Roy Schestowitz

• "The European Song Contest doesn’t allow Russia: [...]" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-05-17-israel    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:09:05

• "Something I just saw on fedi: The SFJAZZ Historical Archive has a ton of material online." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-05-17-getting-sfjazz    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:09:43

• "Today we explored Šibenik. We bought the ticket for three fortresses and used that as an excuse to walk all over town. Claudia took most of the urban pictures; I took most of the flower pictures. 😅" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-05-17-šibenik    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:10:26

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-05-18.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:11:57

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1648.jpg    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:12:34

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1298.jpg    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:12:41

• "It's been half a century since the Vietnam War ended. South Vietnamese call it the Vietnam War not the American War like the Northerners do." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2615    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:13:47

• "I can post here with a bash script and an http browser but not lagrange or a gemini browser. Did I miss an important step?" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2616    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:14:25

• "Ash Dilishush (aš-dili šu, from Sumerian "𒀸𒋙"), as villagers called them, was born into the woods. Their situation was akin to "The boy raised by wolves", except that Ash had no wolves, either. Some say the mysterious muse Ninna Uzud (𒊩𒄷𒇧𒍚) raised them, but Ash's background is still unknown to this day." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2617    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:15:20

• China’s First Police Corgi Has 400,000 Followers and a Nose for Trouble ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/world/asia/corgi-dog-china-police.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:21:06

• Rise in single mothers reflects changing face of Chinese families ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/rise-in-single-mothers-reflects-changing-face-of-chinese-families    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:21:36

• China-US 90-day tariff truce should be extended, Global Times says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-us-90-day-tariff-truce-should-be-extended-global-times-says    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:22:05

• China investigates Guangxi government head over suspected disciplinary violations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-investigates-guangxi-government-head-over-suspected-disciplinary-violations    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:22:44

• ST Picks: China’s bargaining chip amid trade war truce with US ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/st-picks-chinas-bargaining-chip-amid-trade-war-truce-with-us    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:23:00

• Nvidia plans China research centre as export curbs bite: Report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/nvidia-plans-china-research-centre-as-export-curbs-bite-report    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:23:27

• China’s humanoid robots will not replace human workers, Beijing official says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-humanoid-robots-will-not-replace-human-workers-beijing-official-says    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:23:41

• Rights group raises alarm over ethnic Kazakh who fled Xinjiang ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/05/16/china-xinjiang-kazakh-detainee/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:24:14

• 30 years on, rights groups press China for word of Tibet’s missing Panchen Lama ☞ https://rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/05/16/tibet-panchen-lama-disappearance-anniversary/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:24:31

• HRW urges China to release 11th Panchen Lama, calls on ‘concerned parties’ to assert Tibetan rights ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/hrw-urges-china-to-release-11th-panchen-lama-calls-on-concerned-parties-to-assert-tibetan-rights/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:25:04

• Nvidia plans China research centre as US export curbs bite, report says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/16/nvidia-plans-china-research-centre-as-us-export-curbs-bite-report-says/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:25:28

• Low-budget mainland tourists welcome in Hong Kong, but their fear of foreigners is overblown ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/17/low-budget-mainland-tourists-welcome-in-hong-kong-but-their-fear-of-foreigners-is-overblown/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:26:01

• "Screamer" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/the-screamer-is-just-like-the-clapper-but-even-more-annoying/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:26:45

• "Before we tell you about this transistor made from bismuth here’s a whirlwind tour of the history of the transistor." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/new-bismuth-transistor-runs-40-faster-and-uses-10-less-power/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:27:18

• "[Simone Giertz] built a flip clock moon phase tracker for a friend." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/moon-phase-flip-clock-is-fantastic/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:27:39

• "Say ‘No’ in style Introducing Meduza’s new merch collection" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/16/say-no-in-style | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:28:19

• Building Drones—for the Children? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/building-drones-for-the-children    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:28:32

• HEY HI bubble is popping. Anthropic lacks money, borrows a lot of money. Debt, like "open" "AI" https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/16/anthropic-raises-2-5b-debt-finance-growth-investments/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:30:17

• World First: US Baby Treated With Personalized CRISPR Gene-Editing ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-us-baby-treated-with-personalized-crispr-gene-editing    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:31:01

• One Stage of Sleep Seems Critical For Reducing Risk of Dementia ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-stage-of-sleep-seems-critical-for-reducing-risk-of-dementia    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:31:11

• Ultra-Processed Foods Linked to Early Signs of Parkinson's Disease ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ultra-processed-foods-linked-to-early-signs-of-parkinsons-disease    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:31:26

• Scientists Discovered Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During Menstruation ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discovered-structural-brain-wide-changes-during-menstruation    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:31:40

• The Roots of Dementia Trace Back All The Way to Childhood, Experts Say ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-roots-of-dementia-trace-back-all-the-way-to-childhood-experts-say    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:31:54

• Mystery of T. Rex's Debated North American Origins Finally Solved ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mystery-of-t-rexs-debated-north-american-origins-finally-solved    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:32:14

• Haunting last words: Ailing Malaysian vaper dies days after warning others to kick the habit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/haunting-last-words-ailing-malaysian-vaper-dies-days-after-warning-others-to-kick-the-habit    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:32:59

• South Korean loan shark who allegedly drove single mum to suicide to face jail term ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-loan-shark-who-allegedly-drove-single-mom-to-suicide-to-face-jail-term    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:33:16

• Live Nation and AEG Reportedly Face Criminal Antitrust Probe Over Alleged Ticket-Refund Collusion ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/16/live-nation-probe-aeg/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:33:53

• The Top Five — For the Week Ending May 16, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/05/the-top-five-for-the-week-ending-may-16-2025/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:34:54

• FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz — May 16, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/05/foss-force-mostly-open-tech-news-quiz-may-16-2025/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:35:04

• Linux Out Loud 111: Open Source in Motion: Conferences, Creativity, and Community ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/linux-out-loud/lol-111/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:35:34

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Billion-Dollar Tech Deals, and a Military Buildup at the Border ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/podcasts/the-headlines/trump-tech-deals-immigration-crackdown.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:35:56

• "giving Chrome OS devices a new lease on life" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/hackaday-podcast-episode-321-learn-you-some-3dp-let-the-wookie-win-or-design-a-thinkpad-motherboard-anew/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:36:19

• PitFusion thermal imager for Raspberry Pi combines Melexis MLX90640 sensor and RGB camera (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/16/pitfusion-thermal-imager-for-raspberry-pi-combines-melexis-mlx90640-sensor-and-rgb-camera/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:37:51

• TexHoo QN15 – A sub $100 mini PC with defective chip maker Intel Processor N150 CPU ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/16/texhoo-qn15-a-sub-100-mini-pc-with-intel-processor-n150-cpu/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:38:19

• Arm introduces new product naming architecture for infrastructure, PC, mobile, automotive, and IoT ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/16/arm-introduces-new-product-naming-architecture-for-infrastructure-pc-mobile-automotive-and-iot/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:38:53

• A modern theme for cgit ☞ https://yingtongli.me/blog/2025/05/16/cgit.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:39:16

• Apple Rejected Fornite’s Return to the iOS App Store—Game is Blocked in the EU Now, Too ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/16/apple-rejected-fornites-return-to-the-ios-app-store-game-is-blocked-in-the-eu-now-too/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:40:30

• SBC ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/16/a-portable-m4-mac-mini/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:41:03

• Arrested for Singing While Female, in “My Orange Garden” ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/arrested-for-singing-while-female-in-my-orange-garden    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:41:17

• Commission seeks feedback on commitments offered by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft over possible anticompetitive practices related to Teams ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1233    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:41:51

• In Other News: Hackers Not Behind Blackout, CISO Docuseries, Dior Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-hackers-not-behind-blackout-ciso-docuseries-dior-data-breach/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:42:26

• From 60 to 4,000: NATO’s Locked Shields Reflects Cyber Defense Growth ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/from-60-to-4000-natos-locked-shields-reflects-cyber-defense-growth/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:42:59

• Hackers Win $260,000 on First Day of Pwn2Own Berlin 2025 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-win-260000-on-first-day-of-pwn2own-berlin-2025/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:43:22

• Energy security needs pipelines, not promises ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/energy-security-needs-pipelines-not-promises/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:44:00

• Cabinet commends SAPS operations against GBVF related crimes ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/civil-security/cabinet-commends-saps-operations-against-gbvf-related-crimes/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:45:04

• Procure to export: A new mindset for South Africa’s defence industry ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/procure-to-export-a-new-mindset-for-south-africas-defence-industry/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:45:20

• Parliament sounds the alarm on SANDF crisis during explosive debate ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featured/parliament-sounds-the-alarm-on-sandf-crisis-during-explosive-debate/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:45:36

• Beyond trespass: Legal boundaries against land grabs and shack syndicates ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/civil-security/beyond-trespass-legal-boundaries-against-land-grabs-and-shack-syndicates/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:45:58

• Hong Kong independence activist jailed under nat. sec law appeals for shorter sentence at top court ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/16/hong-kong-independence-activist-jailed-under-nat-sec-law-appeals-for-shorter-sentence-at-top-court/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:46:51

• Windows TCO: VNC. RDP for all to see ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/vnc-rdp-for-all-to-see/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:47:25

• Security advisory: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access in QFileSystemEngine in the Qt corelib module on backdoored Windows impacts Qt ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-improper-link-resolution-before-file-access-in-qfilesystemengine-on-windows    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:47:46

• Turkey's Celebi sues India over 'vague' clearance pullback amid Pakistan conflict ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/turkeys-celebi-sues-india-over-vague-clearance-pullback-amid-pakistan-conflict    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:48:24

• A Reality Show Where Immigrants Compete for U.S. Citizenship? D.H.S. Is Considering It. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/homeland-security-immigration-reality-show.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:48:37

