Roy Schestowitz

• "Here are some ideas you all can start working on. I'm an ideas guy." gemini://tilde.club/~say/2025-06-03.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:30:33

• "I'll start at the end, because that's the most important part. Later this month, I'm obtaining medical aid in dying AKA death with dignity. Barring unforeseen circumstances or unexpected changes, my last day on earth will be June 13th, 2025. Realize that I'm just over 46 years old." gemini://the-brannons.com/end-of-life/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:31:55

• Texture gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/06/03/texture.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:34:55

• "I haven't been getting out of doors as much as I would like, owing to a lot of overcast days and some rainy weather. A cold wind has been blowing this last week or two, so that it is uncomfortable to go out on a day that is not sunny." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250603-0.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:36:02

• Get excited for new products gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:37:51

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1315.jpg    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:42:44

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1665.jpg    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:42:53

• "I've really begun noticing that some days I just seem a lot more visually integrated than normal; it's almost like I have some kind of feeling of being hyper-visual, where all of the sight stimuli that normally might just mildly intrigue me are instead impressed upon me in a more superlative way." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2629    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:43:55

• "I'm a huge believer in science, though I think the obsession with medical testing is harmful to science. Hell, this is pretty much true of all data. We've got data. We have so much data that it's coming out of our ears and assholes. What we don't have enough of is logic, intuition, and critical thinking." gemini://the-brannons.com/medicine/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:45:11

• Six months into deleting my social media and ending all my uses of Big Tech, and it's like I'm a different person: gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-06-02 gemini://station.martinrue.com/drmollytov/2ac01f31005e420f94ba4b61504a45f2    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:45:37

• "I'm definitely calmer day to day and more satisfied with my daily life. I'm certainly not some kind of bodhisattva. I still get angry and annoyed and fearful and all the rest of it. But those states are less common, and when they do happen, they're milder and pass more quickly." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-06-02    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:47:17

• "Instead, I am very into my garden and chickens at the moment. Part of that is seasonal as well, but part of that is having the mental and emotional energy to put into project planning and execution. It's also having this newfound drive for real, physical activities that make real, physical changes in my world." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-06-02    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:47:23

• Jim Cramer sends a blunt message on Microsoft layoffs https://www.thestreet.com/technology/jim-cramer-sends-a-blunt-message-on-microsoft-layoffs    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:58:39

• Of course his message was full of BS, as usual. Microsoft has financial problems.    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 01:59:47

• Disney, Microsoft Announce Massive Layoffs https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2025-06-03/disney-microsoft-announce-massive-layoffs-video    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:00:32

• "Nadella: “It’s the new AI (All in.dians) strategy…”" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwsdzz9d    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:01:52

• "You're not kidding; just look around the Redmond campus." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwsdzz9d    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:02:13

• ""Microsoft's $455 million investment in 2023, including plans to integrate Builder.ai's technology with Azure, now stands as a cautionary tale." Just wow. I wonder when MS caught on." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwsdzz9d Microsoft is a giant fraud, so it also SUPPORTS fraud    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:02:50

• "Leadership ?? What Leadership ?? Leadership no longer exists inside IBM. It's just a "smash and grab" operation from Alvind, Slob Thomas, Krabanaugh and the Pipmunks. Gimme, Gimme, Gimme....." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwqcybbk    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:06:52

• "Can you share what jobsite worked for you? Tough out here even with a lot of experience. LinkedIn and Indeed are flooded with job applicants." MANY ARE FAKE. https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvnzgs1t    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:07:47

• "Yes, hard working IBM US employees should expect 50% raises (after all, why settle for a measly 23% you are worth so much more ??). But...those raises will be paid to you in your dreams or when he-l freezes over (whichever comes first)." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwqecfqb    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:08:47

• "And, as you guessed already - this does not apply to Alvind, Krabanaugh, Slob Thomas or the rest of the Pipmunks. They get real money in their paychecks and bank accounts." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwqecfqb    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:08:53

• "here's another company with the same playbook: https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-collapses-15bn-ai-startup-exposed-actually-indians-pretending-bots-1734784 " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvb4p7va    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:09:50

• "Seems like Alvind is leading IBM akin to Roman Emperors circa 450-476 AD" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwka389e    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:10:48

• Techrights is always on the side of whistleblowers, it will do its best to protect them and their interest, and the publication style strives to assist them by illuminating facts. It's expected the reaction to this will be bullying; we try to ensure the bullying backfires on the bully. It can take months before the bully realises this.    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 02:25:14

• Old: Closing Keynote Day 3 - Dr. Richard Stallman - Web3 Summit 2024 Berlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqgUGbZdyHs "Part of the Pala Labs team had the opportunity to have an insightful conversation with Richard Stallman at the 2024 Web3 Summit." https://x.com/pala_labs/status/1929952389576175635    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 03:31:43

• unless anything major happens, "The Openwashing Shills Initiative (OSI) - Part III: IRS and Status of OSI" will be released this month    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 04:03:35

• Spoiler: abuse at the OSI will link back to Bully de Blanc    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 04:03:56

• For context: https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/26/The_Openwashing_Shills_Initiative_OSI_Part_I_Complaints_to_IRS_.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/01/The_Openwashing_Shills_Initiative_OSI_Part_II_Lying_to_the_IRS_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 04:04:27

• "Leadership views it that if you don’t want to work at IBM with the pride of being an IBMER , than fine wish you luck." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwqcybbk    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 08:04:04

• Google had "Answers" years ago, well before they called LLM slop "AI". Google didn't deny it was ripping off sites in the lists in pages... to produce this text    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 08:44:06

• Nowadays they just misuse this magic word, "HEY HI", to pretend that plagiarism is in fact some amazing intelligence. It is a lie.    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 08:44:45

• Windows 0% in American Samoa https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/american-samoa/#monthly-200902-202506    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 09:00:50

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

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 09:20:17

• Windows down https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/austria/#monthly-200902-202506    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 09:23:01

• cartoons https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/matt-cartoons-june-2025/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:25:12

• "We mostly run systems, not applications, due to our generally different system administration environment. Many organizations instead run applications. Although these applications may be hosted on some number of systems, the organizations don't care about the systems, not really" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/SystemVsApplicationMonitoring | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:30:47

• "Valve released a fresh Steam update for Steam Deck / SteamOS and additionally a Beta update too, both of which solve some annoyances." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-deck-steamos-will-now-stop-bugging-you-to-install-updates-multiple-times/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:35:33

• "On top of the recent Steam Deck / SteamOS update, Valve also released a desktop Steam Beta that should solve issues in games with the Steam Overlay disabled." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/valve-fix-lag-and-freezing-in-games-with-the-steam-overlay-disabled/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:36:18

• "Here's your simple no-nonsense guide to getting NVIDIA GeForce NOW up and running on Steam Deck, SteamOS." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-get-geforce-now-on-steam-deck-steamos/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:36:32

• "Hellslave is a dark fantasy dungeon crawler where you make a pact with the Devil to fight back a demon invasion." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/dark-fantasy-dungeon-crawler-hellslave-is-free-to-keep-for-a-limited-time/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:36:57

• iophk: a windows problem being spun as a problem with [Open]SSH https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32000    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:37:29

• "Some top quality titles in Humble Choice for June 2025 including Warhammer 40K: Boltgun and Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/humble-choice-for-june-2025-has-boltgun-legacy-of-kain-1-2-remastered-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:39:28

• "The Drifter from Powerhoof is an awesome looking adventure thriller and it just got a new trailer, along with a release date reveal of July 17. Native Linux support is confirmed for the release too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/pulp-adventure-thriller-the-drifter-looks-amazing-and-releases-july-17/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:39:41

• "Into The Grid is a cyberpunk roguelike deckbuilder and dungeon crawler from Flatline Studios, with a fresh demo up ahead of Steam Next Fest. Time to go crack open some firewalls and destroy some robots" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/cyberpunk-deckbuilder-and-dungeon-crawler-into-the-grid-gets-a-fresh-demo/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:39:55

• "Linux is Destroying Windows in Gaming Performance" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/linux-is-destroying-windows-in-gaming:4    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:43:02

• "Trump is destroying the source of American power" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/03/the-poor-old-pound-unlikely-winner-trump-carnage/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:43:13

• "New Elizabeth Warren Report on 130 Days of Elon Musk Scandal" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/elon-musk-corruption-elizabeth-warren-report-1235353085/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:43:26

• EU wants to store IP addresses and metadata | "EU vill lagra IP-adresser och metadata" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/06/02/eu-vill-datalagra-ip-adresser-med-mera/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:43:56

• "Things Jesus taught - annie's blog" https://anniemueller.com/posts/things-jesus-taught iophk: highly relevant in today's political climate in the US with the rise of faux christianity there    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:44:29

• contaminate with slop: "The Great PTS CLI Throwdown · olafalders.com" https://www.olafalders.com/2025/06/03/the-great-pts-cli-throwdown/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:44:51

• "Karol Nawrocki: Conservative Historian Wins Poland’s Presidential Election With Trump Playbook" https://www.rferl.org/a/conservative-nawrocki-poland-president-election-victory/33431659.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:45:04

• "‘I shot him’: Suspect in killing of King of Hill actor Jonathan Joss ‘confessed’ when police arrived" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/jonathan-joss-shooting-police-report-suspect-b2763045.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:45:48

• "The New Feudal Age" https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/government-privatization-feudalism/682888/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:45:59

• "Man jumps barricade at Tiananmen Square flag-raising ceremony – Radio Free Asia" https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/06/03/china-tiananmen-protest-fence-jump/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:46:16

• Enough is enough: Copenhagen and Aarhus want to become independent from Microsoft | "Nu er det nok: København og Aarhus vil gøre sig uafhængige af Microsoft" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://politiken.dk/viden/tech/art10411353/Nu-er-det-nok-K%C3%B8benhavn-og-Aarhus-vil-g%C3%B8re-sig-uafh%C3%A6ngige-af-Microsoft paywall    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:46:45

• ""Visgotherne indtog Rom i år 410…" | Version2" | "The Visigoths took Rome in the year 410..." https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/visgotherne-indtog-rom-i-aar-410    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:47:14

