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  • Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-05-27.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:01:09


  • Bill Epsteingate pie in face gemini://magaz.hellug.gr/03/img/gates_ap.jpg    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:01:36


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1657.jpg    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:02:38


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1307.jpg    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:02:43


  • "My last phone was a Samsung A14 (meh), and I lost it. I am back to using my old moto G play (2021) with cracked glass, for months now. The glass is very cracked and I am not sure how long before it breaks or starts cutting my finger. So I think I better get a phone." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/stack/28976    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:03:17


  • "Tooting from the command line with curl is efficient. No need to start a client or to write in a browser form." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/multiline-toots-with-curl.txt    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:03:58


  • "I got a flat tyre riding home from work today. Not a big deal, as I always ride with a spare tube and necessary tools to change it out. But I had been pondering writing a bike-related post for a few days, and decided to take the flat as a sign that, yes, I should indeed to do that." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/bike-messenger-archetypes-in-fiction-and-reality-past-and-present.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:04:47


  • Bike messenger archetypes in fiction and reality, past and present gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/bike-messenger-archetypes-in-fiction-and-reality-past-and-present.txt    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:05:21


  • In Pursuit of the Hyper-real gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2623    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:06:50


  • The girls who own womanhood gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/2025-05-26.gmi womanhood is not just a mood, it's biology    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:08:31


  • "My gift for Christmas is sore arms from playing Beat Saber. It's a serious workout playing high-difficulty maps." gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/gamelog_beat_saber.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:09:32


  • My ideal computer gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/computer/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:11:07


  • "I've considered getting a Pixel and degoogling, but it seems like a bit of an expense in time and money, and kind of a losing proposition. I can't imagine trusting an android device -- degoogled or not -- with anything sensitive. It pains me to do anything involving money on a phone." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/stack/28976    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:11:52


  • BYO backend apps are a thing again gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:12:27


  • "I’m tempted to say old-school 8x CLV drives instead of newfangled 32x CAV drives that spin up and make jet-engine noises will be available for sale, but that’s almost not worth an additional wave of a magic wand." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/computer/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:14:38


  • " Satya is a wise man." "You've misspelled: weasel." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvqqfty6    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:23:26


  • On Microsoft, "expect most layoffs targeted ICs" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:24:14


  • "If you were one of those who got laid off, please look at the Sunday classified where Microsoft has advertised. Then apply. They will be forced to take you back. They did that for me during the last recession. Those advertisements are basically telling the world that they could not find qualified Americans. So when I applied, they were cornered. They took me back" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvj9ggey    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:25:45


  • "Those advertisements are basically telling the world that they could not find qualified Americans." "No, they don't." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvj9ggey    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:26:10


  • "Lmao IBM BCG is equivalent to propaganda from North Korea who can’t think outside the box. You have to look out for yourself as there are no rules in business. Who cares about corruption as long as you benefit." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvtgzbr1    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:30:20


  • "There’s other internal guidelines that are will documented used in the past to provide the company a solid foundation to success, but now are ignored and only used as buzz words." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvtgzbr1    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 05:30:39


  • The RMS talk will be available here soon https://inv.nadeko.net/channel/UC0r6VVLgxKMpp-NGEEsE-MQ    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 06:01:49


  • So in Techrights HQ there's now Dove in the shower. No, an actual Dove. She's nesting on the window. She's white. She feels comfortable there.    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 06:02:50


  • "St Stallman looks like this now." https://x.com/Welt__Meister__/status/1927091266543665299    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 06:05:34


  • Scheduled for next weekend: The Openwashing Shills Initiative (OSI) - Part II: Lying to the IRS is a Big Issue. Here's Part I: https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/26/The_Openwashing_Shills_Initiative_OSI_Part_I_Complaints_to_IRS_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 06:06:44


  • This is not a mere, it's a troll, as one can expect in Reddit, and the comments point out some of the obvious https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmemes/comments/1kuulsg/stallman_failed_to_consider/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 06:27:00


  • "Upgrade or sign-up for extended support before it is too late!" https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-20-04-eol/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:31:46


  • "Although the standard Linux utilities have served us well over the years, in some scenarios they fall short. If you've ever found yourself writing a one-liner to poll a command or struggling to parse a badly formatted table, then it's a clear sign that the tools at hand are lacking." https://www.howtogeek.com/great-linux-utilities-to-monitor-your-system-resources-in-the-terminal/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:33:05


  • "I've been regularly using Linux in various forms for around six years now, and in my time I've encountered my fair share of confounding and infuriating problems. I'm recounting them here to preserve and pass on what I've learned, if also to flash my feathers a little bit." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-problems-i-fixed-on-my-own/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:34:11


  • Not a critical issue and an SMB2 issue https://www.gadgets360.com/ai/news/openai-o3-ai-model-researcher-uncovers-zero-day-vulnerability-linux-kernel-smb-implementation-8510275    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:36:11


  • SMB2 and low threat level https://beebom.com/openai-o3-ai-found-zero-day-linux-kernel-vulnerability/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:37:07


  • Linux kernel 6.15 officially released https://www.techzine.eu/news/devops/131742/linux-kernel-6-15-officially-released/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:39:24


  • "You don't need a dedicated server OS to build your first home lab" https://www.xda-developers.com/i-turned-my-vanilla-debian-system-into-a-killer-home-server/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:42:06


  • "Things aren't going Microsoft's way." https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-11-best-advertisement-linux-ever-had/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:42:29


  • "Linux has become a lot more user-friendly over the last couple of years" https://www.xda-developers.com/6-reasons-why-linux-is-better-than-ever/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:42:54


  • This $3 app is the best purchase I made for my Linux PC https://www.xda-developers.com/this-app-is-the-best-purchase-i-made-for-my-linux-pc/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:43:19


  • 4 reasons most people should never install Coreboot https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-most-people-shouldnt-install-coreboot/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:43:52


  • "The Linux ecosystem is home to a host of neat services, many of which are impractical on a Windows machine" https://www.xda-developers.com/useful-linux-tools-that-would-never-make-sense-on-windows/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:44:41


  • "Microsoft should start taking notes." https://www.makeuseof.com/features-windows-steal-linux-mint/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:45:42


  • VPN SPAM disguised as 'article' https://www.techrepublic.com/article/best-vpn-for-ubuntu/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:46:24


  • ASRock Industrial Enhances Industrial Edge Computing with Ubuntu Pro-Enabled Robust Edge AIoT Platforms https://timestech.in/asrock-industrial-enhances-industrial-edge-computing-with-ubuntu-pro-enabled-robust-edge-aiot-platforms/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 07:46:49


  • MSN today: "Microsoft is laying off thousands of its employees this week, according to media reports. Newsweek reached out to Microsoft for comment via email."    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 08:15:09


  • More Facebook layoffs kicking off. "Meta performance reviews: More workers to be deemed 'below expectations'"    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 08:18:22


  • Turns out "AI" meant "all india" https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/internet-debates-why-americans-are-upset-over-indians-taking-over-tech-jobs/3858231/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 08:18:54


  • Volvo’s $1.9B shake-up: HR and R&D jobs wiped out in layoffs https://www.peoplematters.in/site/interstitial?return_to=%2Fnews%2Ftalent-management%2Fvolvos-19b-shake-up-hr-and-rd-jobs-wiped-out-in-layoffs-45714    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 08:20:26


  • Volvo To Cut 3,000 Jobs, Major Layoffs Amid Profit Protection Drive https://www.freepressjournal.in/business/volvo-to-cut-3000-jobs-major-layoffs-amid-profit-protection-drive    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 08:20:59


  • "CoreCtrl is a popular Linux app designed to let you get more control over your GPU and CPU. Sadly, the creator has put it into maintenance mode with no new features coming." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/corectrl-app-has-entered-maintenance-mode-with-no-new-features-coming/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 09:19:40


  • "Luanti (formerly named Minetest) has a big new release out with v5.12 bringing SDL2 for the Window and Input Handling along with numerous other big additions." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/luanti-minetest-v5-12-brings-sdl2-keybind-settings-reviews-in-the-content-browser/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 09:19:54


  • "Out now in Early Access with Linux support, An Amazing Wizard brings an interesting spell mixing system to a Dead Cells-like action platformer." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/an-amazing-wizard-is-a-dead-cells-like-where-you-mix-spells-out-in-early-access/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 09:20:04


  • "Brickadia has been an interesting project to follow, that combines some elements of Roblox with powerful creation systems along with an LEGO styled building system to create all sorts of things." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/brickadia-is-like-roblox-and-lego-combined-and-it-arrives-july-11/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 09:20:32


  • "Sometime in 2024 a publisher called BD Games was banned from Steam, taking with it numerous smaller games. Bioprototype from Emprom Game recently returned to Steam without a publisher, and it's free to claim and keep for a while." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/after-their-publisher-was-banned-from-steam-bioprototype-returns-and-its-free/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 09:24:48


  • "OpenTESArena is an in-development open source game engine remake of The Elder Scrolls: Arena, with a big new release out now as the developer continues working towards making it actually playable." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/the-elder-scrolls-arena-remake-gets-jolt-physics-and-big-new-features/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 09:25:27


  • "The developer of the exploration climbing game Lorn's Lure is working on a new game named MEGANAUT, a 3rd person narrative horror and now there's a demo available with Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/3rd-person-narrative-horror-meganaut-from-the-dev-of-lorns-lure-gets-a-demo/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 09:26:39


  • "Starship, the fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 announced by the team who also made PC ports of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Ship of Harkinian) and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2 Ship 2 Harkinian), has a new release out which includes a Native Linux version." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/fan-made-pc-port-of-star-fox-64-gets-a-linux-version-in-a-big-update/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 09:46:22


  • "Into the Restless Ruins is a rather different dungeon crawler, one where you build the dungeon over time with a deck of cards you continue to gather and upgrade. Disclosure: key provided by their PR team." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/into-the-restless-ruins-gets-you-to-deck-build-a-dungeon-and-then-explore-it/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:12:20


  • "Cyan Worlds went back to their classics Myst: Masterpiece Edition, Riven (1997) and Myst III: Exile to get them upgraded and also Steam Deck Verified at the same time." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/myst-masterpiece-edition-riven-1997-and-myst-iii-exile-get-upgraded-and-now-steam-deck-verified/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:12:36


  • "Artist ANTIREAL claimed that Bungie had stolen her designs and used assets during Marathon’s alpha phase of the game." ☛ https://esportsinsider.com/bungie-marathon-controversy |    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:14:40


  • "Clownflare CEO Matthew Prince issued a stark warning over LaLiga's ISP blocking campaign. The blockades deny access to less than 150 pirate sites and reportedly render millions of innocent websites unavailable." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-ceo-football-piracy-blocks-will-claim-lives-i-pray-no-one-dies-250526/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:14:55


  • "That seems to me to be not unreasonable to opt out." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/26/former-meta-exec-its-not-reasonable-for-artists-to-opt-out-of-ai/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:15:31


  • It is not "AI", it is slop; not the same thing at all; the latter is just a form of plagiarism, not intelligence    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:16:06


  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.sevarg.net/2025/05/26/prison-mail-part-3-epubs-and-backgrounds/ | Source: Russell Graves    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:16:24


  • [Old] "That download speed is half as good as I got with Starlink, but the upload speed is 5 times better. Best of all, we are no longer paying money to Elon Musk, surely one of the most reprehensible people on the planet." ☛ https://philarcher.org/diary/2025/quitting-starlink/ | Source: Phil Archer    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:17:12


  • "Prior to the VJRA, veterans had no way of challenging their benefits decisions; they simply had to accept the VA’s determination -- erroneous or not." ☛ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/a-quiet-threat-to-veterans-civil-rights | Source: ACLU    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:17:43


  • "The US, Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand share the information collected by their immigration departments" ☛ https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/the-us-denied-entry-to-madolline-it-s-causing-her-issues-with-other-countries-20250523-p5m1p5.html | Source: Sydney Morning Herald    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:17:52


  • "It’s dangerous." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/pete-hegseth-tightens-reins-on-journalists-covering-the-pentagon/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:18:27


  • "The main journalists’ association in El Salvador denounced on Sunday the increase in “persecution” against media outlets and human rights defenders by the government of Nayib Bukele" ☛ https://ticotimes.net/2025/05/25/el-salvador-journalists-warn-of-rising-repression-under-bukele-government | Source: Cost Rica    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:18:36


  • "Across the country, Russians frustrated by factory emissions, dilapidated housing, and pollution are turning to the president for help." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/26/i-m-tired-of-living-in-hell | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:19:24


  • "The ban on admitting foreign students, suspended by a judge, foreshadows a long battle between the university and the government." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-26/on-the-front-lines-of-harvards-resistance-to-trump-the-first-thing-authoritarians-do-is-attack-universities.html | Source: El País    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:19:35


  • "The world's two biggest economies agreed earlier this month to pause reciprocal tariffs for 90 days, a surprise de-escalation in their bitter trade war following high-level talks in Geneva." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2307106.html | Source: RTL    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:20:14


  • "The site looks like an ordinary Star Wars fan website from around 2010. But starwarsweb.net was actually a tool built by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to covertly communicate with its informants in other countries" ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-cia-secretly-ran-a-star-wars-fan-site/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:21:08


  • "The trove included material from disaster responders, customs officials, several U.S. diplomatic staffers, at least one White House staffer and members of the Secret Service." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/hacker-who-breached-communications-app-used-by-trump-aide-stole-data-across-us-2025-05-21/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:21:26


  • "Evidence of an attack on administration officials appeared last week on leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/26/security_in_brief/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:21:44


  • "Search for the service you want to replace and an alternative run by a European company shows up. The UI is intuitive, the experience pleasant. While not as comprehensive as alternative.to it's easier to use." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/european-alternatives/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:22:19


  • "To the dismay of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, the law currently prevents Big Tech companies from opening banks. But if Congress passes the GENIUS Act, tech firms may start issuing private currencies and forcing us to use them." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/05/zuckerberg-musk-banking-crypto-tech/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:22:49


  • "David Gerard has a pretty good summary of today’s Internet business situation, in In 2025, venture capital can’t pretend everything is fine any more." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/de-enshittification/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:24:20


  • "This year, the investors are all-in on AI. Crypto’s still dead, quantum isn’t taking off—AI’s the last game in the casino."    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:24:54


  • "And the Big AI companies are having trouble making anything useful even for stuff like customer support where corporate decision-makers are already willing to tolerate low quality. So far, generative AI does have two winning use cases: slop and scams."    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:25:15


  • "Widely available generative AI tools are able to generate content that’s similar enough to real content to be plausible, but different enough that it can beat the algorithms used for detecting infringement and fraud. The AI/crime mess is most obvious at the Big Tech companies"    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:25:36


  • "Moreover, these people were warned at the time about the certain consequences of their policies, and they ignored and dismissed both expert feedback and public opinion." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/26/babyish-radical-extremists/#cancon | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:26:03


  • "These people never faced consequences or any accountability for their actions, as tech criticism focused (understandably and deservedly) on the businesses that took advantage of the enshittogenic policies and enshittified, without any understanding that these firms were turning into piles of shit because of policies that reward them for doing so."    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:26:37


  • "No matter how “undercosted” energy is, that all adds up when you’re being robbed. I personally haven’t had any problems with being scraped and I consent to it esp for the CC-marked posts, but I’ve been hearing how these issues have been more and more overwhelming and disruptive and taxing on my fellow admins.)" ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/extrinsic-ai-problems | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:27:30


  • "It was the summer of 2024, the hottest year ever recorded. We were trying to send a message to the British government: it must sign the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty and make an immediate plan to transition away from oil, gas and coal" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/im-facing-prison-for-my-climate-activism-heres-why/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:28:07


  • [Old] "Is it possible to glean useful information about international developments or even predict real world attacks from the activity that we record in the logs of Internet-facing systems?" ☛ https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/02/predicting-developments-in-real-world.html | Source: BSDly    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:28:56


  • "Over 1,400 doctors, scientists, and experts have signed an open letter calling on the government to put an age limit on smartphones and social media." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2025/05/26/dont-give-kids-14-smartphone-1400-doctors-experts-urge | Source: NL Times    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:30:12


  • "many schools in England have banned smartphones" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/may/26/estonia-phone-bans-in-schools-ai-artificial-intelligence | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:31:33


  • "During the Second World War, the Italian writer took to the radio, urging resistance to the pressures of tyranny." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/alba-de-cespedess-broadcasts-against-fascism | Source: New Yorker    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:33:32


  • "Appearing at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg on Monday" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/four-russians-suspected-of-supporting-is-on-trial-in-germany/a-72653006 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:33:45


  • "More than 80 years after he died in the attack on Pearl Harbor, John Connolly was finally laid to rest – not as an unknown in a mass grave, but as a naval officer in Arlington National Cemetery." ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/05/25/eight-decades-after-dying-in-pearl-harbor-attack-georgia-born-sailor-gets-arlington-farewell/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:33:56


  • "While private schools, which typically cost between $90 and $200 in annual tuition, retain limited control over their affairs, public schools are required to follow a Taliban-imposed curriculum." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/the-taliban-are-turning-boys-schools-into-jihadist-training-grounds/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:34:09


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posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:34:19


  • "Are deeply right-wing extremist views are resonating with more and more young people?" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-slogans-trigger-scandal-at-german-school/a-72670470 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:34:32


