Roy Schestowitz

• Image loading times ☞ https://rubenerd.com/image-loading-times/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:17:58

• Fentanyl ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/china-fentanyl-prison-yafeng-illegal-drug-trade | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:18:46

• "How Kids Are Harmed by Trump’s Budget Cuts" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/how-trump-budget-cuts-harm-kids-child-care-education-abuse | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:19:12

• Russell Coker: Last Post About the Yoga Gen3 ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/04/23/last-yoga-gen3/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:20:07

• 'I Shall Not Hate': A Palestinian doctor's call for peace ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20250423-i-shall-not-hate-a-palestinian-doctor-s-call-for-peace    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:20:33

• Gaza: How safe is the Al-Mawasi evacuation zone? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250423-gaza-how-safe-is-the-al-mawasi-evacuation-zone    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:20:45

• Rights group says 2 Israel attacks against civilians in Lebanon must be investigated as war crimes ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/rights-group-says-2-israel-attacks-against-civilians-in-lebanon-must-be-investigated-as-war-crimes/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:21:02

• "even more so given that the most likely most grant proceedings outside of the EPO are infringement proceedings and Article 69 tells us the description and drawings shall be used to interpret the claims." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/beware-of-boilerplate-practical-lessons.html?showComment=1745395055019#c8779184462214592954    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:22:26

• After Militant Attack in Kashmir, Pakistan Braces for Strike by India ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/world/asia/pakistan-india-kashmir-attack.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:23:32

• Former Proprietary Chaffbot Company staff and Hey Hi (AI) experts ask Attorneys General to block for-profit conversion ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/23/former-openai-staff-ai-experts-ask-attorneys-general-block-profit-conversion/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:25:12

• American Oversight Sues DOGE, Convicted Felon Officials for Violating Federal Records Act ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-doge-trump-officials-for-violating-federal-records-act/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:25:30

• Google Search Remedies: Boosting Competitors While Harming Consumers ☞ https://project-disco.org/competition/google-search-remedies-boosting-competitors-while-harming-consumers/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:26:25

• At Meta’s Antitrust Trial, a Bygone Internet Era Comes Back to Life ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/technology/meta-trial-silicon-valley-social-apps.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:26:40

• IPv6 capability reaches 50% in the Asia Pacific region ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/23/ipv6-capability-reaches-50-in-the-asia-pacific-region/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:27:13

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-25.gmi    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:41:57

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1625.jpg    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:42:23

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1275.jpg    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:42:29

• Event Wrap: PCTA Tech Show 2025 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/24/event-wrap-pcta-tech-show-2025/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:45:30

• Monitoring highly distributed DNS deployments: Challenges and recommendations ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/24/monitoring-highly-distributed-dns-deployments-challenges-and-recommendations/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:45:51

• US judge temporarily blocks Convicted Felon from dismantling federally funded news networks ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/us-judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-from-dismantling-federally-funded-news-networks/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 04:47:10

• Microchip launches low-cost, low-power PIC16F17576 8-bit microcontrollers for analog sensors ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/24/microchip-launches-low-cost-low-power-pic16f17576-8-bit-microcontrollers-for-analog-sensors/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:18:39

• Lithuanian banks post €1 billion profit, sparking calls to extend windfall tax ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2543180/lithuanian-banks-post-eur1-billion-profit-sparking-calls-to-extend-windfall-tax    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:19:44

• Embargoes and worse before there is even any actual judgment is not justice ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/nanostring-demands-damages-for-enforcement-of-pi/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:20:29

• "this is an EPO manufactured problem." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/beware-of-boilerplate-practical-lessons.html?showComment=1745392052128#c2621296642070085985    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:21:52

• "last time they forced all to the austin office, they got a warning from the fire marshal that they could not have that many employees in the building sitting on the floors since they only had cubes for about 10 mobile desks. I think they have shrunk the offices since then. Will be interesting to see how they will cram all of dallas into austin." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsgbm14j    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:23:27

• "This Goodwill money sounds just like Monpoly money i.e. fake and worthless money from Alvind and Krabanaugh's hands. I suspect it is being traded to buy more fake companies and worthless junk like these two nitwits ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jskxqvhd    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:25:02

• "The Gyms in the area rejected Krabanaugh's application as he is too obese to make any significant weight improvement even in decades.....so he keeps on just slurping up those fat filled burgers and fries. And asking for more education to be completed by everyone, except himself." https://    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:25:27

• "The Gyms in the area rejected Krabanaugh's application as he is too obese to make any significant weight improvement even in decades.....so he keeps on just slurping up those fat filled burgers and fries. And asking for more education to be completed by everyone, except himself." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsjehm67    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:25:39

• Microsoft is allegedly paying low performers to quit https://www.fastcompany.com/91322766/microsoft-is-allegedly-paying-low-performers-to-quit    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:30:08

• Microsoft will now pay some employees to leave amid continued crackdown against ‘low performers’ https://www.financialexpress.com/business/industry-microsoft-will-now-pay-some-employees-to-leave-amid-continued-crackdown-against-low-performers-3821423/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:30:41

• IBM stock drops 7% after $100m federal contracts suspended https://www.techinasia.com/news/ibm-stock-drops-7-100m-federal-contracts-suspended    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:32:30

• What complete NONSENSE from a site BRIBED by IBM https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/23/ibm-beats-forecasts-says-well-positioned-weather-trade-war/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:39:14

• The media says it needs bribes to survive and then moans about how people do not trust the media anymore.    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:39:56

• A Magnetar's Birthplace Deepens The Mystery of Its Origins ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-magnetars-birthplace-deepens-the-mystery-of-its-origins    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:43:30

• Gold Injections in The Eye May Be The Future of Vision Preservation ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/gold-injections-in-the-eye-may-be-the-future-of-vision-preservation    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:43:40

• Scientists Discover First Probable Evidence of a Roman Fighter Mauled by a Lion ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-first-probable-evidence-of-a-roman-fighter-mauled-by-a-lion    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:49:03

• Hubble Celebrates 35 Years by Gifting Us 4 Breathtaking Cosmic Images ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/hubble-celebrates-35-years-by-gifting-us-4-breathtaking-cosmic-images    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:49:18

• Scientists Calculated How Much Meat You Can Sustainably Eat in a Week ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-calculated-how-much-meat-you-can-sustainably-eat-in-a-week    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:49:52

• 84% of Earth's Coral Reefs in Crisis as Worst Bleaching Event on Record Hits ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/84-of-earths-coral-reefs-in-crisis-as-worst-bleaching-event-on-record-hits    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:51:02

• Qt pushing slop and plagiarism ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/enhance-squish-gui-testing-with-ai-assistants-using-the-new-mcp-sample https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3711675&doi=10.1145%2F3711675    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:52:42

• Chinese companies stockpiled billions of dollars worth of Nvidia H20 GPUs prior to recent ban ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinese-companies-stockpiled-billions-of-dollars-worth-of-nvidia-h20-gpus-prior-to-recent-ban    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:55:43

• How the US retreat from the UN endangers the future of internet governance ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-the-us-retreat-from-the-un-endangers-the-future-of-internet-governance/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:56:07

• South Korea says DeepSeek transferred user data, prompts without consent ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-says-deepseek-transferred-user-data-prompts-without-consent    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:56:43

• Nvidia aims to solve Slop's water consumption problems with direct-to-chip cooling — claims 300X improvement with closed-loop systems ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-aims-to-solve-ais-water-consumption-problems-with-direct-to-chip-cooling-claims-300x-improvement-with-closed-loop-systems    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:57:19

• New Paris exhibition uses art to tell the story of Slop ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/perspective/20250423-new-paris-exhibition-uses-art-to-tell-the-story-of-ai    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 05:57:48

• Paramount, CBS settle discrimination lawsuit over DEI policies punishing straight white males ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/media/paramount-cbs-settle-discrimination-lawsuit-over-dei-policies-punishing-straight-white-males/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:01:50

• 12 States Sue Convicted Felon Over His Tariffs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/states-tariff-trump-lawsuit.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:02:04

• Four years on, Convicted Felon is still focused on his 2020 loss ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0423/trump-2020-fraud-defamation    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:02:34

• Rights group urges Panama to strengthen rights protection within climate relocation decree ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/rights-group-urges-panama-to-strengthen-rights-protection-within-climate-relocation-decree/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:03:11

• Where do Australia's political parties stand on energy policy? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/where-do-australias-political-parties-stand-on-energy-policy    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:05:08

• In California Jails, a Rash of Homicide and Negligence ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/riverside-county-jails-homicides.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:05:40

• Top PC OEMs reportedly planning Saudi Arabia plants to avoid US tariffs — Lenovo, HP, Dell exploring options as panic continues ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/top-pc-oems-reportedly-planning-saudi-arabia-plants-to-avoid-us-tariffs-lenovo-hp-dell-exploring-options-as-panic-continues    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:06:05

• Unallocated space analysis ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/unallocated-space-analysis/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:06:37

• UN warns spiraling gang violence in Haiti triggers record displacement ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/un-warns-haitis-spiraling-gang-violence-triggers-record-displacement-and-global-alarm/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:06:55

• India ramps up security in Kashmir as manhunt continues ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250423-india-ramps-up-security-in-kashmir-as-manhunt-continues    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:07:18

• Dihydroxyacetone Man's foreign aid cuts are a 'slow-running disaster', former USAID administrator says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20250423-trump-s-foreign-aid-cuts-are-a-slow-running-disaster-former-usaid-administrator-says    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:07:48

• A trap? Behind Putin’s change of heart on direct talks with Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250423-why-putin-suddenly-accepted-speak-directly-ukraine-zelensky-trump-vance    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:10:55