• "What does Poland’s new president mean for its future?" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0603/poland-nawrocki-germany-eu-tusk    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:47:27

• "Trump administration lays groundwork to make CEO perks easier to hide" https://www.semafor.com/article/06/03/2025/trump-administration-lays-groundwork-to-make-ceo-perks-easier-to-hide    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:47:42

• "Elon Musk’s Government Legacy Was Enacting Project 2025 - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/elon-musks-government-legacy-was-enacting-project-2025/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:47:54

• "Trump Grants Clemency to Executive Who Led $205M Medicare Fraud Scheme — as GOP Says They’re Eliminating “Fraud” | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/trump-grants-clemency-to-executive-who-orchestrated-205m-medicare-fraud-scheme/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:48:06

• "Google pushes emergency fix for high-severity Chrome 0-day" https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/google_chrome_zero_day_emergency_fix/ javascript    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:48:23

• "Crazy Taxi delivery sim but with a horse and carriage, plus some over the top physics? Castle Cab really does look like a lot of fun. I'm all for a bit of chaos and the horse customization looks ridiculous too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/castle-cab-looks-like-crazy-taxi-but-with-an-unhinged-horse-and-silly-customization/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:49:46

• "Some good news for Dune: Awakening, Funcom have announced it actually will have Private Servers you can rent and sort with friends." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/dune-awakening-will-get-private-servers-at-release-but-with-limits/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:49:58

• "Cyber Knights: Flashpoint is the latest game from Trese Brothers, bringing some excellent squad-based tactics and it's out now." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/cyber-knights-flashpoint-is-out-now-great-for-xcom-and-strategy-fans/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:50:12

• "We Are No Longer a Serious Country - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-no-longer-a-serious-country    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:50:43

• "What Does It Even Mean To Be “Great” Anyway? - Dhole Moments" https://soatok.blog/2025/06/02/what-does-it-even-mean-to-be-great-anyway/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:50:56

• "Hard Lines on Legal Capitulation" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/02/hard-lines-on-legal-capitulatiosp;  

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:51:06

• "Our new position paper sets out five arguments for why we think that kids still need to learn to code in the age of artificial intelligence" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/why-kids-still-need-to-learn-to-code-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:54:50

• "Bradford was buzzing with excitement this May as over 170 young digital makers from across the UK gathered for Coolest Projects UK 2025." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/young-tech-creators-take-over-bradford-at-coolest-projects-uk/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:55:06

• "Since the Lode Runner lost levels appearance, I’ve been thinking about others games I’ve created levels for in the past." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/06/the-pc-does-what-nintendont-modding-games/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 10:59:12

• How To Set Static IP Address on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/set-static-ip-address-centos-stream-10/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:01:00

• How To Install Microweber CMS on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-microweber-cms-debian-12/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:01:11

• Life cycle of a whistleblower: make a dent/blow, duck for cover, get caught, get punished, suffer, people forget what you did, nothing major changes, you too forget what you did. A good system would: permit change, give credit, reward rather than punish whistleblowers.    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:03:31

• How To Install Fail2Ban on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fail2ban-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:03:42

• How To Create Map with Search using Python ☞ https://idroot.us/create-map-search-python/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:03:57

• How To Install Opera Browser on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-opera-browser-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:12:40

• How To Install Tor Browser on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-tor-browser-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:16:32

• Texas passes right to repair that excludes game consoles, boats, cars, tractors, my feelings.... https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=C_ohgeWKcOY    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:18:51

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

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:19:57

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

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:25:55

• How to Install Fedora 42 on backdoored Windows via WSL ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-fedora-42-on-windows-via-wsl/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:26:39

• Tech Journalist Engages in Lies & Doublespeak to Defame Lunduke ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/tech-journalist-engages-in-lies-and    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:26:53

• WSL is an attack on GNU/Linux; it is meant to prevent people from leaving Windows   

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:29:12

• WSL is an attack on GNU/Linux; it is meant to prevent people from leaving Windows    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:29:20

• Openwashing and lobbying by Microsoft ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/open-forum-for-ai-open-source-initiative-respond-to-white-house-on-ai-rd-strategy    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:31:05

• Meet Pico: A smart companion robot with vision ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/03/meet-pico-a-smart-companion-robot-with-vision/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:34:34

• "A few weeks ago, we released the GNSS Flex pHATs and Modules that allow you to not only incorporate top-of-the-line GNSS technology into your Raspberry Pi 5, 4, and 3 boards or NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ Nano Super Developer Kit" ☛ https://news.sparkfun.com/13969 | Source: SparkFun Electronics    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:36:27

• "But if the mains power fails, the dome wouldn’t be able to close and provide protection." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/03/this-arduino-failsafe-protects-an-amazing-backyard-observatory/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:36:42

• "The code running on the Nano Every allows users to cycle through a total of three different modes." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/03/meet-pico-a-smart-companion-robot-with-vision/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:36:52

• "FriendlyElec has introduced the NanoPi M5, a compact single-board computer based on the Rockchip RK3576 processor. It features a 6 TOPS INT8 NPU, supports LPDDR4X or LPDDR5 memory, and offers UFS 2.0 storage along with dual Gigabit Ethernet and MIPI-CSI/DSI interfaces." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/friendlyelec-introduces-nanopi-m5-with-rk3576-6-tops-npu-and-multi-os-ai-capabilities/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:40:18

• "There are three packed days of presentations, workshops and discussion along with three keynotes." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/06/03/speakers-set-course-for-osc/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:42:56

• "RHEL 10 builds on decades of innovation to bring a new, adaptable platform for enterprise needs. With updates that include the Linux kernel 6.11, Podman 5.0 and vital development tooling such as Go, Rust, and Java, this release ensures you're running the latest and most reliable technology." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/top-10-linux-blog-posts-deserve-spot-your-reading-list | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:44:24

• "The Motion Picture Association sees automated, real-time, and dynamic site blocking mechanisms as a key tool to fight online piracy." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-backs-automated-pirate-site-blocking-sees-role-for-vpn-and-cdn-companies/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:46:53

• "Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN has just posted its latest annual report, highlighting several key achievements. IPTV continues to be the largest threat to the audiovisual industry." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-group-brein-ramps-up-iptv-actions-under-new-leadership/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:47:01

• "Microsoft’s changes in response to the Digital Markets Act already included allowing Windows machines in the regions it covers to uninstall Edge and remove Bing results from Windows search, but now the list is growing in some meaningful ways." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/678350/microsoft-dma-windows-10-11-bing-edge | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:48:23

• "It also set out a detailed process and timeline for Apple to respond to interoperability requests from app developers." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/apple-slams-eu-rules-as-flawed-and-costly/264559/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:48:34

• "The software giant in 2023 was designated as a "gatekeeper" under the DMA, a European competition law, and consequently must modify designated core platform services to accommodate competitors in the European Economic Area (EEA)." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/microsoft_stops_eu_edge_pestering/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:49:00

• "Microsoft's adjustments to comply with the Digital Markets Act enabled Windows users in affected regions to remove Edge and eliminate Bing search results from Windows. Now, this list of changes is expanding in noteworthy ways." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/no-more-nagging-pop-ups-windows-users-europe-can-now-delete-edge-bing-microsoft-store-1734902 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:49:37

• Miguel de Icaza seems to have become a fanatic antisemite in social control media, but then again, this is what GNOME became...    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:51:18

• "There’s another possibility. Instead of resisting change, Google could accelerate it. It could spin off huge chunks of itself into independent entities." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/technology/google-antitrust-breakup.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:52:02

• "If Congress supports the administration’s proposal, it would devastate the nation’s 37 tribal colleges and universities, said Ahniwake Rose, president and CEO of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, which represents the colleges in Washington, D.C." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-colleges-universities-trump-cuts-funding | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:53:19

• "What is this arcane-sounding legal device? How is does it stand in the way of illegal government action?" ☛ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/what-is-habeas-corpus-why-does-it-matter | Source: ACLU    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:53:29

• "In the twenty-first century, Springsteen is a much bigger live draw in Europe than back home." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/06/springsteen-boss-trump-working-class/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:53:40

• "Upholding human rights is key to any just approach to population policy, as contrasting examples of coercion from China and Africa illustrate. But rights must be balanced by responsibilities when it comes to procreation." ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/when-it-comes-to-childbearing-coercion-cuts-both-ways/ | Source: Overpopulation    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 11:54:31

• "My worry is everybody is going to use the emergency declaration in one way or another on all of these projects and we’re just going to be bombarded with a ton of them" ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/06/how-the-trump-administration-is-putting-hundreds-of-sacred-sites-at-risk.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:06:52

• "Meanwhile, generative AI, which has exploded in popularity, has been proven to regurgitate and amplify misogyny and racism." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/03/ai-sexism-violence-against-women-technology-new-era | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:08:03

• "free for all" ☛ https://www.twincities.com/2025/06/03/spain-airbnb-crackdown/ | Source: TwinCities Pioneer Press    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:08:14

• "Debates about housing don’t talk enough about the housing that’s already there." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/adaptive-reuse-housing-shortage-renovation/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:08:57

• "has wronged me as a woman" ☛ https://www.vox.com/policy/415095/fertility-birth-rates-reproductive-rights-biological-clock-parents-motherhood-ivf | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:10:11

• "Regrettably, there has been no such change in relation to homelessness, which is still associated with a high degree of stigma." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/why-journalists-need-to-change-the-way-they-describe-homeless-people/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:10:46

• "The proposed legislation, HB 2963, overwhelmingly passed the state Senate with a 31-0 vote over the weekend, signalling strong bipartisan support and setting the stage for a potential shift in how Americans engage with their electronics." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/right-repair-law-texas-first-republican-state-require-manufacturers-share-repair-parts-info-1734888 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:10:59

• "On May 24, the Specialized Criminal Court in the capital Sanaa sentenced well-known Yemeni journalist Mohamed Al-Miyahi to 1½ years in prison for criticizing Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi online." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/06/yemens-houthis-abduct-at-least-4-journalists-jail-another-for-criticism-of-leader/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:13:01

