Roy Schestowitz

• Nyxt: the Emacs-like web browser https://lwn.net/Articles/1001773/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:34:48

• Open source and the Cyber Resilience Act https://lwn.net/Articles/1023306/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:35:18

• Fending off unwanted file descriptors https://lwn.net/Articles/1023085/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:35:49

• Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs https://lwn.net/Articles/1024160/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:36:22

• "The 6.16 merge window closed on June 8, as expected, containing 12,899 non-merge commits. This is slightly more than the 6.15 merge window, but well in line with expectations. 7,353 of those were merged after the summary of the first half of the merge window was written." https://lwn.net/Articles/1023075/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:37:04

• An end to uniprocessor configurations https://lwn.net/Articles/1023575/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:37:40

• "Smatch is a GPL-licensed static-analysis tool for C that has a lot of specialized checks for the kernel. Smatch has been used in the kernel for more than 20 years; Dan Carpenter, its primary author, decided last year that some details of its plugin system were due for a rewrite." https://lwn.net/Articles/1023646/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:38:27

• Zero-copy for FUSE https://lwn.net/Articles/1023689/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:38:55

• Improving iov_iter https://lwn.net/Articles/1023891/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:39:40

• "I did not attend Flock in person, but watched the talk the day after it was given via the recording of the live stream from the event. The slides for the talk were published in PowerPoint format, but I have converted them to PDF for readers who prefer that format." https://lwn.net/Articles/1024259/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:41:20

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-06-19.gmi    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:44:27

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1328.jpg    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:45:11

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1678.jpg    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 06:45:18

• "Valve released another Steam Client Beta update and this time, they're giving Desktop gamers a whole new Performance Monitor HUD. It's replacing the FPS counter, giving you a feature that's much more like the Performance Overlay found on the Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-gets-a-new-steam-deck-like-performance-monitor-now-in-beta-replacing-the-fps-counter/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:16:42

• "GOG have announced an expansion of their GOG Preservation Program again, to keep classic retro games running nicely with a bunch more games added." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/gog-preservation-program-expands-with-devil-may-cry-hd-collection-devil-may-cry-4-and-more-classics/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:17:03

• "Sandustry seems a bit like the excellent Noita but a factory sim. Here every pixel is a simulated resource to use. Seems like a world I will happily get lost in for hours." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/in-the-side-scroller-automation-game-sandustry-every-single-pixel-is-a-simulated-resource/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:17:16

• "Time to get some DRM-free discounts for your gaming machine with the GOG Summer Sale. A great time for it, with the recent announcement of more games like Devil May Cry being added to the GOG Preservation Program." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/gog-summer-sale-2025-is-live-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:18:17

• "ScummVM only just recently announced support for Another World (Out of This World) and now they're back with the classic adventure The Last Express." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/scummvm-announces-support-for-the-classic-adventure-the-last-express/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

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

• IBM: just stop being blind! yes, just stop being blind and start using Wayland!! Also IBM: we helped Hitler implement the Holocaust and made money from it. X11 and even XLibre would be MORE inclusive than Wayland, which just has a big CoC and not much else to offer. http://techrights.org/n/2024/06/25/IBM_Does_Not_Care_for_the_Blind_Wayland_Harms_Accessibility.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:22:39

• "Fury Unleashed is a 2020 fast-paced roguelike shooter where you run through comic pages, and now the Linux version works properly again." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/comic-page-roguelike-shooter-fury-unleashed-gets-an-essential-linux-fix/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:23:18

• "Simon the Sorcerer Origins has been announced for release in October, a prequel to the 1993 classic and it sounds fantastic." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/simon-the-sorcerer-origins-adventure-game-announced-for-release-in-october/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:26:36

• "Cast n Chill is a relaxing fishing sim with some absolutely gorgeous pixel artwork, and you're going to need to take it away from me." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/please-dont-bug-me-im-trying-to-cast-n-chill/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:27:13

• "Satellite images reveal Russia’s military town" https://yle.fi/a/74-20168262    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:28:36

• "Remember when Brad Lander Caught Kristi Noem Stealing $80 Million?" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/18/remember-when-brad-lander-caught-kristi-noem-stealing-80-million/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:29:06

• "The American Opposition Has a Mandate. Will They Accept It?" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-american-opposition-has-a-mandate    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:29:20

• "Name It Plainly - by Mike Brock - Notes From The Circus" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/name-it-plainly    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:29:35

• "Trump administration set to again waive TikTok ban" https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/trump_extends_tiktok_reprieve_again/ https://eu.delawareonline.com/story/news/2025/06/13/why-do-they-call-trump-taco-people-are-calling-what-is-taco-trade-trump-always-chickens-out-meaning/84169623007/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:30:12

• iophk: _*not*_ due to GDPR, due to flagrant privacy violations by the site itself https://atlantaciviccircle.org/2025/06/16/journalist-mario-guevara-arrested-protest-ice-detainer/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:30:42

• "Like George W. Bush, Donald Trump Is Lying His Way Into War" https://jacobin.com/2025/06/bush-trump-iran-israel-war/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:30:55

• "West Papua’s Forever War" https://jacobin.com/2025/06/west-papua-indonesia-prabowo-war/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:31:14

• "Brain-Dead Georgia Woman Kept Alive To Deliver Baby - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/brain-dead-georgia-woman-kept-alive-to-deliver-baby/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:31:26

• "What he has instead is the promise of chaos." https://www.vox.com/on-the-right-newsletter/417156/trump-foreign-policy-ukraine-israel-iran "Trump doesn’t have a foreign policy"    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:31:59

• "Satellite images reveal Russia’s military town" https://yle.fi/a/74-20168262    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:32:19

• "Chat Control 2 – nu är det match igen!" | Chat Control 2 – now it's a match again! https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/06/18/chat-control-2-nu-ar-det-match-igen/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:32:53

• "Why Trump’s trade war can’t bring back the jobs of the past - lonestarlive.com" https://www.lonestarlive.com/palabra/2025/06/why-trumps-trade-war-cant-bring-back-the-jobs-of-the-past.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:33:07

• iophk: the AFP post ignores/omits the intrigue from Microsoft that went on in Munich https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250613-we-re-done-with-teams-german-state-hits-uninstall-on-microsoft ("'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft") http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/17/Yet_another_European_government_is_ditching_Microsoft_for_Linux.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:41:21

• iophk: chooses to ignore *full* OpenDocument Format support https://www.techradar.com/pro/denmark-wants-to-replace-windows-and-office-with-linux-and-libreoffice-as-it-seeks-to-embrace-digital-sovereignty ("Denmark takes a huge gamble on Linux and LibreOffice to fight back against US tech dominance")    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:41:53

• "Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide: Ukraine must emerge from war independent—including its energy" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/norwegian-foreign-minister-espen-barth-eide-ukraine-must-emerge-from-war-independent-including-its-energy/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 08:50:08

• "Unprovoked"? Really? ☛ https://fair.org/home/working-hard-to-justify-israels-unprovoked-attack-on-iran/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:01:36

• ESP32 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/esp32-dashboard-is-a-great-way-to-stay-informed/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:01:54

• "Closing the escape route from the USA to Canada" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/06/18/closing-the-escape-route-from-the-usa-to-canada/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:02:21

• "In November 2023, La Quadrature du Net, Access Now, ARTICLE 19, European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), European Digital Rights (EDRi) and Wikimedia France filed a complaint against the French decree" ☛ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2025/06/18/french-administrative-supreme-court-illegitimately-buries-the-debate-over-internet-censorship-law/ | Source: La Quadature Du Net    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:03:57

• Wildlife Trade in Paradise ☛ https://therevelator.org/wildlife-trade-bali/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:04:56

• "US-Israel's War Plans Against Iran" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/imprisoned-for-exposing-us-israels-war-plans-against-iran/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:06:26

• "A Bashkir-style mosh pit" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/18/a-bashkir-style-mosh-pit | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:10:38

• "Sky-high evidence Satellite imagery confirms Russia’s capacity for expanded fortifications at Finnish border while waging full-scale war on Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/19/sky-high-evidence | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:10:52

• "E.U. diplomat assaulted during visit to Russian Far East" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/18/e-u-diplomat-assaulted-during-visit-to-russian-far-east-der-spiegel | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:21:28

• "Let’s mediate Russia first" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/18/trump-says-he-spoke-with-putin-about-israel-and-iran | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:22:16

• "to avoid being sent back to war" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/18/better-than-ending-up-under-a-bush-in-ukraine | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:23:55

• ZPUI Could Be Your Tiny Embedded GUI: "One of the most frustrating things to me is looking at a freshly-flashed and just powered up single board computer." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/zpui-could-be-your-tiny-embedded-gui/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:28:16

• Split Keyboard Uses No PCB ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/split-keyboard-uses-no-pcb/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:28:36

• Lukashenko ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/18/u-s-envoy-keith-kellogg-planning-meeting-with-lukashenko-in-belarus-reuters | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:28:59

• Berdyansk ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/18/russian-occupation-official-in-berdyansk-reportedly-killed-in-ukrainian-intelligence-operation | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:29:14

