Roy Schestowitz

• Bridge Types https://xkcd.com/3097/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 04:52:48

• Check Engine https://xkcd.com/3096/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 04:53:03

• Archaea https://xkcd.com/3095/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 04:53:19

• Get back the cost of your Windows License! https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250529-01.en.html http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/20/Chinese_OEMs_and_World_s_Largest_Pave_a_Path_Out_of_Microsoft_W.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 04:55:30

• Technology sovereignty is only possible with Free Software https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250603-01.en.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 04:55:49

• Refund4Freedom https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202506.en.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 04:55:59

• And at the same time 'FSFE' (stolen name) accepts Microsoft as its biggest sponsor http://techrights.org/o/2020/08/22/fsf-fsfe-dispute/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 04:56:49

• Rep. Garbarino: Ending CISA mobile app security program for feds sends ‘wrong signal’ ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/rep-garbarino-ending-cisa-mobile-app-security-program-for-feds-sends-wrong-signal/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 04:57:16

• Cyberattacks are hurting US businesses. Here’s how Congress can upgrade cybersecurity information sharing. ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/cyberattacks-are-hurting-us-businesses-heres-how-congress-can-upgrade-cybersecurity-information-sharing/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 04:57:34

• China Issues Warrants for Alleged Taiwanese Hackers and Bans a Business for Pro-Independence Links ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/china-issues-warrants-for-alleged-taiwanese-hackers-and-bans-a-business-for-pro-independence-links/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:10:04

• Lee Enterprises Says 40,000 Hit by Ransomware-Caused Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/lee-enterprises-says-40000-hit-by-ransomware-caused-data-breach/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:11:30

• Carding Marketplace BidenCash Shut Down by Authorities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/carding-marketplace-bidencash-shut-down-by-authorities/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:11:52

• "It wasn't a silent layoff - it was planned, announced and deliberate. Just ask Copilot. What's your point?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwxxd7yz    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:14:05

• Men Who Hacked Law Enforcement Database for Doxing Sentenced to Prison ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/men-who-hacked-law-enforcement-database-for-doxing-sentenced-to-prison/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:22:09

• Misconfigured HMIs Expose US Water Systems to Anyone with a Browser ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/misconfigured-hmis-expose-us-water-systems-to-anyone-with-a-browser/ http://techrights.org/n/2023/11/28/Media_Cannot_Tell_the_Difference_Between_Microsoft_and_Iran.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:22:37

• Prison employee suspected of prescribing illegal substances ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/05.06.2025-prison-employee-suspected-of-prescribing-illegal-substances.a601943/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:23:19

• Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue’s Peruvian Art in the School (1926) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/peruvian-art-in-the-school    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:23:49

• Under Construction: Tiny Cryptic #10 ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/06/tiny-cryptic-10    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:24:03

• Imagining an Idle Countess: George Wightwick’s The Palace of Architecture ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/imagining-an-idle-countess    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:24:14

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-06-07.gmi    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:25:08

• " In a post shared on Facebook (Farcebook) and Instagram on Wednesday"... only Farcebook... and Farcebook! ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/05/hong-kongs-golden-harvest-to-shutter-megabox-cinema-next-week/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:31:06

• What the New Travel Ban Means for Higher Ed ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/what-the-new-travel-ban-means-for-higher-ed    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:31:35

• OpenAI finds more Chinese groups using Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot for malicious purposes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/openai-finds-more-chinese-groups-using-chatgpt-for-malicious-purposes    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:31:57

• Survey Says… Users Want Discounts to Purchase Outside of App Store ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/05/app-store-survey-user-willingness-to-leave-ecosystem/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:32:36

• Apple Request to Pause Court Order On App Store Updates Denied by Appeals Court ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/05/apple-request-pause-denied-by-appeals-court-app-store/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:33:10

• Jetway PIC-ASL1 – A low-power defective chip maker Intel Atom x7213RE/x7433RE fanless industrial Pico-ITX SBC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/06/jetway-pic-asl1-a-low-power-intel-atom-x7213re-x7433re-fanless-industrial-pico-itx-sbc/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:33:42

• STMicro STM32WBA5MMG is a tiny wireless module with Bluetooth LE 6.0, Zigbee 3.0, and OpenThread ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/05/stmicro-stm32wba5mmg-tiny-wireless-module-bluetooth-le-6-0-zigbee-3-0-and-openthread/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:34:08

• KDE Gear 25.04.2 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.2/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:34:29

• 4 former, current members of Lingnan University Students’ Union arrested over alleged HK$1.3 million theft ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/05/4-lingnan-university-students-arrested-over-alleged-hk1-million-theft/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:34:51

• Upcoming DShield Honeypot Changes and Customizations, (Fri, Jun 6th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32016    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:35:20

• Syrians Rejoice at Being Exempted From Convicted Felon Travel Ban ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/world/middleeast/syria-trump-travel-ban-exemption.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:35:42

• To become an ‘energy superpower’, Canada wants to bulldoze Indigenous rights ☞ https://breachmedia.ca/indigenous-rights-energy-superpower-canada-bulldoze/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 05:37:00

• "There's a big Borderlands Franchise Sale on Steam, and you can get a free to keep copy of Borderlands 2 for a limited time." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/borderlands-2-is-free-to-claim-and-keep-on-steam/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 07:54:56

• "One now on my radar is Dragon Lands, a sweet looking mixture of an incremental game about creature collection, farming, crafting and automation." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/dragon-lands-is-forager-meets-a-creature-collector-and-it-looks-real-sweet/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 07:55:11

• "Near-Mage is a brand new hand-painted adventure from Stuck In Attic, who also made Gibbous - A Cthulhu Adventure. One I somehow missed from the end of last month, it has Native Linux support just like their previous game and it really does look absolutely gorgeous." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/near-mage-is-a-gorgeous-looking-new-hand-painted-witchy-adventure/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 07:55:24

• "Now this is seriously cool! Net.Attack() takes the basics of Vampire Survivors, and gets you doing a little visual programming." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/net-attack-is-like-vampire-survivors-but-you-program-unique-attacks/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 07:55:59

• "A chance for you to buy some games and feel slightly better about it. The World Ocean Day Sale on Steam is now live." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/world-ocean-day-sale-2025-is-live-on-steam-to-support-charity/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 07:56:27

• "Classic racing games FlatOut 1 & 2 just got upgraded, and there's also a small update for FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/classic-racers-flatout-1-2-get-improved-controller-support-better-widescreen-and-bug-fixes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 07:59:13

• "If you love sports and fast-paced action, Sparkball will be one you need to check out with a playable demo coming in Steam Next Fest." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/a-sports-brawler-meets-a-moba-in-sparkball-with-a-demo-coming-to-steam-next-fest/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 07:59:27

• "9 Kings is a fast-paced roguelike kingdom builder where you get to watch tiny armies fight and it's surprisingly absorbing of your time. Note: personal purchase." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/build-a-kingdom-and-watch-overpowered-tiny-armies-fight-in-9-kings/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 07:59:38

• "It was the art style of Sol Cesto that first pulled me in, now I'm hooked on the roguelite slot-machine like mechanics of it. Note: personal purchase. It's in Early Access so this is just an initial thoughts review." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/sol-cesto-is-a-super-weird-tactical-roguelite-with-rad-art-all-about-luck-and-pulling-teeth/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 07:59:51

• iophk: no mention of the DRM being added into the whole series of chips https://www.macworld.com/article/2803725/the-upcoming-a20-chips-killer-feature-could-be-better-battery-life.html ("The upcoming A20 chip's killer feature could be better battery life")    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:01:57

• New corona variant is spreading around the world – the infection is also present in Finland | "Ny coronavariant sprids ute i världen – smittan finns också i Finland | Inrikes | Svenska Yle" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://yle.fi/a/7-10079249    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:02:38

• "Wake Up and Smell the Corruption - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/wake-up-and-smell-the-corruption    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:02:53

• "Trump Reveals Real Reason Why Elon Musk Is 'Going Crazy' Amid Social Media War" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-reveals-real-reason-why-elon-musk-going-crazy-amid-social-media-war-1735179    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:03:29

