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  • "I've found lately that I'm not a very loyal user of any one tool or service for writing. I used to be pretty hung up on keeping all my blogs and notes (short and long-form, private and public) in a structured single website, or digital notebook." gemini://gmi.zkbro.com/gemlog/2025-06-19-blogging-platform-agnostic.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 03:37:49

  • "I'm not happy with this approach anymore. The script itself might be acceptable, but especially Bash could have lots of security issues. I want to reduce the attack surface." gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-06/2025-06-19--rust-gopher-server-rophy.txt    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 03:38:45

  • Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-06-20.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 03:39:15

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1329.jpg    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 03:39:48

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1679.jpg    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 03:39:54

  • "I have really no other news. The chicks have taken over my entire life. I for one welcome our galliform overlords." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-06-19    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 03:40:58

  • "With my masters almost coming to a close (at least from the perspective of the courses), I am left thinking what should I do as a personal project. And I have to say that the Parallel Systems course that I did this semester inspired me; I want to do something with graphics again!" gemini://tilde.team/~cybermantid/gemlog/dragonfly.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 03:41:48

  • "I've been busy during most of my lunch breaks, enjoying the beautiful weather and taking walks up by the Tanana, so I haven't had much time for writing gemlog posts." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250619-0.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 03:42:32

  • "There's longer thoughts to be written on conversations and texts that miss important points and carry on blathering. Or rather, ones that sound like that to me." gemini://tirohia.smol.pub/1750381485    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 03:43:17

  • permafrost thawing gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/permafrost_thawing    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 03:43:51

  • Microsoft To Axe Thousands Of Sales Staff – Report https://www.silicon.co.uk/e-management/lay-off/microsoft-to-axe-thousands-of-sales-staff-report-619004    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 05:38:44

  • Microsoft Reportedly Eyes Sales Staff for Next Round of Cuts After May's 6,000 Layoffs https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/microsoft-reportedly-eyes-sales-staff-next-round-cuts-after-mays-6000-layoffs-1736190    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 05:39:21

  • Microsoft plans to lay off thousands of sales employees https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/132384/microsoft-plans-to-lay-off-thousands-of-sale    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 05:39:51

  • "question for the original poster: media report that it will focus on sales, is that true? Will more engineers be impacted or just MCAPS? Thanks for your message by the way, it really helps all of us" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxgry8gy    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 07:01:24

  • "Airlines selling detailed flight data to DHS; how AI scrapers are hammering open archives; and the casual surveillance relationship between ICE and local cops." ☛ https://www.404media.co/podcast-airlines-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs-and-covered-it-up/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:21:18

  • "This week on the show Tom interview Deb Goodkin and Justin Gibbs from the FreeBSD Foundation." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/616 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:21:35

  • "You have to hand it to indie devs, they sure do keep coming up with weird and wonderful looking games. The next game from the developer of the popular Buckshot Roulette is called s.p.l.i.t and it sounds rather strange." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/hack-into-an-unethical-superstructure-in-s-p-l-i-t-from-the-dev-of-buckshot-roulette/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:22:36

  • "AMD have begun teasing some next-gen chips, following on from the announcements of the ROG Xbox Ally, and Microsoft talking about next-gen console plans." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/amd-tease-new-gaming-chips-that-combine-ryzen-and-radeon-for-consoles-handhelds-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:22:53

  • "REMATCH is a new competitive Football game from Sloclap, that really is just like Rocket League with feet." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/rematch-is-out-now-and-works-great-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:23:29

  • "Well, this is one way to help fund a store. GOG have added an extra box when you go to checkout to get you to donate." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/gog-now-ask-for-donations-when-you-buy-games/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:24:16

  • "Soulstone Survivors 1.0 is out now and it's one of the best survivor-like RPG action rogue-lites available. It has Linux support and is Steam Deck Verified / SteamOS Compatible" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/soulstone-survivors-hits-1-0-bringing-crazy-blinding-action-with-a-huge-skill-tree/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:30:20

  • "Gears of War: Reloaded from The Coalition and Xbox Game Studios is now officially Steam Deck Verified and SteamOS Compatible ahead of release." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/gears-of-war-reloaded-is-officially-steam-deck-verified-and-steamos-compatible/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:32:48