• "The trial of three retired Salvadoran military officers for the 1982 killings of four Dutch journalists during the Central American country’s civil war began Tuesday in the northern city of Chalatenango." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/dutch-el-salvador-supreme-court-central-american-united-states-b2763141.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:14:23

• "Press Gazette analysis shows that entertainment, environment, audience growth, personal finance and technology are among the reporter roles hardest hit by a decision to cut 21% of jobs (at least 100 people)." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/business-insider-cuts/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:15:05

• "Initial protests demanding accountability for the tragedy have turned into a widespread movement against corruption and President Aleksandar Vučić’s increasingly authoritarian rule" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/06/alarming-escalation-in-attacks-on-journalists-amid-political-crisis-in-serbia/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:15:27

• "Yet if someone carrying out a legal activity, namely burning a book, is attacked then surely it is the assailant who is at fault" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/03/burning-koran-holy-book-unlawful/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:17:05

• "Police officers patrolled Victoria Park – the former site of the city’s annual vigils for the Tiananmen crackdown – and its vicinity on Tuesday, one day before the 36th anniversary of the crackdown." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/03/heavy-police-presence-on-eve-of-tiananmen-anniversary-performance-artist-escorted-away-by-officers/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:17:32

• "Tank Man, unidentified Chinese man who on June 5, 1989, faced down a column of People’s Liberation Army (PLA) tanks on Chang’an Avenue in Beijing. " ☛ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tank-Man | Source: Encyclopedia Britannica    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:18:04

• [Old] "In an act that would reverberate around the world, a solitary man stood his ground before a column of advancing tanks on Chang’an Boulevard, which runs directly into Tiananmen Square." ☛ https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/remembering-the-tiananmen-square-crackdown-and-the-tank-man/ | Source: PBS    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:18:19

• "On this anniversary, we mustn't forget both the courage and sacrifice of the tens of thousands of peaceful protesters, mostly young students, who risked and lost their lives by the thousands, not only in Tiananmen Square and the streets and alleys of Beijing, but across China." ☛ https://www.ucanews.com/news/i-stand-with-tiananmen-squares-tank-man/109211 | Source: Union Of Catholic Asian News    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:21:49

• "The chief executive made the remarks as a reporter asked him if Hong Kong residents could light candles or wear clothes bearing slogans on June 4 to remember the crackdown in Beijing 36 years ago." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/03/any-activity-on-any-date-must-be-lawful-hong-kong-leader-says-ahead-of-tiananmen-crackdown-anniversary/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:23:48

• "In that initial interview, the Gumroad founder said he was impressed to find that his coworkers at the Department of Veterans Affairs "love their jobs" and worked hard at them — an honest admission that seems to have cost him his job." ☛ https://futurism.com/doge-fires-operative-admitted-efficiency | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:23:59

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posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:25:22

• "In late 2024, a North Korean mobile phone was smuggled out of the country by Daily NK, (Seoul-based media organisation UMG's news service)." ☛ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98pnx35xj2o | Source: BBC    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:25:28

• "This act puts in place a mechanism for the peer review of National Cybersecurity Certification Authorities (NCCAs), as set out in the EU Cybersecurity Act (Regulation (EU) 2019/881)." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14635-Cybersecurity-peer-review-of-National-Cybersecurity-Certification-Authorities_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:26:03

• "Give me a party with energy, give me politicians who fight! Oh, for an opposition party 🥺 I don’t have to agree 100% with them, if they’d just have some gumption." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/06/01/midlife-rage/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:26:17

• "A new Enders Analysis report describes piracy of live sports and premium TV as "industrial scale theft" that costs companies such as Sky and the Premier League billions every year." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/enders-piracy-report-blames-big-tech-thats-what-anti-piracy-lobbyists-do-250602/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:26:30

• "Her story also raises questions about what happens when travellers lose essential documents before officially entering a country. Because Maddi never passed through customs, the Australian consulate could offer only limited assistance." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/aussie-woman-stuck-chinese-airport-18-hours-after-making-1-crucial-mistake-1734610 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:26:48

• "As I witness the rise of Christianese in our political culture — specifically, as I witness the use of Christian terminology to defend illegal, inhumane, and immoral behaviors — I feel that we all need a mini-refresher course on the actual teachings of Jesus." ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/things-jesus-taught | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:27:15

• "Algorithm-driven digital feeds have deepened the split between red and blue America. But a new online tool may help bring the country back together." ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/06/social-media-fueled-divisions-teaming-up-may-help-heal/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:27:38

• "As Tesla slowly rotted from the inside over the past year or so, big name investors and higher-ups publicly signaled their frustration with their absentee CEO, leaving many wondering when — or if — he was coming back." ☛ https://futurism.com/tesla-musk-returns | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:30:33

• "Up to a quarter of all cloud users are at risk of having their computing resources stolen and used to illicitly mine for cryptocurrency, after crims cooked up a campaign that targets publicly accessible DevOps tools." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/illicit_miners_hashicorp_tools/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:30:44

• "shadow docket" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/beware-the-supreme-courts-shadow-docket/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:32:46

• "But now that Tesla is facing an existential crisis, Musk is seemingly having second thoughts about Trump and the GOP's aggressive anti-clean energy policies." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-mistake-tesla-tax-credits | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:32:58

• "Here is your chief mobility officer Arnold Schwarzenegger talking to you" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/entertainment/news/a/2309794.html | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:33:14

• "But we’re living in 2025. The very idea of properly regulating finance, new or old, is under siege by the current administration, rendering the old delegation to agencies all but useless." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-06-02/crypto-regulation-genius-act-trump-corruption-bitcoin | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:33:34

• "To understand how we arrived at our current aviation crisis, Today, Explained co-host Sean Rameswaram spoke with Darryl Campbell, an aviation safety writer for The Verge." ☛ https://www.vox.com/today-explained-podcast/415091/newark-airport-radar-air-traffic-control-safety | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:33:46

• "Meta has signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy to keep the lights on at an Illinois nuke plant that was facing an uncertain future once state subsidies dry up in 2027." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/meta_signs_20year_nuclear_deal/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:36:26

• "Four months later, the hills around his home are still blackened and toxic. And it’s not just his neighborhood that feels scorched." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-06-03/mark-hamill-palisades-fire-malibu-trump-the-life-of-chuck-neon | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:39:33

• "The thing is, fossil fuels are only two-thirds of the climate problem. Even if we do quit them, we’ll never meet the emissions targets set by the Paris Agreement without addressing the other third." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/06/climate-food-land-problem/683005/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:39:49

• "The change triples the number of waterbodies where officials say anglers shouldn’t eat their catch" ☛ https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/new-pfas-guidelines-spark-more-do-not-eat-warnings-michigan-fish | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:40:08

• "The European Commission, the EU’s executive, based the conclusions on countries’ updated climate plans, which governments have been filing in recent months." ☛ https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-emissions-goal-2030-climate-energy-goals/ | Source: Politico    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:56:29

• "Looking ahead, more than 150 businesses and investors signed a joint letter last week, urging the EU to adopt a minimum 90% emission reduction target by 2040." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/eu-on-track-for-54-emissions-cut-by-2030-sets-sights-on-90-by-2040/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:56:39

• "For the first time, it's not a fire in one region, we have fires in every region. That is a sign of a changing climate that we are going to have to adapt to." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/06/03/canada-fires-smoke-us-air-quality-evacuations | Source: Axios    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:56:54

• "Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:57:11

• "Who manages the disaster if the disaster managers are the disaster?" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/06/fema-preparation-hurricane-season-richardson/683025/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:57:35

• "Indeed, forecasters for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have predicted above-normal hurricane activity for 2025. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people are killed by hurricanes each year in the U.S." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-fema-chief-reportedly-didnt-know-us-has-a-hurricane-season/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 12:57:49

• "In a statement to Variety, Elisabeth Sereda" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/film/news/is-clint-eastwood-interview-real-old-quotes-1236417323/ | Source: Variety    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:00:08

• [Old] "Widener, a photographer with the Associated Press, was focusing his camera on a line of tanks in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square when out of the blue came this man in a white shirt and dark trousers, carrying what appeared to be shopping bags" ☛ https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/world/tiananmen-square-tank-man-cnnphotos/ | Source: CNN    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:00:14

• "The new study found that the depletion of water storage in the Colorado River basin has sped up in the past decade." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/colorado-river-basin-nasa-study | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:00:38

• "British elites are increasingly fearful" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/opinion/europe-civil-war.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:02:34

• "Canada’s rich deposits of uranium, nickel, potash, and a host of obscure strategic metals, including REEs, could help explain Trump’s persistent but cryptic threats to make Canada the fifty-first US state." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/the-us-badly-needs-rare-minerals-and-fresh-water-guess-who-has-them/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:02:50

• "NATO defense ministers will discuss the air defense boost at a gathering in Brussels on June 5, sources told Bloomberg on the condition of anonymity." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/nato-urging-europe-to-ramp-up-air-defenses-fivefold-in-face-of-russian-threat-bloomberg-reports/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:03:23

• "Let me begin with the bitter satisfaction of vindication mixed with the horror of accuracy—and the searing contempt for those who could have prevented this catastrophe but chose the luxury of ignorance instead." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-seditionists-yarvin-and-the-machinery | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:03:47

• "More than 50 high-level Trump administration officials have links to groups behind the Heritage Foundation-backed plan" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/06/02/map-70-percent-trump-cabinet-tie-project-2025-heritage-afpi-convention-states-dunn-doge/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:04:09

• "A senior official who dismantled the US government’s Russian disinformation unit is married to a Russian woman with links to the Kremlin, The Telegraph can reveal." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/06/03/trump-official-shut-russia-propaganda-unit-kremlin-ties/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:04:39

• "Pearl Harbor." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/europes-pearl-harbor-moment-might |    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:05:21

• "Those videos are undoubtedly now being studied in military planning rooms." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-air-base-drone-attack/33431837.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:05:43

• "Indeed, the growing Non-Resident Indian (NRI) diaspora in the Gulf" ☛ https://dawnmena.org/india-is-harming-its-people-by-acquiescing-to-the-uae/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:06:21