• Succès Masra, Opposition Leader in Chad, Is Arrested and Accused of Inciting Violence ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/world/africa/chad-opposition-leader-succes-masra-arrested.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:48:45

• Cher Wants a Better Home for L.A.’s Elephants. Not Tulsa. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/elephants-la-zoo-cher.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:50:23

• Solomon’s Choice: Charting the Future of Hey Hi (AI) Policy in Canada ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/05/solomons-choice-the-future-of-ai-in-canada/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:51:11

• Silicon Valley's era of open debate fades as companies clamp down on employee dissent https://www.techspot.com/news/107955-tech-workers-face-retaliation-companies-crack-down-protests.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:52:58

• Grok Chatbot’s ‘White Genocide’ Responses Blamed on xAI Employee ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/technology/xai-elon-musk-south-africa.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:53:27

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Appointee Pressed Analyst to Redo Intelligence on Venezuelan Gang ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/us/politics/trump-appointee-venezuela-gang.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:53:55

• Inflation in Latvia driven by food prices ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/16.05.2025-inflation-in-latvia-driven-by-food-prices.a599279/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:54:12

• American Oversight Files Final Brief Before Friday Hearing on Emergency Motion in Signalgate Lawsuit ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-files-final-brief-before-friday-hearing-on-emergency-motion-in-signalgate-lawsuit/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:55:14

• Diddy Paid Cassie $20 Million In Hush Money, Testimony Reveals ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/14/diddy-settlement-cassie-ventura-amount/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:55:46

• Thai building collapse exposes flaws in its migrant-heavy construction sector ☞ https://rfa.org/english/myanmar/2025/05/16/thai-building-collapse-migrant-worker/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:56:05

• S.E.C. Investigating Whether Coinbase Misstated Its User Numbers ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/technology/coinbase-sec-investigation.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:56:26

• Smokey Robinson Faces Criminal Investigation Following Sexual Assault Lawsuit ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/15/smokey-robinson-criminal-investigation-after-lawsuit/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:58:01

• Erdoğan signals end to state takeovers of pro-Kurdish municipalities after PKK disbands ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/erdogan-signals-end-to-state-takeovers-of-pro-kurdish-municipalities-after-pkk-disbands-307462    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 04:58:30

• For children with a rare form of dementia, music could be a powerful therapy tool https://theconversation.com/for-children-with-a-rare-form-of-dementia-music-could-be-a-powerful-therapy-tool-171688    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:00:16

• Windows TCO https://theconversation.com/mands-cyberattacks-used-a-little-known-but-dangerous-technique-and-anyone-could-be-vulnerable-256739    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:01:26

• research suggests reading can help combat loneliness and boost the brain https://theconversation.com/forget-chatbots-research-suggests-reading-can-help-combat-loneliness-and-boost-the-brain-256613    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:02:15

• why you should still be sceptical https://theconversation.com/theres-growing-evidence-of-possible-life-on-other-planets-heres-why-you-should-still-be-sceptical-256050    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:03:31

• Amazon’s Waves Weaken https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-05-12/as-the-amazons-waves-weaken-a-surfer-fights-to-protect-them    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:05:49

• As Egg Prices Soar, Amazon and Top Investors Cash In https://www.truthdig.com/articles/as-egg-prices-soar-amazon-and-top-investors-cash-in/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:06:34

• AstraZeneca? Conflict of interest in this coverage. http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/uk-court-reaffirms-its-stringent.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:07:39

• A different Perl Toolchain Summit https://blogs.perl.org/users/leon_timmermans/2025/05/a-different-perl-toolchain-summit.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:08:56

• Call for Papers! - Perl Community Conference, Summer 2025 https://blogs.perl.org/users/oodler_577/2025/05/call-for-papers---perl-community-conference-summer-2025.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:09:10

• Techrights to reboot in 2 minutes. Will be back within 1-2 minutes. Patching kernel.    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:09:39

• critical test for EU membership https://www.dw.com/en/why-albania-s-election-is-a-critical-test-for-eu-membership/a-72475322    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:23:37

• The shill who promoted the illegality of the UPC for the EPO; her legacy is crime https://www.dw.com/en/the-late-margot-friedländer-and-the-hope-for-a-better-future/a-65652328    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:24:44

• Wait, that was Margot Fröhlinger    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:26:20

• Germany's socialist Left Party is flying high https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-socialist-left-party-is-flying-high/a-72474390    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:28:21

• Patent monopolies on cell therapy benefits the few http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/defining-undefinable-challenges-and.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:31:32

• Audi http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/guest-post-out-door-back-in-through.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:32:24

• Corrupt EUIPO http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-never-ending-story-of-brexit.html http://techrights.org/wiki/EUIPO/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:32:34

• toxic smoke confined thousands https://www.dw.com/en/spain-curbs-lifted-after-toxic-smoke-confined-thousands/a-72500189    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:33:23

• Soviet-era Venus probe plunges back to Earth after 53 years https://www.dw.com/en/soviet-era-venus-probe-plunges-back-to-earth-after-53-years/a-72502555    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:43:27

• Evil more by Gulag to appease Golden Dawnald https://www.dw.com/en/mexico-sues-google-over-trump-s-renaming-of-gulf-of-mexico/a-72498919    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:44:23

• press crackdown in India https://www.dw.com/en/kashmir-crisis-sparks-press-crackdown-in-india/a-72498921    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 05:44:57

• "The Wine 10.8 development release is out now for the Windows compatibility layer bringing with it various bug fixes, along with user handles in shared memory for better performance" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/wine-10-8-released-with-user-handles-in-shared-memory-for-better-performance/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:43:32

• "Valve updated Proton Experimental, the testing area for the latest fixes to their Windows compatibility layer to run more games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/proton-experimental-gets-fixes-for-the-first-berserker-khazan-the-finals-the-sims-2-alpha-protocol-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:43:43

• "Good news for players on Steam Deck and SteamOS, as the Steam Deck Verified system just hit 19,000 games that are rated either Verified or Playable." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steam-deck-steamos-hits-19000-games-rated-verified-and-playable/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:43:53

• "Estonia Accuses Russia Of 'Serious Threat' To NATO After Fighter Jet Disrupts Tanker Inspection" https://www.rferl.org/a/estonia-russia-serious-threat-nato-fighter-jet-tanker-shadow-fleet/33415092.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:46:29

• "US stripped of top credit rating in blow to Trump’s tax cut plans" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/16/us-credit-rating-cut-in-blow-to-trumps-tax-cut-plans/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:46:40

• "Trump announces vaporware AI data centres in the United Arab Emirates" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/16/trump-announces-vaporware-ai-data-centres-in-the-united-arab-emirates/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:46:53

• "‘Between a mathematician and a Trump-loving hooligan’: Romania’s stark presidential choice" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/17/between-a-mathematician-and-a-trump-loving-hooligan-romania-stark-presidential-choice http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/27/When_Social_Control_Media_in_the_European_Union_is_Controlled_b.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:47:43

• iophk: in position only because of election interference via Bytedance's Tiktok https://jacobin.com/2025/05/george-simion-romania-far-right/ ("Romania’s Election Front-Runner Sucks Up to Trump")    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:47:51

• "Pentagon silent, aviation experts baffled by Trump’s fighter comments" https://www.airforcetimes.com/air/2025/05/16/pentagon-silent-aviation-experts-baffled-by-trumps-fighter-comments/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:48:20

• iophk: plain old fraud https://futurism.com/anthropic-chatbot-legal-music ("Anthropic Tried to Defend Itself With AI and It Backfired Horribly")    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:48:29

• https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/16/we-re-prepared-to-fight-forever-how-about-you    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:48:51

• "EU Bug Database Fully Operational as US Slashes Infosec" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/05/16/0232204    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 06:49:04

• "The article referenced in the image above is requested by bots more than 90% of the time. Human traffic is going extinct." ☛ https://blog.paranoidpenguin.net/2025/05/all-your-content-are-belong-to-ai/ | Source: Roger Comply    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:51:14

• "Google is making it easier for you to buy digital books from Amazon, the country’s leading book retailer, than from smaller booksellers." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/16/google-amazon-ebooks-apps/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:51:49

• "A new report by digital campaigners, the Open Rights Group, outlines how the Online Safety Act favours big tech, and harms small websites and the general public." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/online-safety-act-entrenches-big-tech-market-dominance-new-report-finds/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:52:10

• "The dispute comes just weeks after Epic Games and other app developers cheered a judge’s ruling that limited the commissions that Apple makes through third party apps distributed through its app store." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-05-16/epic-games-says-fornite-blocked-by-apple-in-u-s-app-store | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:52:30

• "It did so by illegally advantaging Teams, and what Nadella seems to be saying here is that it would again be happy to use its disproportionate power to push its version of other new technologies." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/microsoft-ai-executives/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:52:50

• "The issue is far more complicated than the judge’s ruling. Back in 2020, Apple suspended Epic’s developer account in the U.S. after it broke Apple’s terms by offering a link to buy V-Bucks outside of the App Store." ☛ https://www.macworld.com/article/2785371/fortnite-on-ios-goes-offline-worldwide-after-apple-blocks-u-s-app-store-return.html | Source: Macworld    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:53:19

• "take action on the Fortnite app submission until after the Ninth Circuit rules on our pending request for a partial stay of the new injunction." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/669047/epic-fortnite-filing-apple-app-store-review-order | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:53:37

• "re-imposed after a partial court annulment of a 2009 decision, relates to payments made to HP, Acer, and Lenovo to delay rival products. A ruling from the General Court is expected in the coming months." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/intel-spars-with-eu-regulators-over-421-million-antitrust-fine/articleshow/121230872.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:53:57

• "Access to Fortnite via Apple's iPhone Operating System and through its App Store will be unavailable worldwide until Apple unblocks it, Epic Games said." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/epic-games-fortnite-not-available-on-iphones-in-eu-and-the-us/articleshow/121244244.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:54:09