  • "The Daesh group escalated its terrorist actions since the beginning of this year, carrying out 77 operations since the beginning of 2025, including armed attacks, targeted assassinations and bombings." ☛ https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/05/26/daesh-terrorists-arrested-near-syrian-capital/ | Source: La Prensa Latina    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:34:47


  • "revoked in three situations: [...]" ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250526/swedish-government-pushes-forward-with-bid-to-revoke-gang-criminals-citizenship | Source: The Local SE    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:34:55


  • "Other quick and relatively straightforward changes you can make are to use privacy-friendly browsers and search engines and to use a password manager" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/guide-protect-data-from-hackers-corporations/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:35:53


  • Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub) advocacy from a site bribed by Microsoft ☛ https://thenewstack.io/how-the-world-is-celebrating-open-source-maintainer-month/ | Source: The New Stack http://techrights.org/n/2024/07/20/Joab_Jackson_and_The_New_Stack_Publishing_Microsoft_Spam_E_E_E_.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/08/Microsoft_sponsored_The_New_Stack_Publishing_Microsoft_Windows_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:37:30


  • Windows TCO ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/europols-cyber-crackdown-disrupts-2000-domains-heres-what-we-know-1734330 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:37:51


  • "The researchers told Claude 4 to role-play being replaced. So it wrote a story of attempting to blackmail the engineer responsible over an extramarital affair!" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/25/ai-resorts-to-robot-blackmail-because-anthropic-asked-for-a-story-of-robot-blackmail/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:39:12


  • "High schools and colleges are stuck in limbo: Use of generative AI to cut corners and cheat is rampant, but there’s no clear consensus on how to fight back." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/05/26/ai-chatgpt-cheating-college-teachers | Source: Axios    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:39:25


  • "Thanks to AI, the number of young college grads entering the workforce hit an all-time low, full-time salary jobs are becoming gigified, and lying on resumes is now the norm as the job search becomes a nightmarish hell." ☛ https://futurism.com/ai-labor-gender-equity | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:39:40


  • "Business owners hate employees more than anything. Unfortunately, AI’s not very good at doing human jobs. We noted last month how chatbots hadn’t knocked down wages or hours in any occupation." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/26/firing-people-for-ai-not-going-so-well/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:40:24


  • "Orgvue surveyed 1,000 executives. 39% of them had fired employees for AI — but of those 39%, over half (55%) regretted it. The AI boosters are crippling their own businesses."    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:40:36


  • "Yang said Lenovo's plans worked when the Trump administration announced universal ten percent tariffs, but not so much when the 25 percent tariff on goods from Mexico and Canada was announced in March and "implemented so suddenly that we didn't even have time to prepare." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/23/lenovo_fy2025/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:41:11


  • "Micron Technology, the parent company of Crucial, took to Computex 2025 to unveil its latest offerings in the SSD space: the Crucial T710 PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD and the Crucial X10 Portable SSD." ☛ https://www.howtogeek.com/crucial-latest-ssd-8tb-announced/ | Source: HowTo Geek    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:48:49


  • "The GPU or graphics processing unit will be part of Nvidia's latest generation Blackwell-architecture AI processors and is expected to be priced between $6,500 and $8,000, well below the $10,000-$12,000 the H20 sold for, according to two of the sources." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/nvidia-to-launch-cheaper-blackwell-ai-chip-for-china-report-1881394 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:49:46


  • "Chipmaker Hygon, which recently teased a 128-core, 512-thread CPU, merges with server-maker Sugon" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/hygon_sugon_china_x86_supercomputing/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:49:59


  • "I had the chance to get a new desk, and a mechanical keyboard while we are at it, so now I got a new setup! Very productive stuff." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/new-desk-and-keyboard/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:50:16


  • "Now, every time I wake up I think about all those people who happened to be in meetings, chats, calls, or offices who are now solely dust in my memory." ☛ https://blog.ignaciobrasca.com/opinion/2025/05/25/meaning.html | Source: Ignacio Brasca    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:54:23


  • "The most important aspect of this campaign of intimidation and disruption is, of course, the attack on freedom of thought." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-economic-consequences-of-destroying | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:54:36


  • "Just how chaotic are chaotic systems? Many of you may have heard of “the butterfly effect” but don’t quite know the mathematics behind such systems." ☛ https://www.juliabloggers.com/how-chaotic-is-chaos-how-some-ai-for-science-sciml-papers-are-overstating-accuracy-claims/ | Source: Julia Language Blog Aggregator    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:54:59


  • "One way to determine the diet of someone who has been dead a long time is to look at isotopes in their teeth." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-megalodons-prey-finally-revealed-and-its-not-what-we-thought | Source: Science Alert    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:55:24


  • "A quarilateral may also intersect itself. In the following diagram, the original quadrilateral has points A (0,0), B (4,0), C (3,3), D (1,4)." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/self-intersecting-quadrilateral/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:55:39


  • "A field has exactly two ideals: the zero ideal, which contains only the additive identity, and the whole field itself." ☛ https://susam.net/fields-and-their-two-ideals.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 10:55:52


  • "If you’re not getting one of these things, then the data is simply noise. A distraction that wastes our time and confuses us." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/05/worthless-noise-isnt-information/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:04:47


  • "It’s now been two complete years since I moved to Tokyo. Looking back at the last year, some things have changed a lot, some things just a tiny bit. Others, not at all." ☛ https://lmnt.me/blog/second-japanniversary.html | Source: Louie Mantia    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:04:58


  • "It’s probably been a decade since I’ve had comments on this site. I generally don’t like the idea of paying for a blog where I host comments I don’t write." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/alright-lets-try-out-comments/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:05:11


  • "Mary Trump: My uncle wants to be president for life" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/24/mary-trump-interview-donald-wants-to-be-president-for-life/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:08:56


  • "India "Trains Guns" On Turkey For Its Support To Pakistan During Indo-Pak War; Indians Try Hitting Where It Hurts The Most!" https://www.eurasiantimes.com/india-is-pressing-turkeys-nerve-after-it-backed-pakistan/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:09:09


  • Tiktok summoned to a meeting with the Minister of Digitalization | "Tiktok innkalt til møte hos digitaliseringsministeren | Digi.no" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://www.digi.no/artikler/tiktok-innkalt-til-mote-hos-digitaliseringsministeren/559065    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:09:44


  • "Forecasting MSCI Europe Index Post-Trump Tariff Announcement – DataGeeek" https://datageeek.com/2025/05/26/forecasting-msci-europe-index-post-trump-tariff-announcement/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:09:59


  • "What is the Rumoured US Citizenship Competition: Real-Life 'Immigrant Hunger Games' In the Works?" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/what-rumoured-us-citizenship-competition-real-life-immigrant-hunger-games-works-1734158    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:10:10


  • War on people who pay with CASH https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/say-goodbye-penny-whens-last-day-americans-can-use-it-why-it-being-phased-out-1734315 ("Say Goodbye To The Penny: When's The Last Day Americans Can Use It And Why Is It Being Phased Out?" )    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:10:38


  • "Chinese and Indonesian leaders promise deeper cooperation amid US trade war" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2025/0525/Chinese-and-Indonesian-leaders-promise-deeper-cooperation-amid-US-trade-war    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:10:51


  • "Finland Summons Russian Ambassador Over Suspected Airspace Violation" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-05-26/finland-summons-russian-ambassador-over-suspected-airspace-violation    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:11:09


  • "Fiona Hill: Trump is terrified of Putin, I’ve seen it first-hand" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/05/25/fiona-hill-interview-trump-terrified-putin-seen-firsthand/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:11:26


  • Confusion as EU introduces age limit for social media | "Rörigt när EU inför åldersgräns för sociala media" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/05/26/rorigt-nar-eu-infor-aldersgranser-for-sociala-media/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:11:52


  • "As GOP Slashes Medicaid, Trump Boasts He’s “Not Cutting 10 Cents” From Pentagon | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/as-gop-slashes-medicaid-trump-boasts-hes-not-cutting-10-cents-from-pentagon/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:12:35


  • Former Meta Exec: It’s ‘Not Reasonable’ for Artists to Opt Out of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/26/former-meta-exec-its-not-reasonable-for-artists-to-opt-out-of-ai/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:14:41


  • A Quiet Threat to Veterans’ Civil Rights ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/a-quiet-threat-to-veterans-civil-rights    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:15:08


  • Don Marti: the coming de-enshittification boom ☞ https://blog.zgp.org/de-enshittification/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:15:32


  • Pluralistic: Who Broke the Internet, Part IV (26 May 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/26/babyish-radical-extremists/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:15:47


  • 🔤SpellBinding — ALOQRSU Wordo: REACH gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-05-27.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:31:58


  • xenomorph in fluff gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/xenomorph_in_fluff    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:32:45


  • "Just a quick shout out to an indie game developer: [...]" gemini://keith.smol.pub/kiyummi    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:33:48


  • "The latest DietPi release (v9.13) focuses on improving security defaults, enhancing support for specific SBCs, and removing outdated software options." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-may-2025-update-introduces-security-changes-kernel-fixes-and-software-cleanups/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:41:48


  • "The Armbian team has released version 25.5, bringing expanded hardware compatibility, improved system tools, and a growing library of post-install application modules." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/armbian-25-5-adds-new-board-support-application-modules-and-receives-community-recognition/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:41:58


  • "In this blog, we demonstrate Canonical’s proven approach to setting up an OpenStack cloud with Sunbeam and MAAS." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/openstack-with-sunbeam-for-medium-scale-cloud-infrastructure | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:45:11


  • "In this article, we’ll walk through how to identify and disable unnecessary services on systemd-based Linux distributions like Fedora, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, and others." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/remove-unwanted-services-from-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:45:50


  • "Originally, FTP clients were command-line based, but now most platforms come with FTP clients and servers built-in, and many third-party FTP client/server programs are available." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/ftp-interview-questions-and-answers/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 11:45:59


  • "There's a few questions you have to ask. Different files have different goals, after all." ☛ https://solhsa.com/oldernews2025.html#ON-FILE-FORMATS |    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:25:21


  • "As a Perl devel­op­er, you’re prob­a­bly aware of the lan­guage’s strengths as a text-​processing lan­guage and how many com­put­ing tasks can be bro­ken down into those types of tasks." ☛ https://phoenixtrap.com/2021/03/16/perl_map_grep/ | Source: Mark Gardner    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:26:04


  • "Rather than give advice on how to run a successful red team, I want to take the late Charlie Munger’s advice, who in turn took the advice from noted mathematician Carl Jacobi – “invert, always invert.”" ☛ https://0xda.de/garden/guarantee-red-team-failure/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:26:55


  • "Either way, both positions lead to a climate where curiosity and exploration gets discouraged. I’m glad that some people didn’t follow that advice; we owe them many of the conveniences of modern life." ☛ https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/ | Source: Matthias Endler    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:27:06


  • "For those following along, we now have a feature branch (hardened/current/rust-in-base) for the Rust work." ☛ https://hardenedbsd.org/article/shawn-webb/2025-05-20/optional-rust-freebsd-support-may-2025-status-report | Source: HardenedBSD    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:27:19


  • "My favorite color theme in RStudio is Tomorrow Night Bright." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/porting-my-favorite-rstudio-color-theme-to-positron/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:27:33


  • 8 ls commands that every GNU/Linux user should know ☞ https://owlhowto.com/8-ls-commands-that-every-linux-user-should-know/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:29:49


  • How To Install WildFly on openSUSE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-wildfly-opensuse/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:31:15


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

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:31:25


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

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:32:35


  • Mono trap (Microsoft) ☞ https://idroot.us/install-pinta-opensuse/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:33:28


  • How To Install Mesa Drivers on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mesa-drivers-centos-stream-10/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:35:59


  • How To Install Snipe-IT on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-snipe-it-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:36:07


  • How To Install Subsonic Media Server on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-subsonic-media-server-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:36:23


  • █████ https://blog.apnic.net/feed/ ██████████████████████ Mon, 26 May 2025 03:00:00 +0000 ███████ How to bring data centre-like connectivity to your home with IPTTTH    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:37:24


  • "The operational and financial feasibility of MPLS-delivered IP Transit-To-The-Home (IPTTTH)." ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/05/26/how-to-bring-data-centre-like-connectivity-to-your-home-with-ipttth/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:37:46


  • "The database is now up to 120 cases, including some fairly high-profile ones like that against Timothy Burke." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ai-hallucinated-cases/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:39:55


  • "APNIC participated in LACNIC 43 held in São Paulo, Brazil from 5 to 9 May 2025." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/05/27/event-wrap-lacnic-43/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:40:34


  • "Almost a month after releasing version 138, Mozilla has launched Firefox 139, the latest update to its popular open-source web browser, now available for download. The main highlight of the new version is that Firefox can now perform full-page translations inside extension pages, not just on ordinary websites." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/firefox-139-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:41:14


  • "I had installed "Shut Up!" — a browser extension designed to hide comments sections on websites — even if they don't actually have any comments." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/the-case-of-the-missing-comments-block/ | Source: Thomas Rigby    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:42:05


  • "I’ve been using Apache since the 1990s. The networking book requires information about QUIC, so I need experience with QUIC, so I need HTTP/3, so I can’t use Apache." ☛ https://mwl.io/archives/24121 | Source: MWL    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:42:13


  • "As I wrote yesterday, I need QUIC for my web sites. The servers I have data on run FreeBSD, because ZFS." ☛ https://mwl.io/archives/24097 | Source: MWL    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:42:20


  • "Supports WAV, FLAC, WavPack, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, MPC, TrueAudio, AIFF, MP4, MP3, ASF and Monkey's Audio" ☛ https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ |    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:44:32


  • "Sound Juicer is a CD ripping tool using GTK+ and GStreamer." ☛ https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundJuicer |    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:45:05


  • "This robot is a motorized, Mecanum-wheeled base that carries the standard plastic trashcan Cindy and her boyfriend own." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/05/26/youtuber-builds-robot-to-make-boyfriend-take-out-the-trash/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:45:32


  • "Dnsmasq DHCP is here and now it is going to be even better with multiple fixes thanks to the swift feedback we received." ☛ https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=47271.0 |    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:46:50


  • "Armbian, a lightweight Linux distro optimized for ARM-based single-board computers, announced the availability of its latest version" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/armbian-25-5-released-with-expanded-hardware-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:50:02


  • "Armbian is a Linux distribution designed for ARM development boards. It is usually based on one of the stable or development versions of Debian or Ubuntu." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12455 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:50:12


  • "Turning a Raspberry Pi into a budget-friendly NAS is one of the most popular projects for the SBC family, and for good reason." ☛ https://www.xda-developers.com/things-i-regret-about-using-my-raspberry-pi-as-a-nas/ | Source: XDA    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:53:05


  • "The community has responded to the end of TrueNAS CORE with a fork. It wants to further develop the FreeBSD-based NAS operating system under the title zVault as an open-source project." ☛ https://www.heise.de/en/news/TrueNAS-CORE-lives-on-Community-splits-off-open-source-fork-zVault-10390164.html | Source: Heise    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:53:14


  • "I recently added some new drives and hardware to my FreeBSD 13 server. I use this machine to run virtual machines for my courses and various experiments." ☛ https://0xrmrf.medium.com/setting-up-remote-desktop-in-freebsd-a6a11e60ff36 |    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:53:39


  • "Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to add formatting to plain text documents" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/best-practices-for-creating-markdown-documentation-for-your-apps/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:54:01


  • "This post details my personal experience with this kind of setup in India. I’ll share how I built the network (AS149794)" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/05/26/how-to-bring-data-centre-like-connectivity-to-your-home-with-ipttth/ | Source: APNIC    

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


  • "A patchset is available for download which applies to OpenBSD 7.7-release." ☛ https://research.exoticsilicon.com/articles/read_only_softraid | Source: Exotic Silicon    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:54:48


  • "I ripped out a dependency and then I found out what it did. I wrote an RSS parser for a very simple project, and then figured, how hard could it be to use in a real feed reader?" ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/sometimes-the-dependencies-are-useful | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:55:00


  • "In this new release, support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys in the block layer stands out, enabling transparent disk encryption without software overhead." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-kernel-6-15-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:56:01


  • "At the beginning of this year, we made the decision to invest a substantial chunk of capital to support an open source project for which we have great personal interest." ☛ https://hexos.com/blog/introducing-zfs-anyraid-sponsored-by-eshtek |    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:56:36


  • "In 3D graphics APIs such Vulkan and OpenGL, there are some mechanisms that applications can rely to check if the GPU had reset (you can read more about this in the kernel documentation)." ☛ https://andrealmeid.com/post/2025-05-26-kernel-6-15/ | Source: André Almeida    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:57:04


  • Mike Blumenkrantz: Monthly Post ☞ https://www.supergoodcode.com/monthly-post/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 12:59:25


  • Linux 6.15 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V and MIPS architectures ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/26/linux-6-15-release-main-changes-arm-risc-v-and-mips-architectures/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:01:36


  • The Rust Programming Language Blog: Demoting i686-pc-windows-gnu to Tier 2 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/05/26/demoting-i686-pc-windows-gnu/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:02:51


  • The Rust Programming Language Blog: April Project Goals Update ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/05/26/april-project-goals-update/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:03:19


