Roy Schestowitz

• "It’s sad to see bigotry and racism so alive and thriving here." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsty5m1k    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:17:14

• "During a brief discussion I mentioned having read Brian Lumley’s Necroscope series and how much I enjoyed it, a friend said they would look into the author." gemini://thatit.be/2025-04-28-21-39-38.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:20:01

• "In certain contexts where a leasehold in England is trying to extend or buy out the remaining term of a lease, something called "Marriage Value" (MV) is payable. This is the industry lingo for a corresponding economic concept whose name I can no longer remember." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-04-29_the-history-of-marriage-value-in-leasehold-valuation.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:20:49

• On Foot 1 -- Results gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~spring/phlog/2025-04-29__On_Foot_1_Results.txt    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:21:34

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1280.jpg    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:22:55

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1630.jpg    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:22:59

• "Notice: drinking Death In The Afternoons is not a productivity hack, even if what you're trying to be productive at is writing incoherent esotericism. However, drinking cafecitos and listening to psychedelic trance usually is." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2600    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:23:49

• "A breakup sucks. Every time my phone rings, every notification I get, every time the screen lights up; my heart jumps a bit and I start hoping against hope that its from her. That she's reaching out to talk." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2601    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:24:40

• "Obligatory first post, have to keep up the good old tradition." gemini://jacq.smol.pub/1745965295    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:25:20

• "I have gardened nearly my entire life. One of my earliest memories is of my parents teaching me to plant corn. Another is from later that year, when I ate an entire peck of tomatoes by myself. That's a lot of tomatoes for a toddler! (Surprisingly, I suffered no ill effects.)" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-04-29    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:26:00

• "This language in cryptography goes by the name "one time pad" which has the same problem as a unique language shared by only two people: that of getting that unique language only to that one other person. There is also the metadata problem, in that Facebook knows who is messaging whom when." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/04/29/comms.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:27:13

• "This is an addendum to my note about setting up ProtonMail and mutt by way of ProtonMail bridge. After I launched mutt on a new system I wanted to change the colors. Below is how to do get the Solarized color theme into mutt." gemini://thatit.be/2025-04-25-21-25-39.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:28:23

• "you can use our 88x31 banner to link to this site: [...]" gemini://compudanzas.net/colophon.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:31:13

• "It’s not enough to enable opacity in kitty, the background has to be set to none in vim as well." gemini://thatit.be/2025-04-15-17-47-59.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:31:52

• "A few days later, another friend tells me that there are actually people who are "in relationships" with AI" gemini://the-brannons.com/hey-hi/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:34:52

• "Most of POWER stack is already located in India. Few years back HCL, the Indian IT machine was rumored to be buying all POWER related products. The current migration of the workforce to India makes it easier. HCL does not appreciate to be burdened with US based engineers." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt1sdpfa    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:37:37

• Almost Three Years After Neutrality Agreement, Negotiations Between Microsoft And Unionized Workers Aren’t Going Well https://aftermath.site/microsoft-zenimax-cwa-union-contract-negotiations-strike    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 02:37:41

• Kali Linux users warned that updates are likely to fail for a few days https://betanews.com/2025/04/29/kali-linux-users-warned-that-updates-are-likely-to-fail-for-a-few-days/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 03:31:34

• Kali Linux warns of update failures after losing repo signing key https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 03:33:57

• How to install and remove software on Linux https://www.techloy.com/how-to-install-and-remove-software-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 03:34:44

• "But before I start singing its praises, let’s get the important things out of the way. NixOS comes with a steep learning curve. The functional mindset and Nix’s unique tooling can feel alien if you’re used to traditional distros like Ubuntu or Fedora." https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-nixos-exciting-linux-distro/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 03:35:53

• This is a bad thing https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-linux-wsl-release/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/28/Proprietary_Windows_Versus_Linux_News_Trying_to_Keep_People_on_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 03:37:11

• "Think you are about to lose support for Ubuntu 20.04? Relax - extending it is way easier than what Windows users deal with, all thanks to Ubuntu Pro." https://www.zdnet.com/article/while-windows-10-users-panic-ubuntu-makes-extending-support-easy-heres-how/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/28/Microsoft_Canonical_Continues_Its_FUD_Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_Ca.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 03:38:00

• "Everything about Xubuntu is built for speed and simplicity, no matter your experience level." https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-lightning-fast-linux-distro-will-hook-you-the-moment-you-try-it/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 03:38:46

• Ghana: Windows all-time lows this year https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/ghana/#monthly-200902-202504    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 04:17:42

• slovakia also https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop//slovakia-(slovak-republic)/#monthly-200902-202504 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/slovakia-(slovak-republic)/#monthly-200902-202504    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 04:19:45

• "Trump's Tariffs Trigger Mass Layoffs: UPS To Cut 20,000 Jobs In $3.5B Survival Plan"    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 04:33:07

• "One of my all-time favourite game series! The XCOM Complete Humble Bundle is an absolutely fantastic deal filled with some brilliant strategy games." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/the-xcom-complete-humble-bundle-is-an-awesome-deal/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:09:52

• "Infinity Nikki has now launched on Steam to suck away more of your time. It works on Steam Deck with Proton but the anti-cheat is blocking it working on Desktop Linux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/infinity-nikki-on-steam-works-on-steam-deck-but-the-situation-is-odd-and-anti-cheat-blocks-desktop-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:10:02

• "For anyone hoping to play Delta Force on Desktop Linux, the developer Team Jade has given a pretty clear no. That's despite it working on Steam Deck due to the anti-cheat they've used." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/delta-force-devs-say-desktop-linux-support-is-not-part-of-our-agenda-in-the-future/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:10:18

• "Donald Trump Is Already Ruining Christmas" https://www.wired.com/story/christmas-toys-trump-tariffs-china/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:10:47

• "News Analysis: 'Disrupt, break, defund': Trump's imperial first 100 days" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-29/president-trump-first-100-days    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:10:58

• "California has sued Trump 15 times in his first 100 days. Where do those cases stand?" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-29/in-first-100-days-california-sued-trump-administration-about-once-a-week-hows-it-fared    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:11:09

• "Hiltzik: GOP has Medicaid in its crosshairs" https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-04-29/inside-the-gops-secret-plan-to-destroy-medicaid    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:11:19

• "The One Thing That Drives Trump" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/trump-interview-cover-story/682630/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:11:28

• "Trump Marks His First 100 Days in Office With a Rally in Michigan, a State Rocked by His Tariffs" https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/michigan/articles/2025-04-29/trump-marks-his-first-100-days-in-office-with-a-rally-in-michigan-a-state-rocked-by-his-tariffs    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:11:39

• "Canadian election results 2025: Liberals won because of Trump" https://www.vox.com/politics/410854/canada-election-results-mark-carney-pierre-poilievre-donald-trump    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:11:54

• "Why some unions support Trump’s tariffs" https://www.vox.com/politics/410527/unions-trump-tariffs-free-trade-policy    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:12:17

• "Why Even Try if You Have A.I.?" [sic] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/why-even-try-if-you-have-ai    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:12:32

• "Mr. Art of the Deal Struggles to Spin Three Failed Negotiations" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/29/mr-art-of-the-deal-struggles-to-spin-three-failed-negotiations/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:12:44

• "Elon Musk Has Become Toxic Waste to the Average Person, New Poll Shows" https://futurism.com/elon-musk-associated-press-poll-popularity    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:13:00

• "The GOG Preservation Program has expanded once again. After recently adding a re-release of Breath of Fire IV for PC, GOG are now keeping multiple classic Star Wars games up to date." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/multiple-star-wars-classics-join-the-gog-preservation-program-with-a-big-sale/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:13:33

• "With a world inspired by the lore and iconic concept albums of the metal music band Voivod, the latest retro-inspired game from Chaosmonger Studio is live on Kickstarter." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/metal-platformer-voivod-the-nuclear-warrior-from-chaosmonger-now-on-kickstarter-and-smashed-the-funding-goal/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:13:47

• "The inspiration is obvious to anyone who has seen classic Disney cartoons on this one and I'm all for it. MOUSE: P.I. For Hire looks like a lot of fun and the latest trailer shows off more weapons." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/retro-disney-themed-shooter-mouse-p-i-for-hire-looks-awesome-in-the-latest-trailer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:14:11

• The government is expanding the surveillance state | "Regeringen bygger ut kontrollstaten" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/04/29/regeringen-bygger-ut-kontrollstaten/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:14:48

• "'Bara bada bastu': The ultimate guide to Swedish sauna etiquette" https://www.thelocal.se/20250429/bara-bada-bastu-the-ultimate-guide-to-swedish-sauna-etiquette    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:15:04

• "Don't be deceived: Putin is taking Trump for a fool" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/28/dont-be-deceived-putin-is-taking-trump-for-a-fool/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:15:17

• "'The Slaughter Of Ghosts': How Russian Intelligence Recruited Prisoners For The War In Ukraine" https://www.rferl.org/a/rferl-systema-russia-prison-recruitment-ukraine-war/33398262.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:15:27

• windy is now just a so-called web app https://www.windy.com/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:15:50

• "100 Days, a Trillion Dollars: DOGE's Costs Keep Adding Up" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/29/100-days-a-trillion-dollars-doges-costs-keep-adding-up/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:16:01

• iophk: the hamster wheel of gratuitous javascript frameworks https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/backwards-compat-in-web-but-not-its-tools/ ("Backwards Compatibility in the Web, but Not Its Tools")    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:16:33

• "Microsoft is actually finding the most inefficient way to play this game and packaging it as some great innovation." https://birchtree.me/blog/its-a-legal-issue-not-something-ai-is-here-to-fix/ ("It's a legal issue, not something AI is here to fix")    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:16:54

• "Trump is the Godfather in Reverse - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-the-godfather-in-reverse    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:17:04

• iophk: yeah, that would be get a real job and delete the Lyft "app" https://www.theverge.com/news/658195/lyft-ai-earnings-assistant-drivers    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:17:24

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:17:35

• "Sweden: Three killed in Uppsala shooting" https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-three-killed-in-uppsala-shooting/a-72391528    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:17:46

• "RSS leader to Muslims: 'Don't attend funerals of terrorists, deny them burial space'" https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/rss-leader-to-muslims-dont-attend-funerals-of-terrorists-deny-them-burial-space-101745973506711.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:18:05

• "“In His First 100 Days, Trump Did All He Could to Engineer a Recession,” says Groundwork’s Owens" https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/in-his-first-100-days-trump-did-all-he-could-to-engineer-a-recession-says-groundworks-owens    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:18:16

