Roy Schestowitz

• The Center of Our Universe Does Not Exist. A Physicist Explains Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-center-of-our-universe-does-not-exist-a-physicist-explains-why    

posted Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 19:08:37

• 'City-Killer' Asteroid Even More Likely to Hit The Moon in 2032 ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/city-killer-asteroid-even-more-likely-to-hit-the-moon-in-2032    

posted Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 19:08:51

• Just How Dirty Are Beards? Here's The Science. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/just-how-dirty-are-beards-heres-the-science    

posted Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 19:09:07

• Humanity Has Just Glimpsed Part of The Sun We've Never Seen Before ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/humanity-has-just-glimpsed-part-of-the-sun-weve-never-seen-before    

posted Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 19:09:17

• New Tyrannosaur Species Could Be a Missing Link to The Giants ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-tyrannosaur-species-could-be-a-missing-link-to-the-giants    

posted Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 19:09:29

• A Forgotten Cancer Is Surging in Young People, And Experts Are Puzzled ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-forgotten-cancer-is-surging-in-young-people-and-experts-are-puzzled    

posted Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 19:09:48

• Marines in LA: Convicted Felon chooses strategy of escalation against anti-ICE protests ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250611-marines-in-la-trump-s-inflammatory-strategy-against-the-anti-ice-protests    

posted Thursday, June 12, 2025 at 19:10:16

• Magnetic Tape Storage ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/11/this-relay-computer-has-magnetic-tape-storage/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:23:00

• Qt Design Studio 4.7.2 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-design-studio-4.7.2-released    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:23:23

• ‘Did I do enough?’ College grads face a tough job market. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2025/0611/jobs-economy-college-employment-ai    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:23:57

• Austria Has Lots of Guns, Little Gun Violence, and New Questions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/world/europe/austria-guns-school-shooting-graz.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:25:25

• Banned China chipmaker YMTC sues Micron again, now over serious defamation claims — Micron funded anti-Chinese tech misinformation campaigns to get ahead, says YMTC ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/ymtc-sues-micron-again-now-over-serious-defamation-claims-micron-funded-anti-chinese-tech-misinformation-campaigns-to-get-ahead-says-ymtc    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:25:53

• 'Protecting our oceans: Behavioural change comes from laws and changing of the system' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250611-protecting-our-oceans-behavioural-change-comes-from-laws-and-changing-of-the-system   

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:26:24

• "would “break” encryption for most Americans and make it impossible for end-to-end encrypted service" ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/digital-rights-groups-oppose-stop-csam-act-encryption/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:26:56

• Hunger Free America files lawsuit after cancellation of USDA contract ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/06/hunger-free-america-files-lawsuit-after-cancellation-of-usda-contract/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:27:32

• Court rejects Selçuk Bayraktar’s ‘drone’ lawsuit against earthquake survivor ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/court-rejects-selcuk-bayraktars-drone-lawsuit-against-earthquake-survivor-308275    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:28:10

• Life Update and OS Changes gemini://capsule.valkyrieshowl.com/gemlog/life-update-os-changes.gmi    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:32:17

• "I wanted to be able to go to gemini.thebackupbox.net on my desktop, and have the hostname resolve to the internal IP of the computer hosting it, while still returning the WAN IP address to the rest of the internet." gemini://gemini.thebackupbox.net/~epoch/blog/NAT-and-dns-2    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:33:11

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-06-13.gmi    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:34:36

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1322.jpg    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:35:18

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1672.jpg    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:35:26

• "Welcome back. Yesterday I wrote about a couple examples of video games which circumvent an issue not by solving it, but by avoiding anything that might trigger it." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2637    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:36:22

• fire gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2639    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:36:59

• Diamine -Forever Ink- Honey Pot gemini://pandora.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-06-12-diamine_honey_pot.gmi    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:37:48

• On Microsoft layoffs, latest: "Confirmed. This one is going to be bad. Pretty much every department and team will lose headcount. Good luck all" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxgry8gy http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/12/The_Latest_Rumour_Says_The_Next_as_Correctly_Predicted_Before_W.shtml    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:52:28

• Breaking your own product with rootkits https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-pushes-emergency-windows-11-update-to-fix-game-crash-bug-tied-to-anti-cheat-software/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:56:07

• Maintainers’ Guide: Securing CI/CD Pipelines After the tj-actions and reviewdog Supply Chain Attacks ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/06/11/maintainers-guide-securing-ci-cd-pipelines-after-the-tj-actions-and-reviewdog-supply-chain-attacks/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:57:21

• "Project SVRN" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/11/step-into-combat-robotics-with-project-svrn/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:57:49

• Celiac Disease ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/11/hacking-t-cells-to-treat-celiac-disease/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:58:19

• Study says people don't have kids because the economy is not reliable for anyone, including these kids ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/world/fertility-crisis-un-report.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:59:20

• Why California Says Convicted Felon’s Military Deployment Is Illegal ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010218788/why-california-says-trumps-military-deployment-is-illegal.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 03:59:46

• Hong Kong bans video game in further national security push ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-bans-video-game-in-further-national-security-push    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:00:02

• Taiwan cyber unit says it will not be intimidated by China’s bounty offer ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-cyber-unit-says-it-will-not-be-intimidated-by-china-bounty-offer    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:00:18

• US Reduces Nonessential Staff At Baghdad Embassy As Tensions With Iran Rise ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-nuclear-negotiations-employees-embassy-trump/33440351.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:00:39

• Security advisory: Recently discovered issue in ICNS image format handling impacts Qt ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/security-advisory-recently-discovered-issue-in-icns-image-format-handling-impacts-qt    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:00:54

• No Research, No Internet ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/06/no-research-no-internet/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:01:14

• France aims to enhance security for minors after new school attack ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250611-french-government-vows-to-ban-sale-of-knives-to-minors-after-school-attack    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:01:29

• Landmark cybercrime conviction: Former IT employee sentenced to eight years for fraud and extortion plot ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/cyber-security/cybercrime-conviction-former-it-employee-sentenced-to-eight-years-for-fraud-and-extortion-plot/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:01:55

• Rise in central Africa violence reported to UN Security Council ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/rise-in-central-africa-violence-reported-to-un-security-council/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:02:28

• With a new administration, South Korea should strengthen security ties with Australia ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/south-korea-should-recalibrate-to-strengthen-ties-with-australia/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:02:48

• Sheinbaum addresses Noem’s accusations: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/sheinbaum-noem-accusations-wednesdays-mananera-recapped/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:04:12

• Recently Disrupted DanaBot Leaked Valuable Data for 3 Years ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/recently-disrupted-danabot-leaked-valuable-data-for-3-years/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:08:54

• 40,000 Security Cameras Exposed to Remote Hacking ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/40000-unprotected-security-cameras-found-on-internet/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:09:22

• Fortinet, Ivanti Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fortinet-ivanti-patch-high-severity-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:09:40

• Flaw in Industrial Computer Maker’s UEFI Apps Enables Secure Boot Bypass on Many Devices ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/flaw-in-industrial-computer-makers-uefi-apps-enables-secure-boot-bypass-on-many-devices/ http://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/ https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/06/Why_We_Are_Suing_Matthew_J_Garrett_for_Harassment_and_Why_It_s_.shtml    

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

• With Retail Cyberattacks on the Rise, Customers Find Orders Blocked and Shelves Empty ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/with-retail-cyberattacks-on-the-rise-customers-find-orders-blocked-and-shelves-empty/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:11:17

• Šlesers' party contests municipal election results in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/election/11.06.2025-slesers-party-contests-municipal-election-results-in-riga.a602895/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:11:34

• "The original DOOM is famously portable — any computer made within at least the last two decades, including those in printers, heart monitors, passenger vehicles, and routers is almost guaranteed to have a port of the iconic 1993 shooter." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/11/network-infrastructure-and-demon-slaying-virtualization-expands-what-a-desktop-can-do/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:14:25

• Compound Press Bends ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/11/compound-press-bends-punches-and-cuts-using-3d-printed-plastic/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 04:14:56

• Looks like something horrible happened in BetaNoise. They don't even use author names anymore; now a generic "BetaNews Staff". What the heck happened there? https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/12/It_s_Possible_That_BetaNews_Got_Cracked_But_Nobody_Talks_About_.shtml    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:23:32

• "BetaNews Staff" is where they place the sponsored SPAM and LLM slop, i.e. those are not real articles but paid plugs    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:24:57

• RMS talk not uploaded yet https://inv.nadeko.net/channel/UC0r6VVLgxKMpp-NGEEsE-MQ    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:27:03

• They filmed it with decent equipment    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:27:17