  • "Godot 4.5 is going to be an excellent release of the free, open source and cross-platform game engine with a first Beta needing testing. Easily my favourite game engine, with so much effort put in to bring major advancements for game devs." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/godot-4-5-beta-1-brings-wayland-improvements-shader-baking-rendering-improvements/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:34:25

  • "Mesa 25.1.4 is out now for open source Linux graphics drivers, bringing more bug fixes for the current stable series. This follows on from the 25.1.3 emergency release last week." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/mesa-25-1-4-brings-more-graphics-driver-fixes-for-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:36:44

  • "Valve updated the main Desktop Steam Beta, to bring new accessibility options for Steam Big Picture mode and other improvements. Nice to see after adding accessibility features to store pages recently." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-beta-brings-new-accessibility-options-for-steam-big-picture-mode/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 09:39:57

  • "Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.10 Beta bringing lots of fixes for the Steam Deck, additional accessibility options and a bit of work for more handhelds. This is available in the Beta and Preview channels via Settings > System > System Update Channel." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steamos-3-7-10-beta-brings-a-steam-deck-oled-wifi-fix-new-accessibility-options-and-more-work-for-other-handhelds/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:00:14

  • "Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.10 Beta bringing lots of fixes for the Steam Deck, additional accessibility options and a bit of work for more handhelds." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steamos-3-7-10-beta-brings-a-steam-deck-oled-wifi-fix-new-accessibility-options-and-more-work-for-other-handhelds/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:21:51

  • old: "JD Vance is Putin’s Fool: This isn't Politics. This is Treason. " https://frankschaeffer.substack.com/p/jd-vance-is-putins-fool https://youtu.be/3DrXzqMSyjk    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:50:53

  • old: "Duty to Warn: Why Trump MUST Kill Our Democracy." https://frankschaeffer.substack.com/p/duty-to-warn-why-trump-must-kill    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:51:14

  • "En bugg i fullmaktslagen?" | A bug in the power of attorney law? https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/06/19/en-bugg-i-fullmaktslagen/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:52:14

  • old: "J.D. Vance Endorsed Book That Calls Progressives “Unhumans” and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters – Mother Jones" https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/07/jd-vance-unhumans-book-jack-posobiec-alt-right-january-6/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:52:40

  • "Congress abandoned its authority to declare war decades ago" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/congress-president-war/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:53:03

  • "Why Isn’t Russia Defending Iran?" https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/russia-iran-israel-defense/683214/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:55:07

  • "The Democrats Must Confront Their Gerontocracy" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/us-needs-polite-way-usher-politicians-out/683230/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:55:57

  • "Hiltzik: Now event organizers have to worry about Trump" https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-19/how-trump-could-sabotage-l-a-s-world-cup-and-olympics    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:57:03

  • "Israel Can’t Win if It Loses the Iranian People" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/israel-cant-win-if-it-loses-the-iranian    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:57:18

  • "Trump kicks out Pete Hegseth from strategic Israel-Iran decisions" https://boingboing.net/2025/06/19/trump-kicks-out-pete-hegseth-from-strategic-israel-iran-decisions.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:57:31

  • old: "Tulsi Gabbard’s history with Russia is even more concerning than you think" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-russian-connection-dni-trump-syria-b2692244.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:57:48

  • "Rochdale grooming gang cannot be deported after tearing up Pakistan passports" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/19/pakistan-refuses-take-back-rochdale-groomers/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 10:58:03

  • "I like to read science stories, even (maybe especially) when they’re not politically earthshaking. But sometimes what’s on the label is not what’s in the tin." ☛ https://fair.org/home/i-believe-in-science-but-not-necessarily-science-journalism/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 11:55:46

  • "US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained New York City’s comptroller, Brad Lander" ☛ https://fair.org/home/murdoch-cheers-on-candidates-arrest-and-authoritarianism/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 11:56:17

  • "capacity as assembly authorities" ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/06/20/police-cancel-budapest-pride-mayor-says-the-ban-is-irrelevant | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 11:57:24

  • "Teach programming with the 'levels of abstraction' framework to build learners’ coding skills, problem-solving ability, and confidence." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/how-to-give-your-students-structure-as-they-learn-programming-skills/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 11:58:01