• "Has A Nuke Gone Off?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/bhangmeterv2-answers-the-question-has-a-nuke-gone-off/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:30:15

• "There’s a famous old story about [Charles Steinmetz] fixing a generator for [Henry Ford]." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/a-number-of-microphones-er-inductors-rather/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:30:43

• "figurative" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/18/kremlin-says-putin-and-trump-didn-t-speak-yesterday-attributes-u-s-president-s-claim-to-figurative-speech | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:32:20

• "Gas Burner Reuses Printer Nozzle For Metalwork" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/gas-burner-reuses-printer-nozzle-for-metalwork/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:32:44

• "Years down the line, both Spotify and the major record labels — Universal Music Group (UMG), Sony, and Warner" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/06/spotify-music-industry-major-labels/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:44:11

• "This is not a recipe book for how to use ARIA to build accessible websites and web apps. It is also not a guide for how to remediate an inaccessible experience. A lot of accessibility work is highly contextual." ☛ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/what-i-wish-someone-told-me-aria/ | Source: Smashing Magazine    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:44:59

• "In a recent article, The Wall Street Journal drew attention to the fact that Pope Leo XIV considers artificial intelligence to be a threat to humanity" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2819904/pope-leo-xiv-warns-ai-is-a-threat-to-humanity-and-calls-for-a-treaty.html | Source: PC World    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:45:15

• "ICE agents aren’t out of control. They are performing their designed role as fascism’s storm troopers." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/abolish-ice-brad-lander/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:45:36

• "Several tribes practiced slavery, and five in Oklahoma — The Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Muscogee nations — signed reconstruction treaties with the U.S. in 1866 abolishing it three years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/06/in-oklahoma-juneteenth-highlights-tribal-slavery-descendants-fight-for-recognition-and-citizenship.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:46:07

• "Several tribes practiced slavery, and five in Oklahoma — The Cherokee, Seminole, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Muscogee nations — signed reconstruction treaties with the U.S. in 1866 abolishing it three years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation." ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/06/in-oklahoma-juneteenth-highlights-tribal-slavery-descendants-fight-for-recognition-and-citizenship.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:50:42

• "But not everyone in Confederate territory would immediately be free. Even though the Emancipation Proclamation was made effective in 1863, it could not be implemented in places still under Confederate control." ☛ https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-legacy-juneteenth |    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:51:24

• "He has also made it clear that any successor would by necessity be "born in the free world"." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/dalai-lama-to-issue-july-2-message-expected-to-address-succession-8702827#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:51:50

• "China has sought greater control over Tibetan Buddhism since invading the independent Himalayan country in 1950 and forcing the Dalai Lama into exile in India in 1959. In 2007, Beijing announced it would oversee the recognition of all reincarnate Tibetan lamas, including the next Dalai Lama." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/06/17/tibet-dalai-lama-90th-birthday-resolution/ | Source: RFA    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:52:16

• "The main entrance has disappeared, and access is now through a secondary door on the northern side, added after the western facade was enclosed by a residential building." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/centuries-old-church-in-eastern-turkey-used-as-warehouse-308539 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:52:40

• "We cannot report anything at all" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/06/iranian-journalists-censored-threatened-over-reporting-israel-conflict/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:56:38

• "We are deeply concerned by the ongoing detention of Spanish-language journalist Mario Guevara by authorities in DeKalb County, Georgia." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/06/spanish-language-journalist-arrested-in-atlanta-while-covering-protest-facing-possible-deportation/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:56:53

• "Things went to overdrive since yesterday" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/iran-internet-shutdown-israel/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:57:32

• "the enemy from threatening citizens' lives and property" ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/donald-trump-privately-approved-attack-plans-for-iran-pending-final-order-report-8703965#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:57:54

• "Political commentator Sampson Wong said that in the past the Hong Kong government rarely used national security as a reason to withhold information, and now the public’s basic right to know was being damaged." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/china/2025/06/18/hong-kong-national-security-arrests/ | Source: RFA    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:58:33

• "I recently received a boxed Amiga 1000 which was in excellent condition, but required a little work. It came with two original Amiga 1000 mice and the keyboard, all of which needed work. Today I’ll cover the mouse restoration." ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/unboxing-the-legend-continues-amiga-1000-mouse-restoration/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:59:05

• "We have a lot of updates to share with you today: Framework Laptop 12 press reviews are live and shipments are starting, Framework Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 300 Series) is now in stock, and we have a number of events coming up!" ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/framework-laptop-12-press-reviews-are-live-and-framework-laptop-13-in-stock | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 09:59:46

• Securonis GNU/Linux – privacy and security-focused distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/securonis-linux-privacy-security-focused-distribution/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:04:50

• FSP Client – FTP-like interface for File Service Protocol ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fsp-client-ftp-like-interface-file-service-protocol/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:06:32

• Misinformation ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20168424 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:12:59

• "In a move that surprised me, is a phrase with six words" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/digidirect-to-buy-mwave/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:13:50

• "U.S. Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/u-s-senate-confirms-olivia-trusty-to-the-fcc/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:14:10

• Just a bailout ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/openai-to-help-dod-with-cyber-defense-under-new-200-million-contract/ | Source: Security Week http://techrights.org/n/2024/08/10/More_Microsoft_Bailouts_From_President_Biden_s_Government_Befor.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:15:36

• False numbers ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/18/microsoft-reportedly-planning-new-round-layoffs-sales-roles-likely-hit/ | Source: Silicon Angle iophk: False numbers, there have been more than two rounds already this year    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:17:02

• "In the US tech space, poaching usually looks like "big tech" firms nabbing promising young staffers from up-and-coming startups" ☛ https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-openai-poach-meta | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:18:01

• "Scam Altman Heaps Praise on Donald Trump" ☛ https://futurism.com/sam-altman-heaps-praise-donald-trump | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:18:18

• "Microsoft benefits from having the rights and access to OpenAI's intellectual [sic] property [sic]" ☛ https://futurism.com/explosive-drama-openai-microsoft | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:18:51

• "Microsoft is reportedly planning to eliminate thousands of jobs, primarily impacting its sales division" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-planning-thousands-more-job-cuts-aimed-at-salespeople/articleshow/121939142.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:20:52

• "The latest layoffs follow Microsoft's previous round of job cuts in May, which affected about 6,000 employees." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/microsoft-planning-thousands-of-job-cuts-report-8703490#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:21:02

• "The new consolidated plan is a balance between its current offering of 8% on the Patreon Pro plan and 12% on the Patreon Premium tier." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/18/patreon-ups-the-cut-it-takes-from-creators-to-10/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:22:30

• "IMAX is probably the best place to see it. I cannot believe how life like a documentary can become on the largest screen on this planet." ☛ https://merecivilian.com/elephant-at-imax-melbourne/ | Source: Mere Civilian    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:26:23

• "In new research, scientists from the Wageningen University & Research have confirmed regular activity by sharks and rays at offshore wind farms around the Netherlands." ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/offshore-wind-farms-marine-life-habitats.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:26:40

• "The electrification cost some 37 million euros, of which Finland paid 30 million and Sweden seven million. But further funding is needed to start passenger services, and the government is yet to make a decision on that." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20168437 | Source: YLE    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:27:23

• "This isn’t a crazy idea, because flywheels exist specifically to store kinetic energy in a spinning mass." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/18/this-spinning-water-contraption-is-actually-a-functional-battery/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:27:36

• "The situation with the farm is that it is 99% finished." ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/06/17/visiting-the-solar-farm-8-months-after-energization/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:27:54

• "Nvidia has just decided is worthy of investment." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/nvidia_ai_smr_investment/ | Source: The Register UK http://techrights.org/o/2019/12/21/police-report-bill-gates/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:28:38

• "However, these three agencies are critical components of California’s wildfire response capabilities" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-18/california-faces-dangerous-wildfire-season-as-trump-weakens-fema-and-the-forest-service | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:29:09

• "After a while, you use decibels as a basis for understanding how much danger you’re in." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/sensory-overload-how-russian-attacks-change-your-relationship-with-sound/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:30:17

• "In one month's time, Latvia will cease recognition of non-biometric passports issued by aggressor state Russia." ☛ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/18.06.2025-latvia-will-no-longer-recognize-non-biometric-russian-passports.a603796/ | Source: Latvia    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:30:36

• "There is, infamously, little love lost between Trump and the military. A few months before the presidential election he lost in 2020" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/trump-birthday-parade-anger | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:30:57

• "Presidents have rarely federalized the National Guard to intervene in protests on U.S. soil" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/06/18/the-history-of-presidents-activating-us-troops-on-american-soil/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:31:16

• "Service members used lumber milled from the Latvian Army’s field-deployable sawmill to reinforce trench walls and build overhead cover and concealment" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2025/06/18/marines-and-sailors-combat-drone-threats-by-digging-trenches/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:31:36

• "These field fortifications are built to reduce detection, limit exposure to unmanned systems, and enhance force protection across the battlespace" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-marines-trenches-drones/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:32:01

• "FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor" ☛ https://ffrf.org/news/releases/federal-agency-flies-christian-nationalist-flag-ffrf-demands-answers/ | Source: Freedom From Religion Foundation    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:32:24