• A Boeing plane that should never have taken off at all... and they still cannot explain what went wrong. Says a lot about quality control. https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?__goaway_challenge=meta-refresh&__goaway_id=66f83dfa93a69988f06eb53d74650d5c&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fredirect.invidious.io%2F&v=vN_NltY2p8E    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:32:16

• "Kubuntu Focus has been selling Linux-powered laptops for a long time, and now the company has revealed a new high-end model. The Kubuntu Focus M2 Gen 6 is packed with features and performance, but it’s not cheap." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-new-kubuntu-focus-m2-laptop-has-linux-and-an-rtx-5070-ti/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:42:55

• "Linux Mint is one of the best choices for those converting to the free and open-source platform from Windows." https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-linux-mint-is-the-perfect-distro-for-windows-users/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:43:25

• "Switching operating systems can be a daunting task—you have to figure out which of your favorite apps are supported, and find good alternatives for those that aren't. Here are the ones I installed immediately after switching to Linux." https://www.howtogeek.com/apps-i-installed-on-linux-after-ditching-windows/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:43:50

• Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:44:14

• No SSH? What Is Talos, This Linux Distro for Kubernetes? https://thenewstack.io/no-ssh-what-is-talos-this-linux-distro-for-kubernetes/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:45:37

• "Distros align with GNOME 49's move to make Wayland the only supported session" https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/ubuntu_2510_to_drop_x11/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:46:12

• "This release introduces support for the 64-bit RISC-V architecture and deprecates support for 32-bit applications." https://9to5linux.com/rocky-linux-10-is-out-now-as-free-alternative-to-red-hat-enterprise-linux-10    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:47:14

• GitHub is proprietary and Microsoft, why associate this with SSH? https://www.techloy.com/how-to-set-an-ssh-connection-to-github-from-ubuntu/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:48:08

• "Gears of War: Reloaded has two Beta weekends coming, with the first starting tomorrow and they've announced zero platform restrictions for it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/gears-of-war-reloaded-first-beta-weekend-starts-tomorrow-with-steamos-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:49:18

• "The OrangePi Neo gaming handheld with Manjaro Linux initially sounded quite exciting, but it's now facing delays and won't be here until at least Q3 2025." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/orangepi-neo-gaming-handheld-with-manjaro-linux-delayed-until-q3-2025-with-no-exact-date/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:49:28

• "Selaco is by far my favourite upcoming shooter in Early Access." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/great-shooter-selaco-gets-fixed-up-for-steam-deck-and-many-more-bug-fixes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:49:42

• "Pine Studio have confirmed their plan to launch Escape Simulator 2 in October, with a note about Steam Deck / Linux support. In case you missed it — they just recently dropped their Native Linux build for the first game." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/escape-simulator-2-to-be-steam-deck-optimised-for-proton-on-linux-releases-in-october/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:49:58

• "A prayer service, which is reportedly directed at young people of the world, begins at 2:30 p.m local time and mass will be held at 4:00 p.m. Both will be live streamed." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/pope-leo-address-chicago-trump-parade-b2768103.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:50:43

• "U.S. evacuating personnel from Middle East amid Iran tensions" https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/middle-east-evacuating-baghdad-iran    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:50:58

• "PewDiePie Just Switched to Linux... Here’s Why You Should Too" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/pewdiepie-just-switched-to-linux...:1    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:51:09

• "The Bethesda Declaration" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/06/11/0154240    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:51:28

• "Choosing a Privacy Safe Search Strategy - Options in 2025" https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/search-2025:9    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:51:51

• "Pam Bondi's Four Political Prosecutions" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/12/pam-bondis-four-political-prosecutions/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:52:12

• "We’d love to know your thoughts with the Piccalilli 2025 survey" https://piccalil.li/blog/wed-love-to-know-your-thoughts-with-the-piccalilli-2025-survey/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:52:23

• "Follow some great and interesting stores in the Narrative Arc Humble Bundle with 7 games available to grab for cheaps." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/the-narrative-arc-humble-bundle-has-more-great-story-picks-for-you/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:53:08

• "Theropods is an upcoming point and click adventure that combines puzzles with a cinematic story." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/go-back-in-time-to-the-land-of-the-dinos-in-the-excellent-demo-for-theropods/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:54:21

• "Ludeon Studios just announced the RimWorld - Odyssey expansion and it's huge. There's also going to be a big update for all players of the game." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/rimworld-odyssey-will-bring-spaceship-building-exploration-and-a-lot-more-content/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:58:04

• "During the recent KONAMI Press Start event, they confirmed that the original Silent Hill is now getting a remake too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/the-original-silent-hill-is-getting-a-remake-from-bloober-team/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 09:58:46

• "We're getting a full modern POSTAL 2 remake with POSTAL 2 Redux being announced today. Running With Scissors have teamed up with Flat2VR Studios and Team Beef for it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/postal-2-redux-announced-a-full-remake-of-the-unhinged-classic/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:01:52

• "As Valve announced back in April, they've now added accessibility feature support to game pages on Steam pages and filters for searching." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-adds-accessibility-features-to-store-pages-and-filters-for-searching/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:02:01

• "With visuals closer to the original Fortnite than grittier games like Call of Duty or Battlefield, the new Heroes of Valor is a fresh third-person shooter." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/battlefield-heroes-spiritual-successor-heroes-of-valor-is-out-in-early-access/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:02:11

• "A student-designed curriculum that helps K–12 learners build real-world data science skills through topics they care about." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/bringing-data-science-to-life-for-k-12-students-with-the-api-can-code-curriculum/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:06:07

• "Love Canal" ☛ https://therevelator.org/love-canal-black-mothers/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:06:31

• "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave an exclusive interview to Válasz Online." ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/06/13/zelensky-on-the-ukrainian-hungarian-spy-war-we-really-do-have-everything | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:07:02

• "Sentenced To Prison" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/cia-employee-sentenced-to-prison-for-releasing-documents-on-israels-plans-to-strike-iran/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:08:34

• "PCP xsos can provide a convenient system overview: [...]" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/fast-system-overviews-pcp-xsos-red-hat-enterprise-linux | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:10:49

• "To illustrate these capabilities, let's imagine a fictional company, Parasol Insurance." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/generative-ai-applications-llama-stack-notebook-guided-journey-intelligent-operations-agent | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:11:50

• "The Nucleo N657X0-Q is a development board from STMicroelectronics built around the STM32N657 microcontroller." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/st-nucleo-board-implements-stm32n6-series-with-neural-art-acceleration-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:12:50

• "GigaDevice has launched the GD32C231 series, a new line of 32-bit microcontrollers based on the Arm Cortex-M23 core." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/cortex-m23-powers-gigadevices-gd32c231-series-for-entry-level-embedded-systems/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:12:59

• "The MSC OSM-LF-IQ615 module adopts the OSM 1.2 Size-L format and integrates Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ-615 processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/tria-expands-embedded-portfolio-with-qualcomm-soms-supporting-windows-android-and-linux/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:13:43

• "The FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4 is an upcoming compact development board designed for real-time image processing, video streaming, and wireless communication." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/updated-dfrobot-previews-risc-v-based-firebeetle-2-with-esp32-p4-targeting-image-and-video-applications/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:13:54

• Kapitano is a New GTK ClamAV Frontend for GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kapitano-linux-clamav-antivirus-scanner    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:14:20

• FSF Events: Free Software Licensing 101 with FSF copyright monopoly & licensing associate Craig Topham ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/free-software-licensing-101    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:14:50

• mynes – rolling minesweeper with islands and sonars ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mynes-rolling-minesweeper-islands-sonars/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:15:11

• "One of the standout changes in Nano 8.5 is the enhanced handling of cursor positions. When the --positionlog option is active, the editor now saves anchor positions upon closing a file and restores them upon reopening. This means users can pick up right where they left off." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gnu-nano-8-5-command-line-text-editor-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:16:50

• "Okay, what’s changing now? Two major shifts are coming that will strengthen GNOME’s reliance on systemd: [...]" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-49-will-require-deeper-systemd-integration/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:17:28

• "Still, this compatibility has always been somewhat precarious. Most GNOME developers focus on systemd-based setups, and the project’s automated testing infrastructure doesn’t check non-systemd configurations. As a result, maintaining alternative init support has largely fallen to downstream distributors, often through patches and workarounds." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-49-will-require-deeper-systemd-integration/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:17:45

• "Internet providers are increasingly tasked in the role of anti-piracy enforcers and instructed to block pirate websites and services." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-complain-about-disproportionate-pirate-site-blocking/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:18:29