  • CloudNativePG 1.26.0 and 1.25.2 Released! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/cloudnativepg-1260-and-1252-released-3077/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:04:33


  • "RISC-V " ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/a-risc-v-operating-system-instruction-manual/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:04:52


  • How to simulate network latency in local containers ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/26/how-simulate-network-latency-local-containers    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:06:02


  • India Arrests an Academic for Antiwar Posts on Instagram ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/world/asia/india-antiwar-dissent-mahmudabad.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:20:09


  • Dick Garwin Fought Nuclear Armageddon. He Hid a 50-Year Secret. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/science/richard-garwin-hydrogen-bomb.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:20:23


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Calls Putin 'Absolutely Crazy' After Record Drone Attack On Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-putin-russia-ukraine-sanctions-drones/33423768.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:21:09


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Says Putin Has ‘Gone Crazy’ After New Russian Attacks on Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/politics/trump-putin.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:26:09


  • "He has gone absolutely CRAZY" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/26/he-has-gone-absolutely-crazy-trump-says-he-s-not-happy-with-putin-after-deadly-strike-on-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:29:11


  • Kremlin ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/26/kremlin-says-trump-s-post-accusing-putin-of-needlessly-killing-people-was-result-of-u-s-president-s-emotional-overload | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:29:23


  • █████ https://bianet.org/rss/english ██████████████████████ Mon, 26 May 2025 18:04:00 +0300 ███████ 'War made journalism a lifeline': Ukrainian Radio Executive Producer Yuliya Sheludko on broadcasting under fire    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:30:14


  • "Disinformation and propaganda are also weapons of the enemy. Our mission is not only to stop the spread of fake news, but also to teach our audience how to think critically" ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/war-made-journalism-a-lifeline-ukrainian-radio-executive-producer-yuliya-sheludko-on-broadcasting-under-fire-307792    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:32:06


  • Former ambassador to Russia talks campus espionage, criticizes Convicted Felon’s Russia strategy ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/05/26/mcfaul-criticizes-trump-russia/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:32:36


  • Now that’s innovation: Ukrainian army units compete for weapons; start-ups compete for their business ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/now-thats-innovation-ukrainian-army-units-compete-for-weapons-start-ups-compete-for-their-business/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:32:54


  • Grave risks for Cameroon as soldiers desert to fight in Ukraine ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/grave-risks-for-cameroon-as-soldiers-desert-to-fight-in-ukraine/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:33:23


  • Russia Intensifies Attacks on Ukraine as U.S. Steps Back ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war-new-phase.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:33:40


  • NATO Wants a Cordial Summit, but Convicted Felon or Zelensky Could Disrupt It ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/world/europe/nato-summit-trump-ukraine.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 13:36:34


  • Posti, like in Canada and other places, is dying except officially https://yle.fi/a/74-20164304 Anon: the ultimate goal is the elimination of the national postal service, they are /intentionally/ putting it into a death spiral    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:24:29


  • 5 hours ago: Free as in Freedom 2.0: Richard Stallman and the Free Software Revolution https://porrua.mx/free-as-in-freedom-2-0-richard-stallman-and-the-free-software-revolution-9791222017303.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:30:00


  • "letter-writing" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/26/russian-authorities-raid-letter-writing-event-for-political-prisoners | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:40:00


  • "A kind of James Bond figure" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/26/a-kind-of-james-bond-figure | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:41:41


  • "Trump considering new sanctions on Russia this week " ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/27/trump-considering-new-sanctions-on-russia-this-week-the-wall-street-journal | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:42:08


  • "Süddeutsche Zeitung" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/27/e-u-u-s-talks-on-tackling-russia-sanctions-evasion-fail-suddeutsche-zeitung | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:42:55


  • "shadow fleet" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/27/russia-has-started-providing-naval-escorts-for-its-shadow-fleet-ships-in-baltic-sea-finnish-defense-minister-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:45:00


  • What’s Convicted Felon’s Vision on China, Russia and the World? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/politics/trump-russia-china.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:45:13


  • Finland summons Russian ambassador over suspected airspace violation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/finland-summons-russian-ambassador-over-suspected-airspace-violation1    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:45:24


  • Lithuanian athletes refuse to share podium with Russians in Taipei ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2574572/lithuanian-athletes-refuse-to-share-podium-with-russians-in-taipei    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:54:37


  • LIIA event to discuss impact on Russia of sanctions ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/26.05.2025-liia-event-to-discuss-impact-on-russia-of-sanctions.a600265/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 14:54:52


  • Kyiv ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/26/kyiv-under-six-hour-air-alert-as-russia-launches-drone-and-missile-strikes-across-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:00:33


  • Ukraine ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/26/merz-says-germany-france-u-k-and-u-s-have-lifted-range-limits-for-weapons-sent-to-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:02:37


  • "language of the occupiers" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/26/i-have-the-right-to-speak-russian | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:03:05


  • "French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo files lawsuit over fake covers mocking Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/27/french-satirical-magazine-charlie-hebdo-files-lawsuit-over-fake-covers-mocking-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:03:27


  • Rakulang Weekly 2025.21 Harcigation ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/05/26/2025-21-harcigation/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:05:24


  • Late Night Linux – Episode 335 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-335/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:05:58


  • "Having worked in this in the mid 2000's, leading to a US pat dynamic programming solution that's been used for millions of trademark searches, a couple of observations." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/objectively-measuring-similarity-of.html?showComment=1748279020539#c4635817976295661507    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:06:46


  • "Levenstein has a purpose for fixing phone book entries but really not much use in trademarks. Whilst there are techniques for focusing on distinctive strings and ignoring generic in a mark, hard to pull that signal out" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/05/objectively-measuring-similarity-of.html?showComment=1748279020539#c4635817976295661507    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:06:51


  • LibreOffice Native Language Projects – TDF’s Annual Report 2024 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/26/libreoffice-native-language-projects-tdfs-annual-report-2024/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:07:48


  • Instagram & Facebook (Farcebook) (META) how to opt out of data usage for Hey Hi (AI) training – how social control media such as x.com is not neutral at all but biased in order to manipulate elections ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/05/26/instagram-facebook-meta-how-to-opt-out-of-data-usage-for-ai-training-how-social-media-such-as-x-com-is-not-neutral-at-all-but-biased-in-order-to-manipulate-elections/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:12:03


  • Harish Pillay 9v1hp: Perculiar problem with boot up ☞ https://harishpillay.com/2025/05/26/perculiar-problem-with-boot-up/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:12:47


  • Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1022639/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:13:20


  • YouTube Resolves Bundling Investigation in South Korea — Reported Agreement Includes Premium Lite Launch and $22 Million Music Industry Fund ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/26/youtube-premium-lite-south-korea/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:14:11


  • Taylor Series Approximation To Newton Raphson Algorithm – A note for myself of the proof ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/taylor-series-approximation-to-newton-raphson-algorithm-a-note-for-myself-of-the-proof/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:29:45


  • Forecasting MSCI Europe Index Post-Dihydroxyacetone Man Tariff Announcement ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/forecasting-msci-europe-index-post-trump-tariff-announcement/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:30:13


  • Pequalizer removed from Easy [EasyOS] Daedalus ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202505/pequalizer-removed-from-easy-daedalus.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:31:37


  • Why Homelab When You have Cloud Services Like AWS, Vercel, Hetzner? ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/why-homelab/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:35:55


  • 12 Best Free and Open Source Text-Based Bookmark Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-text-based-bookmark-managers/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:43:50


  • ClonOS is a FreeBSD based distro for virtual hosting platform and appliance ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/clonos-freebsd-based-distro/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:43:59


  • systemd-analyse helps uncover performance problems ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/systemd-analyse-helps-uncover-performance-problems/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:44:14


  • WebP Converter converts images to WebP ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/webp-converter-converts-images-webp/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:44:52


  • Bombadillo is a non-web browser designed for many protocols ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bombadillo-non-web-browser-many-protocols/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:45:01


  • pg_ivm 1.11 released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_ivm-111-released-3079/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:45:47


  • Linux Released Last Night and There's Already LLM Slop With Slop Images ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/26/Linux_Released_Last_Night_and_There_s_Already_LLM_Slop_With_Slo.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:46:09


  • Linux Kernel 6.15 Released! Mainline PPA updated for 24.04 & Higher ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/05/linux-kernel-6-15-released/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:46:46


  • Touchegg 2.0.18 Adds Actions Support on Gesture Begin & End ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/05/touchegg-touch-gesture-begin-end/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:48:12


  • Flexbar (USB Fashion Company Apple Touch Bar Clone) Now Supports GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/flexbar-touchbar-clone-ships-linux-support    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:58:25


  • Better Than Man pages? These Tools Help You Understand GNU/Linux Commands ☞ https://itsfoss.com/man-pages-like-tools/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:58:39


  • 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 25th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-may-25th-2025    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:59:30


  • Firefox 139 Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/firefox-139-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:59:39


  • Armbian 25.5 Released with Support for Banana Pi M2+ and BeagleBone AI-64 SBCs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/armbian-25-5-released-with-support-for-banana-pi-m2-and-beaglebone-ai-64-sbcs    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 15:59:48


  • GNU Linux-Libre 6.15 Kernel Is Out for Those Who Seek 100% Freedom for Their PCs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-6-15-kernel-is-out-for-those-who-seek-100-freedom-for-their-pcs    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:00:15


  • Star-studded summer: Kaunas expects economic boon from blockbuster concerts ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2574585/star-studded-summer-kaunas-expects-economic-boon-from-blockbuster-concerts    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:00:56


  • Firefox 139.0 Added Link Preview & Custom Wallpaper for New Tabs ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/05/firefox-139-0-link-preview-custom-wallpaper/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:01:41


  • Firefox 139 Brings Custom New Tab Wallpapers, Better Upload Speeds ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/mozilla-firefox-139-released-new-features    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:02:15


  • Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 893 ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/05/26/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-893/ https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/05/26/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-893/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:03:09


  • Simon Quigley: Mow Your Lawn ☞ https://medium.com/@tsimonq2/mow-your-lawn-c73151900fb9    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:04:23


  • Chromium in container menu fix ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202505/chromium-in-container-menu-fix.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:05:12


  • Product Pseudoscience ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/product-pseudoscience/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:14:43


  • Is rise of far right, worldwide, fuelled by decline in people's social skills and social judgement? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250522-is-rise-of-far-right-worldwide-fuelled-by-decline-in-people-s-social-skills-social-judgement    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:15:36


  • UMich introductory computer science courses face possible shift with CS open letter ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/umich-introductory-computer-science-courses-face-possible-shift-with-cs-open-letter/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:16:37


  • There’s Probably No Life on K2-18b After All, Three Studies Conclude ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/science/astronomy-extraterrestrial-life-k218b.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:17:09


  • New Studies Dismiss Signs of Life on Distant Planet ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/science/astronomy-extraterrestrial-life-k218b.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:17:30


  • Historic Shipwrecks Come to Light in the Great Lakes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/science/archaeology-lake-ontario-shipwrecks.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:17:41


  • US Archaeologists Face Uncertain Future With Convicted Felon Administration Cuts ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/science/archaeology-trump-federal-budget.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:18:05


  • Macron in Hanoi as a 'reliable' EU partner, in contrast to Convicted Felon who is 'stuck in the 19th century' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250526-macron-in-hanoi-as-reliable-eu-partner-in-contrast-to-trump-who-is-stuck-in-the-19th-century    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:18:27


  • Hopes for Latvian Oncology Center's renovation fade with money swaps ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/27.05.2025-hopes-for-latvian-oncology-centers-renovation-fade-with-money-swaps.a600660/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:18:45


  • Vegetable Garden World Cup: 'We all need to reconnect with nature and our health' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250526-vegetable-garden-world-cup-we-all-need-to-reconnect-with-nature-and-our-health    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:19:01


  • North Korea says US ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield plans risk ‘nuclear war’ in space ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-says-us-space-shield-is-nuclear-war-scenario    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:23:10


  • South Korea’s liberal candidate Lee holds clear lead a week before presidential vote ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-liberal-candidate-lee-holds-clear-lead-a-week-before-presidential-vote    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:23:31


  • More South Korean young adults economically ‘inactive’, especially women and college grads ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/more-south-korean-young-adults-economically-inactive-especially-women-college-grads    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:23:59


  • In super-aged S. Korea, a Seoul district wants residents to get first spots in ‘elderly kindergartens’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/in-super-aged-south-korea-a-seoul-district-wants-residents-to-get-first-spots-in-elderly    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:24:36


  • South Korea presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung says to restore hotline with North Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-presidential-candidate-lee-says-to-restore-hotline-with-north-korea    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:24:53


  • North Korea says US ‘Golden Dome’ missile shield ‘very dangerous’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-says-us-space-shield-is-nuclear-war-scenario    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:25:16


  • South Korean election: Can a new president bring back stability? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-election-can-a-new-president-bring-back-stability    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:25:37


  • Deal to explore exporting renewable energy from Vietnam to Singapore, Malaysia inked at Asean Summit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/companies-ink-deal-to-export-renewable-energy-from-vietnam-to-malaysia-singapore-at-asean-summit    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 16:59:24


  • A Science Fiction Writer Wrestles With China’s Rise, and His Own Decline ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/world/asia/a-science-fiction-writer-wrestles-with-chinas-rise-and-his-own-decline.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:00:03


  • China’s Soft Spot in Trade War With Convicted Felon: Risk of Huge Job Loss ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/business/china-unemployment-jobs.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:00:22


  • China mulling new economic policy tools, Premier Li says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-mulling-new-economic-policy-tools-premier-li-says    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:00:46


  • Malaysia PM hails ‘significant’ engagement with Myanmar as South-east Asian leaders meet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-pm-hails-significant-engagement-on-myanmar-as-southeast-asian-leaders-meet    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:01:05


  • India, Canada move to mend diplomatic ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-canada-move-to-mend-diplomatic-ties    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:01:13


  • Philippines open to more agreements with China to keep peace in South China Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-open-to-more-agreements-with-china-to-keep-peace-in-south-china-sea    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:01:27


  • China shifts from developing world's banker to debt collector, says Lowy Institute ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-shifts-from-developing-worlds-banker-to-debt-collector-says-lowy-institute    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:01:52


  • Developing nations face ‘tidal wave’ of China debt: Australian think-tank ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/developing-nations-face-tidal-wave-of-china-debt-report    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:02:03


  • "Export control was a failure." Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang slams Biden's China Hey Hi (AI) restrictions - Computex 2025 Q and A ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/jensen-huang-talks-ai-export-controls    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:02:18


  • ‘Ethically questionable’: Chinese ambassador lashes Australian plan to buy back key port ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/26/ethically-questionable-chinese-ambassador-lashes-australian-plan-to-buy-back-key-port/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:02:37


  • China: Hangzhou holds the world's first humanoid robot fighting competition ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250526-china-hangzhou-holds-the-world-s-first-humanoid-robot-fighting-competition    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:03:11


  • Plastics ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/mouse-model-suggests-starch-based-plastics-are-still-bad-for-you/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:05:14


  • Barrel Of Fun For Your Dog ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/2025-pet-hacks-contest-a-barrel-of-fun-for-your-dog/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:05:35


  • Wayback Proxy ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:05:57


  • The Self-Taught Cook Who Mastered the Flour Tortilla ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/02/the-self-taught-cook-who-mastered-the-flour-tortilla    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:09:06


  • US federal court upholds Texas library’s removal of books from circulation ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/us-federal-court-upholds-texas-librarys-removal-of-books-from-circulation/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:09:37


  • Surprise Link Between Menthol And Alzheimer's Found in Mice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/surprise-link-between-menthol-and-alzheimers-found-in-mice    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:10:26


  • Underwater Fossils Surface to Reveal a Lost World of Archaic Humans ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/underwater-fossils-surface-to-reveal-a-lost-world-of-archaic-humans    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:12:23


  • Exposure to Daylight Boosts The Immune System, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/exposure-to-daylight-boosts-the-immune-system-study-suggests    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:12:35


  • Are Dogs Replacing Babies in Countries With Declining Birth Rates? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/are-dogs-replacing-babies-in-countries-with-declining-birth-rates    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:12:52


  • Microbe From Man's Wound Able to Feed on Hospital Plastic ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/microbe-from-mans-wound-able-to-feed-on-hospital-plastic    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:13:46


  • Sudden Death Among Professional Bodybuilders Raises Health Concerns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sudden-death-among-professional-bodybuilders-raises-health-concerns    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:14:25


  • A Serious Threat May Be Lurking in The Orbit of Venus, Says Study ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-serious-threat-may-be-lurking-in-the-orbit-of-venus-says-study    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:14:36


  • Developing Qt applications with CLion ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/developing-qt-applications-with-clion    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:15:04


  • Vintage Intel 8080 Runs On A Modern FPGA ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/vintage-intel-8080-runs-on-a-modern-fpga/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:15:54


  • Latest Proprietary Chaffbot Company models ‘sabotaged a shutdown mechanism’ despite commands to the contrary ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/latest-openai-models-sabotaged-a-shutdown-mechanism-despite-commands-to-the-contrary    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:16:23


  • Intel uncovers alleged embezzlement involving former employee and supplier ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-uncovers-alleged-embezzlement-involving-former-employee-and-supplier    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:16:42


