https://databreaches.net/2025/04/12/sk-com-allegedly-hacked-by-qilin/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:01:57

• Smiley calls for data sharing once Providence gets its schools back from state https://www.newsbreak.com/rhode-island-current-1641157/3961849375333-smiley-calls-for-data-sharing-once-providence-gets-its-schools-back-from-state    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:02:38

• Queensland has a new breach notification law going into effect July 1, 2025 https://www.ashurst.com/en/insights/queenslands-ipola-guidelines-new-mandatory-notification-data-breach-scheme/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:03:15

• Psychiatric documents with sensitive patient info found ‘loosely blown about’ near Regina medical clinic https://leaderpost.com/news/local-news/psychiatric-documents-with-sensitive-patient-info-found-loosely-blown-about-near-regina-medical-clinic    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:04:01

• IAF jet on Myanmar relief operation faced cyber attack in air https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/iaf-jet-on-myanmar-relief-operation-faced-cyber-attack-in-air/articleshowprint/120265334.cms    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:04:48

• Dialysis firm DaVita hit by ransomware attack https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2025/04/14/dialysis-firm-davita-hit-by-ransomware-attack    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:05:32

• Another entity reports the Nationwide Recovery Service data breach of 2024 https://databreaches.net/2025/04/14/another-entity-reports-the-nationwide-recovery-service-data-breach-of-2024/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:06:13

• The Most Dangerous Hackers You’ve Never Heard Of https://www.wired.com/story/most-dangerous-hackers-youve-never-heard-of/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:06:37

• passage – age-backed password manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/passage-age-backed-password-manager/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:09:18

• sic offers image processing and conversion ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sic-image-processing-conversion/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:09:27

• whalespotter finds big files and directories ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/whalespotter-finds-big-files-and-directories/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:09:35

• Linux Candy: doge – simple motd script ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-candy-doge-simple-motd-script/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:09:44

• Wrestic is a Restic wrapper built in Rust ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wrestic-restic-wrapper-rust/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:09:56

• HamonirKR is a Korean GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hamonirkr-korean-linux-distribution/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:10:26

• passfzf is a simple fzf wrapper for pass ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/passfzf-simple-fzf-wrapper-pass/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:10:34

• Meta Botches Redaction of Slides in Antitrust Trial, Angering Google, Apple, and Snap https://www.theverge.com/news/649834/meta-redactions-apple-google-snap-angry-ftc-antitrust-trial    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:11:22

• allergy season https://www.vox.com/climate/408287/allergy-season-insects-pollen-climate-change    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:12:42

• action on climate https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/letter-mayors-federal-leaders-1.7507440    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:12:56

• Executive Order Targeting State Climate Laws https://truthout.org/articles/trump-on-shaky-legal-ground-with-executive-order-targeting-state-climate-laws/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:13:11

• Canada will no longer cover travel costs of experts it nominates to UN's climate science body https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/canada-climate-scientist-ippc-assessment-1.7507979    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:13:56

• Climate activists continue fight to sue the Swedish state in court https://www.thelocal.se/20250414/climate-activists-continue-fight-to-sue-the-swedish-state-in-court    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:15:14

• Climate, Infrastructure Grants https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-04-15/us-judge-orders-immediate-thaw-of-climate-infrastructure-funds-politico-reports    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:15:28

• Amid EU climate shift, cities face more floods, extreme heat https://www.dw.com/en/amid-eu-climate-shift-cities-face-more-floods-extreme-heat/a-72241614    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:15:40

• Climate change: Chance of Elfstedentocht conditions drops to once every 32 years https://nltimes.nl/2025/04/16/climate-change-chance-elfstedentocht-conditions-drops-every-32-years    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:16:05

• Richest people in Denmark leave four times the climate footprint of poorest https://cphpost.dk/2025-04-17/news/round-up/richest-people-in-denmark-leave-four-times-the-climate-footprint-of-poorest/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:16:25

• Energy Prices Slump https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2025-04-11/wholesale-inflation-unexpectedly-falls-as-energy-prices-slump    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:17:09

• US Universities Sue Energy Department Over Research Cuts https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-04-14/us-universities-sue-energy-department-over-research-cuts    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:17:44

• Natural gas plants in UP are 'clean' energy sources, House bills contend https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/natural-gas-plants-are-clean-energy-sources-house-bills-contend    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:18:40