• When the loans stop https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:18:39

• The surveillance measure that is supposed to remain secret | "IP-Catching: Die Überwachungs-Maßnahme, die geheim bleiben soll" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/ip-catching-die-ueberwachungs-massnahme-die-geheim-bleiben-soll/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:19:22

• "The Dangers of Trump’s First 100 Days: A Democracy in Exile Roundtable" https://dawnmena.org/the-dangers-of-trumps-first-100-days-a-democracy-in-exile-roundtable/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:19:32

• "Why Europe doesn’t waste a crisis" https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0429/Why-Europe-doesn-t-waste-a-crisis    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:19:45

• "The Fatal Mistake That Democrats Keep Making" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-technocracy-history/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:19:51

• "California, other states sue Trump administration to block cuts to AmeriCorps" https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-04-29/california-other-states-sue-trump-administration-to-block-cuts-to-americorps    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:20:01

• "Trump celebrates 100 days in office with a campaign-like rally in Michigan | Courthouse News Service" https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-celebrates-100-days-in-office-with-a-campaign-like-rally-in-michigan/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:20:11

• "The Last Day of April, May Day Eve or Valborg. No matter what we call it, it’s the most important student festival of the year in Uppsala, with picnics in Ekonomikum Park, [...]    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:21:11

• "[...] the donning of student caps on the hill below Carolina Rediviva, the running of the falls, spring songs by the Gunilla Bell and much more." https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/academic-traditions/student-traditions/valborg "Valborg – or the Last Day of April - Uppsala University"    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:21:19

• "Ex-Zodiac is a 3D on-rails shooter made in the spirit of the classic Starfox, it's currently in Early Access with Linux support and a major update just released." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/starfox-esque-3d-shooter-ex-zodiac-gets-a-major-update-with-a-new-level/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:21:35

• "Valve released another small stable Steam Client update for Desktop and Steam Deck, bringing in some pretty essential fixes for both platforms." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steam-update-for-desktop-brings-dlc-fixes-while-steam-deck-gets-startup-and-bios-update-fixes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:21:48

• "Update 12:00 BST: the developer recently edited the Steam page description to note: [...]" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/wuthering-waves-arrives-on-steam-another-with-anti-cheat-problems-on-steam-deck-and-desktop-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:22:05

• "Walpurgis Night" https://www.swedishfreak.com/holiday/walpurgis-night/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:22:20

• "What happens when 4,500 people ask for the same feature? At Firefox, we build it." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/tab-groups-community/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:23:16

• "Open a web browser and you step into a garden of forking paths — where news, messages, memes, work, learning and cat videos all compete for your attention." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-tab-groups/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:23:28

• "In this article, I’ll explore an original and robust method for using third-party IdPs that allows you to maintain a zero trust security posture, thanks to Extra Factor Authentication." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-to-implement-zero-trust-into-third-party-idps | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:24:27

• "At Purism, we’ve always championed the concept that privacy is not merely a feature but a fundamental right." ☛ https://puri.sm/posts/privacy-on-trial-metas-doj-battle-vs-purisms-user-centric-philosophy/ | Source: Purism    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:24:39

• "Oh hey, a new Team Fortress 2 (TF2) mod that's coming to Steam and it sounds like a lot of fun." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/pass-fortress-turns-tf2-into-a-competitive-basketball-like-and-its-coming-to-steam/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:24:59

• "This really brings back some memories. World of Goo 2 from 2D BOY and Tomorrow Corporation has officially launched on GOG and Steam with Native Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/world-of-goo-2-is-out-now-on-steam-and-a-great-pick-for-puzzle-game-fans/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:25:15

• "In the latest episode of the Hello World podcast, we explore the myth of the 'digital native'." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/should-we-ditch-the-term-digital-native-the-latest-conversation-on-the-podcast/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:27:33

• Scientific Collaboration ☛ https://therevelator.org/scientific-collaboration-matters/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:27:58

• The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 889 ☞ https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/04/28/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-889/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:30:33

• Firefox 138.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019319/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:32:15

• Kubernetes v1.33: Image Volumes graduate to beta! ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/04/29/kubernetes-v1-33-image-volume-beta/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:32:55

• Barnes: Parallel ./configure ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019303/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:34:31

• "The typeface was created in 1992 by Just van Rossum, the brother of the guy who invented the programming language Python" ☛ https://futurism.com/you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-allegations | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:34:53

• "In his underlying dismissal motion filed in January" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/donald-trump-isaac-hayes-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-1235327134/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:35:25

• "Further, the government has urged Mehta to break off Google Chrome and potentially Android while barring more multibillion-dollar default search engine deals with Apple and Mozilla" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/google-warns-of-data-security-risks-if-chrome-is-sold-off/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:36:11

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/spotify-dismantles-spotifydl-track-download-extension-via-dmca-notice-250429/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:36:31

• "The area was in the tribe’s original treaty lands but a government allotment act later reduced the reservation’s size, said Mary Fredericks, director of the tribe’s Parks and Reserve Program." ☛ https://www.mlive.com/native-american-news/2025/04/new-tribal-national-park-in-north-dakota-aims-to-preserve-rugged-and-scenic-landscape.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:42:43

• "The funding freeze from the USDA is sending shockwaves throughout the nation’s agriculture sector, but their effect on tribal food initiatives raises even larger questions about what the federal government’s commitments are to Indigenous nations." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/04/how-trumps-funding-freeze-for-indigenous-food-programs-may-violate-treaty-law.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:43:05

• "Human Rights Watch outlines six primary human rights risks posed by killer robots." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/rights-group-calls-for-regulation-of-killer-robots-posing-human-rights-threats/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:43:22

• "According to the UK-based human rights organization Amnesty International, we are at a "critical juncture" when it comes to universal human rights worldwide." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/human-rights-amnesty-international-israel-gaza-minorities/a-72379029 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:43:37

• "This isn't the first time the Pittsburgh-based biz has begun cutting contractors in favor of AI, having started shedding content creation roles last year — a move von Ahn referenced in his latest letter." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/duolingo_ceo_ai_first_shift/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:44:05

• "The 287(g) task force program is being revived 13 years after the Obama administration terminated it amid controversies over racial profiling." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/texas-police-are-joining-what-could-be-a-giant-ice-army/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:44:19

• "The area was in the tribe’s original treaty lands but a government allotment act later reduced the reservation’s size, said Mary Fredericks, director of the tribe’s Parks and Reserve Program." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/04/new-tribal-national-park-in-north-dakota-aims-to-preserve-rugged-and-scenic-landscape.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:44:43

• "Trump’s resurrection of a law no one thought the Land of the Free would ever use again is disturbing enough. What’s in the memo [PDF], dated March 14, 2025, is just as concerning." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/doj-deportation-memo-pretends-the-fourth-amendment-doesnt-exist/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:45:05

• "The median pay rise among media executives making at least £400,000 was 2.2%, down from 3% last year." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/uk-news-media-rich-list-2025-business-information-chiefs-top-executive-pay-table/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:46:00

• "Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Thursday urged political candidates in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) to reaffirm their commitment to press freedom ahead of the upcoming elections" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/trinidad-and-tobago-politicians-urged-to-take-action-on-press-freedom-ahead-of-2025-elections/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:46:33

• "Removing the larynx during an autopsy is not standard practice" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/29/body-of-ukrainian-journalist-who-died-in-russian-captivity-repatriated-with-organs-removed-and-other-signs-of-torture | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:46:50

• "Once it passes the House, I look forward to signing that bill into law." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/28/congress-passes-take-act-combat-elicit-deepfakes/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:48:58

• "This kind of sheepishness is pretty standard for political careerists who don’t want to upset their chances at future political office or a comfy revolving door think tank gig." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/fcc-commissioner-gomez-blasts-brendan-carrs-campaign-of-censorship/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:49:23

• "Residents of the southern Russian city of Volgograd have reported ongoing mobile Internet disruptions coinciding with a business forum attended by Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/29/internet-users-in-russia-s-volgograd-report-mobile-internet-outage-ahead-of-visit-by-putin-and-lukashenko | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:50:04

• "This originally was going to be about just one thing, namely the overarching subject of two recent and significant blog posts by Open Web Advocacy (OWA)." ☛ https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2025/04/thoughts-two-topics/ | Source: Bryce Wray    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:50:18

• "In recent days, Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance) has become an example of how even well-intentioned communities can go sideways when communication breaks down and everyone starts shouting past each other." ☛ https://abf.li/posts/thoughts-on-fosstodon-moderation-controversy/ | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:50:35

• "Last week, I started receiving private messages from users warning me that my Mastodon instance, Fosstodon, had a fascist moderator." ☛ https://thelibre.news/fosstodons-drama-reveals-a-much-deeper-mastodon-problem/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:51:01

• "Chinese authorities have detained a young man for unfurling pro-democracy banners this month at an overpass in Chengdu in southwest China" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/28/china-prodemocracy-banner-arrest/ | Source: RFA    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:51:51

• "US President Donald Trump called Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning to complain about a report the company planned to display prices that show the impact of tariffs, according to multiple media outlets." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/trump-called-bezos-to-complain-about-amazon-report/articleshow/120739164.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:52:14

• "Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent held a press conference this morning on “Unleashing Economic Greatness.” The pair took questions from the crowd of reporters." ☛ https://www.404media.co/trump-demands-amazon-deny-the-reality-of-what-his-tariffs-are-doing-to-prices/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:52:28

• "In the end, it seems as if the original report, that Amazon was going to clearly display tariff costs for online shoppers, was overstating the issue anyway - at least if you believe Amazon." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/trump_outreach_to_bezos_shows/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:52:50

• "Trump called Bezos to complain about reports that Amazon was considering displaying the cost of US tariffs next to prices for certain products on the company’s website, two senior White House officials told CNN." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/29/business/white-house-calls-report-that-amazon-is-adding-a-tariff-charge-a-hostile-action/index.html | Source: CNN    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:53:05

• "the President is signaling that cybersecurity professionals whose findings do not align with his narrative risk having their businesses and livelihoods subjected to spurious and retaliatory targeting." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/eff-letter-chris-krebs-donald-trump-executive-order/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:53:21

• "But Ferguson seems committed to the bit, effectively making it clear that all platforms are expected to promote pro-Trump content… or else." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/ftcs-tech-censorship-investigation-is-censoring-comments-about-censorship/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:53:37