• "Elon Musk used X to boost Trump. Now he’s using it to attack him." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/05/elon-musk-x-trump-attacks-epstein/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:03:47

• "Why the Musk and Trump relationship is breaking down – a psychologist explains" https://theconversation.com/why-the-musk-and-trump-relationship-is-breaking-down-a-psychologist-explains-258213    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:04:00

• "Britain’s gift to Putin" https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2025/06/britains-gift-to-putin    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:04:18

• "AG CHEMI GROUP, s.r.o. | Cadmium in Phosphate Fertilizer Part 1: The History" https://www.agchemigroup.eu/tr/blog/post/cadmium-phosphate-fertilizer-part-1-history    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:05:02

• "For more than six decades, agribusiness professionals have known about the problem of cadmium in phosphate fertilizer. It is a problem caused by naturally occurring amounts of the heavy metal in the rock phosphate that forms a key raw material in the manufacture of many fertilizers."    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:05:12

• "CMMC version 2.0 came into effect on December 26, 2023, and is designed to ensure adherence to rigorous cybersecurity policies and practices within the public sector and amongst wider industry partners." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-cmmc-compliance | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:06:02

• "Morse Micro and Gateworks Corporation have partnered to bring Wi-Fi HaLow (IEEE 802.11ah) to industrial environments." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/morse-micro-and-gateworks-launch-wi-fi-halow-solution-for-industrial-connectivity/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:06:43

• "The RP2350A microcontroller from Raspberry Pi features a dual-core, dual-architecture design, offering both ARM Cortex-M33 and Hazard3 RISC-V cores running up to 150MHz" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/luckfox-pico-2-adopts-rp2350a-dual-core-mcu-launches-at-3-99/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:07:15

• "Insights planning introduces two new features: [...]" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-insights-planning-red-hat-enterprise-linux-now-generally-available | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:09:17

• "First, let’s break down the raw numbers. Red Hat Security Advisories (RHSA) hit a new peak in 2024, clocking in at 2975." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/2024-red-hat-product-security-risk-report-cves-xz-backdoor-sscas-aioh-my | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:09:33

• "Hungary’s ruling party, Fidesz, postponed a parliamentary vote on the controversial legislation that targets organizations receiving foreign funding, 444 reports." ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/06/06/fidesz-delays-vote-on-controversial-law-targeting-ngos-and-the-media | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:10:22

• Crime ☛ https://therevelator.org/public-lands-crime/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:13:03

• Boeing Deal ☛ https://fair.org/home/jeff-hauser-on-doge-after-musk-katya-schwenk-on-boeing-deal/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:13:56

• "When scrapers are not deployed thoughtfully, however, they can contribute to higher hosting costs, lower performance, and even site outages" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/keeping-web-under-weight-ai-crawlers | Source: EFF    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:16:15

• "Twenty-six years ago this week, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker launched Napster, a music sharing platform that disrupted a global industry" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/napster-com-faced-isp-piracy-blockade-for-massive-copyright-violations-250606/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:16:40

• "Apple has issued a series of fiery statements targeting the Digital Markets Act. The tech giant will now have the opportunity to test its arguments in court." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/apple-is-not-going-down-without-a | Source: Cafétech    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:17:24

• "Our latest report draws together input gathered from a series of interviews - with network operators, ISPs, cloud providers, regulators and other industry experts" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/anastasiya-pak/the-state-of-ipv4-and-the-evolving-transfer-landscape/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:17:46

• "Sadly, Adriana’s case reflects the new “Jane Crow” era, when the state in which a woman resides, becomes pregnant" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/dobbs-georgia-human-rights/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:18:20

• Luckfox Pico 2 Adopts RP2350A Dual-Core MCU, Launches at $3.99 ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/luckfox-pico-2-adopts-rp2350a-dual-core-mcu-launches-at-3-99/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:20:32

• Morse Micro and Gateworks Launch Wi-Fi HaLow Solution for Industrial Connectivity ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/morse-micro-and-gateworks-launch-wi-fi-halow-solution-for-industrial-connectivity/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:21:02

• What is CMMC compliance? ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/what-is-cmmc-compliance    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:22:51

• "The title started as a “pop-up” print experiment in 2016, nine days after Britain voted to leave the European Union." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/the-new-world/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:26:15

• "When I reconnected with Pickard recently, he acknowledged that it’s understandable why" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/can-public-media-survive-trump | Source: New Yorker    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:26:38

• "Yet days after publicly criticizing a Trump appointee, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Cuccia found herself out of a job." ☛ https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-oan-reporter-fired-hegseth-dbb74d55d13564fcd0c53bad4b76dfbe | Source: Associated Press    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:26:53

• "Hesgeth, himself a former fake journalist who failed upward into his completely unqualified role as Secretary of Defense" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/06/journalist-for-right-wing-propaganda-outlet-oan-fired-for-accidentally-almost-doing-honest-journalism/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:27:17

• "No one thinks the United States’ oldest university – founded in 1636 and named after a Puritan minister who was its first major donor – will go out of business." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0605/trump-universities-harvard-international-students | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:28:02

• "Congress responded with the TAKE IT DOWN Act, introduced by Senator Ted Cruz and quickly co-sponsored by a bipartisan group of lawmakers." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/05/a-takedown-of-the-take-it-down-act/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:28:32

• "I think it was Scott Jennings, but I can’t be sure. You’ll forgive me if I can’t recall which husk of a person with their soul on loan said something so profoundly ignorant." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/05/trump-hiring-program-the-best-praise-for-the-administration-is-compulsory-praise/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:28:52

• "Convicted Azerbaijani labour activist Elvin Mustafayev faces transfer to a tougher, stricter prison reserved for criminals convicted of grave crimes after the head of his prison accused him of ‘acting like an opposition figure’." ☛ https://oc-media.org/convicted-union-activist-faces-transfer-to-stricter-prison-for-acting-like-opposition-figure/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:29:06

• "The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it." ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/06/freedom-of-expression-in-viet-nam-part-4-western-ideas-and-viet-nams-struggle-for-free-speech/ | Source: The Vietnamese Magazine    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:29:35

• "parents who object to any learning material or activity on the basis that it is harmful" ☛ https://popular.info/p/update-oklahoma-parents-fight-back |    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:30:34

• "The problem, of course, is that there are no “legitimate concerns,” which means students will purposefully be made stupider by idiots who are heavily reliant on an ignorant voter base to remain in office." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/05/parents-use-republicans-own-law-against-them-to-keep-their-kids-from-being-subjected-to-election-conspiracy-theories/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:30:48

• "Virkkunen responded by describing the US as a past partner while highlighting other countries in the context of the International Digital Strategy." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/06/europe_international_digital_strategy_nothingburger/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:31:29

• "Anduril develops hardware systems for the defense sector. Its product portfolio includes aircraft, autonomous submarines, edge computing devices and a range of other products." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/05/anduril-raises-2-5b-funding-finance-manufacturing-initiatives/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:31:43

• "EFF was one of the very first legal organizations to publicly come out in support of Perkins Coie when it became the first law firm to challenge the legality of President Trump’s executive order targeting it." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/judges-stand-law-firms-and-eff-against-trumps-executive-orders | Source: EFF    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:31:50

• "Most of this carnivorous botany is small, but the diversity of different trapping mechanisms raises an evolutionary question." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/articles/carnivorous-plants-have-been-trapping-animals-for-millions-of-years-so-why-have-they-never-grown-larger-180986708/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:32:45

• "Droughts are becoming more severe and widespread across the globe. But it's not just changing rainfall patterns that are to blame. The atmosphere is also getting thirstier." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/our-atmospheres-growing-thirst-is-a-hidden-cause-of-worsening-droughts | Source: Science Alert    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:33:41

• "In a way, Brockman’s monitoring echoes the reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency began requiring from large polluters more than a decade ago." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-06-06/planet-warming-emissions-dropped-when-companies-had-to-report-them-epa-wants-to-end-that | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:33:47