• Dozens of Employees Leaving US EIA, Putting Crucial Energy Data at Risk, Sources Say https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-04-16/dozens-of-employees-leaving-us-eia-putting-crucial-energy-data-at-risk-sources-say    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:18:56

• “Championing Free Speech” as He Hand-Picks Protesters to Deport https://truthout.org/articles/rubio-brags-hes-championing-free-speech-as-he-hand-picks-protesters-to-deport/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:19:42

• censorship https://jacobin.com/2025/04/trump-biden-inflation-wars-censorship/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:20:35

• Eyes Everywhere: Tech Tyranny and the Profiteers of Control https://www.projectcensored.org/eyes-tech-tyranny-profiteers-control/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/Unlike_GAFAM_Free_Software_Serves_You_It_Does_Not_Serve_Governm.shtml    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:21:00

• Framing the Feed: How Social Control Media Shapes Our Interpretation of Reality https://www.projectcensored.org/framing-the-feed-how-social-media-reality/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:21:59

• Bitchute, the UK and modern censorship in action https://off-guardian.org/2025/04/17/bitchute-the-uk-and-modern-censorship-in-action/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:22:25

• work for free at home https://www.dw.com/en/syrian-doctors-leave-germany-to-work-for-free-at-home/a-72252936"    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:27:36

• European Rights Watchdog Says It's Worried About Turkey After Mayor's Jailing https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-14/european-rights-watchdog-says-its-worried-about-turkey-after-mayors-jailing    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:31:14

• Turkey: Popular TV actors slip into the crosshairs of politics https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-popular-tv-actors-slip-into-the-crosshairs-of-politics/a-72192466    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:32:30

• Why hasn't EU acted against Turkey's increasing repression? https://www.dw.com/en/why-hasn-t-eu-acted-against-turkey-s-increasing-repression/a-72219967    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:33:40

• Turkey: Istanbul's jailed opposition mayor appears in court https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-istanbul-s-jailed-opposition-mayor-appears-in-court/a-72216291    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:34:03

• exporters say https://www.dw.com/en/us-tariffs-could-be-a-boon-for-turkey-exporters-say/a-72229697    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:34:27

• US Universities Federal Grants and Contracts Withheld https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-04-15/photo-collection-us-universities-federal-grants-and-contracts-withheld    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:42:05

• University’s programs offer life preserver to U.S. shipbuilding https://news.engin.umich.edu/2025/04/us-shipbuilding-needs-rescuing-u-m-programs-offer-a-life-preserver/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:42:45

• Special watches, eye-tracking glasses will help a Hamilton university gauge voter interest during tonight's election debate https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/mcmaster-undecided-voters-study-1.7512327    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:46:27

• I didn't vote for 21 years. Cheeto Mussolini's attacks on my homeland and Canada changed everything https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/first-person-voting-first-time-1.7511826    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:46:58

• Facebook Whistleblower: Breaking Meta’s Monopoly Would Improve Children’s Safety https://truthout.org/video/facebook-whistleblower-breaking-metas-monopoly-would-improve-childrens-safety    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:47:45

• The art of restraint: why not every system should be owned https://cybernews.com/security/former-blackhat-hacker-restraint-digital-consequences/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:49:43

• Kyiv Region Police Expose Hackers Who Infected Notaries’ Computers with Viruses and Changed Data in State Registries https://dev.ua/en/news/kiberpolitsiia-kyivshchyny-vykryla-khakeriv-iaki-infikuvaly-virusamy-kompiutery-notariusiv-ta-zminiuvaly-dani-u-derzhavnykh-reiestrakh-1744711837    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:50:19

• China accuses US of launching ‘advanced’ cyberattacks, names alleged NSA agents https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinas-harbin-says-us-launched-013146949.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:51:03

• 4chan hacked, internal data leaked on rival image board https://databreaches.net/2025/04/15/4chan-hacked-internal-data-leaked-on-rival-image-board/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:51:35

• https://www.insideprivacy.com/data-security/data-breaches/south-africa-introduces-mandatory-e-portal-reporting-for-data-breaches/   

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:54:06

• South Africa Introduces Mandatory e-Portal Reporting for Data Breaches https://www.insideprivacy.com/data-security/data-breaches/south-africa-introduces-mandatory-e-portal-reporting-for-data-breaches/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:54:19