• "Many households across Los Angeles were left without internet on Father's Day" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/misguided-copper-thieves-plunge-la-into-internet-blackout-perps-cut-lines-only-to-find-fiber-optic-cables | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:33:18

• "a national security threat and acts as the puppet strings of Communist China to push their propaganda on the American people." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/trump_extends_tiktok_reprieve_again/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:34:02

• SCOTUS rulings don't matter? ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/17/trump-will-push-tiktok-sale-deadline-another-90-days/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:34:55

• "divested from its parent Chinese company, ByteDance" ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/trump-to-give-tiktok-another-extension-before-enforcing-sale-or-ban-law/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:35:20

• "TikTok has won third reprieve with 90-day extension announced just hours before June 19 deadline" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tiktok-getting-banned-june-19-no-donald-trump-extending-it-this-month-1736131 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:35:38

• "In 2011, China Mobile applied for an international section 214 authorization requesting permission to provide international facilities-based and resale telecom" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/fcc-china-mobile-not-cooperating-with-probe/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:35:59

• "This isn't speculation. This isn't guilt by association." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-cult-member-in-charge-of-american | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:36:31

• "next frontier of connectivity" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/india-grants-licence-to-musks-starlink/articleshow/121930789.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:36:50

• "In video of the arrest that has gone viral, Lander has his arms linked with the man and demands proof that the arresting agents are following the law." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/masked-agents-arrest-new-york-mayoral-candidate-brad-lander-1235366717/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:37:24

• Confidentiality ☛ https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1059 | Source: Unmitigated Risk    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:42:37

• "WhatsApp has held out for sixteen years before giving in to the lure of advertising." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/meta-unleashes-ads-on-whatsapp | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:43:14

• "The government’s inclusion of warrantless information demand powers in Bill C-2 may make this the most dangerous lawful access proposal yet, exceeding even the 2010 bill led by Conservative Public Safety Minister Vic Toews." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/big-brother-tactics-why-bill-c-2s-new-warrantless-disclosure-demand-powers-extend-far-beyond-internet-and-telecom-providers/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:43:39

• "The list of sites in the suspect's notebook, which can easily reveal where someone lives, are a simple Google search away, have been for years, and lawmakers could make changes if they wanted." ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-people-search-sites-in-the-suspected-minnesota-killers-notebook-are-a-failure-of-congress/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:44:12

• "National Australia Bank Limited has paid penalties totalling $751,200 after the ACCC issued it with four infringement notices for alleged contraventions of the Consumer Data Right (CDR) Rules." ☛ https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/technology-regulation/national-australia-bank-pays-$751,200-in-penalties-for-alleged-breaches-of-consumer-data-right-rules.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:44:43

• "Various people-search engine websites say they source information from public records, mailing lists, surveys, public social media profiles and other sources." ☛ https://www.twincities.com/2025/06/18/minnesota-legislator-shootings-addresses/ | Source: TwinCities Pioneer Press    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:44:57

• "Ten congressional Democrats are demanding answers from Palantir about reports that it is aiding the IRS in building a searchable, governmentwide “mega-database” to house Americans’ sensitive information." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/palantir-irs-mega-database-democrats-letter/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:45:42

• "In August 2021, noyb had filed several complaints against news sites using unlawful ‘Pay or OK’ systems with German data protection authorities (DPAs)." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/years-inactivity-pay-or-ok-cases-noyb-sues-german-dpas | Source: NYOB    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:46:00

• "WhatsApp said it was "concerned" that its services would be blocked in Iran after a state broadcaster urged the public to delete the messaging app, saying it was sharing data with arch-rival Israel." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/whatsapp-concerned-services-to-be-blocked-after-iran-calls-to-delete-app/articleshow/121929284.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:46:40

• Windows TCO ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/18/ubs-confirms-employee-data-leak-ransomware-attack-supplier/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:49:32

• Social Control Media: "Foreign students applying to study in the US will now be required to make their social media profiles public for screening" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2314071.html | Source: RTL    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:51:20

• "The US State Department said Wednesday it is restarting the suspended process for foreigners applying for student visas" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250618-us-visa-foreign-students-social-media | Source: France24    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:51:41

• "Elon Musk's X Corp has filed a lawsuit challenging a New York state law that requires social media companies to report how they moderate hate speech" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/musks-x-sues-to-block-new-york-social-media-transparency-law/articleshow/121934344.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:51:55

• "Meta said Reels on Facebook will no longer have length or format restrictions, and include all types of video content — short, long and live" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/all-new-videos-uploaded-on-facebook-to-be-classified-as-reels-soon-1885972 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:52:11

• "affecting everybody" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/daily-beast-gains-on-reddit-and-facebook-as-google-traffic-falls/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:52:28

• "If you are a programmer in 2025 you have likely been pressured into adopting generative artificial intelligence tools into your workflow. Maybe you have already been ordered to." ☛ https://agentultra.com/blog/why-i-wont-use-ai/index.html |    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:53:03

• "Naturally, I was impressed by the quantity of yurts I saw, and I was curious: just how many yurts (ger in Mongolian) are in Mongolia and why?" ☛ https://monroeclinton.com/counting-all-yurts-in-mongolia/ |    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:53:49

• "Again, superficially right, but not accurate in the slightest." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/why-do-people-have-such-dramatically-different-experiences-using-ai/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:54:28

• "Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have now devised a way for LLMs to keep improving by tweaking their own parameters in response to useful new information." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/this-ai-model-never-stops-learning/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:57:43

• "People are upset over the quality of AI products and the loss of human jobs. Is it enough to slow the tech down?" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/18/ai-pushback-audible-duolingo/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:57:58

• "There’s a lack of footage from the conflict and AI-generated content is filling the void." ☛ https://www.404media.co/the-ai-slop-fight-between-iran-and-israel/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:58:26

• "Waymo plans to begin operating a small fleet of autonomous vehicles in Manhattan next month, with human drivers at the wheel until regulators allow otherwise, a spokesperson told AFP." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2314079.html | Source: RTL    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:58:49

• "Tens of thousands of security cameras in businesses, CCTV cameras, and cameras from commonplace [Internet]-connected devices were found vulnerable to dark web actors, a new report shows." ☛ https://www.404media.co/cameras-exposed-to-the-internet-report/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:59:25

• "app-specific password" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/russian-hackers-bypass-gmail-mfa-with-app-specific-password-ruse/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 10:59:50

• "In cooperation with external partners, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) observed a Russia state-sponsored cyber threat actor impersonating the U.S. Department of State." ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/creative-phishing-academics-critics-of-russia/ | Source: Google    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:00:05

• "In short, it's an incredibly convoluted system, designed to reengineer something we've taken for granted for centuries." ☛ https://futurism.com/man-sleep-ai-mattress-outage | Source: Futurism    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:00:18

• "The state's shift towards open-source software began last year." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250613-we-re-done-with-teams-german-state-hits-uninstall-on-microsoft | Source: France24    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:00:53

• "With the ban, the US joined over 50 other countries around the world that had banned its use due to health risks." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-epa-reconsider-ban-cancer-causing-asbestos/ | Source: Wired    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:01:27

• "The study, novel in its approach, tracks mortality outcomes over time among self-identified AI/AN individuals in a nationally representative cohort" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-06-18/study-finds-native-american-deaths-life-expectancy-underestimated | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:01:46

• "It's controversial, absolutely, but it's possible that detecting these 'biophotons' could tell us a thing or two about what takes place beneath our skin." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-brain-emits-a-secret-light-that-scientists-are-trying-to-read | Source: Science Alert    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:04:08

• "The studies’ biological samples are stored in a network of high-powered freezers" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/06/existential-crisis-for-irreplaceable-resource/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:04:26

• "According to the museum's archaeologist Mads Ravn, the graves are most likely linked to a noble family from the Viking Age -- which lasted between the eighth and 11th centuries -- whose farm was discovered less than a kilometre from the burial site in the late 1980s." ☛ https://www.thelocal.dk/20250617/spectacular-viking-burial-site-discovered-near-aarhus | Source: The Local DK    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:04:38

• "Maybe I just need to accept that my blogging will always be a bit of a never-ending dance between platforms and languages." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/06/18/the-overthinking-blogger/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:05:27

• "In Go applications, parsing untrusted data creates a dangerous attack surface that’s routinely exploited in the wild. During our security assessments" ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/17/unexpected-security-footguns-in-gos-parsers/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:06:36

• "Sometimes we want to repeatedly do things with all but one row of a data frame, where we systematically drop each row in turn and do the thing." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/oh-leave-it-out/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:07:04

• [Old] "Julia is a great language to use for a project which demands heavy computation, but is small enough that losing strong, ahead-of-time type checking isn't a major drawback." ☛ https://joshua-laughner.io/posts/julia-misunderstood/ |    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:08:29

• "Let’s talk about class templates and variadic parameters. How to use them in combination?" ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/06/18/variadic-inheritance | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:08:40

• KiCad Advises GNU/Linux Users to Stick with X11 for Professional PCB Design ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kicad-advises-linux-users-to-stick-with-x11-for-professional-pcb-design/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:22:12