• "This is an extremely significant development" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/disney-universal-sue-midjourney/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:18:40

• "Midjourney also spat out images that were really obviously taken straight from its training data, like stills from Avengers Infinity War." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/12/disney-sues-ai-image-generator-midjourney/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:18:58

• "And it's not just the use of image generators; generative AI writ large has triggered a barrage of lawsuits, with media companies accusing the likes of OpenAI and Google of training their large language models on their materials without fair compensation." ☛ https://futurism.com/disney-sues-midjourney-copyright-violation | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:19:46

• Digital Restrictions (DRM): "And because these things are all computers, these manufacturers can also control the software to lock out parts from other suppliers." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/22533735/john-deere-cto-hindman-decoder-interview-right-to-repair-tractors | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:20:22

• "Reverting is an insult to the families of those people whose names were added and then removed." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/06/why-wont-the-pentagon-own-up-to-trumps-latest-move/683159/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:20:48

• "Members of Parliament regularly emphasized that privacy is a fundamental human right when debating Bill C-27 during the last Parliament" ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/government-remains-silent-as-it-eviscerates-political-party-privacy-in-canada-by-fast-tracking-bill-c-4/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:21:11

• "dispose of 0.5-0.75% of certain BLM land and the Forest Service to dispose of 0.5-0.75% of certain National Forest System Land" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/senate-gop-legislation-is-just-open-season-on-public-lands-critics-warn/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:22:33

• "This figure is based on collaborative reports compiled by the Rapid Response Network" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-rise-of-social-media-as-a-diy-alert-system-for-ice-raids/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:23:20

• "The move builds on a 2019 police directive that first prohibited dog walking in Tehran and now encompasses bans on transporting dogs in vehicles" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-dog-walking-ban-pet-ownership/33439982.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 10:23:29

• "The latest targets are a “prominent” European journalist who wishes to stay anonymous and Ciro Pellegrino, a colleague of a previously identified Paragon spyware target, Francesco Cancellato, the Citizen Lab said." ☛ https://therecord.media/paragon-graphite-spyware-journalists-apple-devices-citizen-lab | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:06:51

• "On April 29, 2025, a select group of iOS users were notified by Apple that they were targeted with advanced spyware. Among the group were two journalists that consented for the technical analysis of their cases." ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/first-forensic-confirmation-of-paragons-ios-mercenary-spyware-finds-journalists-targeted/ | Source: Citizen Lab    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:07:02

• "The number of malicious requests targeting organizations receiving free security services through Cloudflare’s Project Galileo has more than tripled over the past year, the web security and performance company says." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/surge-in-cyberattacks-targeting-journalists-cloudflare/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:07:37

• "Paragon, like leading spyware maker NSO Group" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/paragon-spyware-citizen-lab-italy-journalists/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:08:19

• "If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don't want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-fort-bragg-speech-soldiers-screened-appearance-b2768400.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:09:10

• "One of the concerns now is that any protests could lead Trump to send in the military, resulting in a declaration of martial law." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/joan-baez-interview-trump-protests-dylan-a-complete-unknown-1235359143/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:09:31

• "The universities contested the brief would provide a “broader perspective” on the nationwide impact of the freeze" ☛ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/8/universities-amicus-brief/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:09:48

• "The Government’s end goal is to narrow our freedoms to learn, teach, think, and act, and to claim for itself the right to dictate who may enjoy those freedoms" ☛ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/6/10/harvard-alumni-amicus-brief/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:10:07

• "Two key elements of digital surveillance should be top of mind for protestors." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-protest-safely-surveillance-digital-privacy/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:10:51

• "If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, if this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question, you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/senator-padilla-tackled-to-the-ground-handcuffed-at-noem-press-conference/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:11:37

• [Old] "In addition to the use of astroturf groups, PR firms often provide a range of services with the goal of using various tools in the art of deception to protect and/or further the interests of their corporate clients." ☛ https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2017/04/ |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:12:27

• "to find out what’s going on, and you can’t do that without links." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/27/musk-x-throttle-links-threads-bluesky/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:12:57

• "Applebaum: Russia’s been trying to do that for two decades. The point of Russian propaganda inside Ukraine was to create and amplify these divisions, whether they were over language or whether they were over interpretations of history and different ways of seeing the world." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/russian-disinformation-social-media-propaganda/629497/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:13:24

• "This study is a literature review about a global phenomenon called astroturfing." ☛ https://jyx.jyu.fi/bitstreams/9c75b4e0-8fcf-4cd5-89ab-fdfbcd672268/download |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:13:37

• [Old] "They might be trying to set up fake accounts, and then steer those accounts to make it look like there are genuine grassroots community concerns about particular issues" ☛ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-03-02/social-media-trolls-undermine-qld-council-election-process/12010522 | Source: ABC    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:13:56

• "The mission of MAGA is to do to all our institutions what occurred in the American church. We are replacing doctors and public health experts with the equivalent of televangelist and megachurch prosperity gospel drifters." ☛ https://json.blog/2025/06/12/maga-moving-from-participatory-communities.html | Source: Jason Becker    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:14:39

• "Mistral AI no longer sees itself merely as a European alternative to OpenAI, Anthropic, or DeepSeek." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/mistral-ais-new-ambitions | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:15:05

• "at least a recession in the short term." ☛ https://futurism.com/klarna-ceo-ai-replacing-jobs | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:15:20

• "The variable importance analysis with the XGBoost machine learning model confirms the aforementioned statement." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/impact-of-budget-deficits-on-treasury-yields-with-xgboost/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:15:44

• "Walker’s case isn’t really specific to New York City, where a study showed free bus fares would bring 12% faster rides and 20% more riders." ☛ https://scott.mn/2025/06/11/consultant_mindset_jarrett_walker_free_buses/ | Source: Scott Feeney    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:16:18

• "“The bottom line is that the EPA is trying to get out of the climate change business,” says Ryan Maher, a staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-epa-is-trying-to-roll-back-emissions-controls-on-power-plants/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:16:42

• "It also steals resources that California relies on to combat forest fires (and fentanyl trafficking)." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/12/snake-guys-trumps-invasion-of-california-risks-a-literal-firestorm-in-california/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:17:44

• "On the first point: No, LA isn’t a city in chaos, wracked by devastating riots requiring military intervention." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-is-not-a-drill | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:19:10

• "There have been plenty of protests across the state of Missouri over the last few months" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/12/ahead-of-no-kings-day-the-kings-nobles-are-getting-nervous/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:19:34

• "The order, which takes effect at noon Friday, said the deployment of the Guard was illegal and both violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded Trump’s statutory authority." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/politics/2025/06/judge-says-trump-illegally-deployed-national-guard-to-help-with-la-protests-must-return-control-to-california.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:20:36

• Rule of law exists NOT in the US, but it hasn't for quite some time. Though the main point is, it gets worse, fast.    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:21:11

• This means that looking to Putin or Pooh-tin in the eyes and telling them "you are a dictator" won't be effective    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:22:01

• Confidentiality ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1041 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:24:44

• "The best feature is that you can tell the fridge to ring your phone. That would be useful when you can’t remember where you put it." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/06/finally-samsungs-fridges-now-ring-your-phone-and-call-you-by-name/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:25:14

• "Meta’s tracking scripts (the now-pulled illegal brainchild uncovered last week), which operate inside your mobile web browser." ☛ https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:25:36

• "Signed by 20 other Democratic members of Congress, the letters—which can be read here and here—were sent to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and TTAM Research Institute, which have put forth separate bids to buy 23andMe." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/congress-demands-answers-on-data-privacy-ahead-of-23andme-sale/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:25:55

• "The deployment of spyware like Predator beyond legitimate criminal or counterterrorism use poses serious threats to privacy, legal rights, and the physical safety of both direct targets and associated individuals." ☛ https://www.recordedfuture.com/research/predator-still-active-new-links-identified | Source: The Recorded Future Inc    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:26:19

• "Mozambique is one of several African countries where the spyware has appeared, according to Insikt, which says that the continent hosts more than half of known Predator customers." ☛ https://therecord.media/predator-spyware-mozambique | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:27:03

• "Intellexa has also taken additional steps to evade detection." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/predator-spyware-activity-surfaces-in-new-places-with-new-tricks/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:27:23

• "The sale of millions of consumers' genetic data without such consent may be in conflict with 23andMe’s privacy policy and public statements, ombudsman Neil Richards said in a court filing." ☛ https://therecord.media/23andme-privacy-ombudsman-recommends-consent-sale | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:27:45