  • Lil Wayne Producer Sues Universal Music Over Millions In Allegedly Owed Royalties: ‘UMG Has Simply Taken Advantage of Harrison’s Hard Work’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/26/deezle-lawsuit-umg/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:21:19


  • Commission and national authorities urge SHEIN to respect EU consumer protection laws ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1331    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:22:06


  • Former Police Chief Imprisoned for Murder and Rape Escapes From Arkansas Prison ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/arkansas-grant-hardin-prison-escape.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:22:36


  • Tunisia receives patrol boats to bolster maritime security operations ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/tunisia-receives-patrol-boats-to-bolster-maritime-security-operations/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:24:20


  • Nova Scotia Power Confirms Ransomware Attack, 280k Notified of Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nova-scotia-power-confirms-ransomware-attack-280k-notified-of-data-breach/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:25:18


  • Financial resilience for military families: Overcoming common challenges ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/05/financial-resilience-for-military-families-overcoming-common-challenges/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:30:10


  • Latvian teams perform well in cyber-defence drills ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/26.05.2025-latvian-teams-perform-well-in-cyber-defence-drills.a600540/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:30:24


  • Russ Allbery: INN 2.7.3 ☞ https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/journal/2025-05/001.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:30:57


  • How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on FunOS ☞ https://funos.org/install-onlyoffice-desktop-editors-funos/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:31:47


  • "We went for a bath and a walk and then that was it. Bye-bye Croatia. The most dangerous thing we had encountered surely was Donat water, available in supermarkets everywhere, with 1000 mg of magnesium per litre. Liquefies bowels! 😵‍💫" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-05-24-home    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:33:44


  • Sumartin, Dubrovnik gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-05-23-dubrovnik    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:35:09


  • Am I nothing before I chose? gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2025-05-27-am-i-nothing.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:37:25


  • Inconsistente gemini://entrecafeses.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-05-27.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:38:19


  • Tech’s Convicted Felon Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/technology/techs-trump-whisperer-tim-cook-goes-quiet-as-his-influence-fades.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:39:19


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Tariffs: EU, Fashion Company Apple and the Latest on the Trade War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:39:31


  • pgmoneta 0.17 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgmoneta-017-3078/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:39:56


  • Hong Kong’s MTRC fined HK$19.2 million for 5-hour service disruption on Tseung Kwan O Line ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/26/hong-kongs-mtrc-fined-hk19-2-million-for-5-hour-service-disruption-on-tseung-kwan-o-line/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:41:36


  • "Today, the GNU Linux-libre project announced the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 6.15 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers and software freedom lovers." https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-libre-6-15-kernel-is-out-for-those-who-seek-100-freedom-for-their-pcs    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:42:52


  • Top 1000 Games on Steam: 71% Working on the Steam Deck in May 2025 ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/top-1000-games-on-steam-71-percent-playable-on-the-steam-deck-in-may-2025/index.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:46:58


  • EX-ZODIAC Review: Star Fox Comes Back ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/ex-zodiac-review/index.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:47:08


  • Canada welcomes King Charles III after Convicted Felon's 51st state threats ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2025/0526/Canada-welcomes-King-Charles-III-after-Dihydroxyacetone Man-s-51st-state-threats    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:47:50


  • King Charles III visits Canada in apparent pushback against Convicted Felon’s annexation threats ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250526-king-charles-iii-visits-canada-mark-careny-pushback-us-donald-trump-annexation-threats    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:48:17


  • More Mass Layoffs Coming Soon to Microsoft, Just a Question of When and How Many ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/27/More_Mass_Layoffs_Coming_Soon_to_Microsoft_Just_a_Question_of_W.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:57:51


  • Public Talk by Richard Stallman (RMS) Tomorrow ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/25/Public_Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_RMS_Tomorrow.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:58:00


  • Richard Stallman Has Barely Changed ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/25/Richard_Stallman_Has_Barely_Changed.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:58:10


  • Fighting for Freedom is Much Better Than Fighting for Money ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/25/Fighting_for_Freedom_is_Much_Better_Than_Fighting_for_Money.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:58:19


  • A Healed Reputation of a Movement's Leader and His Robust Message ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/26/A_Healed_Reputation_of_a_Movement_s_Leader_and_His_Robust_Messa.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:58:43


  • The Issue Isn't the Internet, the Issue is How People Are Taught to Use or Misuse It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/26/The_Issue_Isn_t_the_Internet_the_Issue_is_How_People_Are_Taught.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:58:57


  • Breaking Into Other People's Devices Without Authorisation Isn't "Funny" or "Research" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/26/Breaking_Into_Other_People_s_Devices_Without_Authorisation_Isn_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:59:11


  • Open Source Initiative (OSI) Lobbying and the OSI's Status at Stake ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/26/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Lobbying_and_the_OSI_s_Status_at_Sta.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:59:21


  • The Openwashing Shills Initiative (OSI) - Part I: Complaints to IRS or USDOJ Needed ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/26/The_Openwashing_Shills_Initiative_OSI_Part_I_Complaints_to_IRS_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:59:31


  • Richard Stallman's Milan Talk (Public Presentation) Was Packed, Video Available Soon ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/27/Richard_Stallman_s_Milan_Talk_Public_Presentation_Was_Packed_Vi.shtml    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 17:59:39


  • Federal Judges Admit Lack of Technical Expertise, Making the Case for an Accessible PTAB ☞ https://patentprogress.org/2025/05/federal-judges-admit-lack-of-technical-expertise-making-the-case-for-an-accessible-ptab/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 18:34:24


  • Unified Patent Court is illegal and unconstitutional; moreover, it appoints staff of private companies (i.e. extreme conflict of interest) as "technically qualified judges" ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/unified-patent-court-appoints-new-technically-qualified-judges/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 18:35:30


  • Rockchip RK3588 embedded computer features 3x M.2 sockets, 4x RS232, 2x RS485, 2x DI, 2x DO, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/27/rockchip-rk3588-embedded-computer-features-3x-m-2-sockets-4x-rs232-2x-rs485-2x-di-2x-do-and-more/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 18:36:07


  • PanVK reaches Vulkan 1.2 conformance on Mali-G610 ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/panvk-reaches-vulkan-12-conformance-on-mali-g610.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 18:36:48


  • NanoPi M5 – A Rockchip RK3576 SBC with HDMI, dual GbE, M.2 NVMe and SDIO WiFi sockets, UFS 2.0 storage support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/26/nanopi-m5-a-rockchip-rk3576-sbc-with-hdmi-dual-gbe-m-2-nvme-and-sdio-wifi-sockets-ufs-2-0-storage-support/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 18:37:35


  • "[ChrisJ7903] has created two Ardiuno programs for reading Victron solar controller telemetry data advertised via BLE." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/intercepting-and-decoding-bluetooth-low-energy-data-for-victron-devices/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 18:38:30


  • Torture and Tres Leches in Iran’s Most Notorious Prison ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/torture-and-tres-leches-in-irans-most-notorious-prison    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 18:39:11


  • Event Wrap: LACNIC 43 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/05/27/event-wrap-lacnic-43/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 18:39:46


  • To counter China, Quad members should work closer in maritime surveillance ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/to-counter-china-quad-members-should-work-closer-in-maritime-surveillance/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:23:09


  • Netanyahu pledges hostages return as Israeli airstrikes kill dozens ini Gaza ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250527-us-backed-aid-group-starts-gaza-aid-distribution-as-israeli-airstrikes-kill-dozens    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:23:20


  • Israeli Airstrike Kills at Least 7 of a Doctor’s Children in Gaza ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-doctor-children.html    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:23:38


  • ICRC calls for Gaza ceasefire following killing of 2 employees ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/icrc-calls-for-gaza-ceasefire-following-killing-of-2-employees/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:24:19


  • Head of US-backed Gaza aid foundation quits as further Israeli airstrikes kill dozens ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250526-head-of-us-backed-gaza-aid-foundation-quits-as-further-israeli-airstrikes-kill-dozens    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:24:42


  • Controversial aid group starts operations in Gaza: "Not a viable solution", expert says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250526-controversial-aid-group-starts-operations-in-gaza-not-a-viable-solution-expert-says    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:25:17


  • US-backed group starts Gaza aid distribution as Israeli airstrikes kill dozens ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250527-us-backed-aid-group-starts-gaza-aid-distribution-as-israeli-airstrikes-kill-dozens    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:26:35


  • Israeli airstrikes on Gaza school sheltering families kill 52 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250527-israeli-airstrikes-on-gaza-school-sheltering-families-kill-52    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:27:50


  • "NASA Is Shutting Down The International Space Station Sighting Website" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/nasa-is-shutting-down-the-international-space-station-sighting-website/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:28:35


  • In defence of vertical/sidebar tabs ☞ https://rubenerd.com/in-defence-of-vertical-tabs/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:29:32


  • Greece’s Tech Leap: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/05/greeces-tech-leap-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:30:19


  • HRW calls WHO pandemic treaty a landmark but ‘flawed’ step, urges rights-based implementation ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/hrw-calls-who-pandemic-treaty-a-landmark-but-flawed-step-urges-human-rights-based-implementation/    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:30:52


  • Health experts urge Malaysians to stay vigilant against Covid-19 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/health-experts-urge-malaysians-to-stay-vigilant-of-covid-19    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:31:06


  • "heyya! nothing special for this, just wanted to say that i'll now be crossposting my blogs from corvidae.digital to here! i'll start doing this the next time i make a blog, and from then on i'll post each blog both there and here! my https website is ..." gemini://corvidae.smol.pub/blog-0    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:54:43


  • Tengen vs NES gemini://idiomdrottning.org/tengen-vs-nes    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:55:26


  • how to convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-05-27    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:56:11


  • Hierarchy of Humankind gemini://cyi1341.smol.pub/random54    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:56:58


  • "America celebrated Memorial Day yesterday. To mark the occasion, my wife and I made a big dinner for some of our friends. We ran a few errands beforehand, and on the way home from those errands, it began to rain." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202505/20250527-a-horse-in-the-rain.gmi    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:57:42


  • "Every day I contemplate deleting all my social media. Some days I get very close. Twice, I have actually done it. The longest I have gone without Instagram, or TikTok, or any of the other apps was 2 weeks. Despite the deletion being owed to semesterly exams, they were a wonderful 2 weeks." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2625    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:58:34


  • 27 May 2025 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/270525.txt    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 19:59:52


  • 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


  • "expect most layoffs targeted ICs" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 20:08:18


  • BS: "If you work a white collar job and don’t think AI will replace you in a few years you’re fooling yourself. The only jobs left will be watching over the AIs to ensure they don’t hallucinate and rubber stamp their work. Time to get that trade school coursework going." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvdsmxne    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 20:09:06


  • It's not "AI", it's slop, and it just doesn't work    

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025 at 20:09:28


  • [Old] Chema Alonso entrevista a Richard Stallman – Parte II https://unaaldia.hispasec.com/2022/07/chema-alonso-entrevista-a-richard-stallman-parte-ii.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 03:12:36


  • "I've seen in a few places online people talking about setting up auto-generated labyrinth websites designed to endlessly trap AI crawlers in some rather petty effort to protest against them." gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-05-28The_Labyrinth.txt    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 03:25:34


  • "The “endless scroll” debate was after it replaced pages where you’d scroll scroll scroll click, scroll scroll scroll click, scroll scroll scroll click. That was annoying while still not actually stemming addiction (at least for me)." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/endless-scroll    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 03:26:29


  • "Alt text is a description of images. By default, it is only shown by browsers that cannot show browsers – like text browsers or screen readers. So what about alt text on this blog?" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-05-27-alt-text    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 03:27:16


  • "One equals thirty-four. Each 1 degree above/below freezing in Celsius is about 2 degrees above/below freezing in Fahrenheit. This is roughly accurate for human-scale weather temperatures. This trick tends to be off from the actual conversion by a few degrees, but it's good enough to save the effort of having to look it up." gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/my_celsius-fahrenheit_trick.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 03:28:22


  • Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-05-28.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 03:28:46


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1658.jpg    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 03:29:19


  •    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 03:29:25


  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1308.jpg    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 03:29:32


  • "von Bidder's death was discussed like a suicide and given that it happened shortly after other confirmed suicides, it feels like it was part of a suicide cluster on the day of our wedding." https://danielpocock.com/en/prison-gate-backdrop-baptism-fr-sean-o-connell-st-pauls-coburg/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 03:38:11


  • techrights top of the list in gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi today    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 04:43:13


  • "On Valve's official public GitLab, they've recently put up SteamOS Manager under the open source MIT license following the SteamOS 3.7 release for more devices." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steamos-manager-for-bios-updates-tdp-and-gpu-clock-controls-now-open-source/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 05:22:44


  • "Cogs from Lazy 8 Studios originally released back in 2009, and gained a Native Linux version back with the Humble Indie Bundle 3 in 2011. Now, 16 years or so later, the developer has give it a small remaster." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/indie-puzzle-game-cogs-from-2009-gets-a-remaster/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 05:22:54


  • "Dario Gil == d.ouche bag" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvw8qmkn    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 05:24:44


  • "After the news recently that EA Codemasters were pausing development plans on future rally titles, we now know who will continue the series with it being back with NACON." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/fia-world-rally-championship-wrc-games-return-to-nacon/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 05:24:54


  • "With Pooh now in the public domain, of course we're going to get some weird Winnie the Pooh games." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/play-as-a-virus-inside-winnie-the-pooh-in-winnies-hole-demo-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 05:32:10


  • "Valve have launched the Zombies vs Vampires Fest on Steam running until June 2nd 5pm UTC." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/zombies-vs-vampires-fest-is-live-on-steam-some-recommendations/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 05:38:34


  • "Quite a surprise. 1047 Games recently launched the free to play Splitgate 2 in Beta on Steam, initially with their anti-cheat RedKard blocking Desktop Linux but allowing the Steam Deck with SteamOS." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/splitgate-2-now-works-on-desktop-linux-with-the-anti-cheat-updated/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 05:42:34


  • "The big cross-over mod Lambda Fortress that puts the Team Fortress 2 mercenaries into Half-Life 2 and other Source campaigns is coming to Steam. More goodies thanks to Valve releasing TF2 code into the Source SDK." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/putting-team-fortress-2-inside-half-life-2-lambda-fortress-is-coming-to-steam/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:04:16


  • "A Letter to Europe - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-letter-to-europe    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:13:18


  • Switzerland: Massive criticism against expanded data storage | "Schweiz: Massiv kritik mot utökad datalagring" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/05/27/schweiz-massiv-kritik-mot-utokad-datalagring/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:13:47


  • Tuxedo Nano Pro Gen14: all the power of AMD Ryzen AI in a compact format | "Tuxedo Nano Pro Gen14: mini PC, máximo rendimiento" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://www.muylinux.com/2025/05/27/tuxedo-nano-pro-gen14/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:14:10


  • "EU Finds China Responsible For 80 Percent Of Russia Sanctions Avoidance, Says German Report" https://www.rferl.org/a/german-report-eu-china-russia-sanctions-avoidance-80-percent/33425633.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:14:26


  • "DOGE [sic] in the Treasury | Courthouse News Service" https://www.courthousenews.com/doge-in-the-treasury/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:14:44


  • "Spoiler: the USSR is still dead A Putin adviser claims the Soviet Union still legally exists — what’s that about?" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/27/spoiler-the-ussr-is-still-dead    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:14:56


  • Whistleblower ☛ https://thedissenter.org/australia-tax-whistleblower-pleads-guilty-to-four-charges/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:17:00


  • "How computing educators can guide students in critically understanding technology design — and create collaborative phone policies." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/beyond-phone-bans-empowering-students-to-critically-navigate-and-reimagine-technology/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:17:26


  • Luca Ciavatta: 50 Useful and Fun GNU/Linux Commands Every Power User Should Know ☞ https://cialu.net/50-useful-and-fun-linux-commands-every-power-user-should-know/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:27:03


  • "This year, the Ubuntu Summit is reborn – read on to find out what changes we’re making." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-summit-25-10-is-coming-to-your-circle-of-friends-from-london | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:32:25


  • How to integrate Senao SX904 into an OpenShift cluster ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/27/how-integrate-senao-sx904-openshift-cluster    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:33:09


  • Boost GPU efficiency in Kubernetes with NVIDIA Multi-Instance GPU ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/27/boost-gpu-efficiency-kubernetes-nvidia-mig    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:33:22


  • Kiwi TCMS: AMI transitions to Kiwi TCMS Managed Hosting ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/05/27/ami-transitions-to-kiwi-tcms-managed-hosting/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:35:59


  • Seeking K-12 Computing Teachers With Emerging Bilingual students in their classes ☞ https://computinged.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/seeking-k-12-computing-teachers-with-emerging-bilingual-students-in-their-classes/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:36:40


  • "Clegg, who served as deputy to David Cameron in a Conservative / Lib Dem coalition that governed the UK between 2010 and 2015 before moving to Zuckcorp as president of global policy affairs, told the audience at a literary festival that demands to make tech firms seek consent from creators before using copyrighted material to train AI models were unworkable. " ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/nick_clegg_says_ai_firms/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:37:18


  • "Clegg, who served as deputy to David Cameron in a Conservative / Lib Dem coalition that governed the UK between 2010 and 2015 before moving to Zuckcorp as president of global policy affairs" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/nick_clegg_says_ai_firms/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:37:43