• "Yesterday i read that great post about "UNIX primitivism" on the GopherICU phlog and i think it highlights a very important point: [...]" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/unix_primitivism.txt    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:28:03

• "Among the collaging materials were a number of redundant copies of old indie newspapers. I found a July, 1974 issue of Lavender Woman - "Chicago's Lesbian/Feminist newspaper.' I hope to read through it soon." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-06-18.gmi    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:29:21

• "I don't post about politics. The right thing to do is usually obvious, and it seems pointless to say this to people who disagree; people whose "obvious" is the opposite of what's obvious to me. Nothing to post about there." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-06-18_Middle_Eastern_balance.gmi    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:30:17

• 🔤SpellBinding: EGIYNOJ Wordo: SLUED gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-06-19.gmi    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:32:04

• "The variations discussed here might also be known as arpeggios or vamping or broken chords. Synthesizers or such often offer arpeggio features, though one can also use a permutation algorithm to go through them all, possibly filtering for particular aspects." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/06/18/easy-variations.gmi    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:33:24

• "Hit registration for melee is done in one of two ways, depending on the weapon used and attack type performed." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2646    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:34:13

• do we float gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/do_we_float    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:34:40

• "World’s Best Beta Tester" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/18/floss-weekly-episode-837-worlds-best-beta-tester/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:47:52

• "Meta released the Llama2-70b model on July 18, 2023. This model is open source and part of the very popular Llama family of models that range from 7 billion to 70 billion parameters" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/mlperf-inference-v50-results | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:48:19

• "The outcome? Faster developer velocity, leaner cost structure, and near-zero downtime driven by a platform approach that brings virtualization and containers under one control plane." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/siriusxm-modernizes-virtualization-without-missing-beat | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 11:48:33

• Assessing Hey Hi (AI) for OpenShift operations: Advanced configurations ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/18/assessing-ai-openshift-operations-advanced-configurations    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:38:37

• Lots of hype about Hey Hi (AI), not enough actual substance ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/18/openshift-lightspeed-assessing-ai-openshift-operations    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:40:16

• OpenShift Data Foundation and HashiCorp Vault securing data ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/18/openshift-data-foundation-and-hashicorp-vault-securing-data    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:41:05

• The age of war? Israel-Iran conflict further undemines global security ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250618-the-age-of-war-israel-iran-conflict-further-undemines-global-security    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:42:26

• Putin says NATO’s increased defense spending poses no 'threat' to Russia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250618-putin-nato-russia    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:42:46

• Putin Claims Ready For Talks, Even As Death Toll From Russia's Latest Attack On Kyiv Hits 28 ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-zelenskyy-trump-russia-ukraine-kyiv-klitschko/33448240.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:42:58

• Ukrainian Frontline Medics Scramble To Save Lives In Sumy ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-medics-sumy-fighting/33446118.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:43:22

• Your Hey Hi (AI) Queries Come With a Climate Cost ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/climate/ai-emissions-chatbot-accuracy.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:43:56

• Putin says NATO’s increased defence spending poses no 'threat' to Russia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250618-putin-nato-russia    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:44:31

• Car and boat delivery ready to depart from Latvia to Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/18.06.2025-car-and-boat-delivery-ready-to-depart-from-latvia-to-ukraine.a603706/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:49:28

• Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide: Ukraine must emerge from war independent—including its energy ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/norwegian-foreign-minister-espen-barth-eide-ukraine-must-emerge-from-war-independent-including-its-energy/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:50:05

• Ukraine won't be invited to join NATO in The Hague – Lithuanian FM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2593303/ukraine-won-t-be-invited-to-join-nato-in-the-hague-lithuanian-fm    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:50:25

• Death Toll From Russian Strikes Rises To 28 As More Bodies Pulled From Kyiv Rubble ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kyiv-death-toll-russia-strike-war/33447190.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:50:46

• North Korea to send army builders, deminers to Russia’s Kursk region ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-to-send-army-builders-deminers-to-russia-russian-news-agencies    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:51:01

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Skips Zelensky Meeting as G7 Talks End With Little for Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/world/canada/g7-ukraine-trump-zelensky.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:51:35

• Same Sea, New Phish: Russian Government-Linked Social Engineering Targets App-Specific Passwords ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/russian-government-linked-social-engineering-targets-app-specific-passwords/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:52:01

• Latvia will no longer recognize non-biometric Russian passports ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/18.06.2025-latvia-will-no-longer-recognize-non-biometric-russian-passports.a603796/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:53:36

• Pluralistic: The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice (18 Jun 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/18/anarcho-cryptid/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:53:48

• "Fixes available for local privilege escalation vulnerability in libblockdev using udisks" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/udisks-libblockdev-lpe-vulnerability-fixes-available | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:56:50

• "You don’t want to wait for users to report issues. As a sysadmin, your goal should be to detect problems before they affect users or production workloads." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/bash-script-automate-system-health-checks/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:57:44

• "While Linux offers thousands of commands, not all of them are part of your day-to-day toolbox. However, there’s a core set of powerful, reliable commands that you’ll find yourself using every single day, often multiple times." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/daily-linux-commands-for-sysadmins/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 12:58:06

• "HydraSDR RFOne is a USB software-defined radio receiver capable of capturing up to 10 MHz of bandwidth across a continuous range from 24 MHz to 1.8 GHz" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/hydrasdr-rfone-preview-highlights-extensible-sdr-design-with-open-firmware/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:00:05

• "If you’re shooting some cool-looking evening real estate photos, then you’ll likely want to use a white balance preset or even set it manually, but for daytime shooting, most modern cameras boast decent auto white balance." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/photo-technique/my-commercial-real-estate-photography-tips-will-help-you-avoid-bad-quality-realtor-photos | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:01:26

• "Data loss is not a theoretical risk — it is a measurable, frequent occurrence." ☛ https://klarasystems.com/articles/disaster-recovery-with-zfs-practical-guide/ | Source: Klara    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:01:39

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

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:03:57

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

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:04:18

• How To Install Jitsi Meet on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-jitsi-meet-fedora-42/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:04:32

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

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

• How To Install Warp Terminal on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-warp-terminal-fedora-42/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:05:06

• How to fix "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pip'" on Ubuntu 24.04 ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-fix-modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-pip-on-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:06:00

• How To Install Fail2Ban on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fail2ban-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:06:25

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

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:06:53

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

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:07:40

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

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:08:01

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

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:11:50

• How To Install LAMP Stack on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-lamp-stack-almalinux-10/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:12:01

• Phoronix Suggests Open Source Projects Should be Controlled by Big Tech ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/phoronix-suggests-open-source-projects    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:12:40

• Fedora Silences Support for Xorg Fork, But Other Distros Voice Support ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/fedora-silences-support-for-xorg    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:13:18

• Red Hat = IBM = literally Hitler money    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:13:59

• But you cannot say this. It's CoC-breaking. They'd ban you.    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:14:18

• And now Team Gulag in GNOME attacks individual journalists in The Register for merely supporting X Org on accessibility grounds. Team Gulag in GNOME = thugs. http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/22/GNOME_Microsoft_and_GitHub_The_Lack_of_Reporting_on_Abusive_Col.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:15:34

• Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice… ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/18/before-libreoffice-there-was-openoffice-and-before-openoffice-there-was-staroffice/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:16:05

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 1 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-5-beta-1/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:16:27

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1025862/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:19:55

• No, GNOME and IBM are attacking blind people; all they care about is vendor lock-in ☞ https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/06/25/IBM_Does_Not_Care_for_the_Blind_Wayland_Harms_Accessibility.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:21:16

• It has gotten so bad that Red Hat staff attacks journalists for merely daring to point out Wayland's limitations.    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:23:16

• This Microsoft front group (OSI) would rather guard Microsoft monopoly than really advance what Europe needs. This is "hey hi" nonsense, i.e. hyping up a scam of Microsoft. ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-and-the-future-of-european-ai-sovereignty-insights-from-vivatech-2025    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:25:42

• Plasma Mobile: The Dev Log: April 2024 - June 2025 ☞ https://plasma-mobile.org/2025/06/18/dev-log/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:27:09

• Like Most Social Control Media, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn is Collapsing ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/18/Like_Most_Social_Control_Media_Microsoft_LinkedIn_is_Collapsing.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:28:00

• Veteran Chinese dissident faces ongoing police harassment despite prison release ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/06/18/china-dissident-chen-yunfei-police-harassment/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:29:12

• Sergio Durigan Junior: GCC, glibc, stack unwinding and relocations - A war story ☞ https://blog.sergiodj.net/posts/gcc-glibc-stack-unwinding-relocations-bug/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:31:01

• Stacked generalization (Machine Learning model stacking) + conformal prediction for forecasting with ahead::mlf ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/stacked-generalization-machine-learning-model-stacking-conformal-prediction-for-forecasting-with-aheadmlf/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:31:58

• Oh Leave it Out ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/oh-leave-it-out/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:32:16

• Who’s Drake’s Ghostwriter? Lil Wayne’s Son Says It’s His Dad ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/18/whos-drakes-ghostwriter-lil-waynes-son-says-its-his-dad/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:35:39