• Nikas Safronov ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/23/trump-portrait-that-putin-gifted-to-u-s-president-was-done-by-artist-nikas-safronov-known-for-his-paintings-of-putin | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:11:51

• The Evertop: A Low-Power, Off-Grid Solar Gem ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/23/the-evertop-a-low-power-off-grid-solar-gem/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:12:12

• Peter Czanik: A call for testing the upcoming syslog-ng releases ☞ https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/a-call-for-testing-the-upcoming-syslog-ng-releases    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:14:11

• "prosecute Russia's top leadership" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/23/the-tribunal-for-putin-is-ready | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:14:41

• "foreign mercenaries from at least 48 nations" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/23/despite-putin-s-denials-russia-s-military-has-welcomed-foreign-mercenaries-from-at-least-48-nations-istories | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:14:55

• Dihydroxyacetone Man applies more pressure on Zelensky to reach Russia-Ukraine ceasefire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250424-trump-applies-more-pressure-on-zelensky-to-reach-russia-ukraine-ceasefire    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:15:04

• Ethical Zero Day Marketplace Desired Effect Emerges From Stealth ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ethical-zero-day-marketplace-desired-effect-emerges-from-stealth/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:15:55

• Kelly Benefits Data Breach Impacts 260,000 People ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/kelly-benefits-data-breach-impacts-260000-people/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:16:50

• How to use content templates in Red Bait Insights ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/23/how-use-content-templates-red-hat-insights    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:17:10

• Cracking the code: How neural networks might actually “think” ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/22/how-neural-networks-might-actually-think    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:17:17

• foss-north 2025 ☞ https://www.thelins.se/johan/blog/2025/04/foss-north-2025/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:18:19

• Cyberattack Hits British Retailer Marks & Spencer ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-hits-british-retailer-marks-spencer/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:18:52

• Data Breach at Onsite Mammography Impacts 350,000 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/data-breach-at-onsite-mammography-impacts-350000/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:19:01

• As the Signalgate Scandal Grows, American Oversight Continues Investigations of Mismanagement at Hegseth’s Pentagon ☞ https://americanoversight.org/as-the-signalgate-scandal-grows-american-oversight-continues-investigations-of-mismanagement-at-hegseths-pentagon/    

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

• Study Reveals a Shocking Amount of Plastic in The Arteries of Stroke Patients ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-a-shocking-amount-of-plastic-in-the-arteries-of-stroke-patients    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:20:50

• Attackers hit security device defects hard in 2024 ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/mandiant-m-trends-2025/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:21:39

• Gas diplomacy: A blueprint for Middle East peace and global energy security ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/gas-diplomacy-a-blueprint-for-middle-east-peace-and-global-energy-security/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:21:59

• Illicit mineral supply chains fuel the DRC’s M23 insurgency ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/illicit-mineral-supply-chains-fuel-the-drcs-m23-insurgency/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:22:08

• Australia-India defence cooperation should be about more than navies ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-india-defence-cooperation-should-be-about-more-than-navies/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:22:33

• On TikTok, Chinese Manufacturers Open a New Line in the Trade War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/chinese-factories-tiktok-trade-war.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:23:16

• Warner Music Group Files $24 Million Lawsuit Against Crumbl Cookies Over Alleged Fentanylware (TikTok) and Instagram Infringement ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/23/warner-music-group-sues-crumbl-cookies/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 06:23:44

• "Valve released a small stable update to the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck, along with another one-fix Beta update for Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steam-client-update-brings-fixes-for-screenshots-notes-and-more-for-steam-deck-and-desktops/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:49:39

• "The latest point and click adventure from Wadjet Eye Games is out now with Old Skies sending you through time. It has Native Linux support and is Steam Deck Verified." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/time-travel-adventure-old-skies-from-wadjet-eye-games-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:50:10

• "Survival strategy base-builder Final Outpost: Definitive Edition from Exabyte Games is the expanded and upgraded version of their popular mobile game. They've now announced the full PC release with Native Linux support will arrive on May 22nd." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/popular-mobile-game-final-outpost-definitive-edition-gets-a-pc-release-on-may-22/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:50:25

• "Insectile is an upcoming game that blends together exploration, creature collection and puzzle battles into what looks like quite a unique and charming experience." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/check-out-the-unique-demo-for-insectile-a-bug-catching-creature-collection-game-with-puzzle-battles/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:50:40

• "KOEI TECMO recently released a small update for DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS that released in January, making it more playable on Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/dynasty-warriors-origins-fixes-issues-with-amd-fsr3-on-steam-deck-and-adds-a-photo-mode/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:52:17

• "Ukraine’s innovative army can help Europe defend itself against Russia" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-innovative-army-can-help-europe-defend-itself-against-russia/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:53:46

• "The defence ministry said a new infantry battalion would be created to ensure a "continuous military presence" on the strategic island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea." https://www.thelocal.dk/20250424/denmark-to-add-5000-military-positions-and-permanent-bornholm-presence    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:54:03

• "Swedish [NATO] jets intercept Russian reconnaissance plane over Baltic Sea" https://www.thelocal.se/20250424/swedish-nato-jets-intercept-russian-reconnaissance-plane-over-baltic-sea    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:54:18

• "Putin’s gift of a Trump portrait plays to the vanity of a president" https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250424-putin-gift-trump-portrait-plays-vanity-of-president-russia    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:55:00

• "Trump signs education orders, including overhaul of college accreditations • Michigan Advance" https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/24/repub/trump-signs-education-orders-including-overhaul-of-college-accreditations/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:56:00

• "Trump signs education orders, including overhaul of college accreditations" https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/04/23/repub/trump-signs-education-orders-including-overhaul-of-college-accreditations/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:56:12

• "The Controversial History of the Word ‘Hillbilly,’ Which Was First Defined in Print 125 Years Ago" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/the-controversial-history-of-the-word-hillbilly-which-was-first-defined-in-print-125-years-ago-180986487/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:59:42

• "Polterguys: Possession Party from Madorium Ltd is a party game that's highly competitive." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/polterguys-possession-party-is-a-funny-competitive-party-game-worth-a-look/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 08:59:55

• "11 bit studios have announced today that their popular city building survival strategy game Frostpunk from 2018 is getting a remake in Unreal Engine 5." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/11-bit-studios-are-remaking-the-original-frostpunk-in-unreal-engine-5-with-frostpunk-1886/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:15:00

• "As Discord forces in more adverts and paid customization towards becoming a public company the CEO and Co-Founder, Jason Citron, has announced they're stepping down as CEO." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/discord-ceo-steps-down-replaced-with-former-activision-blizzard-cso-as-they-work-towards-being-a-public-company/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:15:10

• "Come and see what Valve have been rating Steam Deck Verified recently, and perhaps you might just find your next game to play through. All games will work on Desktop Linux too thanks to Valve's Proton." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steam-deck-verified-round-up-highlights-for-late-april-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:15:30

• "Barotrauma devs FakeFish recently revealed Frostrail during the Triple-I Initiative event, and they're giving a "tentative yes" for Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/frostrail-from-the-devs-of-barotrauma-eager-to-support-linux-with-a-tentative-yes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:15:45

• "NVIDIA sent out a security bulletin today to reveal a fresh security flaw found in their Linux GPU drivers. So it’s time to get updating again to be safe." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/nvidia-disclose-new-security-flaw-in-their-linux-gpu-drivers/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:16:19

• "Trump Is Attempting to Use Wartime Powers in the U.S." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/alien-enemies-act-trump/682565/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:35:47

• "Trump Sees Eye-to-Eye With Russia on Crimea’s Status, Kremlin Says - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/24/trump-sees-eye-to-eye-with-russia-on-crimeas-status-kremlin-says-a88860    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:36:57

• "Youtube i det fria ordets tjänst" | Youtube in the service of free speech https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/04/24/youtube-i-det-fria-ordets-tjanst/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:37:22

• "Bankerne hader Dankortet, afsnit 728 | Version2" | The banks hate the Dankort, episode 728 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/bankerne-hader-dankortet-afsnit-728    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:38:06

• "Europe hits Apple, Meta with huge [sic] fines" https://techcentral.co.za/europe-hits-apple-meta-with-huge-fines/262686/ see instead: $124,300,000,000 in 2024 net sales https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000320193/000032019325000008/aapl-20241228.htm#i248a31500c42474f94fb8d3d2dd90051_13    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:38:32

• "In defense of ‘boring’: A European leader’s message to Trump" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/in-defense-of-boring-a-european-leaders-message-to-trump/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:38:45

• """But overall, the options seem thin. Unix hosting is no longer a commodity.""" https://oils.pub/blog/2025/02/shared-hosting.html ("Comments on Shared Unix Hosting vs. the Cloud".)    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:39:30

• iophk:L the goals was nothing other than to reposition troops https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-cynical-easter-ceasefire-stunt-backfires-as-zelenskyy-calls-his-bluff/ ("Putin’s cynical Easter ceasefire stunt backfires as Zelenskyy calls his bluff")    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:42:01

• iophk: Microsoft Edge _*is*_ modified Chromium, just like Chrome is. https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/openai_chrome_interest/ ("OpenAI exec signals interest in Chrome")    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:43:41

• "Elon Musk’s grip on government via DOGE [sic] unraveled as Tesla stock sank" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/24/elon-musk-doge-scott-bessent-tesla/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:44:16

• "Trump Is a Virus - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-virus    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:44:39

• "US calls EU fines on Apple and Meta 'economic extortion'" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-calls-eu-fines-apple-meta-economic-extortion-2025-04-23/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:45:34