• "While there's scrutiny over who can and can't enter the country on a plane, there's no official method that federal law enforcement can use to track passengers on domestic flights." ☛ https://www.jalopnik.com/1882775/airlines-sold-you-out-to-feds-11025/ | Source: GO Media    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:28:12

• "Airlines Secretly Selling Passenger Data to the Government" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/airlines-secretly-selling-passenger-data-to-the-government.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:31:27

• "This is just one of many seemingly personal conversations that can be publicly viewed on Meta AI, a chatbot platform that doubles as a social feed and launched in April." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/meta-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-conversations/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:32:32

• "Over the past several years, Waymo has repeatedly shared video footage with police after receiving formal legal requests." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/waymo-data-privacy-protests-los-angeles/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:33:05

• Between labs and algorithms: can patent monopoly law’s research exemption learn something from the TDM exception in copyright monopoly law? ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/06/12/between-labs-and-algorithms-can-patent-laws-research-exemption-learn-something-from-the-tdm-exception-in-copyright-law-2/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:34:08

• "Google’s Cloud Console was among the afflicted services, meaning users couldn’t log in to figure out why other impacted services like Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL weren’t working." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/google_cloudflare_outage/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:34:50

• "Note that some lower spec Chromebooks may struggle with Linux, chiefly because we are running a Linux OS inside of a container on top of the Chrome OS install." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-run-a-linux-os-on-your-chromebook | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:35:10

• "Vista 2.0" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/liquid-glass-isnt-vista-2-0-its-ios-7-2-0/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:35:49

• "They’re usually way cheaper than Windows machines with some starting around $300. They’re quick to boot, easy to use, and update themselves in the background. No fuss, no bloat." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/608636/best-chromebooks.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:36:28

• "A new report on the fallout from that investigation finds this dark ad tech industry is far more resilient and incestuous than previously known." ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/06/inside-a-dark-adtech-empire-fed-by-fake-captchas/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:37:22

• "I’ve got a super busy month coming up but against my better judgement I still decided to give iOS 26 a try on my iPhone 15 Pro." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2025/06/11/ive-tried-ios-26-and-didnt-like-it/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:37:52

• Slopwatch: Another Day, Another Slopfest, LLM Slop Scrapers Slow Down Our Site (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/12/Slopwatch_Another_Day_Another_Slopfest_LLM_Slop_Scrapers_Slow_D.shtml    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:38:19

• How To Delete Files and Directories via the GNU/Linux Terminal ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-delete-files-and-directories-via-the-linux-terminal    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:38:50

• How To Create a Custom GNU/Linux App Menu — Zenity Makes It Easy ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-create-a-custom-linux-app-menu-zenity-makes-it-easy    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:38:58

• How To Move and Rename Files in the GNU/Linux Terminal ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-move-and-rename-files-in-the-linux-terminal    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:39:06

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

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:39:57

• How To Install Snap on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-snap-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:40:11

• How To Install EPEL Repository on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-epel-repository-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:41:45

• How To Install AppImage on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-appimage-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:42:13

• How To Install Flatpak on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-flatpak-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:42:45

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

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:56:25

• Components ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/12/cots-components-combine-to-diy-solar-power-station/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:57:45

• [Old] "many things went wrong when the Interrail passes were distributed. In the following, we want to take you on a journey through the stages of the not-so-well-implemented ticket and show you how you could still get a pass after registration ended." ☛ https://zerforschung.org/posts/freundschaftspass-en/ | Source: Zerforschung    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:59:03

• "Threema has regular external audits and reproducible builds. The company adheres to strict Swiss data protection laws and is fully GDPR-compliant." ☛ https://greycoder.com/threema-the-swiss-secure-messenger-for-privacy/ | Source: GreyCoder    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 12:59:30

• Windows TCO: "Brigid O Gorman, senior intelligence analyst at Symantec, told Recorded Future News that they did not have enough evidence to link the attack to any specific nation state." ☛ https://therecord.media/fog-ransomware-incident-asia-financial-org-employee-monitoring | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:00:37

• Windows TCO: "Also notable in this attack was that, a few days after the ransomware was deployed, the attackers created a service to establish persistence." ☛ https://www.security.com/threat-intelligence/fog-ransomware-attack |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:08:04

• Windows TCO: "The 2025 IT Systems Annual Assessment, published by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) Thursday, concluded that the Department of Defense's major IT business programs plan to suck up $10.9 billion of the agency's budget, but are still missing the mark in a number of ways." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/pentagon_it_project_flaws_gao/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:08:50

• Windows TCO: "Deloitte's report stated that it could not see how the attackers escalated their privileges, but did so right up to the domain admin level and moved laterally across NHSP's network via RDP and SMB share access." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/compromise_nhs_professionals/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:09:07

• Windows TCO: "The spate of cyber attacks impacting the retail industry continues, with the latest victim being United Natural Foods, one of the USA's largest wholesale distributors of healthy and specialty food." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/empty-shelves-distributor-cyber-attack | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:10:41

• "While I doubt these twits would agree with each other in a social media discussion, it’s pretty easy to see a common narrative structure that underlies many of their arguments." ☛ https://soatok.blog/2025/06/12/furries-need-to-learn-that-sunlight-is-the-best-disinfectant/ | Source: Dhole Moments    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:11:11

• "This is not an accident; the intent of these tools is to anesthetize the users, to control them by controlling their entire interface with the world." ☛ https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/de-caring | Source: Mandy Brown    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:11:36

• "Just ask Natalie Reynolds, an influencer with millions of followers, who was so upset that she got banned from TikTok that she recently went to one of the social media company's offices and was filmed crying and screaming while on the phone with her dad." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/influencer-tiktok-headquarters-banned | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:11:54

• "provided in advance to The Register" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/12/devs_mostly_welcome_ai_coding/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:14:31

• "I only know that it will change many things. I can barely guess at the details." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/06/12/enough-with-ai.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:14:58

• "The same pattern is emerging in software development as AI coding assistants become more sophisticated." ☛ https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/163/premature-closure-and-the-role-of-senior-engineer-in-the-world-of-ai/ | Source: Shayon Mukherjee    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:16:06

• "Are those faces? Undoubtedly yes! Is this a mistake that a human would have made? Absolutely not!" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/large-language-models-and-pareidolia/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:16:53

• "Lets try to figure out the return on this investment. We will assume that the $80B is split two ways, $40B to Nvidia for hardware and $40B on building data centers to put it in." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2025/06/the-back-of-ai-envelope.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:21:02

• "this event brings together global leaders from academia and industry to shape what’s next in edge AI and tinyML." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/12/find-your-way-to-ai-with-arduino-at-the-edge-ai-foundations-event-in-milan/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:21:28

• "An Arduino Due board controls the motors through Pololu drivers. The Arduino receives movement commands from a connected PC, which can look at the work area through an Intel RealSense camera attached by the end effector." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/13/build-your-own-4dof-robotic-arm-on-a-budget/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:22:14

• "Meta's AI development isn't going quite as well as billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg had hoped." ☛ https://futurism.com/meta-scaleai-superintelligence | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:23:09

• "The small farmers deserve some recompense for the work their communities" ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/the-quinoa-dilemma | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:26:08

• "Nationwide, most rural hospitals no longer offer obstetric services." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/06/12/expensive-and-complicated-most-rural-hospitals-no-longer-deliver-babies/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:26:41

• "Exclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified" ☛ https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:27:28

• [Old] "The surgeons at the training session ranged in age from thirty to seventy" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/why-doctors-hate-their-computers | Source: New Yorker    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:27:41

• "I opted to build it myself, mainly for fun, but partly because I wanted to learn a bit about how modern PCs are put together." ☛ https://robert.ocallahan.org/2025/06/building-pc.html | Source: Robert OCallahan    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:28:05

• "So when we were finishing our book on writing engineering blogs" ☛ https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/scott-hanselman-and-mark-downie-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:29:23

• "The numbers don’t sit right with him. Arrigoni, who runs Loti AI, a company that helps Hollywood stars find unauthorized deepfakes" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/pricing-ai-agents-increasing-costs/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:29:38

• "Almost everyone I know is worried about work: finding a job, keeping the one they have, or what will happen when the work they do no longer exists." ☛ https://rojospinks.substack.com/p/everyone-i-know-is-worried-about |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:30:03

• "Yet it has been long documented that innovations arise from practical experience and are driven by user demand." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/06/12/let-us-bury-the-linear-model-of-innovation/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

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

• "I think this was the most important thing I learned from the book. The periodic table is useful, but doesn’t have all the facts." ☛ https://evanhahn.com/periodic-table-grudge/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:33:13