• Debian Outreach Team: GSoC 2025 Introduction: Make Debian for Raspberry Pi Build Again ☞ https://outreach-team.pages.debian.net/gsoc/debian/raspberrypi/2025/06/03/gsoc-2025-introduction-make-debian-for-raspberrypi-again.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:40:38

• SoundExchange Sues Napster and Sonos, Alleging $3.4 Million in Unpaid Royalties ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/17/soundexchange-sues-sonos-napster/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:41:40

• Linux Security: New Flaws Allow Root Access, CISA Warns of Old Bug Exploitation ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/linux-security-new-flaws-allow-root-access-cisa-warns-of-old-bug-exploitation/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:42:57

• "AWS has reached a major security milestone with its Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023), a Fedora-based distro developed and maintained by AWS and specifically optimized for use on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, achieving FIPS 140-3 Level 1 validation for its cryptographic modules." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/amazon-linux-2023-secures-fips-140-3-certification/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:43:26

• "In this post, I’d like to examine current progress with the deployment of QUIC on the public Internet. But first, a review of the QUIC protocol." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/06/17/a-quic-progress-report/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:44:18

• [Old] "In a basic BGP setup this is bad, but with extra engineering it could be used to partition large sections of the [Internet]." ☛ https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/bgp-path-attributes-grave-error-handling | Source: Ben Jojo    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:44:27

• "Meanwhile, over on Hacker News, an adjacent conversation has emerged, less about the incident itself and more about the broader philosophy of protocol design." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/06/19/is-postels-law-causing-protocol-ossification/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:44:34

• "The region is now seeking open source alternatives, with the likes of LibreOffice, Open-Xchange and Linux being broadly adopted." ☛ https://www.techradar.com/pro/were-done-major-government-organization-slams-microsoft-teams | Source: TechRadar    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:46:07

• "Microsoft exit in Germany: Why Schleswig-Holstein is ditching Teams and Office for open-source tools- In a bold digital transformation move" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/after-danish-cities-germanys-schleswig-holstein-state-government-to-ban-microsoft-programs-at-work/articleshow/121833653.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:47:12

• "The Danish Ministry of Digitalization reportedly plans a phased migration to Linux operating systems and LibreOffice for office productivity." ☛ https://www.techradar.com/pro/denmark-wants-to-replace-windows-and-office-with-linux-and-libreoffice-as-it-seeks-to-embrace-digital-sovereignty | Source: TechRadar    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:47:26

• "I’m sad if we see the web that we used to browse through in our browsers get hidden behind the curtains to only be a feeding machine to the LLMs that we interact with to get information." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/the-web-is-more-than-just-information/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:49:09

• "The proposal touches on a crucial question: whose interests does the browser serve? The user, the website owner, or the browser maker?" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/googles_fix_web_permissions_mozilla/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:49:20

• "APNIC supported and participated in the Phoenix Summit 2025, held in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 19 to 24 May 2025." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/06/19/event-wrap-phoenix-summit-2025/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:49:54

• "A new version of Plasma is here, and it feels even more like /home, as it becomes smoother, friendlier and more helpful." ☛ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/ | Source: KDE    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:51:13

• "KDE Plasma 6.4.0 brings improved handling of window tiling, refinements to its dark mode, tweaked widgets and notifications, better sorting of search results from the built-in Krunner tool, a revamp to the screenshot tool Spectacle, among other things." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/kde_plasma_64_released/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:51:32

• "While KiCad does function under Wayland, the experience is far from seamless." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kicad-advises-linux-users-to-stick-with-x11-for-professional-pcb-design/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:56:46

• "As a followup on discovering that WireGuard can saturate a 1G Ethernet (on Linux), I set up WireGuard on some slower servers here that have 10G networking." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/WireGuard10GPerformanceMystery | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:57:36

• "On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau are joined by special guest Chris Krebs to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through: [...]" ☛ https://risky.biz/RB796/ | Source: RiskyBiz    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 13:57:56

• Jamie Gravendeel: UI-First Search With List Models ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/monster/ui-first-search-with-list-models/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:00:23

• The Servo Blog: This month in Servo: color inputs, SVG, embedder JS, and more! ☞ https://servo.org/blog/2025/06/18/this-month-in-servo/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:01:25

• Firefox Nightly: Absolute Unit of an Update – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 183 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/06/18/absolute-unit-of-an-update-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-183/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:02:27

• Member Spotlight: Datadog – Powering Open Source Security with Tools, Standards, and Community Leadership ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/06/18/member-spotlight-datadog-powering-open-source-security-with-tools-standards-and-community-leadership/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:03:26

• Qt Bridges: Modernizing Software Design and Development ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-bridges-modernizing-software-design-and-development    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:04:34

• Improving QML Coding by up to 11% with Sonnet 4! Qt Hey Hi (AI) Assistant 0.9.3 Released. ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/improving-qml-coding-by-up-to-11-with-sonnet-4-qt-ai-assistant-0.9.3-released    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:04:54

• INKY warns of new QR code phishing tactic using embedded JavaScript ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/18/inky-warns-new-qr-code-phishing-tactic-using-embedded-javascript/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:05:04

• Alley Chaggar: Demystifying The Codegen Phase Part 1 ☞ https://alleych.github.io/gnome/codegen-part1/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:06:05

• When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/science/ancient-human-adaptation-environments.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:12:27

• Regulators Approve Lenacapavir for H.I.V. Prevention ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/hiv-fda-lenacapavir.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:13:06

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/medical-residents-travel-ban.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:13:21

• New private surgery hospital opens in Rīga, Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/18.06.2025-new-private-surgery-hospital-opens-in-riga-latvia.a603709/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:13:36

• Mental health in focus at the Ogle festival in July ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/18.06.2025-mental-health-in-focus-at-the-ogle-festival-in-july.a603772/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:14:31

• Rīga Stradiņš' Hospital new building promised for 2029 ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/19.06.2025-riga-stradins-hospital-new-building-promised-for-2029.a603869/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:15:24

• As the two Koreas ease tensions, what ‘big, beautiful’ deal could spark a new Convicted Felon-Kim summit? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/as-the-two-koreas-ease-tensions-what-big-beautiful-deal-could-spark-a-new-kim-trump-summit    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:15:50

• Visitors rush to see South Korea's Blue House before presidential return ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/visitors-rush-to-see-south-koreas-blue-house-before-presidential-return    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:16:12

• Malaysia obtains local court order against Telegram for allegedly spreading harmful content ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-obtains-local-court-order-against-telegram-for-allegedly-spreading-harmful-content    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:16:27

• Malaysia Trade Ministry probing reports of Chinese firm’s use of Nvidia Hey Hi (AI) chips ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-trade-ministry-probing-reports-of-chinese-firms-use-of-nvidia-ai-chips    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:16:55

• BYD and Other Chinese Carmakers Expand Sales in Europe Despite Tariffs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/china-byd-cars-europe.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:21:33

• Under China’s Threat, Taiwan Needs Its Own Power Sources More Than Ever ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/business/taiwan-chips-energy-china.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:30:17

• South Korea’s baby box is last refuge for single mothers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-baby-box-is-last-refuge-for-single-mothers    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:30:48

• Taiwan’s entrepreneurs in China feel the heat from cross-strait tensions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwans-entrepreneurs-in-china-feel-heat-from-cross-strait-tensions    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:31:07

• China lashes out at G-7, top EU official for criticism of policies ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-lashes-out-at-g-7-top-eu-official-for-criticism-of-policies    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:31:27

• Thousands evacuated as severe flooding hits southern China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/thousands-evacuated-as-severe-flooding-hits-southern-china    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:32:27

• New Zealand halts Cook Islands funding over China row ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/new-zealand-halts-cook-islands-funding-over-china-row    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:35:22

• China’s central bank chief warns against unilateralism in currency, payments policies ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/18/chinas-central-bank-chief-warns-against-unilateralism-in-currency-payments-policies/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:36:13

• Beijing official praises Hong Kong leader for ‘positive progress’ in boosting economy, improving people’s livelihoods ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/19/beijing-official-praises-hong-kong-leader-for-positive-progress-in-boosting-economy-improving-peoples-livelihoods/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:41:47

• Bookshelf: How China won over America, and then lost it ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/bookshelf-how-china-won-over-america-and-then-lost-it/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:42:16

• Now show the US, and Australians, how AUKUS addresses China threat ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/now-show-the-us-and-australians-how-aukus-addresses-china-threat/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:42:32

• ‘We accept the risks’: Sky News boss calls for journalists to be allowed into Gaza ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/israel-gaza-journalists-war-on-truth-sky-news/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:47:04

• UBS confirms employee data leak after ransomware attack on supplier ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/18/ubs-confirms-employee-data-leak-ransomware-attack-supplier/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:48:29

• Double-Dipping the Docket for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Glory and Censorship of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Critics ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/17/Double_Dipping_the_Docket_for_Microsoft_Glory_and_Censorship_of.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:48:59