  • Positive Security Thinking https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/danny.mp3    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 11:58:26

  • "Italian telecoms regulator AGCOM has regularly criticized Google over its anti-piracy efforts, but the signs suggest that change is on the way." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/google-receives-piracy-shield-orders-to-block-pirate-sites-in-public-dns-250618/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:20:44

  • "In a complaint filed at a Nashville federal court two years ago, Universal Music, Sony Music, EMI and others, accused X Corp of ‘breeding’ mass copyright infringement." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/x-vs-music-publishers-settlement-looms-in-copyright-clash-after-maximum-pain-revelation/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:21:08

  • "When it comes to extracting ROMs, that is perfectly legal in America. Threats to render a $500 console functionally destroyed because someone engaged in legal activity isn’t just absurd, it should itself be illegal." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/18/nintendo-is-already-punishing-switch-2-users-over-piracy-suspicions/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:21:38

  • "It’s True, “We” Don’t Care About Accessibility on Linux" ☛ https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/ | Source: TheEvilSkeleton    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:23:03

  • "This post wasn’t supposed to exist — not yet." ☛ https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/ | Source: Fireborn    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:23:15

  • "The Federation of Turkish Women’s Associations said the reform undermines gender equality." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-ends-mandatory-equal-inheritance-sharing-sparking-concerns-over-womens-rights-308607 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:23:39

  • "Unfortunately for Officer Martinez, I didn’t work with anyone. I participated in the protests as an independent student journalist who one day stumbled upon tents on the lawn." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-my-reporting-on-the-columbia-protests-led-to-my-deportation | Source: New Yorker    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:27:10

  • "Internet watchers at CloudFlare and NetBlocks both report that internet traffic in Iran dropped precipitously late on Wednesday and has remained near zero since." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/iran_internet_outage/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:29:50

  • "The core issue is that most people fundamentally misunderstand both how content moderation works and what drives platform incentives. There’s a persistent myth that companies could achieve near-perfect moderation if they just “tried harder” or faced sufficient legal consequences." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/18/why-making-social-media-companies-liable-for-user-content-doesnt-do-what-many-people-think-it-will/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:30:00

  • "Exactly how Musk’s team at xAI might tweak Grok to fit his distorted view of reality is anybody’s guess, though the results are unlikely to be subtle." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/elon-musk-grok-right-wing-terrorism-fail-1235367661/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:31:27

  • "According to Adorni, the group’s aim was to build a circle of individuals loyal to Russia’s interests who could carry out disinformation campaigns and influence operations against the Argentine state." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/19/argentina-says-it-uncovered-russian-spy-ring-suspected-of-disinformation-efforts | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:31:40

  • "Elon can’t do what he’s already being paid to do. But Republicans are poised to provide billions more, probably to him, to take on a far more complex problem." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/19/the-golden-teapot-dome-mark-kelly-warns-this-is-a-very-hard-physics-problem/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:32:32

  • "The explosion – which sent a towering fireball into the air – happened at the Starbase launch facility at about 11:00 pm (0400 GMT Thursday), SpaceX and law enforcement officials said." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/spacex-starship-explodes-in-towering-fireball | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:33:09

  • "Initial analysis indicates the potential failure of a pressurized tank known as a COPV, or composite overwrapped pressure vessel, containing gaseous nitrogen in Starship’s nosecone area" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/689901/spacex-starship-explosion-static-fire-test | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:37:05

  • "a safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation and all personnel are safe and accounted for." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/spacexs_starship_explodes_again/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:37:20

  • "An internal paper gives some clues about the EU Commission’s plans for open source policy in the future." ☛ https://netzpolitik.org/2025/open-internet-stack-the-eu-commissions-vague-plans-for-open-source/ | Source: Netzpolitik    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:37:35

  • "The European-gauge railway connection between Vilnius and the Rail Baltica route will be constructed only after 2030, once the main line is completed, Ministry of Transport and Communications confirmed on Thursday." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2594082/rail-baltica-link-to-vilnius-to-be-built-after-2030-ministry | Source: LRT    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:41:50

  • When I say this, you may read my meaning to be"" ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-subway-is-not-scary | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:42:08

  • "The thermonuclear weapon was not the only post-WWII design innovation." ☛ https://computer.rip/2025-06-19-hydronuclear-testing.html | Source: Computers Are Bad    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:43:06