• "Hypponen now joins Sensofusion, a Helsinki-based company that specializes in advanced anti-drone systems. The company’s products are used worldwide by military and law enforcement for passive drone detection and response." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/mikko-hypponen-joins-anti-drone-company-sensofusion/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:06:50

• "Large areas of the city center of Cologne were closed off on Wednesday as experts prepared to defuse three bombs left over from World War II, which ended 80 years ago." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/germany-20000-evacuated-in-cologne-as-wwii-bombs-defused/a-72782573 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:07:08

• "But Trump appeared unperturbed by the news, two people familiar with the episode told us, on the condition of anonymity so they could speak frankly." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-private-cellphone-china-hackers/683006/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:07:58

• "In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:08:39

• "The credit agency CRIF collects personal data from millions of people in Austria and assesses their creditworthiness with a score between 250 and 700." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/crif-scores-almost-everyone-austria-noyb-needs-support-potential-class-action-lawsuit | Source: NYOB    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:09:11

• "Instead of porn, the company will only display a statement on France's new regulations that require porn sites to verify that their users are 18 or older, a Pornhub spokesperson said on Tuesday." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/pornhub-blocks-access-in-france-to-protest-age-restrictions/a-72781781 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:09:30

• "French visitors to the Pornhub and Youporn, adult sites operated by parent company Aylo, will from Wednesday be greeted with a message denouncing the country's age verification requirements, the company said." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2309849.html | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:10:04

• "I don’t see it anymore" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-06-03/the-covert-method-meta-uses-to-track-mobile-browsing-without-consent-even-in-incognito-mode-or-with-a-vpn.html | Source: El País    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:10:33

• "This problem went unnoticed for almost a full year" ☛ https://sslmate.com/blog/post/godaddy_issues_thousands_of_broken_certificates |    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:11:15

• Windows TCO ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/safepay-devman-emerging-ransomware-threats/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:11:58

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/microsoft_crowdstrike_cybercrew_naming_clarity/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:12:10

• "the flood of dramatic imagery can desensitise viewers to the real human and environmental impact behind the spectacle." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/how-social-media-turned-mount-etnas-eruption-viral-adventure-why-it-matters-1734818 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:12:49

• "Auto-chattering is effectively what I'm doing now: writing with the intent of being read but not giving much space for hearing feedback as I do it." ☛ https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2025/autochattering/ | Source: Jacky Alciné    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:12:59

• "We’ve covered the AI scraper bots before. These just hit web pages over and over, at high speed, to scrape new training data for LLMs." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:13:21

• "Currently, generative AI is shunned by many artists and writers, the traditional arbiters of good taste and culture, because it has been developed through the theft of their labor." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/06/02/generative-ai-and-the-business-borg-aesthetic/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:13:33

• "This is my secret. When I get handed a feature request that would require complex and repetitive code, I don’t put my nose to the grindstone and do it." ☛ https://slophole.net/post/two-virtues/ |    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:13:48

• "ad agencies have been trying out generative AI since ChatGPT exploded in 2022. It’s been three years." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/03/lets-put-more-ai-slop-into-advertising/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:14:10

• "There’s a growing attitude in the technology industry that LLM technology is, or will be, the next great innovation to our work." ☛ https://henry.codes/writing/economics-and-labor-rights-in-ai-skepticism/ | Source: Henry Desroches    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:14:31

• "We recently released a new manuscript Semi-Explicit Neural DAEs: Learning Long-Horizon Dynamical Systems with Algebraic Constraints where we showed a way to develop neural networks where any arbitrary constraint function can be directly imposed throughout the evolution equation to near floating point accuracy" ☛ https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/machine-learning-with-hard-constraints-neural-differential-algebraic-equations-daes-as-a-general-formalism/ |    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:14:52

• "We recently released a new manuscript Semi-Explicit Neural DAEs: Learning Long-Horizon Dynamical Systems with Algebraic Constraints where we showed a way to develop neural networks where any arbitrary constraint function can be directly imposed" ☛ https://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/machine-learning-with-hard-constraints-neural-differential-algebraic-equations-daes-as-a-general-formalism/ |    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:15:17

• "Though BI didn't admit the source for those phony titles either in leaked documents or in requests for comment from Semafor, it doesn't take a deep investigation to figure out where they almost certainly came from" ☛ https://futurism.com/business-insider-ai-reading-list | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:15:45

• "That risk is real. And if we suddenly can’t send emails or communicate within our systems, we’re in trouble" ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250603/danish-cities-drop-microsoft-over-trump-policies-and-financial-concerns | Source: The Local DK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:16:40

• "A "web application" is a system. It has a backend, maybe a database, user accounts, cookie consent, analytics." ☛ https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/web-programs.html | Source: James Stanley    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:17:02

• "Your past search history, and eventually your emails, can inform AI Mode’s responses: When I typed line up into AI Mode, I got the “line up” for the day’s New York Mets game" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/06/everything-app-big-tech-ai-endgame/683024/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:17:23

• "Sure, I had another customer to get to, but it really wasn’t that urgent. There was room for a Swedish fika moment." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/06/02/you-have-time/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:18:31

• "A former insider, Sarah Wynn-Williams, reveals that in 2017 the company was exploring ways to expand its ad targeting to young teens aged 13 to 17 across Facebook and Instagram." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/facebook-accused-exploiting-teenage-girl-insecurities-shows-beauty-ads-after-they-delete-selfies-1734823 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:18:51

• "The Army has long relied on the bravery of helicopter pilots or fast-moving ground vehicles to get medical resources into the hands of medics treating wounded soldiers on the frontlines, including blood supplies." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/drones-blood-supply-combat/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:19:09

• "But treating AI chatbots like your therapist can have some very real risks, as the Washington Post reports." ☛ https://futurism.com/therapy-chatbot-addict-meth | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:19:23

• "In addition to answers from the collector’s perspective, bonus points for answers that are also directed to answering this question which comes from your significant other who doesn’t understand your obsession." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2025/06/02/why-another-typewriter/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:24:38

• "This considers how two modern cameras handle a difficult color challenge, illustrated by photos of a perfect rose and a piano." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/05/31/Colors | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:26:21

• "The introduction of adapters, starting with the Sigma MC-11 Mount Converter, was a game-changer, allowing photographers to transition to Sony’s E-mount system while retaining their existing Canon EF lenses." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/lenses/why-photographers-are-ditching-branded-lenses-for-low-cost-indie-alternatives | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:27:09

• "However, slip the 15 Ultra into Xiaomi’s Photography Kit and the phone morphs into something that feels alarmingly close to my compact: a half-press shutter button" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/phones/after-two-months-using-this-phone-im-perilously-close-to-leaving-my-compact-camera-at-home | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:31:39

• "SmallRig has launched the RC 220C RGB COB LED Video Light – and it’s shaping up to be a serious lighting solution for filmmakers and photographers who need power, control and versatility without dragging around a bulky rig." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/video-lights/smallrig-launches-a-compact-rgb-cob-led-light-that-punches-way-above-its-weight | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:33:05

• "This time around, let us use the joy of creation to bury them." ☛ https://aramzs.xyz/thoughts/code-is-a-joy/ |    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:40:48

• "Each choice has costs and benefits, and the useful approach is to enumerate them." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/06/what-do-we-do-when-it-breaks/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:40:57

• "I’m not trying to convince you that LLMs will eventually become super-intelligent software engineers." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/john-henry-and-the-llm/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:41:06

• "The cuts — which would drag the budget to its lowest point since 1961, SpaceNews points out, when adjusted for inflation — would result in the firing of roughly one-third of all civil servants." ☛ https://futurism.com/trump-budget-nasa-horrifying | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:43:27

• "Scientists fear South Africa’s Square Kilometre Array (SKA-Mid), the world’s most powerful radio telescope together with another array co-hosted in Australia, will have their sensitive space observations distorted by Starlink’s low-orbiting satellites." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/sa-scientists-musks-starlink-out-space/264564/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:44:54

• "I think generative AI is incredibly destructive to our teaching of university students" ☛ https://futurism.com/ai-destroying-generation-students | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:45:34

• "The UPND government, under the leadership of President Hakainde Hichilema and through Education Minister Douglas Syakalima, has loudly celebrated the introduction of free education." ☛ https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/06/03/zambia-needs-more-teachers-not-just-free-education/ | Source: Lusaka ZM    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:46:00

• "Some reorganizations happen at work, but I’m still basically working upstream on Linux distributions." ☛ https://michel-slm.name/posts/2025-06-03-on-working-sustainably/ | Source: Michel Alexandre Salim    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:46:18

• "Whether the culture of helping each other will survive in this new age of LLMs is a real question. Is human helping still necessary?" ☛ https://www.infoworld.com/article/3993482/ai-didnt-kill-stack-overflow.html | Source: InfoWorld    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:46:50

• "Teens who do not attend an "efterskole" start their final three years of secondary school straight away." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/culture-and-society/denmarks-efterskoles-where-teens-spend-a-year-finding-themselves-1883037 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:47:21

• "Free four years? Public? Private? To be worked out with Congress)" ☛ https://aj.bourg.family/if-i-were-president/ | Source: AJ Bourg    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:47:27

• "The modern university is in a grave crisis in today’s imperial core. During a crisis it is instructive to return to one’s foundation and, thereby, reorient oneself. That foundation is Authentica habita, dating from 1155." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/03/on-the-political-roots-of-academic-freedom/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:47:33

• Techrights covers a broad range of real-life issue it would not have direct and first-hand experience without the Microsoft SLAPPs.    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 13:53:30

• "Mannerheim Day - Finlandia Foundation National" https://finlandiafoundation.org/event/mannerheim-day/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:13:35

• "In films, when an office worker gets sacked, they put their belongings in a cardboard box. Where do all the boxes come from?" gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-06-04_Thought_for_the_day.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:17:20

• Replace reddit with a modern verion of usenet gemini://tilde.club/~say/2025-06-03.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:18:15

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-06-04.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:18:47