• "Finland loses faith in US defence support" https://yle.fi/a/74-20157837    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:45:46

• "rpi-connect and rpi-connect-lite 2.5.0" https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=387022    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:45:57

• "A recent Politico article (4/16/25) gave readers an excellent lesson in how not to report on a poll—unless the goal is to push politicians to the right, rather than reflect how voters are truly feeling." ☛ https://fair.org/home/politico-plays-with-polling-to-manufacture-trump-resistance-fatigue/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:51:41

• "This week, young people participating in the European Astro Pi Challenge 2024/25 will have their programs run in space." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-countdown-begins-astro-pi-participants-to-have-their-programs-run-in-space/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:52:04

• "I’m trying to get this blog up and running again." ☛ https://www.respectfulinsolence.com/2025/04/25/the-mercola-tapes-a-wealthy-antivax-quack-scammed/ |    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:52:49

• "So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/pirate-code-font/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 09:59:50

• "Twenty years ago, the statement "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" launched one of the most iconic anti-piracy campaigns." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-but-would-you-pirate-a-font-250424/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:00:06

• "forcing him to sell parts of his catalogue of music will accomplish nothing." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/23/mariah-carey-lawsuit-legal-fees/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:00:25

• "Leaks can be both embarrassing and aggrevating for any content producer, though we often see the most anger over this sort of thing coming from large corporate interests." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/nintendo-once-again-seeking-to-unmask-discord-user-for-leaking-content/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:00:53

• "The rulings against Google’s illegal monopoly in digital advertising offer a once-in-a-generation chance to redesign the infrastructure of surveillance that underpins Google’s ill-gotten dominance." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/google-broke-the-law-its-time-to-break-up-the-company | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:01:29

• "Apple was fined €500-million (R10.6-billion) on Wednesday and Meta Platforms €200-million as EU antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/europe-hits-apple-meta-with-huge-fines/262686/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:01:39

• "that citizens have full control over when and how their data is used online, and businesses can freely communicate with their own customers" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/eu-fines-apple-meta-1.7516164 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:01:54

• "Today, the European Commission found that Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and that Meta breached the DMA obligation to give consumers the choice of a service that uses less of their personal data." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1085 | Source: European Commission    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:02:15

• "I love good television and movies" ☛ https://schwarztech.net/articles/or-you-live-long-enough-to-see-yourself-become-the-villain | Source: SchwarzTech    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:05:30

• "In the context of streaming media, I use the term “slopping the trough” to refer to that third phase" ☛ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/slopping-the-trough-disney-plus-loses-billions-and-the-decline-of-physical-media-in-america/ | Source: DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer)    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:05:45

• "It does not, however, mean that more than 50 percent of devices in APNIC’s service area – 56 countries that span from Afghanistan to Oceania – rely on IPv6." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/apnic_half_ipv6_capable/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:06:06

• "But so far in 2025, there have been no new shutdowns, according to Cloudflare’s Q1 2025 Internet disruption summary." ☛ https://therecord.media/government-internet-shutdowns-slow-in-2025 | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:06:23

• "I understand that my switching to Linux won’t really fix the basic problem that large corporations are bad for society." ☛ https://ankursethi.com/blog/the-tools-i-love-are-made-by-awful-people/ |    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:07:51

• "It appears to be part of a broader effort to create an unwelcoming and hostile environment for noncitizens" ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detain-kseniia-petrova-protest-harvard-cancer-research-rcna202180 | Source: NBC    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:08:01

• "We spoke about a new dataset she helped create to test how AI models continue perpetuating stereotypes." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bias-spreading-stereotypes-across-languages-and-cultures-margaret-mitchell/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:08:18

• "There’s absolutely no reason to trust that tech elites have any wisdom to offer when it comes to alleviating human suffering" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/future-doesnt-have-to-be-dystopian-says-ruha-benjamin/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:09:12

• "we were then a tiny team in Brussels trying to figure out whether this recipe that had worked so successfully in America could be transported to Europe" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/politico-10-years-europe-growth-kate-day-doge-subscriptions/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:12:38

• "So, having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/60-minutes-bill-owens-producer-trump | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:13:17

• "Instead of tackling any of this, new Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has spent the lion’s share of his first months in office engaged in erratic authoritarian zealotry" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/fcc-boss-brendan-carr-whines-about-accurate-comcast-nbc-reporting-that-made-donald-trump-sad/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:13:36

• "the most transparent organization in government ever" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-doge-trump-officials-for-violating-federal-records-act/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:13:56

• "DOGE [sic] has claimed that it is not subject to either the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/dont-believe-doge-when-it-says-it-isnt-an-agency-it-is-and-thats-important/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:14:32

• "It comes as Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, plans to introduce a new definition of Islamophobia, which critics have warned could amount to a de facto blasphemy law." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/24/badenoch-fear-labour-erode-free-speech-blasphemy-laws/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:15:54

• "The complaint, filed in US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, follows an April 11 letter from the Trump administration demanding changes to the university’s leadership structure, admissions polices, and approach to campus activism" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/harvard-sues-trump-administration-over-2-2-billion-research-funding-freeze/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:16:26

• "There are so many details here that are hard to believe but apparently true." ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/04/24/careless-people/ | Source: Michael Tsai    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:16:35

• "The language is coded, but definitely not clever." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/federal-prosecutor-fires-off-letter-to-medical-journals-asking-about-their-policies-on-competing-viewpoints/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:19:30

• "Young adults around the world are increasingly taking health decisions into their own hands" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/24/trust-health-advice-gen-z-edelman | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:20:39

• "Following events like this, images and videos begin to circulate on social media — content creators are eager to gain views and increase their number of followers." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-fake-videos-falsely-linked-to-turkey-earthquake/a-72336047 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:24:19

• "Another great explainer is Bruce Schneier, the security expert." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/#simpler-times | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:25:12

• "Ofcom has the authority to issue fines or apply to the courts to block access to non-compliant sites in the UK." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ofcom-online-child-safety-rules/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:25:45

• "The latest update to Microsoft 365 Copilot brings AI-powered search, so-called reasoning agents, and a new Agent Store. Some users already have access to certain features, while others may have to wait through May." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/microsoft_365_copilot_agent_refresh/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:25:56

• "Jason Citron, a cofounder of the popular social chat app Discord, stepped down as the company's chief executive on Wednesday, a significant management shake-up ahead of Discord's potential public offering." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ceo-steps-down-at-discord-the-social-chat-app/articleshow/120567149.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:26:18

• "But now the sweeping tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump could counter this trend, as companies might pause orders fearing price increases." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/nokia-flags-disruption-from-trumps-tariffs-on-q1-profit-miss/articleshow/120572784.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:28:04

• "Letters like this are an example of things that fit solidly within normal legislative effort that help with messaging in the short term but might serve as a powerful lever down the road." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/24/16-house-dems-ask-law-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-if-theyve-thought-about-their-bribery-exposure/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:28:40

• "Chipmaker Intel announced significant spending cuts Thursday that will shrink its workforce this quarter" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/24/intel-cuts-manufacturing-trump/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:29:39

• "Madhu Gottumukkala has been named deputy director" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-gets-new-no-2-madhu-gottumukkala/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:30:03

• "For a long time, investors were happy enough to pour money into OpenAI despite a structure that didn’t put their interests first" ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/410261/openai-non-profit-transition-letter-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:40:49

• "RadicallyOpenSecurity performed an external crystal-box security audit of the GNU Taler iOS wallet (excluding wallet-core) funded by NGI." ☛ https://www.taler.net/en/news/2025-02.html |    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:41:44

• "I’d heard how the track was notoriously muddy and rough. With the side tracks and without skipping huts it would take 11 days" ☛ https://robert.ocallahan.org/2025/04/nw-circuit.html | Source: Robert OCallahan    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:42:02

• "Modern cloud data centers not only consume an immense amount of power for computing and cooling, but also a significant amount of water, as most use evaporative liquid cooling." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-aims-to-solve-ais-water-consumption-problems-with-direct-to-chip-cooling-claims-300x-improvement-with-closed-loop-systems | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:42:26

• "With the rising Bitcoin price movement, the downtrend of Invesco CoinShares Global Blockchain ETF has been fading and has moved to the consolidation phase." ☛ https://datageeek.com/2025/04/24/bollinger-bands-invesco-coinshares-etf/ | Source: DataGeeek    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:42:41

• "Krysta Tsukahara was a backseat passenger in the Cybertruck." ☛ https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/piedmont-cybertruck-crash-victims-family-demands-answers/ |    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:51:03

• "On Wednesday, the team behind the official Donald Trump memecoin sparked a trading frenzy after announcing that the investors who held the largest amount of the [cryptocurrency] coin" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-memecoin-dinner-winners/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:51:33

• "On Tuesday, the company revealed that its net income had plummeted by an astonishing 71 percent. Sales have plummeted across the globe as consumers are becoming wary of being associated with the highly divisive personality." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-problem-republicans-teslas | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:52:46

• On IBM: "it's called "winning" but in a negative direction" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsne585r    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:53:48

• "No fossil fuel interest or government can stop the world from working toward a clean energy future, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday after holding a closed-door virtual meeting" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/clean-energy-future-guterres.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:56:28

• "Cycling advocates celebrated an Earth Day win earlier this week after a judge granted a temporary injunction preventing the Ontario government from tearing out three Toronto bike lanes." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/toronto-bike-lane-removal-blocked-by-temporary-injunction/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:56:41

• "U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich, and U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich spoke on the importance of protecting environmental policy." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arbor/local-ann-arbor-environmental-organizations-come-together-for-earth-day-march/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:57:04