• [Old] "As of Mar, 2025 there are over 179000 files including over 8.4 million text pages in the 1.68tb archive." ☛ https://bitsavers.org/ |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:51:16

• "I have been monitoring my ISP's performance since 2019 and while it as worked well enough to give a broad overview the limitations of the speedtest-cli app and speedtest.net's API have made the data... suspect." ☛ https://www.going-flying.com/blog/custom-speedtest-server-patch.html | Source: Matthew J Ernisse    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:52:03

• "Every minute of every day, the invitation extends itself. Not to heroism but to presence. Not to perfection but to participation." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-meditation-inside-collapse | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:52:20

• "Their data-driven system determined that unsolicited spam—with poor HTML formatting—was the best way to get results. Colour me impressed with their spectacular introspective abilities!" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/a-wholistic-spam-review/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:52:38

• "When in doubt about why a cultural trope exists, look for status." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/06/status-and-the-grass-tax/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:53:00

• "His creation is by no means all of a piece; it is composed of many separate performances." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/06/12/realities-perceived-and-presented-and-their-relationship-to-truth/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:53:15

• "I filtered and selected hundreds (probably thousands) of unread emails in my Gmail account going back more than 8 years — and marked them all as read without looking at any of them." ☛ https://loudpoet.com/2025/06/12/five-things-june-12-2025/ | Source: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:54:13

• "I don’t recommend publishing your first draft of a long blog post." ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/followup-on-trusting-your-own-judgement/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:54:27

• "This is another post that started after several toots on mastodon. Most of the things presented here were already tooted by other people, but I think this is a good chance to write a mini tutorial about what to look at." ☛ https://techlog.jenslink.net/posts/dns4eu/ |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 13:55:11

• "Leveraging O-RAN standards and advanced massive MIMO antennas" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/iconic-german-soccer-venue-claims-worlds-first-o-ran-stadium-title/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 14:02:00

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

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 14:14:35

• How To Install RPM Fusion on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-rpm-fusion-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 14:14:47

• Red Hat readies Advanced Developer Suite https://www.infoworld.com/article/3992708/red-hat-readies-advanced-developer-suite.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 14:16:31

• Red Hat spam promoted by Red Hat https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-practical-ai-prevailed-over-hype-at-red-hat-summit-2025/ see https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-june-13-2025-red-hat    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 14:18:50

• "Your shell script should be replaced with a real tool if it’s longer than a screen of text, or uses functions." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/when-a-shell-script-needs-replacement/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 15:52:51

• "The answer comes down to one word: testing. " ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/from-lab-to-real-life-how-your-shiny-application-can-survive-its-users/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 15:53:44

• "Something I like looking at is how my heart rate evolved throughout a ride; it gives me an idea of how much effort I was putting in." ☛ https://peateasea.de/analysing-fit-data-with-perl-producing-png-plots/ | Source: Paul Chochrane    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 15:54:04

• "The Open Source Technology Improvement Fund is proud to share the results of our security audit of Ruby on Rails." ☛ https://ostif.org/ruby-on-rails-audit-complete/ |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 15:54:28

• "I have a lot of thoughts about the design of compiler intermediate representations (IRs). In this post I’m going to try and communicate some of those ideas and why I think they are important." ☛ https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/irs/ | Source: Max Bernstein    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 15:54:56

• "In short, thanks to P2748R5 by Brian Bi, it’s no longer possible to return a reference that binds to a temporary expression, and that’s just lovely." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/06/11/cpp26-no-binding-to-returned-reference-to-temporary | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 15:57:11

• "This month marks the 30th anniversary of PHP being released to the world. To find out how PHP has evolved over the years" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/the-herd-is-strong-php-and-its-developer-ecosystem-at-30/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:06:20

• "Below are citations to research noted in the printed edition of the 46th issue of the Free Software Bulletin." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2025/spring/citations | Source: FSF    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:07:14

• "What is “the Internet”? And why is it not just our access to a search engine or our favourite social media platform?" ☛ https://labs.ripe.net/author/anastasiya-pak/hisham-ibrahim-the-internet-is-not-what-you-think-it-is/ | Source: RIPE    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:08:16

• "HTML WARDen is an HTML-based wiki. It uses HTML as the storage format." ☛ https://ratfactor.com/htmlwarden/index | Source: Dave Gauer    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:09:36

• [Old] "As I said above, Mozilla's management was really afraid to miss the mobile revolution." ☛ https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2024/01/firefox-oss-story-from-mozila-insider.html |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:10:47

• "One-time camera and microphone permissions are now in Chrome (since M116), joining Firefox and Safari." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/one-time-permissions-are-here-to-stay/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:10:56

• "Hypertext was so big that conferences were held just to discuss it in 1987 and 1988." ☛ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/a-history-of-the-internet-part-2-the-high-tech-gold-rush-begins/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:12:05

• "Every so often my thoughts turn to absurd ideas. Today's absurd idea is sparked by my silly systemd wish for moving processes between systemd units, which in turn was sparked by a local issue with Apache CGIs (and suexec)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/MultiUserWebServerWildIdea | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:12:17

• "So unlike Peter, I'm not getting hammered by bots. But assuming that the 34.3% of traffic that has no user agent assigned are also bots, that's still around 65% of my total traffic." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/bots-are-eating-my-blog-for-lunch | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:12:34

• "I got curious about what might be causing this, and, because I suspected web traffic bumps, I started by looking at the 20 most popular user-agents in my Apache logfiles, with: [...]" ☛ https://ruk.ca/content/bots-are-eating-my-blog-lunch |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:13:05

• "The project has published a new development snapshot, deepin 25 beta, which introduces a few new features and several fixes. The release announcement shares the details: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12471 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:16:47

• "Archinstall, the popular guided, user-friendly TUI installer for Arch Linux, has just rolled out version 3.0.8." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/archinstall-3-0-8-breaking-changes-bug-fixes-and-new-features/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:18:00

• "In a long series of commits, Robert Nagy (robert@) updated clang(1)/llvm/lld(1) in -current to version 19.1.7 (from version 16.0.6): [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250612123207 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:19:03

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 603 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/06/11/this-week-in-rust-603/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:20:43

• Early Humans Settled in Cities. Bedbugs Followed Them. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/science/bedbugs-humans-urbanization-study.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:31:21

• U.S. Aid Freeze Unleashes Devastating Health Crisis in Ethiopia: New PHR Research ☞ https://phr.org/news/u-s-aid-freeze-unleashes-devastating-health-crisis-in-ethiopia-new-phr-research/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:32:41

• Noise detente on Korean peninsula as eerie broadcasts end ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-appears-to-have-stopped-loudspeakers-blasting-noise-seoul-says    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:35:30

• South Korean stalking victim stabbed to death while under police protection ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-stalking-victim-stabbed-to-death-while-under-police-protection    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:36:15

• North Korea's Kim Jong Un lauds restored destroyer, says more to be built ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-lauds-restored-destroyer-says-more-to-be-built    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:36:30

• North Korea halts loudspeaker border broadcasts day after South Korea’s suspension ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/06/11/south-korea-military-halts-loudspeaker-broadcasts/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:36:44

• South Koreans flock to Blue House ahead of presidential return ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreans-flock-to-blue-house-ahead-of-presidential-return    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:37:16

• South Korean President Lee to meet chaebol heads in bid to revive economy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-to-meet-chaebol-heads-in-bid-to-revive-economy    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:38:19

• Fatal bus crash in Malaysia: Transport Minister warns driver to stop making unverified claims ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/fatal-bus-crash-in-malaysia-transport-minister-warns-driver-to-stop-making-unverified-claims    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:39:19

• U.S. Reviewing Aukus Submarine Deal With Australia, Britain ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/world/asia/australia-nuclear-submarines-trump.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:39:39

• Japan Says Chinese Fighter Jet Flew Too Close to Its Military Plane ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/world/asia/japan-china-fighter-jet.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:41:40

• China Labor Bulletin, a Rights Group in Hong Kong, Shuts Down ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/hong-kong-labor-rights-nonprofit-closes.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:42:06

• The Art of the Stall: China’s Strategy for Dealing With Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/world/asia/trump-china-trade-deal.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:42:23

• Japan, China trade barbs after Chinese fighters flew close to Japanese patrol planes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-fighters-flew-close-to-japanese-patrol-planes-tokyo-expresses-concern    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:42:38

• China-backed militia secures control of new rare earth mines in Myanmar ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-backed-militia-secures-control-of-new-rare-earth-mines-in-myanmar    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:43:05

• China affirms trade deal with US, says it always keeps its word ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-affirms-trade-deal-with-us-says-it-always-keeps-its-word    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:43:20