• "Brösche was stopped by Immigration and Customs Enforcement when she tried to enter the United States near San Diego on Jan. 26 — six days after President Trump’s inauguration." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-05-17/german-tourists-unhappy-with-trump-arent-visiting-the-u-s | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:55:47

• "Passports and passport cards are not the only alternatives to REAL ID. Additional documentation is also accepted as well: (this list is subject to change by the TSA): [...]" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/security-theater-realized-and-flying-without-real-id | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:55:57

• "On social media, where content creators have been dissecting the case, some commenters have been distressingly sympathetic to Diddy’s defense." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/hip-hop-manosphere-cassie-1235341559/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:56:51

• "Suppressing women is the key to control an entire society." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/arrested-for-singing-while-female-in-my-orange-garden | Source: New Yorker    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 09:57:08

• "A Swedish journalist jailed in Turkey for nearly two months on a charge of "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday hailed his freedom after being released and returning home." ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250517/swedish-journalist-freed-from-turkey-hails-freedom | Source: The Local SE    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:00:38

• "increasingly hostile environment" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/peru-urged-to-protect-journalists-amid-major-offensive-against-press-freedom/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:00:52

• "CPJ’s deputy advocacy director Tom Gibson argued that the bill is a “chilling signal” that the freedom of the press will be eliminated to allow for the Hungarian government’s unrestricted power." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/press-advocacy-group-urges-eu-to-denounce-hungary-restriction-on-foreign-funded-organizations/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:01:24

• "The 36 years old Khaiti, a native of Douma city, east of the Syrian capital Damascus, went missing on Thursday evening, May 3." ☛ https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/05/17/syria-denounces-the-disappearance-of-a-journalist/ | Source: La Prensa Latina    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:02:33

• "transparency of public life" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/hungarys-orban-plans-transparency-law-to-muzzle-critics/a-72571703 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:02:47

• "In this report, we analyse the Online Safety Act (OSA or ‘the Act’) 2023, which imposes new duties on online service providers to protect children from harmful content, and Ofcom’s guidance to compliance with these duties." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/how-to-fix-the-online-safety-act-a-rights-first-approach/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:11:28

• "This document is intended as a full overview of the Online Safety Act (OSA, or the Act) and how it works for organisations attempting to understand it and its implications." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/online-safety-act-a-guide-for-organisations-working-with-the-act/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:11:41

• "At the center of the bill is a requirement that platforms “exercise reasonable care” to prevent and mitigate a sweeping list of harms to minors" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/kids-online-safety-act-will-make-internet-worse-everyone | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:11:56

• "State of play: "86" generally means to throw out or nix. "47" refers to Trump — the 47th president." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/05/16/8647-meaning-comey-trump-protest | Source: Axios    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:12:23

• "He said in a follow-up post that he took it only as a political message since Trump is the 47th president, and to “86” something can be to get rid of it, like a rowdy patron at a bar or something that is no longer wanted." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-05-17/the-old-slang-term-86-probably-started-as-restaurant-worker-jargon-suddenly-its-in-the-news | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:12:45

• "We mentioned recently that the only remaining Democratic commissioner at the FCC (and the only remaining Dem commissioner across both the FCC and FTC since Trump illegally fired the Democratic FTC Commissioners) has started calling out FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr’s attacks on free speech." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/16/fcc-commissioner-gomez-calls-out-administrations-attack-on-free-speech-warns-she-may-get-fired/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:13:17

• "The law was drafted after protests that involved desecrations and burnings of the Koran in Denmark and Sweden sparked anger in several Muslim countries." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250517/denmark-fines-two-for-desecrating-koran | Source: The Local DK    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:13:43

• "We mentioned recently that the only remaining Democratic commissioner at the FCC ... has started calling out FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr’s attacks on free speech." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/16/fcc-commissioner-gomez-calls-out-administrations-attack-on-free-speech-warns-she-may-get-fired/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:14:40

• "an absolute increase in the number and rate of RFE’s" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-immigration-visa-secrutiny-tech/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:15:29

• "In October 2024, the UK division of on-line auction site eBay made a big announcement that it would no longer charge fees to private sellers. It would be “free to sell” on eBay." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/ebay_not_free.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:16:24

• "Next week, a coterie of [cryptocurrency] investors will share an extravagant dinner with US president Donald Trump at his golf club in Washington, DC." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-trump-memecoin-dinner-winners-are-getting-rid-of-their-coins/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:17:18

• "The publication reported that the average US household uses around 29 kilowatt-hours daily." ☛ https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-uses-17-thousand-times-more-electricity-than-us-household-2024-3?ref=birchtree.me | Source: Business Insider    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:17:36

• "Twelve more suspects have been charged for their alleged involvement in a spree of cryptocurrency thefts and the subsequent laundering of virtual currency worth hundreds of millions of dollars." ☛ https://therecord.media/feds-charge-12-suspects-in-rico-crypto-heist | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:17:56

• "More than 50 First Nations in Canada—with 56,000 people total—depend on approximately 3,700 miles of winter roads." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/as-canada-warms-first-nations-lose-vital-ice-roads/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:18:18

• "Areas in Kansas and surrounding states are experiencing a fuel shortage, causing long lines at fuel stations, delivery delays and a need for truck drivers to increase the number of hours they can drive to deliver fuel, said an April 30 press release." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/briefs/kansas-iowa-nebraska-fuel-shortages-lead-to-federal-emergency-declaration/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:19:00

• "Guterres addressed the issue that despite Nepal producing a negligible amount of emissions in comparison to other countries, they are feeling the effects of the increased temperatures." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/un-chief-raises-international-alarm-over-melting-of-himalayan-glaciers-in-nepal/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:19:14

• "Indeed, the fact that two rabid sensationalists only presented eight minutes of recording out of five hours to back their claims may explain why these recordings got released in advance" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/17/journalists-persistent-willingness-to-chase-trumps-squirrels-biden-recording-edition/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:19:55

• "A short blog post today which is just all about producing this animation" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/animated-population-pyramids-for-the-pacific-by-ellis2013nz/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:22:28

• "The system asks voters to select their candidates in order of preference." ☛ https://commonwealthbeacon.org/politics/boston-pushes-forward-on-ranked-choice-voting/ |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:23:38

• "The Pentagon in recent years has been exploring options for shifting some moving target indicator, or MTI, missions traditionally performed by aircraft to satellites." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/air/2025/05/15/defense-officials-advocate-for-diverse-target-tracking-architecture/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:24:04

• "Others argue that the message being sent by the White House is that American foreign policy is being sold to the highest bidder." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/17/trump-foreign-gifts-plane-gulf-states | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:24:17

• "Springsteen didn’t oblige. In a resolute three-minute speech from the Co-op Live venue, Springsteen thanked his cheering audience for indulging him in a speech about the state of America" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2025-05-17/bruce-springsteen-president-trump-manchester-concert | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:24:58

• "The watchdog also sent an email to its staff Friday about the attempt and its response, a GAO source confirmed." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/gao-watchdog-blocks-doge-from-agency/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:25:16

• "Now the Supreme Court has come out with a more detailed ruling in the case" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/16/supreme-court-pumps-the-brakes-on-trumps-use-of-the-alien-enemies-act/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:25:38

• "TLS server certificate verification has two parts; you first verify that the TLS certificate is valid, CA-signed certificate, and then you verify that the TLS certificate is for the host you're connecting to." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/TLSClientCertVerificationIssue | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:26:09

• "Microsoft has pledged to further separate Teams from Office products to address EU antitrust concerns." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eu-to-vet-microsoft-pledges-to-avoid-teams-antitrust-fine/articleshow/121228273.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:26:42

• "According to Meta, the new facial recognition tools will work in two ways. The first is intended to prevent scams involving the faking of celebrities." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/now-facebook-wants-to-scan-your-face/263744/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:26:56

• "In the real world, PETs will be required to get the same kind of consent that other adtech is. Buried in a clickwrap agreement isn’t going to pass inspection." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/why-pets-failed/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:27:15

• "With ZKLP, users can prove to any third party that they are within a specific geographical region while obfuscating their exact location for utility and privacy" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/17/privacy_preserving_location_sharing/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:27:37

• "The 25-year-old Alabama man who executed a SIM-swap attack to allow access to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) account on social media platform X will spend more than a year in prison for the incident." ☛ https://therecord.media/sec-social-media-hack-sentencing | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:29:14

• [Old] "In an industry still relying on social media for traffic and audience engagement, what does it mean when social media giants start pulling the rug out from under news?" ☛ https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/social-media-turns-away-news-publishers-meet-audiences-other-channels | Source: uni Oxford    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:30:19

• "Sharing information on social media is common for many people nowadays, but it's not always without consequence." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/social-media-likes-serve-as-online-piracy-evidence-judge-concludes-250517/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:30:46

• "Kate Faulkner is a newsreader and reporter for KMFM and part of her job involves posting links to the local stories that have been run on air on the broadcaster’s Facebook news page" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/facebook-local-news-journalist-page-taken-down-kent-kmfm/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:31:22

• "I feel we’ve already peaked from a technological point of view, and we’re slowly going towards the point we let technology take the wheel and we’re just going to point it where to go and what to do." ☛ https://sizeof.cat/guest/defending-technology-in-the-age-of-ai-slop/ |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:32:10

• "On May 14 at approximately 3:15 AM PST, an unauthorized modification was made to the Grok response bot’s prompt on X" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-x-grok-white-genocide-holocaust-1235341267/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:32:34

• "conducted a thorough investigation." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-hey-grok-is-this-true-how-trustworthy-are-ai-fact-checks/a-72539345 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:32:51

• "The incident triggered widespread confusion, concern, and scrutiny over how the chatbot operates — and who or what is behind its behavior." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/05/grok-white-genocide-responses-everything-need-know/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:33:12