• "I think his most recent debate featuring himself versus 20 atheists² did a good job of demonstrating exactly the problem with his rhetoric that I mentioned before." gemini://nicholasjohnson.ch/2025/06/04/stop-platforming-jordan-peterson/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:19:52

• "Adolescents are philosophers in the making. As they grow, they begin to develop their own personal beliefs and identities apart from that which they had come to know as a youth." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2630    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:21:22

• 🔤SpellBinding: CFIYTUR Wordo: RONDO gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-06-04.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:22:12

• intruding mouse feet gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/intruding_mouse_feet    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:24:18

• zplug is a next-generation plugin manager for zsh ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zplug-next-generation-plugin-manager-zsh/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:33:16

• "Gnome isn't really a desktop anyway - it's a research project." - Torvalds    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:36:27

• de Icaza became US citizen only in 2015    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:37:21

• Seems like Erica Brescia left Microsoft and its so-called 'Linux' Foundation https://www.jewishpress.com/news/jewish-news/microsoft-owned-github-official-resigns-over-firing-jewish-employee-who-cried-nazis/2021/01/19/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:44:20

• Oracle GNU/Linux 9.6 Released with UEK 8 and Enhanced Security Features ☞ https://linuxiac.com/oracle-linux-9-6-released-with-uek-8-and-enhanced-security-features/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 14:59:19

• Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Rolls Out With VoLTE and Waydroid Upgrades ☞ https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-9-rolls-out-with-volte-and-waydroid-upgrades/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:00:00

• "This is where SuSE Linux 6.3 was an interesting experience for me. I’d definitely have classified myself in 1999 as your typical computer nerd who was all about the Pentiums and the MHz, so at the very least I should have had some overlap with the nerds who wrote this Linux OS thing." https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/my-winter-of-99-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-is-always-next-year/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:16:24

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1023625/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:28:25

• "But there is a point to all of this." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/06/02/usbc-microsoft-standards/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:33:30

• "Implementing an optimized lock in Linux requires some Operating System help. You can only get so far by doing everything in user-land." ☛ https://blog.fredrb.com/2025/06/02/futex-fun/ | Source: Frederico Bittencourt    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:34:08

• "Back in the olden times, software was hard to build and hard to use, but remarkable improvements have been made, and entire ecosystems of ergonomic languages are now available." ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/modern-software-2025-edition | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:34:18

• "It always starts the same way. A campaign wraps, and the team pulls up the performance report." ☛ http://www.stencilled.me/posts/2025-06-02-benchmarks-baselines/ | Source: Senthil Thyagarajan    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:34:42

• "Please feel free to post below with your own interesting finds, or in-depth explanations, or questions about these developments." ☛ https://julialang.org/blog/2025/06/this-month-in-julia-world/index.html | Source: Julia Programming Language    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:34:54

• "I've had a fascination with Forth since college. I have a copy of both the first edition and the second edition of Starting Forth." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2025/06/02.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:35:20

• [Old] "There are many programming languages and each and every one of them has its strengths and weaknesses. Some languages are very quick, but verbose." ☛ https://juliadatascience.io/preface |    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:35:38

• "Now, that’s a bit unfair." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/02/open-science-and-its-enemies/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:36:54

• "DuckLake simplifies lakehouses by using a standard SQL database for all metadata, instead of complex file-based systems" ☛ https://ducklake.select/manifesto/ |    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:37:43

• "We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?" ☛ https://duckdb.org/2025/05/19/the-lost-decade-of-small-data.html |    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:37:54

• "Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team members Clement Lecigne and Benoît Sevens spotted the high-severity bug, tracked as CVE-2025-5419, on May 27." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/google_chrome_zero_day_emergency_fix/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:38:30

• "ESC (Escape) is one of the most central key in the world of Vim. It takes you from Insert mode to Normal mode and it also serves to interrupt operations in progress in Vim. You’ll be using it a lot!" ☛ https://batsov.com/articles/2025/06/03/how-to-vim-proper-ways-to-escape/ | Source: Bozhidar Batsov    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:39:01

• "ArduPilot (including Copter, Plane, Rover, Sub and AntennaTracker) and the ground control software (including Mission Planner, APM Planner2 and MAVProxy) are free software" ☛ https://ardupilot.org/dev/docs/license-gplv3.html |    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:39:31

• "Images circulating immediately after the attacks appeared to show that Russian aircraft had been hit with remarkable accuracy at some of their most vulnerable points." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/ukraine-new-war-drone-strike/683008/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:39:47

• "Eight months after its previous 5.11 release, RawTherapee, a powerful cross-platform open-source photo editing software designed for processing raw files and producing high-quality image outputs, has just been updated to version 5.12." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/rawtherapee-5-12-enhances-color-tools-and-camera-compatibility/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:42:57

• "Flatpak is stable and widely used, but it still has some pain points when used in certain environments or for certain ends" ☛ https://thelibre.news/flatpak-is-not-perfect-but-its-getting-better/ | Source: LibreNews    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:43:58

• Gradia – New App to Make Your Screenshots Prettier for Social Media ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/gradia-make-screenshots-prettier/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:45:45

• statCounter: GNU/Linux Up to 4.7% "Market Share" This Month ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/02/statCounter_GNU_Linux_Up_to_4_7_Market_Share_This_Month.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:46:11

• Slopwatch: GNU/Linux FUD From Slopfarms, Blaming GNU/Linux for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Issues; Even WebProNews Has Become a Slopfarm (Googlebombing "Linux" With Slop Images and Fake/Plagiarised Text) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/03/Slopwatch_Linux_FUD_From_Slopfarms_Blaming_Linux_for_Microsoft_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:46:19

• Linux is Already Dominant (Android), Let's Make GNU/Linux Dominant in Desktops/Laptops as Well (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/03/Linux_is_Already_Dominant_Android_Let_s_Make_GNU_Linux_Dominant.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:46:27

• Automate VM golden image management with OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/03/automate-vm-golden-image-management-openshift    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:47:37

• Putin’s punitive peace terms are a call for Ukraine’s complete capitulation ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-punitive-peace-terms-are-a-call-for-ukraines-complete-capitulation/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:48:27

• Ukraine’s Drone Strike on Russia Aims to Change Putin’s Calculus ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/world/europe/russia-ukraine-drone-attack-putin-war.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:48:35

• Troop Casualties in Ukraine War Near 1.4 Million, Study Finds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/politics/russia-ukraine-troop-casualties.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:48:45

• After Ukraine’s innovative airbase attacks, nowhere in Russia is safe ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/after-ukraines-innovative-airbase-attacks-nowhere-in-russia-is-safe/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:49:48

• Lessons from the Russia-Ukraine frontline: Autonomous vehicles, AI-driven logistics, and quantum-enhanced defence security are recalibrating military strategy ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/editors-pick/lessons-from-the-russia-ukraine-frontline-autonomous-vehicles-ai-driven-logistics-and-quantum-enhanced-defence-security-are-recalibrating-military-strategy/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:53:19

• Ukraine: Crimea bridge closed after underwater explosion ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250603-ukraine-crimea-bridge-closed-after-underwater-explosion-1    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:53:30

• Russia drone attacks against civilians violate international law, rights group says ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/russia-drone-attacks-against-civilians-violate-international-law-rights-group-says/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:53:55

• Zapad military drills in Belarus not a threat to Lithuania, PM says ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2581276/zapad-military-drills-in-belarus-not-a-threat-to-lithuania-pm-says    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:55:52

• Ukraine Claims Attack On Kerch Bridge, Key Link Between Russia And Annexed Crimea ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-attack-key-bridge-russia-crimea-kerch/33432943.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:56:10

• Zelenskyy Accuses Russia of Deliberately Targeting Civilians In Deadly Sumy Air Strikes ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-accuses-russia-targeting-civilians-deadly-attack-sumy/33432780.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:56:35

• In Kherson, Russian drone campaign turns civilians into targets ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0603/kherson-drone-ukraine-russia-civilian-killings    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:56:50

• The U.S. Proposed New Terms in Nuclear Talks With Iran ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/briefing/us-nuclear-talks-iran-russia-ukraine-war.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:57:04

• Ukraine Reports Striking Russia-Crimea Bridge With Underwater Explosives ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/world/europe/russia-ukraine-crimea-bridge.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:57:18

• What to Know About Ukraine’s Drone Attack on Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/world/europe/ukraine-russia-drone-strike-what-to-know.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:57:31

• Wednesday Briefing: Staggering Casualties in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/briefing/ukraine-russia-casualties-korea-election.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:57:45

• Traffic restarts on Kerch bridge after Ukrainian attack ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250603-traffic-restarts-on-kerch-bridge-after-ukrainian-attack    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:58:29

• Hegseth ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/04/hegseth-won-t-attend-ukraine-defense-contact-group-meeting-in-brussels | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:58:48

• "Russian strikes hit multiple Ukrainian regions overnight, injuring civilians" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/03/russian-strikes-hit-multiple-ukrainian-regions-overnight-injuring-civilians | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:59:06

• "Zelensky’s chief of staff lands in U.S. as part of Ukrainian delegation" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/03/zelensky-s-chief-of-staff-en-route-to-united-states-rbc-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 15:59:34

• "drone operation hits Russian air bases" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/03/kremlin-angry-and-alarmed-after-ukrainian-spiderweb-drone-operation-hits-russian-air-bases-bloomberg | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:00:42

• "Russia strikes central Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, killing at least three and injuring over a dozen" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/03/russia-strikes-central-sumy-in-northeastern-ukraine-killing-at-least-two-and-injuring-about-20 | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:01:00

• "blow up Crimean Bridge" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/03/ukraine-s-security-service-says-it-carried-out-underwater-attack-to-blow-up-crimean-bridge-supports | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:01:33

• After Microsoft's Bankruptcy in Russia Android (Linux) Will Dominate Asia Completely ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/02/After_Microsoft_s_Bankruptcy_in_Russia_Android_Linux_Will_Domin.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:01:54

• "Spiderweb" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/03/the-impact-of-spiderweb | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:02:33