• New Zealand PM Luxon to meet President Pooh-tin in China, then head to Europe ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/new-zealand-pm-luxon-to-meet-president-xi-in-china-then-head-to-europe    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:43:39

• Slop chips will suck as much as Slop-as-Code ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/china-claims-to-have-developed-the-worlds-first-ai-designed-processor-llm-turned-performance-requests-into-cpu-architecture    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:45:55

• Critical mineral industries in China’s far west using Uyghur forced labor: report ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/06/12/uyghur-china-forced-labor-critical-minerals-industry/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:46:18

• Hong Kong exiles seek to preserve democracy’s memory through Lennon Walls in Taiwan ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/06/12/hong-kong-exiles-lennon-walls-taiwan/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:47:02

• Beijing hails improving Vatican ties after Pope Leo names first Chinese bishop ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/12/beijing-hails-improving-vatican-ties-after-pope-leo-names-first-chinese-bishop/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:47:28

• Hong Kong-based NGO China Labour Bulletin dissolves after 3 decades, cites financial strife ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/13/hong-kong-based-ngo-china-labour-bulletin-dissolves-after-3-decades-cites-financial-strife/ "Founded by labour activist Han Dongfang in 1994"    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:47:55

• "Journalists and rights groups accuse Telegram of FSB ties and exposing user data" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/12/chats-and-punishment | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:48:27

• Scientists Found Cancer in a Dinosaur – And It Might Help Save Human Lives ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-cancer-in-a-dinosaur-and-it-might-help-save-human-lives    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:49:34

• Rare Black Iceberg Goes Viral – So What Is Going on Here? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/rare-black-iceberg-goes-viral-so-what-is-going-on-here    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:50:01

• Brian Wilson and Beach Boys’ Style Showed What California Living Looked Like ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/style/brian-wilson-surf-style-beach-boys.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:50:18

• News deserts in UK ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/chiswick-a-local-news-oasis/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:51:36

• NOAA ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/12/end-of-an-era-noaas-polar-sats-wind-down-operations/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:52:03

• Cat At The Door ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/12/2025-pet-hacks-contest-cat-at-the-door/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:55:25

• "Build A 400 MHz Logic Analyzer For $35" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/12/build-a-400-mhz-logic-analyzer-for-35/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:55:52

• "The GBA Console You Never Knew You Wanted" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/13/the-gba-console-you-never-knew-you-wanted/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:56:08

• New IT publication appears to be largely [slop]-generated ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b2b/new-it-publication-appears-to-be-largely-ai-generated/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:56:42

• Liar. Absurd lie. ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/techcrunch-owner-says-he-is-doubling-down-on-europe-after-staff-axed/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:57:31

• Nope! This is about MASS LAYOFFS about to hit XBox in a big way! https://www.notebookcheck.net/Microsoft-reportedly-cancels-Xbox-handheld-to-focus-on-portable-gaming-PCs-like-ROG-Xbox-Ally.1035464.0.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 16:58:32

• "you don't say ! Aren't Alvind's AI and Quantum farts keeping the company above water in the short term? or is it AI (All Indian) layoffs coming up?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxejzvnw    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:00:44

• "Quantum is just the latest buzzword to throw off the stench of failure from the hounds. It’ll buy Alvind a year in which to fire more people, place quarterly paid PR hype at CNBC and Forbes, and milk himself another fat raise. Rinse, repeat." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxhy3n2a    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:03:57

• "I remember years ago when Ginni and AK said that stock price is not an important means of measuring business performance, BUT NOW all of a sudden it is. Everyone knows they are just trying to run up the stock price with this Quantum hype and enrich themselves before they leave." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxhy3n2a    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:04:30

• IBM's debt grew by over 8 billion dollars in 3 months... to help fake revenue growth https://finbox.com/NYSE:IBM/explorer/total_debt/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:06:05

• Wheels May Have Been Invented to Solve a Surprising Problem ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/wheels-may-have-been-invented-to-solve-a-surprising-problem    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:07:22

• Ozempic Without Nausea: Brain Cell Discovery Could Change Weight-Loss Drugs ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ozempic-without-nausea-brain-cell-discovery-could-change-weight-loss-drugs    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:10:34

• Humpback Whale Bubble Rings May Be an Attempt to Communicate With Us ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/humpback-whale-bubble-rings-may-be-an-attempt-to-communicate-with-us    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:10:51

• Your Breathing Pattern Is as Unique as a Fingerprint, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-breathing-pattern-is-as-unique-as-a-fingerprint-study-finds    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:11:12

• Softgel Capsules Draw Concerns Over Toxic Shells. Here's What to Know. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/softgel-capsules-draw-concerns-over-toxic-shells-heres-what-to-know    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:21:45

• 'As If Time Froze': France's Deepest Shipwreck Stuns Archaeologists ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/as-if-time-froze-frances-deepest-shipwreck-stuns-archaeologists    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:26:55

• Here's Why Rational People Skip Vaccines Even When They Trust Science ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/heres-why-rational-people-skip-vaccines-even-when-they-trust-science    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:27:18

• Should Mexico’s interest rate cuts continue? The central bank appears divided ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/interest-rate-cuts/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:30:18

• Qt is pushing sloppy slop, which is risk of GPL violations and generally produces crap "Code" ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-ai-assistant-0.92-released-introducing-the-code-review-agent    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:32:59

• Gaza Aid Group Says 8 Local Workers Killed and 21 Wounded ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/world/middleeast/israel-iran.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:34:13

• "DT has an interview on FOSS in eduction and barriers like the sunk cost fallacy and vendor lock-in. Both he and his guest might be underestimating the annual proprietary license fees by a /few/ orders of magnitude, at least for larger institutions." - Anon    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:52:01

• ‘Unimaginable’: Families mourn dead in Air India crash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/unimaginable-families-mourn-dead-in-air-india-crash    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:52:25

• Meta files lawsuit against Hey Hi (AI) firm behind fake nonconsensual nude images ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/12/meta-files-lawsuit-ai-firm-behind-fake-non-consensual-nude-images/ remember what site Zuckerface ran BEFORE Facebook!!! Hypocrites!    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:53:25

• Air India plane crash draws attention to flaps and landing gear ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/air-india-plane-crash-draws-attention-to-flaps-and-landing-gear    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:54:10

• Based on what some press is saying, as in fact many asked what happened to Air India (ahem, Boeing. BANG BANG shut up, effin' whistleblower!) it might be the landing gear, like in S. Korea just months ago. Maybe don't make planes with $9 staff: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-737-max-software-outsourced-to-9-an-hour-engineers    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:56:26

• "The 787’s landing gear was never retracted, which normally occurs just after takeoff."    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:56:58

• Major Music Labels Quickly Back Disney, NBCUniversal Lawsuit Against Midjourney ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/11/riaa-backs-disney-nbcuniversal-lawsuit-midjourney/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:58:00

• American Oversight Sues over Guantanamo Deportation Plan Amid Convicted Felon’s Authoritarian Posturing ☞ https://americanoversight.org/sues-guantanamo-deportation-plan-amid-trumps-authoritarian-posturing/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:58:30

• USDA ended contract for food assistance ‘clearinghouse’ required by law, lawsuit claims ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/06/usda-ended-contract-for-food-assistance-clearinghouse-required-by-law-lawsuit-claims/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:59:04

• Getting over my grudge against the periodic table ☞ https://evanhahn.com/periodic-table-grudge/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 17:59:28

• Calif. Senator Forcibly Removed and Handcuffed After Interrupting Noem ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/senator-alex-padilla-handcuffed.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:19:42

• Immigration has been a winning issue for Convicted Felon. This week may be a pivotal test. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2025/0612/california-protests-trump-immigration-border    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:19:54

• Over 920,000 reports made to national security hotline in past 4 years, Hong Kong security chief says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/13/over-92000-reports-made-to-national-security-hotline-in-past-4-years-hong-kong-security-chief-says/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:22:07

• Gunshot detection goes mobile: app turns phones and smartwatches into instant security sensors ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/industry/gunshot-detection-goes-mobile-app-turns-phones-and-smartwatches-into-instant-security-sensors/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:23:04

• Silent risk to net-zero commitment: climate policy meets national security ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/silent-risk-to-net-zero-commitment-climate-policy-meets-national-security/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:26:37

• American Oversight Condemns House Homeland Security Committee’s Unfounded Probes into Nonprofits ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-condemns-house-homeland-security-committees-unfounded-probes-into-nonprofits/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:27:18