  • "A Cybertruck owner in Texas was burned to death after crashing his vehicle in a ditch and becoming trapped inside." ☛ https://futurism.com/cybertruck-burned-driver-bones-disintegrated | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:44:47

  • "On Tuesday, the Japanese conglomerate surprised us all by declaring that its research arm, Honda R&D, had successfully launched and landed its prototype reusable rocket, in a major step towards achieving its dream of suborbital spaceflight by 2029." ☛ https://futurism.com/honda-tests-reusable-rocket | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:56:40

  • "Officials said the scheme is gaining momentum with active participation from local landowners through land pooling." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/lucknows-first-grid-road-system-to-take-shape-in-it-city-101750349462892.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 12:56:57

  • Overpopulation ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/19/are-pro-natalists-living-on-the-same-planet/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:04:07

  • "It is largely made up of ageing Russian oil vessels, the number unknown but estimated to be hundreds, used to evade sanctions and trade in goods to help support Russia amid the war in Ukraine." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australias-new-move-against-russias-shadow-fleet/jiqo91774 | Source: SBS    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:05:06

  • "A senator handcuffed, people snatched in public, military deployed – Trump’s slide towards autocracy has come quicker than critics feared" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/19/trump-us-autocracy-authoritarianism | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:05:22

  • "Once we’ve secured our own democracy, our obligation doesn’t end—it begins anew. We owe justice to those whose freedoms are crushed by authoritarian regimes that meddled in our affairs, oppressed their citizens, and undermined democratic principles worldwide." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/democracy-has-enemies | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:05:33

  • "Significant pressure has been placed on TikTok" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-06-19/tiktok-receives-another-extension-from-president-trump | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:05:51

  • "Several lawmakers, including those who’ve criticized a divest-or-ban law for TikTok and ByteDance, have warned that Trump’s repeated extensions are untenable and illegal." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/688252/tiktok-ban-trump-extension-deal | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:06:26

  • "the Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/tiktok-ban-trump-delay-1235368323/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:06:44

  • "Once again, the Trump administration is flouting the law and ignoring its own national security findings about the risks posed by a PRC-controlled TikTok" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-flouting-law-tiktok-ban-delay-executive-order-1236436409/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:07:06

  • "There is a federal law that says the TikTok app should not be on your store, and I can see TikTok on the app store" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/17/google-shareholder-sues-tiktok-extension/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:07:39

  • "The suspects, who are believed to be Georgian nationals, were the three most senior officers on board the Eagle S, a Russia-linked oil tanker." ☛ https://therecord.media/finland-could-charge-eagle-s-ship-officers-cable-breaks | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:08:09

  • [Old] "The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has completed its criminal investigation into the damage caused to cables in the Gulf of Finland on 25 December 2024." ☛ https://poliisi.fi/en/-/criminal-investigation-by-the-nbi-into-cable-damage-in-the-gulf-of-finland-concluded |    

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

  • [Old] "Unhumans disturbed me because it seemed more than a little, well, fascist." ☛ https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/trumpworlds-favorite-writer-says-the-right-must-emulate-dictators-in-battling-leftist-unhumans | Source: Current Affairs    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:09:35

  • "Why isn’t Vance’s endorsement of Unhumans a major news story? Is it too serious? The cat lady tirade, after all, is funny, fitting the theme of “weird” that the Harris campaign has been pushing ever since adding Walz to the ticket." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jack-posobiec-jd-vance/ | Source: The Nation    

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

  • "Even by today’s standards, Unhumans is extreme, transparently authoritarian, and evocative of Nazi propaganda in its insistence on the complete dehumanization of political opponents." ☛ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/jd-vance-just-decried-political-violence-but-he-endorsed-a-book-celebrating-it/ | Source: Mother Jones    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:11:24

  • Stretch Break – take regular breaks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stretch-break-take-regular-breaks/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:12:32

  • "Immich, an open-source self-hosted photo and video backup solution, has just released version 1.135, with improvements spanning usability, customization, and performance." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/immich-1-135-photo-and-video-backup-solution-drops-with-major-changes/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:14:05