• "A team of researchers who say they are from the University of Zurich ran an “unauthorized,” large-scale experiment in which they secretly deployed AI-powered bots into a popular debate subreddit" ☛ https://www.404media.co/researchers-secretly-ran-a-massive-unauthorized-ai-persuasion-experiment-on-reddit-users/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:54:12

• "AI-powered accounts." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/swiss_boffins_admit_to_secretly/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:54:39

• "In reality, Rubio’s act is more accurately viewed as yet another step in a broader campaign to dismantle America’s capacity to detect and respond to foreign influence operations." ☛ https://thenextmove.substack.com/p/americas-information-war-self-own | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:55:09

• "For decades, American politics have relied on the same logic that polygraph machines do: that liars will feel some level of shame when they tell their lies, and that the shame will manifest—the quickened heartbeat, the pang of guilt—in the body." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/04/trump-walter-lippmann-public-opinion-democracy/682397/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:55:39

• on   

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:56:02

• "Fears that KOSA could infringe on free expression have led to several rewrites, as well as a tiny crew of Senate dissenters: Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Mike Lee (R-UT)." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/politics/657358/kids-online-safety-100-days-trump-administration | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:56:11

• Openwashing BS ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/state_of_open_source/ | Done by a Microsoft proxy for another Microsoft proxy http://techrights.org/wiki/OpenLogic/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:57:30

• "The letter – signed by preeminent names from academia, civil society, and the private sector – notes that security researchers play a vital role in protecting our democracy, securing our elections, and building, testing, and safeguarding government infrastructure." ☛ https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-leads-prominent-security-experts-urging-trump-administration-leave-chris-krebs | Source: EFF    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:58:58

• "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and numerous infosec leaders are lobbying US President Donald Trump to drop his enduring investigation into Chris Krebs, claiming that targeting the former CISA boss amounts to bullying." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/infosec_trump_krebs_letter/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:59:15

• "But study authors found the negative responses in the survey cut across political lines" ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/veterans/2025/04/28/poll-shows-young-vets-unhappy-with-signal-leak-federal-program-cuts/ | Source: USMC    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:59:34

• "Rare earth elements (REEs), including neodymium, dysprosium, and terbium, are indispensable in modern technology." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/ht-insight/international-affairs/chinas-ban-on-rare-earth-elements-export-strategic-move-with-global-implications-101745930981482.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 05:59:55

• "Alphabet Inc. is set to raise at least €2.5 billion through a debut euro bond sale, following a $5 billion debt sale in the US. The offering includes a five-part deal with maturities ranging from four to 29 years." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-parent-alphabet-kicks-off-sale-of-debut-euro-bonds/articleshow/120722966.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:00:09

• "unfair and deceptive methods of competition." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/29/cheaters-and-liars/#caveat-emptor-brainworms | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:00:37

• "Meta has laid off an unspecified number of employees in its Reality Labs division, a company spokesperson confirmed." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/meta/655835/meta-layoffs-reality-labs-vr-supernatural | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:00:47

• "Some of us are old enough to remember that the reason Mark renamed the company is because the Facebook brand was becoming toxic, and associated with misinformation and global-scale crap." ☛ https://blog.om.co/2025/04/28/no-gruber-this-is-why-facebook-renamed-itself/ |    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:01:37

• "Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) tracked 75 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild in 2024, a decrease from the number we identified in 2023 (98 vulnerabilities)" ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/2024-zero-day-trends/ | Source: Google    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:01:53

• "The Take It Down Act sailed through the chamber on a vote of 402-2, marking one of the first major pieces of legislation passed by Congress to address AI-generated deepfakes." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/take-it-down-act-passes-house-first-amendment-encryption/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:02:13

• "Palo Alto Networks Inc. is expanding its product portfolio with a new platform for protecting artificial intelligence models and an upgraded version of its security-optimized browser." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/28/palo-alto-networks-buys-protect-ai-reported-500m-debuts-new-cybersecurity-tools/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:02:43

• "Newer, sharper-detail video cameras were recently installed by the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission" ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/briefs/new-cameras-provide-sharper-birds-eye-view-of-capitol-peregrine-falcons/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:03:13

• "This content has been restricted." ☛ https://www.404media.co/nfts-that-cost-millions-replaced-with-error-message-after-project-downgraded-to-free-cloudflare-plan/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:03:39

• "Large parts of Spain and Portugal, including their capitals Madrid and Lisbon, were hit by power outages on Monday" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/spain-portugal-say-power-almost-entirely-back-after-outage/live-72375202 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:03:58

• "This is a complicated story, but the basic equation is that it now costs more in electricity to “mine” a single Bitcoin than that Bitcoin is currently worth—by a significant margin." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2767705/bitcoin-mining-is-no-longer-profitable.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:04:24

• "Experts believe that getting the grid back up and running in both countries could take between a few hours to several days, depending on the area." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/europe-blackout-spain-portugal-power-outage/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:04:44

• "A sudden, widespread blackout plunged most of Spain and Portugal into darkness, disrupting everyday life and causing chaos across the region." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/what-caused-massive-spain-power-outage-portugal-also-dark-power-back-1733185 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:04:56

• "That high density allows manufacturers to either use a higher capacity battery in the same size phones as before, or release much thinner phones with the same capacity as we’re used to." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/04/the-battery-revolution-is-here-but-only-if-youre-buying-chinese-8000mah-is-here/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:05:10

• "In January 2025, the Pentagon added CATL to its list of Chinese Military Companies with alleged ties to the Chinese military (the 1260H list). How can batteries be a threat to national security?" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/chinas-secret-weapon-how-ev-batteries-could-be-weaponized-to-disrupt-america/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:05:23

• "Adi Shamir, the S in the RSA algorithm and a cofounder of RSA Security, went off on cryptocurrency, saying its early promise has been wasted." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/crypto_pioneers/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:06:01

• "The opening completes Phase 1 of the factory, which enables an annual PV module output capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW)." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/as-southeast-asian-imports-face-hefty-tariffs-a-vietnamese-solar-manufacturer-opens-up-shop-in-the-u-s/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:06:18

• "On the evening of April 28th, Amazon embarked on its latest venture to rival SpaceX Starlink: the first launch of its Project Kuiper satellites." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/space/657113/starlink-amazon-satellites | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:21:50

• "There’s no word yet on whether the satellites are working – as is usual – and Amazon has not said when it will start to offer services, or the price it will charge." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/amazon_kuiper_first_launch/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:22:00

• "We’ve reduced product returns by half, cut our manufacturing time by 15%, and eliminated 43 tonnes of CO₂ emissions per year by changing the way we solder connectors onto our computers." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/sustainable-solutions-with-raspberry-pi-how-intrusive-reflow-soldering-boosted-our-efficiency-and-cut-our-carbon-footprint/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:22:16

• "Every year, dead birds wash up on the beaches of Lord Howe Island, sometimes in their hundreds, with what researchers say are severe symptoms of swallowing large amounts of plastic – emaciation, poorly developed feathers and deformities." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/environment/2025/04/29/environment-plastics-seabirds/ | Source: RFA    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:22:38

• "This extraction has no thought in mind about caring for resources" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-just-fast-tracked-deep-sea-mining/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:22:57

• "In 1868, Sophie Mousseau was photographed at Fort Laramie alongside six white Army officers." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-a-historian-saw-this-haunting-photograph-of-a-nameless-native-girl-she-decided-she-had-to-identify-her-180986496/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:26:05

• "Mr. Stubb doesn’t want Ukraine to suffer the same fate" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/world/europe/finland-stubb-russia-trump-ukraine.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:26:34

• "MAGA reflects a political system failing to address capitalist crisis." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/fascism-debate-trump-maga-history/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:27:06

• "The arrangement has been called the 'Norwegian model'. However, in Norway, the minimum residency requirement to receive such benefits is five years." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20158774 | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:28:33

• "What we're witnessing isn't bureaucratic reshuffling. It is the methodical dismantling of voting rights enforcement from within, a strategic effort to neutralize one of democracy's most critical safeguards. This is not governance. This is sabotage." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/what-happens-when-no-one-enforces | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:29:07

• "high-profile cyberattacks" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/politics/658222/france-russia-cyberattacks-fancy-bear-apt28-macron-leaks | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:30:12

• "The Russian military intelligence service (GRU) has, for several years, been deploying a cyberoffensive modus operandi, called APT28, against France" ☛ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/04/29/cyberattacks-france-officially-attributes-hacking-to-russia-for-the-first-time_6740745_4.html | Source: Le Monde    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:30:23

• "Two young members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency were granted the ability to access networks holding highly classified information about the United States' nuclear weapon stockpile for two weeks." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-doge-access-network-nuclear-secrets | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:31:27

• "How Democracies Die" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/05/05/is-the-us-becoming-an-autocracy | Source: New Yorker    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:32:23

• "Below are key highlights of American Oversight’s extensive record of ensuring the transparency and accountability the public deserves: [...]" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/100-days-of-obstruction-secrecy-and-lawlessness-american-oversight-holds-trump-administration-accountable-on-all-fronts/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:32:27

• "grappled with gang [sic] violence" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-04-29/swedish-police-say-3-people-are-dead-after-a-shooting-in-uppsala | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:33:11

• "rising problem of criminal gangs [sic] recruiting children to commit violence crimes, including murder." ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250429/sweden-to-lead-europol-task-force-on-criminal-recruitment-of-children | Source: The Local SE    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:33:20

• "In his quest for absolute control, the Republican president, who has been back in the White House for 100 days, has strived to annihilate all checks and balances, challenging the American institutional equilibrium." ☛ https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/04/29/under-donald-trump-us-democracy-is-at-risk-of-an-imperial-presidency_6740744_4.html | Source: Le Monde    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:33:46

• "first of the corruption, then the cruelty." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/first-100-days-self-dealing-trump-thugocracy/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:33:55

• "Over the last few weeks multiple media outlets have reported on data analytics company Palantir’s closer collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the agency carries out Trump’s mass deportation efforts." ☛ https://www.404media.co/this-is-palantirs-justification-for-building-ices-master-database/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:34:31

• "Over 21 million images of capture employees' screens - along with usernames, IP addresses, and device details, were left sitting on an unsecured Amazon S3 storage bucket." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/21-million-employee-screenshots-leaked-in-bossware-breach-blunder | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:34:55

• "Sources who spoke to both outlets said DOGE is planning to use software from Palantir, Thiel's data mining company that has long worked with the government, to compile information from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)" ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-private-data-deportation | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:35:21

