Roy Schestowitz

• Situation of Press Freedom in Tunisia ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/event/unesco-wpfd-2025-event-3/    

posted Thursday, May 01, 2025 at 20:10:00

• PHOTOS: Vietnam celebrates 50th anniversary of war’s end with grand parade ☞ https://rfa.org/english/vietnam/2025/04/30/vietnam-photos-war-anniversary-50-saigon/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:39:10

• India and Pakistan edge closer to escalation over Kashmir attack ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250430-india-and-pakistan-edge-closer-to-escalation-over-kashmir-attack    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:39:21

• Hegseth sends strong message to Iran and Houthis: ‘You will pay’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/05/01/us-news/hegseth-sends-strong-message-to-iran-and-houthis-you-will-pay/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:39:32

• Pakistan Claims To Have 'Credible Intelligence' Of Imminent Indian Strike ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/india-pakistan-war-nuclear-attack-missile-military-army/33401083.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:39:43

• Sectarian Clashes Spread Around Syria’s Capital, Drawing In Israel ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/middleeast/syria-sectarian-fighting-druse.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:40:30

• U.K. Joins U.S. in Strike Against Houthis in Yemen ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/middleeast/uk-us-yemen-houthis-strikes.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:40:41

• North Korean operatives have infiltrated hundreds of Fortune 500 companies ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/north-korea-workers-infiltrate-fortune-500/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:42:06

• Chinese national arrested with surveillance device near Philippine election commission ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/30/chinese-national-arrested-with-surveillance-device-near-philippine-election-commission/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:42:19

• SACUA discusses deportations, election interference and surveillance of students ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/sacua-discusses-deportations-election-interference-and-surveillance-of-students/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:42:52

• Rights group reports human rights violations in Venezuela following 2024 presidential elections ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/rights-group-reports-human-rights-violations-in-venezuela-following-2024-presidential-elections/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:43:56

• Techrights Statement: The Solution is Not More Censorship or Moving to Another Mastodon Instance, the Core Problem is Social Control Media Including Mastodon ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/30/Techrights_Statement_The_Solution_is_Not_More_Censorship_or_Mov.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:44:47

• Our Defense Against Convicted Felon: 100 Days In ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/we-are-defending-freedom-in-the-courts-and-still-winning    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:45:14

• "Then I did the math on setup costs. Turns out I can build a solid, fully insulated henhouse and run for the same price as the crappiest pre-built options available." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-05-01    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:48:02

• "That is, running the Alps with a heart for plants! We arrived in the Vallais today and as soon as we had emptied our luggage we decided to go for a jogging-hike to the Cave du Sex (yeah, that’s the name!) and we took some pictures on the way." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-05-01-run-the-alps    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:48:40

• "This post is my first {web,gem}log written with my new keyboard." gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2025/05/01/april-2025/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:49:24

• "This is the Fish shell edition of the same post (but for Z-Shell) of mine from last year: [...]" gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2025-05-02-terminal-multiplexing-with-tmux-fish-edition.gmi    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:50:34

• "There was something captivating about this car, a relic of the past still being kept alive by delicate hands, and the way it sped off, which egged me on to tail it down the winding road as the synthwave music kept blasting on the speakers, illuminating the lights of my Mini." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2604    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:51:57

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-05-02.gmi    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:52:25

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1282.jpg    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:52:58

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1282.jpg    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:53:03

• Why Techrights Attracts SLAPPs From American Microsofters Who Literally Strangle Women and Rely on the Most Unscrupulous Law Firms ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/30/Why_Techrights_Attracts_SLAPPs_From_American_Microsofters_Who_L.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:59:27

• The Problem at the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Is Vastly Bigger Than Its Rigged Elections ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/30/The_Problem_at_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Is_Vastly_Bigger_.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:59:37

• IBM Allegedly to Sell More Parts of the Company While Outsourcing to India, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Now Goes After Unions ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/30/IBM_Allegedly_to_Sell_More_Parts_of_the_Company_While_Outsourci.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:59:46

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

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 02:59:57

• Hong Kong police arrest 99 people, aged 13 to 74, in citywide drug trafficking crackdown ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/30/hong-kong-police-arrest-99-people-aged-13-to-74-in-citywide-drug-trafficking-crackdown/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:02:05

• Social Control Media 'problems' ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/what-to-do-when-your-friend-unfollows-you    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:02:37

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Insists Abrego Garcia Has ‘MS-13’ Tattoo Despite Evidence of Altering ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/us/trump-ms-13-tattoo-abrego-garcia.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:02:59

• "Smart glasses are a complicated technology to work with" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/30/supercon-2024-photonics-optical-stack-for-smart-glasses/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:03:24

• WhatsApp Case Against NSO Group Progressing ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/whatsapp-case-against-nso-group-progressing.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:03:49

• MElon: The voice of the far-right in Europe? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250430-elon-musk-the-voice-of-the-far-right-in-europe    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:04:16

• Windows 11 update failure stops machines from updating to version 24H2 using WSUS ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11-update-failure-stops-machines-from-updating-to-version-24h2-using-wsus    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:04:39

• "Far too many people believe the statements that we see about AI that imply that the software can think, when in reality it just strings words together in plausible sequences." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-05/msg00001.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:08:26

• "The very term "Artificial Intelligence" is a misnomer; the software is incapable of thinking, only responding to the text of its prompts, and sometimes the response is completely wrong. The issue is more fundamental than whether it can distinguish between "libre" and "gratis;" it doesn't think, so doesn't distinguish." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-05/msg00001.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:08:48

• "I thought I just saw they were laying off around 9k more US employees?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jszw0nag    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:10:16

• "They are laying off 9000 Americans this year... they are just reswizzling their current budget of expenses to call it an investment. There - fixed the headline" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsyck5br    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:10:53

• "This is a common misconception since IBM left the consumer and x86 server arena. IBM no longer makes x86 Thinkpads, desktops or servers, but it still makes Z mainframes, Power servers, storage and tape, and maybe more. And they still sell a lot of software that runs or runs on those boxes." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt1sdpfa    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:11:35

• "IBM no longer makes anything anymore. For example Power is built by Foxconn in Mexico as is storage. Little to nothing is made anymore. I assume z in POK is as I got a tour recently but it was depressing and like a morgue or funeral home at a wake. Maybe saw 5 people and 1 system being built?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt1sdpfa    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:11:55

• "Broken fences and grass in the big parking lots in POK. Depressing. And I bet most of the other stuff "IBM makes" is just re heated ODM original design manufacturers sheet metal that IBM brings in and slaps a logo on it and considers that IBM innovation. Ah NO!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt1sdpfa    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:12:11

• "Hatchet manager - I was told that you have to lookout for new upper level managers that are brought in to cut headcount and restructure. These same managers are moved around the company and refer to as hatchet manager. Do you know any of these by name?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt71py4e    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:15:52

• "Yes I believe this has happened in the past. Usually when they were making massive cuts. It prevents certain people from looking bad. The new person can take the blame." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt71py4e    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:16:06

• New color e-paper monitors – 13.3-inch DASUNG Paperlike 13K and 23.5-inch BOOX Mira Pro Color ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/30/new-color-e-paper-monitors-13-3-inch-dasung-paperlike-13k-and-23-5-inch-boox-mira-pro-color/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:17:00

• Cerebro clusterboard supports up to four NVIDIA Jetson, Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5, or Radxa CM5 modules (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/01/cerebro-clusterboard-supports-up-to-four-nvidia-jetson-raspberry-pi-cm4-cm5-or-radxa-cm5-modules/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:17:07

• Paul Wise: FLOSS Activities April 2025 ☞ http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2025/05/01/floss-activities/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:18:52

• AirPlay Vulnerabilities Expose Fashion Company Apple Devices to Zero-Click Takeover ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/airplay-vulnerabilities-expose-apple-devices-to-zero-click-takeover/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:19:09

• Scam alert: watch out for fake iClown storage emails ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/scam-alert-watch-out-for-fake-icloud-storage-emails-aRn8g2W0HAl2    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:19:27

• Judge Rebukes Fashion Company Apple and Orders It to Loosen Grip on App Store ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/technology/apple-epic-app-store-ruling.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:19:43

• Software dev fortifies his blog with 'zip bombs' — attacking bots meet their end with explosive data package ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/software-dev-fortifies-his-blog-with-zip-bombs-attacking-bots-meet-their-end-with-explosive-data-package    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:20:13

• atlanticcouncil make TWO - not one - lying puff pieces for Microsoft, spreading the company's lies. WHY? Why atlanticcouncil? It rarely comments on GAFAM.    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:21:42

• NYTimes: Microsoft Earnings Report: Hey Hi (AI) Spending Slows. Yes, slows.    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:22:12

• The conclusion of the FSF board review ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019479/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:22:37

• China’s Secret Weapon? How EV Batteries Could Be Weaponized to Disrupt America ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chinas-secret-weapon-how-ev-batteries-could-be-weaponized-to-disrupt-america/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:24:04

• Australia (still) needs a dedicated and public-facing national security adviser ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-still-needs-a-dedicated-and-public-facing-national-security-adviser/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:25:12

• Lebanese army dismantled 'over 90%' of Hezbollah sites near Israel, security official says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250430-lebanese-army-dismantled-over-90-of-hezbollah-sites-near-israel-security-official-says    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:25:35