  • "Two weeks after its previous 2.0.11 release, Fwupd, an open-source utility designed to make updating firmware on Linux-based systems easier and more automatic, rolled out its new 2.0.12 version." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/fwupd-2-0-12-released-with-thunderbolt-emulation/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:14:52

  • antiX Linux: A ‘Proudly Anti-Fascist’ Distro That’s ‘Suitable for Old and New Computers’ ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/antix-linux-a-proudly-anti-fascist-distro-thats-suitable-for-old-and-new-computers/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:26:27

  • Malaysia records first Covid-19 death of 2025 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-records-first-covid-19-death-of-2025    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:27:03

  • "A UN official says the abuses are exacerbated by Covid-era controls that have yet to be lifted" ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/rights-abuses-continue-in-north-korea-a-decade-after-probe-says-un-investigator    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:27:26

  • This person took the two shots and the booster, still died from COVID-19 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-records-first-covid-19-death-of-2025    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:28:04

  • Pluralistic: Your Meta Hey Hi (AI) prompts are in a live, public feed (19 Jun 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/19/privacy-breach-by-design/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:29:03

  • Writing a Monadic Interpreter in Haskell ☞ http://srirupa19.github.io/2025/06/17/interpreter.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:34:18

  • An unfinished post: "Compressing short Unicode strings with BOCU-1" ☞ https://evanhahn.com/bocu-1-unfinished-post/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:35:22

  • "With Red Hat OpenShift, DPUs can be integrated into existing infrastructure. The key advantage is a cloud-native extension: any workload that runs on OpenShift or Kubernetes today can smoothly extend to DPUs, enabling organizations to optimize performance without requiring application modification." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/cloud-native-enablement-dpus-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:43:05

  • AI spamming... buzzwords https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-red-hat-enterprise-linux-96    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:45:39

  • Openwash https://www.telecomreview.tv/interviews/2427-open-source-clear-signal-red-hat-on-the-future-of-telco/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:46:26

  • "IDC’s insights on AI adoption trends describes how enterprises transition from opportunistic to managed solutions that can transform the entire organization." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-scale-without-price-tag-why-enterprises-are-turning-models-service    

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

  • "vLLM’s rapid growth as a foundational technology in the AI inference ecosystem is strongly backed by major industry players, most notably Red Hat. Red Hat has integrated vLLM at the core of its AI Inference Server, based on OpenShift." https://thenewstack.io/introduction-to-vllm-a-high-performance-llm-serving-engine/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:48:04

  • IBM uses Red Hat to sell proprietary stuff https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/ai296-develop-test-run-granite-family-llms-red-hat-enterprise-linux-ai    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:49:10

  • "Bela.io has unveiled the Gem Stereo and Gem Multi, two new open-source boards that expand PocketBeagle 2 into a real-time digital signal processing platform." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/bela-upgrades-embedded-dsp-platforms-with-pocketbeagle-2-support-and-new-web-ide/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:50:25

  • "Both boards can be configured with the Intel Core i3-N355, Intel N250, or Intel N150 processors." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/aaeon-adds-to-up-lineup-with-up-twl-and-up-twls-developer-boards-for-edge-and-iot-applications/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:50:31

  • "Bash scripts are like tiny assistants that help you automate common tasks, reduce human error, and save valuable time. Instead of running the same commands over and over again, you can let your scripts handle it – reliably and consistently." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/bash-scripts-linux-sysadmin/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:52:33

  • Gemini Protocol Enters Its Seventh Year, Growth Has Accelerated! ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/20/Gemini_Protocol_Enters_Its_Seventh_Year_Growth_Has_Accelerated.shtml    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:53:00

  • "Lots of things are collecting lots of video of lots of other things. How and under what rules that video is used and reused will be a continuing source of debate." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/self-driving-car-video-footage.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:57:28

  • "The AOL dump was a catastrophe. In an eyeblink, many of the users in the dataset were de-anonymized. The dump revealed personal, intimate and compromising facts about the lives of AOL search users." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/19/privacy-breach-by-design/#bringing-home-the-beacon | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:57:39

  • "Don't use Microsoft's mail offerings. Or AOL (lol) or your ISP's. If it's free, don't use it." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/recommended-email-providers/ | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:57:59