  • Software Patents ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/674869/buffalo-shooting-lawsuit-meta-reddit-4chan-google-amazon-section-230-everytown | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:38:04


  • Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/tengen-vs-nes | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:38:47


  • "But new data coming out of Ookla indicates that the Republican attack on the ACP had a measurable, harmful impact on the U.S. broadband digital divide" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/05/27/the-u-s-digital-divide-got-measurably-worse-after-republicans-killed-a-popular-low-income-broadband-program/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 06:40:10


  • "Where workers are powerless individuals desperate for survival, exploitation is often dismissed as just the nature of reality." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/infinite-contempt-for-working-people | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:23:56


  • "You didn’t click it, though. Or maybe you did? I don’t know, it doesn’t matter." ☛ https://www.anildash.com/2025/05/27/2025-05-27-internet-of-consent/ | Source: Anil Dash    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:24:07


  • "This is what makes investors and bosses slobber so hard for AI – a "productivity" boost that arises from taking away the bargaining power of workers so that they can be made to labor under worse conditions for less money." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/rancid-vibe-coding/#class-war | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:24:26


  • "I was only a child when my parents and I were forcibly removed from our home and placed in internment camps without charge or trial — what we call due process — and branded as enemies solely because of our ancestry." ☛ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/george-takei-how-the-alien-enemies-act-was-weaponized-to-incarcerate-my-family | Source: ACLU    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:35:45


  • "When Sophie Gilbert wrote her stunning new book, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, she wanted to understand how and why every kind of entertainment – reality television, music, movies, fashion, magazines, porn – joined forces to dump on women." ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/culture/books/what-has-the-pornification-of-pop-culture-done-to-women-20250526-p5m251.html | Source: The Age AU    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:44:50


  • "She first discovered the limits of face detection as she was working on a creative computing project." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/unmasking-ai-bias-algorithmic-justice-1.7531391 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:45:09


  • "The lawsuit makes the same argument as several others that have been filed against Trump and his administration as they have moved to tear down the federal government, which is that Congress — not the president — appropriates federal funding." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/npr-sues-trump-executive-order-stripping-funding-1235348331/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:45:38


  • "The order aims to punish NPR for the content of news and other programming the president dislikes and chill the exercise of First Amendment rights by NPR and individual public radio stations across the country" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/npr-sues-trump-admin-for-unlawful-executive-order-mandating-funding-cuts/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:45:47


  • "It cannot stand" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/npr-sues-trump-over-executive-order-to-end-funding/a-72688812 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:45:59


  • "Kambere told CPJ that he was wearing a clearly distinguishable press badge around his neck when police shot him as he reported on the protests against increased insecurity" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/05/drc-journalist-shot-by-police-officer-while-covering-insecurity-protest/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:46:10


  • "The impact of recent initiatives has yet to be seen. As CPJ noted in its 2023 report, “Fragile Progress: The struggle for press freedom in the European Union”, improved and sustained action from Brussels is needed to ensure member states deliver on the reforms." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/05/eu-must-make-media-reforms-a-reality-in-european-democracy-shield/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:55:01


  • "A collection of National Public Radio stations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, seeking to block an executive order that would cut off their federal funding." ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/05/27/repub/npr-sues-over-trump-order-cutting-off-its-funding-citing-first-amendment/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:55:25


  • "The administration’s actions are illegal and were immediately stayed by a federal judge. But that won’t prevent real harm to students and higher learning." ☛ https://www.vox.com/education/414467/trump-harvard-international-students-higher-education | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:55:40


  • "The order is “textbook” First Amendment retaliation and viewpoint discrimination, NPR said" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/textbook-retaliation-npr-sues-trump-over-funding-cuts/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:56:02


  • employs   

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:56:21


  • "NPR employs hundreds of journalists whose work is broadcast by more than 1,000 local stations." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/27/npr-sues-trump-over-executive-order-to-cut-federal-funding/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:56:28


  • "the well-dressed, well-credentialed, well-compensated liars who spent years telling us that Donald Trump and his movement would be “better on balance” for free speech, free markets, and the free world" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-well-dressed-liars-of-the-moderate | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:56:59


  • "The Alabama Library Association said in a May 16 letter that it was “concerned but also confused” by new Alabama Public Library Service policies on sexually explicit content and what it called ill-treatment of directors and staff of local libraries at a meeting earlier this month." ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/05/27/alabama-library-association-concerned-but-also-confused-by-new-apls-content-policies/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:57:13


  • "The Alabama Library Association said in a May 16 letter that it was “concerned but also confused” by new Alabama Public Library Service policies on sexually explicit content and what it called ill-treatment of directors and staff of local libraries" ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/05/27/alabama-library-association-concerned-but-also-confused-by-new-apls-content-policies/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:57:27


  • "For those who have not completed their degrees yet, they might need to seek transfer to other colleges or universities if the court decides to uphold DHS’ decision or they will not be allowed to be in the US legally." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/how-donald-trump-crackdown-on-harvard-university-affects-foreign-students-101748393973684.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:57:43


  • "The latest battle in the war between the government and the oldest and one of the most prestigious academic institutions in the United States comes on the day lawyers from both sides are expected to appear before Judge Allison D. Burrough." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-05-27/trump-increases-pressure-on-harvard-by-canceling-all-federal-contracts-with-the-university.html | Source: El País    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:59:11


  • "Ever since Pope Leo XIV has been elected the new Head of the Catholic Church, social media has been inundated with AI-generated deepfake videos and images claiming to show the new pontiff." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-new-pope-hit-by-wave-of-ai-generated-fake-news/a-72684141 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 07:59:59


  • Anon: microsoft onedrive is about surveillance and vendor lock-in not about making money    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:29:30


  • "Telstra just set up a AI Hub with consulting firm Accenture. Telstra will put in AUD$100 million for seven years." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/27/telstra-embraces-ai-with-accenture/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:29:52


  • "I’ve heard of one of their projects, but wasn’t familiar with the company itself. I absolutely love their mission and hope they’re wildly successful." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2025/05/futo-company/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:30:03


  • "Next he describes conducting an intervention. In hundreds of interventions that he conducted, in most of the cases people voluntarily decided to leave the cult after the intervention. Only a few people decided to continue with the cult." ☛ https://huijzer.xyz/posts/89 | Source: Rik Huijzer    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:30:14


  • [Old] "As of early 2025, analysts estimate that between 2.3 million and 3.7 million Bitcoins are permanently lost, representing approximately 11–18% of Bitcoin’s fixed maximum supply of 21 million coins" ☛ https://www.ledger.com/academy/topics/economics-and-regulation/how-many-bitcoin-are-lost-ledger |    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:31:11


  • "In a press release on Tuesday, TMTG confirmed that it has agreed to sell $1.5 billion worth of equity and take on a further $1 billion in debt—and plans to use the proceeds to add vast quantities of bitcoin to its balance sheet." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/donald-trumps-media-conglomerate-is-becoming-a-bitcoin-reserve/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:32:56


  • "The sodium-air fuel cell was designed by a team led by Yet-Ming Chiang, a professor of materials science and engineering at MIT." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/27/1117456/sodium-fuel-cell/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:33:06


  • "The company is raising the funds by selling $1.5 billion in stock at its last closing price and $1.0 billion in convertible notes priced at a 35% premium, it said in a statement." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/trump-media-to-raise-2-5-billion-to-invest-in-bitcoin/articleshow/121442329.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:33:34


  • "The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association said that just 5,475 Tesla cars were sold in April, down 52.6% from the same month last year." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/tesla-europe-sales-plummeted-by-52-in-april-trade-group/a-72679186 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:33:40


  • "But 83-year-old Tran To Nga, who over 50 years ago was a frontline journalist, is too busy fighting a last-ditch legal battle over the war’s toxic legacy to join in the celebrations." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/vietnam-agent-orange-warfare-reparations/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:34:14


  • "At 7AM (UTC) on Wednesday May 20th 2025 a BGP message was propagated that triggered surprising (to many) behaviours with two major BGP implementations that are often used for carrying [Internet] traffic." ☛ https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-attr-40-junos-arista-session-reset-incident | Source: Ben Jojo    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:34:42


  • "This article is about covert agent communication channel websites used by the CIA in many countries from the late 2000s until the early 2010s, when they were uncovered by counter intelligence of the targeted countries circa 2010-2013." ☛ https://ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/cia-2010-covert-communication-websites |    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 08:34:52


  • "Scientists say overpumping is leading to alarmingly rapid declines in groundwater at a time when climate change is putting growing strains on the Southwest’s water supplies." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-05-27/colorado-river-groundwater | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:13:46


  • "Authorities also blame upstream dams built in neighbouring Iran and Turkey for dramatically lowering the flow of the once-mighty Tigris and Euphrates, which have irrigated Iraq for millennia." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/ecology/water-crisis-deepens-in-iraq-lowest-level-in-80-years-79529 | Source: ANF News    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:14:01


  • "The appeal from the Eastern Railway authorities comes days after a Haryana-based YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra was arrested on the charge of passing on sensitive information to Pakistani intelligence operatives." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/eastern-railway-warns-bloggers-youtubers-against-filming-stations-amid-security-concerns-1881630 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:15:06


  • "And in May 2024, Russia Today reported that Microsoft was allowing users to download updates to some software without forcing them to go through a VPN." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/russia_chokehold_tech_firms/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:17:48


  • "The court majority seems to have prejudged the merits of the case, saying in its order that the Trump administration is likely to win on the question of the president’s authority to fire members of the NLRB." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/wilcox-trump-federal-agencies/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:18:20


  • "more Trump-curious and more skeptical of the status quo" ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/414266/republican-conservative-two-gen-z-young-voter-trumpier-progressive | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:19:09


  • "The judges are not being paranoid. The immediate problem may be that threats against judges are steeply rising, but the deeper problem is that Trump has a history of inciting political violence—and still works hard to legitimize it." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/protect-judges-trump-incitement/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:19:41


  • "the probe has identified the location where it took place." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/sweden-charges-jihadi-over-jordanian-pilot-burned-to-death/a-72634002 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:20:19


  • "The warning was contained in an exchange, revealed under transparency laws, from October 2024, which were sent to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05/26/chinese-super-embassy-poses-cyber-risk-government-experts/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:21:41


  • [Old] "TTP’s investigation found that one in five of the top 100 free virtual private networks in the U.S. App Store during 2024 were surreptitiously owned by Chinese companies" ☛ https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/apple-offers-apps-with-ties-to-chinese-military |    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:22:09


  • "While movements to shift from US digital services aren’t new, they’ve intensified in recent months. Companies in Europe have started moving away from some US cloud giants in favor of services that handle data locally" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-privacy-friendly-tech-to-replace-your-us-based-email-browser-and-search/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:22:43


  • "Switzerland is considering amending its surveillance law" ☛ https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/we-would-be-less-confidential-than-google-proton-threatens-to-quit-switzerland-over-new-surveillance-law | Source: TechRadar    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:23:19


  • "NAFSA: Association of International Educators, a group that advocates for foreign students, decried the decision. The group’s CEO, Fanta Aw, said it unfairly cast aspersions on hardworking students." ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/trump-team-orders-stop-to-new-student-visa-interviews-as-it-weighs-expanding-social-media-vetting-00370501 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:23:43


  • "This is the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions and the ability to exfiltrate information." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/github-mcp-exploited/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:25:18


  • Windows TCO: "The developer of the popular MATLAB programming language and numeric computing environment said a ransomware attack is impacting its IT systems." ☛ https://therecord.media/matlab-developer-bringing-systems-online-ransomware | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:27:15


  • Windows TCO: "An Iranian man pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in the Robbinhood ransomware scheme, which most notably afflicted the city of Baltimore in a costly 2019 attack." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/iranian-man-pleads-guilty-in-robbinhood-ransomware-scheme/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:28:07


  • Windows TCO: "Yesterday MathWorks finally confirmed users' suspicions that ransomware was behind the days-long outage. Its status page first indicated there were issues with "multiple applications" on May 18." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/mathworks_ransomware_attack_leaves_ondeadline/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:28:27


  • "A US official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the suspension is intended to be temporary and does not affect applicants who already have scheduled visa interviews." ☛ https://www.firstpost.com/world/us-stops-scheduling-visa-appointments-for-foreign-students-amid-plans-of-social-media-screening-13892311.html | Source: Firstpost    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:29:07


  • "on internal communications" ☛ https://www.jns.org/us-reportedly-halting-new-student-visa-interviews-at-overseas-embassies/ | Source: JNS    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:30:56


  • "It’s the latest move from the Trump administration that could deter international students from studying at universities in the United States." ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/27/politics/state-department-embassies-pause-student-visa-appointments | Source: CNN    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:31:14


  • "We will continue to use every tool we can to assess who it is that’s coming here, whether they are students or otherwise" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/us-stops-scheduling-visa-interviews-for-foreign-students-1881751 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:31:45


  • "U.S. officials say the State Department has halted the scheduling of new visa interviews for foreign students hoping to study in the U.S." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-05-27/us-stops-scheduling-visa-interviews-for-foreign-students-while-it-expands-social-media-vetting | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:32:17


  • "The freeze targets all visa applicants in both academic and vocational studies (F and M visas) as well all applicants in educational and cultural exchange programs (J visas)." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-student-visas-social-media-b2758777.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:32:34


  • It was always true that social CONTROL media would NOT get you a job/admission/money. It would, however, help justify discriminating against you. You poured out your brains into a searchable archive anyone can access. China is having a field day, seeing how "credit score" becomes a US stigma.    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:34:37


  • "An extended pause in scheduling student visas could lead to delays that may disrupt college, boarding-school or exchange students' plans to enroll in summer and fall terms." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/washington-donald-trump-marco-rubio-joe-biden-politico-b2758892.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:35:12


  • "US State Department has temporarily suspended scheduling new student visa interviews worldwide. This action precedes anticipated stricter social media checks for foreign students under the Trump administration." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/study/us-pauses-new-student-visa-interviews-amid-plans-for-social-media-screening/articleshow/121445706.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:35:39


  • [Old] "Overall, this interview was a valuable experience for me, not only as a future educator, but also as a person in general." ☛ https://medium.com/@bessl019/i-interviewed-a-teenager-about-the-internet-and-this-is-what-he-had-to-say-6f9a5111b676 | Source: Medium    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:37:32


  • USA very quickly became everything it accused CPC of being    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:47:27


  • iophk: The US has, in effect, a social credit score, it's just run by private companies instead    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:47:33


  • "I use AI related tooling for various tasks, as do my kids." ☛ https://chrisenns.com/2025/05/goodbye-arc/ | Source: Chris Enns    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:49:49


  • "Venture capital didn’t kill Arc. It gave us the chance to see what Arc could be. That’s more than most products ever get." ☛ https://molodtsov.me/2025/05/the-myths-of-venture-capital/ | Source: Yury Molodtsov    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:50:15


  • "Instead, the company has shifted work to Dia, which the company says will be an “AI-first” browser. That browser is currently in alpha testing." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2795432/the-beloved-arc-browser-is-in-stasis-cast-aside-for-an-ai-future.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:50:31


  • "For the unfamiliar, Arc is a design-heavy, Chromium-based browser that tried to rethink tabs, spaces, and how users interact with the web, but it never quite hit the mainstream." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/arc_browser_development_ends/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:51:57


  • "That’s more or less what researchers at Palisade AI are saying happened with OpenAI’s latest model, o3. In tests, this well-behaved AI straight-up ignored commands to shut down. And if that wasn’t enough, it also cheated at chess to win." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/05/refusing-shutdown-cheating-at-chess-and-blackmailing-humans-ai-is-already-acting-strange/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:52:36


  • "It absolutely will not stop -- ever -- until you accept its pull req̷̩̓u̸̾͜ḙ̶̈s̶̫͑t̶̙͒." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/05/today-in-now-you-have-two-problems-news/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:52:57


  • "This morning, I learned not only that this was no longer the case but also that I’d “missed the memo” about it" ☛ https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2025/05/pages-workers-again/ | Source: Bryce Wray    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:53:21


  • ChatGPT... so reliable it is run by a man sued by his OWN younger sister for sexual abuse. Because hey, Jeffrey Epstein did nothing wrong, right? Let's hop aboard.    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:54:25


  • "However, the addiction dark pattern has another component; the endless and often junky content which really makes the scroll endless. That part can not stay" ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/endless-scroll | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:54:39


  • "As explained in Arad’s build video, The Food and Agriculture Organisation reports that traditional irrigation methods waste up to 60% of the water intended for crops." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/building-smarter-farming-irrigation-with-raspberry-pi-and-iot/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:55:03


  • "It’s a laptop as one would expect, not much more to say, except for two features." ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/quirking-an-openbsd-laptop | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:55:32


  • "She has been designing some new tools and curriculum, based on those interviews. She is now looking for teachers to critique the work, to be co-designers on new versions, and possibly to use some of these in their classrooms. Below is her call for participants." ☛ https://computinged.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/seeking-k-12-computing-teachers-with-emerging-bilingual-students-in-their-classes/ | Source: CER    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:56:20


  • "Unfortunately, I do not have the data for 2024 yet. But from 2021 to 2023, the number of software developers in the US has grown both in relative and absolute terms." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/05/27/is-the-job-market-for-software-developers-collapsing/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:56:44