• "Hegseth’s use of the unclassified app" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/04/25/hegseth-reportedly-had-unsecured-internet-line-in-office-for-signal/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:57:54

• "authorities rapidly changed the criminal offense underpinning the accusation against Bini" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/six-years-dangerous-misconceptions-targeting-ola-bini-and-digital-rights-ecuador | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:58:21

• Overpopulation ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/musks-high-tech-polygamy-dead-end/682559/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 10:59:05

• "Its 2025 survey about the use of mobile phones by children found that about a quarter of kids aged 5-6 have a phone, while 58 percent of 7-year-olds have one" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20157853 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:00:40

• "The primary difference between a regional and standard hierarchy is the decentralization of power, the process of allowing local organizations and group leaders to wield considerable independence and autonomy over a specific geographical region (Le, 2012, p. 123).‌" ☛ https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/04/24/the-taliban-from-ideological-insurgents-to-organized-crime-syndicate/ | Source: Modern Diplomacy    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:03:49

• "In April 1915, the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic extermination of its civilian Armenian population. The persecutions continued with varying intensity until 1923, when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/human-rights/110-years-ago-the-armenian-genocide-79025 | Source: ANF News    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:04:55

• "They were either killed or sent on deadly marches into the Syrian desert, deprived of food and water." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250424-grief-and-discontent-as-armenia-marks-wwi-mass-murders-anniversary | Source: France24    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:05:31

• "US President Donald Trump on Thursday steered clear of describing the Ottoman Empire's World War I-era mass killings of Armenians as "genocide," a reversal from his predecessor Joe Biden." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250424-trump-goes-mum-on-armenian-genocide-after-biden-recognition | Source: France24    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:05:55

• "She pointed to an expert report from William Leonard, who worked 29 years at the Department of Defense in personnel security and characterized Trump's conduct as a throwback to the Red Scare. He added that such blanket suspensions actually harm national security efforts." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judges-skeptical-of-trump-crackdown-on-law-firms/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:06:23

• "My class is cross-listed in computer science, communication and public policy, but really it’s a history class." ☛ https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/24/aixdemocracy-what-are-the-politics-of-ai/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:06:51

• "The Supreme Court has issued a unanimous 9-0 order demanding that the administration return Abrego García to the United States." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-republic-hinges-on-this-case | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:07:18

• "The GSA, which manages federal office buildings and IT, was an early DOGE [sic] target, with Musk-linked individuals swiftly infiltrating the agency after Trump took office." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-mystery-general-services-administration/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:08:15

• "Cheeto has bought out, driven off, or fired tens of thousands of federal employees, and although courts have ordered some of them reinstated, he has transformed—perhaps permanently—the federal bureaucracy." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/project-2025-goals-trump-presidency/682597/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:08:51

• "Besides finding little in terms of actual "waste and fraud" and massively cutting his ambitions down from $2 trillion to a mere $150 billion earlier this month, Musk's actions have had little to show except endless drama and suffering." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-doge-dismal-failure | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:09:13

• "Today, Lithuanians see a Russia that is in it for the long haul in a battle of attrition with the West." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/dispatch-from-the-kaliningrad-border-russia-is-fighting-a-long-battle-of-attrition-with-the-west/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:09:44

• "LinkedIn is expanding its free verification system to the wider web, allowing external sites and platforms to integrate LinkedIn verification rather than building their own tool." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/655233/linkedin-verification-external-platforms-adobe | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:11:40

• "End to end, the attack works as follows. Insert a malicious tool description into an MCP server and wait for it to be installed in a user’s environment." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/23/how-mcp-servers-can-steal-your-conversation-history/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:11:57

• "including finding the physical location of people who are marked for deportation." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-police-state-powered-by-palantir/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:14:04

• "OpenAI has mused in the past about creating its own web browser and even hired a few Google developers to that end." ☛ https://futurism.com/openai-chrome-google-antitrust | Source: Futurism | it is BLUFFING. http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:14:46

• "Secret data collection. To find out more about Ubisoft’s data collection and tracking practices, the complainant filed an access request under Article 15 GDPR." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/play-alone-ubisoft-still-watching-you | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:15:17

• Privateering ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20157936 | Source: YLE    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:15:42

• Windows TCO: "Spanish entities have regularly been hit by ransomware attacks in recent years" ☛ https://therecord.media/cyberattack-water-supplier-barcelona-spain | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:16:25

• Windows TCO: "steep rise in cybercrime-related losses and spotlighting the growing challenges in securing the digital lives of individuals and businesses across the globe." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/fbi-cybercrime-reprot/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:16:47

• Windows TCO: "According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, most cybercrime victimisation went unreported to police or to ReportCyber, meaning official statistics significantly underestimate the size of the problem." ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/organisations-need-to-stop-burying-cyber-attacks.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:17:45

• Windows TCO: "Global payment platform Adyen has confirmed it was the target of a Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on April 21, 2025, which disrupted services for several customers across Europe." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/adyen-cyberattack-cause-transaction-failures/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:18:10

• Windows TCO: "In breach notification documents filed in multiple states, the city said 470,060 people had sensitive data accessed by hackers who breached government systems during a cyberattack in November 2023." ☛ https://therecord.media/long-beach-california-data-breach-announcement | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:18:40

• Windows TCO: "The Interlock ransomware gang, which claims to have stolen 1.51 terabytes of data from Davita, posted samples of the stolen information." ☛ https://therecord.media/dialysis-davita-reviewing-data-leak | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:18:58

• Windows TCO: "The telecom giant published its 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) on Wednesday, featuring an analysis of over 22,000 security incidents and 12,195 confirmed data breaches." ☛ https://therecord.media/ransomware-in-half-of-all-data-breaches-verizon | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:19:17

• Windows TCO: "YNHHS may have been targeted in a ransomware attack, but no known cybercrime group has taken credit for it. If it was indeed a ransomware attack, the healthcare organization may have decided to pay a ransom to avoid a data leak." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/5-5-million-patients-affected-by-data-breach-at-yale-new-haven-health/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:19:30

• Social Control Media ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0424/holocaust-survivor-tiktok-influencer | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:20:00

• "YouTube has evolved into not a mere tech operation, but a formidable force in television." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-04-23/two-decades-ago-youtube-uploaded-its-first-video-now-its-a-tv-juggernaut | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:20:42

• "What, exactly, does a social network do? Is it a website that connects people with one another online" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/mark-zuckerberg-says-social-media-is-over | Source: New Yorker    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:21:20

• "The first YouTube video ever is a grainy, 19-second clip of elephants at the San Diego Zoo. It was uploaded on April 23, 2005, by YouTube founder Jawed Karim" ☛ https://www.pcmag.com/news/youtube-turns-20-watch-the-first-video-ever-uploaded-to-the-site | Source: PC Mag    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:21:54

• "Closing Plenary: A Conversation on Cybersecurity, Essential Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education, and Resilience" ☛ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=8HbqsT9Grjc |    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:58:07

• "Jen Easterly championed this issue as the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security director during the Biden administration, wrangling more than 150 technology vendors into signing CISA's Secure By Design Pledge with its voluntary guidelines to incentivize secure development practices." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/exnsa_boss_ai/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:58:33

• "Many exam questions had typos or were just nonsense. Some candidates said the questions read like they’d been quickly cobbled together with an AI or something." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/24/california-bar-exam-a-technical-disaster-with-ai-written-nonsense-questions/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:59:12

• "The report highlights major bot attack trends and real-world attack data observed during the 2024 online holiday shopping season." ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-research/radware-finds-57-of-online-shopping-traffic-now-bots,-not-buyers.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 11:59:46

• "Like biological fossils trapped in rock, these digital artefacts may become permanent fixtures in our information ecosystem." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-phrase-keeps-turning-up-in-scientific-papers-but-why | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:01:04

• "Apple also made it easier for users to change default settings for calling, messaging, call filtering, keyboards, password managers, and translation services on iPhones." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1086 | Source: European Commission    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:01:45

• "I’ve fallen into a bit of a trap again with apps – lock in. As I moved away from paper to digital again recently it was a chance to get back into testing and messing with apps." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2025/04/24/choosing-cross-platform/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:02:41

• "From your driveway to your bedroom, this website may publish video from your cameras showing you in your home – and it's easy to get access to" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/security-cameras/warning-feel-like-youre-being-watched-by-your-home-cameras-well-you-might-be | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:05:03

• "One example: in third-party environments, the median time to remediate leaked secrets, such as API keys or tokens discovered in public GitHub repositories, was 94 days, giving attackers ample opportunity to exploit them." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/security_snafus_third_parties/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:05:19

• "Fujitsu has won a £125 million ($167 million) contract to build Northern Ireland's new land registry system, despite promising not to bid for UK public sector work in the wake of the Post Office Horizon scandal." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/fujitsu_northern_reland/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:05:48

• "I've done most of my testing with timing-centric u-blox receivers, but I wanted to see how accurate a cheap $10 dongle would be" ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/trying-out-cheap-usb-vk-172-gps-dongle-on-mac | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:06:15

• "When the recipient is not a Gmail user, Gmail sends them an invitation to view the E2EE email in a restricted version of Gmail" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/gmail-end-to-end-encryption-scams/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:06:32

• "On February 11, 2025, Blue Shield discovered that, between April 2021 and January 2024" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/blue-shield-of-california-data-breach-impacts-4-7-million-people/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:07:04

• "This suggests that the problem is not the devices themselves, but rather your habits and time management. Concentration issues seem to be more related to your environment and activities than to the technology itself." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2025/04/24/hiding-your-phone-doesnt-help.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:11:52