  • "There’s an EU regulation that requires new cars to come equipped with “Advanced Vehicle Systems,” which include features like driver drowsiness and attention warnings, lane-keeping systems and intelligent speed assistance." ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/a-week-with-a-smart-car/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 13:58:27

  • "The term "tower dump" refers to law enforcement obtaining records from cell towers, specifically related to individuals' locations and connection times, via warrants." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/us_tower_grab_appeal/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:03:22

  • "ICE outlined a range of data the contractor would work with, including business associations, court records, social media posts on platforms like X and TikTok, the dark web, international travel data, shipping information" ☛ https://fedscoop.com/ice-seeks-proprietary-data-and-tech-to-monitor-up-to-a-million-people/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:03:38

  • Windows TCO: "Indeed, in its latest labor market report, the New York Federal Reserve found that recent college graduates who majored in computer science or computer engineering have higher rates of unemployment than those who studied journalism, political science, and even English." ☛ https://futurism.com/risk-expert-learn-to-code-face-tattoo | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:05:03

  • Windows TCO: "Earlier this year, the Air Force introduced a new cybersecurity training specifically focused on how to protect systems such as gas pipelines, power grids and traffic signals." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/06/agencies-grapple-with-cyber-skills-gap-in-control-systems/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:05:16

  • Windows TCO: "Concerned, Elena logged in from home to investigate. Almost immediately, two more alerts appeared. One signaled that Mimikatz (a tool popular with threat actors to steal credentials) had been used on the same Finance machine." ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/when-legitimate-tools-go-rogue/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:05:37

  • Windows TCO: "The attack on Chain IQ was claimed by the ransomware group Worldleaks, which added the company to its Tor-based leak site on June 11, claiming the theft of roughly 910 GB of data, or more than 1.9 million files." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/chain-iq-ubs-data-stolen-in-ransomware-attack/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:05:52

  • Windows TCO: "The group launched over 2,400 ransomware attacks in multiple countries, encrypting victims’ data and demanding cryptocurrency payments in exchange for access, authorities said." ☛ https://therecord.media/alleged-ryuk-member-arrest-ukraine-extradited-us | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:06:25

  • Windows TCO: "Thai police say that the six men apprehended on the hotel's top floor were employees of the gang, specifically paid to try to infect Chinese companies with ransomware. Nine laptops and 15 mobile devices were seized by the authorities from the men." ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/ransomware-gang-busted-in-thailand-hotel-raid | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:06:58

  • Social Control Media ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/whatsapp-founders-hated-ads-meta/265341/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:14:08

  • Social Control Media 'free speech' ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jd-vance-blusky-trans-rights-blocked-1235368373/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:14:21

  • "Remember: this is all being rammed down our throats at the speed of a hundred billion dollars. There are truly jaw-dropping sums being invested, and all that moolah needs to generate more moolah for Big Tech somehow." ☛ https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2025/06/19/average/ | Source: Johan Halse    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:15:22

  • "That is, the volunteers would work for free to improve Google’s bot. This plan didn’t go down so well" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/19/google-bribes-inaturalist-to-use-generative-ai-volunteers-quit-in-outrage/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:15:33

  • "The agent bots had 58% success on tasks that can be done in one single step. That dropped to 35% success if they had to take multiple steps. The chatbot agents are also bad at confidentiality: [...]" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/18/salesforce-ai-agents-dont-work-but-were-charging-6-more-for-ai-anyway/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:15:48

  • "A car that accelerates instead of braking every once in a while is not ready for the road. A faucet that occasionally spits out boiling water instead of cold does not belong in your home." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/06/ai-janky-web/683228/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:16:09

  • "Members of the public, including potential employees and customers, have viewed the defamatory publications made by Google and have relied upon these false statements in regurgitating, spreading, and further defaming Wolf River" ☛ https://www.startribune.com/google-ai-overview-lawsuit-defamation-great-river-electric/601371780 | Source: Star Tribune    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 14:16:28

  • "A solar firm in Minnesota is suing Google for defamation after the tech giant's shoddy AI Overviews feature allegedly made up wild lies about the company — and significantly hurt its business as a result." ☛ https://futurism.com/company-sues-google-ai-overviews | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 16:57:09