• "Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming how research libraries manage digital preservation and access to web archives." ☛ https://dspace.library.uvic.ca/items/bd597427-0eb7-4a96-8554-aae17a373a10/full |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:33:34

• "Companies aren’t laying people off because AI is replacing them." ☛ https://andrewstiefel.com/ai-layoff-myth/ | Source: Andrew Stiefel    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:33:50

• "It would be nice if the press kept in mind that even though arXiv posters are overwhelmingly honest researchers putting their stuff up in good faith" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/how-to-make-a-splash-in-ai-economics-fake-your-data/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:35:06

• "we all know that decisions are not necessarily driven by what we need. Therefore, we we also need to explore the other forces that drive market movements and decision making. This is the focus of this post." ☛ https://www.ufried.com/blog/ai_and_software_development_2/ | Source: Uwe Friedrichsen    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:35:36

• "The lords of AI are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to make their models think LIKE accomplished humans." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-commencement-speech-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:35:53

• "And unsurprisingly, it looks absolutely, flabbergastingly awful." ☛ https://futurism.com/star-wars-showcase-ai-special-effects-disaster | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:36:10

• "Top attorneys representing 40 states signed a letter urging leaders in Congress to reject the AI regulation moratorium language added to the budget reconciliation bill." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/us-states-oppose-ai-regulation-ban-in-trump-tax-bill/articleshow/121226232.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:36:28

• "The use of technology in the hiring process can happen in different ways, such as by analysing CVs or evaluating applicants." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/algorithmic-discrimination-how-the-use-of-ai-in-job-hiring-may-disadvantage-some-people/t32y910ch | Source: SBS    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:37:03

• "Nextcloud expects to release an update to the app shortly, and Schertzinger paid tribute to the broader community for its support." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/17/google_nextcloud_android_permission/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:37:47

• "It is not like Apple is taking an elevated level of responsibility for payments made through In-App Purchases, either." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/private-secure-payments-app-store/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:37:59

• "I’ve noticed a decline in the thinking across the websites I follow. I have two hypotheses. I kind of hope neither are true and I’m just imagining things, but I worry that they both are." ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/foggy-feeds/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:54:18

• "The unnerving contraption was designed for fields with difficult terrain, where large-scale automation can't operate, such as extremely steep and rocky wine grape hills." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/robotic-centipedes-weeding | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:54:30

• "Earlier in my career I used to get blocked1 constantly, but these days it’s rare. What changed?" ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/becoming-unblockable/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:54:57

• "Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson honored the graduate during the program’s 34th graduation ceremony held on May 12 at the jail." ☛ https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2025/05/from-jail-to-diploma-ignite-program-marks-100th-graduate.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:55:28

• "Lithuanian speakers in Edinburgh now have a new place to connect with their culture – through books." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2565028/edinburgh-library-launches-lithuanian-book-section | Source: LRT    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:56:02

• [Old] "In short, while there would be a big advantage to having a single notation, the community of those who write language specifications have generally rejected ISO 14977 for a variety of reasons." ☛ https://dwheeler.com/essays/dont-use-iso-14977-ebnf.html |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:57:13

• [Old] "This book was published by Oxford University Press in 1990. It is now out of print. This version is available from www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Logic/book." ☛ https://www.cse.chalmers.se/research/group/logic/book/ |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:57:34

• "Reading the papyrus involves solving several difficult problems. After the rolled-up scrolls are scanned, their many layers need to be separated out and flattened into two-dimensional segments." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ancient-scrolls-have-been-a-tantalizing-mystery-for-2000-years-researchers-just-deciphered-a-title-for-the-first-time-180986639/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:57:51

• "The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-05-emit-faint-extinguishes-death.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:58:29

• "Lacki's conclusion leaves an intriguing possibility: we may still be able to detect the signatures of already collapsed megastructures orbiting distant stars." ☛ https://futurism.com/alien-megastructures-self-destruct | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:58:52

• "Solar flares are bursts on the sun’s surface that send electromagnetic radiation, including X-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV), hurtling through space—and sometimes, they’re pointed at Earth." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strongest-solar-flare-of-the-year-causes-blackouts-around-the-world-180986643/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 10:59:14

• 8 police officers in Japan disciplined over playing online game while at work ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/8-police-officers-in-japan-disciplined-over-playing-online-game-while-at-work    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:00:59

• Apple Files Emergency Motion to Pause ‘Extraordinary’ App Store Ruling on Anti-Steering Injunction https://www.macrumors.com/2025/05/08/apple-appeals-app-store-ruling-epic-games/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:02:46

• Pluralistic: Plinkpump linkdump (17 May 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/17/odds-and-sods/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:04:35

• "app" stores as centralised censorship https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-sweeeney-epic-games-apple-app-store-interview-peter-kafka-2025-05    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:06:04

• "The IBM CGA adapter was a very limited device. It was ill-suited for games, and one of the reasons why was a lack of a vsync interrupt." ☛ https://martypc.blogspot.com/2025/05/emulator-debugging-area-5150s-lake.html | Source: Adventures in PC Emulation    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:08:05

• [Old] "This post is about how to keep secrets out of logs, and my claim is that (like many things in security) there isn’t a singular action or silver bullet that lets you do this." ☛ https://allan.reyes.sh/posts/keeping-secrets-out-of-logs/ |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:09:33

• "A lot of new hardware security keys (Yubikey, Nitrokey, Titan, etc.) now support FIDO2 (aka U2F aka Webauthn aka Passkey; yes it’s a mess)." ☛ https://www.complete.org/easily-using-ssh-with-fido2-u2f-hardware-security-keys/ | Source: John Goerzen    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:09:45

• "I decided it was time to upgrade, so I recently bought a couple of YubiKey 5 series security keys. These support FIDO2/U2F, which make it so much easier to integrate with ssh." ☛ https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10815-how-to-use-ssh-with-fido2-u2f-security-keys | Source: John Goerzen    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:09:59

• "The swap image is where the OS will store the current state of the system. It will dump the contents of RAM to the image, and then use that image to store the state until we power on the laptop." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-hibernate-your-linux-computer | Source: Tom's Hardware    

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

• Proprietary Microsoft spyware, use something like Kate instead and don't become a slave of Microsoft ☞ https://idroot.us/install-visual-studio-code-fedora-42/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:14:09

• How To Install XanMod Kernel on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-xanmod-kernel-linux-mint-22/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:14:36

• It's not running on Linux, it's a lie; they use DrawBridge and it does not work well, Postgres would be a better job and it's not proprietary ☞ https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-sql-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:15:52

• How to Install Cinnamon Desktop on Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-cinnamon-desktop-on-arch-linux/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:16:19

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

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:17:05

• How To Install Celluloid Video Player on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-celluloid-video-player-linux-mint-22/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:17:56

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

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:18:18

• How to Install RTIR Module on Request Tracker [2025] ☞ https://kifarunix.com/how-to-install-rtir-module-on-request-tracker/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:18:38

• The SLAPPs From Microsofters Distract From Serious Copyright Infringement by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and Apparent Business Crimes ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/16/The_SLAPPs_From_Microsofters_Distract_From_Serious_Copyright_In.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:36:54

• Celluloid 0.29 Video Player Fixes Nvidia Flickering and UI Glitches ☞ https://linuxiac.com/celluloid-0-29-video-player-fixes-nvidia-flickering-and-ui-glitches/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:37:25

• Debian 13 (Trixie) Installer Reaches First Release Candidate ☞ https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-trixie-installer-reaches-first-release-candidate/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:38:38

• openVidu is a platform to develop WebRTC real-time applications ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openvidu-platform-develop-webrtc-real-time-applications/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:39:37

• Servas is a self-hosted bookmark management tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/servas-self-hosted-bookmark-management-tool/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:40:18

• NomadBSD is a persistent live system for USB flash drives ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nomadbsd-persistent-live-system-usb-flash-drives/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:40:52

• Transitous Hack Weekend in July ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/05/17/transitous-upcoming-hack-weekend-july-2025.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:41:21

• "You are given an array of numbers with even length." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/average-backspace.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:43:52

• [Old] "If you’ve been around open source projects on GitHub you may have encountered a project with a stale bot." ☛ https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2024/most-stale-bots-are-anti-user-and-anti-contributor-but-they-dont-have-to-be/ |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:44:18

• [Old] "Something that’s painfully understudied is how experts are more efficient than novices while achieving better results." ☛ https://boydkane.com/essays/experts |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:44:33

• "Look at the difference in the summary output. The estimates are much smaller, and the standard errors are reasonable." ☛ https://www.kenkoonwong.com/blog/mle/ |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:44:49

• "I’ve been working on a ledger implementation in pure PostgreSQL called pgledger." ☛ https://www.pgrs.net/2025/05/16/pgledger-in-postgresql-is-fast/ |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:45:39

• "On desktop, or on the mobile site, copy from the addres bar when on any channel page, or from the share sheet" ☛ https://timotijhof.net/posts/2025/youtube-in-a-feed-reader-is-better/ | Source: Timo Tijhof    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:46:01

• "Immich doesn't offer a cloud storage solution." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/reasons-i-self-hosted-google-photos-alternative/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:46:56

• "Celluloid 0.29 open-source video player is out, fixing black screen issues on Nvidia GPUs and improving playlist controls, preferences saving, and more." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/celluloid-0-29-video-player-fixes-nvidia-flickering-and-ui-glitches/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:47:02

• "This is an addendum to the article about Espressif’s automatic reset." ☛ https://qsantos.fr/2025/05/17/the-esp32-s2-reset-pin/ | Source: Quentin Santos    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:49:45

• "If you’ve been keeping your system updated through security.debian.org" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-12-11-released-with-security-fixes-and-stability-updates/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:50:11