  • "In 2023, I scraped data from software developer job ads to discover local trends such as the most wanted programming language (Java, C#/.NET, and JavaScript—no big surprises there)." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/05/software-engineering-job-titles/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 10:59:17


  • [Old] "When man created the bicycle, he created a tool that amplified an inherent ability. That’s why I like to compare the personal computer to a bicycle." ☛ https://technicshistory.com/2024/09/08/a-bicycle-for-the-mind-prologue/ |    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:00:10


  • "This question comes up a lot in conversations. The short answer? I don’t. There’s just too much happening, too fast, for anyone to stay on top of everything." ☛ https://www.luisquintanilla.me/posts/how-i-keep-up-with-ai | Source: Luis Quintanilla    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:00:30


  • How to start configuration as code for an Ansible instance ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/27/how-start-configuration-code-ansible-instance    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:01:59


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

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:05:55


  • How To Install CSF Firewall on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-csf-firewall-manjaro/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:06:13


  • "Long-time readers will know that I’m a fan of shorthand, even though I don’t get many opportunities to practice it these days." ☛ https://entropicthoughts.com/generating-shorthand-svg-in-js | Source: Chris    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:07:05


  • How To Install Metasploit on Rocky GNU/Linux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-metasploit-rocky-linux-9/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:07:22


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

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:07:37


  • "This is nothing "amazingly new", but more of a reminder to secure your "authorized_keys" file for SSH. One of the first things I see even simple bots do to obtain persistent access to a UNIX system is to add a key to the authorized_keys file of whatever account they are compromising." ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31986 | Source: SANS    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:07:53


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

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:08:23


  • "When you read my blog articles and stuff – you may get the idea that everything I do – just happens to be right and that I succeed at every attempt." ☛ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/failed-backup-server-build/ | Source: Vermaden    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:08:39


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

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:09:04


  • AlmaLinux OS 10 Released ☞ https://idroot.us/almalinux-10-released/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:09:20


  • "With the release of the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld, we’ve now got a real apples-to-apples comparison of how Windows 11 fares against Linux (specifically, SteamOS with KDE Plasma) on the same 1st-party supported OEM hardware in a gaming context. And the results are pretty devastating for Windows in terms of performance and battery life" ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/27/steamos-destroys-windows/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:19:49


  • "...— according to even windowscentral.com! Neither WindowsCentral nor the original video from Dave2d mention desktop mode, but the answer there is just as clear, as all of us in the FOSS space have known for ages." ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/27/steamos-destroys-windows/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:19:59


  • "With the release of the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld, we’ve now got a real apples-to-apples comparison of how Windows 11 fares against Linux (specifically, SteamOS with KDE Plasma) on the same 1st-party supported OEM hardware in a gaming context." ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/27/steamos-destroys-windows/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:21:13


  • "The SteamOS version of Lenovo's gaming handheld has better performance, better battery life, and a better price." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2795080/sorry-windows-lenovos-legion-go-s-runs-better-with-steamos.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:21:36


  • "Given my wonder of if anyone reads this, I've added an atom feed with the help of Nyptu" gemini://envs.net/~olap/musings-20250528.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:26:36


  • "We approve so much that we quoted it before. The trouble is that OpenBSD is so very restrictive that it eschews useful tech such as ZFS; even though there was a port, the person who did the work explained why it was a bad fit. If that's too long to read, consider this shorter and pithier answer to the question Is ZFS the answer?. It's from a presentation which starts: [...]" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/elusive_goal_of_simplicity/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:39:11


  • "We approve so much that we quoted it before. The trouble is that OpenBSD is so very restrictive that it eschews useful tech such as ZFS; even though there was a port, the person who did the work explained why it was a bad fit." " ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/elusive_goal_of_simplicity/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:39:30


  • "If that's too long to read, consider this shorter and pithier answer to the question Is ZFS the answer?. It's from a presentation which starts: [...]" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/elusive_goal_of_simplicity/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:39:36


  • Twitter ("x") is dying, so now MElonazi is decorating the thing with lots of slop, LLM garbage, trying to make up for the growing silence    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:44:16


  • Maybe next they will tell shareholders they observe more "engagement" in "the platform". Yes, bots talking to other bots. AMAZING!    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:45:06


  • "I tried it. I thought I'd succeeded. I hit the maintenance burden and I conceded defeat." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/despite-the-warnings-i-tried-self-hosting-my-email/ | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:45:54


  • "Anyway, one of the approaches I’m exploring does get tangled up in modules and scoping so now I have to figure modules out. This post is about one little syntax design question I ran into: how do you distinguish public and private declarations?" ☛ https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2025/05/26/access-control-syntax/ | Source: Bob Nystrom    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:46:58


  • "As covered in my Emacs packages, vertico is one of the third party Emacs packages that I have installed to modify how minibuffer completion works for me, or at least how it looks." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsVerticoSettingsNotes | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:47:10


  • "In my previous post, LLVM integrated assembler: Improving MCExpr and MCValue delved into enhancements made to LLVM's internal MCExpr and MCValue representations." ☛ https://maskray.me/blog/2025-05-26-llvm-integrated-assembler-improving-expressions-and-relocations | Source: MaskRay    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:47:19


  • "Both of these imply a certain impenetrability and obfuscation. Be it via a programming language or a soothsayer server. Relying on these means giving up one's agency to some abstract party you cannot control." ☛ https://aartaka.me/explanations.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:47:37


  • "In this blog post, we will show how to use the tidymodels framework for spatial machine learning. The tidymodels framework is a collection of R packages for modeling and machine learning using tidyverse principles." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/spatial-machine-learning-with-the-tidymodels-framework/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:47:49


  • "I think I’ve finally found the webstack I’ve been chasing for years: Actix-web + SQLx + Tera + Tailwind CSS + HTMX, all in Rust." ☛ https://theholytachanka.com/the-perfect-webstack | Source: THT    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:47:59


  • 🔤SpellBinding: BIMOSWT Wordo: ABODE gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-05-28.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:50:13


  • "It seems inexorable, and this means that even writing this is a silly idea. It elicits a helplessness." gemini://envs.net/~olap/musings-20250420.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:50:55


  • "A quick update on my how to prevent AI consumption. Proof of Work will cause web pages to be too costly to scrape, I wish I had this idea but not me" gemini://envs.net/~olap/musings-20250527.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:51:44


  • weekend away, still hooked gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/detox10    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:52:28


  • open wound gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/detox11    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:53:17


  • "I will be turning off my website and gemini capsule for all of June! (My email address will work, but I won't be responding to any emails in June) I considered this last Friday night, but am committing to it now. I want to be offline for June in general. My "final straw" to convince me of this was Manuel Moreale's post "Experimental June" (linked below)." gemini://vigrey.com/journal/no-online-june.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:54:08


  • "It's been a minute since I posted about Alhena. It now supports nex:// if you're keen to wander the streets of Nightfall City. I can't remember offhand all the additions and fixes since my last shameless plug. I think the inline player supports a few new media types including flac and wav." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/bluesman/28996    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:54:45


  • softness all over gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/softness_all_over    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:56:44


  • "If you find a bug or have a suggestion for how we could improve this release, please let us know." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1453/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:57:41


  • "Mozilla Thunderbird 139 open-source email client lands with granular notification controls, message actions in alerts, folder sorting, and more." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-139-lands-with-granular-notification-controls/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:58:23


  • "We used to control our computers. Now our computers are used to control us." ☛ https://futo.org/about/what-is-futo/ | Source: FUTO    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 11:58:33


  • "For these who do wonder what is this here is link to the TuxCon2025 challenge." ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/the-open-source-hardware-and-software-e20-smart-home-server-hardware-development-started/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:07:19


  • "Just for fun, let’s see who can come closest to a make, model and year for this lovely typewriter I’ve got on the bench this week for restoration." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2025/05/27/game-name-that-naked-typewriter-2/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:07:28


  • "The Luminaphone was a very early example of an electronic instrument and it worked by modulating the light shining onto a selenium cell, which is a kind of photoresistor." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/05/27/recreating-a-bizarre-century-old-electric-instrument/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:08:06


  • iophk: Thus the recent increase in distracting noise out of the Kremlin: https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-new-drone-strategy-cripple-moscows-airports-make-russian-population-pay/ ("Ukraine's new drone strategy cripple Moscow's airports, make Russian population 'pay'")    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:08:42


  • Get 3 months of Arduino Cloud Free with your UNO R4 WiFi! ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/05/27/get-3-months-of-arduino-cloud-free-with-your-uno-r4-wifi/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:09:51


  • "Exactly a week after the RHEL 10 release, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation has officially announced the availability of AlmaLinux OS 10 “Purple Lion,” powered by kernel 6.12, providing a reliable, fully RHEL-compatible Linux experience." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/almalinux-10-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:10:42


  • "The AlmaLinux OS team have announced version 10.0 of their distribution which aims to be compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux while also expanding support to a wider range of hardware. [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12456 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:11:25


  • "There is a distinction between v2 and v1 implementation of cgroup. However v2 was introduced in Linux kernel 4.5 in 2016. It included a much simpler design, so we will consider it the only version to simplify this guide [ref]." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2025/05/26/linux-cgroup-from-first-principles |    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:12:55


  • "If disaster strikes and files get lost, ZFS can restore data by rolling back to a previous snapshot – given that one exists for that particular dataset." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/zfs-automatic-snapshots-with-sanoid-on-freebsd/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:13:05


  • Manuals, guidebooks, LLM slop and search are not a substitute for actual experience and deep comprehension. They never will be. Hence the need for actual human workers.    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:14:02


  • Because in many areas mediocre work can be a lot worse than no work at all    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:14:30


  • "This week Mike McGrath from Red Hat joins us and we talk about RHEL AI, quantum computing, and we get an update as to where Red Hat landed with all the licensing drama from a few years ago." ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/443 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:15:01


  • EasyOS Scarthgap-series version 6.6.9 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202505/easyos-scarthgap-series-version-669-released.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:23:54


  • Release Candidate for SuperTuxKart 1.5 ☞ https://blog.supertuxkart.net/2025/05/release-candidate-for-supertuxkart-15.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:24:44


  • libreArts Weekly recap — 25 May 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/05/week-recap-25-may-2025/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:26:19


  • YAML Validator ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/tools/yaml-validator/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:27:30


  • KaOS May 2025 ISO Drops Qt5 for Good, Marks Full Transition to Qt6 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kaos-may-2025-iso-drops-qt5-for-good-marks-full-transition-to-qt6/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:27:54


  • DietPi 9.13 Lands with Mandatory Password Changes ☞ https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-13-lands-with-mandatory-password-changes/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:28:20


  • "improvements to AlmaLinux OS 10 that target specific sections of our userbase." https://lwn.net/Articles/1022744/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:29:18


  • Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1022703/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:31:21


  • Testing the new syslog-ng wildcard-file() source options on GNU/Linux ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/testing-the-new-wildard-file-source-options-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:31:38


  • Peter Czanik: Testing the new syslog-ng wildcard-file() source options on GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/testing-the-new-syslog-ng-wildcard-file-source-options-on-linux    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:31:57


  • 5 GNU/Linux Commands Every Beginner Should Know ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/videos/5-linux-commands-every-beginner-should-know/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:32:44


  • Red Hat-sponsored spam about Red Hat or malpractice ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/27/rosa-red-hat-aws-cloud-modernization-managed-kubernetes-hybrid-rhsummit/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:33:58


  • Agama Releasing version 15 ☞ https://agama-project.github.io/blog/2025/05/27/agama-15    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:34:14


  • SpaceX Starship Loses Control on Test Flight 9 as Rocket Re-enters Earth ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/science/spacex-starship-launch-elon-musk-mars.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:49:51


  • Reversing the brain drain: Can Europe successfully woo scientists amid US research cuts? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/science/20250527-reversing-brain-drain-can-europe-successfully-woo-scientists-amid-us-research-cuts-trump    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:50:02


  • Maternal Mental Health Has Declined, Study Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/well/family/maternal-mental-health-study.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:50:23


  • This is the very OPPOSITE of war on gender https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/donald-trumps-war-on-gender-is-also-a-war-on-government    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:51:26


  • Pakistani Police Officer Killed In Attack On Polio Vaccine Team ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistani-police-officer-killed-attack-polio-vaccine-balochistan/33425483.html https://www.csis.org/blogs/smart-global-health/fake-cia-vaccine-campaign-when-end-doesnt-justify-means    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:52:39


  • Latvia will compensate medicines for urgent patients ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/27.05.2025-latvia-will-compensate-medicines-for-urgent-patients.a600727/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:53:06


  • Health Ministry confirms 6 cases of human screwworm infestations in Chiapas and Campeche ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/screwworm-outbreak-mexico/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:53:26


  • Keynote Speaker - Cory Doctorow https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJLw    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 12:54:33


  • [Old] Pigeons, Operant Conditioning, and Social Control https://hackeducation.com/2018/06/15/pigeons    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:00:22


  • iophk: the doctorow keynote touches on some core values of FOSS towards the end of his talk at ~42 min https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJLw    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:02:23


  • How North Korea Botched Its Warship Launch ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/world/asia/north-korea-warship-destroyer.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:02:54


  • South Korea police impose travel ban on former PM Han and ex-finance minister Choi ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-police-impose-travel-ban-on-former-pm-han-and-ex-finance-minister-choi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:05:12


  • Candidate spouses take centre stage in South Korea's heated presidential race ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/candidate-spouses-take-centre-stage-in-south-koreas-heated-presidential-race    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:05:29


  • South Korean presidential candidates debate about various issues in televised address ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-presidential-candidates-debate-about-various-issues-in-televised-address    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:05:44


  • Fears of a purge in shipyard town after North Korea destroyer launch goes wrong ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/05/27/north-korea-warship-aftermath/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:06:06


  • Malaysia sees reducing US’ proposed tariff to 10% as a good outcome ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-sees-reducing-the-us-proposed-tariff-to-10-as-a-good-outcome    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:07:57


  • S’porean man and wife nabbed in Malaysia for peddling drug-laced vape liquids to schoolkids ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/sporean-man-and-wife-nabbed-in-malaysia-for-peddling-drug-laced-vape-liquids-to-schoolkids    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:08:18


  • Timor-Leste to be granted full Asean membership in October, says Malaysia PM Anwar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/timor-leste-to-be-granted-full-asean-membership-in-oct-2025-pm-anwar    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:08:36


  • Teacher in viral ‘affair case’ relieved of duties: Malaysia’s education minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-education-minister-said-teacher-in-viral-affair-case-relieved-of-duties    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:08:48


  • Malaysia urges extension of Myanmar ceasefire following devastating earthquake ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/malaysia-urges-extension-of-myanmar-ceasefire-following-devastating-earthquake/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:09:17


  • China’s Premier urges Asean, Gulf nations to remove trade barriers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/chinas-premier-urges-asean-gulf-nations-to-remove-trade-barriers    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:15:47


  • Smoke still rising one day after deadly China chemical plant blast ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/smoke-still-rising-one-day-after-deadly-china-chemical-plant-blast    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:17:54


  • Japan says China conducted research near Pacific atoll ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-says-china-conducted-research-near-pacific-atoll    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:18:08


  • At least 5 dead, 6 missing after chemical plant blast in China’s Shandong ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/large-blast-hits-chemical-plant-in-chinas-shandong-no-report-of-casualties-yet    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:18:23


  • Malaysia stirs ‘hotpot diplomacy’ with palm-based fat for China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-stirs-hotpot-diplomacy-with-palm-based-fat-for-china    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:18:40


  • Asean leaders meet China Premier Li and Gulf state dignitaries to bolster ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/asean-leaders-meet-chinas-li-and-gulf-states-to-bolster-ties    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:19:00


  • 'Instead of crippling China's semiconductor ambitions, U.S. sanctions may be inadvertently accelerating them': Report claims Washington measures could be bolstering China's chip market ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/instead-of-crippling-chinas-semiconductor-ambitions-u-s-sanctions-may-be-inadvertently-accelerating-them-report-claims-washington-measures-could-be-bolstering-chinas-chip-market    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:19:32


  • Developing nations face ‘tidal wave’ of debt repayments to China in 2025: report ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/05/27/china-belt-and-road-debt-repayments/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:19:48


  • Developing nations face ‘tidal wave’ of China debt, report warns ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/27/developing-nations-face-tidal-wave-of-china-debt-report-warns/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:20:13


  • Southeast Asia, Gulf and China 3-way talks ‘response to call of times’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/27/southeast-asia-gulf-and-china-3-way-talks-response-to-call-of-times/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:21:08


  • UV Printer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/27/hands-on-eufymake-e1-uv-printer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:25:20


  • CRT Tube ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/27/reconditioning-a-vintage-crt-tube/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:26:14


  • "Genetic Modification" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/27/fixing-a-fatal-genetic-defect-in-babies-with-a-bit-of-genetic-modification/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:26:43


  • Pet Hacks Contest ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/27/2025-pet-hacks-contest-fyto-turn-your-plant-into-a-pet/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:47:05


  • "as strong as steel and as light as Styrofoam!" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/27/new-supermaterial-as-strong-as-steel-and-as-light-as-styrofoam/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:47:31


  • Trees May Be Able to Warn Us When a Volcano Is About to Erupt ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/trees-may-be-able-to-warn-us-when-a-volcano-is-about-to-erupt    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:48:08