• "The article was, in fact, written by a real journalist, based on a real telephone interview with a man who appears to have deceived the reporter and given them a fake name." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/faked-telegraph-article/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:35:09

• "Trump is also believed to have flown on Epstein's private jet a lot of times in the 1990s, majorly between Florida and New York, as per the documents released in the case related to Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein's heiress" ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/what-are-the-epstein-files-elon-musk-referred-to-in-feud-with-donald-trump-us-8601499 | Source: NDTV    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:35:27

• "Initially, the colony prospered, but after 317 days, population growth began to stagnate." ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/06/universe-25-experiment.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:36:07

• "The Kremlin employs hybrid warfare tactics to remain below the threshold that would trigger a unified and potentially overwhelming European response." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russian-hybrid-warfare-europe-should-study-ukraines-unique-experience/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:36:46

• "That's it. That's the whole framework. I'm not a socialist." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/my-ideology-no-bullshit | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:37:02

• "It also helps them gradually upgrade their drones." ☛ https://theconversation.com/russia-has-been-working-on-creating-drones-that-call-home-go-undercover-and-start-fires-heres-how-they-work-257699 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:37:58

• "Thousands of workers across the federal government saw the playbook in action over the last four months." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/elon-musk-is-gone-but-doges-actions-are-hard-to-reverse-the-us-institute-of-peace-is-a-case-study/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:38:46

• "The Intern In Charge" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/05/the-intern-in-charge-meet-the-22-year-old-trumps-team-picked-to-lead-terrorism-prevention/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:39:12

• "Last weekend, Ukraine launched a daring drone attack against airfields thousands of miles inside Russia." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/operation-spiders-web-ukraine-russia/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:39:38

• "The European Union already has some of the world’s most stringent digital rules to rein in Big Tech, with multiple probes ongoing into how platforms protect children – or not." ☛ https://www.thelocal.se/20250606/new-europe-push-to-curb-childrens-social-media-use | Source: The Local SE    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:39:53

• "Judge Amy Totenberg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia" ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/06/06/social-media-giants-ask-judge-to-block-georgia-age-verification-law/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:40:56

• "There was a roughly six percent decrease in banknote withdrawals from cashpoints, bank tellers as well as store checkouts, the central bank reported." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20166264 | Source: YLE    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:41:07

• "The stakes have only grown as modern applications demand more from their auth systems to support features like Single Sign-On, SCIM, RBAC, bot detection, and more." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/you-can-build-authentication-in-house-but-should-you/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:41:29

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

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:41:57

• "There is an epidemic of fare-dodging in this country. Yobs are laughing at working people who do the right thing. It’s a disgrace." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/06/tiktok-influencers-teach-commuters-fare-dodging-tricks/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:42:26

• "In an increasingly digitized world, social media platforms like Facebook often present themselves as champions of open communication and connectivity." ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/06/when-connection-becomes-control-facebooks-dark-side-in-viet-nam/ | Source: The Vietnamese Magazine    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:42:33

• "Case in point: A bad actor could trick an AI agent into exfiltrating internal documents simply by embedding a hidden instruction in what looks like a normal email or calendar invite." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/06/06/ai-security-playbook-change-speed | Source: Axios    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:42:55

• "In part one of this new tutorial series, you can learn how to use a Raspberry Pi AI Camera to detect different Raspberry Pi models." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/build-a-raspberry-pi-classifier-detect-different-raspberry-pi-models/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:43:08

• "Amazon has agreed to clamp down on fake online reviews of products advertised on its UK site, Britain's competition regulator said Friday." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2310676.html | Source: RTL    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:43:31

• "NB.1.8.1 is a subvariant of Omicron, the version of COVID we've all become a bit too familiar with over the last couple of years." ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health-news/new-covid-variant-nb-1-8-1-found-in-the-uk-what-are-the-symptoms/articleshow/121662914.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:44:05

• "Wastewater surveillance in Western Australia has determined NB.1.8.1 is now the dominant variant in wastewater samples collected in Perth." ☛ https://theconversation.com/theres-a-new-covid-variant-driving-up-infections-a-virologist-explains-what-to-know-about-nb-1-8-1-257552 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:44:17

• "The new strain, named NB.1.8.1, now accounts for just over 10 per cent of global infections , with cases now confirmed in Northern Ireland and Wales." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/covid-new-variant-nb-1-8-1-symptoms-b2764869.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:44:34

• "A new COVID-19 variant, NB.1.8.1, also called Nimbus, has been identified as responsible for a resurgence of cases in several Asian countries, including India, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Thailand." ☛ https://whn.global/%F0%9F%9B%91-public-health-alert-nb-1-8-1-variant-spreading-across-asia-and-beyond/ |    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:45:00

• "To get savings on that scale, you have to look elsewhere. And the truth is that millions of lower-income Americans, many of them working people, would be stripped of their health insurance if the bill becomes law." ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/06/05/bookman-theres-no-way-to-cut-800-billion-from-medicaid-without-hitting-bone/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:50:49

• [Old] "This comprehensive review targets risk assessment authorities, researchers, policymakers, and agricultural" ☛ https://www.foodtimes.eu/consumers-and-health/phosphate-fertilizers-cadmium-public-health-risks/ |    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 08:51:33

• "On Linux (Fedora Server 42), the idle power usage was around 6.5 W to 7 W. After running powertop --auto-tune" ☛ https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/06/06/thinkcentre-m900-tiny/ | Source: Herman Õunapuu    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 09:40:53

• "Stephen Hackett just took a deep dive into the story of the Power Mac G5, which introduced the “cheese grater” design also used by many years of Intel-based Mac Pros." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/06/memories-of-the-power-mac-g5/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 09:41:07

• "My name is Baldur Bjarnason, a writer, researcher, and freelance software developer." ☛ https://makemeacto.substack.com/p/interview-with-baldur-bjarnason-on | Source: Sergio Visinoni    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 09:57:12

• "This is a pretty accurate description of what I work on now, and how it differs from what I worked on before." ☛ https://olano.dev/blog/domain-driven-design-revisited/ | Source: Facundo Olano    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 09:57:21

• "We see children who can sit still and focus for hours on YouTube or Miss Rachel" ☛ https://futurism.com/children-losing-ability-read | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 09:57:41

• "Poland’s election reveals how authoritarian movements gain ground by turning less-educated voters against the institutions that safeguard democracy." ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/06/06/what-polands-election-teaches-us-about-trumps-war-on-harvard/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 09:57:53

• "In other words, the threat could prevent American astronauts from visiting the space station — especially considering that the only other American option, Boeing's Starliner, is likely still years away from becoming a viable alternative, if ever." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-cutting-off-nasa | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 09:58:42

• "Trump's outright anti-science agenda could have devastating knock-on effects for anybody looking to make a career in the sciences" ☛ https://futurism.com/scientists-brain-drain-trump-white-house | Source: Futurism    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 09:58:53

• "The solution that makes life easy… when it’s applicable. Instead of using a PNG (or JPEG), use an SVG - a scalable vector graphic." ☛ https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/rethinking-image-formats/ | Source: Jumping Rivers    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 10:42:23

• "The satellite is the first of a planned constellation called Pulsar, which is being developed by California-based Xona Space Systems." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/06/1117978/inside-the-race-to-find-gps-alternatives/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 10:46:31

• "It’s plot recreation time! In this post, we’ll look at how we can recreate a plot in R." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/let-it-flow-recreating-a-facs-plot-with-ggplot/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:24:33

• "This thought was inspired by the model of goimports" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoErrorBoilerplateViaFormatter | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:25:28

• "I’m working on a Java decompiler because I’m not satisfied with the performance of other solutions." ☛ https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/recovering-control-flow-structures-without-cfgs/ | Source: Alisa Sireneva    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:25:36

• "We are accepting proposals for the next edition of the CNI Pre-Recorded Project Briefing Series until June 10." ☛ https://www.cni.org/news/cfp-reminder-cni-project-briefing-series-summer-2025 | Source: Coalition for Networked Information    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:27:13