• Clownflare sees massive rise in attacks targeting media, nonprofits and human rights groups ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/12/cloudflare-sees-massive-rise-attacks-targeting-media-nonprofits-human-rights-groups/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:28:06

• New ‘SmartAttack’ Steals Air-Gapped Data Using Smartwatches ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-smartattack-steals-air-gapped-data-using-smartwatches/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:39:25

• House lawmakers’ CISA budget reprieve comes with questions ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/06/house-lawmakers-cisa-budget-reprieve-comes-with-questions/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:41:40

• Security Council: Elections were secure despite errors ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/election/12.06.2025-security-council-elections-were-secure-despite-errors.a602964/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:42:08

• Security guards might be allowed to shoot down drones in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/saeima/12.06.2025-security-guards-might-be-allowed-to-shoot-down-drones-in-latvia.a603012/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:42:18

• How secure is your digital life? ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/how-secure-is-your-digital-life-308331    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:42:34

• Strings Attached: Helen Haiman Joseph’s A Book of Marionettes (1920) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-marionettes    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:43:44

• Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, May 2025 (by Roberto C. Sánchez) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-05/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:50:20

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1025208/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:50:53

• Anatomy of a GNU/Linux SSH Honeypot Attack: Detailed Analysis of Captured Malware, (Fri, Jun 13th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32024    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:51:56

• Linux Mint 20 Reaches EOL ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Mint-20-Reaches-EOL    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:53:41

• Schemes – create syntax highlighting schemes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/schemes-create-syntax-highlighting-schemes/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:53:53

• PyQSO – contact logging tool for amateur radio operators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pyqso-contact-logging-tool-amateur-radio-operators/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:54:03

• Sysprof – profile an application or entire system ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sysprof-profile-application-entire-system/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:54:13

• Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Avoid snap pollution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/raspberry-pi5-desktop-mini-pc-avoid-snap-pollution/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:54:23

• Ethereal is a UCI chess engine ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ethereal-uci-chess-engine/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:54:35

• Rocky GNU/Linux 10.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1025224/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 18:58:21

• GNOME 49 Will Require Deeper systemd Integration ☞ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-49-will-require-deeper-systemd-integration/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:00:14

• The aesthetics of color palettes ☞ https://hisham.hm/2025/06/12/the-aesthetics-of-color-palettes/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:01:25

• Exploring debootstrap ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202506/exploring-debootstrap.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:02:14

• Apple Release New Tools for Running GNU/Linux Containers on Mac ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/apple-linux-container-tool-mac-developers    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:03:21

• FOSS Weekly #25.24: Nano Tips, Wayland-only Ubuntu, End of Mint 20 and 13 Years of It's FOSS ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-24/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:03:40

• Display Widget backdoored Windows in Qt Quick Applications ☞ https://www.kdab.com/display-widget-windows-in-qt-quick-applications/    

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

• 92: Contradict My Lived Experience ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24172    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:05:49

• Summaries from the 2025 Python Language Summit ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1025226/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:06:35

• Indonesia invites foreign stakes in $102 billion seawall to shield coasts from floods ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesia-invites-foreign-stakes-in-102-billion-seawall-to-shield-coasts-from-floods    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:07:14

• Salih Emin: Fashion Company Apple Unveils “Containerization” for macOS: A New Era for GNU/Linux Containers on macOS ☞ https://utappia.org/2025/06/11/apple-unveils-containerization-for-macos-a-new-era-for-linux-containers-on-macos/ http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/11/Apple_and_Microsoft_Try_to_Prevent_Users_From_Exploring_Install.shtml    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:08:29

• Slopwatch and Yet More Holes in 'Secure Boot' (as Usual!), Promoted Inside GNU/Linux by the Man We Are Suing ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/13/Slopwatch_and_Yet_More_Holes_in_Secure_Boot_as_Usual_Promoted_I.shtml    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:08:42

• Rocky GNU/Linux 10 Is Out Now as Free Alternative to Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/rocky-linux-10-is-out-now-as-free-alternative-to-red-hat-enterprise-linux-10    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:09:03

• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Adds Power Warnings for EU Compliance ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-24-04-power-management-warnings-eu-regulations    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:10:25

• Mozilla Kills Off Orbit, Its Hey Hi (AI) Add-On for Firefox ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/orbit-by-mozilla-shutting-down-june-26-2025    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:10:48

• GitHub itself is malicious and dangerous; the number is inflated to pretend growth while traffic is down ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/12/the-billionth-repository-on-github-is-really-shitty/ | Source: Hackaday https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/13/Recent_Blunders_in_Microsoft_GitHub_e_g_Slop_Generated_Bug_Repo.shtml    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:14:54

• When a shell script (and this post) needs replacement ☞ https://rubenerd.com/when-a-shell-script-needs-replacement/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:15:49

• MS-13 ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/bukele-trump-el-salvador-ms13-gang-vulcan-corruption-investigation | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:25:57

• Dangerous Data Bill Affects Us All, Not Just Creative Industries ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/dangerous-data-bill-affects-us-all-not-just-creative-industries/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:27:03

• Paragon ‘Graphite’ Spyware Linked to Zero-Click Hacks on Newest iPhones ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/paragon-graphite-spyware-linked-to-zero-click-hacks-on-newest-iphones/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:27:33

• "When talking about Linux desktop distributions, two names inevitably come up: Ubuntu and Kubuntu. They sound very similar, and for good reason, but your experience using either is different in some significant ways." https://www.howtogeek.com/ubuntu-vs-kubuntu-how-different-are-they/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:31:31

• Denmark Wants to Dump Microsoft Software for Linux, LibreOffice https://uk.pcmag.com/office-suites/158570/denmark-wants-to-dump-microsoft-software-for-linux-libreoffice    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:32:07

• "How to Hunt Elephants" https://paws.kettering.edu/~jhuggins/humor/elephants.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:33:30

• "Run full Linux alongside Chrome OS." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-run-a-linux-os-on-your-chromebook    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:34:12

• WordPress Fork Next? Linux Foundation Launches FAIR Package Manager https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-foundation-launches-fair-package-manager/ Seems like hostile intervention by bigger monopolies http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/08/Linux_Foundation_is_a_Mediator_for_Microsoft_et_al_Not_for_Smal.shtml    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:35:27

• "Use the rm command to remove data at the command line." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-delete-files-and-directories-via-the-linux-terminal    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:36:04

• "Your own custom menu to get things done!" https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-create-a-custom-linux-app-menu-zenity-makes-it-easy    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:36:47

• How to rip your audio CDs to MP3, FLAC from the Linux terminal with abcde https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-rip-your-audio-cds-to-mp3-flac-from-the-linux-terminal-with-abcde    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:38:11

• Retention tactic by Apple, to prevent people dumping Apple faster https://news.itsfoss.com/macos-meets-linux/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:39:14

• Tria’s latest family of modules now support Windows, Android and Linux https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/product-launches/tria-s-latest-family-of-modules-now-support-windows-android-and-linux    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:40:01

• "The Danish Ministry for Digital Affairs will move half of its employees off Windows and Microsoft 365 next month as part of a four-year 'digital sovereignty' push." https://uk.pcmag.com/office-suites/158570/denmark-wants-to-dump-microsoft-software-for-linux-libreoffice    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:40:34

• "Exciting to see companies pushing Linux phones towards the mainstream." https://news.itsfoss.com/liberux-nexx-community/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:41:01

• "If you're wondering why I've adopted Warp terminal as my default command line, I have a story that just might convince you to switch." https://www.zdnet.com/article/heres-how-i-finally-cracked-a-tricky-linux-problem-with-this-ai-terminal-app/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:41:23

• Dive into 9 Bash commands for Linux storage management https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/tip/Dive-into-Bash-commands-for-Linux-storage-management    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:41:52

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: #50: Introducing ‘almm: Activate-Linux (based) Market Monitor’ ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/06/12#050_introducing_almm    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:58:41

• Ex-congressman Billy Long confirmed as commissioner of the IRS, an agency he once sought to abolish ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/ex-congressman-billy-long-confirmed-as-commissioner-of-the-irs-an-agency-he-once-sought-to-abolish/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 19:59:32

• Joe Rogan Claims Two Former Presidents Reached Out to Spotify Over His COVID Commentary ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/12/joe-rogan-presidents-spotify-covid-commentary-claim/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:00:15

• Relations with China break down. Economies sink. Supply down. Demand down. What they tell us? OH DO NOT WORRIED YOU EFFIN PEASANTS, THE SHORTAGES ARE ALL BECAUSE OF THE HEY HI DEMAND!!!! YES, DEMAND!! THIS IS AMAZING STUFF, THE FUTURE IS EXCELLENT!!!!    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:01:50