• "For the desktop users, if you try out the Trixie installer, you can expect the following environments: Plasma 6.3.4, GNOME 48, or Xfce 4.20. Of course, Cinnamon, MATE, LXDE, and LXQt are also available." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-trixie-installer-reaches-first-release-candidate/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:50:22

• "The biggest highlight of this new version is security – the installer now offers optional file encryption for configuring user credentials. Passwords are no longer stored in plaintext but are instead saved as secure hashes, ensuring that user credentials remain safe even before the system is fully locked down." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/archinstall-3-0-5-rolls-out-with-encrypted-credentials/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:51:09

• The time-window of dot-com boom (90s) didn't last long and GAFAM living off of debt or another bubble didn't last long either. Remaining GAFAM workers are overworked and grossed out by the sort of work they're compelled to do.    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:53:31

• "The Wine Project, a compatibility layer renowned for enabling Linux and macOS users to run Windows applications, has officially released version 10.8 as the eighth maintenance update to the stable 10.x series." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/wine-10-8-improves-tiff-support-and-shared-memory-handling/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:54:09

• "This post is a diary of my journey of writing a RISC-V hypervisor incrementally." ☛ https://seiya.me/blog/riscv-hypervisor |    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:54:14

• "The Kiwi DVK is a compact development kit designed for high performance networking and flexible I O expansion." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/kiwi-dvk-pairs-sfp-and-2-5gbe-with-poe-and-modular-expansion-for-embedded-development/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:06:11

• How to Make Your GNU/Linux Terminal Talk Using espeak-ng ☞ https://www.linuxtechi.com/make-linux-terminal-talk-using-espeak-ng/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:06:48

• Slopwatch: Microsoft's Anti-Linux Propaganda and Cover-up, Slopfarms Clogging Up Surveillance Giant Google News ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/17/Slopwatch_Microsoft_s_Anti_Linux_Propaganda_and_Cover_up_Slopfa.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:07:43

• Inviting the Founder of GNU/Linux to Events (It Only Costs His Travel Expenses) and Recalling the True Origins (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/17/Inviting_the_Founder_of_GNU_Linux_to_Events_It_Only_Costs_His_T.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:07:51

• Paying respect to RMS https://www.youtube.com/@antirez    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:12:33

• This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXBXBgfKyk    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:13:49

• Common misconeption: good diet can compensate for being physically/mentally stressed. Also wrong: If you're relaxed (not physically/mentally stressed), then it won't matter what you consume. In practice, getting both "right" isn't easy.    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:15:59

• RMS has been subjected to a lot of shaming and stress in recent years. It is a scientific fact that this can contribute towards certain cancers.    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:16:54

• Kevin Fenzi: Second week of May 2025 fedora infra bits ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/05/17/second-week-of-may-2025-fedora-infra-bits/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:20:15

• Apache Guacamole on Raspberry Pi: Remote Desktop Gateway with Web Access ☞ https://peppe8o.com/apache-guacamole-raspberry-pi/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:27:02

• Gaza: UK surgeon shares footage of hospital after Israeli strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250517-gaza-uk-surgeon-shares-footage-of-hospital-after-israeli-strike    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:27:41

• Gaza: What is Israel's goal with the new military operation it just launched? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250517-gaza-what-is-israel-s-goal-with-the-new-military-operation-it-just-launched    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:27:54

• World leaders urge Israel to stop its deadly military offensive in Gaza ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250517-world-leaders-urge-israel-to-stop-its-deadly-military-offensive-in-gaza    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:28:08

• Strike at New Jersey rail system idles New York-bound commuters ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250517-strike-at-new-jersey-rail-system-idles-new-york-bound-commuters    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:28:32

• Gaza: Over 150 sites hit in 24 hours by Israel amid new military offensive ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250517-gaza-over-150-sites-hit-in-24-hours-by-israel-amid-new-military-offensive    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:28:49

• Misinformation/Disinformation ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/18/unscientific-japan-megaquake-rumours-spook-hong-kong-tourists/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:29:26

• After ‘25 yrs’ at Microsoft, employee sacked on his 48th birthday; wife pens emotional post https://www.livemint.com/news/trends/after-25-yrs-at-microsoft-employee-sacked-on-his-48th-birthday-wife-pens-emotional-post-11747555065055.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 12:46:35

• ‘We were very scared’ New Yorkers watch in horror as Mexican Navy ship strikes Brooklyn Bridge ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/05/17/us-news/new-yorkers-watch-in-horror-as-mexican-navy-ship-hits-brooklyn-bridge/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:11:52

• New Jersey Transit Strike: Negotiations Resume a Day Earlier Than Expected ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/nyregion/nj-transit-strike-negotiations.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:12:07

• Lightning strike at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat leaves three dead, dozens injured ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/lightning-strike-at-cambodias-angkor-wat-leaves-three-dead-dozens-injured    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:12:23

• UK Charges 3 Iranian Nationals In Alleged Attack Plot Against Journalists ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/uk-iran-arrests-violence-surveillance/33416711.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:35:09

• Why Surveillance Giant Google Maps is still broken in South Korea: It might not be about national security anymore ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/why-google-maps-is-still-broken-in-south-korea-it-might-not-be-about-national-security-anymore    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:35:18

• Fedora Community Blog: Call for volunteers regarding the Fedora username change project ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/call-for-volunteers-regarding-the-fedora-username-change-project/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:38:14

• City in Japan shuts down ‘postboxes’ that collected adult magazines, DVDs ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/city-in-japan-shuts-down-postboxes-that-collected-mature-magazines-dvds    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:40:55

• The Microsofters Have Just Shared Privileged Trial Data With Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/16/The_Microsofters_Have_Just_Shared_Privileged_Trial_Data_With_Mi.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:41:06

• Mozilla Security Blog: Firefox Security Response to pwn2own 2025 ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2025/05/17/firefox-security-response-to-pwn2own-2025/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:43:12

• Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, April 2025 (by Roberto C. Sánchez) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-04/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:43:27

• [Video] I.C.B.M. Shakes Hands of Prince Mohammed bin Salman ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/16/Video_IBM_Shakes_Hands_of_Prince_Mohammed_bin_Salman.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:43:43

• AstroTurfing by I.C.B.M. in thelayoff.com is Highly Risky (and Likely Outsourced) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/17/AstroTurfing_by_IBM_in_thelayoff_com_is_Highly_Risky_and_Likely.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:43:54

• Top 25 Terraform Interview Questions for Beginners ☞ https://tecadmin.net/top-25-terraform-interview-questions-for-beginners/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:45:11

• Debian 12.11 “Bookworm” Released with 81 Bug Fixes and 45 Security Updates ☞ https://9to5linux.com/debian-12-11-bookworm-released-with-81-bug-fixes-and-45-security-updates    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 15:45:56

• xorsearch.py: Python Functions, (Sat, May 17th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31858    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:21:45

• Explainer: 6 new offences, 6 ‘prohibited places’ – what to know about Hong Kong’s Article 23 security law update ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/18/explainer-6-new-offences-6-prohibited-places-what-to-know-about-hong-kongs-article-23-security-law-update/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:22:28

• Apple’s Alibaba Hey Hi (AI) Deal Provokes Washington’s Resistance ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/technology/apple-alibaba-ai-tool-china.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:24:07

• SCOTUS dispatch: justices grapple with nationwide injunctions blocking Convicted Felon’s birthright citizenship order ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/scotus-dispatch-justices-grapple-with-nationwide-injunctions-blocking-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:24:19

• "The Lost 256 KB Japanese ROM For The MacIntosh Plus Has Been Found" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/the-lost-256-kb-japanese-rom-for-the-macintosh-plus-has-been-found/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:25:08

• "A Neat Backdoor" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/animated-widgets-on-apple-devices-via-a-neat-backdoor/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:25:26

• South Korean police bar use of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot for sensitive data amid leak concerns ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/korean-police-bar-use-of-chatgpt-for-sensitive-data-amid-leak-concerns    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:25:37

• Russell Coker: DDR4 RAM Size ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/05/18/ddr4-ram-size/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:37:08

• Top 35 Nmap Commands ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/2025/05/17/top-35-nmap-commands/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:38:08

• Libyan protesters demand Prime Minister's resignation as three ministers resign ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250517-libyan-protesters-demand-prime-minister-s-resignation-as-three-ministers-resign    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:38:36

• France sues Iran at ICJ for holding two French nationals hostage ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/france-sues-iran-at-icj-for-holding-two-french-nationals-hostage/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:40:02

• Tails GNU/Linux introduces reforms in security audit postmortem to make you safer ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/tails-linux-introduces-reforms-in-security-audit-postmortem-to-make-you-safer/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:41:36

• KDE is bringing a better Audio Volume widget, an HDR calibration wizard & more to Plasma 6.4 ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-is-bringing-a-better-audio-volume-widget-an-hdr-calibration-wizard--more-to-plasma-64/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:42:42

• South Korea’s ex-president Yoon leaves party ahead of snap election ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-ex-president-yoon-leaves-ppp-as-conservative-partys-candidate-trails-liberal    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:46:55

• Grml - new stable release 2025.05 available https://blog.grml.org/archives/423-Grml-new-stable-release-2025.05-available.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:48:02

• Fans in Malaysia gather at Zoo Negara to bid an emotional farewell to two beloved pandas ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/fans-in-malaysia-gather-at-zoo-negara-to-bid-an-emotional-farewell-to-two-beloved-pandas    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:49:38

• Malaysian boy, 4, dies after playing with lighter ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-boy-4-dead-after-playing-with-lighter    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:50:02

• Singapore-registered sports car crashes and catches fire in Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/singapore-registered-sports-car-crashes-and-catches-fire-in-malaysia    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:50:41

• From farms to butchers: Malaysia’s pork prices surge as local farms hit by African Swine Fever ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/from-farms-to-butchers-malaysias-pork-prices-surge-as-local-farms-hit-by-african-swine-fever    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:50:56