• "I used to run Endeavouros with KDE as my daily driver on my work laptop. (In fact it's my only laptop" ☛ https://aumont.fr/posts/From-Endeavouros-to-Pop_OS/ | Source: Mathieu Aumont    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:29:01

• "Following FreeBSD's quarterly release schedule (which I announced in July 2024" ☛ https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2025-06-06-A-year-of-funded-FreeBSD.html | Source: Daemonology    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:35:24

• "Isn’t that made for RHEL-based distributions?" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/linux-install-a-web-based-admin-console-on-ubuntu-server/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:36:44

• How To Install Fastfetch on Rocky GNU/Linux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fastfetch-rocky-linux-9/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:39:31

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

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:40:12

• How To Install Nessus Scanner on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nessus-scanner-fedora-42/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:40:28

• How To Install UNetbootin on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-unetbootin-debian-12/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:40:49

• How to Install Yay on Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-yay-on-arch-linux/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:42:26

• The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 25.2.4 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/06/tdf-announces-libreoffice-25-2-4/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:45:28

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

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:45:52

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

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:51:13

• How To Setup Virtual Host Apache on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/virtual-host-apache-fedora-42/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:51:35

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

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:51:52

• Ocean Month ☞ https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/ocean-month/welcome.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 11:53:24

• Fooyin – Foobar2000 Like Music Player Designed for Qt Desktop ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/fooyin-foobar2000-qt-desktop/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:08:36

• mkws is a simple static site generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mkws-simple-static-site-generator/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:09:05

• HardenedBSD is a fork of FreeBSD ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hardenedbsd-fork-freebsd/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:09:24

• EndeavourOS: A Distro That’s All Things to All People ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/endeavouros-a-distro-thats-all-things-to-all-people/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:10:00

• Making a link blog gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2025-06-06-adding-a-linkblog.gmi    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:13:47

• "If life imitates art and art imitates life, then which is truly being imitated. Is it just a feedback loop? Imitating and imitating until no one remembers what they originally were? Eventually one, say art in this example, will have one minute difference." gemini://breebee.smol.pub/post_by_bones_06_06_2025    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:14:23

• "The season has begun: as the sun sets, the Sanseveria flowers hidden deep amidst the leaves open and that sweet opium fills the room. I walk past the door and stop as if running into a different medium." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-06-06-sanseveria    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:14:58

• a stone thrown into water gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/a_stone_thrown_into_water    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:15:30

• 🔤SpellBinding — CDHILMU Wordo: WOODS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-06-07.gmi    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:16:35

• "For reasons that are too convoluted to summarize, I own a set of wireless earbuds now. I've had them for about a week now, and these are my assorted thoughts on them." gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/first_time_with_wireless_earbuds.gmi    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:17:52

• "This slim volume summarizes the many dense concepts of domain-driven design, a software engineering philosopjhy that seems borne of certain dense problems in enterprise software engineering." gemini://devp.smol.pub/book-ddd-quickly    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:18:26

• "In short: The Animator application formerly published as Autodesk Animator from 1989-1994 was released with a BSD license by its developer Jim Kent in 2011. It can be downloaded from GitHub." gemini://gem.hexandcounter.org/gemlog/posts/animator.gmi    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:19:00

• MY SESSION WITH THE BOTS gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2025-06-07My_Session_with_the_Bots.txt    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:20:25

• "Arguing point-by-point considered harmful | sean goedecke" https://www.seangoedecke.com/point-by-point-considered-harmful/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 12:45:28

• "These are my personal book notes from Gelong Thubten's "A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st century." They are for my own reference, but I hope they might be useful to you as well." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2025-06-07-a-monks-guide-to-happiness-book-notes.gmi    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 13:26:04

• US blocks UN Security Council Gaza ceasefire resolution ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/us-blocks-un-security-council-gaza-ceasefire-resolution/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 14:54:37

• Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in May 2025 ☞ https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2025-05/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 14:55:20

• Russian war crimes ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/06/three-rescue-workers-among-dead-after-russian-missile-and-drone-attack-on-kyiv | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 14:55:47

• "Russia’s Central Bank cuts record-high key rate to 20 percent" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/06/russia-s-central-bank-cuts-record-high-key-rate-to-20-percent | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 14:56:12

• "U.S. citizen Joseph Tater leaves Russia after forced psychiatric treatment" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/06/u-s-citizen-joseph-tater-leaves-russia-after-forced-psychiatric-treatment | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 14:56:34

• U.K. Faces ‘Extraordinary’ Threat From Russian and Iranian Plots, Official Warns ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/world/europe/uk-russia-iran-state-threats.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 14:56:46

• Fired US Copyright Office Chief Faces an Uphill Battle — Courts Proceedings Are Now Dragging Into July ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/06/copyright-office-lawsuit-schedule/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 14:58:14

• US Citizen Joseph Tater Leaves Russia After Being Held In Psychiatric Clinic ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-us-citizen-prisoner-exchange-tater/33435967.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 14:58:42

• Kaunas mayor’s company confirms selling assets in Russia for over €100m ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2584228/kaunas-mayor-s-company-confirms-selling-assets-in-russia-for-over-eur100m    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 14:59:13

• Keeping China at bay and critical minerals stocked: The case for US-Africa defense collaboration ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/keeping-china-at-bay-and-critical-minerals-stocked-the-case-for-us-africa-defense-collaboration/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 14:59:44

• Firefox Nightly: Smarter Searches – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 182 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/06/06/smarter-searches-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-182/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:00:07

• Far too much pure garbage about Hey Hi (AI) in schneier's site lately, including promotional links to the site of the main perpetrator, Microsoft. What happened to you, schneier? "U OK?"☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/hearing-on-the-federal-government-and-ai.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:01:49

• Self-hosting your own media considered harmful (updated) ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful-updated    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:02:31

• Bryansk ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/06/ukrainian-drones-target-russian-regions-spark-fire-at-engels-industrial-site-explosion-reported-near-bryansk-airport | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:03:06

• "abandon Ukraine" = embrace Putin ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/06/kyiv-s-spiderweb-drone-strike-prompts-white-house-debate-over-whether-to-abandon-ukraine-the-atlantic | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:03:29

• "Pro-invasion bloggers criticize Russia’s Defense Ministry for failing to retaliate for Ukraine’s drone strikes on strategic airfields" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/06/not-yet-payback | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:03:51

• Russia Pummels Kyiv in Apparent Retaliation for Ukrainian Drone Assault ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/world/europe/russia-missile-attack-ukraine-kyiv.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:04:08

• Luis Villa full of BS again: "Microsoft’s historical turn from government fighter to Ukraine supporter" ☞ https://lu.is/2025/06/book-reports-mid-2025/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:05:08

• Microsoft helped Russia fight Ukraine and profited from it    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:05:35

• Russia Pounds Kyiv With Missiles, Drones; At Least 4 Killed, Including Firefighters ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-kyiv-attack-drones-missiles/33435548.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:05:54

• London Court Sets Trial Date For Ukrainians, Romanian Accused In Starmer Arson Attacks ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/london-britain-arson-starmer-ukraine-russia/33435829.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:06:11

• Dispatch from Kyiv: Ukraine is putting new pressure on Russia. Will Convicted Felon follow? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/dispatch-from-kyiv-ukraine-is-putting-new-pressure-on-russia-will-trump-follow/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:06:32

• Ukraine’s drone strikes offer four big lessons for US nuclear strategists ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/ukraines-drone-strikes-offer-four-big-lessons-for-us-nuclear-strategists/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:06:47

• Ukraine’s drone attack offers fearful lesson for a Chinese invasion force ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/ukraines-drone-attack-offers-fearful-lesson-for-a-chinese-invasion-force/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:06:57

• Destructive ‘PathWiper’ Targeting Ukraine’s Critical Infrastructure ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/destructive-pathwiper-targeting-ukraines-critical-infrastructure/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:07:30

• Baltic Foreign Affairs Committees call for Ukraine’s NATO membership ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/06.06.2025-baltic-foreign-affairs-committees-call-for-ukraines-nato-membership.a602206/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:07:43