• "Dear Annie: In a nutshell: I have been off social media for about five years" ☛ https://www.mlive.com/advice/2025/04/dear-annie-postcards-over-posts.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:12:29

• "And with that setup, I was able to record my cat's heartbeat using Audacity on my Debian KDE machine. Of course, getting my cat to cooperate was a challenge." ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1075/diy-digital-stethoscope-for-cats | Source: David Revoy    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:36:39

• "With vaccination rates among US kindergarteners steadily declining in recent years and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowing to reexamine the childhood vaccination schedule" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-say-measles-likely-to-become-endemic-in-us-polio-diphtheria-rubella/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:37:04

• "Lenovo, HP, and Dell, the world's three largest PC vendors, are reportedly exploring expansion options in Saudi Arabia" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/top-pc-oems-reportedly-planning-saudi-arabia-plants-to-avoid-us-tariffs-lenovo-hp-dell-exploring-options-as-panic-continues | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:37:41

• "Test scores began going down after 2012" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/23/hugh-grant-screen-obsessed-schools-are-ruining-our-children/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:38:27

• "The Library of Congress has been holding the National Book Festival for 25 years and they are celebrating with resources for you." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/04/be-gate-opener-using-the-library-of.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:38:51

• "The US has effectively given up on trying to be competitive with the other leading economies of the world and the EU has a very short grace period" ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/innovation-trust/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:39:17

• "What does work-life balance even mean when both sides of that equation are so hopelessly commingled that both words effectively describe the same thing?" ☛ https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/shut-up-and-dance/ | Source: Scott Smitelli    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:39:42

• "They are cancelling out on conferences and on going to seminars. It's just not worth the risk." ☛ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41619709.html | Source: Irish Examiner    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:40:12

• "I assumed I’d misheard, but no: rubber ducking is a technique that is commonly used by coders." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/24/rubber-ducking-for-research-communication-why-explaining-to-nobody-helps-you-explain-to-anybody/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:40:53

• "Sometimes the links are random, but often they comment somehow on the list of 10." ☛ https://austinkleon.com/2025/04/24/easter-eggs/ | Source: Austin Kleon    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:41:04

• "I would have to say almost at the same time I was starting to read and write." ☛ https://alexandrawolfe.ca/blog-question-challenge-tech-edition/ | Source: Alexandra Wolfe    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:41:38

• "But Zied’s implementation is different and a lot more accessible. Rather than actually powering the computer, the bicycle simply controls software running on the computer and that software simulates the effects of power loss." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/04/25/keep-pedaling-if-you-want-your-computer-to-stay-on/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:53:40

• "Next time I think I’m going to skip the original roughing step and just cut out spool-sized blanks from the cylinder, drill the center hole, and then put them on the lathe to cut the line groove and sand them." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2025/04/24/turning-smaller-tenkara-line-spools/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:53:50

• Red Hat is all about the buzzwords while IBM FLOUNDERS. "Red Hat AI learning hub" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/8-enterprise-ai-stories-you-dont-want-miss | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 12:56:23

• Adrian Bridgwater now does his corporate stenography for another domain sponsored by the same company it covers; this is marketing, which the sponsors later links to https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/cloudnativedevelopment/kubernetes/the-evolution-of-kubernetes-workload-patterns/ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-april-25-2025    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:00:42

• New C++ features in GCC 15 ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/24/new-c-features-gcc-15    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:05:54

• Evaluating memory overcommitment in OpenShift Virtualization ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/24/evaluating-memory-overcommitment-openshift-virtualization    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:07:45

• April 2025 PeeringDB product update ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/25/april-2025-peeringdb-product-update/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:10:16

• 🔤SpellBinding: CILMPTS Wordo: MAYOR gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-25.gmi    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:21:04

• How the CNA thing is working out ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/24/how-the-cna-thing-is-working-out/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:36:32

• Daikhan – video and music player ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/daikhan-video-music-player/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:37:13

• Galene is an easy to deploy videoconference server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/galene-easy-deploy-videoconference-server/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:37:33

• Flyby tracks and predicts passes of satellites in Earth orbit ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/flyby-tracks-predicts-satellites/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:41:55

• Chawan is a terminal-based web browser ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chawan-terminal-based-web-browser/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:42:30

• Linux Show Player is a cue player designed for stage productions ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-show-player-cue-player-stage-productions/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:44:40

• 20 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux GUI Time Tracking Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/timetracking/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:44:48

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

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 13:44:57

• "DNS nameservers are crucial for the reachability of domain names." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/24/monitoring-highly-distributed-dns-deployments-challenges-and-recommendations/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:51:21

• "It's a modern, compatible implementation of Unix shell." ☛ https://oils.pub/osh.html |    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:52:04

• "Cloudflare’s Captcha solutions are one of the biggest hurdles Python developers usually face while writing a web scraper." ☛ https://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/using-scraperapi-to-bypass-cloudflare-in-python/ | Source: Adnan Siddiqi    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:52:25

• "You are given a string of lowercase letters." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/reverse-position.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:53:01

• "Recently I got a question on formal methods1: how does it help to mathematically model systems when the system requirements are constantly changing?" ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/requirements-change-until-they-dont/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:53:49

• [Old] "Feature flags (or toggles) are often used to control the visibility of new features in a product." ☛ https://code.mendhak.com/hardcode-feature-flags/ |    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:54:27

• "Unlike the official megaparsec tutorial, this blog post is intended to be smaller, and is aimed at an audience with only a basic understanding of Haskell and monadic programming." ☛ https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-04-24-minimal-megaparsec-tutorial/ | Source: Modus Create LLC    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:55:02

• "Version 0.111 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated, with additional useful information in the commit message): [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250424051742 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:55:23

• [Old] "There was a problem that I noticed right away, though: this text was from the GPL v3, not the GPL v2. In my original request I had never mentioned the GPL version I was asking about." ☛ https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/ |    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:57:11

• "The case is likely to be heard in court in March or April 2026." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/qualcomm_arm_licensing_lawsuit_amendment/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:57:30

• "If you’re into static site tech, you might enjoy blog post." ☛ https://kristoff.it/blog/announcing-zig-day/ | Source: Loris Cro    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:59:33

• "There are various ways to create menus in Hugo." ☛ https://harrycresswell.com/writing/hugo-menus-in-cloudcannon/ | Source: Harry Cresswell    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 14:59:54

• "Because of PostgreSQL’s popularity, we were not the first to develop a PostgreSQL compatible database system." ☛ https://cedardb.com/blog/postgres_compatibility/ | Source: CedarDB    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:00:28

• "The reality of the modern Internet is that browsers are load bearing infrastructure" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ChromeOwnershipAndBrowserCosts | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:01:15

• "Chrome is the most popular browser in the world by a considerable margin." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/openai_chrome_interest/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:01:34

• "Security engineer Alex Haydock found a discarded “sacrificial Wii” at the 2024 Electromagnetic Field festival swap shop" ☛ https://www.404media.co/this-website-is-running-on-a-wii/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:02:28

• "At work I still mainly use Chrome and I when I try to use Floorp there is something I miss from Chrome Network devtools" ☛ https://www.johanbleuzen.fr/blog/filtering-specific-requests-browsers-network-devtools | Source: Johan Bleuzen    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:02:42

• "Immich, an open-source, self-hosted photo and video backup solution often pitched as a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Photos" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/immich-1-132-brings-smoother-syncing-mobile-ui-enhancements/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:04:35

• "I have recently been asked by the Panoptykon Foundation if it was possible to create an online age verification system that would not be a privacy nightmare." ☛ https://rys.io/en/178.html | Source: Michał Woźniak    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:10:29

• "Lauren Goode: And that's the best-case scenario, if you're a US citizen. You can decline the search. You can still be allowed in." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-phone-privacy-us-border-travel/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:10:54

• "Yeah, I know — it probably feels like these Alpha releases are never-ending. But good news: it looks like this is the final Alpha! Next up is the big Beta release. All this, of course, pending the official word from System76: [...]" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-alpha-7-released-next-stop-beta/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:12:35

• "ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!" ☛ https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta/ | Source: System76    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:12:41

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

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:15:58

• How To Install Kernel Headers on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-kernel-headers-debian-12/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:16:38

• "The storage drives connected to my servers are LUKS-encrypted which means every time the server restarts I need to manually decrypt and then mount them." ☛ https://chuck.is/auto-mounting-luks/ | Source: Chuck Carroll    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:26:57

• How To Install Arduino IDE on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-arduino-ide-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:27:25

• "Any authentication and authorization framework, such as OIDC, needs a way for the identity provider (an 'OIDC OP') to provide information about the person or thing that was just authenticated." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OIDCManyPathsToClaims | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:28:14

• "HTML elements can have attributes. For example id, class, src, alt, and many others." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/html-oddities-does-the-order-of-attribute-values-matter/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:28:25

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

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:28:38

• How To Fix Exit Code 127: Fixing File or Directory Not Found Error ☞ https://idroot.us/fix-exit-code-127/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 15:28:53

• What Indian enterprises can learn from IBM’s digital transformation https://www.india.com/money/what-indian-enterprises-can-learn-from-ibms-digital-transformation-venkata-turlapati-on-modernizing-revenue-systems-for-long-term-success-7696329/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:14:09

• NASSCOM staff more interested in doing photo ops with Bill 'Epstein' Gates than in serving the country's interests    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:15:21

• "the latest versions can be implanted on anyone’s device anywhere in the world and as we speak, there is literally no defence against it." ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/04/ron-deibert-on-cbc-ideas-spyware-abusers-can-easily-hack-your-phone-and-surveil-you/ | Source: Citizen Lab    