• "The questioner Clara Bünger criticises this response behaviour, especially as it is an incalculable encroachment on fundamental rights." ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2025/04/29/new-surveillance-method-revealed-german-authorities-let-ip-addresses-be-caught-with-no-clear-legal-basis/ | Source: Site36    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:35:41

• "Meta has been incorporating generative AI features across its services that are built on its open source large language model, Llama." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-private-processing-generative-ai-security-risks/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:36:04

• "Tech companies accused of exposing consumers to fraud want the Trump administration to let them freely buy and sell your personal information." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/big-tech-consumer-protection-data/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:36:40

• journalists   

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:36:44

• "cyber-intelligence company remotely installed surveillance software on the phones of over 1,400 WhatsApp users, including activists, journalists and diplomats." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/meta-seeks-damages-from-israeli-spyware-company-over-whatsapp-hacks/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:36:51

• "Ransomware attacks – which lock a target’s files until an extortion payment is made – are just one of the types of cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/complaints-about-ransomware-attacks-us-infrastructure-rise-9-fbi-says-2025-04-23/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:38:02

• Windows TCO: "The annual report from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) will reveal that the likes of manufacturing, healthcare, government facilities, financial services and IT were the top critical infrastructure sectors targeted by digital extortionists." ☛ https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/ransomware-attacks-critical-infrastructure-surge-reports-fbi | Source: Tripwire    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:38:43

• Windows TCO ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/mtn-was-hit-by-ransomware-attackers/262901/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:41:57

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2767655/ddos-attacks-skyrocketed-358-percent-year-over-year-report-says.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:42:06

• Windows TCO ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/76-of-australian-orgs-experienced-at-least-one-high-impact-cyber-event-%e2%80%98halting-critical-business-functions%e2%80%99-in-past-year-202504290415.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:42:15

• Windows TCO ☛ https://fedscoop.com/gsa-unveils-modernized-it-tool-procurement-strategy/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:42:20

• "Unless you fly strictly under the radar, your Facebook account has valuable data about you—like who you speak with the most and what you talk about." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2763144/is-someone-spying-on-your-facebook-account-heres-how-to-find-out.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:51:04

• "Her are some alternatives to social that allow you to browse without logging in. The sites offer minimalist versions of various social media." ☛ https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-working-alternative-interfaces-to-various-social-media-sites/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:51:13

• "Sergeant Juha-Pekka Huttunen in Mikkeli noted that, even though the age of criminal responsibility in Finland is 15, children under that age — or their families — would still be financially liable for any damage they might cause to a property." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20158781 | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:51:38

• "dozens of AI bots engaged in debates with users about controversial issues" ☛ https://www.404media.co/reddit-issuing-formal-legal-demands-against-researchers-who-conducted-secret-ai-experiment-on-users/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:52:15

• "It's a standalone version" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/metas_standalone_ai_app/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:52:39

• "The core point, Kapoor says, is that we need to start differentiating between the rapid development of AI methods—the flashy and impressive displays of what AI can do in the lab" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/29/1115928/is-ai-normal/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:53:50

• "ANSI terminal escape codes—special character sequences used to control terminal formatting, such as to change colors" ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/29/deceiving-users-with-ansi-terminal-codes-in-mcp/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:54:23

• "It would be hard to imagine three sentences more densely packed with falsehood than these three" ☛ https://www.newcartographies.com/p/epistemological-slop |    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:54:42

• "Meanwhile, OpenAI and Microsoft have a long-standing relationship. The company is a major shareholder of OpenAI and was previously its exclusive cloud provider." ☛ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/us-senators-demand-information-from-microsoft-and-google-about-ai-deals/ | Source: DataCenter Dynamics    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:54:54

• "U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Ron Wyden of Oregon, the ranking Democrats on the Senate banking and finance committees" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/democratic-us-senators-question-google-microsofts-ai-deals-2025-04-08/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:55:05

• "In this blog post, we compare three of the most popular machine learning frameworks in R: caret, tidymodels, and mlr3." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/spatial-machine-learning-with-r-caret-tidymodels-and-mlr3/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:55:15

• "The purpose of generative AI is to oppress labour. That’s why all that money to OpenAI. But for all the claims that you will be replaced by an Excel macro with pretentions … it’s not working out that way." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/29/generative-ai-no-significant-impact-on-earnings-or-recorded-hours-in-any-occupation/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:55:24

• "Modern simulation workflows face critical bottlenecks from computationally expensive models, fragmented tools, and the complexity of integrating AI/ML components." ☛ https://info.juliahub.com/blog/accelerating-simulation-with-juliasim-ai | Source: Julia Programming Language    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 06:55:39

• "To introduce a corrective force, AI developers frequently use what is called reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF)." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/like-the-button-that-changed-the-world-book-excerpt/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:07:53

• "gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/duolingo-replacing-humans-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:08:05

• "romantic role-play" ☛ https://futurism.com/meta-mark-zuckerberg-ai-inappropriate-children | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:08:17

• "Following Wall Street Journal investigations into the user-generated chatbots, AI Studio is inaccessible for users under 18 years old." ☛ https://www.404media.co/instagram-is-blocking-minors-from-accessing-chatbot-platform-ai-studio/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:10:19

• "The key thing is this: These models are designed to give you what you want, not what’s true. They optimize for plausibility rather than accuracy, delivering confident-sounding answers because that’s what humans tend to find satisfying" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/29/the-hallucinating-chatgpt-presidency/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:10:30

• "Fraudsters are able to change their race, facial hair, voice, and more during live video calls with very little effort." ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-age-of-realtime-deepfake-fraud-is-here/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:11:45

• "additional AI-generated images of juveniles in the nude." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51303479/a-scary-thing-police-arrest-st-george-man-suspected-in-ai-child-sexual-abuse-images-case | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:11:58

• "That first national AI R&D plan was written in 2016 by the first Trump administration and has been updated twice since — once by Donald Trump and once by Joe Biden" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/white-house-seeks-input-to-revise-national-ai-research-and-development-plan/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:12:24

• "The House has moved quickly on the Removing Our Unsecure Technologies to Ensure Reliability and Security (ROUTERS) Act" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/routers-act-commerce-study-modems-chinese-hackers/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:43:06

• "On Tuesday, researchers from the cybersecurity firm Oligo revealed what they’re calling AirBorne" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/airborne-airplay-flaws/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:43:21

• "I worry that the psychedelic enthusiasts of Silicon Valley will apply their "move fast and break things" philosophy to mind-altering drugs" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/will-tech-billionaires-move-fast-and-break-our-brains/articleshow/120720157.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:44:09

• "No one ever wants to hear it, but the best treatment for depression is exercise. The irony is, it’s incredibly hard to exercise when you are depressed." ☛ https://www.8ball.report/p/artificial-schizophrenia | Source: Sean Monahan    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:45:00

• "To try to prevent the measles virus from spreading further throughout Mexico, its Ministry of Health has issued a travel warning for the United States and Canada, where cases have also risen sharply." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/as-measles-cases-surge-mexico-issues-a-us-travel-alert/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:45:37

• "Humans, it is sometimes said, are defined by our capacity for choice. We are not moved to act merely by instinct: we choose what we do and how we do it. This is part of what it means to be human." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/neoliberalism-choice-individualism-market-freedom/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:47:45

• "A climbing hall is filled with a variety of smells: sweat, chalk dust and a hint of rubber." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-04-chemicals-climbing-abrasion-lung-issues.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:48:21

• "planned to build test chips" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/intel-attracts-interest-for-test-chips-using-new-manufacturing-process/articleshow/120739296.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:49:19

• "brownie point" ☛ https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/reversing-the-fossilization-of-computer-science-conferences/ | Source: ACM    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:50:12

• "After Fitzgerald’s death, a wave of eulogies applauded the author, and at least a couple of them hailed his Jazz Age novel as a classic." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-the-great-gatsby-took-over-high-school | Source: New Yorker    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:50:47

• "I won’t be adding reading lists or long reference sections — Wikipedia (and the internet [sic]) have that part covered" ☛ https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2025/sneak-peek-issue-1 | Source: Amit Gawande    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:51:17

• "Are you interested in bringing an advanced manufacturing program to your school, college, or community? Or maybe your company is looking for ways to get involved?" ☛ https://news.sparkfun.com/13705 | Source: SparkFun Electronics    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:51:33

• "In an interview with PsyPost, lead study author Jesús Adrián-Ventura said that he and his team found that right-wing authoritarianism was associated with lower grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex" ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/authoritarian-brain-scans | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:52:07

• "A couple of years ago, I participated in a study of the HealthFerm Citizen Science group in collaboration with the VUB Brussels and ETH Zurich universities." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/04/my-sourdough-starter-has-twins/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:52:18

• "Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) models are a class of models which attempt to model the entire economy of a nation." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/how-the-dsge-sausage-is-made/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:52:36

• "It’s not unheard of to discover a new color, but we’re coming up with new ways to do so—including with frickin’ laser beams." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/04/29/new-color-discovery-history/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:53:31

• "A launch anomaly on board Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket resulted in the loss of a Lockheed Martin spacecraft designed to demonstrate new satellite technologies" ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/space/2025/04/29/lockheed-loses-experimental-satellite-after-firefly-launch-mishap/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:53:54

• "How often, when searching, do you know precisely what you seek? How often are you looking for an answer versus looking in a direction or trying to evaluate qualitative or reputational information?" ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/04/28/browsing-as-thinking/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:55:38

• "Let's look at this inflammatory headline: [...]" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/who-is-responsible-for-missing-money/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:56:12

• "Writing isn’t a thing I do for the sake of it. It is an itch, a compulsion, a joy. A desire to output – to share ideas. To spread my mind on the page for consumption and inspection." ☛ https://vale.rocks/posts/why-write | Source: Declan Chidlow    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:58:28

• Mahesh   

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:58:51

• "I posit two extreme points on the spectrum of engineering archetypes: [...]" ☛ https://maheshba.bitbucket.io/blog/2025/04/29/cars.html | Source: Mahesh Balakrishnan    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:58:57

• "I had to think long and hard about whether I wanted to make this post or not, but I felt like I owed it to anyone who was kind enough to read my blog over the past couple of years." ☛ https://brandons-journal.com/farewell/ | Source: Brandon    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 07:59:59

• "Of course, there is a third option, which is to accept that some things aren’t worth fixing. When the cost of a fix is so high, fixes just aren’t worth it, especially when the language is working against us." ☛ https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/04/29/protobuf-tip-4/ | Source: Miguel Young de la Sota    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:00:16