• Nude photos and names: KU Health and Kansas hospital sued for data breach https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/state/2025/04/16/nude-photos-names-ku-health-kansas-hospitals-sued-for-data-breach/83119511007/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:55:38

• Maryland Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud https://databreaches.net/2025/04/16/maryland-man-pleads-guilty-to-conspiracy-to-commit-wire-fraud/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:56:13

• Former Microsofter Chris Krebs vows to fight back against Cheeto Mussolini-ordered federal investigation https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/former-cisa-director-chris-krebs-vows-to-fight-back-against-trump-ordered-federal-investigation/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:57:13

• CISA warns of increased breach risks following Oracle Clown leak https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-increased-breach-risks-following-oracle-cloud-leak/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:57:52

• British law firm fined after ransomware group publishes confidential client data https://therecord.media/uk-law-firm-fined-ico-ransomware-sensitive-data-breached    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:58:30

• A whistleblower’s disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 16:59:11

• trade war could cause a recession https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/boc-interest-rate-april-1.7511457 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/livestory/ontario-throne-speech-outlines-ford-government-priorities-amid-tariff-fight-9.6724510    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:01:33

• Honda denies plans to shift Mexico, Canada production to US despite tariff rumors https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/honda-denies-plans-move-production-mexico-canada-tariffs/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:01:56

• How Much Did The Playstation Plus Price Increase In Canada And Is The US Next? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/how-much-did-playstation-plus-price-increase-canada-us-next-1732804    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:02:17

• Canadian travel cancellations https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-us-travel-tourism-cancellation-1.7511605    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:02:48

• A very high proportion of Google News is now LLM slop. A lot of it comes from India. Not racist to state such a fact.    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:04:19

• LLM slop is mostly a blessing to people whose language skills are poor and quality/accuracy does not matter    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:04:53

• Quebec recycler shows what happens to scrap appliances left on the curb https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-chelsea-trash-collector-1.7511967    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:05:05

• Remember when journalism did not mean feeding OTHER people's articles into a plagiarism blender, then pasting the resultant text into some WordPress interface (or similar).    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:05:57

• Don't call it "AI". Start calling it what it is: plagiarism with many "inputs". https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3711675&doi=10.1145%2F3711675    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:06:31

• CG of slop, not "AI-generated" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ai-chatgpt-action-dolls-1.7509494    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:07:35

• gas prices fell https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cpi-march-2025-1.7510351    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:08:00

• "hacked" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/interior-health-data-breach-canada-revenue-agency-accounts-hacked-1.7507321    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:13:25

• "I've been running Kubuntu 25.04, since I prefer KDE Plasma, since the Beta release and it has been really smooth. Overall very happy with it as my main choice for my desktop workstation and gaming PC." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin-is-out-now/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:18:16

• "We saw a lot of movement on the Windows on Arm front earlier this year, but it's by no means the only operating system taking advantage of the new hardware architecture." https://www.xda-developers.com/ubuntu-arm64-support/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:18:42

• "The latest interim release of Ubuntu offers many notable changes." https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-25-04-release/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:19:03

• Amazon’s Fire OS for Smart TVs and tablets may drop Android for a new Linux-based OS https://liliputing.com/amazons-fire-os-for-smartphones-and-tablets-may-drop-android-for-a-new-linux-based-os/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:21:18

• "Accidents and bugs happen, hopefully some lessons will be learned from all sides on this. Just goes to show, Beta releases are vital to pick up bugs…if they're reported." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ubuntu-25-04-upgrades-halted-due-to-kubuntu-users-getting-a-broken-desktop/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:22:07

• "With the latest Android 16 beta, you can now allocate as much storage as you want to the Linux Terminal" https://www.androidauthority.com/android-16-terminal-disk-resize-3546144/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:23:08

• "Nitrux has web applications and a customizable desktop, and keeps things secure with SE Linux and an immutable file system." https://thenewstack.io/nitrux-a-debian-based-linux-distro-with-modern-apps/    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:23:30

• (guyana) Windows almost all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/guyana/#monthly-200902-202504 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/guyana/#monthly-200902-202504    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:28:50

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

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:30:44

• "Second last day of advance voting today. Unlike last time, where my riding had literally dozens of candidates (the "longest ballot protest" being a regular thing in Canada, and targetting leaders' ridings this time), there were just the usual four: Conservative, Liberal, New Democratic Party, and Green." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/4-20-2.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:37:11