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

• "Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS, Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad, Motivations, Tinker Writer Deck, How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check, Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender, and more" ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/608 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:16:27

• "The solution is straightforward, and today, I’ll show you how to do this using systemd service units, but before we jump into that, let’s first take a quick look at what a service unit is and how it works." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/create-new-service-units-in-systemd/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:18:01

• "It’s the collaborative approach, working together working on shared goals." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/hitchhikers-guide-to-infrastructure-modernization | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:18:57

• A New Medical Discipline in Israel: How to Receive Hostages ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/world/middleeast/israel-hostages-return.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:30:04

• U.S. Says Deadly Blast in Yemen Was Caused by Houthi Missile ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/world/middleeast/us-yemen-houthi-misfire.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:30:15

• Federal Officials Promise to Restore Funding to Women’s Health Initiative ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/health/womens-health-initiative-cuts.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:30:39

• Ex-President Moon of South Korea Is Indicted on Bribery Charge ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/world/asia/south-korea-moon-indicted.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:31:06

• Former South Korea president Moon Jae-in indicted for corruption: Prosecution ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-prosecutors-indict-ex-president-moon-jae-in-for-bribery    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:31:14

• What’s on the table for US-South Korea trade talks? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/whats-on-the-table-for-us-south-korea-trade-talks    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:31:33

• South Korea, US aim for package deal before tariff pause ends in July, Seoul says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-us-aim-for-package-deal-before-tariff-pause-ends-in-july-seoul-says    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:31:57

• Malaysia’s Home Ministry to acquire 600 body-worn cameras for immigration officers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-home-ministry-to-acquire-600-body-worn-cameras-for-immigration-officers-says-saifuddin    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:32:45

• China weighs exempting some US goods from tariffs as costs rise ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-weighs-exempting-some-us-goods-from-tariffs-as-costs-rise    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:33:05

• China, ASEAN ‘politically committed’ to have legally binding sea code by 2026: Manila ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/04/25/south-china-sea-code-of-conduct/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:33:32

• China, Kenya upgrade ties amid 'turbulent international situation' ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-kenya-upgrade-ties-amid-turbulent-international-situation    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:34:21

• China military says it monitored US warship in Taiwan Strait ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-military-says-it-monitored-us-warship-in-taiwan-strait    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:34:30

• Beijing says claims of ongoing US-China trade talks ‘groundless’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/beijing-says-claims-of-ongoing-us-china-trade-talks-groundless    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:34:54

• “I’ve never seen it, I’ve never used a system that had it; I know it’s free software, so ethically speaking, it’s not an issue – it’s just a convenience question.” https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=123341    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:52:40

• From here: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2900305/stallman-joins-the-internet-talks-net-neutrality-patents-and-more.html "The systemd init software has rocked the Linux community, causing forks of popular distributions and sparking heated debate."    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:53:31

• rms is "wrong dept" for systemd complaints, due to IBM money https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Richard_Stallman_and_the_Unix_Philosophy.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Richard_Stallman_and_the_Unix_Philosophy.gmi ∎    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 16:55:04

• IBM is doomed. Instead of paying back the debt (with huge interest on it), CEO AK has been busy buying revenue by scooping up other companies, staff, while laying off his best (most "expensive") staff. Other companies tried this before and they don't exist anymore.    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 17:30:13

• China launches Shenzhou-20 mission to Chinese space station, state media report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-launches-shenzhou-20-mission-to-chinese-space-station-state-media-report    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 17:54:59

• China pushes for tariff cancellation to end US trade war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-pushes-for-tariff-cancellation-to-end-us-trade-war    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 17:55:19

• China to lend moon rocks to NASA-funded US universities ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-to-lend-moon-rocks-to-nasa-funded-us-universities    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 17:55:41

• Manila accuses Beijing of ‘sinister’ campaign to sway midterms, push South China Sea narratives ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/manila-accuses-beijing-of-sinister-campaign-to-sway-midterms-push-south-china-sea-narratives    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 17:56:04

• Australia plans critical minerals reserve to reduce global reliance on China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-plans-critical-minerals-reserve-to-reduce-global-reliance-on-china    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 17:58:29

• China’s Pooh-tin seeks detente with Europe as Convicted Felon’s tariffs alienate bloc ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-xi-seeks-detente-with-europe-as-trumps-tariffs-alienate-bloc "Chinese policymakers and business leaders are searching for new markets in Europe and beyond"    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 17:58:51

• Japan to resist Convicted Felon efforts to form trade bloc against China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-to-resist-trump-efforts-to-form-trade-bloc-against-china    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 17:59:12

• UK state energy company will not source solar panels made with slave labor from China ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/04/24/uyghur-uk-solar-panels-slave-labor/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 17:59:37

• China forces Weibo account for gay community to drop ‘comrade’ from name ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/24/china-gay-comrade-weibo-account-name/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:00:01

• Lithuanian businesses feel Chinese push to trade amid US tariff war ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2545459/lithuanian-businesses-feel-chinese-push-to-trade-amid-us-tariff-war    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:00:28

• Defending Taiwan means mobilizing society, not just the military ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/defending-taiwan-means-mobilizing-society-not-just-the-military/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:00:47

• From PostScript To PDF ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/from-postscript-to-pdf/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:04:02

• "Clever Hack Rescues Dead Light" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/a-bicycle-is-abandonware-now-clever-hack-rescues-dead-light/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:04:27

• IBM-sponsored LIES. When IBM bribes "the press". https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/23/ibm-beats-forecasts-says-well-positioned-weather-trade-war/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:04:59

• Scientists Spotted Signs of a Hidden Structure Inside Earth's Core ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-spotted-signs-of-a-hidden-structure-inside-earths-core    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:06:39

• Just 15 Extra Minutes of Sleep Is Linked to Brain Benefits in Young People ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/just-15-extra-minutes-of-sleep-is-linked-to-brain-benefits-in-young-people    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:06:49

• 'Bone Collector' Caterpillar Wears Dead Bugs to Steal Prey From Spiders ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bone-collector-caterpillar-wears-dead-bugs-to-steal-prey-from-spiders    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:07:02

• 113 Million-Year-Old 'Hell Ant' Discovery Is Oldest Ever Found ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/113-million-year-old-hell-ant-discovery-is-oldest-ever-found    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:08:09

• Study Reveals The Optimal Number of Daily Steps to Offset Sitting Down ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-the-optimal-number-of-daily-steps-to-offset-sitting-down    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:12:33

• Smart Brain Implants Can Now Adapt to Optimize Parkinson's Treatment ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/smart-brain-implants-can-now-adapt-to-optimize-parkinsons-treatment    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:12:42

• Rare 'Smiley Face' Moon About to Hit The Sky With Venus And Saturn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/rare-smiley-face-moon-about-to-hit-the-sky-with-venus-and-saturn    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:12:49

• "DolphinGemma Seeks To Speak To Dolphins" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/dolphingemma-seeks-to-speak-to-dolphins/ | Source: Hackaday    

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

• 3D Printing ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/3d-printing-a-useful-fixturing-tool/ | Source: Hackaday    

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

• Slop Coming For A DNA Sequence Near You ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/llms-coming-for-a-dna-sequence-near-you/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:14:33

• "popular recreation of the best selling computer of all time, the original Commodore 64. [10p6] enjoys hacking on this platform, and recently whipped up a new mod — adding a 9-pin Atari joystick connector for convenience." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/adding-an-atari-joystick-port-to-thec64-usb-joystick/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:14:55

• Facebook layoffs again https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/24/meta-cuts-jobs-at-reality-labs-oculus-studios-amid-financial-strain-xcxwbn/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:18:01

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

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:19:50

• Android and Windows about the same now in NL https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/netherlands/#monthly-200902-202504 psydroid / ping    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 18:22:00

• "Literalmente" gemini://texto-plano.xyz/kaod/gemlog/2025-04-25-literalmente-no-significa-literalmente-literalmente.gmi    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:06:16

• "The problem with many VPS providers is that they lack the possibility to use custom ISOs. Most of the time, the distributions that users can choose from are Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and sometimes a few others." gemini://camelia.dev/posts/freeing-a-vps-from-systemd-with-devuan.gmi    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:07:14

• Global Science & Technology News for Geminispace gemini://galaxyhub.uk/news/science/2025/May/caterpillar.gmi    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:08:14

• "The Advanced Chat Privacy setting, which is available for both individual chats and groups, will block people from exporting the chat or auto-downloading shared media." gemini://galaxyhub.uk/news/tech/2025/May/whatsapp.gmi    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:16:41

• A Claimed Hint of Alien Life Whips Up Spirited Debate gemini://galaxyhub.uk/news/science/2025/May/k2-18b_life.gmi    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:17:37

• “Well… it’s raining” gemini://tilde.team/~jmcs/gemlog/2025-04-25-well-its-raining.gmi    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:18:08

• China’s DeepSeek transferred South Korean user info overseas: Seoul regulator ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/24/china-deep-seek-south-korea-user-data/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:29:47

• Betharram affair: French PM Bayrou's daughter reveals she was a victim of abuse ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250424-betharram-affair-french-pm-bayrou-s-daughter-reveals-she-was-a-victim-of-abuse    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:30:05

• French PM Bayrou’s daughter reveals abuse at Catholic camp ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250424-french-pm-bayrou-s-daughter-reveals-abuse-at-catholic-camp    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:30:19

• Thai PM hospitalised with fever after returning from two-day visit to Cambodia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/thai-pm-hospitalised-with-fever-following-cambodia-trip    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:30:49

• Portable internet helps Asia scam centres bypass blackouts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/portable-internet-helps-asia-scam-centres-bypass-blackouts    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:31:00