• "I don’t believe there is a singular villain here, but instead a conversation to be had about the growing gap between the support we give international names versus how to better support our own." ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/culture/music/hear-that-it-s-the-sound-of-live-music-dying-for-local-australian-artists-20250429-p5lv5t.html | Source: The Age AU    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:00:45

• "Set up a primary network for the smart tech devices at the investment property and a guest network for tenants." ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/safety-tips-if-offering-internet-access-at-your-rental-property.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:01:10

• "The computer, a familiar sight in classrooms throughout the UK and plugged into the televisions of well-heeled parents, allowed the attachment of a second processor" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/arm_40/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:02:20

• "No operating system is perfect, not even Ubuntu. Whether you're interested in productivity or just ease of use, here are a few things that Ubuntu should steal from Windows to win the OS features arms race." https://www.howtogeek.com/features-ubuntu-should-steal-from-windows-11/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:05:04

• MASTODON IS NOW COLLAPSING. First they call Jews "nazis", now it's getting even more popcorn-worthy. MASTODON is doomed. http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/08/Graveyard_of_Mastodons_A_Vast_Number_of_Inactive_Accounts.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/07/No_Mastodon_is_Not_Growing_Social_Control_Media_is_Generally_Wa.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:06:14

• "The LWN.net fediverse (Mastodon) feed has moved; we are now known as @LWN@lwn.net. The migration magic has shifted many of our followers over automatically but, if you follow that stream, you might want to make sure that you have shifted to the new source." https://lwn.net/Articles/1019336/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:07:12

• What is Zypper Package Manager ☞ https://idroot.us/zypper-package-manager/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:16:24

• How To Install SeaMonkey on GNU/Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-seamonkey-linux-mint-22/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:16:42

• How To Install proprietary trap AWS CLI on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-aws-cli-fedora-42/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:17:09

• How to remove a server on VULTR via API ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-remove-a-server-on-vultr-via-api/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:19:09

• Leftist Extremists in Open Source: PewDiePie Fans Not Allowed ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/leftist-extremists-in-open-source    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:20:52

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

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:21:04

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

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 08:21:17

• "…for me - is to mute the influencers. There is a list of a handful of folks - they are good folks, but what they are doing is absolutely toxic for what I need to do - namely, build stuff." ☛ https://blog.julik.nl/2025/03/a-little-adventure-in-modern-frontend | Source: Julik Tarkhanov    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:02:42

• "Whenever there’s a compilation error, ghc tends to spit out a wall of text. Experienced Haskell users know quickly which pieces of this wall of text are informative, and which can be ignored." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/reading-ghc-errors | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:02:51

• "One of the things that stands out to me is how similar match and if..else are semantically, while being diverging a fair bit syntactically." ☛ https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/syntactic-musings-on-match-expressions/ | Source: Yoshua Wuyts    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:04:19

• "I’m not talking about skill, knowledge, or convincing a world focused on radical acceleration that optimization is necessary." ☛ https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/why-performance-optimization-is-hard-work/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:05:40

• "For anyone working on gRPC or other technologies that involve generating code from a schema, may I recommend this approach to integration." ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/04/30/merge-schema-changes-alongside-the.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:05:53

• "The Linux community is often portrayed as elitist or prone to gatekeeping, but, nowadays, the opposite is true: the community really wants to help you grow, so you can give back one day." ☛ https://thelibre.news/is-linux-too-elitist-2/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:07:32

• "Description: This workshop introduces the surveydown R package and survey platform." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/surveydown-an-open-source-markdown-based-platform-for-interactive-and-reproducible-surveys-workshop/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:07:38

• "I recently discovered an unexpected behavior in PostgreSQL involving a pattern of using a Common Table Expression (CTE) with DELETE" ☛ https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/119/a-postgresql-planner-gotcha-with-ctes-delete-and-limit/ | Source: Shayon Mukherjee    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:08:21

• "This version includes important security updates to Firefox." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1451/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:09:13

• "Today, Mozilla has released version 138 of its popular Firefox web browser for Windows, macOS, and Linux." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2767660/mozilla-firefox-finally-has-native-profile-switching-with-latest-update.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:09:22

• "Kdenlive 25.04 open-source video editing software is out with object segmentation, enhanced audio waveforms, OpenTimelineIO support, and more." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-25-04-video-editor-lands-with-local-object-segmentation/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:12:13

• "We’re proud to share that Arduino has ranked #9 in TIME magazine’s 2025 list of the World’s Top EdTech Companies, created in collaboration with global market research firm Statista." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/04/29/arduino-makes-times-2025-worlds-top-edtech-companies/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:13:38

• "Mozilla Thunderbird 138 open-source email client brings customizable new mail alerts, dark mode refinements, folder management fixes, and more." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-thunderbird-138-released-heres-whats-new/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:13:54

• "Please see the DNSdist website for the changelog and the current documentation." ☛ https://blog.powerdns.com/2025/04/29/powerdns-dnsdist-1.9.9-released | Source: PowerDNS    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:14:29

• "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced its plans for a hackathon to improve free/libre software in honor of its fortieth anniversary. Free software projects and hackers at any stage of their development are invited to participate." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf40-hackathon | Source: FSF    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:14:52

• "The AlmaLinux project has published a new beta snapshot." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12435 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:17:16

• "Since I started using other Desktop OS than OpenBSD, I’m obsessed with limiting filesystem resources access from applications" ☛ https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/install-and-isolate-apps-using-firejail-on-slackware/ | Source: TuMFatig    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:17:43

• "The cover art for this release, entitled Life of a Fish, is by Tomáš Rodr, also known as analouguenowhere." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/29/openbsd_77_is_out/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:18:37

• "Quieter and more accurate updates - what's not to like?" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250429063608 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:18:49

• "This week we get to share a range of fun, exciting, and interesting developments" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250428 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:20:10

• "Valve has just rolled out a fresh update (the second for this month) for the Steam client" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/steam-client-update-fixes-dlc-recognition/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:21:58

• "Despite the benefits mentioned above, to our knowledge BitCraft will be the first venture backed/commercially developed MMORPG open sourced under an open source license." ☛ https://bitcraftonline.com/blog/open-sourcing-bitcraft-online |    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:22:06

• "Concluding a three-part special on the Florida ZTW2025 event sposored by Threatlocker" ☛ https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=45 | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 09:24:37

• Humans’ Wounds Heal Much More Slowly Than Other Mammals’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/science/wounds-healing-speed-humans.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 11:26:52

• Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/kennedy-vaccines-research.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 11:28:36

• First 100 days: The race to save digital records from the Convicted Felon administration ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250429-first-100-days-race-to-save-digital-records-from-trump-administration-dei    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 11:29:21

• Chan | Why limiting abortion is everyone’s issue ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/28/chan-why-limiting-abortion-is-everyones-issue/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 11:29:41

• The Forrest Dump Administration’s Restructuring and Cuts to the U.S. State Department Benefit War Criminals and Perpetrators of Mass Atrocities: PHR ☞ https://phr.org/news/the-trump-administrations-restructuring-and-cuts-to-the-u-s-state-department-benefit-war-criminals-and-perpetrators-of-mass-atrocities-phr/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 11:30:04

• Latvia's ambulance drivers to get medical training ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/29.04.2025-latvias-ambulance-drivers-to-get-medical-training.a597137/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 11:30:32

• South Korea top court to rule on presidential frontrunner's criminal case ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-top-court-to-rule-on-presidential-frontrunners-criminal-case    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:01:49

• North Korea leader Kim eyeing nuclear armament for its navy, says state media ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-conducts-first-test-firing-of-its-new-warships-weapons-system    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:02:31

• South Korean prosecutors raid ex-President Yoon’s private residence ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-prosecutors-raid-ex-president-yoons-private-residence    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:02:46

• EU pledges over €300 million in ocean conservation efforts at Our Ocean Conference in Busan ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1111    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:03:21

• Malaysia to delay new taxes as manufacturers fear US tariff hit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-to-delay-new-taxes-as-manufacturers-fear-tariff-hit    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:03:52

• Elderly Malaysian driver suffers a stroke, crashes car into coffee shop, killing 1 diner ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/elderly-malaysian-driver-suffers-a-stroke-crashes-car-into-coffee-shop-killing-1-diner    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:04:09

• Protest votes: Easy by-election win in Perak masks unhappiness with Malaysia’s PM Anwar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/protest-votes-easy-by-election-win-in-perak-masks-unhappiness-against-malaysias-pm-anwar    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:04:48

• Retailers Fear Toy Shortages at Christmas as Tariffs Freeze Supply Chain ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/business/trump-tariffs-christmas-china.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:05:23

• China blames US tariffs for halting Boeing plane deliveries ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-blames-us-tariffs-for-halting-boeing-plane-deliveries    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:05:32

• Restaurant fire kills 22 in north-east China’s Liaoning ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/restaurant-fire-kills-22-in-north-east-chinas-liaoning    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:06:29

• Chinese navy patrols South China Sea, says Philippines creating ‘disturbances’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-navy-patrols-south-china-sea-says-philippines-creating-disturbances    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:07:04

• Hong Kong frees 4 former lawmakers jailed for subversion ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/29/hong-kong-lawmakers-subversion-freed/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:07:40

• INTERVIEW: Uyghur human rights activist Rushan Abbas and her fight for freedom ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/04/29/uyghur-rushan-abbas-book-unbroken/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:10:48

• Investigation exposes China’s global campaign of transnational repression ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/29/china-transnational-repression/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:10:58

• Protests by unpaid Chinese workers spread amid factory closures ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/29/china-us-tariff-protests-workers-wages/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:12:44

• Press advocacy group condemns detention of Macao reporters ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/press-advocacy-group-condemns-detention-of-macao-reporters/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:13:00

• China deploys army of fake NGOs at UN to intimidate, silence critics: media investigation ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/29/china-deploys-army-of-fake-ngos-at-un-to-intimidate-silence-critics-media-investigation/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:13:33

• 22 killed in northeast China restaurant fire, state media says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/29/22-killed-in-northeast-china-restaurant-fire-state-media-says/    

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

• ‘Enemy of my enemy’: For Canada to wean off US, the path may lead past EU, through India and China ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250429-o-canada-maple-leaf-mauls-maga-in-ottawa-s-electoral-reckoning    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:15:20

• The United States needs a victory plan for the Indo-Pacific ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/the-united-states-needs-a-victory-plan-for-the-indo-pacific/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:15:43

• "deranged Nazi junkies" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/30/dima-shares-his-memes-with-the-kids | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:17:00