• Australian firm produces heavy rare earth, first outside China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-firm-produces-heavy-rare-earth-first-outside-china    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:52:05

• China, EU suspend chicken imports from Brazil over bird flu ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/17/china-eu-suspend-chicken-imports-from-brazil-over-bird-flu/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:52:36

• Zen Flute ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/zen-flute-is-a-teensy-powered-mouth-theramin/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:53:02

• "Extend your battery life by not sucking up juice during sleep." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-hibernate-your-linux-computer    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:54:46

• NordVPN rolls out desktop GUI client for Linux https://www.pcgamesn.com/vpn/nordvpn-linux-support    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:55:16

• Installing a VPN on Linux? Here are the Easiest Methods https://www.aol.com/installing-vpn-linux-easiest-methods-160000213.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:55:44

• "Want to display the path of an executable Linux file? Several Linux commands, such as which, whereis, type -a, and command -v, can help you locate executable files and understand their origins in a simple and effective way." https://www.howtogeek.com/display-path-executable-file-linux/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:56:08

• Open Source Hiding In Plain Sight https://hackaday.com/tag/high-reliability/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:57:32

• "Free and open source (FOSS) is great because it removes the barrier of entry, has all the underlying code published for all to see and check, and is frequently updated, sometimes more so than commercial [sic] software." https://www.xda-developers.com/this-app-is-the-best-purchase-i-made-for-my-linux-pc/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:58:34

• This is the best companion app for the Linux terminal on Android https://www.androidauthority.com/best-android-linux-terminal-help-app-3556578/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:59:03

• "Existing Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” users need only update their installations to received the new packages." https://9to5linux.com/debian-12-11-bookworm-released-with-81-bug-fixes-and-45-security-updates    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 16:59:26

• CATCHING A RELEASE gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-05-18Catching_a_Release.txt    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 17:02:12

• "It has been a long time since I visited Gemini space. My plan is still to continue working on the gemcast, but until I am able to produce a new episode, I figured I might as well write something to my gemlog in the mean time." gemini://kwiecien.us/gemlog/202505181220.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 17:03:05

• Escaping US Tech Giants Leads European YouTuber To Open Source https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/escaping-us-tech-giants-leads-european-youtuber-to-open-source/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 17:04:14

• Finally Upgraded! gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2025-05-18-finally-upgraded.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 17:06:13

• 8 🔤SpellBinding: AILUQTO Wordo: WASHY gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-05-18.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:00:49

• Chena Lakes Observations 2025-05-17 gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250517-0.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:01:40

• Space Firefly's Tiny Log gemini://sdf.org/bosque/tinylog.txt    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:03:14

• "I’ve been keeping an eye on Eliezer Yudkowsky for a while, and I was pretty convinced that if we get a smarter-than-human superintelligence on the planet, it would end up with goals — and the ability to carry them out, against our wishes — that would supercede any possible “don’t kill all humans” programming." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:04:50

• "I'm new here. I'm probably 6 years late, but I'm excited. I've been reading a lot about Gemini and spent time on Gemini in the last few weeks." gemini://thomasd.srht.site/2025-05-17-on-gemini/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:05:55

• "It's been a while since I last went out and made large-format pinhole photos. I've been curious though what the experience of encountering photos is in different Gemini clients, so I'm sharing a few here." gemini://thomasd.srht.site/2025-05-18-pinhole-photos/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:06:40

• "I'm using a Windows computer for work and like having an instance of Alpine Linux around to do things that are hard on Windows. Or just to have a little bit of fun from time to time." gemini://thomasd.srht.site/2025-05-18-alpine-linux-in-wsl/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:07:26

• "Drink or die" gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-05-18.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:13:30

• "The main issue may be difficult to see, though if one develops "antibodies" for the bad pattern the problem is more likely to leap out at you. Without this understanding the issue may be complicated by compiler flags and various host differences" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/05/18/badcode.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:14:14

• "Humans are simutaneously overrated and underrated, in the sense that they are all so small and pathetic, yet at the same time feels limitless. To recgonise such a thing constantly and consistently is very difficult, because of how contradictory both idea are when put together." gemini://cyi1341.smol.pub/random53    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:15:14

• [jp] [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-05-17.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:22:41

• Two-Stage Fume Extractor Really Sucks ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/this-extra-large-two-stage-fume-extractor-really-sucks/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:31:58

• Determine Fundamental Constants With LEDs ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/determine-fundamental-constants-with-leds-and-a-multimeter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:32:20

• Seismic Waves From Intense Storms Can Ripple Through Earth's Core ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/seismic-waves-from-intense-storms-can-ripple-through-earths-core    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:33:18

• Scientists Recreated The Ancient Chemical Reactions That May Have Sparked Life ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-recreated-the-ancient-chemical-reactions-that-may-have-sparked-life    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:38:18

• Drinking Alcohol Before Hitting The Sauna Could Be a Deadly Combo ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/drinking-alcohol-before-hitting-the-sauna-could-be-a-deadly-combo    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:39:23

• The Secret to Happiness Seems to Depend Upon You, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-secret-to-happiness-seems-to-depend-upon-you-study-finds    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:39:43

• Song And Dance May Not Be Universal Human Behaviors, Study Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/song-and-dance-may-not-be-universal-human-behaviors-study-shows    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:40:01

• We're Still Slowly Learning How Polynesian Voyagers Navigated Entire Oceans ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/were-still-slowly-learning-how-polynesian-voyagers-navigated-entire-oceans    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:40:13

• With his future on the line, Japan PM Ishiba stands firm against calls to cut sales tax ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/with-his-future-on-the-line-japan-pm-ishiba-stands-firm-against-calls-to-cut-sales-tax    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:40:35

• SystemdGenie is a systemd management utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/systemdgenie-systemd-management-utility/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:41:29

• 14 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Disk Cloning Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-disk-cloning-tools/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:41:37

• mpvpaper – video wallpaper software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mpvpaper-video-wallpaper-software/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:42:41

• 18 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Earth Science Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/earthscience/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:43:23

• OpenSees – Open System for Earthquake Engineering Simulation ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/opensees-open-system-earthquake-engineering-simulation/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:43:38

• Sparky Package Tool ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-package-tool/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:45:36

• Andrew Cater: Debian 12.11 - testing completed, images being signed and we'll be back for the next point release on ??? ☞ http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/debian-1211-testing-completed-images.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:46:32

• Andrew Cater: 20250517 - Debian point release - Bookworm 12.11 today ☞ http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/20250517-debian-point-release-bookworm.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:46:49

• Andrew Cater: Debian 12.11 testing - and we're nearly there ☞ http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/debian-1211-testing-and-were-nearly.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:47:11

• Andrew Cater: Debian 12.11 images testing - progress ☞ http://flosslinuxblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/debian-1211-images-testing-progress.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:47:27

• Daniel Lange: Polkitd (Policy Kit Daemon) in Trixie ... getting rid of "Authentication is required to create a color profile" ☞ https://daniel-lange.com/archives/193-Polkitd-Policy-Kit-Daemon-in-Trixie-...-getting-rid-of-Authentication-is-required-to-create-a-color-profile.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:48:25

• Debian 12.11 Released with Security Fixes and Stability Updates ☞ https://linuxiac.com/debian-12-11-released-with-security-fixes-and-stability-updates/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:49:16

• Wine 10.8 Improves TIFF Support and Shared Memory Handling ☞ https://linuxiac.com/wine-10-8-improves-tiff-support-and-shared-memory-handling/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:49:37

• spuriouscorrelations: An R package to show examples about spurious correlations ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/spuriouscorrelations-an-r-package-to-show-examples-about-spurious-correlations/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:51:03

• From Complete Separation To Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Logistic Regresion: A Note To Myself ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/from-complete-separation-to-maximum-likelihood-estimation-in-logistic-regresion-a-note-to-myself/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:51:12

• "Escaping US Tech Giants Leads European YouTuber To Open Source" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/escaping-us-tech-giants-leads-european-youtuber-to-open-source/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:51:50

• Romania faces its most decisive presidential election in decades ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250517-romania-faces-its-most-decisive-presidential-election-in-decades    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:52:38

• "Nine killed as Russian drone strikes minibus in Ukraine’s Sumy region" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/17/nine-killed-as-russian-drone-strikes-minibus-in-ukraine-s-sumy-region | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:57:38

• Canberra slams Russian jailing of Australian who fought for Ukraine ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/canberra-slams-russian-jailing-of-australian-who-fought-for-ukraine    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:58:16

• Ukraine: Russian strike on a civilian bus kills nine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250517-ukraine-russian-strike-on-a-civilian-bus-kills-nine    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 18:58:32

• Moscow Intensifies Deadly Drone Strikes Ahead Of Potential Convicted Felon Calls With Putin, Zelenskyy ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-zelenskyy-putin-ukraine-russia-istanbul-sumy/33417216.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:07:21

• Russian Troops Are War-Weary, but Want to Conquer More of Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/world/europe/russian-troops-peace-putin.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:07:47

• Dihydroxyacetone Man and Putin Say They Will Discuss Ukraine Peace Proposals on Monday ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/world/europe/russia-ukraine-putin.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:08:01

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Plans Calls With Putin, Zelenskyy As Russian Drone Strike Kills 9 In Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-putin-meeting-ukraine-russia-talks-istanbul-fail/33416622.html    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:08:14

• The Kremlin fixes conditions for new Ukraine talks, Convicted Felon to speak with Putin on Monday ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250517-putin-zelensky-could-meet-but-not-without-certain-agreements-kremlin-says    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:09:25

• This Week in Linux 311: Nobara 42 released, Steam Data Breach?, openSUSE drops Deepin, KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta & more GNU/Linux news ☞ https://thisweekinlinux.com/311    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:11:03

• mintCast 461 – Virtualization ☞ https://mintcast.org/461-virtualization/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:11:39