• "Spinning Russia’s military mishaps State broadcasters emphasize rescue heroics while minimizing Ukrainian strikes that exposed strategic airfields’ vulnerability" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/03/spinning-russia-s-military-mishaps | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:02:56

• "seizure of Russian video game studio" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/04/moscow-court-orders-government-seizure-of-russian-video-game-studio-amid-allegations-of-funding-ukraine-s-military | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:17:38

• "Spiderweb" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/04/white-house-says-president-trump-had-no-advance-knowledge-of-ukraine-s-spiderweb-operation | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:19:15

• Niger Suspends Surveillance Services From Russia, Turkey ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/06/niger-suspends-surveillance-services-from-russia-turkey/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=niger-suspends-surveillance-services-from-russia-turkey    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:19:46

• "Trump’s special envoy warns Ukraine’s ‘bold attack’ on Russian air bases raises risk of escalation" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/04/trump-s-special-envoy-warns-ukraine-s-bold-attack-on-russian-air-bases-raises-risk-of-escalation | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:20:05

• "Kyiv regime" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/03/russian-authorities-blame-bridge-collapses-on-terrorists-working-for-kyiv-regime | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:20:22

• Estonia sends more police to help out at Latvian border ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/03.06.2025-estonia-sends-more-police-to-help-out-at-latvian-border.a601603/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:21:28

• USDOJ: Contributory Infringement Requires Conscious and Culpable Acts ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/contributory-infringement-conscious.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:22:21

• Providing Warranty Services With One's Own Goods is not a Recognizable Service Under the Trademark Act ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/06/providing-warranty-services-with-ones.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 16:22:52

• Will The Insurrectionist Help ODF Rise Again? ☞ https://www.consortiuminfo.org/microsoft/will-donald-trump-help-odf-rise-again/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:07:02

• SPAMnil selling Microsoft proprietary garbageware https://tfir.io/the-hidden-costs-of-sql-server-cloud-migration-what-it-leaders-need-to-know-in-2025/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:07:46

• He sniffs money and follows it like a hooker. (Spamnil)    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:10:49

• Google is killing the web with Hey Hi (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism Overviews – I made an extension to block them ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/block-google-ai-overviews    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:11:34

• "Track Down Radio Transmissions" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/supercon-2024-how-to-track-down-radio-transmissions/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:12:12

• Repost: The Modern R Stack for Production Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/repost-the-modern-r-stack-for-production-ai/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:13:22

• Containerizing Shiny Apps with {shiny2docker}: A Step-by-Step Guide ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/containerizing-shiny-apps-with-shiny2docker-a-step-by-step-guide/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:13:34

• Benchmarks vs. Baselines: When ‘Above Average’ Isn’t Good Enough ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/benchmarks-vs-baselines-when-above-average-isnt-good-enough/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:13:51

• Beyond ARMA-GARCH: leveraging model-agnostic Machine Learning and conformal prediction for nonparametric probabilistic stock forecasting (ML-ARCH) ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/beyond-arma-garch-leveraging-model-agnostic-machine-learning-and-conformal-prediction-for-nonparametric-probabilistic-stock-forecasting-ml-arch/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:14:32

• Podman Hey Hi (AI) Lab and RamaLama unite for easier local Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/03/podman-ai-lab-and-ramalama-unite-easier-local-ai    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:15:56

• LibreArts Weekly recap — 1 June 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/06/week-recap-1-june-2025/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:20:41

• VirtualBox 7.1.10 Rolls Out With backdoored Windows and GNU/Linux Improvements ☞ https://linuxiac.com/virtualbox-7-1-10-rolls-out-with-windows-and-linux-improvements/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:21:12

• Fedora Community Blog: F42 Elections Results ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f42-elections-results/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:51:20

• Christof Damian: Sharing a monitor between GNU/Linux & Mac ☞ http://christof.damian.net/2024/04/sharing-monitor-between-linux-mac.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:56:55

• Peter Czanik: Deprecating Java-based drivers from syslog-ng: Is HDFS next? ☞ https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/deprecating-java-based-drivers-from-syslog-ng-is-hdfs-next    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 17:59:11

• 5 Best Free and Open Source Text Expander Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-text-expander-tools/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:01:12

• NST is a bootable ISO live USB flash drive ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nst-bootable-iso-live-usb-flash-drive/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:01:21

• Kibi is a tiny text editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kibi-tiny-text-editor/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:01:30

• Cinecred creates film credits without the pain ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cinecred-creates-film-credits-without-pain/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:01:40

• Klaro is a simple and fast translation app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/klaro-simple-fast-translation-app/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:01:51

• Scriptorium – write short stories and novels ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/scriptorium-write-short-stories-novels/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:02:38

• New Steam Client Beta for GNU/Linux fixes sluggish update installations ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/new-steam-client-beta-for-linux-fixes-sluggish-update-installations/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:03:14

• As backdoored Windows 10 support winds down, KDE welcomes "Windows 10 exiles" to GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/as-windows-10-support-winds-down-kde-welcomes-windows-10-exiles-to-linux/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:04:05

• Refined dock and bug fixes land in latest Elementary OS 8 updates ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/refined-dock-and-bug-fixes-land-in-latest-elementary-os-8-updates/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:05:04

• Systemd is not Linux ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/new-linux-vulnerabilities.html http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/03/Slopwatch_Linux_FUD_From_Slopfarms_Blaming_Linux_for_Microsoft_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:06:33

• Plasma 6.5 Promises Better Memory Optimization ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Plasma-6.5-Promises-Better-Memory-Optimization    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:07:04

• LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #3 – Quality Assurance (QA) in Free and Open Source Software ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/03/libreoffice-podcast-episode-3-quality-assurance-qa-in-free-and-open-source-software/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:08:50

• What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #32 – S2E09 Yoda, Inclusive Strategies, and the Jedi Council: A Conversation with Dr. Eden-Reneé Hayes ☞ https://openssf.org/podcast/2025/06/03/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-32-s2e09-yoda-inclusive-strategies-and-the-jedi-council-a-conversation-with-dr-eden-renee-hayes/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:09:05

• IBM-sponsored about IBM selling hype and vapourware under the guise of Hey Hi (AI) agents ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/03/ibms-agentic-ai-strategy-think-2025-thecube/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:09:56

• Structured outputs in vLLM: Guiding Hey Hi (AI) responses ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/03/structured-outputs-vllm-guiding-ai-responses    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:12:11

• [Now with DRM] Kate & Co. in the Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Store ☞ https://kate-editor.org/post/2025/2025-06-03-kate-and-co-in-the-microsoft-store/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:13:27

• The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/climate/executive-order-gold-standard-science.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:16:39

• Results of Muon Experiment Offer More Precision But No Added Clarity ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/science/physics-muons-fermilab.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:16:47

• Philippines warns of health emergency as HIV cases soar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/philippines-warns-of-health-emergency-as-hiv-cases-soar    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:17:16

• White House calls South Korea election ‘fair,’ expresses concern about Chinese influence ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/white-house-calls-south-korea-election-fair-expresses-concern-about-chinese-influence    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:17:59

• New South Korean President Lee takes power after resounding election win ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250604-new-south-korean-president-lee-takes-power-after-resounding-election-win    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:18:09

• Young South Korean Voters Are Disenchanted With Their Choices ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/world/asia/south-korea-election-young-voters.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:18:29

• The removal of a ‘political overhang’ could lead to a market rally, analysts say. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/03/world/south-korea-presidential-election/the-removal-of-a-political-overhang-could-lead-to-a-market-rally-analysts-say    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:18:38

• SPAM disguised as article https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-linux-vpns/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:22:51

• "Windows has a lot of software for video editing, both free and paid. But when it comes to Linux, the options are more limited. After spending a considerable amount of time testing various video editors on Linux, Kdenlive quickly became my go-to choice—and for good reason." http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/03/Slopwatch_Linux_FUD_From_Slopfarms_Blaming_Linux_for_Microsoft_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:23:18

• Linux Share on Steam Reaches Highest in Years in May 2025 https://www.extremetech.com/computing/linux-share-on-steam-reaches-highest-in-years-in-may-2025    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:24:30

• Live Updates: Lee Jae-myung Elected President of South Korea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/03/world/south-korea-presidential-election    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:26:10

• Where ​South Korea’s New President​ Lee Jae-myung Stands on Convicted Felon and North Korea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/world/asia/south-korea-lee-jae-myung-policy.html    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:26:18

• Who Is South Korea’s New Leader? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000010202472/who-is-lee-jae-myung.html    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:26:43

• South Korea’s New President Will Face Deep Divisions and the Convicted Felon Administration ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/world/asia/lee-south-korea-new-president.html    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:26:55

• Farmer dies while allegedly burning waste in S. Korea as practice persists despite wildfire risks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/farmer-dies-while-allegedly-burning-waste-in-s-korea-as-practice-persists-despite-wildfire-risks    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:27:20

• Australian woman details fungi interest before deadly mushroom meal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-woman-accused-of-triple-mushroom-murders-breaks-down-in-court    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:28:17

• Lee Jae-myung set to be South Korea’s new president ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/lee-jae-myung-set-to-be-s-koreas-new-president-exit-polls-show    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:28:45

• South Korea’s new leader Lee Jae-myung to seek more time for US trade talks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-new-leader-lee-jae-myung-to-seek-more-time-for-us-trade-talks    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:28:57

• Riding wave of voter anger, South Korea’s Lee Jae-myung now faces policy challenges ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/riding-wave-of-voter-anger-south-koreas-lee-jae-myung-now-faces-policy-challenges    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:29:11

• Legal challenges facing South Korea’s incoming President Lee Jae-myung ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/legal-challenges-facing-south-koreas-incoming-president-lee-jae-myung    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:29:28

• Liberal Lee Jae-myung wins South Korea presidency in martial law ‘judgement day’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/liberal-lee-jae-myung-wins-south-korea-presidency-in-martial-law-judgement-day    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:29:41

• South Korea’s liberal new president Lee Jae-myung vows economic revival, judgment against martial law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-liberal-new-president-lee-jae-myung-vows-economic-revival-judgment-against-martial-law    