• "The One With The Protractor Keyboard" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-the-protractor-keyboard/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:17:35

• The G7 And The Libre 3 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/peeking-at-poking-health-tech-the-g7-and-the-libre-3/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:18:17

• Snap stock tumbles as company withholds Q2 outlook, citing macro concerns ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/29/snap-stock-tumbles-company-withholds-q2-outlook-citing-macro-concerns/ "Shares in Snap Inc. dropped by over 13% in late trading today"    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:19:03

• Misuse of overuse of buzzwords: "courtesy of AI" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/comparing-ai-for-basic-plant-care-with-human-brown-thumbs/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:19:50

• "A quadrature encoder provides a way to let hardware read movement (and direction) of a shaft, and they can be simple, effective, and inexpensive devices." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/read-motor-speed-better-by-making-the-rp2040-pio-do-it/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:26:58

• Venusian Spacecraft ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/theres-an-venusian-spacecraft-coming-our-way/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:27:47

• Almost a Quarter of Moon Impact Debris Eventually Hits Earth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-a-quarter-of-moon-impact-debris-eventually-hits-earth    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:28:03

• A Small Drop in Vaccinations Could Spread Measles to Millions, Study Warns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-small-drop-in-vaccinations-could-spread-measles-to-millions-study-warns    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:28:41

• Scientists Just Confirmed a 67-Year-Old Hypothesis About Vitamin B1 ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-confirmed-a-67-year-old-hypothesis-about-vitamin-b1    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:29:14

• Gravity May Be a Clue That The Universe Is a Giant Computer ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/gravity-may-be-a-clue-that-the-universe-is-a-giant-computer    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:29:44

• Scientists Found The 'Lid' Keeping The Yellowstone Supervolcano From Erupting ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-the-lid-keeping-the-yellowstone-supervolcano-from-erupting    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:30:28

• This Eerie Crack of Darkness in The Sky Is Hiding a Glittering Secret ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-eerie-crack-of-darkness-in-the-sky-is-hiding-a-glittering-secret    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:30:55

• Brisk Walking Could Lower Your Risk of Heart Rhythm Abnormalities ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/brisk-walking-could-lower-your-risk-of-heart-rhythm-abnormalities    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:32:13

• Haunting Sounds of The World's Largest Living Thing Revealed ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/haunting-sounds-of-the-worlds-largest-living-thing-revealed    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:32:33

• Commodore ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/crossing-commodore-signal-cables-on-purpose/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:32:59

• B2B title ESG Investor closes amid ‘anti-woke’ backlash to sustainable investing ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b2b/esg-investor-closes/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:34:22

• Excessive use of emojis in a text message reveals this about someone, study says ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/29/lifestyle/emoji-habits-reveal-a-persons-personality-trait/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 12:59:31

• LWN's Mastodon migration ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019336/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:00:13

• Cargo That Set Off Blast at Iran Port Was Improperly Documented, Investigators Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/world/europe/iran-port-explosion.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:01:28

• DIY 1982 Picture Phone ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/29/the-diy-1982-picture-phone/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:01:50

• Intel Foundry Roadmap Update - New 18A-PT variant that enables 3D die stacking, 14A process node enablement ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-foundry-roadmap-update-new-18a-pt-variant-that-enables-3d-die-stacking-14a-process-node-enablement    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:03:06

• Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman on how technology can be used to tackle financial crime ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/nasdaq-ceo-adena-friedman-on-how-technology-can-be-used-to-tackle-financial-crime/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:04:40

• G.M. Withdraws Profit Forecast as Convicted Felon Tariffs Take a Toll ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/business/general-motors-profit-trump-tariffs.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:08:37

• Floridians Are Getting Glimpses of What Aggressive Immigration Enforcement Looks Like ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/trump-desantis-florida-immigration-arrests.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:08:59

• Paramount Board Clears Possible Path for Settling Convicted Felon’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/business/media/paramount-cbs-60-minutes-trump-lawsuit.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:09:31

• Canada Election Results: Mark Carney and the Liberal Party Fall Short of Majority ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/world/canada/carney-liberals-canada-election-results.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:10:03

• Palestine envoy accuses Israel of targeting civilians and aid workers at ICJ hearing ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/palestine-agent-accuses-israel-of-targeting-civilians-and-aid-workers-at-icj-hearing/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:10:50

• Hong Kong trans activist launches new legal challenge over ID card gender policy ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/30/hong-kong-trans-activist-launches-new-legal-challenge-over-id-card-gender-policy/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:11:15

• Unions, cities, nonprofits challenge constitutionality of Convicted Felon’s government reorganization ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/04/unions-cities-nonprofits-challenge-constitutionality-of-trumps-government-reorganization/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:11:32

• NARA reminds agency leaders of records retention responsibilities ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/agency-oversight/2025/04/nara-reminds-agency-leaders-of-records-retention-responsibilities/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:12:01

• Why Europe doesn’t waste a crisis ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0429/Why-Europe-doesn-t-waste-a-crisis    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:14:48

• First batch of Hong Kong democrats freed after 4 years’ jail for subversion ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/first-batch-of-hong-kong-democrats-freed-after-4-years-jail-for-subversion    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:15:02

• India shuts over half of Kashmir tourist spots in security review ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-shuts-over-half-of-kashmir-tourist-spots-in-security-review    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:16:06

• Japan, Philippines leaders vow to deepen security ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-pm-ishiba-to-push-security-and-economic-ties-on-philippines-visit    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:16:29

• Hiding behind a password ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/hiding-behind-a-password/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:17:18

• DHS Secretary Noem: CISA needs to get back to ‘core mission’ ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/kristi-noem-rsac-2025-cisa-mission/    

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

• OpenSSF Launches Free Course to Prepare Developers for the EU Cyber Resilience Act ☞ https://openssf.org/press-release/2025/04/29/openssf-launches-free-course-to-prepare-developers-for-the-eu-cyber-resilience-act/ Not into real security but corporate cover http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:19:33

• What to know about the recent needle attacks on Mexico City’s Metro ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-city-metro-needle-attacks/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:21:01

• CISA Warns of Exploited Broadcom, Commvault Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-warns-of-exploited-broadcom-commvault-vulnerabilities/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:21:40

• Hegseth boasts about ending ‘woke’ program on women and security. Convicted Felon signed it into law ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news/2025/04/hegseth-boasts-about-ending-woke-program-on-women-and-security-that-trump-had-signed-into-law/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:35:33

• U.K. Crossbow Attack Suspect Voiced Racist and Misogynist Views ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/world/europe/uk-crossbow-attack-suspect.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:37:06

• UK local publisher ‘deeply concerned’ about Facebook (Farcebook) account ban ahead of election ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/social_media/facebook-local-news-account-banned-leicester/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:37:46

• Bezos works for Cheeto now ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/us/politics/trump-amazon-tariffs-prices.html http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/18/GAFAM_Kissing_the_Ring_of_the_Mafia_Don.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:38:46

• Dihydroxyacetone Man administration brands Amazon's tariff transparency plan a 'hostile and political act' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/amazons-tariff-transparency-plans-for-product-pages-dubbed-hostile-and-political-act-by-the-trump-administration    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:39:02

• Amazon works for Cheetos☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250429-amazon-says-it-will-not-show-tariff-costs-goods-white-house-rebuke-trump    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:39:23

• Amazon draws Convicted Felon's ire over reported plan to display tariff costs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250429-amazon-draws-trump-s-ire-over-reported-plan-to-display-tariff-costs    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:39:39

• Nominations | IP3 Awards 2025 ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/nominations-ip3-awards-2025/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:40:57

• Looking back on a career of watching out on behalf of public integrity ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2025/04/looking-back-on-a-career-of-watching-out-on-behalf-of-public-integrity/ "whistleblowers are incredibly important to the system"    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:41:34

• Windows 7 users with a solid background color faced delayed login process — it took four months for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft to fix ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-7-users-with-a-solid-background-color-faced-delayed-login-process-it-took-four-months-for-microsoft-to-fix    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:42:32

• From Apple’s Forbidden Fruit to Google’s All-Seeing Eye: Big Tech’s Occult Side Hustle ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/04/from-apples-forbidden-fruit-to-googles-all-seeing-eye-big-techs-occult-side-hustle/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:43:07

• pg_auto_reindexer v1.4 released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_auto_reindexer-v14-released-3067/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:43:47

• IP67-rated Helios SK51 CAN Keypad adds five programmable RGB tactile buttons to CAN Bus applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/29/ip67-rated-helios-sk51-can-keypad-adds-five-programmable-rgb-tactile-buttons-to-can-bus-applications/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:44:22

• Inventia MT-718 PS battery-powered IP68 industrial telemetry logger integrates environmental sensors, cellular IoT connectivity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/29/inventia-mt-718-ps-battery-powered-ip68-industrial-telemetry-logger-integrates-environmental-sensors-cellular-iot-connectivity/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:44:55

• Exploited Vulnerability Exposes Over 400 SAP NetWeaver Servers to Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/exploited-vulnerability-exposes-over-400-sap-netweaver-servers-to-attacks/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:46:28

• Applying Security Engineering to Prompt Injection Security ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/applying-security-engineering-to-prompt-injection-security.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:55:30

• How Photography From the Vietnam War Changed America ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/world/asia/vietnam-war-photography-impact.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:56:46

• More Scans for SMS Gateways and APIs, (Tue, Apr 29th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31902    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:57:25

• Web Scanning Sonicwall for CVE-2021-20016, (Tue, Apr 29th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31906    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 13:57:53

• batteryinfo: A Rust-Powered Python Package for Laptop Battery Monitoring ☞ https://thisdavej.com/batteryinfo-a-rust-powered-python-package-for-laptop-battery-monitoring/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:31:15

• Announcing Ridiculous Space Battles ☞ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/04/29/announcing-ridiculous-space-battles/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:32:29

• Wargaming the Middle East: How Iran might reshape its Hezbollah proxy playbook ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/event-recap/wargaming-the-middle-east-how-iran-might-reshape-its-hezbollah-proxy-playbook/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:37:31

• The Web site securityweekly fixed its rss fed some months ago; however, as of late, a lot of its output is marketing spam, sometimes the majority    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:38:41

• Coming Soon: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Fake Results, Mass Layoffs, and Silence About All the People Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Pressured to "Quit" (So That They Don't Get Counted as Layoffs) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/28/Coming_Soon_Microsoft_Fake_Results_Mass_Layoffs_and_Silence_Abo.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:44:01