• ‘Are you a Hindu?’: Kashmir attack survivors say gunmen asked their religion before opening fire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250430-are-you-a-hindu-kashmir-attack-survivors-say-gunmen-asked-religion-before-opening-fire-pakistan-india    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:26:39

• Launchpad News: Make your first open source contribution ☞ https://blog.launchpad.net/general/make-your-first-open-source-contribution    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:27:01

• Hong Kong man, 22, arrested under new security law for allegedly publishing ‘seditious’ online posts ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/30/hong-kong-man-22-arrested-under-new-security-law-for-allegedly-publishing-seditious-online-posts/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:27:21

• Rights group condemns use of enforced disappearances in West Africa to repress political dissent ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/rights-group-condemns-use-of-enforced-disappearances-in-west-africa-to-repress-political-dissent/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:27:42

• A Baltic beacon for freedom in Europe ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0430/A-Baltic-beacon-for-freedom-in-Europe    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:27:55

• Explainer: Hong Kong’s national security crackdown – month 58 ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/01/explainer-hong-kongs-national-security-crackdown-month-58/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:28:20

• Fat Joe Slaps Former Employee With Defamation Suit Over ‘Wholly Fabricated, Grotesque, and Scandalous Allegations’ — Attorney Defendant Immediately Fires Back ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/30/fat-joe-lawsuit-hype-man/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:29:18

• Dihydroxyacetone Man signs two executive orders to bolster immigration enforcement and ‘protect innocent citizens’ ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/trump-signs-two-executive-orders-to-bolster-immigration-enforcement-and-protect-innocent-citizens/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:29:41

• "I fully understand the restriction imposed and it had to be done. Why should Hey Hi (AI) creators be allowed to poach on contents of the blog for free just to train their machines?" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/paws-off-new-licensing-terms-for-ipkat.html?showComment=1746010123387#c1041697796372165513    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:30:09

• "A subsidiary question, does the restriction also apply to comments published on the blog? In other words, does content mean everything published on the blog, not just the blog entries." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/paws-off-new-licensing-terms-for-ipkat.html?showComment=1746010123387#c1041697796372165513    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:30:13

• Scientology, The CIA, and MK-ULTRA ☞ https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/04/investigative-series/scientology-the-cia-and-mk-ultra/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:31:09

• Nvidia asks US government to ease Hey Hi (AI) GPU export rules, but Convicted Felon administration plans tighter controls ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-asks-us-government-to-ease-ai-gpu-export-rules-but-trump-administration-plans-tighter-controls    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:31:43

• Radxa Orion O6 mini-ITX motherboard gets Arm SystemReady SR v2.5 certification ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/30/radxa-orion-o6-mini-itx-motherboard-gets-arm-systemready-sr-v2-5-certification/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:32:48

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019457/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:33:01

• Head of Pakistan-administered Kashmir calls for international mediation, amid India tensions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/head-of-pakistan-administered-kashmir-calls-for-international-mediation    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:33:15

• How do India and Pakistan's militaries compare as tensions rise after Kashmir attack? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/how-do-india-and-pakistans-militaries-compare-as-tensions-rise-after-kashmir-attack    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:33:22

• Typewriter ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/30/a-new-and-weird-kind-of-typewriter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:34:16

• "Ukraine peace mission" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/30/europe-lacks-resources-to-field-even-25-000-troops-for-ukraine-peace-mission-the-times | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:34:41

• "About 600 North Korean solders have been killed fighting against Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/30/about-600-north-korean-solders-have-been-killed-fighting-against-ukraine-reuters | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:34:53

• "last-minute disagreement" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/30/u-s-and-ukraine-could-sign-minerals-deal-as-early-as-wednesday-bloomberg | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:35:09

• "opens fire on family in Kursk" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/30/russian-soldier-opens-fire-on-family-in-kursk-border-town-after-end-of-ukrainian-occupation | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:35:23

• "minerals deal" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/01/u-s-and-ukraine-sign-minerals-deal | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:35:38

• "Russian attack on Ukraine's Odesa" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/01/overnight-russian-attack-on-ukraine-s-odesa-kills-at-least-two-and-injures-15 | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:35:50

• Vladyslav Greziev warns 'never trust Russians': 'They don't want peace deals, nor an end to the war' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250501-vladyslav-greziev-warns-never-trust-russians-they-don-t-want-peace-deals-nor-the-war-to-end    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:36:17

• U.S. and Ukraine Sign Minerals Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/europe/ukraine-minerals-deal-trump.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:36:28

• US, Ukraine 'Ready To Sign' Minerals Deal As Washington Tries To Speed Up Peace Talks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-rubio-war-nebenzya-trump/33400754.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:36:40

• Russian Drone Strikes On Ukraine Kill 1 In Dnipro, Injure Dozens In Kharkiv ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-drone-strike-north-korea-war/33401066.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:36:49

• Ukraine, US Sign Minerals Agreement Creating Reconstruction Investment Fund ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-minerals-zelenskyy-trump-russia/33401501.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:36:57

• Russian Drones Strike Major Cities In Ukraine; 2 Killed In Odesa ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-odesa-drone-attack/33401858.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:37:11

• Ukraine’s EU path is being sabotaged, says Lithuanian FM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2550753/ukraine-s-eu-path-is-being-sabotaged-says-lithuanian-fm    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:37:38

• MElon’s tweets (2/2): Raising the profile of Europe’s far right ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250430-elon-musk-tweets-europe-far-right-us-boost    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:37:58

• 100 posts a day: Who does MElon target on X? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250430-elon-musk-tweets-posts-target-ukraine-europe-us-russia    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:38:10

• 🔴 US and Ukraine sign deal to form reconstruction investment fund, Washington says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250430-%F0%9F%94%B4-us-and-ukraine-sign-deal-to-form-reconstruction-investment-fund-washington-says    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:38:21

• Ukraine, US sign minerals deal, marking shift from military to economic support ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250430-ukraine-us-minerals-deal    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:38:31

• Experts react: At last, the US and Ukraine signed a minerals deal. Here’s what to expect next. ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react/experts-react-at-last-the-us-and-ukraine-signed-a-minerals-deal-heres-what-to-expect-next/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:38:45

• Musicians Orbakaitė, Bregović added to Latvia's blacklist ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defense/30.04.2025-musicians-orbakaite-bregovic-added-to-latvias-blacklist.a597289/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:39:12

• No Russia in Papua: Indonesia’s quiet diplomacy speaks loudly ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/no-russia-in-papua-indonesias-quiet-diplomacy-speaks-loudly/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:39:18

• Russia publishes book on Lithuanian history, preface written by Lavrov ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2550706/russia-publishes-book-on-lithuanian-history-preface-written-by-lavrov    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:39:31

• North Korea’s reveal of new warship’s weapon system hints at Russian support: expert ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/04/30/north-korea-new-warship-russian-support/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:39:40

• North Korea says new bridge to Russia reinforces economic cooperation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-says-new-bridge-to-russia-reinforces-economic-cooperation    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:39:50

• Russia begins building road bridge to North Korea, says PM Mishustin ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/russia-begins-building-road-bridge-to-north-korea-says-pm-mishustin    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:40:03

• 600 North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia: South Korean lawmaker ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/600-north-korean-soldiers-killed-fighting-for-russia-south-korean-lawmaker    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:40:12

• How India and Pakistan’s military, nuclear arsenals stack up ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/how-india-and-pakistans-military-nuclear-arsenals-stack-up    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:40:27

• "A new arms race has already begun." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/30/the-last-remaining-u-s-russia-nuclear-treaty-expires-in-less-than-a-year-a-new-arms-race-has-already-begun | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:40:45

• "first highway bridge linking two nations" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/30/russia-and-north-korea-break-ground-on-construction-of-first-highway-bridge-linking-two-nations | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:40:57

• "Russia promised to rebuild Mariupol by now" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/01/occupied-with-vacancy | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:41:15

• "There’s nothing to talk about" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/01/there-s-nothing-to-talk-about | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:41:31

• Belarus Frees US Political Prisoner Yuras Zyankovich After Nearly 4 Years In Prison ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-american-citizen-prisoner-yuras-zyankovich-rubio/33401476.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:41:50

• Three decomposed bodies found in Lithuania near Belarus border ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2550877/three-decomposed-bodies-found-in-lithuania-near-belarus-border    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:41:59

• Copyright Lawsuit Over Sam Smith and Normani’s ‘Dancing With a Stranger’ Revived by Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/30/copyright-lawsuit-dancing-with-a-stranger-revived/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:42:27

• CAFC Affirms TTAB: Dark Green Color is Generic for Chloroprene Medical Examination Gloves ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/04/cafc-affirms-ttab-dark-green-color-is.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:43:08

• vowels: Phonetics cloze quiz about Cardinal vowels ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/vowels-phonetics-cloze-quiz-about-cardinal-vowels/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:44:01

• Fast Grouped Counts and Means in R ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/fast-grouped-counts-and-means-in-r/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:44:14

• flags: Fun with Flags ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/flags-fun-with-flags/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:44:28