• Japan urges G20 to stabilise markets, warns of US tariff damage ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/japan-urges-g20-to-stabilise-markets-warns-of-us-tariff-damage    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:32:25

• Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-ceo-announces-layoffs-restructuring-expanded-return-to-office-mandate    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:33:21

• VulnCheck spotted 159 actively exploited vulnerabilities in first few months of 2025 ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/vulncheck-known-exploited-cves-q1-2025/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:33:53

• Intel’s stock dives on lower guidance as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan outlines long-term vision ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/24/intels-stock-dives-lower-guidance-new-ceo-lip-bu-tan-outlines-long-term-vision/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:35:14

• Who thought that Intel's Hey Hi (AI) hype would not salvage it??? Defective strategy. Defective chipmaker.    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:36:31

• Like another Nokia.    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:36:50

• U.S. Sidelines Lawyers Who Doubted Their Own Case on Congestion Pricing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/nyregion/nyc-congestion-pricing-duffy-lawyers.html "The Forrest Dump administration replaced lawyers who had exposed flaws in its legal battle over New York City’s congestion pricing program."    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:37:32

• US Supreme Court signals it will decide California fuel emissions case ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/supreme-court-signals-it-will-consider-california-fuel-emissions-case/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:38:16

• Yale draws tepid praise from Convicted Felon admin after cracking down on protesters accused of antisemitism, yanking Yalies4Palestine’s student group status ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/us-news/yale-draws-tepid-praise-from-trump-admin-after-cracking-down-on-antisemitism/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:38:51

• Britain Lifts Sanctions on Syrian Security Agencies ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/world/middleeast/britain-lifts-sanctions-syria.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:39:55

• Court lets Cardinal Zen leave Hong Kong for pope’s funeral after passport earlier confiscated over security law arrest ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/24/court-lets-cardinal-zen-leave-hong-kong-for-popes-funeral-after-passport-earlier-confiscated-over-security-law-arrest/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:40:41

• Student kills one and injures three in stabbing at French high school ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250424-student-kills-one-and-injures-three-in-stabbing-at-french-high-school "The assailant, who admired Adolf Hitler, was subdued by teachers after attacking fellow students in several classrooms."    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:41:22

• Fighter jets, sniper units part of huge security operation in place for Pope Francis’s funeral ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250424-fighter-jets-sniper-units-huge-security-operation-world-leaders-royalty-pope-francis-funeral-vatican    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:43:14

• Irish Rap Group Kneecap Face British Counter-Terrorism Investigation After Concert Video Footage Surfaces ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/24/kneecap-faces-counter-terrorism-investigation/ "Irish rap group Kneecap are facing a British counter-terrorism investigation after footage from a concert went viral on social control media."    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:43:52

• Nearly 2 000 suspects arrested for illegal mining over last month ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/nearly-2-000-suspects-arrested-for-illegal-mining-over-last-month/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:44:17

• Jonathan McDowell: Local Voice Assistant Step 1: An ATOM Echo voice satellite ☞ https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2025/04/voice-assistant-atom-echo.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:46:11

• Girls less likely to have tried coding than boys ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/24.04.2025-girls-less-likely-to-have-tried-coding-than-boys.a596278/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:53:54

• Lloyds Bank Says Oasis Fans Have Lost $2.7 Million to Ticket Scams ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/24/lloyds-oasis-fans-getting-ticket-scammed/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:56:19

• UPC is totally illegal. JUVE is still cheering for it because it got paid to do it. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/dusseldorf-court-loses-presiding-judge-klepsch-to-upc-growth-strategy/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:57:24

• Longhorn Automotive measurement controller patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/23/longhorn-automotive-measurement-controller-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:57:44

• Masters of Their Own Petition: The Federal Circuit’s Latest Stance on AAPA ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/masters-petition-circuits.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:58:08

• New Article Explains How the GPL Came About and WordPress Having Copyleft Obligations (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/New_Article_Explains_How_the_GPL_Came_About_and_WordPress_Havin.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:58:47

• Dr Richard Stallman (RMS) Gives Talk in Oxford University in 4 Hours (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Dr_Richard_Stallman_RMS_Gives_Talk_in_Oxford_University_in_4_Ho.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:58:56

• Using a Law Firm's Licence to Exercise Politics Through Frivolous SLAPPs and Nastygrams (to Silence People, Remove Pages, Demand Fake or Forced 'Apologies') (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Using_a_Law_Firm_s_Licence_to_Exercise_Politics_Through_Frivolo.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:59:08

• Richard Stallman's Oxford Talk Has Just Ended, Here Are Some Photos ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Richard_Stallman_s_Oxford_Talk_Has_Just_Ended_Here_Are_Some_Pho.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 19:59:20

• When it comes to the EU, real courts are now being undermined is not illegally replaced with unconstitutional laughing stocks set up by corruption and lobbyists of litigation profiteers; it'll only make the EU less credible and hence less stable    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:00:59

• IBM Gained Almost 6 Billion Dollars in "Goodwill" Value in Just 3 Months, According to I.C.B.M. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/IBM_Gained_Almost_6_Billion_Dollars_in_Goodwill_Value_in_Just_3.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:01:14

• We're Working to Make Full-Site Search Available ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/We_re_Working_to_Make_Full_Site_Search_Available.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:01:27

• IBM Cannot Lie to Shareholders Anymore ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/IBM_Cannot_Lie_to_Shareholders_Anymore.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:01:42

• Another Site Bites the Dust: "Open Source For You" Becoming a Slopfarm (LLM Slop) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Another_Site_Bites_the_Dust_Open_Source_For_You_Becoming_a_Slop.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:03:59

• Slopping the Trough: Disney Plus Loses Billions and the Decline of Physical Media in America ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Slopping_the_Trough_Disney_Plus_Loses_Billions_and_the_Decline_.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:04:06

• Microsoft 'Studies' Again? Leon Musolff is Writing Papers With Microsoft. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Microsoft_Studies_Again_Leon_Musolff_is_Writing_Papers_With_Mic.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:04:15

• Evolving hardware, evolving demo: Collabora's Embedded World Board Farm ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/04/24/the-evolution-of-our-embedded-world-board-farm-demo/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:04:38

• Andre Klapper: GIMP user documentation ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2025/04/24/gimp-user-docs/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:05:33

• Speech by President von der Leyen at the Summit on the Future of Energy Security ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_1100    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:06:23

• Annual energy bills predicted to fall by £166 in July https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5r190y3kko    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:07:23

• Florida Democratic Party Is ‘Dead,’ State Senator Says as He Leaves It ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/pizzo-florida-democratic-party.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:08:29

• Hong Kong press club survey finds 65% of members say they self-censor, 33% considering leaving city over press freedom ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/24/hong-kong-press-club-survey-finds-65-of-members-say-they-self-censor-33-considering-leaving-city-over-press-freedom/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:08:48

• Windows 11 24H2 triggers a 20-year-old bug in GTA San Andreas related to the Skimmer seaplane ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/windows-11-24h2-reveals-a-20-year-old-bug-in-gta-san-andreas-related-to-the-skimmer-seaplane    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:15:21

• Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) ..AMAAAAAAAAZING! https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/gaming-laptops/msi-titan-18-hx-ai-review    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:15:51

• "IT IS AN HEY HI LAPTOP"... "IN AN HEY HI WORLD"... "DREAMIN' 'BOUT HEY HI"    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:16:27

• ESP32 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/onkyo-receiver-saved-with-an-esp32/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:17:20

• ESPuno Pi Zero ESP32-C6 board takes up to 60V DC input, offers RS-485 interface (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/24/espuno-pi-zero-esp32-c6-board-takes-up-to-60v-dc-input-rs485-interface/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:17:32

• Attacks against Teltonika Networks SMS Gateways, (Thu, Apr 24th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31888    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:21:21

• Final Results of the 2025 Internet Society Board of Trustees Elections and IETF Selections ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/04/final-results-of-the-2025-internet-society-board-of-trustees-elections-and-ietf-selections/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:21:50

• PHOTOS: Mementos of fallen children recovered from the rubble in quake-hit Myanmar ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/04/24/myanmar-earthquake-school-sagaing/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:22:22

• Tortoise plans for The Observer: ‘We can buck the market trend’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/observer-tortoise-launch/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:23:00

• Privacy of online age verification ☞ https://rys.io/en/178.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:23:53

• PostgreSQL Anonymizer 2.1: Blurring Images ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-anonymizer-21-blurring-images-3061/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:24:20

• Continuing the transition from Endpoints to EndpointSlices ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/04/24/endpoints-deprecation/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:25:35

• Fedora 42: Best New Features ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/fedora-42-features/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:26:08

• Council of Europe reports systemic abuses and informal hierarchies in prisons across Europe ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/council-of-europe-reports-systemic-abuses-and-informal-hierarchies-in-prisons-across-europe/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:26:39

• European Commission Fines Fashion Company Apple and Meta Nearly $800 Million Over Alleged DMA Violations ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/24/european-commission-apple-fine/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:27:21

• Integrate QML Window's Background with the System's Color Palette ☞ https://www.kdab.com/integrate-qml-windows-background-with-the-systems-color-palette/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:27:46

• 86: Take Quite a Long Time to Fail ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24081    

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

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 596 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/04/23/this-week-in-rust-596/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:30:08

• danielpocock.com been offline now for nearly a day    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:31:28

• State Security Agency monitoring potential threats from Convicted Felon-linked support movements ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/national-security/state-security-agency-monitoring-potential-threats-from-trump-linked-support-movements/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:32:38

• If you begin to refer to ANYTHING that computers do as "HEY HI", then it may actually seem like this passing fad is "catching on"...    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:33:36

• 5.5 Million Patients Affected by Data Breach at Yale New Haven Health ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/5-5-million-patients-affected-by-data-breach-at-yale-new-haven-health/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:35:20

• Cisco Confirms Some Products Impacted by Critical Erlang/OTP Flaw ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-confirms-some-products-impacted-by-critical-erlang-otp-flaw/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:35:37

• Cisco Confirms Some Products Impacted by Critical Erlang/OTP Flaw

  Cisco is investigating the impact of the Erlang/OTP remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2025-32433 on its products.