• "withdrawing from Mali" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/06/wagner-group-says-it-s-withdrawing-from-mali-claiming-its-main-mission-there-is-complete | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:08:04

• Mini-tutorial creating a snapshot in QV ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202506/mini-tutorial-creating-a-snapshot-in-qv.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:08:32

• "I got stuck on two books: books that I want to enjoy but can’t get any momentum on. So my reading “stats” are suffering and this is a light year for books so far." ☞ https://macwright.com/2025/06/06/recently.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:11:15

• Introducing DBIx::Class::ResultSet::PrettyPrint ☞ https://www.perl.com/article/introducing-dbix-class-resultset-prettyprint/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:12:16

• What to Know About the Effects of Ketamine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/health/ketamine-effects-anesthetic-elon-musk.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:15:30

• Europe's troubled waters: Does EU Ocean Pact meet the challenge? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20250606-europe-s-troubled-waters-does-eu-ocean-pact-meet-the-challenge    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:16:01

• EPA Administrator Zeldin vowed to protect human health and the environment. His proposed budget tells a different story ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/06/epa-administrator-zeldin-vowed-to-protect-human-health-and-the-environment-his-proposed-budget-tells-a-different-story/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:23:00

• South Koreans Have a New President, and Mixed Emotions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/world/asia/south-korea-president-reaction.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:23:32

• How North Korea Salvaged a Capsized Warship ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/world/asia/north-korea-warship-salvage-capsize.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:23:53

• South Korea’s Lee, Convicted Felon agree to work towards ‘satisfactory’ tariff deal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-trump-agree-to-work-towards-satisfactory-tariff-deal    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:34:08

• Body of missing British backpacker found in lift shaft in Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/body-of-missing-british-backpacker-found-in-lift-shaft-in-malaysia    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:35:04

• Boy, 3, among three dead as boat capsizes off Malaysia’s Port Klang ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/boy-3-among-three-dead-as-boat-capsizes-off-malaysias-port-klang    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:35:16

• Xi to Convicted Felon: Rein in the Hawks Trying to Derail the Tariff Truce ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/world/asia/xi-trump-tariffs-truce.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:35:50

• Buyer With Ties to Chinese Communist Party Got V.I.P. Treatment at Convicted Felon Crypto [sic] Dinner ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/trump-crypto-dinner-china-he-tianying.html http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/05/Just_Because_Common_Currencies_Including_the_US_Dollars_Are_Con.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:36:39

• China’s rare earth weapon changes contours of trade war battlefield ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china%25E2%2580%2599s-rare-earth-weapon-changes-contours-of-trade-war-battlefield    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:37:20

• This Shandong city produces 80 per cent of China’s peony paintings ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/this-shandong-city-produces-80-per-cent-of-chinas-peony-paintings    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:37:51

• Taiwan accuses China of conducting ‘provocative’ patrol near island ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-condemns-chinas-provocative-patrol    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:38:41

• China says it is working with France on trade differences, no sign yet of a cognac deal ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-says-it-is-working-with-france-on-trade-differences-no-sign-yet-of-a-cognac-deal    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:38:59

• China issues rare earth licenses to suppliers of top 3 US automakers, sources say ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-issues-rare-earth-licenses-to-suppliers-of-top-3-us-automakers-sources-say    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:39:50

• As US tightens visa rules, Chinese students may turn to Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/as-us-tightens-visa-rules-chinese-students-may-turn-to-malaysia    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:40:04

• Imprisoned Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong faces new ‘foreign collusion’ charge ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/06/06/china-hong-kong-joshua-wong/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:40:25

• IBM. "That office hours has been postponed to June 17th... I wonder why! I would not be surprised if some big announcement is coming up... what could it be? Anyone wants to speculate?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jx04bw73    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:42:28

• never be a surprise." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jx1b6zt6    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:43:51

• "Local legal requirements very from region to region. Eg US employee are ‘at will’ but EU employees have rigorous employment laws and rights. However a pip should never be a surprise." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jx1b6zt6    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:44:00

• "Alvind couldn't lead or inspire a troop of rabid baboons, so it's a wonder he even made the list. Slob Thomas could dance around in his hoodie to show his lack of dancing talent to the baboons. And meanwhile the obese Krabanaugh would be stuffing his pie-hole with baboon droppings to show the IBM F&O commitment to global recycling." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jx0qkjv6    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:45:03

• "Heard the same thing about blockchain at IBM back in 2015-2019. We all know how that fizzled." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwkjmka1    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:45:57

• Another lawsuit https://www.universalhub.com/2025/boston-woman-charges-she-didnt-get-executive-job-ibm-because-shes    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:46:25

• "Deloitte UK cuts the number of partner promotions by 25%, the latest sign of pressure on the Big Four. What are Alvind and Ali doing other than sitting comfortably in their offices and twiddling their thumbs ? It should be pay for performance for ALL Partners and Consultants, not just running to unproductive meetings and achieving nothing ." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jwzkpxye    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:47:52

• Georgia ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/06/georgia-s-democratic-reckoning | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:48:37

• Solder Stencil Done Three Ways ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/solder-stencil-done-three-ways/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:49:07

• 13 “Woke” Books Banned in DOD Schools ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/13-woke-books-banned-in-dod-schools    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:49:39

• The Forrest Dump Administration is Banning Books on Military Bases. We Sued. ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/the-trump-administration-is-banning-books-on-military-bases-we-sued    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:49:58

• Dihydroxyacetone Man's student visa pause hits Indian and Chinese students hardest ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/access-asia/20250606-trump-s-student-visa-pause-hits-indian-and-chinese-students-the-hardest    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:50:17

• The dystopian feminism of ‘I Who Have Never Known Men’ ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/b-side/the-dystopian-feminism-of-i-who-have-never-known-men/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:50:42

• New Nintendo Switch 2 units show potential signs of tampering — UK customers report receiving unsealed products from multiple retailers ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/new-nintendo-switch-2-units-show-potential-signs-of-tampering-uk-customers-report-receiving-unsealed-products-from-multiple-retailers    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:51:19

• BUG: ethical hacking USB device with RP2040, ESP32-S3, or STM32 MCU (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/07/bug-ethical-hacking-usb-device-ships-with-rp2040-esp32-s3-or-stm32-mcu/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:54:10

• Lawrence of Arabia bombed the Hejaz Railway. Syria wants it to run again. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0606/syria-hejaz-ottoman-railway-revival    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:54:59

• Speech by Commissioner Lahbib for the 35th Anniversary of the European Women's Lobby ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_1455    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:55:50

• Nat Friedman Had Left Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Exactly One Week Before Matthew Garrett Sent His First SLAPP (Which Was an Empty Threat, He Was Abusing the Legal System of Another Continent to Terrorise Critics Who Had Just Unearthed Major Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Scandals) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/05/Nat_Friedman_Had_Left_Microsoft_GitHub_Exactly_One_Week_Before_.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:56:11

• South Americans Are Saying Goodbye to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/06/South_Americans_Are_Saying_Goodbye_to_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:56:33

• We're in 6/6 Now, Almost Halfway in 2025 ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/06/We_re_in_6_6_Now_Almost_Halfway_in_2025.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:56:43

• Python Requirements for Didier Stevens Suite ☞ https://blog.didierstevens.com/2025/06/07/python-requirements-for-didier-stevens-suite/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:57:05

• Art that speaks for the sea: Mandy Barker's mission to end fast fashion waste ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20250606-art-that-speaks-for-the-sea-mandy-barker-s-mission-to-end-fast-fashion-waste    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:57:38

• Jailed Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong charged with conspiring to collude with foreign forces ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/06/breaking-jailed-hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-charged-with-conspiring-to-collude-with-foreign-forces/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:58:57

• Safeguarding national security should become Hong Kong’s ‘culture,’ leader John Lee says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/06/safeguarding-national-security-should-become-hong-kongs-culture-leader-john-lee-says/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:59:19