POSTED wEDNESDAY, jUNE 04, 2025 AT 18:29:52

• South Korea's election: after Yoon's turmoil, can Lee calm the country? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250603-south-korea-s-election-after-yoon-s-turmoil-can-lee-calm-the-country    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:30:25

• Lee Jae-myung wins election, economic challenges await the newly-elected South Korean president ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250603-lee-jae-myung-wins-election-economic-challenges-await-the-newly-elected-south-korean-president    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:30:45

• Hegseth orders the name of gay rights activist Harvey Milk scrubbed from Navy ship ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/06/03/us-news/hegseth-orders-the-name-of-gay-rights-activist-harvey-milk-scrubbed-from-navy-ship/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:31:25

• Malaysian AGC refutes Mahathir’s claim that Anwar’s pardon was invalid ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-agc-refutes-mahathirs-claim-that-anwars-pardon-was-invalid    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:31:45

• South Korea’s new president Lee Jae-myung vows economic revival, judgment against martial law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-liberal-new-president-lee-jae-myung-vows-economic-revival-judgment-against-martial-law    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:32:24

• What to Know About China’s Halt of Rare Earth Exports ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/business/rare-earth-metals-china.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:33:03

• U.S.-China Trade War Morphs From Tariffs Into Fight Over Supply Chain ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/business/economy/us-china-trade-supply-chains.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:34:16

• The benefits of living with bears and letting nature take its course ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Points-of-Progress/2025/0603/wild-italy-bears-trees-china    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:34:32

• 2 Japanese men murdered in north-east China over business dispute ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/2-japanese-killed-in-chinas-dalian-chinese-suspect-detained    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:35:09

• Hong Kong leader John Lee says sudden removal of China’s top official in city a ‘normal’ move ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-leader-john-lee-says-sudden-removal-of-chinas-top-official-in-the-city-was-normal    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:35:38

• Great Escape ends: Fugitive capybara caught after 2 months on the run ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/fugitive-capybara-caught-by-china-zoo-after-2-months-on-run    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:36:07

• China tells US envoy Washington must get ties back on ‘right track’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-tells-us-envoy-washington-must-get-ties-back-on-right-track    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:36:47

• U.S. extends China GPU tariff exemption until August 31 — Motherboards also listed in Section 301 exclusion ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/u-s-extends-china-gpu-tariff-exemption-until-august-31-motherboards-also-listed-in-section-301-exclusion    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:36:57

• 'End of 10' Is Helping People Move From Windows 10 to Desktop Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/end-of-10-is-helping-people-move-from-windows-10-to-desktop-linux/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:38:09

• Misconfiguration issue https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/malware-campaign-targets-windows/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:40:53

• Gaming on Linux is no joke: it just hit a record high on Steam, and it's not just SteamOS doing all the legwork https://www.xda-developers.com/gaming-linux-it-record-high-steam/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:41:42

• It is a marketing outfit, not Linux https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-wins-not-for-profit-and-education-team-of-the-year-at-2025-world-trademark-review-industry-awards-302470989.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:45:40

• "Over the past few years a number of companies including Pine64 and Purism have released smartphones designed to run mobile operating systems based on a mainline Linux kernel. But the Liberux NEXX is a work-in-progress Linux phone that could be the most powerful to date…" https://liliputing.com/liberux-nexx-linux-phone-with-rk3588s-and-32gb-ram-hits-indiegogo/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:46:20

• "If you're looking for a new distribution that's as functional as it is beautiful, BlueStar Linux should be on your radar." https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-finally-found-a-visually-pleasing-linux-distro-that-doesnt-skimp-on-performance/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:47:13

• How Red Hat just quietly, radically transformed enterprise server Linux https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-red-hat-just-quietly-radically-transformed-enterprise-server-linux/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:47:44

• Elementary OS 8 Gets Updated Dock, Window Manager, More https://www.thurrott.com/linux/321714/elementary-os-8-gets-updated-dock-window-manager-more    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:48:20

• "By now, you already know that Linux kernel development is a massive undertaking that's carried out by thousands of contributors, and more often than not, tensions rise, leading to some mean things being said." https://news.itsfoss.com/linus-kernel-broken-pull-request/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:49:45

• Coalition for Smarter Buildings Foundation Enables Building Management Innovation with Open Source Technical Project Contributions to the Linux Foundation https://www.chicagostarmedia.com/trending_from_our_network/coalition-for-smarter-buildings-foundation-enables-building-management-innovation-with-open-source-technical-project-contributions/article_2014f0b8-e98e-54fa-b236-5cdb6a903f6e.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:50:43

• SteamOS: Analysis From a YouTuber Outlines That the Linux-Based Operating System Can Outperform Windows 11 on the Same Hardware https://in.ign.com/lenovo-legion-go-s/232305/news/steamos-analysis-from-a-youtuber-outlines-that-the-linux-based-operating-system-can-outperform-windo    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:51:16

• It's Microsoft transmitting malware https://www.scworld.com/brief/malicious-pypi-packages-aim-to-backdoor-windows-linux-systems    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:52:43

• "I first tried Arch Linux to play around with Hyprland, a window manager that caught my eye with its auto-tiling functionality and versatile workspaces." https://www.xda-developers.com/things-i-wish-i-knew-about-arch-linux-before-switching/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:53:25

• "Fast-forward to 2025, and Windows is installed on all my primary desktop systems, raising the question of what went wrong in ’99. Wasn’t Linux the future of desktop operating systems?" https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/my-winter-of-99-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-is-always-next-year/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:53:53

• Key Linux systems may have security flaws which allow password theft https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/key-linux-systems-may-have-security-flaws-which-allow-password-theft    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 18:55:12

• Man jumps barricade at Tiananmen Square flag-raising ceremony ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/06/03/china-tiananmen-protest-fence-jump/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:13:24

• Tibetans evicted then reinstated after protest at US-China women’s soccer match ☞ https://rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/06/03/tibet-protest-china-us-soccer-minnesota/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:17:20

• How Kazakhstan can anchor a resilient rare‑earth supply chain for the West ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-kazakhstan-can-anchor-a-resilient-rare%e2%80%91earth-supply-chain-for-the-west/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:17:51

• The big question over fighter-like drones: expendability may be preferable ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-big-question-over-fighter-like-drones-expendability-may-be-preferable/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:18:45

• When it comes to childbearing, coercion cuts both ways ☞ https://overpopulation-project.com/when-it-comes-to-childbearing-coercion-cuts-both-ways/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:19:10

• Fedora Community Blog: Fedora 43 Wallpaper Under Way ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-43-wallpaper-under-way/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:20:45

• Four million people have fled Sudan since start of the war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20250603-four-million-people-have-fled-sudan-since-start-of-the-war    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:23:00

• Deprecating Java-based drivers from syslog-ng: Is HDFS next? ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/other/deprecating-java-based-drivers-from-syslog-ng-is-hdfs-next/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:26:19

• "When you think of open-source hardware, you probably think of electronics and maker tools– RepRap, Arduino, Adafruit, et cetera." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/open-source-watch-movement-really-ticks-all-the-boxes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:26:45

• The PRC Transnational Repression Efforts: Influence, Interference, and Legitimacy ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/the-prc-transnational-repression-efforts-influence-interference-and-legitimacy/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:27:01

• [japan] [cat] [food] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-06-04.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:27:54

• Scurvy gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/06/04/scurvy.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:28:46

• Modi's soaring Indian aviation ambitions face many headwinds ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/modis-soaring-indian-aviation-ambitions-face-many-headwinds    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:31:32

• UPC is illegal. UPC is paid to legitimise this fake kangaroo court. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/roche-settles-upc-dispute-over-insulin-distribution-technology/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:32:14

• UPC is not meant to exist because it's illegal; this is an ongoing EU and EPO scandal ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/06/03/inventive-step-at-the-upc-much-ado-about-nothing-new/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:32:55

• Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part I: It's a Lot Like the EPO ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/04/Abuse_Inside_the_Polish_Patent_Office_UPRP_Part_I_It_s_a_Lot_Li.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:33:08

• Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Bribed Hotel Staff $100,000 for Cassie Video, Latest Courtroom Testimony Reveals ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/03/sean-diddy-combs-bribed-hotel-staff-100k-for-cassie-video/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:34:13

• The Loyalty to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and the Salaries From Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (Funding SLAPPs Against Techrights and Tux Machines) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/03/The_Loyalty_to_Microsoft_and_the_Salaries_From_Microsoft_Fundin.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:35:59

• Last Article From Australia's Sam Varghese Was a Year Ago and It Covered the Release of Julian Assange, Who Will Apparently Come Back as 'Politician' ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/02/Last_Article_From_Australia_s_Sam_Varghese_Was_a_Year_Ago_and_I.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:36:08

• India: backdoored Windows Falls to 50% in Desktops/Laptops and 8% Overall ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/02/India_Windows_Falls_to_50_in_Desktops_Laptops_and_8_Overall.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:36:19

• Microsoft is in Trouble and Microsofters Know It ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/02/Microsoft_is_in_Trouble_and_Microsofters_Know_It.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:36:28

• Alpine Linux 3.22.0: Not Just for Servers, Containers, and IoT ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/alpine-linux-3-22-0-not-just-for-servers-containers-and-iot/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:37:15

• Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s Former Prime Minister, Pushes Kindness in New Book ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/style/jacinda-ardern-book-new-zealand.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:38:20

• 'We know from history the fates of South Korean presidents from both parties haven't been good' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250603-we-know-from-history-the-fates-of-south-korean-presidents-from-both-parties-haven-t-been-good    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:38:54

• Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 Released with VoLTE and Waydroid Improvements ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-touch-ota-9-released-with-volte-and-waydroid-improvements    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:46:24

• FSF Blogs: May GNU spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring thirteen new GNU releases: Automake, Gettext, and more! ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2025-may-gnu-spotlight-with-amin-bandali    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:47:03

• FSF Blogs: FSD meeting recap 2025-05-30 ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsd-meeting-recap-2025-05-30    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:47:13

• "Thirteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of May 31, 2025): [...]" http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2025-may-gnu-spotlight-with-amin-bandali    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:47:35