• Betanews Becoming a Slopfarm is "Betanews Growing Alongside You", According to Betanews ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/17/Betanews_Becoming_a_Slopfarm_is_Betanews_Growing_Alongside_You_.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:49:10

• Proprietary Means Not Secure ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/18/Proprietary_Means_Not_Secure.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:49:21

• Microsoft is Losing Its Richest Clients ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/18/Microsoft_is_Losing_Its_Richest_Clients.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:49:39

• Marcus Lundblad: Midsommer Maps ☞ https://ml4711.blogspot.com/2025/06/midsommer-maps.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:51:11

• Microsoft's backdoored Windows is a Niche Operating System in Africa ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/18/Microsoft_s_Windows_is_a_Niche_Operating_System_in_Africa.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:51:50

• After the Web Becomes Slopped to Death ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/18/After_the_Web_Becomes_Slopped_to_Death.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:55:43

• The Right to Know and the Freedom to Report on Crime (at the Higher Echelons) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/18/The_Right_to_Know_and_the_Freedom_to_Report_on_Crime_at_the_Hig.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:55:53

• "Told You So": Another Very Large Wave of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Layoffs Now Confirmed in Mainstream Media ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/19/Told_You_So_Another_Very_Large_Wave_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_Now_Co.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:56:08

• BetaNews Appears to Have Fired All Of Its Staff (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/18/BetaNews_Appears_to_Have_Fired_All_Of_Its_Staff.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:56:19

• Peter Hutterer: libinput and tablet tool eraser buttons ☞ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/06/libinput-and-tablet-tool-eraser-buttons.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:57:40

• FOSS Weekly #25.25: Nitrux Hyprland, Joplin Tips, Denmark Ditching Microsoft, Tiling Moves and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-25/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:59:06

• AAEON Adds to UP Lineup with UP TWL and UP TWLS Developer Boards for Edge and IoT Applications ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/aaeon-adds-to-up-lineup-with-up-twl-and-up-twls-developer-boards-for-edge-and-iot-applications/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 14:59:48

• UxPlay Control Extension Makes AirPlay Sharing Easier to Use ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/uxplay-control-gnome-shell-extension    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:01:00

• TUXEDO has unveiled a new InfinityBook Pro with an AMD Ryzen Hey Hi (AI) 300 ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/TUXEDO-has-unveiled-a-new-InfinityBook-Pro-with-an-AMD-Ryzen-AI-300    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:05:46

• New App to Browse & Install Tons of Wallpapers, Icon & GTK Themes ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/browse-install-wallpapers-icon-gtk-themes/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:06:07

• What are our partners building for device makers? Explore the highlights from Ubuntu IoT Day Singapore ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/highlights-iot-day-singapore    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:12:52

• "Does anyone else's #Ubuntu machine hang on shutdown? This happens to me regularly. It just sits there and I have to long-press the power button." ☞ https://kevquirk.com/notes/20250618-1145    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:13:22

• Ubuntu Adopts Chrony + NTS for Secure Network Time ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-chrony-nts-default-25-10    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:14:20

• Goodbye to the Northbridge Café ☞ https://rubenerd.com/goodbye-to-the-northbridge-cafe/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:15:00

• digiDirect to buy Mwave ☞ https://rubenerd.com/digidirect-to-buy-mwave/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:15:28

• Automated Hiring and Firing: How the Data Act will harm gig workers ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/automated-hiring-and-firing-how-the-data-act-will-harm-gig-workers/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:15:59

• Police forces to get authoritarian powers to extract data from online accounts ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/police-forces-to-get-authoritarian-powers-to-extract-data-from-online-accounts/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:16:35

• Fecal Transplants Present a Concerning Risk For Some, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/fecal-transplants-present-a-concerning-risk-for-some-study-finds    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:18:34

• Early Signs of Cancer Found in Patient Blood 3 Years Before Diagnosis ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/early-signs-of-cancer-found-in-patient-blood-3-years-before-diagnosis    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:18:45

• Stomach Ulcer Bacteria Could Be a Surprise Ally Against Alzheimer's ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/stomach-ulcer-bacteria-could-be-a-surprise-ally-against-alzheimers    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:18:56

• First Signs of a 'Ghost' Plume Reshaping Earth Detected Beneath Oman ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/first-signs-of-a-ghost-plume-reshaping-earth-detected-beneath-oman    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:19:42

• Tiny Moth Seen Navigating by The Stars in Scientific First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-moth-seen-navigating-by-the-stars-in-scientific-first    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:20:11

• Fish Suffer Up to 22 Minutes of Intense Pain When Taken Out of Water ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/fish-suffer-up-to-22-minutes-of-intense-pain-when-taken-out-of-water    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:20:43

• Axolotl Discovery Brings Us Closer Than Ever to Regrowing Human Limbs ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/axolotl-discovery-brings-us-closer-than-ever-to-regrowing-human-limbs    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:21:35

• Is It Gastro or Food Poisoning? Here's A Guide to Your Upset Stomach ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/is-it-gastro-or-food-poisoning-heres-a-guide-to-your-upset-stomach    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:22:01

• Breakthrough: FDA Approves Injection to Prevent HIV ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/breakthrough-fda-approves-injection-to-prevent-hiv    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:22:43

• Fed keeps rates unchanged as Convicted Felon insults Powell again ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250618-fed-keeps-rates-unchanged-as-trump-insults-powell-again    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:23:59

• Qt Creator 17 released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-17-released    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:24:36

• Before Iran’s internet was throttled, one resident described a ‘deserted’ Tehran. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/18/world/israel-iran-trump/before-irans-internet-was-throttled-one-resident-described-a-deserted-tehran    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:24:58

• Slopwatch: BetaNews is Now a Slopfarm (Like Linuxsecurity) and Surveillance Giant Google News is Overwhelmed by Slopfarms ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/18/Slopwatch_BetaNews_is_Now_a_Slopfarm_Like_Linuxsecurity_and_Goo.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:25:19

• Michael Meeks: 2025-06-17 Tuesday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-06-17.html "Out learner-driving with newly 17 years old E. Plugged through CofE child safeguarding foundations training on-line."    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:25:25

• Qt Creator 17 Open-Source IDE Released with a Major Change for Projects ☞ https://9to5linux.com/qt-creator-17-open-source-ide-released-with-a-major-change-for-projects    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:25:32

• FSF Blogs: From Chennai to Lviv: A recap of the LibreLocal meetups, part two ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/librelocal-meetups-recap-part-2    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:25:39

• Banana Pi BPI-F3 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Introduction ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/banana-pi-bpi-f3-single-board-computer-running-linux-introduction/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:25:47

• ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.0 is here: discover the redesigned interface, diagram viewer, Hey Hi (AI) tools and more ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/onlyoffice-docs-9-0-redesigned-interface-diagram-viewer-ai-tools/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:25:53

• Krems is a static site generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/krems-static-site-generator/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:26:00

• TarotCaster is an AI-powered tarot reading program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tarotcaster-ai-powered-tarot-reading-program/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:26:21

• Scam Altman says Meta is offering obscene $100M bonuses to poach LLM Slop employees and even bigger salaries — Proprietary Chaffbot Company CEO says ‘none of our best people decided to take them up on that’ ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-meta-is-offering-obscene-usd100m-bonuses-to-poach-ai-employees-and-even-bigger-salaries-openai-ceo-says-none-of-our-best-people-decided-to-take-them-up-on-that    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:27:26

• Scam Altman says Meta is offering obscene $100M bonuses to poach LLM Slop employees and even bigger salaries ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-says-meta-is-offering-obscene-usd100m-bonuses-to-poach-ai-employees-and-even-bigger-salaries-openai-ceo-says-none-of-our-best-people-decided-to-take-them-up-on-that    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:28:06

• VRAM-friendly neural texture compression inches closer to reality — enthusiast shows massive compression benefits with Nvidia and defective chip maker Intel demos ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/vram-friendly-neural-texture-compression-inches-closer-to-reality-enthusiast-shows-massive-compression-benefits-with-nvidia-and-intel-demos    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:31:16

• Intel Starts Re-Engineering Its Executive Ranks ☞ https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/06/18/intel-starts-re-engineering-its-executive-ranks/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:32:54

• 'I may do it, I may not': Convicted Felon weighs US involvement in Israel-Iran war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250619-i-may-do-it-i-may-not-trump-weighs-us-involvement-in-israel-iran-war    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 15:58:10

• American Bar Association files suit against Convicted Felon administration over executive orders targeting law firms ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/american-bar-association-files-suit-against-trump-administration-over-executive-orders-constitutionality/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:04:19

• North Dakota man tried to collect confiscated gun after sending email threatening federal official: ‘I don’t want this situation to end up like Minnesota’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/06/19/us-news/north-dakota-man-tried-to-collect-confiscated-gun-after-sending-email-threatening-federal-official-i-dont-want-this-situation-to-end-up-like-minnesota/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:04:40

• Focusing on Iran, Israel sends more troops to its borders and withdraws some from Gaza. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/18/world/israel-iran-trump/israel-redeploys-troops-from-gaza-to-its-borders-as-its-focus-turns-to-iran    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:04:58