• Joe Biden’s Decline: The Coverup and the Story Behind It ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/jake-tapper-and-alex-thompson-on-president-joe-bidens-decline-and-its-coverup    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:13:11

• "both and open-source real-time operating system called RTEMS, and the Linux kernel itself." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/17/open-source-hiding-in-plain-sight/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:14:37

• F.D.A. Approves Novavax Covid Vaccine With Stricter New Conditions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/health/fda-novavax-covid-vaccine.html "study requirements that could cost the company tens of millions."    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:15:15

• "America quickly losing its mind to conspiracy theories, Fentanylware (TikTok) and political extremism" ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250517-ari-aster-s-covid-era-western-eddington-gets-mixed-reception-at-cannes-premiere    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:15:54

• Police release photo of suspect in deadly Rijswijk shooting https://nltimes.nl/2025/05/10/police-release-photo-suspect-deadly-rijswijk-shooting    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:17:27

• journalist held in Turkey https://www.thelocal.se/20250515/swedish-prosecutors-deny-that-spy-arrests-are-linked-to-journalist-held-in-turkey    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:20:21

• "At this point, made-up praise for IBM executives is all that the company has left. There's nothing left to say about the company, good or bad, because after almost 50 years it's all been said. Aside from IBM's legacy customer base and forums like this one, nobody really cares anymore about what's happening with IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvhsey77    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:24:26

• "It's pathetic...whether it's human-written or something from an AI engine, nobody will remember any of the happy language." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvhsey77    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:24:31

• "Hmm, never said a word about Trump here so not sure why you bring that up. But yes, the forum should be more focused on layoffs at IBM, but I will not hold my breath for the owners of this forum to do a better job of moderating this forum. The moderators seem to be on vacation or out of pocket" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvhsey77    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:25:06

• "The moderators only care if they are paid for removing postings deemed too offensive to Alvind and his Pipmunks - IBM has to pay for something other than layoffs. Other than that they are sleep at the wheel, and rearranging the deckchairs to play another round of "musical chairs for IBM executives" on the sinking Big Blue Titanic." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvhsey77    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:25:33

• "Round and round and round we go... When will the IBM company sink into the depths, nobody knows..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvhsey77    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:25:39

• "Spot On ! Alvind and Krabanaugh can't do Shit to anyone on this site except in their worst nightmares. This is the end of the line for them anyways....except if they open up another Indian Curry Slop place." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvj8dz5g    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:26:53

• "One way to easily discern AI Slop from a real post (for now): Alvind, Pipmunks, Krabanaugh... In addition to the obvious, over-the-top, ridiculous panegyrics, slop always uses IBM leaders' government names vs. nicknames. Slop is never going to use Alvind, Pipmunks, Krabanaugh, or Blob Thomas. Unless one of the flying monkeys wants to work that in: "The Case for Blob Thomas."" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvj8dz5g    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:27:24

• " Another thing: The Mumbai Mustache is an small, petty, insecure, thin-skinned fool who cares enough about what the little people are saying about him and his criminal cronies, to try to silence us and ki-l this site." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvj8dz5g    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:27:47

• "Remember that MBS was once a friend of Khashoggi, but then he decided he was better friends with bone saws. The same fate might await Alvind if he doesn't keep his distance...Dead men tell no tales." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvcxd9fe    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:28:54

• orever chemicals https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2025/pfas-canada-map/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:33:44

• Tariffs https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tariffs-hitting-prices-loblaws-walmart-1.7535594    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:34:09

• Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers Electrocuted, Decapitated, and Falling to Death at Workplaces https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/14/saudi-arabia-migrant-workers-electrocuted-decapitated-and-falling-death-workplaces    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:37:25

• system failed him https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-homeless-innu-man-rapha%C3%ABl-andr%C3%A9-s-death-preventable-1.7535507    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:48:05

• talks stall https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-flight-attendant-conciliation-1.7534991    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:49:22

• Turkish State Censorship https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/08/social-media-companies-should-resist-turkish-state-censorship    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:49:52

• UK Censorship and the Future of BitChute https://off-guardian.org/2025/05/09/watch-uk-censorship-and-the-future-of-bitchute/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:50:08

• Incarcerated Women https://www.projectcensored.org/michigan-incarcerated-women-need-resources/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:51:02

• Mental Health Crisis Grows for Farmers as Federal Aid Runs Out https://www.projectcensored.org/mental-health-crisis-farmers-federal-aid/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:56:26

• ASL in Prison https://www.projectcensored.org/language-as-liberation-teach-asl-in-prison/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:57:01

• Censorship Campaign https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-censorship-campaign-draws-on-decades-of-infrastructure-built-by-big-tech/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:58:05

• Abortion-Rights Groups Denounce Censorship on Meta-Owned Apps in Latin America and Beyond https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-05-15/abortion-rights-groups-denounce-censorship-on-meta-owned-apps-in-latin-america-and-beyond    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:58:34

• Education​ https://www.projectcensored.org/texas-billion-heist-public-education/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:59:11

• Corporate-Led Attack on Free Speech in Texas Meets Bipartisan Resistance https://truthout.org/articles/corporate-led-attack-on-free-speech-in-texas-meets-bipartisan-resistance/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 19:59:55

• Threat to Free Speech https://truthout.org/articles/rumeysa-ozturk-released-from-ice-custody-after-judge-cites-threat-to-free-speech/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:00:11

• Release of Imprisoned Journalists https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-05-12/pope-leo-xiv-urges-release-of-imprisoned-journalists-affirms-gift-of-free-speech-and-press    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:01:42

• Enbridge CEO 'completely enthused' by conversation around energy in Canada, U.S. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/enbridge-ceo-completely-enthused-by-conversation-around-energy-in-canada-u-s-1.7531002    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:03:07

• NRG Energy Bets on Growing Power Demand With $12 Billion Assets Deal https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-05-12/nrg-energy-bets-on-growing-power-demand-with-12-billion-assets-deal    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:03:21

• Why End Energy Star? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/why-end-energy-star    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:03:45

• House GOP budget proposal targets clean-energy tax credits, pollution rules https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/house-gop-budget-proposal-targets-clean-energy-tax-credits-pollution    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:03:57

• GM, LG Energy Solution to make new, lower-cost battery cells for future EVs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/gm-lg-low-cost-battery-cells-evs-1.7534487    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:04:25

• Tech-Backed Dems May Endanger California’s Clean Energy Laws https://jacobin.com/2025/05/trump-fossil-fuels-silicon-valley/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:04:42

• Cheeto Mussolini White House Terminates Climate Tracker Examining Billion-Dollar Disasters https://truthout.org/articles/trump-white-house-terminates-climate-tracker-examining-billion-dollar-disasters/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:05:39

• Climate Crisis Wildfires Caused 15,000 Smoke Inhalation Deaths in 15-Year Span https://truthout.org/articles/climate-crisis-wildfires-caused-15000-smoke-inhalation-deaths-in-15-year-span/    

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

• Cheeto Mussolini Administration Decommissions Sea Ice Data That Sounded an Alarm on Arctic Climate Change https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/09/trump-administration-decommissions-sea-ice-data-that-sounded-an-alarm-on-arctic-climate-change/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:07:04

• climate change is altering bird migration https://www.dw.com/en/how-climate-change-is-altering-bird-migration/a-72451216    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:07:32

• Hawai’i Isn’t Backing Down From Its Lawsuit Against Big Oil Over Climate Crisis https://truthout.org/articles/hawaii-isnt-backing-down-from-its-lawsuit-against-big-oil-over-climate-crisis/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:08:49

• Climate Justice Organizers Hold Mock Funeral for 1.5ºC Paris Agreement Target https://truthout.org/articles/climate-justice-organizers-hold-mock-funeral-for-1-5oc-paris-agreement-target/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:09:10

• Cheeto Mussolini’s Race for Green Energy Resources Isn’t About Climate — It’s About Greed https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-race-for-green-energy-resources-isnt-about-climate-its-about-greed/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:11:35

• Facing Lawsuit, USDA Says It Will Restore Climate Change-Related Webpages https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-05-13/facing-lawsuit-usda-says-it-will-restore-climate-change-related-webpages    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:11:51

• Push to Make Big Oil Pay for Climate Damage Losing Steam in California Legislature https://scheerpost.com/2025/05/13/push-to-make-big-oil-pay-for-climate-damage-losing-steam-in-california-legislature/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:12:13

• The Government Just Killed an Essential Database To Assess Climate Risk https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-government-just-killed-an-essential-database-to-assess-climate-risk/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:12:35

• Tourists watch as a massive chunk of ice breaks off Argentinian glacier https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/argentina-glacier-1.7535766    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:12:50

• Star Health hacker claims sending bullets, threats to top executives: Reports https://www.cnbctv18.com/business/star-health-insurance-hacker-xenzen-death-threats-executives-reports-19602189.htm    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:16:24

• Education giant Pearson hit by cyberattack exposing customer data https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/education-giant-pearson-hit-by-cyberattack-exposing-customer-data/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:18:11

• Department of Justice says Berkeley Research Group data breach may have exposed information on diocesan sex abuse survivors https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/263993/department-of-justice-says-data-breach-exposed-information-on-diocesan-sex-abuse-survivors    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:18:40

• N.W.T.’s medical record system under the microscope after 2 reported cases of snooping https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/n-w-t-s-medical-record-system-under-the-microscope-after-2-reported-cases-of-snooping-1.7531907    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:19:22

• Moldovan Police Arrest Suspect in €4.5M Ransomware Attack on Dutch Research Agency https://thehackernews.com/2025/05/moldovan-police-arrest-suspect-in-45m.html    

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

• International cybercrime tackled: Amsterdam police and FBI dismantle proxy service Anyproxy https://databreaches.net/2025/05/13/international-cybercrime-tackled-amsterdam-police-and-fbi-dismantle-proxy-service-anyproxy/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:20:56