• Extortion is a Crime, Even If You're Based in Another Continent and Work for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/06/Extortion_is_a_Crime_Even_If_You_re_Based_in_Another_Continent_.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 15:59:41

• Seeed Studio XIAO-2CH-EM Review: 2-Channel Wi-Fi AC Energy Meter with two CT clamps, ESPHome preloaded ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/06/seeed-studio-xiao-2ch-em-review-2-channel-wi-fi-ac-energy-meter-two-ct-clamps-esphome/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:02:13

• Raspberry Pi 5-based portable Hey Hi (AI) learning platform features 41 modules, supports Arduino Nano, RPi Pico, and Micro:bit boards (Crownfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/06/raspberry-pi-5-portable-ai-learning-platform-41-electronics-modules-supports-arduino-nano-rpi-pico-and-microbit-boards/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:02:21

• 'Open' 'AI' to retain deleted Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot conversations following court order ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/06/openai-retain-deleted-chatgpt-conversations-following-court-order/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:03:05

• 'Rising Hey Hi (AI) coalition' seeks to jettison Nvidia — Industry report claims firms are accelerating development in order to reduce dependence on the giant ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/rising-asic-coalition-seeks-to-jettison-nvidia-industry-report-claims-firms-are-accelerating-development-in-order-to-reduce-dependence-on-the-giant    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:08:30

• Public Knowledge Urges Commerce Department To Reconsider BEAD Changes Risking America’s Connectivity ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-urges-commerce-department-to-reconsider-bead-changes-risking-americas-connectivity/ A mouthpiece for Microsoft, too https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:10:19

• Three Takeaways from NDIA’s Net Inclusion Conference ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/three-takeaways-from-ndias-net-inclusion-conference/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:10:29

• Maintaining a Speedy and Robust IPR Process Should Be a Major Focus of John Squires’ Patent Quality Efforts ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/maintaining-process-quality.html http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/30/EPO_Poll_68_Dissatisfied_With_Quality_of_Slop_Wrongly_Framed_as.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:12:17

• "Nightmare fuel for biotech patent monopoly attorneys 😫" ☞ http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/06/alexions-soliris-sequence-error-saga.html?showComment=1749198028838#c5545751123888474625    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:12:40

• Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part IV: Political Scrutiny and Errors/Inconsistencies in Official Documents ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/07/Abuse_Inside_the_Polish_Patent_Office_UPRP_Part_IV_Political_Sc.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:12:48

• UPC is illegal and this site is a paid cheerleader for this illegal kangaroo court; this discredits the media as watchdog as opposed to PR lapdog ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/ales-zalar-i-like-to-compare-the-pmac-to-a-restaurant-offering-dispute-resolution/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:14:02

• Aylo and Bardehle Pagenberg prevail against Dish in pan-European dispute ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/aylo-and-bardehle-pagenberg-prevail-against-dish-in-pan-european-dispute/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:16:51

• The search for safe assets ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/the-search-for-safe-assets/ "The deterioration of the US fiscal outlook has put international investors, especially foreign central banks, in a quandary. There is no good alternative to US Treasuries as safe reserve assets."    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:18:21

• US targets Iran's shadow banking with new sanctions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/us-targets-irans-shadow-banking-with-new-sanctions    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:19:01

• iophk: "The only long term plan the US has had over the last 50 years has been divestment from education. That leaves all the hostile groups and outright enemies with medium- and long-term plans with the advantage. That advantage is extremely amplified via social control media. "    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:21:10

• From Sandbox to Incubating: gittuf’s Next Step in Open Source Security ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/06/06/from-sandbox-to-incubating-gittufs-next-step-in-open-source-security/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:21:41

• Figlet updated ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Figlet    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:22:35

• From Day One, Convicted Felon's Immigration Agenda Has Grown More Extreme ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/from-day-one-trumps-immigration-agenda-has-grown-more-extreme    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:23:32

• This Week in GNOME: #203 Infinitely Proud ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/06/twig-203/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:24:24

• Ubuntu Devs Debate Splitting GNU/Linux Firmware to Reduce Size ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/buntu-linux-firmware-package-size-reduction-proposal    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:25:38

• LibreOffice 25.2.4 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 52 Bug Fixes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-2-4-office-suite-is-now-available-for-download-with-52-bug-fixes    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:26:23

• FSF Events: FSF Zoë Kooyman speaking at ZuriHac 2025 Monday, June 9, 2025 starting at 11:15 CEST (13:15 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/zoe-kooyman-speaking-at-zurihac-2025    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:26:46

• Canonical is Dropping Bazaar Support from Launchpad ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/launchpad-bazaar-support-being-removed    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:27:08

• Launchpad News: Phasing out Bazaar code hosting ☞ https://blog.launchpad.net/general/phasing-out-bazaar-code-hosting    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:27:32

• Australian Navy ship blocks Kiwi Internet ☞ https://rubenerd.com/australian-navy-ship-blocks-kiwi-internet/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:28:19

• "Sometimes a project forms itself around a component rather than an idea, and thus it was that [Maximilien] found himself building a data rate monitor for the connection between two data centers. Some MD0657C2-R LED dot matrix displays for not a lot needed a project." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/a-network-status-panel-the-way-it-should-be/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:32:47

• 32-bit CPU ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/the-bellmac-32-cpu-what/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:33:20

• Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of Hey Hi (AI) Company Logos ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/visual-design-homogeneity-at-scale/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:34:01

• Agents Use Military-Style Force Against Protesters at L.A. Immigration Raid ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/los-angeles-immigration-raid.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:34:33

• UK political mag Tribune taken over by Islam Channel owner ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/islam-channel-tribune/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:35:14

• Improved Metal Printing ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/freeze-drying-for-improved-metal-printing/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:35:38

• "That’s precisely what [3D Sanago] did to produce this cute little robot." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/3d-pen-used-to-build-cleaning-robot-that-picks-up-socks/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:35:54

• Bright-pink Barbie CDs, American standards and physical media ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/b-side/bright-pink-barbie-cds-american-standards-and-physical-media/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:36:38

• EU's von der Leyen 'has to be held accountable' for vaccine texts: Senior MEP Aubry ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20250606-eu-s-von-der-leyen-has-to-be-held-accountable-for-vaccine-texts-senior-mep-aubry    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:37:04

• Astronomers Just Discovered The Biggest Explosions Since The Big Bang ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-just-discovered-the-biggest-explosions-since-the-big-bang    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:37:49

• Infamous 'Gateway to Hell' Fire Could Finally Stop Raging After 50 Years ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/infamous-gateway-to-hell-fire-could-finally-stop-raging-after-50-years    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:38:00

• Dehorning Rhinos Cuts Poaching by 78% – Saving Thousands of Animals' Lives ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/dehorning-rhinos-cuts-poaching-by-78-saving-thousands-of-animals-lives    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:38:31

• KOL466 | On IP Reform and Improving IP law ☞ https://stephankinsella.com/as_paf_podcast/kol466-on-ip-reform-and-improving-ip-law/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:38:58

• ".@NSKinsella has proposed a number of patent monopoly reforms if we decide as a society not to abolish the patent monopoly system. This is, in my view, a more plausible way forward (politically) instead of demanding the abolition of patents."    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:39:27

• “Mountainhead” and the Age of the Pathetic Billionaire ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/critics-at-large/mountainhead-and-the-age-of-the-pathetic-billionaire    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:39:56

• What Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Doesn’t Understand About Autism ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/what-robert-f-kennedy-jr-doesnt-understand-about-autism    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:40:16

• "This week, Hackaday’s Elliot Williams and Kristina Panos joined forces to bring you the latest news, mystery sound, and of course, a big bunch of hacks from the previous week." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/hackaday-podcast-episode-324-ribbon-microphone-from-a-gumstick-texture-from-a-virtual-log-and-a-robot-arm-from-pvc/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:41:36

• Going Linux #468 · How to try GNU/Linux without affecting your current system Pt. 1 ☞ https://goinglinux.com/episode-468-how-to-try-linux-without-affecting-your-current-system-pt.-1/index.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:42:08