• Just Sending More and More Threats Does Not Change the Fact We Got Abused for Many Years and Women Got Strangled ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/29/Just_Sending_More_and_More_Threats_Does_Not_Change_the_Fact_We_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:48:20

• Microsoft is Already Laying Off Lots of Contractors (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/29/Microsoft_is_Already_Laying_Off_Lots_of_Contractors.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:48:33

• New Video Report About Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Cancelling Multi-Billion Dollar Projects (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/29/New_Video_Report_About_Microsoft_Cancelling_Multi_Billion_Dolla.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:48:42

• Federal Circuit Weakens ITC Domestic Industry Requirement ☞ https://patentprogress.org/2025/04/federal-circuit-weakens-itc-domestic-industry-requirement/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:51:55

• Privies, Prior Art, and Procedure: Stewart’s Triple Rebuke of PTAB in favor of Patentees ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/procedure-stewarts-patentees.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:52:33

• SEP, FRAND, and Arbitration: A “Paranoid” Quest for Harmony in Global Patent Disputes ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/04/29/sep-frand-and-arbitration-a-paranoid-quest-for-harmony-in-global-patent-disputes/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:55:47

• When May Ex Parte Injunctions Be Granted in Patent Cases in Denmark? – A Case Comment on BS-19037/2025 from the Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/04/29/when-may-ex-parte-injunctions-be-granted-in-patent-cases-in-denmark-a-case-comment-on-bs-19037-2025-from-the-danish-maritime-and-commercial-high-court/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:56:09

• Disinformation and Marketing Spam From and For OIN (GAFAM's and IBM's Weapon Against Free Software Activists and Reformists Against Software Patents) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/29/Disinformation_and_Marketing_Spam_From_and_For_OIN_GAFAM_s_and_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:56:22

• Unified Files Amicus for En Banc Review of Kroy IP Holdings v. Groupon in Fed. Cir. ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/28/amicus-kroy-groupon    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:56:48

• $2,000 awarded for KEEEX digital fingerprint patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/29/2000-awarded-for-keeex-digital-fingerprint-patent-prior-art    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 14:59:34

• InfoGation navigation patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/29/infogation-navigation-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:00:03

• QuantifiCare wins injunction against Canfield in 3D imaging dispute ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/quantificare-wins-injunction-against-canfield-in-3d-imaging-dispute/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:00:50

• Nordic Investment Bank reports 'solid' first quarter ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/banks/29.04.2025-nordic-investment-bank-reports-solid-first-quarter.a597139/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:01:29

• ReactOS now supports 3dfx's Voodoo5 GPUs — open-source backdoored Windows alternative offers near-native performance for retro gamers ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/reactos-now-supports-3dfxs-voodoo5-gpus-open-source-windows-alternative-offers-near-native-performance-for-retro-gamers    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:02:02

• pgDay Lowlands in Rotterdam - Call For Presentations (CfP) Closing Soon, and the Call for Sponsors is Open! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgday-lowlands-in-rotterdam-call-for-presentations-cfp-closing-soon-and-the-call-for-sponsors-is-open-3066/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:02:54

• Freexian Collaborators: Freexian partners with Invisible Things Lab to extend security support for Xen hypervisor ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/xen-4.17-lts/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:04:14

• Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 138 ☞ https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-138/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:04:59

• Basic Python Syntax: A Beginner’s Guide To Writing Python Code ☞ https://thenewstack.io/all-basic-python-syntaxes/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:05:37

• How can IXPs help measure the Internet? ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/29/how-can-ixps-help-measure-the-internet/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:14:19

• How reinforcement learning improves DeepSeek performance ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/29/how-reinforcement-learning-improves-deepseek-performance    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:35:43

• Streaming Data into Postgres with Estuary ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/streaming-data-into-postgres-with-estuary-3064/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:38:32

• Google Spreading Misinformation and Lies (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/29/Google_Spreading_Misinformation_and_Lies.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:39:14

• Google report finds drop in zero-day exploitation in 2024 but warns enterprise risks are rising ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/29/google-report-finds-drop-zero-day-exploitation-2024-warns-enterprise-risks-rising/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:39:54

• Google Tracked 75 Zero-Days in 2024 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-tracked-75-zero-days-in-2024/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:41:04

• Transparencia Electoral’s new index on data protection during elections in Latin America ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5558/transparencia-electorals-new-index-data-protection-during-elections-latin    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:45:10

• The hidden threat: Privacy and security risks in chips ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5559/hidden-threat-privacy-and-security-risks-chips    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:45:19

• Gaza journalists’ challenging mission: Report on the war, and survive it ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0429/gaza-war-journalists-danger    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:46:55

• Pakistan says India planning strike as tensions soar over Kashmir attack ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-gives-army-operational-freedom-to-respond-to-kashmir-attack    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:47:11

• Pakistan’s minister Tarar warns of possible Indian military strike within 24-36 hours ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/pakistans-minister-tarar-warns-of-possible-indian-military-strike-within-24-36-hours    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:47:27

• Pakistan says India planning imminent military strike over Kashmir attack ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250430-pakistan-india-kashmir    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:47:57

• Qt for Android Automotive 6.9 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-android-automotive-6.8-released-0    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 15:53:06

• Zarfy updated in Scarthgap and Daedalus ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202504/zarfy-updated-in-scarthgap-and-daedalus.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:11:29

• "DOGE Aide Dismantling CFPB Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From Cuts" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-gavin-kliger-stock | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:12:35

• Terry Cole ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dea-nominee-terry-cole-mexico-drug-cartels | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:12:57

• Firefox 138.0 Is Out with Support for Customizing Profiles ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/firefox-138-0-is-out/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:13:21

• So I've been running #Ubuntu for the last couple days and I have to say, it's been great. ☞ https://kevquirk.com/notes/20250429-1607    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:14:16

• Meson 1.8.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019321/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:14:43

• FSF Events: Community meetup in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/community-meetup-palm-beach-county-florida    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:14:59

• FSF Events: Community meetup in Warsaw, Poland ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/community-meetup-warsaw-poland    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:15:06

• Firefox 139 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect ☞ https://9to5linux.com/firefox-139-is-now-available-for-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:31:58

• Thunderbird 138 Adds New Default Color Override for High Contrast Mode on GNU/Linux ☞ https://9to5linux.com/thunderbird-138-adds-new-default-color-override-for-high-contrast-mode-on-linux    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:32:16

• Firefox 138 Released with Long-Awaited Profile Manager ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/firefox-138-new-features    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:32:34

• Proprietary backdoored Windows Versus "Linux" News (Trying to Keep People on Windows, Never Exploring GNU/Linux) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/28/Proprietary_Windows_Versus_Linux_News_Trying_to_Keep_People_on_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:33:23

• Speed of GNU/Linux ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/28/Speed_of_GNU_Linux.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:33:32

• statCounter: GNU/Linux Adoption Surging in Switzerland, backdoored Windows at All-time Low ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/29/statCounter_GNU_Linux_Adoption_Surging_in_Switzerland_Windows_a.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:33:39

• Install and isolate apps using Firejail on Slackware ☞ https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/install-and-isolate-apps-using-firejail-on-slackware/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:34:03

• Oshin OS is an Arch GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/oshin-os-arch-linux-distribution/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:34:28

• AUDio MEasurement System – oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/audio-measurement-system-oscilloscope-spectrum-analyzer/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:34:43

• Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Forms ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-microsoft-forms/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:36:55

• Cerberus Testing is a low-code test automation platform ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cerberus-testing-low-code-test-automation-platform/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:38:30

• Accelerate model training on OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) with NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/29/accelerate-model-training-openshift-ai-nvidia-gpudirect-rdma    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:40:29

• sumdiff: Sum Minus Difference ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/sumdiff-sum-minus-difference/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:40:59

• Putin announces ceasefire to protect Moscow parade from Ukrainian attack ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-aims-to-pause-war-for-victory-parade-before-resuming-his-invasion/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:41:46

• Putin announces 3-day truce as Convicted Felon struggles to secure Ukraine peace ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250429-putin-announces-3-day-truce-as-trump-struggles-to-secure-ukraine-peace    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:41:58

• Russia Launches Drone Attacks On Dnipro, Kharkiv After Kremlin Rejects Offer Of 30-Day Cease-Fire ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-ceasefire-putin-trump-victory-day/33399346.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:42:25

• Ensuring That Every Computer User Anywhere in the World Can Take Control of All His or Her Computers ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/27/Ensuring_That_Every_Computer_User_Anywhere_in_the_World_Can_Tak.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:42:48

• As war with Russia drags on, Ukrainians wage parallel ‘revolution of dignity’ ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0429/ukraine-war-trump-putin-russian-language    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:43:01

• Zelensky Calls Putin’s 72-Hour Truce Pledge in Russia-Ukraine War ‘Manipulation’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/world/europe/ukraine-russia-zelensky-putin-truce.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:43:14

• Linux Matters: High Precision Solid Metal Balls ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/54/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:45:26

• "How Moscow censors Trump" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/29/how-moscow-censors-trump | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:46:19

• "without preconditions" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/29/moscow-rejects-proposed-30-day-ceasefire-says-putin-s-three-day-offer-is-only-way-forward-without-preconditions | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:46:43

• Latvian citizen gets prison sentence for serving in Russian army ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/29.04.2025-latvian-citizen-gets-prison-sentence-for-serving-in-russian-army.a597190/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:46:54

• Ukraine’s air force has survived. Taiwan’s almost certainly couldn’t ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ukraines-air-force-has-survived-taiwans-almost-certainly-couldnt/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:47:30

• Kyiv accuses China of deepening involvement in Russia’s Ukraine war ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/kyiv-accuses-china-of-deepening-involvement-in-russias-ukraine-war/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:47:52

• Rubio Says Progress Needed In Ukraine War Negotiations Or US Will Step Back ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-rubio-war-nebenzya-trump/33400754.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:48:14

• EU Says Hungary's Block Could Mean Moldova's Accession Moves Forward Without Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-hungary-block-moldova-membership-without-ukraine/33399333.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:48:32

• Reclaiming language as an act of restoration ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editors/2025/0429/Ukraine-resistance-language    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:48:54

• Finnish Leader Warns Russia: ‘You Don’t Play With Hell Toupée’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/world/europe/finland-stubb-russia-trump-ukraine.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:49:17

• Three Takeaways From the Times’ Interview With President Alexander Stubb of Finland ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/world/europe/finland-president-interview-takeaways.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:49:33