  • "The human touch remains irreplaceable in many interactions, and organizations must balance technology with human empathy and understanding," said Kathy Ross, Gartner's senior director of customer service and support analysis." ☛ https://futurism.com/companies-replaced-workers-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 16:57:25

  • "I have no intention of using Windows 11. It's a pointless operating system." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/windows-11-fresh-install.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:03:46

  • "The general adoption of this may test the patience of an already weary community of developers who feel tired of toiling away on trivial changes such as this" ☛ https://lmnt.me/blog/rose-gold-tinted-liquid-glasses.html | Source: Louie Mantia    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:04:27

  • "Finally, third-party apps will need administrator consent to access files and sites. Microsoft said: "Users allowing third-party apps to access file and site content can lead to overexposure of an organization's content." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/the_microsoft_axeman_is_coming/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:05:16

  • "The study, published in JAMA on Wednesday, looked at data on more than 4,000 kids from an ongoing longitudinal study following them for years, starting at ages 9 to 10." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5436951 | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:05:50

  • "This story is not unique. Because our laws governing sex education are so inadequate as to be non-existent, students are turning to social media or forming self-taught sex ed cooperatives to learn this information. Sixty-seven percent of 11-15-year olds in the US use TikTok" ☛ https://www.bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-dont-let-tiktok-be-your-childs-only-sex-ed-teacher | Source: Bridge Michigan    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:08:41

  • "These results aren't entirely surprising." ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/brain-scans-adult-content | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:09:00

  • "MONAKA is set to be fabricated using a 2nm production process, and will feature up to 144 ArmV9 cores with support for SVE2 vector extensions. It will employ a chiplet architecture with SRAM tiles stacked atop the processor tiles." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/19/japan_fugakunext_fujitsu/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:10:11

  • "The difference between being a fan that simply likes something and one that wants to keep that thing alive is a massive gulf." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/06/19/peri-fractic-retro-recipes-commodore-profile/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:10:26

  • "I’ve had the great privilege to help develop and lead Ithaka S+R for more than 20 years, including research and advisory projects supporting the work of libraries, publishers, and the research enterprise." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/18/reflections-shared-infrastructure-distinctive-collections/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:11:43

  • "But not now. As I suggested, the current unemployment rate for young college graduates isn’t the highest we’ve ever seen." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bad-times-for-college-graduates | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:12:53

  • "Traditional education teaches us what to think, not how to think. We memorize facts for tests" ☛ https://nesslabs.com/learning-how-to-learn | Source: Ness Labs    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:13:04

  • "The kendallknight package introduces an efficient implementation of Kendall’s correlation coefficient computation, significantly improving the processing time for large datasets without sacrificing accuracy." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/kendallknight-an-r-package-for-efficient-implementation-of-kendalls-correlation-coefficient-computation/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:13:55

  • "Those areas were outlined by Congress when it first authorized the new arm in the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, and under that legislation, the list must be reviewed annually." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/nsf-seeks-input-focus-areas-for-technology-innovation-partnerships-directorate-tip/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:14:08

  • "People always use this quote wrong, and to get a feeling for that we just have to look at the original paper, and the context in which it was written." ☛ https://probablydance.com/2025/06/19/revisiting-knuths-premature-optimization-paper/ |    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:14:53

  • "Today, I decided to try writing in English from scratch. It doesn’t feel natural, and it takes longer, but I want to give it a fair shot." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/06/19/finding-my-genuine-english-voice/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:18:15

  • "The idea was that a two-pane editor with raw HTML editing on one side and WYSIWYG editing on the other side would allow easy text entry plus fine-grained control of the document." ☛ https://ratfactor.com/htmlwarden/death-to-wysiwyg | Source: Dave Gauer    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:18:55

  • "BOCU-1, short for “Binary Ordered Compression for Unicode" ☛ https://evanhahn.com/bocu-1-unfinished-post/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:20:28

  • "If you’re feeling somewhat philosophical, you could say that this method uses an LML as an interface for editing HTML." ☛ https://ratfactor.com/htmlwarden/store-html-edit-lml | Source: Dave Gauer    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:20:59

  • [Old] "Functional programming languages, such as Haskell, have a reputation for being languages that are designed for researchers to write white papers and not for practical software." ☛ https://agentultra.com/blog/designing-boring-software-with-functional-programming-part-1/ | Source: J Kenneth King    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:22:37