• "use gcc for Linux" gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/4-20.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:38:04

• "I can't remember a time when I was not interested in technology. In fact my mother told me the story that I sawed up our rotary dial telephone to see what's in this magic thing when I was a very young boy (no joke!)." gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2025-04-20-Blog_Questions_Challenge_Technology_Edition.txt    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:41:18

• Old means more robust, esp. in mechanics and "Tech". When you're still using a batteries charger from 30+ years ago and it still works perfectly, no repairs ever needed.    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 17:42:49

• Windows falling rapidly in Italy https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/italy/#monthly-200902-202504    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:05:06

• addiction https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/moncton-overdoses-opioid-drug-addiction-homelessness-1.7507888    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:05:47

• Travel nightmares leave frustrated Canadian permanent residents in debt https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-travel-nightmares-permanent-residents-1.7509870    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:06:18

• Canola farmers feel forgotten amid trade war, ongoing Chinese tariffs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/canola-farmers-feel-forgotten-tariffs-trade-war-1.7510283    

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

• False https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/honda-plant-alliston-canada-1.7510455    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:07:35

• South Korea, with its 'cheaper' version of the F-35, watches as Canada reviews U.S. fighter deal https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/south-korea-fighter-jet-f-35-contract-1.7510220    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:09:00

• Ottawa announces help for businesses hurt by U.S. tariffs https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/tariff-help-canada-1.7510658    

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

• Rising Canada recession risk to trigger at least 2 more rate cuts this year, economists predict https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-recession-risk-1.7509434    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:09:54

• Yes, Canada geese are annoying. But should they be gassed to death in Michigan? https://www.bridgemi.com/outdoors-life/yes-canada-geese-are-annoying-should-they-be-gassed-death-michigan    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:11:58

• Windsor Stellantis workers to return to job for at least 2 weeks, union says https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/windsor-stellantis-444-work-layoff-tariffs-1.7508237    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:16:21

• endangered fungi https://www.dw.com/en/are-endangered-fungi-not-cute-enough-to-be-saved/a-72252313    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:18:10

• lemmings and U.S. flag https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-avc-apologizes-1.7507766    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:18:29

• ECB https://www.dw.com/en/ecb-cuts-interest-rates-by-quarter-as-tariff-turmoil-looms/a-72274813    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:19:51

• Cambodia https://www.dw.com/en/china-s-xi-jinping-in-cambodia-amid-trump-trade-tensions/a-72269874    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:20:00

• anti-deportation protests https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-launch-probe-into-anti-deportation-protests/a-72278305    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:21:17

• Gen X thrived on a blow-it-all-up attitude. Things look different now that Cheeto Mussolini is actually doing it https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/generation-x-experience-liberation-day-tariffs-global-recession-1.7505252    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:22:59

• Tariff Chaos https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/vermont/articles/2025-04-16/vermont-maple-syrup-makers-face-uncertainty-amid-canada-and-china-tariff-chaos    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:24:24

• in response to U.S. tariffs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-internal-free-trade-bill-1.7511660    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:25:45

• Tariff turmoil might force this retiree back to work https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-trump-retirees-1.7510697    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:26:11

• hammered retirement savings https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ns-lung-recipient-cost-transplant-retirement-savings-1.7510687    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:26:47

• "Other companies in the US, like IBM, were laying off approximately 9,000 employees across multiple locations in the nation." https://www.livemint.com/news/world/layoffs-alert-these-companies-including-volvo-announce-job-cuts-in-us-amid-trump-tariff-turmoil-11745065904533.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:29:39

• "You have hit the nail on the head. IBM has firm data that shows 85-90% of the employees asked to move will not. HR and the CFO love that statistic as it makes lowering “costs” quite easy. Remember job 1 = lower costs as labor is viewed within management as a commodity." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1js53f2dh    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:30:26

• Sudan https://www.dw.com/en/sudan-400-000-forced-to-flee-zamzam-camp-in-darfur/a-72244970    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:33:52

• exotic cat smuggling ring https://www.dw.com/en/spanish-police-pounce-on-exotic-cat-smuggling-ring/a-72243276    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:34:33

• fish less risk-averse https://www.dw.com/en/psychoactive-drug-pollution-makes-fish-less-risk-averse/a-72201626    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:35:38