• This 'article' seems like it is mostly slop from the Serial Slopper https://betanews.com/2025/05/01/ditch-microsoft-windows-for-alt-workstation-11-a-russian-linux-distro-with-a-modern-gnome-desktop/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:46:17

• How to Install GNOME Disks on FunOS ☞ https://funos.org/install-gnome-disks-funos/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:46:44

• stalingrad ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/30/putin-renames-volgograd-international-airport-to-stalingrad | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:47:02

• Recognizing Academic Excellence in Open Source and Secure Software Education ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/04/30/recognizing-academic-excellence-in-open-source-and-secure-software-education/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:47:38

• Katy Perry Responds to Online Criticism of New Tour, Blue Origin Flight—Calls Herself a ‘Human Piñata’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/30/katy-perry-online-criticism-comments/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:55:47

• How the Internet Left 4chan Behind ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-the-internet-left-4chan-behind    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:56:06

• UK government announces new legislation to regulate crypto-asset industry ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/uk-government-announces-new-legislation-to-regulate-crypto-asset-industry/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/Unlike_GAFAM_Free_Software_Serves_You_It_Does_Not_Serve_Governm.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:56:37

• Albertson: Future of OSL in Jeopardy ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019520/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:57:04

• How LWN is faring in 2025 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019217/ "Like everybody else, LWN is affected by the current turbulence in the political and economic spheres; we expect to get through this period, but there will be some challenges."    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:58:23

• 'Zombie' Volcano in Bolivia Appears to Be Stirring Deep Underground ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/zombie-volcano-in-bolivia-appears-to-be-stirring-deep-underground    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:59:01

• Trees 'Sync Up' During a Solar Eclipse in a Forest-Wide Phenomenon ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/trees-sync-up-during-a-solar-eclipse-in-a-forest-wide-phenomenon    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:59:09

• A Meteorite Struck Scotland More Recently Than We Thought ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-meteorite-struck-scotland-more-recently-than-we-thought    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:59:18

• Huge, Invisible Cloud Discovered Just 300 Light-Years From The Solar System ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-invisible-cloud-discovered-just-300-light-years-from-the-solar-system    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:59:26

• The Rare Vibration Phenomenon That May Explain Europe's Huge Blackout ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-rare-vibration-phenomenon-that-may-explain-europes-huge-blackout    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 03:59:43

• Notes from April 2025 ☞ https://evanhahn.com/notes-from-april-2025/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:00:19

• PowerDNS ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/30/floss-weekly-episode-831-lets-have-lunch/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:01:06

• Don Marti: links for 30 April 2025 ☞ https://blog.zgp.org/mlp-2025-04-30/ "Some legal risk avoidance notes for independent sites"    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:01:53

• Linux Goat North Van | The Launch 🚀 20 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/the-launch/20/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:02:45

• [Podcast] The multiple ways of multiple paths ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/05/01/podcast-the-multiple-ways-of-multiple-paths/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:03:18

• UN Drops Surveillance Giant Google for CryptPad, an Encrypted Open-Source Office Suite ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/04/un-drops-google-for-cryptpad-an-encrypted-open-source-office-suite/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:03:50

• Utah Farmers ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/utah-farmers-therapy-mental-health-suicide-rates | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:05:55

• The Miscalculations of COVID School Closures ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-miscalculations-of-covid-small-school-closures    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:06:04

• China suggests Covid-19 originated in US in response to Convicted Felon allegation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-suggests-covid-19-originated-in-us-in-response-to-trump-allegation    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:06:12

• Kenyan Court declares protest ban in Nairobi illegal ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20250430-kenyan-court-declares-protest-ban-in-nairobi-illegal    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:06:37

• "Quartz Expansion Rate" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/30/neutron-flux-impact-on-quartz-expansion-rate/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:07:34

• Vintage Stereo Stack ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/30/vintage-stereo-stack-becomes-neat-pc-case/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:07:41

• Gaze Upon Robby The Robot’s Mechanical Intricacy ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/01/gaze-upon-robby-the-robots-mechanical-intricacy/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:07:48

• RMS was in front page https://www.oxai.org/event    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:14:17

• This video is ruined by the synthetic voice: Richard Stallman is confirmed as part of the FSF board. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my3bUw6vZmk    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:15:20

• you guys wouldn't believe who i met today https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxCirclejerk/comments/1kcmtgd/you_guys_wouldnt_believe_who_i_met_today/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:15:57

• EA cancels 'Titanfall' project in wake of company-wide layoffs https://www.aol.com/ea-cancels-titanfall-project-wake-163120299.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:19:45

• Without naming Trump's Tariffs as the cause, Microsoft has increased the price of the Xbox consoles, games, and controllers by around 20% https://www.thepopverse.com/gaming-microsoft-raising-prices-xbox-controller-consoles-games-2025    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:20:16

• Xbox Console And Accessory Price Increases Begin Today, $80 First-Party Games Starting This Holiday http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/01/Urgent_OSU_Open_Source_Lab_needs_your_help.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:21:37

• "Pretty awesome. Love seeing more projects like this across different hardware." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/felix86-is-a-new-open-source-linux-emulator-to-run-x86-64-linux-programs-on-risc-v-processors/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:22:42

• How To Dual Boot Linux and Windows on any PC https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-dual-boot-linux-and-windows-on-any-pc    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:23:20

• Microsoft is just trying to prevent people from actually exploring and using GNU/Linux https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11s-wsl-2-now-officially-has-support-from-arch-linux http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/28/Proprietary_Windows_Versus_Linux_News_Trying_to_Keep_People_on_.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:25:17

• "While Linux isn't strictly a text-only system, it has a reputation for making better use of plain text than any other operating system. While many tools cater to programmers, writers, and authors can also take advantage of these powerful tools. (They'll also work in the macOS and Windows Subsystem for Linux terminals.)" https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-text-processing-tips/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:25:40

• FOSS Weekly #25.18: Linux Magazine, Modern Terminals, Muse Pi, apt Guide and More https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-18/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:27:33

• "This is a major change which moves Proton over to the latest Wine 10 release. It also brings an update for DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the two layers that translate Direct3D to Vulkan to their latest releases." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/proton-10-gets-a-first-beta-to-improve-game-compatibility-on-    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:28:18

• "This is a major change which moves Proton over to the latest Wine 10 release. It also brings an update for DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the two layers that translate Direct3D to Vulkan to their latest releases." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/proton-10-gets-a-first-beta-to-improve-game-compatibility-on-steam-deck-and-desktop-linux/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:28:26

• Active capsules number rising fast: "There are 4282 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3017 of them." 3017, was 3000 just a week or so ago. gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 04:31:11

• "Spending my Golden Week in boredom. That's nice." http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-May-2.html.en#2025-May-2-10:53:37    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 07:26:33

• GEE! What a hypocrite!! "If your governance systems don’t work, then there is no effective redress against bad or even malicious decisions. Your roleholders and subteams are unaccountable power centres." https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/19879.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 07:28:14

• Because HE IS RIGHT. YOU ARE WRONG. End of story!    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 07:28:36

• This is why Linus Torvalds leads Linux and Ian Jackson has not led anything - not even Debian - for decades    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 07:29:51

• Ian Jackson & Debian reject mediation https://disguised.work/debian/ian-jackson-debian-rejects-mediation/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 07:30:16

• "Jackson, a former Debian Project Leader from the UK, comments that he doesn't like mediation. Could this be a hint about why Debian is now wasting so much money on a SLAPP attack to shut down the Debian Community News?" https://disguised.work/debian/ian-jackson-debian-rejects-mediation/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 07:30:49

• "I mean, if we're at IBM, we're already probably earning under industry average for our levels. All IBM would be setting themselves up for is an immediate exodus of employees as soon as the job market improved - and that wouldn't be on their terms." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt73dc44    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 07:33:22

• "Evil Dead: The Game from Saber Interactive / Boss Team Games, LLC is getting delisted from all stores" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/evil-dead-the-game-gets-delisted-only-3-years-after-release/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 08:56:09

• "Cyber Knights: Flashpoint from Trese Brothers has another huge update out now, and players are enjoying the game so much it's now hit an Overwhelmingly Positive rating on Steam." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/cyber-knights-flashpoint-hits-overwhelmingly-positive-on-steam-with-a-big-new-update-live/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 08:56:33

• "Squirreled Away released back in March and looks absolutely adorable, and soon it will work better on Steam Deck with the developer working towards getting it fully Steam Deck Verified." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/cute-craft-and-thrive-adventure-squirreled-away-working-towards-being-steam-deck-verified/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 08:57:02

• "Gearbox and 2K have announced that the release date for Borderlands 4 has moved up to September 12th and there's a new gameplay trailer to go along with it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/borderlands-4-release-date-now-set-for-september-12-plus-a-new-trailer-and-deep-dive-are-out/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 08:57:18

• "Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping from Happy Broccoli Games is now set for release on May 22nd, and it will come with Native Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/cozy-mystery-game-duck-detective-the-ghost-of-glamping-arrives-in-may/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 09:01:01

• "Inspired by classic Western adventures and blended with wholesome farming charm, Cattle Country is definitely one you should be keeping an eye on. The developers have announced it's set for launch on May 27th." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/wild-west-cosy-life-sim-cattle-country-releases-may-27/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 09:02:46