  • World's First CRISPR-Edited Spiders Shoot Fluoro Red Silk From Their Butt ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-first-crispr-edited-spiders-shoot-fluoro-red-silk-from-their-butt    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:48:24


  • South London Press closes down after 160 years covering UK capital ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/south-london-press-closed/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:49:05


  • Motorcycle ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/27/hand-truck-turned-into-motorcycle/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:49:32


  • Red Hat-sponsored spam about Red Hat or malpractice ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/27/turkish-airlines-boosts-efficiency-red-hat-openshift-ai-rhsummit/ Spam disguised as journalism is highly problematic    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:51:25


  • Not a single article in over 2 months now https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:52:46


  • Watch: 1,000-Foot Lava Jets Erupt From Hawaii's Kīlauea Volcano ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/watch-1000-foot-lava-jets-erupt-from-hawaiis-kilauea-volcano    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:53:20


  • 60% of The Ocean Floor Could Harbor 'Rare' Supergiant Crustacean ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/60-of-the-ocean-floor-could-harbor-rare-supergiant-crustacean    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:53:39


  • Rubik's Cube Record Smashed in Less Time Than It Takes to Blink ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/rubiks-cube-record-smashed-in-less-time-than-it-takes-to-blink    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:54:02


  • Earliest Known Whale Bone Tools Discovered in Europe's Museum Collections ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/earliest-known-whale-bone-tools-discovered-in-europes-museum-collections    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:54:16


  • Who Gets Your 'Digital Remains' When You Die? Here's Some Expert Advice. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/who-gets-your-digital-remains-when-you-die-heres-some-expert-advice    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:54:28


  • The Big Bang's Glowing 'Echo' May Be Something Else Entirely ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-big-bangs-glowing-echo-may-be-something-else-entirely    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:54:47


  • JWST's Deepest Gaze at a Single Spot in Space Reveals Ancient Wonders ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/jwsts-deepest-gaze-at-a-single-spot-in-space-reveals-ancient-wonders    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:55:16


  • Here’s what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/05/heres-what-a-texas-oil-executive-from-doge-is-doing-inside-the-interior-department/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:55:52


  • Why the Micro-Mobility Sector is Betting on Robust and High-Performance Systems ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/why-the-micro-mobility-sector-is-betting-on-robust-and-high-performance-systems    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:57:03


  • Qt is pushing things as proprietary ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-early-warning-list-available    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:57:38


  • Proprietary software -> JAIL https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/dieselgate_sentencing_cases_still_coming/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 13:59:36


  • Why McKinsey layoffs signal trouble in 2025 https://www.thehrdigest.com/why-mckinsey-layoffs-signal-trouble-in-2025/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:00:28


  • Many LLM slop sites (about 10 in the past 24 hours) say IBM replaces workers with slop. There are many issues here; a) those are not real news sites b) the news is false, cover for IBM's financial failures c) slop has no use case, but sites made of slop try to spread what makes them exist    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:03:55


  • Refusing Shutdown, Cheating at Chess, and Blackmailing Humans: Hey Hi (AI) SLOP Is Already Acting Strange ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/05/refusing-shutdown-cheating-at-chess-and-blackmailing-humans-ai-is-already-acting-strange/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:05:07


  • Israel attorney general says PM's nomination for Shin Bet chief 'illegal' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250527-israel-attorney-general-says-pm-s-nomination-for-shin-bet-chief-illegal    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:05:34


  • IBM-sponsored spam about IBM or rogue "journalism" ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/27/copilots-orchestrators-ai-agents-reshape-ibms-automation-playbook-ibmthink/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:06:51


  • And yet more IBM-sponsored spam about IBM/Red Hat ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/27/automation-at-scale-observability-ibm-future-application-rhsummit/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:07:39


  • Holocaust memorial in north Lithuania draws condemnation from Jewish community ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2575203/holocaust-memorial-in-north-lithuania-draws-condemnation-from-jewish-community    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:08:42


  • South Africa is not changing policy to suit MElonazi's Starlink ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20250527-south-africa-is-not-changing-policy-to-suit-musk-s-starlink    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:09:22


  • French Crypto Chiefs Step Up Security After Violent Kidnappings ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/world/europe/france-crypto-kidnappings.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:16:15


  • They demand that Microsoft controls the computer remotely ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/battlefield-2042-follows-valorants-footsteps-now-requires-secure-boot-to-play-the-game http://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:17:16


  • Our capabilities. A story about what we can achieve ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/our-capabilities-a-story-about-what-we-can-achieve/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:17:53


  • “Triple crisis” in Mozambique – UN refugee agency representative ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/triple-crisis-in-mozambique-un-refugee-agency-representative/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:18:41


  • SA Sees Surge in Asylum Applications, But Processing Backlogs and Low Acceptance Rates Persist ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/border-security/sa-sees-surge-in-asylum-applications-but-processing-backlogs-and-low-acceptance-rates-persist/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:18:53


  • Many conflicts in Africa this year, more than Western media would have people realise exist    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:19:29


  • To the average east Asian or European or north American the notion of being unable to get anything done due to war is still quite outlandish. This isn't about some terror attack here and there but lack of food, water, electricity and other basics.    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:20:41


  • Jordan-Israel security cooperation continues quietly but unabated ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/jordan-israel-security-cooperation-continues-quietly-but-unabated/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:22:52


  • A chance for Australia to grab: Europe’s offer of a security pact ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/a-chance-for-australia-to-grab-europes-offer-of-a-security-pact/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:23:27


  • Australia’s national security depends on robust, sustainable food and nutrition security ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-national-security-depends-on-robust-sustainable-food-and-nutrition-security/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:24:19


  • Report: Most of CISA’s senior leaders are leaving the agency ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/05/27/report-cisas-senior-leaders-leaving-agency/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:29:56


  • Windows TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/law-firms-warned-of-silent-ransom-group-attacks/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:30:25


  • Thunderbird 139 Adds ‘Mark as Read’ and ‘Delete’ Actions to Email Notifications ☞ https://9to5linux.com/thunderbird-139-adds-mark-as-read-and-delete-actions-to-email-notifications    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:31:25


  • Independent Distro KaOS 2025.05 Arrives with GNU/Linux 6.14 and KDE Gear 25.04 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/independent-distro-kaos-2025-05-arrives-with-linux-6-14-and-kde-gear-25-04    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:31:46


  • AlmaLinux OS 10 Released as a Free Alternative to Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/almalinux-os-10-released-as-a-free-alternative-to-red-hat-enterprise-linux-10    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:32:17


  • Firefox 140 Enters Beta Testing as the Next ESR (Extended Support Release) Series ☞ https://9to5linux.com/firefox-140-enters-beta-testing-as-the-next-esr-extended-support-release-series    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:32:26


  • Is it A Website or an OS??? ☞ http://www.makululinux.com/wp/2025/05/28/is-it-a-website-or-an-os/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:33:04


  • Carrying water for Microsoft lies http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Microsoft-Makes-Surprising-WSL-Announcement see http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/22/The_Evolution_of_Microsoft_s_War_on_GNU_Linux.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:33:52


  • Linux Kernel 6.15 Now Available ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Kernel-6.15-Now-Available    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:34:51


  • Kernel 6.15: Divide and conquer ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/kernel-615-divide-and-conquer.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:35:57


  • Linux 6.15 now available, last week brings improvements to HP ZBooks and Bcachefs https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-615-now-available-last-week-brings-improvements-to-hp-zbooks-and-bcachefs/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:39:17


  • AMD quietly releases Radeon RX 9060 XT & PRO R9700 drivers for Linux https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-quietly-releases-radeon-rx-9060-xt-pro-r9700-drivers-for-linux    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:41:08


  • "Rhino Linux's first UBXI port is here!" https://news.itsfoss.com/rhino-linux-ubxi-kde-desktop/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/27/Rhino_Linux_Can_and_Perhaps_Should_Promotes_Alternatives_to_Mic.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:41:59


  • "Like other releases, Starship does not include any copyrighted assets so you are required to provide a supported copy of the game. Which should hopefully keep Nintendo away from it." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/fan-made-pc-port-of-star-fox-64-gets-a-linux-version-in-a-big-update/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:42:36


  • How to Uninstall a Linux App on a Chromebook https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-uninstall-a-linux-app-on-a-chromebook/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:42:57


  • "Today, Linus Torvalds announced the release and general availability of Linux 6.15, the latest stable kernel version that introduces several new features and improvements, better hardware support, and more." https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-15-officially-released-this-is-whats-new    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:43:27


  • Moscow ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/28/former-moscow-state-university-professor-dies-by-suicide-after-losing-life-savings-to-scammers | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:45:00


  • Nearly half of Hongkongers who lost loved ones to suicide at high risk of PTSD, survey shows ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/28/nearly-half-of-hongkongers-who-lost-loved-ones-to-suicide-at-high-risk-of-ptsd-survey-shows/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:45:30


  • France's assisted dying bill: What's in it? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/entre-nous/20250527-france-s-assisted-dying-bill-what-s-in-it    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:45:40


  • Tapping screen for Fentanylware (TikTok) using shell script ☞ http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/40710/tapping-screen-for-tiktok-using-shell-script    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:46:09


  • "TikTok bathroom ritual" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/27/tiktok-bathroom-ritual-leads-to-police-investigation-at-russian-cadet-school | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:46:34


  • SA Department of Defence not off the hook for COVID-19 acquisitions ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sa-defence/sa-defence-sa-defence/sa-department-of-defence-not-off-the-hook-for-covid-19-acquisitions/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:47:35


  • South-east Asia sees near 150 per cent rise in heart disease, study shows ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/south-east-asia-sees-near-150-per-cent-rise-in-heart-disease-study-shows "During the Covid-19 pandemic, the incidence of deaths due to cardiovascular disease rose more than predicted." Did the virus cause it any more than the experimental solutions to it?    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:48:25


  • Under RFK Jr., the CDC Says Healthy Children Don’t Need Covid Vaccines. Is That True? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/well/rfk-jr-cdc-children-covid-vaccines-data.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:48:41


  • The U.S. Ended Some Covid Vaccine Recommendations ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/briefing/covid-vaccines-federal-contracts-harvard.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:48:51


  • For airport in a CAPITAL CITY this is laughably low ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/27.05.2025-riga-airport-reports-eur-34-million-in-profits-for-2024.a600759/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:49:36


  • Celebrate for IBM, the company that fires older and experienced workers while lying to and gaslighting them ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/05/fedora-42-release-party-join-the-celebration-on-thursday/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:50:35


  • Don’t Panic! There’s an F42 Release Party on Thursday! https://fedoramagazine.org/dont-panic-theres-an-f42-release-party-on-thursday/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:51:12


  • "Testing out the Beta on Desktop Linux (Kubuntu 25.04) with the latest Proton 9.0-4, there was no mouse movement in matches but a controller did work. However, mouse movement did work in the menus, so that's an odd one." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/splitgate-2-now-works-on-desktop-linux-with-the-anti-cheat-updated/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:54:05


  • "Linux is free, but that doesn't mean you should never consider spending a little cash on it. But when? I have five points for you to think about." https://www.zdnet.com/article/should-you-ever-pay-for-linux-5-times-i-did-and-why/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:54:30


  • Linux Kernel 6.15 Lands with Rust-based NVIDIA Driver, File System Upgrades, and More https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-6-15/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:54:50


  • Linux Matters #56: Python A-Go-Go ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/56/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:56:34


  • Do Convicted Felon’s criticisms of Putin mark a turning point in his Russia policy? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/do-trumps-criticisms-of-putin-mark-a-turning-point-in-his-russia-policy/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:57:02


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Says Putin ‘Playing With Fire’ After 3 Days Of Deadly Russian Attacks On Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-putin-ukraine-war-bombing-spree/33425805.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:57:13


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man warns Putin 'playing with fire' as US weighs new sanctions over Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250528-trump-putin-playing-with-fire-us-weighs-sanctions-ukraine    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:57:20


  • China’s Hygon and Sugon merge to form a vertically integrated supercomputing giant as they fend off US sanctions ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/supercomputers/chinas-hygon-and-sugon-merge-to-form-a-vertically-integrated-supercomputing-giant-as-they-fend-off-us-sanctions    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 14:57:42


  • DigitalDoors cloud storage patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/5/27/digitaldoors-cloud-storage-patent-challenge-instituted    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:44:27


  • "We should respond in kind" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/27/we-should-respond-in-kind | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:45:00


  • "Spoiler: the USSR is still dead" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/27/spoiler-the-ussr-is-still-dead | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:45:08


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Accuses Putin of ‘Playing With Fire’ as He Mulls Sanctions on Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/trump-putin-ukraine-russia-sanctions.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:45:21


  • Russia is extinguishing all traces of Ukrainian identity in occupied Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russia-is-extinguishing-all-traces-of-ukrainian-identity-in-occupied-ukraine/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:47:58


  • Russia’s summer offensive could spark a new humanitarian crisis in Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-summer-offensive-could-spark-a-new-humanitarian-crisis-in-ukraine/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:48:19


  • North Korean POWs in Ukraine excluded from Moscow-Kyiv prisoner swap: South lawmaker ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/05/27/north-korea-pow-ukraine-russia-swap/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:48:42


  • Ukrainian climber released from detention days after record-breaking Everest ascent ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/ukrainian-climber-released-from-detention-days-after-record-breaking-everest-ascent    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:50:18


  • Republicans Urge Convicted Felon to Put New Sanctions on Russia Amid Ukraine Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/us/politics/trump-russia-ukraine-strikes.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:50:29


  • Zelensky Is Expected in Berlin as Merz Steps Forward as Key Backer of Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/world/europe/zelensky-germany-trip.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:50:39


  • Satellite Images Suggest a Russian Plan to Restart Seized Ukrainian Nuclear Plant ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/world/europe/russia-ukraine-nuclear-zaporizhzhia.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:50:59


  • "Biden-era restrictions" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/27/trump-considering-lifting-biden-era-restrictions-on-ukraine-s-military-operations-kyiv-post | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:51:13


  • "playing drone games" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/27/zelensky-vows-symmetrical-response-as-moscow-threatens-ukraine-for-playing-drone-games-on-russian-territory | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 15:51:26


  • TR has medvedev gates photo ops; there's also https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/StatCounter_Shows_the_Market_Share_of_Vista_11_is_Decreasing_in.shtml from 2025 and https://techrights.org/o/2010/06/22/russian-president-and-plea/ from 2010. And cited last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/world/europe/12raids.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:02:40


  • Microsoft and Apple still help Putin fight Ukraine. They do so for profit. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/27/we-should-respond-in-kind    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:03:14


  • iophk: that's because Microsoft sells centralization + censorship + surveillance in a way that FOSS cannot easily compete with    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:04:25


  • Russian Government Hackers Caught Buying Passwords from Cybercriminals ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-government-hackers-caught-buying-passwords-from-cybercriminals/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:08:02


  • Dutch Intelligence Agencies Say Russian Hackers Stole Police Data in Cyberattack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/dutch-intelligence-agencies-say-russian-hackers-stole-police-data-in-cyberattack/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:08:20


  • Did they also change the WINDOWS wallpaper?    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:08:36


  • Michta featured in RealClearDefense on concrete actions to strengthen NATO’s resolve amid shifting geopolitics ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/insight-impact/in-the-news/michta-featured-in-realcleardefense-on-concrete-actions-to-strengthen-natos-resolve-amid-shifting-geopolitics/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:09:02


  • "Abusive Monopolist Microsoft researchers said"... BUT MICROSOFT IS THE REASON RUSSIANS GET INTO US GOV. SYSTEMS IN THE FIRST PLACE ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/laundry-bear-void-blizzard-russia-apt/ culprit spun as "expert" in lousy "media"    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:10:01


  • Russia authorities detain activists during anti-political imprisonment event ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/russia-authorities-detain-activists-during-anti-political-imprisonment-event/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:10:40


  • Company owned by Lithuanian official supplied Western luxury brands to Russia – media ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2575418/company-owned-by-lithuanian-official-supplied-western-luxury-brands-to-russia-media    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:11:00


  • Russian-Belarusian drills won’t be ‘bigger or more threatening’ – Lithuanian military ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2575326/russian-belarusian-drills-won-t-be-bigger-or-more-threatening-lithuanian-military    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:11:11


  • EU Finds China Responsible For 80 Percent Of Russia Sanctions Avoidance, Says German Report ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/german-report-eu-china-russia-sanctions-avoidance-80-percent/33425633.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:11:27


  • How to Hide a 350-Foot Megayacht ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/magazine/trump-offshore-money-russia-oligarchs.html "Russian oligarchs use the offshore system to shield their luxury assets. The Forrest Dump Administration is ending an effort to find and seize them."    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:11:52


  • Caught Between Russia and the U.S., Germany Aims to Be a Stronger Force in NATO ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/world/europe/germany-military-russia-trump.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:12:04


  • "Prison diary" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/27/prison-diary | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:12:20


  • Russia Using False Information to Prop Up Junta Regimes ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/05/russia-using-false-information-to-prop-up-junta-regimes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=russia-using-false-information-to-prop-up-junta-regimes    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:12:40


  • Latvia-Belarus border guards see over 60 illegal crossing attempts daily ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/27.05.2025-latvia-belarus-border-guards-see-over-60-illegal-crossing-attempts-daily.a600685/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:12:47