• Twilio denies breach following leak of alleged Steam 2FA codes https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/twilio-denies-breach-following-leak-of-alleged-steam-2fa-codes/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:22:11

• Turkish Group Hacks Zero-Day Flaw to Spy on Kurdish Forces https://www.govinfosecurity.com/turkish-group-hacks-zero-day-flaw-to-spy-on-kurdish-forces-a-28388    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:22:42

• Personal information exposed by Australian Human Rights Commission data breach https://www.cyberdaily.au/security/12090-breaking-personal-information-exposed-by-australian-human-rights-commission-data-breach    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:23:13

• Dior faces scrutiny, fine in Korea for insufficient data breach reporting; data of wealthy clients in China, South Korea stolen https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-05-14/national/socialAffairs/Dior-faces-scrutiny-fine-in-Korea-for-insufficient-data-breach-reporting/2307137    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:23:37

• Windows TCO: Cyberattacks on Long Island Schools Highlight Growing Threat https://securityboulevard.com/2025/05/cyberattacks-on-long-island-schools-highlight-growing-threat/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cyberattacks-on-long-island-schools-highlight-growing-threat    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:24:25

• Administrator Of Online Criminal Marketplace Extradited From Kosovo To The United States https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdfl/pr/administrator-online-criminal-marketplace-extradited-kosovo-united-states    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:25:10

• Official Indiana .gov email addresses are phishing residents https://statescoop.com/indiana-phishing-attack-contractor-hacked/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:25:58

• Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data and are demanding $20 million ransom https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/15/coinbase-says-hackers-bribed-staff-to-steal-customer-data-and-are-demanding-20-million-ransom.html    

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

• Nadella's bluster was just bluffing as Microsoft has severe financial problems and he knew the firing of many engineers was imminent http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/01/Microsoft_s_CEO_is_Hyping_Up_AI_Plagiarism_to_Distract_From_Fal.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/01/No_Microsoft_Plagiarism_is_Not_AI.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:34:14

• Anti-Steering Injunction? https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/05/01/epic-vs-apple-what-apple-is-being-forced-to-do-to-the-app-store    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:42:06

• Google-backed tech unicorn VerSe Innovation to lay off 350 staff https://www.techinasia.com/news/google-backed-tech-unicorn-verse-innovation-to-lay-off-350-staff    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:44:08

• Surveillance = Apple = listening devices that are "cool" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/apples-75m-siri-scandal-how-claim-your-share-lopez-voice-assistant-settlement-1733718    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:45:42

• Lowering quality, saving no money https://www.dw.com/en/can-india-help-apple-diversify-away-from-china/a-72540688    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:46:21

• That's a WARNING LABEL https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/05/08/1912204/maintainer-of-linux-distro-anduinos-revealed-to-be-microsoft-employee    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:48:13

• Didn't take much to keep this support intact https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/05/08/1927245/linux-drops-support-for-486-and-early-pentium-processors    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:48:36

• WSL is using Windows, that's basically losing all the major advantages https://www.maketecheasier.com/install-arch-linux-in-windows-subsystem-for-linux/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:50:47

• slashdot as source of Microsoft marketing spam https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/05/14/215254/microsoft-is-open-sourcing-its-linux-integration-services-automation-image-testing-service also see http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/27/Slashdot_is_Once_Again_Publishing_Lies_and_Revisionism_for_Bill.shtml    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:51:45

• How to Navigate the File Directory in Linux Terminal "https://www.maketecheasier.com/navigate-file-directory-linux-terminal/    

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

• Pavlo Rudy: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (Coughlan) released via general availability (GA). First peak into RHEL 10 Workstation https://nixsanctuary.com/red-hat-enterprise-linux-10-coughlan-released-via-general-availability-ga-first-peak-into-rhel-10-workstation/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 20:54:49

• "Gemini has improved markedly since those days in 2020: the mailing list is gone, the anti-Gemini agitation confined to a few pages documenting the different uses of italics which Gemini authors must perforce forgo. The client ecosystem has stabilised, but new graphical clients are gradually appearing." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-05-18_five-years-on-gemini.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 21:16:26

• may 17 love detox day 4 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/detox7    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 21:17:29

• "I took a small but therapeutic photo-taking walk after the rain this afternoon." gemini://thomasd.srht.site/2025-05-18-after-the-rain/    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 21:18:17

• Atoms feed over gopher gemini://sdf.org/bosque/phlog/00025.txt    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 21:19:03

• My first popular race gemini://sdf.org/bosque/phlog/00024.txt    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 21:19:58

• Radios online gemini://aperalesf.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-05-12_radios-online.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 21:20:19

• Gemlog de Adrián Perales gemini://aperalesf.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-05-05_cita-el-libro-rojo-del-cole.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 21:21:12

• "Spain was, of course, doomed to yet another period of strife, perhaps into a civil war. We lost one million people in the last one, in 3 years of conflict limited to a single, medium sized nation." gemini://sdf.org/bosque/phlog/00026.txt    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 21:22:52

• Prueba Syncthing ahora mismo gemini://aperalesf.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-05-15_prueba-syncthing-ahora-mismo.gmi    

posted Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 21:23:27

• Reminder: just because you have degree does NOT mean you legally get to bully women. Seems like Brett Wilson LLP, which might soon lose its licence, is collapsing. Staff flees.    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:21:08

• trade mark http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/what-is-hoodless-hoodie-at-least-not.html    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:23:15

• SkyKick http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/ukipo-applies-skykick-in-unite-union.html    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:23:31

• An imaginative sign for smart houses qualifies for EU trade mark registration http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/an-imaginative-sign-for-smart-houses.html EUIPO is super-corrupt http://techrights.org/wiki/EUIPO/    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:24:13

• Of tables and other furniture: AG Szpunar advises CJEU on originality (but also proposes adoption of recognizability test for infringement) http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/of-tables-and-other-furniture-ag.html    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:24:42

• Announce: Perl Wiki V 1.26 https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2025/05/announce-perl-wiki-v-126.html    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:25:06

• The sculpture shapes the sculptor. https://blogs.perl.org/users/saif/2025/05/the-sculpture-shapes-the-sculptor.html    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:25:23

• The Perl Toolchain Summit 2025 https://blogs.perl.org/users/paul_johnson/2025/05/the-perl-toolchain-summit-2025.html    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:25:43

• Perl makes it to Futility Closet as a poem... https://blogs.perl.org/users/randal_l_schwartz/2025/05/perl-makes-it-to-futility-closet-as-a-poem.html    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:25:59

• Perl Toolchain Summit 2025 https://blogs.perl.org/users/mohammad_s_anwar/2025/05/perl-toolchain-summit-2025.html    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:26:13

• UK court jails Ugandan judge over slavery conviction https://www.dw.com/en/uk-court-jails-ugandan-judge-over-slavery-conviction/a-72421229    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:34:07

• Red Bull's plans spark water scarcity fears near Berlin https://www.dw.com/en/red-bull-s-plans-spark-water-scarcity-fears-near-berlin/a-72419936    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:35:15

• "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of gritty dust from entering along with him." gemini://inoro.smol.pub/lorem    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:36:51

• Init gemini://inoro.smol.pub/init    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:37:28

• The Great LLM DDOS of 2025 gemini://the-brannons.com/llm-ddos/ by cmb    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:38:39

• "Let me give you some numbers. A friend hosts some fairly small personal websites on my infrastructure, and I manage it for him. These were never high-traffic sites, but since May 4th at 00:00:00 UTC, his server has received over 2545000 web requests. It is, at this very moment, being scraped by multiple IP addresses associated with Alibaba US, specifically Alibaba Cloud LLC."    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:38:50

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-05-10.gmi    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:39:34

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1290.jpg    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:40:40

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1640.jpg    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:40:47

• "my coursework for this year is DONE...... i am free..... i am liberated.....four months of bedrotting here i come!!" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2610    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:46:56

• not a gardening blog 6: things I need to remind myself every year gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-05-09    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:48:50

• "I don't think I have complained in a post yet about LLMs (Large Language Models). Well, let's fix that!" gemini://vigrey.com/journal/in-which-llms-made-the-web-worse-yet-again.gmi ping cmb    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:49:54

• "DOGE hasn't saved the US government a penny. It is a complete joke staffed by losers." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtmtm45k    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:55:12

• "Yea, but they are an onshore all American. They deal in too much defense to allow offshore work. Check out their recently awarded defence contracts! Alex Kemp is a BA$$! Go Palantir!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtmtm45k    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:55:34

• "Uber is a sh-t company. Not a company to be looked up to. How does that differ from IBM?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtth2snw    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:56:21

• "Also if they target getting rid of contractors they don't have to report those since contractors are not IBM employees" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jt9dhtef    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:57:02

• "You might practice on your keyboarding skills." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jttqf7r9    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:58:04

• "PIPs have been flying out for weeks now. [...] PIPS are always in play. Depends on what way the wind is blowing and what groups are targeted for thinning." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jttqf7r9    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:58:30

• world painting record https://www.dw.com/en/nigeria-autistic-teenager-sets-world-painting-record/a-72419243    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 06:59:27

• No. https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-was-the-iberian-blackout-caused-by-too-much-solar-power/a-72415376    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 07:00:16

• Sociopath, raider, and soon dead https://www.dw.com/en/warren-buffett-to-step-down-as-ceo-of-berkshire-hathaway/a-72427949    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 07:01:33

• Voice of America could be back on air next week https://www.dw.com/en/voice-of-america-could-be-back-on-air-next-week-watchdog/a-72427098    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 07:02:14

• Trumpism https://www.dw.com/en/us-criticizes-germany-for-labeling-afd-extremist/a-72423560    

posted Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 07:02:34

posted Thursday, May 08, 2025 at 16:06:17

• Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/pakistani-firm-shipped-fentanyl-analogs-scams-to-us/    

posted Thursday, May 08, 2025 at 16:06:47