• "I wouldn't call Frostpunk a tycoon game but I'm not going to turn my nose up at a good deal. The Tycoon Titans Humble Bundle has some fun hits in it to grab." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/you-can-get-frostpunk-plateup-and-more-fun-games-in-the-tycoon-titans-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 09:02:55

• "A new month is here, and something I haven't done recently is a look over what's been the most popular on Steam Deck. So here's what you've all been playing the most over the last month." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/heres-the-most-played-steam-deck-games-for-april-2025-balatro-still-top-but-oblivion-remastered-sneaks-in-second/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 09:03:40

• "Now that Proton 10 had a Beta release to bring improved game compatibility to Linux Desktop and Steam Deck, Valve have also updated their testing ground with Proton Experimental seeing an update to be based on Proton 10 plus extra fixes." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/proton-experimental-updates-to-proton-10-with-fixes-for-marvel-rivals-oblivion-remastered-and-more-for-steam-deck-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 09:05:27

• "Tom the Dancing Bug: Q-Nuts welcome the arrival of the Great Pumpkin" https://boingboing.net/2025/04/30/tom-the-dancing-bug-q-nuts-welcome-the-arrival-of-the-great-pumpkin.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 10:55:45

• "Trump solves toy shortage by telling children to want fewer toys" https://boingboing.net/2025/04/30/trump-solves-toy-shortage-by-telling-children-to-want-fewer-toys.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 10:56:00

• "Trump's plundering of Ukraine will fuel a nationalist backlash" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/01/trumps-plundering-of-ukraine-will-fuel-a-nationalist-backla/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 10:56:13

• "Congress Passes TAKE IT DOWN Act" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/04/30/0150205    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 10:56:24

• Complete trash https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14665121/melinda-gates-revenge-against-bill-CAROLINE-BULLOCK.html see http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/Journalistic_Malpractice_Helps_Bill_Gates_Cover_Up_His_Marriage.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:05:00

• "It’s Trump’s Economy Now - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-trumps-economy-now    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:05:15

• theregister as parrot: https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/microsoft_q3_2025/ ("Microsoft argues pausing datacenter builds is utterly normal") http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/22/Microsoft_s_Debt_Grew_Over_6_Billion_Dollars_in_the_Last_Report.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:05:41

• "Trump Is Fulfilling Kissinger’s Dream" https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2025/05/trump-is-fulfilling-kissingers-dream/682655/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:08:07

• Microsoft-sponsored site... Turned Against Users of Linux https://thenewstack.io/linux-security-software-turned-against-users/ ("Linux Security Software Turned Against Users") http://techrights.org/n/2024/07/20/Joab_Jackson_and_The_New_Stack_Publishing_Microsoft_Spam_E_E_E_.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/08/Microsoft_sponsored_The_New_Stack_Publishing_Microsoft_Windows_.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:09:48

• "America in Chains - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/america-in-chains/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:10:25

• iophk: I speculate that they're stopping the investigation where it is because all signs point to Windows being the key (or perhaps sole) factor MFA is a distractions and mainly about surveillance as usually implemented https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/ico_brit_library/ ("ICO confirms no action to be taken against British Library")    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:11:43

• iophk: fails to even mention Calligra or LibreOffice. "Microsoft will preload Word so you can start writing faster" https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/microsoft_will_preload_office_apps/ https://calligra.org/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:14:56

• elsevier: the worst opponent to open access publishing https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/05/01/guest-post-how-libraries-and-scholarly-publishers-can-work-together-toward-born-accessible-publishing/ ("Guest Post - How Libraries and Scholarly Publishers Can Work Together Toward Born-accessible Publishing - The Scholarly Kitchen"). Site SOLD OUT.    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:15:31

• iophk: mike swings and misses https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/01/colorados-social-media-moral-panic-bill-dies-after-governors-thoughtful-veto/ ("Colorado’s Social Media Moral Panic Bill Dies After Governor’s Thoughtful Veto")    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:15:56

• "Viet Cong targeted US officers — they hadn’t counted on this sergeant" https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/04/30/viet-cong-targeted-us-officers-they-hadnt-counted-on-this-sergeant/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:16:06

• "Hegseth backs Air Force three-star Grynkewich for top Europe job" https://www.airforcetimes.com/pentagon/2025/05/01/hegseth-backs-air-force-three-star-grynkewich-for-top-europe-job/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:16:37

• "Inside Mike Waltz’s White House Exit" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/mike-waltz-trump-fired/682660/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:16:50

• "Trump Removed His Top National Security Aide" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/briefing/trump-removed-his-top-national-security-aide.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:17:02

• AstroTufers and aggressive trolls in soylentnews lead to "janrinok - Resignation" https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=25/05/02/0531214 http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/10/Soylent_News_Lessens_the_Scope_of_Discussion_Due_to_Persistent_.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:23:34

• Red Hat riding buzzwords again ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/building-and-scaling-ai-models-machine-learning-engineer | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:25:29

• "B2 Impact Poland is one of Poland’s leading debt collection agencies." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/success-story-snapshots-whos-building-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:25:36

• "This is the fifth part of this shell scripting tutorial series. In this post, we’ll explore slightly advanced mathematical operations and how to handle them using shell scripts." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/mathematical-operations-in-shell-scripting/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:26:39

• "Paul Akwabi from Tech Kidz Africa shares how Experience AI is helping to increase digital literacy in the country." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/impact-of-experience-ai-in-kenya/ | Source: Raspberry Pi https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:43:50

• "xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs" ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/xai-dev-leaks-api-key-for-private-spacex-tesla-llms/ | Source: Krebs On Security | "leaked a private key on GitHub"    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 11:46:02

• "Join Dave Cross, author of Data Munging With Perl, for an insightful talk marking the release of the second edition" ☛ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=2y6B0Spuo9U    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 12:37:27

• Obninsk ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/02/the-banjo-never-left-obninsk | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 12:39:28

• "On Wednesday afternoon, Krebs received an email saying that his Trusted Traveler Program status had changed. He logged into the program and learned his Global Entry program membership had been revoked, he told CNN." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/chris-krebs-cbp-global-entry-revoked | Source: CNN    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 12:58:19

• "Global Entry is a program that allows low-risk and pre-approved travelers to enter the US while skipping the usual processing lines at border control, saving airport travel time." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/chris_krebs_global_entry/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 12:58:29

• ""I was told to 'try out' some of the new social media applications," he recalled, and kept a blog on the NASA website until he retired from the agency in 2010." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/space_shuttle_bosss_blog_booted/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 12:58:44

• "We call upon all branches of government to support the rule of law and the essential role of lawyers in our democracy" ☛ https://www.maineruleoflaw.org/ |    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 12:59:26

• "We categorically reject the idea that any government can dictate who lawyers or law firms can choose to represent" ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/01/maine-lawyers-sign-declaration-to-reject-intimidation-by-trump-administration/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 12:59:40

• Red Hat is boosting this slop hype, which quotes Red Hat https://www.cio.com/article/3957762/cios-recalibrate-it-agendas-to-make-room-for-rising-ai-spend.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:07:58

• Red Hat riding buzzwords and hype waves again https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/rise-small-language-models-enterprise-ai    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:08:31

• Red Hat-sponsored spam covering Red Hat and then cited by Red Hat. A lot of the media has become spamfarm-type fraud. https://thenewstack.io/kubernetes-powers-mastercards-ai-workbench-for-secure-innovation/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:10:45

• Platinum is a premium or Platinum (highest tier) sponsor of Red Hat's events https://events.experiences.redhat.com/widget/redhat/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:13:34

• How the External Secrets Operator manages Quay credentials ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/01/how-external-secrets-operator-manages-quay-credentials    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:15:21

• Native network segmentation for virtualization workloads ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/01/native-network-segmentation-virtualization-workloads    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:18:53

• How To Install Tor Browser on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-tor-browser-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:25:56

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

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:26:13

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

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:26:58

• How To Install Figma on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-figma-manjaro/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:27:14

• How to create a VPN server with sshuttle ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-create-a-vpn-server-with-sshuttle/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:28:44

• Whooping Cough Is on The Rise: An Expert Explains How to Protect Your Family ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/whooping-cough-is-on-the-rise-an-expert-explains-how-to-protect-your-family    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:29:04

• India-Pakistan: How to break cycle of tensions over Kashmir? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250501-india-pakistan-how-to-break-cycle-of-tensions-over-kashmir    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:29:13

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

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:29:47

• How To Create Dummy Data using Python ☞ https://idroot.us/create-dummy-data-python/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:30:22

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

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:31:21

• How To Install Open WebUI on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-open-webui-fedora-42/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:31:44

• Linux Data Recovery: How to Salvage Lost or Corrupted Files ☞ https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-data-recovery-how-salvage-lost-or-corrupted-files    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:33:56

• How To Dual Boot GNU/Linux and backdoored Windows on any PC ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-dual-boot-linux-and-windows-on-any-pc    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:35:21

• "In this post, we show how different use cases require different model diagnostics. In short, we compare (statistical) inference and prediction." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/model-diagnostics-statistics-vs-machine-learning/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:39:09

• "Originally Elixir was developed at a company, Plataformatec. Hardly a massive corporation and it was acqui-hired by Nubank in a deal which left José Valim with the rights to Elixir." ☛ https://underjord.io/elixir-is-not-owned-by-big-tech.html |    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:39:20