• Austria Moves to Tighten Gun Laws After Deadly School Shooting ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/world/europe/austria-gun-laws-school-shooting.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:05:12

• China’s dual aircraft carrier training in Pacific signals ambition, but draws Japan’s wariness ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-dual-aircraft-carrier-training-in-pacific-signals-ambition-but-draws-japans-wariness    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:06:06

• American Bar Association files suit against Convicted Felon Administration over executive orders constitutionality ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/american-bar-association-files-suit-against-trump-administration-over-executive-orders-constitutionality/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:06:30

• Social Security Benefits Could Be Cut in 8 Years Unless Congress Acts ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/social-security-benefits-shortfall.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:09:01

• 'Kooky Tucker Carlson': Split forms in MAGA world as Convicted Felon weighs next steps on Iran ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250618-kooky-tucker-carlson-split-forms-in-maga-world-as-trump-weighs-next-steps-on-iran    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:09:59

• Iranians mostly lost internet access on the sixth day of Israeli strikes. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/world/israel-iran-maps-tracking/iranians-mostly-lost-internet-access-on-the-sixth-day-of-israeli-strikes    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:10:39

• See where Israeli strikes have damaged Iranian nuclear and military facilities so far. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/world/middleeast/see-where-israeli-strikes-have-damaged-iranian-nuclear-and-military-facilities-so-far.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:10:56

• Quietly, Pakistan Wages a Deadly Drone Campaign Inside Its Own Borders ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/world/asia/pakistan-drones-militants.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:11:56

• Stephen Miller: how an anti-immigrant crusade is remaking US policy ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250619-stephen-miller-how-an-anti-immigrant-crusade-is-remaking-us-policy    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:12:40

• Dozens of Iranian missiles strike major Israeli hospital, causing severe damage, and other civilian centers ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/06/18/world-news/israel-issues-evacuation-warning-to-people-living-near-iran-arak-heavy-water-reactor-for-airstrikes/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:12:53

• Iranian Civilians Are Killed in Israeli Strikes, Including a Poet and an Equestrian ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/world/middleeast/iran-civilian-deaths-israel-strikes.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:14:38

• U.S. Strike on Iran Would Bring Risks at Every Turn ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/us/politics/us-bomb-iran-risks.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:14:51

• US will strike North Korea if South attacked with nukes, South's spy chief nominee says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-will-strike-north-korea-if-south-attacked-with-nukes-souths-spy-chief-nominee-says    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:15:05

• Dihydroxyacetone Man: ‘Not Looking To Fight’ But Prepared To Block Iran From Getting Nuclear Arms ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/khamenei-rejects-trump-iran-unconditional-surrender-israel-pounds-tehran/33447508.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:15:27

• Israel Targets Tehran, Other Sites As Convicted Felon Leaves Open Possibility Of US Entry Into Conflict ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-tehran-israel-trump-khamenei-airstrikes/33448568.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:15:43

• Almost 800 Chinese citizens evacuated from Iran, Beijing says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/18/almost-800-chinese-citizens-evacuated-from-iran-beijing-says/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:16:25

• 'Dihydroxyacetone Man did not have the desire, the courage, or the will to tell Israelis not to start this war' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250618-trump-did-not-have-the-desire-the-courage-or-the-will-to-tell-israelis-not-to-start-this-war    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:16:43

• 'No one knows what I'm going to do': Convicted Felon refuses to say if US will strike Iran ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250618-no-one-knows-what-i-m-going-to-do-trump-refuses-to-say-if-us-will-strike-iran    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:17:19

• 'What is most important is to avoid a nuclear accident' in Iran, says IAEA chief Grossi ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20250618-what-is-most-important-is-to-avoid-a-nuclear-accident-in-iran-iaea-chief-grossi    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:17:32

• Ehud Barak asserts US won't battle Iran in full-scale war: 'US has not won any war in last 75 years' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250618-us-has-not-won-any-war-in-last-75-years-ehud-barak-asserts-us-won-t-battle-iran-in-full-scale-war    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:18:03

• What Iran’s reprisals against Israel reveal of its ballistic missile capabilities ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250618-posturing-or-reality-what-iran-s-reprisals-against-israel-show-about-its-ballistic-missile-capabilities    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:18:21

• Israel’s military warns people to evacuate area around Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/06/18/world-news/israel-issues-evacuation-warning-to-people-living-near-iran-arak-heavy-water-reactor-for-airstrikes/    

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

• The EU must stop the digitalisation of the deportation regime and withdraw the new Return Regulation ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/the-eu-must-stop-the-digitalisation-of-the-deportation-regime/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:20:27

• diceware is a passphrase generator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/diceware-passphrase-generator/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:21:30

• tminesweeper – terminal-based minesweeper game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tminesweeper-terminal-based-minesweeper-game/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:21:39

• Gerrit Misconfiguration Exposed Surveillance Giant Google Projects to Malicious Code Injection ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/gerrit-misconfiguration-exposed-google-projects-to-code-injection/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:22:09

• Daily Beast gains on Reddit and Facebook (Farcebook) as Surveillance Giant Google traffic falls ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/daily-beast-gains-on-reddit-and-facebook-as-google-traffic-falls/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:23:05

• Event Wrap: Phoenix Summit 2025 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/06/19/event-wrap-phoenix-summit-2025/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:23:58

• Germany court sentences Syria doctor for crimes against humanity and war crimes ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/germany-court-sentences-syria-doctor-for-crimes-against-humanity-and-war-crimes/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:24:27

• BSDCan Gifts ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24175    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:24:58

• Seems like a lousy ad thinly disguised as "journalism"; follow the money... ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/taylor-wessing-bolsters-dutch-practice-with-litigators-from-simmons/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:25:56

• Bayer appoints Dorian Immler as new IP head as Jörg Thomaier steps down ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/bayer-appoints-dorian-immler-as-new-ip-head-as-jorg-thomaier-steps-down/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:26:12

• Another Malikie Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/6/17/another-malikie-wi-fi-patent-challenged    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:26:41

• Short and sweet: G 1/24 ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/06/18/short-and-sweet-g-1-24/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 16:27:11

• The $1 Million Bounty Clause and Unreviewable Sanctions Order ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/million-unreviewable-sanctions.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:14:52

• CyberT. – A BlackBerry-like Raspberry Pi CM4-based handheld GNU/Linux computer with Kali GNU/Linux support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/19/cybert-a-blackberry-like-raspberry-pi-cm4-based-handheld-linux-computer-with-kali-linux-support/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:16:49

• VirtualBox Guest Additions on Kali GNU/Linux Install Guide 2025 ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/virtualbox-guest-additions-on-kali-linux-install-guide-2025/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:17:21

• Peter Czanik: The syslog-ng Insider 2025-06: arm64; PAM; testing ☞ https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/the-syslog-ng-insider-2025-06-arm64-pam-testing    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:19:49

• Major Music Publishers’ Anthropic Suit Receives Mediation Deadline Extension — Is a Serious Negotiation Underway? ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/18/anthropic-lawsuit-music-publishers-adr-deadline/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:20:25

• Details emerge about Russian man who jumped from Lithuania transit train ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2593557/details-emerge-about-russian-man-who-jumped-from-lithuania-transit-train    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:22:29

• Unusually patient suspected Russian hackers pose as State Department in ‘sophisticated’ attacks on researchers ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/russian-hackers-state-department-sophisticated-attacks-researchers-citizen-lab/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:22:49

• #048 | S6 | In The Chair | Positive Security Thinking https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=48    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:26:20

• Automating my Car shooter game with MCTS ☞ http://srirupa19.github.io/2025/06/17/racing_car.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:27:09

• Indonesian minister faces backlash after calling 1998 mass rape a ‘rumour’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/indonesian-minister-faces-backlash-after-calling-1998-mass-rape-a-rumour    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:27:32

• The Rise And Fall of DOGE ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-rise-and-fall-of-doge    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:28:05

• Radio Resistance: Remembering Charles de Gaulle's Appeal of June 18 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/entre-nous/20250618-radio-resistance-remembering-charles-de-gaulle-s-appeal-of-june-18    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:33:15

• Khamenei says Iran will 'never surrender', warns off US ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250618-khamenei-says-iran-will-never-surrender-warns-off-us    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:33:46

• French Administrative Supreme Court illegitimately buries the debate over internet censorship law ☞ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2025/06/18/french-administrative-supreme-court-illegitimately-buries-the-debate-over-internet-censorship-law/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:34:33

• $3.50 nanoCH57x CH570/CH572 RISC-V development board offers USB-C port, 2.4GHz radio/BLE, and GPIO pins ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/18/3-50-nanoch57x-ch570-ch572-risc-v-development-board-offers-usb-c-port-2-4ghz-radio-ble-and-gpio-pins/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:35:48

• but these LLMs are proprietary   

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:37:11

• Ollama: Open Source Hey Hi (AI) That Runs on Your Computer ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/ollama-open-source-ai-that-runs-on-your-computer/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:37:31

• but these LLMs are proprietary    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:37:52