  • "Man tries to poison lynx and leopards at Moscow Zoo " ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/05/27/man-tries-to-poison-lynx-and-leopards-at-moscow-zoo | Source: Meduza | ping MinceR    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:14:41


  • Brazil: PTO publishes patent monopoly re-examination guidelines & Post-Appeal prosecution ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/05/27/brazil-pto-publishes-patent-re-examination-guidelines-post-appeal-prosecution/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:15:11


  • Distorted picture of anti-Semitism: Study accuses German ‘reporting centres’ of one-sidedness and lack of transparency ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/05/27/distorted-picture-of-anti-semitism-study-accuses-german-reporting-centres-of-one-sidedness-and-lack-of-transparency/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:17:27


  • Schengen Information System: 41 million daily searches in Europe and a increase in manhunts for persons ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/05/27/schengen-information-system-41-million-daily-searches-in-europe-and-a-increase-in-manhunts-for-persons/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:17:36


  • Nothing wrong with this, but Microsoft lunduke is with the MAGAts and part of this religion is rejection of science ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/canadian-bsd-conference-to-require    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:18:46


  • Nerd Fests Ban Conservatives, Invite Leftists Promoting Terrorism ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/nerd-fests-ban-conservatives-invite    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:19:14


  • Instagram & Facebook (Farcebook) (META) how to opt out of data usage for Hey Hi (AI) training – how social control media such as x.com is not neutral at all but biased in order to manipulate elections ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/05/26/instagram-facebook-meta-how-to-opt-out-of-data-usage-for-ai-training-how-social-media-such-as-x-com-is-not-neutral-at-all-but-biased-in-order-to-manipulate-elections-opted-out-or-not-hackers-m/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:20:09


  • How to Create and Extract tar Archives in GNU/Linux ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-create-and-extract-tar-archives-in-linux/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:20:33


  • Tinkering with Fujitsu FUTRO S930 ☞ https://www.tumfatig.net/2025/tinkering-with-fujitsu-futro-s930/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:22:08


  • A Pace Far Different: finding best running pace with R ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/a-pace-far-different-finding-best-running-pace-with-r/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:24:52


  • The Dynamics of the “Gentle Way”: Exploring Judo Attack Combinations as Networks in R ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/05/the-dynamics-of-the-gentle-way-exploring-judo-attack-combinations-as-networks-in-r/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:25:01


  • 9 Best GNU/Linux Distros for Newbies in 2025 ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/9-best-linux-distros-for-newbies-in-2025/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:25:16


  • Linux Format 329 ☞ https://linuxformat.com/linux-format-329.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:25:49


  • Clues is a sticky notes app with connections ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/clues-sticky-notes-app-connections/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:35:34


  • wallabag is a self hosting application for saving web pages ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wallabag-self-hosting-application-saving-web-pages/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:35:42


  • Kasasa snips and pins useful information ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kasasa-snips-pins-useful-information/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:35:51


  • DEKUVE is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dekuve-linux-distribution-debian/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:36:25


  • WebCamControl is a GUI app for controlling properties of a webcam ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/webcamcontrol-gui-app-controlling-properties-webcam/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:36:32


  • Machine Learning in Linux: FaceFusion – face manipulation tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/machine-learning-linux-facefusion-face-manipulation-tool/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:36:47


  • SasView is a SAS analysis application ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sasview-small-angle-scattering-analysis-application/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:37:02


  • Akira Urushibata on GNU coreutils (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/27/Akira_Urushibata_on_GNU_coreutils.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:40:32


  • List of "tech for good" job boards ☞ https://evanhahn.com/list-of-tech-for-good-job-boards/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:40:57


  • FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, May 30, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-05-30-irc    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:41:29


  • Explore Exciting GNU/Linux DIY Projects: Automate Your World with Raspberry Pi and Arduino ☞ https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/explore-exciting-linux-diy-projects-automate-your-world-raspberry-pi-and-arduino    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:43:54


  • Canonical Announce Big Changes to Ubuntu Summit ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-summit-25-10-event-date-changes    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:44:28


  • Tennessee ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-school-threat-assessment-expulsion | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:44:54


  • Mandiant flags fake Hey Hi (AI) video generators laced with malware ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ai-video-generator-malware-mandiant-unc5032-vietnam/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:48:06


  • Developing countries face "tidal wave of debt repayments" to China: report ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250527-developing-countries-face-tidal-wave-of-debt-repayments-to-china-report    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:49:00


  • Teachers in Mexico just got a raise. Why are they protesting? ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/cnte-teachers-protest-mexico-city/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:49:38


  • Dihydroxyacetone Man’s Warming Toward Syria Complicates Israel’s Military Strategy ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/world/europe/syria-trump-israel-airstrikes.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:49:53


  • ICRC calls for Gaza ceasefire following killing of employees ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/05/icrc-calls-for-gaza-ceasefire-following-killing-of-2-employees/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:50:03


  • Envato’s ‘MusicGen’ SLOP-Generated Sync Licensing Arrives — But at What Cost to the Music Industry? ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/27/envato-musicgen-launches-royalty-free-ai-music/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 16:51:13


  • Concluding the Draft RIR Governance Document Consultation ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/05/28/concluding-the-draft-rir-governance-document-consultation/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 17:36:32


  • Another Suspect Is Charged in Bitcoin Kidnapping and Torture Case ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/nyregion/crypto-investor-torture-arrest.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 17:36:49


  • Texas Requires Fashion Company Apple and Surveillance Giant Google to Verify Ages for App Downloads ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/technology/apple-google-age-verification-apps-texas.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 17:37:22


  • Qt’s New Bridging Technology - Looking Back to Move Forward ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/about-the-new-qt-bridging-technology    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 17:38:34


  • 2025-05-27 the first smart homes ☞ https://computer.rip/2025-05-27-the-first-smart-homes.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 17:39:38


  • Generating Shorthand SVG in JavaScript ☞ https://entropicthoughts.com/generating-shorthand-svg-in-js    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 17:40:00


  • KAIST/ETRI HEVC/AV1 patent monopoly revocation confirmed by EPO appeal ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/5/23/kaistetri-patent-revocation-confirmed-by-epo-appeal    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 17:40:45


  • Software patents must never be granted in the EPO in the first place; but it is corrupt    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 17:41:21


  • Flexiworld data mining patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/5/27/flexiworld-data-mining-patent-challenged    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 17:54:38


  • UPC is illegal; this is an illegal, unconstitutional kangaroo court pretending to have authority on patents, just like the corrupt EPO does ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/paris-local-division-hands-nuc-victory-in-slow-juicer-battle-with-hurom/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:41:44


  • UPC is illegal and they ought to have challenged its very legitimacy rather than play along ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/med-el-and-advanced-bionics-settle-shortly-before-mannheim-upc-judgment/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:42:30


  • Efficient & Ergonomic: A Look Inside My Home Office Setup ☞ https://kerneltalks.com/reviews/efficient-ergonomic-a-look-inside-my-home-office-setup/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:43:10


  • NixOS 25.05 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1022704/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:44:20


  • Prison gate backdrop to baptism by Fr Sean O'Connell, St Paul's, Coburg ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/28/Prison_gate_backdrop_to_baptism_by_Fr_Sean_O_Connell_St_Paul_s_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:45:34


  • Bicycles for the Minds and the Story Harrison Bergeron ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/28/Bicycles_for_the_Minds_and_the_Story_Harrison_Bergeron.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:45:45


  • Anouk Rozestraten (Deputy Director) Appears to Have Left the Free Software Foundation ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/27/Anouk_Rozestraten_Deputy_Director_Appears_to_Have_Left_the_Free.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:45:54


  • The Code of Conduct (CoC) Gaslighting Phenomenon ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/27/The_Code_of_Conduct_CoC_Gaslighting_Phenomenon.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:46:02


  • UK High Court Masters Are Not Your Jesters, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/27/UK_High_Court_Masters_Are_Not_Your_Jesters_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:46:48


  • Microsofters Have, in Effect, Attempted Extrajudicial Action Against Us ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/27/Microsofters_Have_in_Effect_Attempted_Extrajudicial_Action_Agai.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:46:56


  • More Photos From This Week's Milan Talk by Richard Stallman ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/28/More_Photos_From_This_Week_s_Milan_Talk_by_Richard_Stallman.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:47:06


  • There's Nothing Funny About Lawbreaking (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/27/There_s_Nothing_Funny_About_Lawbreaking.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:47:15


  • They're Very Jealous of Richard Stallman and His Freedom (or Simple Lifestyle) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/27/They_re_Very_Jealous_of_Richard_Stallman_and_His_Freedom_or_Sim.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:47:23


  • King Charles' speech marks opening session of Canada's parliament ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250527-king-charles-speech-marks-opening-seesion-of-canada-s-parliament    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:48:05


  • King Charles highlights 'self-determination' of Canada after Convicted Felon annexation threats ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250527-king-charles-to-open-canada-parliament-with-us-tensions-in-focus    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:48:16


  • King Charles Warns Canada’s Parliament of a ‘Dangerous and Uncertain’ World ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/world/canada/king-charles-canada-parliament-speech.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:48:27


  • Replay: Listen to King Charles historic speech in Ottawa, Canada ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250527-replay-listen-to-king-charles-historic-speech-in-ottawa    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:48:36


  • This is about Microsoft transmitting malware to people, i.e. the usual ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ongoing-campaign-uses-60-npm-packages-to-steal-data/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:51:55


  • DragonForce Ransomware Hackers Exploiting SimpleHelp Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/dragonforce-ransomware-hackers-exploiting-simplehelp-vulnerabilities/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:52:14


  • Windows TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/iranian-man-pleads-guilty-to-role-in-baltimore-ransomware-attack/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:52:38


  • Baltic universities join forces on defence innovation ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/27.05.2025-baltic-universities-join-forces-on-defence-innovation.a600707/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:53:10


  • EU Member States endorse €150 billion SAFE defence loan instrument to boost European defence capabilities ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1340    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:53:31


  • Defending life against mining: 17 years of resistance in Hesandin Highland ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/defending-life-against-mining-17-years-of-resistance-in-hesandin-highland-307804    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:53:45


  • Look To The Sky With This Simple Plane Tracker ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/05/27/look-to-the-sky-with-this-simple-plane-tracker/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 18:59:56


  • Junichi Uekawa: Trying to send email. ☞ http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-May-27.html.en#2025-May-27-17:33:42    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:00:52


  • CAFC Affirms TTAB's VETEMENTS Genericness Ruling ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/05/cafc-affirms-ttabs-vetements.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:11:03


  • UV Meter for Flipper Zero measures ultraviolet radiation with AS7331 sensor ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/27/uv-meter-for-flipper-zero-measures-ultraviolet-radiation-with-as7331-sensor/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:12:15


  • Chipsee PPC-CM5-156 Review – Part 2: A Raspberry Pi CM5 fanless Panel PC tested with Raspberry Pi OS ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/27/chipsee-ppc-cm5-156-review-part-2-a-raspberry-pi-cm5-fanless-panel-pc-tested-with-raspberry-pi-os/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:21:46


  • From Beyoncé to R. Kelly, Hey Hi (AI) music videos praise Burkina Faso's junta leader Ibrahim Traoré ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250527-from-beyonc%C3%A9-to-r-kelly-ai-music-videos-praise-burkina-faso-s-junta-leader-ibrahim-traor%C3%A9    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:22:26


  • Chinese-Owned VPNs ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/05/chinese-owned-vpns.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:22:54


  • Hong Kong leader’s comments prove taxpayers ‘penalised’ before audit results, press union says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/05/27/hong-kong-leaders-comments-prove-taxpayers-penalised-before-audit-results-press-union-says/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:24:14


  • Securing Your SSH authorized-keys File, (Tue, May 27th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31986    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:30:44


  • Jumping the sharp with slop cargo cultists ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2025/05/announcing-the-formation-of-the-wordpress-ai-team/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:31:32


  • SteamOS 3.7.8 Brings Official Support to Non-Steam Deck Devices ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/steam-os-3-7-brings-official-support-to-non-steam-deck-devices/index.html    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:32:33


  • Sipeed Tang Console – A GOWIN GW5AST/GW5AT board with 60K or 138K LUT for FPGA development and retro gaming ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/27/sipeed-tang-console-a-gowin-gw5ast-gw5at-board-with-60k-or-138k-lut-for-fpga-development-and-retro-gaming/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:37:33


  • Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 139 ☞ https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-139/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:39:29


  • Bianca Censori leaves nothing to the imagination — again — in fishnet top and sheer tights with no underwear ☞ https://pagesix.com/2025/05/27/style/bianca-censori-wears-next-to-nothing-again/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:42:31


  • Kanye West’s wife Bianca Censori faces calls for her arrest after going naked in public again: ‘How do they get away with this?’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/entertainment/bianca-censori-faces-calls-for-her-arrest-after-once-again-going-naked-in-public/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 19:42:37


  • "I find that for Temperature and Time, converting from 'murican to European is necessary because of a kind of "emulation layer" effect. I don't really conceptualize 32C as having particular meaning, so I have to do the translation to understand "oh, that's 90 degrees, pretty hot."" gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-05-28.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 20:09:32


  • The Jays Aren't Great, But It Could Be A Lot, Lot Worse gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/5-28.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 20:10:40


  • Discomfort: good or bad gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2025-05-28-discomfort.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 20:11:53


  • fzf gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/fzf/ "I’m not sure if I’ll be able to remember “fdf” and “fdfg” when typing `bbedit (` will start the completion and `bbedit (fd -e gmi | fzf)` shows up in my scrollback, but I suppose writing it down nicely both in my config.fish and typing it up here will help."    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 20:12:56


  • Byung Chul Han gemini://tecnico-ligero.duckdns.org/gemlog/34--2025-05-28-Leyendo-al-bueno-de-Byung-Chul-Han.gmi    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 20:14:36


  • "et me preface this by saying: When I started working in libraries, I had to do inventory with a card catalog. This required me to pull out each drawer, carry it to the corresponding place in the stacks, and flip through each book and card by hand. It was heavy, slow, cuticle-shredding work and I do not miss it." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-05-28    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 20:15:07


  • "WatsonX is so pitifully bad. In the challenge last year, my team tried to summarize a weekly call with key dates, deliverables, etc. It should have been an easy task for most LLMs, but no matter how specific we made the prompt, it just couldn't get it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvb4p7va    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 20:22:58


  • LLM slop? https://betanews.com/2025/05/28/tuxedo-stellaris-16-gen7-laptop-linux/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 20:43:31


  • Strangling Microsoft, the company that helped "Microsoft Russia" crush Putin's opposition https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/05/27/russia_chokehold_tech_firms/ and company whose staff strangles women, then SLAPPs people who mention it http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Never_Try_to_Justify_Strangulation_of_Women_Not_in_the_US_and_N.shtml    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 20:47:49


  • Linux Kernel 6.16 Adds X86_NATIVE_CPU Configuration Option https://www.webpronews.com/linux-kernel-6-16-x86-native-cpu/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 21:03:21


  • Intel Lists Four New “Battlemage” GPUs For Mesa Graphics Driver On Linux, Indicating Next-Gen Gaming GPUs Are On The Way https://wccftech.com/intel-lists-four-battlemage-gpus-for-mesa-graphics-driver-on-linux/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 21:03:48


  • SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steamos-massively-beats-windows-on-the-legion-go-s/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 21:04:45


  • Archinstall 3.0.7 Arch Linux Menu-Based Installer Adds Support for Btrfs Snapshots https://9to5linux.com/archinstall-3-0-7-arch-linux-menu-based-installer-adds-support-for-btrfs-snapshots    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 21:06:38


  • "The original MS-DOS game was ported to Windows back in 2005, then made freeware in 2007 with a source code release back in 2008. As of May 20th this year, they did a re-release of the source code as the developer mentioned on Steam" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/retro-dungeon-crawler-brany-skeldalu-gets-a-linux-version-and-source-code-re-release/    

posted Wednesday, May 28, 2025 at 21:07:03


  • A new DMA-mapping API https://lwn.net/Articles/1020437/    

posted Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 04:19:43


  • An update on continuous testing of BPF kernel patches https://lwn.net/Articles/1020266/    

posted Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 04:20:15


  • Reports from OSPM 2025, day one https://lwn.net/Articles/1020596/    

posted Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 04:20:45


  • Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools https://lwn.net/Articles/1020576/    

posted Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 04:23:53


  • New article in Spanish starts with RMS, so it goes back to the roots: Open Source Software: entre la IA y el futuro https://www.itsitio.com/ar/software/open-source-software-ia-y-el-futuro/    

posted Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 04:29:15


  • "t was on Richard Stallman's radar in 1983 when he chose to model his GNU system on Unix. Note that at the time Stallman was also an employee of an elite institution (MIT's AI Lab)." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44109842    

posted Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 04:30:18


  • "Richard Stallman free-software movement was the main force driving the Unix design into the hands of the hobbyists, but it took almost a decade for it to do that. When David Cutler arrived at Microsoft in October 1988 to start the NT project, Unix was still mainly associated with elite institutions." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44109842    

posted Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 04:30:23


  • "He worked for 25 years, and he/she should be a multi-millionaire by now, with 10 houses paid off and driving a Lamborghini. LOL" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvnredej    

posted Thursday, May 29, 2025 at 04:31:38



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