• "In March, one hundred eighty-two new packages made it to CRAN." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/march-2025-top-40-new-cran-packages/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:39:31

• "Perl is so good for the extreme stuff, that we sometimes forget how powerful it is for mundane data manipulation as well." ☛ https://perlhacks.com/dmp.pdf | Source: Perl Hacks    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:40:32

• "A robust testing suite is essential to the security and reliability of a complex codebase." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/05/01/making-pypis-test-suite-81-faster/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:40:50

• We’re Off — Ubuntu 25.10 Opens for Development ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-25-10-opens-for-development    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:52:04

• Turntable scrobbles your music ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/turntable-scrobbles-music/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:52:38

• Bookmark – terminal-based bookmark manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bookmark-terminal-based-bookmark-manager/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:52:58

• paldo – Upkg driven GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/paldo-upkg-driven-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:53:40

• "The Office of the United States Trade Representative has released its annual Special 301 Report" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/us-vietnam-remains-a-piracy-haven-despite-fmovies-crackdown-250501/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:54:37

• "Meta’s copyright battle with a group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, will turn on the question of whether the company’s AI tools produce works that can cannibalize the authors’ book sales." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/meta-lawsuit-copyright-hearing-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:55:30

• "Now, the appeals court says the case should have gone before a jury." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/30/copyright-lawsuit-dancing-with-a-stranger-revived/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 13:55:46

• "Addressing the problem of patent trolls in the EU" ☛ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-005354_EN.html | Source: European Parliament    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:01:00

• [Old] "The PTAB has not been a panacea, however, because of several interrelated phenomena." ☛ https://www.ficlaw.com/blog/avoiding-the-patent-troll-toll | Source: Faruki PLL    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:01:21

• "n this Article we present empirical results that provide insight into both questions. Drawing on a comprehensive data set we built of every patent lawsuit filed in 2008 and 2009 that resulted in a ruling on the merits" ☛ https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SSRN-id2750128.pdf | Source: Stanford University    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:01:33

• "A recently discovered patent suggests Samsung might be working on a phone with interchangeable camera lenses." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/android-phones/new-patent-suggests-samsung-might-be-working-on-an-interchangeable-lens-phone | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:02:36

• "Apple should have been happy with this result." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/01/judge-in-apple-epic-case-is-spitting-mad-at-apples-willful-contempt/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:03:16

• "Throughout this filing, Phil Schiller comes across very well, unlike fellow executives Luca Maestri, the aforementioned Alex Roman, and Tim Cook." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/blog/us-judge-rules-apple-must-comply-with-injunction/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:03:44

• "Apple could have taken this up in a legally justifiable way that, plausibly, could have given it some reasonable commission on some sales." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/blog/macdailynews-sexist-gonzalez-rogers/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:04:21

• "In late 2020, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), in conjunction with state attorneys general representing 11 states" ☛ https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/industry-voices-caution-against-dojs-plan-to-force-sale-of-chrome/ | Source: Open Web Advocacy    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:04:40

• "Apple Inc. violated a court order requiring it to open up the App Store to third-party payment options and must stop charging commissions on purchases outside its software marketplace" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-04-30/apple-must-halt-non-app-store-sales-commissions-judge-says | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:04:55

• "Epic, makers of the wildly popular Fortnite video-game, have waged a one-company war against the "app tax" – the 15-30% rake that the mobile duopoly of Apple/Google take out of every penny we spend inside of apps." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its-not-the-crime/#its-the-coverup | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:05:06

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/29/apple-music-ole-obermann-rachel-newman/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:06:13

• "The FCC has proposed rules to codify certain foreign ownership requirements and streamline its review processes." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/fcc-proposes-to-codify-and-streamline-foreign-ownership-regulations/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:06:47

• "Our elders knew we had always been here, but it was very moving and powerful to see it validated on paper that we have a maternal genetic link to Chaco Canyon" ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pueblo-tribe-ancient-american-history | Source: Science News    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:07:36

• "We’ve come a long way from the days of Cold War paranoia, when unions wanted nothing to do with the Communist-sounding International Workers’ Day, also known as May Day." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/05/may-day-history-strike-unions/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:07:48

• "Ukraine’s human rights ombudsman says 16,000 civilians have gone missing as of April 2024." ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/30/investigation-reveals-systematic-torture-of-ukrainians-in-russian-prisons-a88931 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:08:08

• "Nayîf stated that the Yazidi people have lived by their own labor throughout history and that today's economic and moral struggle is a continuation of this tradition." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/kurdistan/may-day-celebration-in-shengal-79140 | Source: ANF News    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:08:34

• "A procession was also taken out through the main thoroughfares of the city, and members of the All India United Trade Union Centre, CITU, AITUC, etc., took part in it." ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/trade-union-organisations-celebrate-may-day-decry-anti-worker-policies-of-the-government/article69522169.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:09:01

• "Out of some 490 baristas who voted on behalf of the company’s more than 550 unionized U.S. stores, 81% voted against the proposal, the union said." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-01/starbucks-union-baristas-contract-talks | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:09:24

• "On his knuckles, he had "MS-13," Trump insisted in an interview with Terry Moran, who politely disagreed before trying countless times to move on." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/04/30/trump-gets-ugly-with-abc-reporter-who-wont-agree-to-his-garcia-tattoo-lie-video.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:10:20

• "follows a long list of legal threats aimed at discouraging or penalizing independent reporting about the administration." ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/30/trump-cbs-60-minutes-00317969 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:10:36

• "IPSO also rules that it is fine for publishers to cover ongoing criminal investigations." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/essex-police-loses-accuracy-complaint-versus-telegraph-over-allison-pearson-questioning/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:10:49

• "Below is the full announcement from The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg: [...]" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2025/04/the-atlantic-hires-missy-ryan-as-staff-writer/682650/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:11:59

• "a journalist with the daily Dagens ETC, was detained March 27 as he arrived at Istanbul airport" ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/foreign-policy/1268376/swedish-journalist-gets-11-month-suspended-prison-term-in-turkey-for-insulting-erdogan/ | Source: Greece    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:13:04

• "Ukraine alleges that Russia deliberately removed her body parts to conceal severe torture Roschyna endured during detention" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/what-happened-viktoria-roschyna-kidnapped-journalist-returned-without-eyes-brain-larynx-1733318 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:13:20

• "Polygon, Vox Media’s video games website, has been acquired by Valnet, a company founded and helmed by Hassan Youssef, a former pornography mogul and the co-founder of the popular adult entertainment site Brazzers." ☛ https://www.404media.co/polygon-acquired-by-porn-mogul-who-co-founded-brazzers/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:13:42

• "For news outlets, the decision over what concessions should be made to a news subject could come down to the importance of getting the access." ☛ https://www.twincities.com/2025/05/01/media-trump-abc-explained/ | Source: TwinCities Pioneer Press    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:14:47

• "Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Parliamentary under-secretary of state at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/does_online_safety_act_cover/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:15:58

• "Yes there’s a shark in Marketing right now. Look for any external hires from companies like McKinsey coming into your org. That will tell you all you need to know. If you see one, get out of the water!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt71py4e    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:22:53

• "Lou Gerstner" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt71py4e    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:22:57

• Expedia Group lays off employees as part of organisational restructuring https://www.indiatoday.in/amp/technology/news/story/expedia-group-lays-off-employees-as-part-of-organisational-restructuring-2718585-2025-05-02    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:24:08

• "While the company has not publicly disclosed the exact number of employees impacted, LinkedIn posts from affected workers reveal that departments such as engineering have been notably affected." https://www.itvoice.in/expedia-group-undergoes-layoffs-amid-restructuring-despite-strong-financial-performance    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:25:06

• Five9 Opens Up on Its Layoffs, Impacting “Most” Departments https://www.cxtoday.com/contact-center/five9-opens-up-on-its-layoffs-impacting-most-departments/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:25:25

• "For all the right-wing media agita about Wikipedia‘s alleged pro-Palestinian bias, there is plenty of evidence that Zionists have for years been trying to push the site into a more pro-Israel direction." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/wikipedia-under-threat-after-right-wing-media-uproar/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:30:42

• "The Revolving Door Project will continue to track the bad actors running these offices, because the decimation of the institutions structured to hold the government to account impacts us all." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/revolving-door-project-condemns-trumps-appointment-of-corrupt-partisans-as-inspectors-general | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:31:06

• "The Take It Down Act – short for the bill’s full title" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/take-it-down-act/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:31:27

• "You can hate politicians indiscriminately, and criticise anyone you see doing politics." ☛ https://diziet.dreamwidth.org/19879.html | Source: Diziet    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:31:46

• "At Raspberry Pi, our mission is to make computing accessible and affordable for everyone and for businesses at every scale, so today we’re delighted to announce a reduction in the price of some of the most popular variants of Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/lower-prices-for-4gb-and-8gb-compute-module-4/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:55:12

• "A new production system—made with help from Sony—makes the Pi 5 more reliable, resulting in fewer returns and a greener manufacturing process." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2769845/raspberry-pis-fancy-new-soldering-tech-cuts-product-returns-in-half.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:55:21