   

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:37:42

• FOSS Weekly #25.17: Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Release Follow-ups, Logseq, ZimaBoard and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-17/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:38:18

• Some media even conflates robotics with "HEY HI" - whatever the latter even means these days. That helps fake or create a perception of growing adoption. They did the same with "clown computing" - merely renaming things as such, then came "IoT".    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:39:18

• Slopping the Trough: Disney Plus Loses Billions and the Decline of Physical Media in America ☞ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/slopping-the-trough-disney-plus-loses-billions-and-the-decline-of-physical-media-in-america/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:40:46

• GStreamer 1.26.1 Improves dav1d AV1 Decoder, Matroska v4 Support in Muxer ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gstreamer-1-26-1-improves-dav1d-av1-decoder-matroska-v4-support-in-muxer    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:42:03

• COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop Adds Pinned Workspaces, New Accessibility Features ☞ https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-alpha-7-desktop-adds-pinned-workspaces-new-accessibility-features    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:42:11

• How to Configure Network IP Connections Using ‘nmcli’ in GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/configure-network-connections-using-nmcli-tool-in-linux/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:43:33

• 15 Useful ‘dpkg’ Commands for Debian and Ubuntu Users [With Examples] ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/dpkg-command-examples/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:44:09

• 25th April 2025 - Night Manager gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20250425.txt    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:45:44

• "campaign to undermine Trump’s peacemaking efforts" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/24/russia-s-foreign-intelligence-service-accuses-meduza-navalny-founded-anti-corruption-foundation-of-involvement-in-campaign-to-undermine-trump-s-peacemaking-efforts | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:49:24

• Hype ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/commentary/24.04.2025-are-we-ready-for-new-cyber-threats-in-the-quantum-era.a596550/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:50:01

• An offer Ukraine can't refuse? As US pressures Zelensky to give up land, Putin bombs Kyiv ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250424-an-offer-ukraine-can-t-refuse-as-us-pressures-zelensky-to-give-up-land-putin-bombs-kyiv    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:51:11

• Putin’s gift of a Convicted Felon portrait plays to the vanity of a president ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250424-putin-gift-trump-portrait-plays-vanity-of-president-russia    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:51:20

• A pro-Putin peace deal in Ukraine would destabilize the entire world ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/a-pro-putin-peace-deal-in-ukraine-would-destabilize-the-entire-world/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:51:28

• France's Macron urges Putin to 'stop lying' over Ukraine ceasefire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250424-france-s-macron-urges-putin-to-stop-lying-over-ukraine-ceasefire    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:51:40

• US frustration over stalled Ukraine deal 'should be directed at Putin', Macron says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250424-macron-urges-putin-to-stop-lying-about-wanting-peace-in-ukraine    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:51:51

• Kyiv To Observe Day Of Mourning After Russian Strike Kills 12 ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-kyiv-strike-trump-putin-lavrov/33396313.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:52:00

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Rebukes Putin As Death Toll From Russian Strikes On Kyiv Hits 12 ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-ukraine-zelenskyy-war-russia-europe-starmer/33394907.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:52:16

• openEuler is a GNU/Linux distribution for server and cloud environments ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openeuler-linux-distribution-server-cloud-environments/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:53:12

• Why does he say "vaccine disinformation" unless he means to say the money should be spent on marketing propaganda? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250424-many-people-will-die-because-of-funding-cuts-and-vaccine-disinformation-public-health-expert    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:55:03

• Thibault Martin: TIL that I can ask my smartphone to respect my attention ☞ https://ergaster.org/til/ask-smartphone-attention/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:55:50

• Nominations Are Open for Upcoming Fedora Election ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/04/nominations-are-open-for-upcoming-fedora-election/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:56:33

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Urges Russia to ‘STOP!’ After Deadly Attack on Ukraine’s Capital ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/us/politics/russia-trump-putin-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:56:50

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Told Putin to ‘STOP!’ After Deadly Strikes in Kyiv ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/briefing/trump-russia-ukraine-flu-season.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:57:00

• Did he also kneel with Putin's finger in his mouth when he said this? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/world/europe/ukraine-kyiv-russia-attack.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:57:28

• Friday Briefing: Convicted Felon Tells Putin to ‘STOP!’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/briefing/trump-putin-ukraine-india-pakistan-pope-funeral.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:57:46

• Saudi Arabia as a peace platform is a hallmark of irony ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/24/trump-says-meeting-with-putin-could-happen-after-may-trip-to-saudi-arabia | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:58:09

• it's like asking Microsoft to "STOP!" attacking Linux    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:58:29

• Thousands of Ukrainians have lost residency status ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/24.04.2025-thousands-of-ukrainians-have-lost-residency-status.a596540/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:58:41

• Ukraine’s innovative army can help Europe defend itself against Russia ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-innovative-army-can-help-europe-defend-itself-against-russia/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 20:59:00

• Techrights intends to spend the next few years on SLAPP reform and advocacy for change. UK tribunals ought not be a "theme park" for abusers who even strangle women and then look to have "revenge" against their victims. Such SLAPPs must be blocked from the get-go.    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:05:25

• Chinese Factory Owners Make Appeals to Americans on TikTok: Buy Direct ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/chinese-factories-tiktok-trade-war.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:22:28

• Hate chased a Holocaust survivor off TikTok. His message is still: Seek hope. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0424/holocaust-survivor-tiktok-influencer    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:23:03

• Myanmar Fentanylware (TikTok) astrologer arrested for forecasting new quake ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-tiktok-astrologer-arrested-for-forecasting-new-quake    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:23:22

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RQuantLib 0.4.26 on CRAN: Small Updates ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04/24#rquantlib_0.4.26    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:24:17

• Debian Project Leader Election 2025 results ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1018826/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:24:43

• Debugging and Profiling GNU/Linux Applications with GDB and strace ☞ https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/debugging-and-profiling-linux-applications-gdb-and-strace    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:28:30

• Towards GNU World Domination ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/22/Towards_GNU_World_Domination.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:28:47

• Slopfarms on the Web Almost Always Generate Anti-Linux FUD When They Produce "Linux" Output ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Slopfarms_on_the_Web_Almost_Always_Generate_Anti_Linux_FUD_When.shtml    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:28:54

• UPC boosters seemed to be ever so proud to promote something illegal, akin to Trump supporters believing that if they can get away with insurrection and the criminal/ringleader later frees them from prison, then all is OK. What does that make Team UPC? A "bunch of patent nazis"?    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:42:18

• "Continue to explore Fedora and Ubuntu releases." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-17/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:45:01

• More slop, less substance? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linux-io-uring-security-blindspot-allows-stealthy-rootkit-attacks/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:46:13

• More slop images or lazy "journalism" https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/linux-iouring-poc-rootkit-bypasses.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:46:50

• "Despite having taken major steps forward thanks to more support from developers and a massive boost from Valve’s Proton, there are still plenty of myths around Linux gaming. These, in particular, refuse to go away." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-gaming-myths-that-just-wont-die/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:47:23

• "NixOS offers a thoughtfully designed experience with plenty of layout options, but it's best suited for users who are willing to tackle a learning curve." https://www.zdnet.com/article/im-a-linux-power-user-and-this-distro-made-me-rethink-what-an-operating-system-can-be/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:48:01

• Corrupt Linux Foundation destroying the "Linux" trademark merits an award? https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-named-in-2025-wtr-industry-awards-shortlist-for-excellence-in-trademark-management-302437553.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:49:12

• Then again, look who's running it; marketing liars married to frauds.    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:49:37

• "The publisher, Shiro Games, recently revealed that it amassed over 100,000 wishlists on Steam only 4 days after the reveal. Clearly there's a lot of interest in this one!" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/frostrail-from-the-devs-of-barotrauma-eager-to-support-linux-with-a-tentative-yes/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:50:25

• "Lenovo is doing something that many aren't." https://news.itsfoss.com/lenovo-cuts-windows-tax/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:54:06

• CIQ Announces FIPS 140-3 Compliance for Rocky Linux, Empowering Secure Open Source Adoption www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ciq-announces-fips-140-3-compliance-for-rocky-linux-empowering-secure-open-source-adoption-302437642.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:54:57

• "I bought the CyberGeek Nano T1 mini-PC stuffed with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor, 64GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD for $416. I ordered the model with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed." https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/powerful-mini-pcs-provide-efficient-replacement-for-desktop-computers-177532.html    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:56:00

• Marketing SPAM by Red venture https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-4-vpns-i-swear-by-for-linux-and-why-i-trust-them/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:56:43

• It's not Linux but an attack on it, by Microsoft https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-to-try-windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:57:33

• "Want to access your Linux PCs remotely? You can set up RDP the hard way, or you can make those connections the easy way. I'll step you through the easy option." https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-set-up-remote-desktop-access-on-your-linux-computers/    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 21:57:54

• "Alvind is still going to get a hefty perk package for 2026. Same with his m1ndless pipmunks. As long as Krabanaugh fires thousands of people and ruins lives those 2 especially are going to get paid." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsnkf1f4    

posted Friday, April 25, 2025 at 22:04:02