• 100-year-old WWII veteran who hoped for 100 cards for his birthday receives over 1,700 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/wwii-veteran-birthday-cards-100th-birthday-1.7508114    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:36:42

• GM halts production https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ingersoll-assembly-plant-halting-production-layoffs-1.7508190    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:37:18

• measles outbreak https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/at-the-epicentre-of-ontario-s-measles-outbreak-residents-reel-with-concern-1.7507545    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:37:51

• organ trafficking network https://www.dw.com/en/kidneys-for-cash-inside-a-global-organ-trafficking-network/a-72239158    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:45:16

• record drop in population https://www.dw.com/en/japan-sees-record-drop-in-population/a-72239612    

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

• synthetic hair https://www.dw.com/en/is-synthetic-hair-a-health-risk-for-black-women-in-the-usa/a-72235862    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:51:34

• South Korea's military https://www.dw.com/en/is-south-korea-s-military-suffering-a-leadership-crisis/a-72239394    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:51:56

• Indian fugitive held in Belgium over $1.8 billion bank scam https://www.dw.com/en/indian-fugitive-held-in-belgium-over-1-8-billion-bank-scam/a-72235715    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:53:06

• grow more of its own food https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/canada-tariffs-food-grow-buy-canadian-1.7508121    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:54:00

• online shopping price https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/tariffs-online-shopping-canadians-1.7507786    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:54:36

• Dominican club collapse https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-victim-jet-set-nightclub-sheila-berroa-1.7508122    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 18:59:04

• Gulag monopolized online ad markets, US judge says https://www.dw.com/en/google-monopolized-online-ad-markets-us-judge-says/a-72277890    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:00:36

• Vote bank for Islam https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/muslim-canadian-voters-1.7507693    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:02:11

• colossal squid https://www.dw.com/en/marine-researchers-reel-in-first-footage-of-colossal-squid/a-72269909    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:02:42

• Myanmar junta pardons 4,900 prisoners to mark new year https://www.dw.com/en/myanmar-junta-pardons-4-900-prisoners-to-mark-new-year/a-72271886    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:03:13

• Indigenous DNA in wastewater? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/indigenous-dna-wastewater-research-exploitation-1.7505954    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:05:00

• White House uses Hamilton economist's paper to justify tariffs — but misses his point 'trade wars are bad' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/pujolas-trade-war-tariffs-1.7508110    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:05:30

• Zimbabwe tightens the noose on NGOs https://www.dw.com/en/zimbabwe-tightens-the-noose-on-ngos/a-72276405    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:06:29

• Keystone Pipeline spill in North Dakota https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/keystone-pipeline-operators-regulators-corrective-action-1.7509052    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:08:26

• Foreign worker who paid $25K to land job in Canada awarded $115K by tribunal https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/foreign-worker-awarded-damages-1.7508140    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:12:07

• Canada stopped playing nice with Cheeto Mussolini https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/elbows-up-how-canada-stopped-playing-nice-with-trump-20250408-p5lq5l.html    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:12:45

• Brazil is rich in water. Why does it struggle with water crises? Overpopulation https://www.dw.com/en/brazil-is-rich-in-water-why-does-it-struggle-with-water-crises/a-72243220    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:14:07

• Bangladesh https://www.dw.com/en/german-firms-eye-bangladesh-amid-us-china-tariff-war/a-72265541    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:14:57

• How Cheeto Mussolini's trade war upends Germany's economic model https://www.dw.com/en/how-trump-s-trade-war-upends-germany-s-economic-model/a-72209820    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:15:30

• Amnesty International reopens Hong Kong office 'in exile' https://www.dw.com/en/amnesty-international-reopens-hong-kong-office-in-exile/a-72247252    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:17:52

• Amid EU's hottest year cities face more floods, extreme heat https://www.dw.com/en/amid-eu-s-hottest-year-cities-face-more-floods-extreme-heat/a-72241614    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:18:16

• impact of Cheeto Mussolini's tariffs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/michigan-city-braces-for-trump-tariff-1.750945    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:19:50

• They probably just arrange patent monopolies and grifting in advance https://www.dw.com/en/who-countries-agree-on-technology-transfers-in-next-pandemic/a-72257254    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:21:25

• 5% of US cancers may be caused by medical imaging radiation https://www.dw.com/en/5-of-us-cancers-may-be-caused-by-medical-imaging-radiation/a-72246798    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:22:54