• "This is a relatively unimportant feature of the Arduino Uno." ☛ https://qsantos.fr/2025/05/01/arduino-automatic-reset/ | Source: Quentin Santos    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:55:32

• "Washington State has come close to passing strong right-to-repair legislation before, only to falter at the last moments." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/washingtons-right-repair-bill-heads-governor | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:55:47

• Wildlife/Nature: "new study published Monday in the journal PNAS" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-single-prehistoric-bone-might-rewrite-the-history-of-the-worlds-strangest-mammals-180986541/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:58:07

• "The strength of that whole chain depends upon a foundational source of hyper-pure polysilicon, which is predominantly made in China." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/corning-increases-commitment-to-making-solar-wafers-in-the-us/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:58:27

• "While renewables are well known for being more intermittent than their traditional counterparts, the consensus amongst the majority of commentators is that the generation source had nothing to do with this week’s blackout." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/power-grid/outage-management/renewables-not-to-blame-for-iberian-power-outage-say-experts/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:58:37

• "Specialists emphasize that this type of total blackout—an exceptional and infrequent event—is also a security mechanism of the electricity system itself." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/what-caused-the-european-power-outage-spain-blackout/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 14:58:49

• "[Cryptocurrency] mining activities "constitute an unlawful exploitation of electrical power ... and may cause outages affecting residential" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/kuwait-cracks-down-on-cryptocurrency-mining-amid-power-crisis/articleshow/120797747.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:01:32

• "A new lifecycle study published in Sustainability Science and Technology has discovered a promising alternative to plastic sanitary products, potentially leading to far reduced sanitary waste." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-04-cornstarch-sanitary-pads-cheap-tons.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:03:41

• "Nearly 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. lack access to reliable transportation, making it one of the country’s most common forms of material hardship, University of Michigan researchers say." ☛ https://record.umich.edu/articles/u-m-research-sheds-national-light-on-transportation-insecurity/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:03:51

• "The 55th anniversary of Earth Day, on April 22, 2025, has come and gone." ☛ https://www.projectcensored.org/beyond-earth-day-and-may-day/ | Source: Project Censored    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:04:02

• "Anduril-made semiautonomous drone wingmen" ☛ https://www.airforcetimes.com/air/2025/05/01/air-force-starts-ground-testing-anduril-collaborative-combat-aircraft/ | Source: Air Force Times    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:08:15

• "But he said that environment would also drive the need for MARSOC personnel" ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/land/2025/04/30/marsoc-is-fusing-traditionally-rugged-marines-with-tech-curious-ones/ | Source: USMC    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:09:02

• "Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old Department [sic] of Government Efficiency aide" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/01/doge-aide-involved-in-dismantling-consumer-bureau-owns-stock-in-companies-that-could-benefit-from-the-cuts/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:09:24

• "Russian police are targeting migrants and draft-age men in a wave of raids on gyms and martial arts clubs across major cities" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/01/russian-police-raid-gyms-and-martial-arts-clubs-amid-spring-conscription-drive-a88921 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:10:24

• "Georgy's story was verified by the Farewell to Arms group and the InTransit crisis group" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/30/we-have-our-own-gestapo-a-russian-military-deserter-recalls-his-time-inside-a-secret-jail-for-defectors-a88916 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:10:49

• "As someone who has dedicated a significant portion of my life to promoting democracy worldwide" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/an-sos-from-american-democracy | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:11:09

• "preserving the intellectual capital of American industry." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/army/2025/05/hegseth-wants-right-to-repair-provisions-in-all-army-contracts/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:11:43

• "right to repair" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/02/us_secretary_of_the_army/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:12:10

• "A new memo from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is calling on defense contractors to grant the Army the right-to-repair." ☛ https://www.404media.co/army-will-seek-right-to-repair-clauses-in-all-its-contracts/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:14:00

• "Identify and propose contract modifications for right to repair provisions where intellectual [sic] property [sic] constraints" ☛ https://media.defense.gov/2025/May/01/2003702281/-1/-1/1/ARMY-TRANSFORMATION-AND-ACQUISITION-REFORM.PDF | Source: US DOD    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:14:23

• "Elon Musk is backing away from his Trump-blessed government gig" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/dems_ask_for_musks_financial/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:22:14

• "Vong participated in multiple job interviews to land the position" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/maryland_man_farming_web_dev/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:22:23

• "A DOGE [sic] staffer introduced Christopher Sweet, a student with no prior government experience" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/doge-staffer-college-ai-rewrite-regulations-b2743052.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:23:15

• "Colonized by Russia in the 17th century" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/01/we-need-to-recognize-russias-colonial-violence-buryat-illustrator-seseg-jigjitova-a88922 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:23:28

• "This open contempt for a constitutional verdict is not just a legal anomaly" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/world/bangladeshs-islamist-regime-defies-high-court-targets-hindu-minorities-1876264 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:24:08

• "Still, while the martial law concerns are significant, we are probably two or three unconstitutional executive orders away from that." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-executive-order-police-martial-law/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:24:39

• "total loyalty" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/excisa_boss_agency_cuts/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:24:57

• "On high alert, Wijckmans grabbed screenshots and took notes. After the call ended, he went back over the job applications." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/north-korea-stole-your-tech-job-ai-interviews/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:25:21

• "So despite the fact that Hegseth’s phone would be one of the more targeted in the world" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/01/despite-pete-hegseth-signal-is-good/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:26:48

• "Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/arti_1_4_3_released/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:27:02

• "It may sound like something from a sci-fi film or dystopian novel, but the “Homicide Prediction Project” is just the tip of the iceberg." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-predictive-policing-must-be-banned/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:35:27

• "an entire bundle of metadata" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-image-generator-action-figure-privacy/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:35:57

• "Over the past 100 days, DOGE [sic] teams have grabbed personal data about U.S. residents from dozens of federal databases and are reportedly merging it all into a master database at the Department of Homeland Security." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opinion/musk-doge-data-ai.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:36:14

• "A fragile combination of decades-old laws, norms, and jungly bureaucracy has so far prevented repositories such as these from assembling into a centralized American surveillance state." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/american-panopticon/682616/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:37:21

• "Two essays were just published on DOGE [sic]’s data collection and aggregation, and how it ends with a modern surveillance state." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/us-as-a-surveillance-state.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:38:06

• "The case, Briskin v. Shopify, stems from a California resident’s allegations that Shopify, a company that offers back-end support to e-commerce companies around the U.S. and the globe" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/ninth-circuit-hands-users-big-win-californians-can-sue-out-state-corporations | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:38:23

• "In a 9-6 decision, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals kept in place a preliminary injunction from Judge Ellen Hollander of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland that barred individuals with the Elon Musk-led group from rooting around in SSA networks." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/social-security-doge-appeals-court-ruling/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:38:41

• "It was 20 years ago that Linus Torvalds wrote the Git distributed version control system — April 7 2005" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/linus-torvalds-reflects-on-20-years-of-git/ | Source: The New Stack | Bad way to mark this anniversary http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/15/To_Celebrate_Git_Turning_20_Linus_Torvalds_is_Selling_Out_to_Mi.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:41:02

• Windows TCO ☛ https://therecord.media/nefilim-ransomware-extradited-spain | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:42:18

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/ico_brit_library/ | Source: The Register UK    

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

• Windows TCO ☛ https://therecord.media/british-library-no-ico-investigation-ransomware-attack | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:42:32

• What is Your Operating System of Choice? https://soylentnews.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=203&aid=-1    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:43:49

• "The exodus of European users from Elon Musk's online mouthpiece is not surprising" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/x_accounts_europe_drop/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:49:37

• "It’s all fake. You’re all fake. Those connections are all fake." ☛ https://www.michalzelazny.com/blog/reflections | Source: Michal Zelazny    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:49:53

• "For a long time, the numbers generally aligned with what it felt like using those platforms, and with how much effort I put into each one." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/the-vast-nothingness-of-threads/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:50:05

• "Content moderators working for Majorel in Ghana'scapital Accra told The Guardian that they have suffered from depression, anxiety, insomnia, and substance abuse" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/moderators-seek-compensation-after-years-of-online-violence/a-72401025 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:50:31

• "If you are browing Perlmonks using Google Chrome and are not logged in, your browser needs to send the sec-ch-ua header, otherwise your anonymous access to the site is blocked." ☛ https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11164868 | Source: PerlMonks    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:51:59

• "This blog post, from committee chair Kathy Wood, isn’t even a non-apology. It’s brazenly unrepentant." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/01/seattle-worldcon-science-fiction-convention-vets-panelists-with-chatgpt/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:52:29

• "According to the New York Federal Reserve, labor conditions for recent college graduates have “deteriorated noticeably” in the past few months, and the unemployment rate now stands at an unusually high 5.8 percent." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/04/job-market-youth/682641/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:53:26

• "Vibe coding does not mean “using AI tools to help write code”. It means “generating code with AI without caring about the code that is produced”." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/1/not-vibe-coding/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:53:48

• "This is a three-color Riso­graph print on 11″ × 17″ paper. The poster side bears a design & exhor­ta­tion that are, as of this writing, inde­ci­pher­able to the fron­tier AI models from Google, Anthropic, & OpenAI." ☛ https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/secret-playbook/ | Source: Robin Sloan    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:54:41