• Hong Kong doctor to be sentenced in July for issuing over 6,600 false Covid-19 vaccine exemptions ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/18/hong-kong-doctor-to-be-sentenced-in-july-for-issuing-over-6600-false-covid-19-vaccine-exemptions/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:38:45

• Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is ‘Addictive Use,’ Not Screen Time Alone, Study Finds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/youth-suicide-risk-phones.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:42:31

• Google Shareholder Sues Over Fentanylware (TikTok) Extension, Points to ‘Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in Liability’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/17/google-shareholder-sues-tiktok-extension/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:44:45

• It’s Official: Convicted Felon Grants Fentanylware (TikTok) Another Extension ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/18/its-official-trump-grants-tiktok-another-extension/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:45:02

• Kim Jong Un erases two officials from months-old state photos, prompting fears they were executed over botched warship launch: report ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/06/18/world-news/kim-jong-un-erases-2-officials-photos-prompting-fears-they-were-executed-over-botched-warship-launch-report/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:48:39

• Kai Tak Sports Park drew 590,000 concertgoers in first 3 months since opening, Hong Kong gov’t says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/18/kai-tak-sports-park-drew-590000-concertgoers-in-first-3-months-since-opening-hong-kong-govt-says/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:49:21

• Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/dancing-naked-on-the-head-of-a-pin    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:49:45

• Why would you want something signed by the man who signed a defamatory petition against the creator of GNU/Linux? ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1080/signing-session-in-saint-brieuc-and-dinan    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:51:08

• Ghostwriting Scam ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/ghostwriting-scam.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:52:13

• Malaysia investigates Chinese use of Nvidia-powered servers in the country — trade minister verifying reports of possible regulation breach following reports of smuggled hard drives and server rentals ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/malaysia-investigates-chinese-use-of-nvidia-powered-servers-in-the-country-trade-minister-verifying-reports-of-possible-regulation-breach-following-reports-of-smuggled-hard-drives-and-server-rentals    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:52:55

• Malaysia investigates Chinese use of Nvidia-powered servers in the country ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/malaysia-investigates-chinese-use-of-nvidia-powered-servers-in-the-country-trade-minister-verifying-reports-of-possible-regulation-breach-following-reports-of-smuggled-hard-drives-and-server-rentals    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:53:10

• SONOFF iPlug S60 Zigbee Smart Plug (S60ZBTPF) review with eWelink and Home Assistant ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/18/sonoff-iplug-s60-zigbee-smart-plug-s60zbtpf-review-with-ewelink-and-home-assistant/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:54:17

• Raspberry Pi HQ camera gets adapter for Canon EF/EF-S lenses used with DSLR cameras ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/18/raspberry-pi-hq-camera-gets-adapter-for-canon-ef-ef-s-lenses-used-with-dslr-cameras/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:54:28

• Dual-channel LoRaWAN AC energy meter features 10A/100A CT clamps, measures temperature and humidity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/18/dual-channel-lorawan-ac-energy-meter-features-10a-100a-ct-clamps-measures-temperature-and-humidity/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:54:58

• never change a working system, but scary updates are required for all internet connected devices (Pwn2Own.com hacking contest proofs that) ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/06/15/never-change-a-working-system-but-scary-updates-are-required-for-all-internet-connected-devices-pwn2own-com-hacking-contest-proofs-that/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 18:56:09

• Nat Friedman is a crook. But so is Facebook ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/18/report-meta-targets-former-github-ceo-nat-friedman-boost-ai-research-efforts/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/05/Nat_Friedman_Had_Left_Microsoft_GitHub_Exactly_One_Week_Before_.shtml    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:03:12

• Microsoft = bonfire https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/18/microsoft-reportedly-planning-new-round-layoffs-sales-roles-likely-hit/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:03:51

• Chrome 137 Update Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-137-update-patches-high-severity-vulnerabilities/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:04:40

• TTABlog Test: Are Jewelry and Underwear Related Under Section 2(d)? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/06/ttablog-test-are-jewelry-and-underwear.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:05:27

• NETSCOUT warns of new hacktivist threat posing global risks, from the US, Middle East, Africa and beyond ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/cyber-security/netscout-warns-of-new-hacktivist-threat-posing-global-risks-from-the-us-middle-east-africa-and-beyond/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:06:20

• KDE Plasma 6.4 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1025863/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:07:20

• This spinning water contraption is actually a functional battery ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/18/this-spinning-water-contraption-is-actually-a-functional-battery/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:08:42

• Elevate your IoT with ultra-wideband: Meet Arduino Stella and Portenta UWB Shield! ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/18/elevate-your-iot-with-ultra-wideband-meet-arduino-stella-and-portenta-uwb-shield/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:08:52

• The Language of Form: Lothar Schreyer’s Kreuzigung (1920) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kreuzigung    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:13:25

• Trojan Pig: Tiny Cryptic #11 ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/06/tiny-cryptic-11    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:18:18

• Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/17/unexpected-security-footguns-in-gos-parsers/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:19:23

• Fire service official allegedly bribed with store gift cards ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/18.06.2025-fire-service-official-allegedly-bribed-with-store-gift-cards.a603745/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:19:45

• ‘Absolutely nuts’: DHS secretary to review all contract, grant awards over $100k ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/acquisition-policy/2025/06/absolutely-nuts-dhs-secretary-to-review-all-contract-and-grant-awards-over-100k/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:20:49

• Windows TCO ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-vulnerability-patched-in-citrix-netscaler/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:21:23

• Data Breach at Healthcare Services Firm Episource Impacts 5.4 Million People ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/data-breach-at-healthcare-services-firm-episource-impacts-5-4-million-people/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:30:14

• Code Execution Vulnerabilities Patched in Veeam, BeyondTrust Products ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/code-execution-vulnerabilities-patched-in-veeam-beyondtrust-products/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:30:25

• CVSS score: 7.8 https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/cisa-warns-of-active-exploitation-of.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:38:16

• "Theoretically when you write a GUI-based application for Linux there are standards to follow, with these all neatly documented over at the Freedesktop website." https://hackaday.com/2025/06/17/statusnotifieritem-how-standard-non-standards-tear-linux-desktops-apart/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:38:51

• "Qualys has disclosed two Linux vulnerabilities that can be chained for full root access, and CISA added a flaw to its KEV catalog." https://www.securityweek.com/linux-security-new-flaws-allow-root-access-cisa-warns-of-old-bug-exploitation/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:39:16

• Steam Beta finally enables Proton on Linux fully, making Linux gaming simpler https://hardforum.com/threads/steam-beta-finally-enables-proton-on-linux-fully-making-linux-gaming-simpler.2042008/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:39:41

• Amazon Linux 2023 achieves FIPS 140-3 validation https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/amazon-linux-2023-achieves-fips-140-3-validation/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:40:10

• Alienware's 'Performance Boost' Hurts Gaming on Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/alienware-performance-boost-hurts-gaming-on-linux/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:40:41

• Chaining two LPEs to get “root”: Most Linux distros vulnerable (CVE-2025-6018, CVE-2025-6019) https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/06/18/chaining-two-lpes-to-get-root-most-linux-distros-vulnerable-cve-2025-6018-cve-2025-6019/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:41:07

• Boost Your Linux Terminal Productivity by Learning This Advanced Search Syntax https://www.howtogeek.com/get-started-with-regex-in-linux-terminal/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:42:51

• Steam turbo-charges its performance overlay, shows you how many real and framegen frames you're getting and, oh, Proton is enabled on Linux by default now https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/steam-turbo-charges-its-performance-overlay-shows-you-how-many-real-and-framegen-frames-youre-getting-and-oh-proton-is-enabled-on-linux-by-default-now/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:43:35

• U.S. CISA adds Linux Kernel flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog https://securityaffairs.com/179104/hacking/u-s-cisa-adds-linux-kernel-flaw-to-its-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog-2.html    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:44:08

• Steam's latest beta build makes gaming on Linux a breeze by enabling Proton for all titles by default https://www.xda-developers.com/steams-latest-beta-build-gaming-on-linux-a-breeze/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:44:53

• "The second of three KDE point releases planned for 2025 is here, with more tiling options, accessibility improvements, and much more." https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/18/kde_plasma_64_released/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:45:20

• "There's a big war going on right now between Microsoft and the Linux community. While neither side is making direct blows at the other, both of them are fighting to win over the hearts and minds of Windows 10 users." https://www.xda-developers.com/kde-plasma-6-4-update/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:46:09

• "If your aging PC is struggling to keep up with the demands of a modern Windows version, you are not alone. It's pretty common for older hardware to be left behind as software evolves. However, that doesn't mean your system is ready for an e-waste dump." https://www.howtogeek.com/more-lightweight-linux-distros-that-go-easy-on-your-old-windows-pc/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:46:37

• Governments are ditching Windows and Microsoft Office — new letter reveals the "real costs of switching to Windows 11" https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/goverments-are-ditching-windows-and-microsoft-office-new-letter-reveals-the-real-costs-of-switching-to-windows-11    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:47:03

• All this LLM slop contributes to the assumption that a site like this, with slop images everywhere, also crossed to the "dark side" (slopfarming) https://www.linuxjournal.com/    

posted Thursday, June 19, 2025 at 19:48:39

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