• And they say the same when companies collapse and lots of people get laid off, work overtime, accept reduction in pay/purchasing power. OMG IT IS THE HEY HI!!!! CELEBRATE, PEASANTS!! The system's failure is INNOVATION!!!!    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:02:51

• Also: the economies sank (except Wall Street, where they loot what's left) because of the people who didn't take COVID-19 vaccines, duh    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:03:55

• NIH ☛ https://projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-research-lost-trump/ |    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:04:03

• BigLinux: Samba, Software, and Surprises ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/biglinux-samba-software-and-surprises/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:04:37

• How to rip your audio CDs to MP3, FLAC from the GNU/Linux terminal with abcde ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/how-to-rip-your-audio-cds-to-mp3-flac-from-the-linux-terminal-with-abcde    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:05:02

• Russia dissident and Navalny ally Leonid Volkov sentenced in absentia to 18 years imprisonment ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/russia-dissident-and-navalny-ally-leonid-volkov-sentenced-in-absentia-to-18-years-imprisonment/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:05:21

• How Trilio secures OpenShift virtual machines and containers ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/12/how-trilio-secures-openshift-virtual-machines-and-containers    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:08:54

• Buzzword OVERLOAD = 100% SCAM https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/12/multiverse-computing-bags-215m-quantum-inspired-ai-model-compression-tech/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:09:43

• Good produsts or companies do NOT need a BUZZWORDS smokescreen to distract from their lack of substance/merit    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:10:57

• How to implement observability with Node.js and Llama Stack ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/12/how-implement-observability-nodejs-and-llama-stack    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:11:13

• Automatically Save Terminal Outputs ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/automatically-save-terminal-outputs/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:15:50

• "Last year the UK government reformed leasehold and freehold law, via the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024. The law is now known as LAFRA and much of it is not yet in force." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-06-13_whose-agenda-was-lafra-implementing.gmi    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:17:36

• 🔤SpellBinding: ADEHWNI Wordo: BALKS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-06-13.gmi    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:19:11

• "After wasting a good deal of life on MI7 (Amazing stunts though), we saw the new Wes Anderson movie which brought a great deal of joy even overcoming the horribleness of the modern American theater experience. I love Wes Anderson movies." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2641    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:19:47

• "Today, while on a walk through the neighborhood, my friend and I chanced upon a baby bird sitting on the pavement. It was tiny, and weak, and underneath its gray wings was pink flesh." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2640    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:20:33

• synth moon and mushgopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/fullMush    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:21:21

• "A couple of days ago, _iNaturalist_ – a citizen science project/platform for observations of living beings in the natural world – announced that they were going to be part of a grant/program of Google to implement _generative 'AI'_ (or "GenAI"[^1]) into their tooling." gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2025-06-12-inaturalist-backlash.gmi    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:22:06

• "The Gopher server is back online." gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025-06/2025-06-13--back-online.txt    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:23:16

• "The black cat-themed day of Next Fest" gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/steam_next_fest_(june_2025)_—_day_4.gmi    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:24:01

• (Not)virtues gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2025-06-13-nie-cnoty.gmi    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:24:43

• cycle gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/cycle    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:25:42

• "I have stopped looking at my phone when I'm working. It's right here; it's connected to my laptop, as the hotspot works best that way. But I don't pick it up." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2205-06-13    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:26:42

• Palo Alto Networks Patches Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/palo-alto-networks-patches-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:48:24

• TTAB Finds VORSPRUNG for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Confusable with VORSPRUNG DURCH TEKNIK for Land Vehicles ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/06/ttab-finds-vorsprung-for-electric.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:48:56

• Who’s suing Hey Hi (AI) and who’s signing: Raft of Prorata partnerships, New York Times signs with Amazon ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:50:09

• How to Enable Japanese Input on FunOS Using Fcitx ☞ https://funos.org/enable-japanese-input-funos-fcitx/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:50:48

• GUAC 1.0 is Now Available ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/06/12/guac-1-0-is-now-available/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:51:07

• ‘EchoLeak’ Hey Hi (AI) Attack Enabled Theft of Sensitive Data via Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 365 Copilot ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/echoleak-ai-attack-enabled-theft-of-sensitive-data-via-microsoft-365-copilot/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:51:39

• Open Source People are Fighting to Kill Open Source Projects ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/open-source-people-are-fighting-to    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:52:42

• Create a colour wheel in LibreOffice ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/12/create-a-colour-wheel-in-libreoffice/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:53:04

• BSD Now 615: Wifi Brakes Unlocked ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/615    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:53:22

• IBM's CEO Roasted, Sizzled and Grilled for Dumb and Inconsistent Vapourware Promises ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/11/IBM_s_CEO_Roasted_Sizzled_and_Grilled_for_Dumb_and_Inconsistent.shtml    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:54:19

• Torture and forced disappearances: Inside Wagner’s secret prisons in Mali ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250612-torture-and-forced-disappearances-inside-wagner-s-secret-prisons-in-mali    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:58:09

• Large drop in number of Ukrainian refugees officially registered in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/12.06.2025-large-drop-in-number-of-ukrainian-refugees-officially-registered-in-latvia.a602986/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:58:19

• Ukraine is shaping the future of drone warfare at sea as well as on land ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-is-shaping-the-future-of-drone-warfare-at-sea-as-well-as-on-land/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:58:58

• Russia and Ukraine exchange more prisoners of war on Thursday ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250612-russia-and-ukraine-exchange-more-prisoners-of-war-on-thursday-1    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:59:18

• Hundreds of Russian soldiers treated in Belarusian hospitals, investigation finds ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2588823/hundreds-of-russian-soldiers-treated-in-belarusian-hospitals-investigation-finds    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:59:28

• Taking lessons from Ukraine, Taiwan eyes sea drones to counter China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taking-lessons-from-ukraine-taiwan-eyes-sea-drones-to-counter-china    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 20:59:38

• "Russia advances in east-central Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/12/a-new-buffer-zone | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:00:10

• "Russia and Ukraine conduct new prisoner swap involving wounded soldiers" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/12/russia-and-ukraine-conduct-new-prisoner-swap-involving-wounded-soldiers | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:00:32

• "injuring 14" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/12/russian-forces-launch-second-consecutive-night-of-drone-strikes-on-ukraine-s-kharkiv-injuring-14 | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:00:41

• Russian officials approve abortion propaganda ban, increase pressure on women ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/russian-officials-approve-abortion-propaganda-prohibition-increase-pressure-on-women/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:01:05

• No point for Lithuania to impose sanctions against Russia, Belarus alone – PM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2589070/no-point-for-lithuania-to-impose-sanctions-against-russia-belarus-alone-pm    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:01:17

• "campaign raises over $150,000" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/13/you-are-not-alone-campaign-raises-over-150-000-for-russian-political-prisoners-in-a-single-day | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:01:47

• "Russia Day greeting by a U.S. secretary of state since 2022" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/12/marco-rubio-issues-first-russia-day-greeting-by-a-u-s-secretary-of-state-since-2022 | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:02:19

• Stephen Gallagher: Trip Report: Flock to Fedora 2025 ☞ https://sgallagh.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/trip-report-flock-to-fedora-2025/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:02:54

• Indonesia's Prabowo to meet Putin in Russia for talks ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesias-prabowo-to-meet-putin-in-russia-for-talks    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:03:11

• Zelenskyy Says Tough Sanctions Could 'Force Putin To Seek Peace' As Russia Hits Kharkiv Again ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-globsec-russia-pressure-sanctions-putin-oil/33440812.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:03:24

• Gesture customization mini-sprint ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/12/gesture-customization-mini-sprint/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:04:15

• Deadly Air India Plane Crash: Photos and Video ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/world/asia/air-india-crash-photos.html    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:04:31

• ‘I always felt very protected there’: Austria grapples with rare school shooting ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0612/austria-school-shooting    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:05:02

• Lower income, less hygienic? Sign at South Korean private pool sparks backlash ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/lower-income-less-hygienic-swimming-pool-in-south-korea-sign-sparks-backlash    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:05:30

• Lawbreakers to be ‘held accountable,’ China says as US airs support for activist Joshua Wong after nat. security charge ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/12/lawbreakers-to-be-held-accountable-china-says-as-us-voices-support-for-joshua-wong-after-nat-security-charge/    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:05:48

• Popular 'What I Eat in a Day' Videos Could Have 5 Dangerous Downsides ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/popular-what-i-eat-in-a-day-videos-could-have-5-dangerous-downsides    

posted Friday, June 13, 2025 at 21:06:07