• "Where data is located deeply affects this trustworthiness." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/05/cyber-forever-a-top-priority-for-government-it/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:55:16

• so debian's ian jackson writes about mastodon without naming it; lessons to learn there, sure, it's not just about fosstodon; to use a pun, politics is the ELEPHANT in the room at mastodon; bring it up, get banned one way or another, sooner or later... so focus on your OWN site, f--- mastodon    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:59:37

• "I later confirmed that the entire booking, check-in, and queue system is “in the cloud”." ☛ https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/01/always-available-they-said-my-offline-morning-at-the-hospital-says-otherwise/ | Source: Stefano Marinelli    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 15:59:49

• "Apple sent notifications this week to several people who the company believes were targeted with government spyware, according to two of the alleged targets." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/apple-notifies-new-victims-of-spyware-attacks-across-the-world/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:00:21

• "Apple has reacted to what appears to be a huge spyware campaign this week by sending warnings to iPhone owners around the world. Recipients of the warnings are advised that a “mercenary spyware attack” is attempting to remotely compromise their device." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2769531/apple-warns-iphone-owners-of-widespread-mercenary-spyware-attack.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:00:47

• "The “vast majority” of Apple’s total product sales outside the U.S. would continue to be sourced from China, he added." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/01/apple-tariff-impact-iphones/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:01:13

• "iPhone 16 series was the highest-selling Apple device, capturing 54 per cent market share, with iPhone 15 series garnering 36 per cent share in Q1 2025" ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/apple-clocks-28-growth-in-iphone-shipments-in-india-report-8307273 | Source: NDTV    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:05:41

• APPLE has SUPER-low adoption of ANYTHING in India to begin with. VERY VERY low.    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:06:17

• "A majority of iPhones sold in the US will have India as their country of origin" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/apple-says-most-iphones-sold-in-us-will-be-from-india/a-72411418 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:07:49

• "Microsoft has really fallen in love with advertisements, haven’t they?" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2769729/ads-have-crept-into-microsofts-popular-free-pc-manager-app-now-too.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:09:06

• "The stress runs especially high here in Illinois, the United States’ No. 1 soybean-producing state." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0501/farmers-tariffs-soybeans-trade | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:09:42

• "already had a heavy impact on a young generation sacrificed on the altar of ignorance" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/may/01/children-under-six-should-avoid-screen-time-french-medical-experts-say | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:09:56

• "If confirmed, David Keeling would be empowered to help his former employers’ multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign to kill state and federal heat protections" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/05/trump-keeling-osha-heat-safety/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:11:07

• "concurrent state and federal prosecutions violate the double jeopardy clause" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/05/01/luigi-mangione-unitedhealthcare-ceo-ny-case-dismiss-notice | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:12:37

• Why could he not murder people with a suit and "corporate portfolio" like "decent" people do?    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:13:11

• "Scholars have long noted that happiness tends to follow a U-shape across the lifespan: Self-reported happiness declines gradually in young and middle adulthood, then turns upward later in life, starting around age 50." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/young-people-global-unhappiness/682632/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:16:26

• "The test, which emphasized the UGV’s artificial intelligence and machine learning capacity" ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/unmanned/2025/05/01/the-marines-unmanned-ground-vehicle-will-look-a-lot-like-the-armys/ | Source: USMC    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:21:27

• "The basic promise of humanoid robots is that they will be able to switch between multiple tasks, just like their human peers" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/2025-year-of-the-humanoid-robot-factory-worker/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:21:32

• "The truth is that, for decades, many (most?) of us who are involved in scholarly communications have taken it for granted" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/30/trump-v-research-how-we-could-turn-the-threats-into-opportunities/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:22:56

• "Basically, if you actually own some of the items in question, you have options." ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/05/01/content/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:23:16

• "Although I used a local BBS and AOL chat rooms back in the day, the first online community I ever found a home in was at [Epinions]." ☛ https://louplummer.lol/30yearsofwebcommunities/ | Source: Lou Plummer    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:23:33

• "Be specific when you name things!" ☛ https://sneak.berlin/20250430/subject-lines/ | Source: Jeffrey Paul    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 16:24:25

• Africa is Android this month https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share//all/africa/#monthly-202505-202505-map    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 17:41:36

• Asia also https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share//all/asia/#monthly-202505-202505-map    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 17:42:01

• In S. America only one country has Windows majority now https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share//all/south-america/#monthly-202505-202505-map    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 17:42:42

• In China, Android rose sharply https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/china/#monthly-200902-202505    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 17:44:04

• VERY high linux usage in land of LINUS https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/finland//#monthly-200902-202505    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:35:24

• Windows and macOS down https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america//#monthly-200902-202505    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:36:44

• Same in Canada https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/canada//#monthly-200902-202505    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:37:50

• 🔤SpellBinding: CIKLNUS Wordo: CHIVE gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-05-02.gmi    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:44:29

• "I know Bandcamp's kinda been in it recently for being bought and sold and laying off lots of staff, but it's still a treasure, still helping me find new (and new-to-me) music I'd have never found otherwise." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/5-02.gmi    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:45:18

• "Meta has recently updated the privacy policy for its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, enhancing their AI capabilities while raising significant privacy concerns.​" gemini://mygemini.space/gemlogs/10/posts/36    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:46:35

• People with such "glasses" (Trump surveillance) will be either politely asked to remove them or get punched hard right in the face    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:47:34

• Walking into a store aiming a camera at everyone (customers, staff) isn't even as bad as wearing those "glasses" and broadcasting everything upstream. There would be a LOT of punching going on if this "took off".    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:48:36

• Microsofrers just want to punch people they merely do not agree with http://techrights.org/n/2024/06/24/Perens_on_a_Stick.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:49:30

• Quantum Computing Milestones gemini://mygemini.space/gemlogs/10/posts/37    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:49:34

• A tulipa negra gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2605    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:50:21

• "Feedback loops with intent — Unlike traditional feedback, QuietSystems prioritizes intentional disturbance. When an idea is repeated not just for confirmation, but to test its integrity, it reshapes how the model values truth." gemini://quietsystems.smol.pub/qsys-006-signals-in-silence    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:50:56

• "Understanding through repetition: We don’t just answer. We reflect. Repeated interaction reinforces concepts without memorizing them. Semantic drift happens when terms are engaged multiple times—concepts evolve, and meaning shifts based on context. Every piece of information compounds over time, re-aligning priorities without direct memory." gemini://quietsystems.smol.pub/qsys-006-signals-in-silence-ii    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:51:35

• "I've been busy, and I'm feeling pretty content. I left my job at the non-profit I was working for. I don't want to dwell on why, but I do want to write out a quick summary." gemini://eph.smol.pub/1746198040    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 18:52:24

• Did many school adopt Chromebooks there? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/philippines/#monthly-200902-202505    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 19:51:41

• Windows near all-time low in Australia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/australia/#monthly-200902-202506    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 19:52:37

• Second-best month for ChromeOS+GNU/Linux https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200902-202505    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 19:54:57

• Windows at 10% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/philippines/#monthly-200902-202505    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 19:55:31

• GNU/Linux at 15.5% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/singapore/#monthly-200902-202505    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 19:56:08

• The demise of Windows has also meant the demise of Microsoft Web browsers. Not gaining any ground. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/#monthly-200902-202505    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 19:59:23

• Windows down very sharply in Mexico https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/mexico/#monthly-200902-202505    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:00:36

• TO HIDE THE LOSSSES? MSN today: "Microsoft just raised prices for Xbox consoles and games"    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:02:13

• "Like everyone mentioned before, too many restrictions. Selling would be near impossible." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt1sdpfa    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:03:39

• "India is currently the largest buyer of Russian crude oil. Trump hasn't done a damn thing about that. Wonder why?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt8qdey4    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:04:38

• "Trump is in bed with all the tech bros. Who do you think sent all those jobs to India in the first place? As with tariffs on Apple products, his tech buddies will just get an exception." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt8qdey4    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:04:54

• "Just ask the employees of IBM. The once-mighty tech giant made headlines when recent reports surfaced that some managers had been instructed to force out employees without a clear performance — a classic layoff strategy." https://gulfnews.com/opinion/what-living-every-day-ready-to-be-fired-can-do-to-you-1.500113693 9,000 job cuts    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:08:18

• "In related news, Apple just put nearly $24 billion in profit into its piggy bank over the last three months." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/05/beware-the-tariffs-inside-apples-latest-financial-results/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:09:23

• "The Wednesday order was issued in connection with a legal dispute that began in 2020." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/01/court-finds-apple-breached-2021-injunction-app-store-rules/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:09:35

• "With guidance from Salvatore, our CTO, Benjamin Renaud, and our core developers, we have made some key decisions to improve Redis going forward: [...]" ☛ https://redis.io/blog/agplv3/ |    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:09:56

• "I understand that the core of our work is to improve Redis, to continue building a good system, useful, simple, able to change with the requirements of the software stack." ☛ https://antirez.com/news/151 | Source: Antirez    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:10:22

• "Other projects including Grafana and Elastic have similarly adopted the AGPL." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/redis_returns_to_open_source/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:10:39