• Gunnar Wolf: Computational modelling of robot personhood and relationality ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/06/computational-modelling-of-robot-personhood-and-relationality.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:43:23

• Karl Dubost: Les Liaisons Dangereuses Or The Wrong Love For Proxy Detections ☞ https://www.otsukare.info/2025/06/06/proxy-detections-are-wrong    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:43:58

• No normalising spyware: Italy admits use, but not the full extent ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/no-normalising-spyware-italy/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:44:46

• asking AI: why does apache2 not support python like it does php? ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/06/06/asking-ai-why-does-apache2-not-support-python-like-it-does-php/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:47:27

• US Offering $10 Million Reward for RedLine Malware Developer ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/us-offering-10-million-reward-for-redline-malware-developer/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:47:56

• Pentagon watchdog investigates if staffers were asked to delete Hegseth’s Signal messages ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news/2025/06/pentagon-watchdog-investigates-if-staffers-were-asked-to-delete-hegseths-signal-messages/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:48:33

• Sheinbaum cancels Guerrero trip after protesters sack headquarters of rival teachers union ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/teachers-union-protesters-snte-mexico-city/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:49:05

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s ‘Golden Dome’ defense plan: Would it work? Is it worth it? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2025/0606/trump-golden-dome-missile-defense    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:49:18

• How to Install Basilisk on FunOS ☞ https://funos.org/install-basilisk-funos/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:49:49

• More Than Just Phone Book Data: Why the Government is Dangerously Misleading on its Warrantless Demands for Internet Subscriber Information ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/more-than-just-phone-book-data-why-the-government-is-dangerously-misleading-on-its-warrantless-demands-for-internet-subscriber-information/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:50:56

• Gunnar Wolf: The subjective value of privacy • Assessing individuals' calculus of costs and benefits in the context of state surveillance ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/06/the-subjective-value-of-privacy-assessing-individuals-calculus-of-costs-and-benefits-in-the-context-of-state-surveillance.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:53:00

• Gunnar Wolf: Beyond data poisoning in federated learning ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/06/beyond-data-poisoning-in-federated-learning.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:53:55

• Supreme Court Grants DOGE Access to Americans’ Social Security Data, Undermining Privacy Protections ☞ https://americanoversight.org/supreme-court-grants-doge-access-to-americans-social-security-data-undermining-privacy-protections/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:54:18

• UMich student protesters report surveillance by undercover investigators ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/administration/umich-student-protesters-report-surveillance-by-undercover-investigators/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:55:01

• TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Recent Section 2(d) Appeals Turn Out? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/06/ttablog-test-how-did-these-three-recent.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:55:37

• Reflecting on my CentOS journey: A thank you note ☞ https://blog.centos.org/2025/06/reflecting-on-my-centos-journey-a-thank-you-note/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:56:18

• Three Ways to Try FreeBSD in Under Five Minutes ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/three-ways-to-try-freebsd-in-under-five-minutes/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:58:34

• April 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update ☞ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/april-2025-laptop-support-and-usability-project-update/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 16:59:11

• Hackers discover Nintendo Switch 2 exploit one day after launch — minor hack allows running custom code on top of OS ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/hackers-discover-nintendo-switch-2-exploit-one-day-after-launch-minor-hack-allows-running-custom-code-on-top-of-os    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:00:40

• Jussi Pakkanen: Custom C++ stdlib part 3: The bleedingest edge variant ☞ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/06/custom-c-stdlib-part-3-bleedingest-edge.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:01:10

• Gunnar Wolf: Humanities and big data in Ibero-America • Theory, methodology and practical applications ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/06/humanities-and-big-data-in-ibero-america-theory-methodology-and-practical-applications.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:01:38

• Using an Arduino Nicla Vision as a drone flight controller ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/06/using-an-arduino-nicla-vision-as-a-drone-flight-controller/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:02:00

• Jonathan Blandford: Crosswords 0.3.15: Planet Crosswords ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2025/06/06/crosswords-0-3-15-planet-crosswords/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:03:04

• Common Diabetes Drug Linked to 'Exceptional Longevity' in Women ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-diabetes-drug-linked-to-exceptional-longevity-in-women    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:03:54

• The Cause of Alzheimer's Might Be Coming From Within Your Mouth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-cause-of-alzheimers-might-be-coming-from-within-your-mouth    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:04:31

• The 'Japanese Walking' Fitness Trend Has Science-Backed Benefits ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-japanese-walking-fitness-trend-has-science-backed-benefits    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:04:45

• Rosemary Can Sharpen Your Mind, And Could Help Fight Alzheimer's ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/rosemary-can-sharpen-your-mind-and-could-help-fight-alzheimers    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:04:59

• Your Brain Wrinkles Are Way More Important Than We Ever Realized ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-brain-wrinkles-are-way-more-important-than-we-ever-realized    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:05:13

• The Greatest Parasite Is Right in Front of You – And It's Dangerous ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-greatest-parasite-is-right-in-front-of-you-and-its-dangerous    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:05:25

• Netdev 0x19 videos and slides are live ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1024345/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:06:05

• North Korea Internet hit by a major outage, analyst says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-internet-hit-by-a-major-outage-analyst-says    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:06:43

• Community Snapshot—May ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/06/community-snapshot-may/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:07:06

• UK Court Warns Lawyers Can Be Prosecuted Over Hey Hi (AI) LLM Slop Tools That ‘Hallucinate’ Fake Material ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/world/europe/england-high-court-ai.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:07:56

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Is Helping Human Rights Abusers. I’m Suing to Stop Him. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/opinion/trump-lawsuit-icc-suing.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:08:45

• China demonstrates coast guard capability to Pacific nations, draws towards high seas patrols ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-demonstrates-coast-guard-capability-to-pacific-nations-step-towards-high-seas-patrols    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:09:09

• LLM Slop Laws Won’t Save Zimbabwean Journalism, Let’s Think This Through ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/06/ai-laws-wont-save-zimbabwean-journalism-lets-think-this-through/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:10:10

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s ‘Free’ Jet from Qatar and Corruption’s Slippery Slope ☞ https://americanoversight.org/trumps-free-jet-from-qatar-and-corruptions-slippery-slope/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:10:30

• Stanford’s Democratic duty to combat the MAGA rage ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/06/06/stanfords-democratic-duty-to-combat-the-maga-rage/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:10:52

• Özgür Özel says they won’t allow CHP to be taken over ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/ozgur-ozel-says-they-wont-allow-chp-to-be-taken-over-308132    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:11:19

• Nepal ex-PM faces graft charge over land deal with Indian yoga guru's firm ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/nepal-ex-pm-faces-graft-charge-over-land-deal-with-indian-yoga-gurus-firm    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:11:36

• ProPublica Explains How DOGE’s Hey Hi (AI) Cut Support for Veterans Care ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/06/propublica-explains-how-doges-ai-cut-support-for-veterans-care/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:13:11

• "This is the second consecutive budget cycle in which the Legislature considered purchasing the products, which promise to help find missing children, only to reverse course after the news organizations documented the lack of evidence that the kits work" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-child-id-kits-funding-pulled | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:13:40

• "Error-Prone" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-veterans-affairs-ai-contracts-health-care | Source: Pro Publica https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/06/propublica-explains-how-doges-ai-cut-support-for-veterans-care/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:14:14

• "Sahil Lavingia, who wrote the code, told it to cancel, or in his words “munch,” anything that wasn’t “directly supporting patient care.” Unfortunately, neither Lavingia nor the model had the knowledge required to make such determinations." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-ai-tool-doge-veterans-affairs-contracts-sahil-lavingia | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:14:34

• Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1024317/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:15:12

• Create a Bootable USB Drive for GNU/Linux Installations ☞ https://thenewstack.io/create-a-bootable-usb-drive-for-linux-installations/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:15:40

• Remi Collet: ⚙️ PHP version 8.3.22 and 8.4.8 ☞ https://blog.remirepo.net/post/2025/06/06/PHP-version-8.3.22-and-8.4.8    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:16:03

• Windows 11, periodic check, 24H2 update, and lots of fail ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-june-2025-update-results.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:16:19