• Or people going through borders with Rapiscan (xray/ct) stripping them naked while delivering payload of radiation... so-called "security"... giving people cancer while taking away their dignity    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:23:57

• Xi Jinping meets Malaysian leaders on Southeast Asia tour https://www.dw.com/en/xi-jinping-meets-malaysian-leaders-on-southeast-asia-tour/a-72257324    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:25:10

• China accuses US of cyberattack during Asian Winter Games https://www.dw.com/en/china-accuses-us-of-cyberattack-during-asian-winter-games/a-72246386    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:25:31

• China halts delivery of Boeing jets https://www.dw.com/en/china-halts-delivery-of-boeing-jets-report/a-72248102    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:26:29

• Australian owner of Toronto café chain fighting Ottawa to save $8K of Vegemite https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/australian-canadian-cafe-owner-ordered-remove-vegemite-1.7508893    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:27:06

• legal services in remote First Nations https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/starlink-navigator-program-funding-cut-1.7509219    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:27:37

• Euro emerges as safe haven ttps://www.dw.com/en/euro-emerges-as-safe-haven-amid-trump-tariff-turmoil/a-72216210    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:28:38

• German cartel office clears UniCredit stake in Commerzbank https://www.dw.com/en/german-cartel-office-clears-unicredit-stake-in-commerzbank/a-72239497    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:32:19

• oil prices could plunge https://www.dw.com/en/concern-grows-over-how-far-oil-prices-could-plunge-amid-trade-war-shock/a-72215273    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:34:50

• UK MP linked to Hasina https://www.dw.com/en/bangladesh-issues-arrest-warrant-for-uk-mp-linked-to-hasina/a-72235733    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:35:31

• US detains Palestinian student at appointment for citizenship https://www.dw.com/en/us-detains-palestinian-student-at-appointment-for-citizenship/a-72247882    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:35:58

• rethink exports https://www.dw.com/en/trump-tariff-pause-gives-india-room-to-rethink-exports/a-72250802    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:37:30

• India counting its trees https://www.dw.com/en/tree-census-how-is-india-counting-its-trees/a-72252282    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:38:03

• Woman 'inadvertently' added to Sask. Party MLAs' planning group chat https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/sask-party-group-chat-1.7508201    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:39:00

• Free money for all: Germany's universal basic income experiment https://www.dw.com/en/free-money-for-all-germany-s-universal-basic-income-experiment/a-72223009    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:39:55

• $2.2 billion in grants https://www.dw.com/en/harvard-trump-administration-freezes-2-2-billion-in-grants/a-72245511    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:40:23

• I never thought Canada would face the threat my homeland did https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-first-person-nino-antadze-1.7499239    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:41:52

• Sweden says no proof Chinese ship meant to damage cables https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-says-no-proof-chinese-ship-meant-to-damage-cables/a-72250803    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:42:45

• fined after hugging https://www.dw.com/en/man-fined-after-hugging-german-chancellor-olaf-scholz/a-72252957    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:44:44

• "I want to talk a bit about solo RPGs. At some point I want to write a longer post on this topic. This could be it, but I'm not sure I have the energy today and I'm tired of not posting anything for months on end. So we'll see." gopher://thelambdalab.xyz:70/0/phlog/2025-04-20-April.txt    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:48:48

• "Ok, so check this out. I raved about how magical #FreeBSD #linuxulator is, but it gets even better! In my Ubuntu linux jail, I downloaded the source for the #mobian kernel, installed cross-compiling tools, compiled the kernel and modules, copied to an sdcard, and booted up the kernel on my #pinephonepro" gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:49:36

• The world at this stage does not need a lot more people writing code, making videos etc. We need to combat slop plagiarism in code (dodging licence obligations), LLM slop etc.    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:50:27

• "these are always subservient to the "narrative"" gemini://thelambdalab.xyz/phlog/2025-04-20-April.txt    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:51:58

• "I digitize every important physical document and organize it in the extremely powerful DevonThink. I rarely need the physical copy—retrieving the digital version is faster and easier." gemini://flip.smol.pub/flexible-numbering-devonthink    

posted Sunday, April 20, 2025 at 19:52:58

• An IBM worker's dilemma: train/prepare/teach your replace and then be replaced or simply resign in protest, which is probably what IBM wanted all along. What a terrible company.    

posted Monday, April 21, 2025 at 02:44:03