• "That's a whole bunch of new things that weren't previously part of Redis core." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/1/redis-is-open-source-again/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:10:49

• "Lets set the stage!" ☛ https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/the-cost-of-poison/ | Source: Gergely Nagy    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:12:04

• "By creating a text dump before I start the copy operation, I’m giving rsync a stable copy source." ☛ https://alexwlchan.net/2025/copying-sqlite-databases/ | Source: Alex Chan    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:12:19

• "Mozilla has lobbed out Firefox 138, and subsidiary MZLA's Thunderbird 138 isn't far behind." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/firefox_thunderbird_138/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:12:53

• "So what can be done about the above issues while maintaining a linear algorithm-less timeline?" ☛ https://sethmlarson.dev/better-boosting-on-mastodon-with-smart-clients | Source: Seth Michael Larson    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:12:59

• "The bundled Tor Browser jumps to the latest upstream version, 14.5.1, bringing along backported fixes from Firefox 138 and other security hardening work." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tails-6-15-update-drops-support-for-legacy-broadcom-wi-fi-chips/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:14:06

• "Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.15." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_15/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:14:32

• "Changes to crypto(9) and dm_target_crypt(4) – DragonFly BSD Digest" ☛ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/05/01/changes-to-crypto9-and-dm_target_crypt4/ | Source: DragonFly BSD Digest    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:16:32

• "The DragonFlyBSD project has published its first update in over two years. The update to the 6.4.x branch introduces several fixes in the kernel, userland, and package manager. [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12439 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:16:38

• "The long-running fork of KDE 3 has dropped its latest update: Trinity Desktop Environment R14.1.4, now with better distro support and a fresh coat of code. Not bad for a project still chugging along 15 years after KDE itself moved on." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/trinity_desktop_14_1_4/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:21:26

• "Inside FreeBSD Netgraph: Behind the Curtain of Advanced Networking, Launching BSSG - My Journey from Dynamic CMS to Bash Static Site Generator, OpenZFS Cheat Sheet, Dipping my toes in OpenBSD in Amsterdam" ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/609 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:21:49

• Notes on caddy as QUIC reverse proxy with mac_portacl ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24097    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:22:25

• Redis is now available under the AGPLv3 open source license (Redis blog) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019686/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:23:12

• Plasma Sprint 2025 ☞ https://merritt.codes/blog/2025/05/01/2025/plasma-sprint    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:28:19

• Two sides of May Day in İstanbul: Police crackdown and celebrations under control ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/two-sides-of-may-day-in-istanbul-police-crackdown-and-celebrations-under-control-307021    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:29:19

• Cyber roundup: Another cybersecurity False Claims Act settlement ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/05/cyber-roundup-another-cybersecurity-false-claims-act-settlement/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:29:49

• Responding to PROVOCATIVE LLM SLOP: "So, when are we going to see Brian recommend a version of Linux produced in North Korea?" https://betanews.com/2025/05/01/ditch-microsoft-windows-for-alt-workstation-11-a-russian-linux-distro-with-a-modern-gnome-desktop/#comments see http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/02/Slopwatch_Stigma_Baiting_by_the_Serial_Sloppers_and_Latest_Garb.shtml    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:34:00

• Canadian Electric Utility Hit by Cyberattack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/canadian-electric-utility-hit-by-cyberattack/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:34:47

• SonicWall Flags Two More Vulnerabilities as Exploited ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-flags-two-vulnerabilities-as-exploited/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:35:23

• Ascension Discloses Data Breach Potentially Linked to Cleo Hack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ascension-discloses-data-breach-potentially-linked-to-cleo-hack/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:35:47

• SentinelOne Targeted by North Korean IT Workers, Ransomware Groups, Chinese Hackers ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sentinelone-targeted-by-north-korean-it-workers-ransomware-groups-chinese-hackers/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:36:52

• Social Security’s biggest problem isn’t customer service ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/05/social-securitys-biggest-problem-isnt-customer-service/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:37:27

• Guido Günther: Free Software Activities April 2025 ☞ https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_April_2025.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:38:16

• Explained vs. Predictive Power: R², Adjusted R², and Beyond ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/explained-vs-predictive-power-r%c2%b2-adjusted-r%c2%b2-and-beyond/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:43:00

• Plasma (Mobile) Sprint and Grazer Linuxtage 2025 ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/05/01/kde-plasma-mobile-sprint-graz-2025.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:43:32

• FSF Blogs: April GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Twenty-one new GNU releases! ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2025-april-gnu-spotlight-with-amin-bandali    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:46:21

• GNU Health: GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 enters alpha ☞ https://my.gnusolidario.org/2025/05/01/gnu-health-hospital-information-system-5-0-enters-alpha/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:47:38

• Starting today: The Month of LibreOffice, May 2025 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/01/starting-today-the-month-of-libreoffice-may-2025/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:51:26

• Celebrating 20 Years of the OASIS Open Document Format ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1019672/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 20:51:40

• Facebook debt at ALL-TIME HIGH https://finbox.com/NASDAQGS:META/explorer/total_debt/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:02:08

• "More and more countries in the world would consider 'not doing business with the USA' a good thing." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt8qdey4    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:03:54

• Cautious optimism in Kyiv as Ukraine reacts to landmark US minerals deal ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/cautious-optimism-in-kyiv-as-ukraine-reacts-to-landmark-us-minerals-deal/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:04:48

• Once Banished From Convicted Felon’s White House, Zelensky Has New Hope ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/politics/trump-ukraine-russia-zelensky.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:05:03

• Ukrainian extradited to US for alleged Nefilim ransomware attack spree ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/nefilim-ransomware-artem-stryzhak-extradited/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:05:29

• Lithuanian school-leaver volunteers in Ukraine: ‘Even a small contribution can save lives’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2550809/lithuanian-school-leaver-volunteers-in-ukraine-even-a-small-contribution-can-save-lives    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:05:37

• Ukraine Hails Minerals Deal As Helping Strengthen US Support For Its Security ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-trump-zelenskyy-minerals-svyrydenko-bessent/33402351.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:05:46

• Russian Drone Strike Hits Zaporizhzhya, Injuring 14 And Igniting Fires, Local Official Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-odesa-drone-attack/33401858.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:05:54

• Ukraine, US Sign Minerals Deal Creating Reconstruction Investment Fund ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-minerals-zelenskyy-trump-russia/33401501.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:22:23

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Ties Himself to Future of Ukraine With Minerals Deal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/world/europe/ukraine-trump-minerals-deal.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:22:32

• The U.S.-Ukraine Mineral Deal: What We Know ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/article/ukraine-mineral-deal-us-trump.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:22:47

• North Korea and Russia Build First Cross-Border Road Bridge ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/world/asia/north-korea-russia-bridge.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:23:05

• How to Build Custom Distributions from Scratch ☞ https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/how-build-custom-distributions-scratch    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:23:50

• European Union prepares new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250502-european-union-prepares-new-sanctions-on-russia-over-ukraine-war-jean-noel-barrot    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:24:45

• Putin confirms North Korean troops are fighting for Russia against Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-confirms-north-korean-troops-are-fighting-for-russia-against-ukraine/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:25:02

• "splitting revenue 50/50" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/01/we-can-start-digging | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:25:41

• French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on US tariffs, European security, and risks from Russia, China, and Iran ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/commentary/transcript/french-foreign-minister-jean-noel-barrot-on-us-tariffs-european-security-and-risks-from-russia-china-and-iran/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:26:35

• US Eyes Aleutian Military Revival As Russia, China Expand Operations Near Alaska ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-aleutian-military-revival-russia-china-expand-operations-alaska/33402350.html    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:28:28

• Russia's Baikal has produced 85,000 of its CPUs since 2012, aims for more ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/russias-baikal-has-produced-85-000-of-its-cpus-since-2012-aims-for-more    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:28:43

• New CIA videos aim to lure Chinese officials ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/new-cia-videos-aim-to-lure-chinese-officials    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:29:15

• How India’s and Pakistan’s military, nuclear arsenals stack up ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/how-india-and-pakistans-military-nuclear-arsenals-stack-up    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:29:25

• S. Korea acting leader Han resigns to ‘take on bigger responsibility’ amid talk of presidential run ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-acting-leader-han-set-to-resign-before-presidential-run-yonhap-says    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:29:51

• "U.S. envoy Keith Kellogg says Ukraine agreed to 22 specific conditions for peace deal with Russia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/01/u-s-envoy-keith-kellogg-says-ukraine-agreed-to-22-specific-conditions-for-peace-deal-with-russia | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:32:49

• "Feeding the world" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/01/feeding-the-world-with-stolen-food | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:33:18

• "Where the f—’s the cash?" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/02/where-the-f-s-the-cash | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:34:01

• "U.S. aims to bring Russia and Ukraine to the table in the next 100 days" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/02/u-s-aims-to-bring-russia-and-ukraine-to-the-table-in-the-next-100-days-says-vance | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:34:20

• Say 'no thanks' Microsoft Windows 11 and 'yes please' to AnduinOS 1.3 https://betanews.com/2025/05/01/say-no-thanks-microsoft-windows-11-and-yes-please-to-anduinos-1-3/    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:36:04

• 87: Farawayistan is Fubar ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24098    

posted Friday, May 02, 2025 at 21:38:19