• Linux Answers 001 ☞ https://linuxformat.com/linux-answers-001.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:16:58

• Fastfetch 2.45 System Information Tool Brings New GPU Vendor Detection ☞ https://linuxiac.com/fastfetch-2-45-system-information-tool-brings-new-gpu-vendor-detection/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:19:16

• Using Tabbed Interface in Vim ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/vim-tabs/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:19:39

• LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.12: Vim Mouse Mode, Dir Command, Sticky Bits and More ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-12/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:19:57

• Converter Between YAML and JSON Files ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/tools/yaml-json-converter/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:20:13

• Timberborn Review ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/timberborn-review/index.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:20:37

• Slopwatch: LinuxTechLab, Planet Ubuntu, Anti-Linux FUD, and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft SPAM ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/06/Slopwatch_LinuxTechLab_Planet_Ubuntu_Anti_Linux_FUD_and_Microso.shtml    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:21:20

• Berserk is a UCI compliant chess engine ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/berserk-uci-compliant-chess-engine/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:22:27

• 8 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/diary/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:22:36

• Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Overclocking ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/raspberry-pi5-desktop-mini-pc-overclocking/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:22:44

• Paleta generates color palettes with ease ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/paleta-generates-color-palettes/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:22:53

• Waycheck shows Wayland compositor details ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/waycheck-wayland-compositor-details/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:23:02

• Microsoft comments truly infest this page, with lots of malicious trolls https://www.ghacks.net/2025/06/05/kde-is-welcoming-windows-10-exiles-to-switch-to-linux/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:38:51

• Updating & Protecting Linux Systems – PSW #877 https://www.scworld.com/podcast-segment/13894-updating-protecting-linux-systems-psw-877    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:39:58

• "SDesk is a lightweight Linux distribution designed with a familiar interface, making it an ideal choice for users moving away from Windows 11." https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-i-recommend-this-linux-distro-to-windows-10-users-who-cant-upgrade-to-11/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:40:31

• "All users of the LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series are urged to update to this version as soon as possible." https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-2-4-office-suite-is-now-available-for-download-with-52-bug-fixes    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:40:58

• "If your aging Windows PC is struggling and you want to give it a new lease of life, there is an excellent selection of Linux distros that can turn it into a responsive machine. These distros are lean and resource-efficient to run seamlessly on older hardware." https://www.howtogeek.com/lightweight-linux-distros-that-go-easy-on-your-old-windows-pc/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:41:17

• Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20250606dc04572/linux-foundation-announces-the-fair-package-manager-project-for-open-source-content-management-system-stability    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:41:34

• Cheap(er) Liberux NEXX Linux phone option coming soon (crowdfunding) https://liliputing.com/cheaper-liberux-nexx-linux-phone-option-coming-soon-crowdfunding/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:42:11

• Do You Dual-Boot With Linux? https://www.howtogeek.com/thread/do-you-dual-boot-with-linux/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:42:47

• Video: More coverage on the Multisystem 2 ☞ http://www.montanalinux.org/video-whatskenmaking-multisystem2-review.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:44:20

• "Russian artist reveals" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/06/putin-s-secret-daughter-manages-paris-galleries-showcasing-anti-war-art-russian-artist-reveals | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:45:54

• WeChat ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/07/putin-s-wechat-wager | Source: Meduza    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:46:09

• How to Deploy Lightweight Language Models on Embedded GNU/Linux with LiteLLM ☞ https://www.linux.com/news/how-to-deploy-lightweight-language-models-on-embedded-linux-with-litellm/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:46:41

• Gunnar Wolf: Will be adding yet-to-be-published reviews ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/06/will-be-adding-yet-to-be-published-reviews.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:47:23

• In Other News: FBI Warns of BadBox 2, NSO Disputes WhatsApp Fine, 1,000 Leave CISA ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-fbi-warns-of-badbox-2-nso-disputes-whatsapp-fine-1000-leave-cisa/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:47:43

• Which DSPs Paid Out $10 Million+ to Alleged Fraudster Michael Smith? Spotify, Pandora, and (Probably) SoundCloud Say They’re Off the Hook ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/06/michael-smith-case-dsp-payments/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:48:33

• What Is With This Government and Privacy?: Political Party Privacy Safeguards Removed in “Affordability Measures” Bill ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/what-is-with-this-government-and-privacy-political-party-privacy-safeguards-removed-in-affordability-measures-bill/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:50:35

• What Convicted Felon’s and MElon’s Public Divorce Tells Us About the State of Tech ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/what-trumps-and-musks-public-divorce-tells-us-about-the-state-of-tech/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:50:58

• Hong Kong Looks for Ways to Win Back Big-Spending Tourists ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/world/asia/00int-hongkong-china-tourists.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:51:20

• Latvians travelled more in 2024 than in 2023 ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/06.06.2025-latvians-travelled-more-in-2024-than-in-2023.a601472/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:51:33

• COVID isn't over. It's not solving it. ☞ https://rubenerd.com/being-thankful-for-tech-that-helped-during-covid/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:52:31

• South African Police Service faces mental health crisis as suicides continue to rise ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/police/south-african-police-service-faces-mental-health-crisis-as-suicides-continue-to-rise/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:52:57

• Nirvana Unplugged and the impossibility of resting in peace ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/b-side/nirvana-unplugged-and-the-impossibility-of-resting-in-peace/ "This article contains mentions of suicide"    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:53:16

• A Flip Clock Becomes A Flip Timer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/06/a-flip-clock-becomes-a-flip-timer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:53:44

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Preparing to Extend Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban Deadline for a Third Time, Insiders Reveal ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/06/trump-preparing-tiktok-ban-deadline-extension/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:54:30

• €33m allocated to counter Latvia's cyber threats ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/06.06.2025-eur33m-allocated-to-counter-latvias-cyber-threats.a602109/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:55:26

• Dihydroxyacetone Man revokes digital identity actions in new cyber executive order ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/06/trump-revokes-digital-identity-actions-in-new-cyber-executive-order/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:55:47

• Dihydroxyacetone Man makes US data easier to burglarise    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:56:11

• Cisco Patches Critical ISE Vulnerability With Public PoC ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-critical-ise-vulnerability-with-public-poc/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:56:19

• HPE Patches Critical Vulnerability in StoreOnce ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hpe-patches-critical-vulnerability-in-storeonce/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:56:31

• Misconfigured HMIs Expose US Water Systems to Anyone With a Browser ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/misconfigured-hmis-expose-us-water-systems-to-anyone-with-a-browser/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:56:47

• Nearly a dozen South African companies gearing up for the Africa Security Symposium 2025 ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/industry/industry-industry/nearly-a-dozen-south-african-companies-gearing-up-for-the-africa-security-symposium-2025/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:57:14

• EU official condemns Hungary restrictions on LGBTQ+ content ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/eu-official-condemns-hungarys-restrictions-on-lgbtq-content/    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:58:05

• Security advisory: Recently discovered issue in qDecodeDataUrl() in QtCore impacts Qt ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-recently-discovered-issue-in-qdecodedataurl-in-qtcore-impacts-qt    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:58:37

• Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong faces second charge under national security law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-activist-joshua-wong-faces-second-charge-under-national-security-law    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:58:54

• As US aid dries up, Zimbabweans find new solutions to store water ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2025/0606/Zimbabwe-innovative-drought-solution    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:59:11

• Justices Grant DOGE Access to Social Security Data and Let the Team Shield Records ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/politics/supreme-court-doge-social-security.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:59:27

• With Lee’s election, South Korea returns to ‘pragmatic’ diplomacy ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2025/0606/south-korea-foreign-policy-shift-china    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:59:43

• Why Convicted Felon Is Trying to Send Deportees to South Sudan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000010202665/why-trump-is-trying-to-send-deportees-to-south-sudan.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 17:59:52

• ‘Devil in the Ozarks' Escapee Is Caught Near Arkansas Prison ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/us/devil-in-the-ozarks-captured-arkansas.html    

posted Saturday, June 07, 2025 at 18:00:04