• Mongolia PM resigns after weeks of anti-corruption protests ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/mongolia-pm-loses-parliament-confidence-vote-resigns-statement    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:47:56

• Tech Company Recruiters ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:48:16

• Militaries Face ‘Concrete and Real’ Threats in Cyber Domain ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/06/militaries-face-concrete-and-real-threats-in-cyber-domain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=militaries-face-concrete-and-real-threats-in-cyber-domain    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:49:25

• Fentanylware (TikTok) landgrab for Western culture... using incentives https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/03/tiktok-for-artists-launch/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:50:18

• Google addresses 34 high-severity vulnerabilities in June’s Android security update ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/android-security-update-june-2025/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:51:29

• Over 30 Vulnerabilities Patched in Android ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/over-30-vulnerabilities-patched-in-android/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:51:38

• Google Researchers Find New Chrome Zero-Day ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-researchers-find-new-chrome-zero-day/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:51:52

• Mikko Hypponen Leaves Anti-Malware Industry to Fight Against Drones ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/mikko-hypponen-joins-anti-drone-company-sensofusion/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:52:39

• Aeroméxico workers’ strike postponed to June 10 ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/travel/aeromexico-strike-postponed-june-10/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:53:15

• CHP leader on İzmir Municipality strike: Don’t expect us to criticize striking workers ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/chp-leader-on-izmir-municipality-strike-dont-expect-us-to-criticize-striking-workers-308026    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:53:32

• Russian influence https://www.dw.com/en/bulgarian-nationalists-march-against-euro-currency-adoption/a-72746228 https://www.rferl.org/a/bulgaria-euro-adoption-protests-eu/33431089.html https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/bulgaria-gets-green-light-to-join-euro-in-2026/ https://apnews.com/article/bulgaria-euro-debt-disinformation-aa7941f156d49b9554c5e7ee6c05b56f    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:54:31

• Israeli military announces Syria shelling after projectiles launched ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250603-israeli-military-announces-syria-shelling-after-projectiles-launched    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:55:09

• Joint Civil Society Declaration at the International Labour Conference 2025 ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5595/joint-civil-society-declaration-international-labour-conference-2025    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 19:59:51

• UK data adequacy under scrutiny: civil society warns EU not to reward deregulation disguised as ‘simplification’ ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/uk-data-adequacy-under-scrutiny-civil-society-warns-eu-not-to-reward-deregulation-disguised-as-simplification/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:00:21

• Lizzo Fires Back Against Touring Dancers’ Harassment Lawsuit, Alleging First Amendment Violations ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/03/lizzo-lawsuit-response-june-2025/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:05:07

• Quickpost: Firefox Profiles and Multiple Instances ☞ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2025/06/04/quickpost-firefox-profiles-and-multiple-instances/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:05:23

• Credit card-sized industrial Allwinner T113-i SBC operates in the -40 to 85°C temperature range ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/03/credit-card-sized-industrial-allwinner-t113-i-sbc-operates-in-the-40-to-85c-temperature-range/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:07:39

• vBulletin Exploits (CVE-2025-48827, CVE-2025-48828), (Tue, Jun 3rd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32006    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:07:57

• Hong Kong pro-democracy business hit with ‘unwarranted’ tax demand, owner says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/04/hong-kong-pro-democracy-business-hit-with-unwarranted-tax-demand-owner-says/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:08:27

• "now-deleted Instagram post" ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/03/hong-kong-illustrators-art-fair-stall-closes-after-police-inspect-drawings/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:09:08

• Vecow PBC-2000 – An defective chip maker Intel Atom x7211RE fanless embedded system for industrial use ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/03/vecow-pbc-2000-intel-atom-x7211re-fanless-embedded-system-for-industrial-use/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:10:29

• VietJet Air asks government to go after its online critics ☞ https://rfa.org/english/vietnam/2025/06/03/vietnam-vietjet-facebook-false-information-probe/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:12:10

• Charles Davy’s Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/conjectural-observations    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:15:23

• The UK Brings Cyberwarfare Out of the Closet ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/the-uk-brings-cyberwarfare-out-of-the-closet/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:16:16

• Why Scamming Can’t Be Stopped—But It Can Be Managed ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/why-scamming-cant-be-stopped-but-it-can-be-managed/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:16:36

• 1,000 Instantel Industrial Monitoring Devices Possibly Exposed to Hacking ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/1000-instantel-industrial-monitoring-devices-possibly-exposed-to-hacking/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:18:04

• MainStreet Bank Data Breach Impacts Customer Payment Cards ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/mainstreet-bank-data-breach-impacts-customer-payment-cards/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:18:22

• Windows TCO. Maybe enforce reporting the use of Windows. ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/australia-enforces-ransomware-payment-reporting/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:18:59

• Experts react: What does South Korean President Lee Jae-myung mean for Indo-Pacific security? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react/what-does-president-lee-jae-myung-mean-for-south-koreas-future/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:19:18

• Future-ready cybersecurity: Lessons from the MITRE CVE crisis ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/mitre-cve-vulnerability-database-morphisec-op-ed/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:19:43

• Hundreds of state mental health patients are being kept in prison ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/correctional-services/hundreds-of-state-mental-health-patients-are-being-kept-in-prison/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:20:15

• Proprietary Qt 6.9.1 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.9.1-released    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:21:38

• ICE Detains Family of Suspect in Colorado Attack ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/politics/ice-colorado-suspect.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:22:27

• Beyond dancing and somersaults, humanoid robots in China aim higher ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/beyond-dancing-and-somersaults-humanoid-robots-in-china-aim-higher    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:22:41

• National security police arrest 5 over alleged bomb threats, promoting Hong Kong independence ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/03/national-security-police-arrest-5-over-alleged-bomb-threats-promoting-hong-kong-independence/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:22:55

• In N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race, Mamdani Responds to a Call for His Deportation ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/nyregion/mamdani-deport-paladino.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:23:28

• Dutch Government Collapses After Geert Wilders Withdraws Right-Wing Party ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/world/europe/geert-wilders-netherlands-coalition.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:24:06

• 3D Printed Tank ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/3d-printed-tank-has-a-cannon-to-boot/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:24:42

• Building An Eight Channel Active Mixer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/building-an-eight-channel-active-mixer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:25:44

• The gym can’t fix you ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/the-gym-cant-fix-you/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:26:08

• Ozempic users are hooked on this popular drink — which was just ranked the unhealthiest bottled beverage in the US right now ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/06/03/lifestyle/ozempic-fans-flock-to-most-unhealthy-bottled-drink/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:26:19

• The Perks of Being Harvey Weinstein’s Publicist ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/style/harvey-weinstein-pr-juda-engelmayer.html    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:26:45

• Top 50 news websites in the world: Tabloids take a tumble ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-websites-news-world-monthly-2/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:27:07

• LEGO Vehicle ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/making-a-lego-vehicle-which-can-cross-large-gaps/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:27:36

• "Got some spare filament and looking to build a guitar you can truly call your own?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/04/3d-printing-a-modular-guitar-means-it-can-look-like-whatever-you-want/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:27:55

• "Stripping and cutting wires can be a tedious and repetitive part of your project." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/03/building-an-automatic-wire-stripper-and-cutter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:28:13

• T-Mobile Fiber Home Internet officially launches in U.S. — Up to 2 Gbps covering 500,000 households ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/t-mobile-fiber-home-internet-officially-launches-in-u-s-up-to-2-gbps-covering-500-000-households    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:29:21

• Expanding Internet Access in Rural Latin America, One Course at a Time ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/06/expanding-internet-access-in-rural-latin-america-one-course-at-a-time/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:29:36

• The Great PTS CLI Throwdown ☞ https://www.olafalders.com/2025/06/03/the-great-pts-cli-throwdown/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:30:17

• 2025 forecast to be a year of modest growth and modest inflation in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/03.06.2025-2025-forecast-to-be-a-year-of-modest-growth-and-modest-inflation-in-latvia.a601677/    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:32:42

• TURKSTAT and ENAG inflation figures show twofold discrepancy ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkstat-and-enag-inflation-figures-show-twofold-discrepancy-308038    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:32:50

• Experimental Drug Helped Cancer Patients Live 40% Longer in Clinical Trial ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/experimental-drug-helped-cancer-patients-live-40-longer-in-clinical-trial    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:33:19

• Misophonia Has Genetic Links to Depression And Anxiety, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/misophonia-has-genetic-links-to-depression-and-anxiety-study-finds    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:33:29

• Pooping Is a High-Stakes Event That Could Be Fatal For One Group ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/pooping-is-a-high-stakes-event-that-could-be-fatal-for-one-group    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:33:44

• Cannabis Compound Could Protect Us From Deadly Fungal Disease ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-compound-could-protect-us-from-deadly-fungal-disease    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:33:54

• Scientists Studying Earth's Trees Issued a Stark Warning to Humanity ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-studying-earths-trees-issued-a-stark-warning-to-humanity    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:34:03

• "The answer to all your questions is ....because it's Microsoft." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jvqqfty6    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:45:46

• "It's simple Microsoft Su-ks" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwq2abfy    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:46:13

• "Nadella, you funny!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwsdzz9d    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:46:47

• "Microsoft, the multibillion-dollar tech corporation, has just recently laid off thousands of employees. The company did so silently, with zero announcements or explanations." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwxxd7yz http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/15/More_Microsoft_Cuts_and_Layoffs_Microsoft_Media_Mole_Jordan_Nov.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:48:11

• "Alvind and his Pipmunks have certainly not brought glory to the IBM company in recent times, unless you consider layoffs and transferring jobs to Alvind's motherland, India as some cause for celebration. As for AI development inside IBM, it's nothing but a sad joke ! Same as it ever was. And nothing in the Quantum department either - the cupboard is bare." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwwjxp8y    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:50:02

• "How much did IBM pay to put this junk into print??" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwwjxp8y    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 20:50:19

• ending the love detox gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/detox13    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 21:32:44

• Prologue gemini://karmiclag.smol.pub/1749065879    

posted Wednesday, June 04, 2025 at 21:34:00