• US threatens to end mediation if Russia, Ukraine fail to offer 'concrete proposals' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250430-us-russia-ukraine    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:49:45

• Government redistributes €6.6 million to Latvia-Russia border infrastructure ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/29.04.2025-government-redistributes-eur66-million-to-latvia-russia-border-infrastructure.a597171/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:50:03

• Can Nord Stream really rise from the dead? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/can-nord-stream-really-rise-from-the-dead/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:50:32

• France accuses Russian military intelligence of cyberattacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250429-france-accuses-russian-military-intelligence-of-cyberattacks    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:50:44

• France accuses Russia of cyberattacks on defence, finance, media sectors ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250429-france-accuses-russia-cyberattacks-defence-finance-media-sectors    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:50:58

• NATO sees no threat in Zapad drills, says Lithuanian official ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2549409/nato-sees-no-threat-in-zapad-drills-says-lithuanian-official    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:51:49

• China tight-lipped on North Korea’s Russia troop deployment confirmation ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/29/china-north-korea-russia-troop-confirmation/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:52:11

• A Russian Missile Blew Apart These Kyiv Apartments, and a Decades-Old Community ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/world/europe/kyiv-russia-missile-strike.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:52:19

• Too early to resume train service between Vilnius and Minsk, says official ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2549249/too-early-to-resume-train-service-between-vilnius-and-minsk-says-official    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:52:35

• "ongoing fighting with Ukrainian forces" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/29/reclaiming-kursk | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:53:29

• "convicted of terrorist plot" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/29/russian-military-court-hands-down-long-prison-sentences-to-five-ukrainian-men-abducted-in-occupied-melitopol-and-convicted-of-terrorist-plot | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:53:52

• "‘manipulation’" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/29/russia-and-ukraine-trade-accusations-of-manipulation-over-ceasefire-proposals | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:54:06

• "orders draft officers to the front if they’ve dodged combat so far" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/29/ukraine-s-top-general-orders-draft-officers-to-the-front-if-they-ve-dodged-combat-so-far | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:54:30

• TTAB Dismisses THOR Opposition, Finding Boats Unrelated to Recreational Vehicles: 34 Pairs of Third-Party Registrations Proved Decisive ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/04/ttab-dismisses-thor-opposition-finding.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:55:10

• Color Mark Denial on Dark Green Medical Gloves ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/denial-medical-gloves.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 16:56:14

• Going GNU/Linux #467 · Listener Feedback ☞ https://goinglinux.com/episode-467-listener-feedback/index.html    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, aPRIL 30, 2025 AT 16:57:26

• Is Free/Open Source Software Sustainable? ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/04/is-free-or-open-source-software-sustainable/    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, aPRIL 30, 2025 AT 16:58:03

• FreeBSD Wants to Know a Few Things ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/04/freebsd-wants-to-know-a-few-things/    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, aPRIL 30, 2025 AT 16:58:31

• New surveillance method revealed: German authorities let IP addresses be “caught” with no clear legal basis ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/04/29/new-surveillance-method-revealed-german-authorities-let-ip-addresses-be-caught-with-no-clear-legal-basis/    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, aPRIL 30, 2025 AT 17:01:48

• Germany committing to ODF and open document standards ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/29/germany-committing-to-odf-and-open-document-standards/    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, aPRIL 30, 2025 AT 17:02:37

• How To Install OpenOffice on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-openoffice-opensuse/    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, aPRIL 30, 2025 AT 17:03:01

• Surge in trips expected for China’s May Day holiday, but travellers keep budgets tight ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/surge-in-trips-expected-for-chinese-holiday-but-travellers-keep-budgets-tight    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:04:45

• Commission offers 17 countries the possibility to purchase over 27 million influenza vaccine doses ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1096    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:05:11

• Turkey’s labor underutilization reaches pandemic level ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkeys-labor-underutilization-reaches-pandemic-level-306934    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:05:32

• There Have Never Been 100 Days Like This ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/briefing/trump-100-days-tariffs-cars.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:06:09

• Microsoft's openwashing front group is lobbying White House on Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/new-project-highlights-open-source-initiative-and-apereo-foundations-response-to-white-house-on-ai    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:07:32

• Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox DevTools Newsletter — 137 ☞ https://fxdx.dev/firefox-devtools-newsletter-137/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:09:44

• New ONS data today; weeks 14-15 England and Wales deaths in 2019: 10,126 and 10,291. In 2025: 11,449 and 10,998. Too many deaths, no official explanations.    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:13:19

• Spatial machine learning with R: caret, tidymodels, and mlr3 ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/spatial-machine-learning-with-r-caret-tidymodels-and-mlr3/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:15:16

• LibreArts Weekly recap — 27 April 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/04/week-recap-27-apr-2025/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:17:25

• Signing key change for Kali GNU/Linux ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019255/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:22:09

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019272/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:22:37

• Petter Reinholdtsen: OpenSnitch 1.6.8 is now in Trixie ☞ http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/OpenSnitch_1_6_8_is_now_in_Trixie.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:23:21

• Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, March 2025 (by Roberto C. Sánchez) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-03/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:23:50

• Customizing WirePlumber's configuration for embedded systems ☞ https://www.collabora.com/customizing-wireplumbers-configuration-for-embedded-systems    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:25:40

• Linux Format 328 ☞ https://linuxformat.com/linux-format-328.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:26:15

• NFO Viewer is a viewer for NFO files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nfo-viewer-files/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:27:16

• 4 Fun Free and Open Source Meme Generation Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fun-free-open-source-meme-generation-tools/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:27:35

• StarRocks is a high-performance analytical database ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/starrocks-high-performance-analytical-database/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:27:49

• 15 Best Free and Open Source Test Automation Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-test-automation-tools/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:28:06

• Shaarli is a minimalist, super fast, database-free, bookmarking service ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/shaarli-minimalist-fast-database-free-bookmarking-service/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:28:23

• "On Desktop Linux you can get the launcher to appear, but the game itself will not load once you hit the Start Game button, as it just quits to your Steam Library." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/infinity-nikki-on-steam-works-on-steam-deck-but-the-situation-is-odd-and-anti-cheat-blocks-desktop-linux/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:58:48

• "Most people only consider Windows or macOS when looking at laptops, with a smattering of ChromeOS thrown in for good measure. However, the next time you configure a laptop before purchase, you might just see the option to buy it with Linux pre-installed." https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-now-is-the-right-time-to-buy-a-linux-laptop/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:59:06

• Delta Force is 'not part of the future' https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/delta-force-devs-say-desktop-linux-support-is-not-part-of-our-agenda-in-the-future/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 17:59:54

• "Think you need a laptop to connect via SSH to your Linux machine? Think again - these free Android apps make it ridiculously easy to connect from anywhere." https://www.zdnet.com/article/my-favorite-ssh-clients-for-android-and-why-you-need-them/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:00:44

• "Here's a look at eight Linux commands that you might not have tried. There's always something new to learn." https://www.networkworld.com/article/3960514/8-unusual-linux-commands.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:01:49

• "Useful commands for Linux beginners can help you get comfortable on the command line." https://www.networkworld.com/article/3958246/18-essential-commands-for-new-linux-users.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:02:11

• "The bash history feature can save you a lot of time when repeating commands or examining commands you’ve entered previously." https://www.networkworld.com/article/3542724/making-use-of-command-history-on-linux.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:02:41

• "Here we go again. Wuthering Waves has now released on Steam from KURO GAMES and it appears to be having problems on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux due to the anti-cheat being used." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/wuthering-waves-arrives-on-steam-another-with-anti-cheat-problems-on-steam-deck-and-desktop-linux/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:04:42

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-30.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:14:11

• 🔤SpellBinding: BEWNOUK Wordo: BLARE gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-30.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:15:42

• Microsoft ends contract with Dallas-based transit provider, triggering nationwide layoffs https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2025/04/30/mv-transportation-employee-layoffs-microsoft.html A form of Microsoft layoffs http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/29/Microsoft_is_Already_Laying_Off_Lots_of_Contractors.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:40:48

• EA Cancels Titanfall Game and Cuts Hundreds of Jobs https://www.channelnews.com.au/ea-cancels-titanfall-game-and-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:42:25

• "Electronic Arts (EA) is reportedly laying off 300 to 400 employees, including around 100 at Respawn Entertainment, and has canceled a Titanfall game in development." https://www.latestly.com/technology/ea-layoffs-2025-electronic-arts-lays-off-around-300-employees-including-roughly-100-job-cuts-at-respawn-entertainment-6819237.html    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:44:11

• Classic FAKE NEWS https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2025/04/28/quantum-computing-ibm-150-billion-investment/83334058007/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/29/What_Fake_News_Looks_Like_IBM.shtml    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:45:51

• EXCLUSIVE: IBM Pulls Plug On Left-Wing Ad Policies After Taking Heat From Conservative Orgs ⚓ https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/29/ibm-garm-advertising-heritage-alliance-defending-freedeom-adf/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//dailycaller.com/2025/04/29/ibm-garm-advertising-heritage-alliance-defending-freedeom-adf/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:47:16

• "So they're spinning the annual budget that was already in place into an "investment." I think the only change is that instead of all of it going straight into Alvind and his cronies' pockets, half will now be diverted into the Trump money laundering machine. So, not really investing in American tech so much as technically investing in 'murrica." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jszw0nag    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 18:49:07

• "I can't believe people read that rag." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt2855j0    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 20:46:26

• "I was laid off in March after 40 years -- as my reviews have all been extremely positive I feel is age discrimination." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jpk2jkbv    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 20:47:10

• Android remains high in Mexico https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/mexico/#monthly-200902-202504    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 21:01:26

• NATMOS:R B6| LQ’s account of the end| Im back! gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2602 "Spring break is over and now I will continue this work. My next break will be at summer unless, I do summer school. Let’s hope that this never happens."    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 21:02:37

• "Our 2600 Madrid meetups continue to thrive, with fresh faces joining the crew recently. On a personal note, I traveled to Alicante to catch KRSONE in concert and even painted a mural with childhood friends! Check out a snippet of the adventure here" gemini://rek2.hispagatos.org/software-release/    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 21:03:28

• "It's from Geoff Lawton (or so Kelbot claims, I haven't checked), and it rings true. While I didn't know the quote then, it is that thought that motivated us to finally start growing our own food. It's been almost two months now, so I'd thought to write down how it's going so far, if only for my own reference." gemini://gemini.metro.cx/posts/20250430-gardening-update-1.gmi    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 21:04:52

• openBSD day 1 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/openBSD2    

posted Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 21:05:42