  • "Obvious general examples of the latter are the Debian Linux distribution and BSD distributions like OpenBSD and FreeBSD." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OpenSourceTwoWorlds | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:22:58

  • "If you don't feel like reading this whole thing, here's the bottom line up front: you can probably assume [Internet] access in somewhere around 97% of US households" ☛ https://bytes.zone/posts/should-we-design-for-iffy-internet/ | Source: Brian Hicks    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:23:26

  • [Old] "I'm gonna run some experiments to figure that out. To start with, I use two git forges: GitHub and Gitea (although I plan to migrate to Forgejo once it's in a stable version of nixpkgs.) I want to make sure that I can get verified commits on both." ☛ https://bytes.zone/posts/signing-commits-with-ssh-keys/ | Source: Brian Hicks    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:25:32

  • "I discovered Open Source when I was just a teenager, back in 1996." ☛ https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/06/19/from-collaborators-to-consumers-have-we-killed-the-soul-of-open-source/ | Source: Stefano Marinelli    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:25:56

  • How To Control a Ultrasonic Sensor with Raspberry PI: Get Object Distance with Python ☞ https://peppe8o.com/hcsr04-ultrasonic-sensor-raspberry-pi/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:28:36

  • Too many buzzwords instead of tech substance ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/19/integrate-red-hat-ai-inference-server-langchain-agentic-workflows    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:32:09

  • Automate dynamic application security testing with RapiDAST ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/19/automate-dynamic-application-security-testing-rapidast    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:35:04

  • Streamline multi-cloud operations with Ansible and ServiceNow ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/19/streamline-multi-cloud-operations-ansible-and-servicenow    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:35:51

  • 616: FreeBSD Foundation Interview ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/616    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:44:23

  • 93: Our Voluminous Chef ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24185 "BSDCan ate me alive, but I escaped before I got digested."    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:46:38

  • Amnesty International calls for investigation into alleged police torture during March protests in Türkiye ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/amnesty-international-calls-for-investigation-into-alleged-police-torture-during-march-protests-in-turkiye/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:47:26

  • "This last week — today is 2025-06-19 — weather has been very warm (for Fairbanks) with temps reaching 85 ℉ at the hottest part of the day. The weather has been mostly sunny except for short thunderstorms in the evenings, which started a forest fire about 25 miles east of Fairbanks. I heard that one was put out quickly." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250619-1.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:56:54

  • [cat] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-06-19.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:57:52

  • "JavaScript broke the web (and called it progress) - Jono Alderson" https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 17:59:29

  • "Turns out that my homeserver _is_ in fact suffocating (at least a little) by being placed in my closet all the time. That, and the unfortunate fact that back when I purchased the hardware, I opted for an 14th-gen Intel CPU gave me some trouble." gemini://shtrophic.net/hardware-failures-and-rss.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:01:06

  • "An alias is a short, easy to remember word or phrase, which substitutes a long and/or a complex Unix command." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/using-aliases-for-complex-and-daily-terminal-commands/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:03:06

  • 🔤SpellBinding: ADEHTNK Wordo: CAPON gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-06-20.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:04:04

  • "Certain things are an ill, but we accept them. Sometimes it's because they've been a part of society basically forever and it seems impossible not not (drinking, though the prohibition had something to say), and sometimes it's a more gradual acceptance (marijuana legalization)." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/6-20.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:04:56

  • A completely different vision for the centre of Cambridge gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-06-19_a-completely-different-vision-for-the-centre-of-cambridge.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:05:59

  • "Let's boil this down to basics. Every time I'm browsing photography forums, checking out new techniques, or even just looking at inspiration on Instagram, Google is building a detailed profile of my interests, habits, and presumably my income bracket." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/i-thought-chrome-would-always-be-my-web-browser-now-im-thinking-of-changing | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:09:43

  • "More pertinently, it’s possible that doing away with phones will help attendees better connect with and experience shows." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/19/sabrina-carpenter-phone-bans/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:11:23

  • [Old] "As part of my project of building a compositor for Wayland and also X11 through Xwayland" ☛ https://monroeclinton.com/pointing-devices-in-linux/ | Source: Monroe Clinton    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:12:22

  • "Unfortunately, the CEO is very busy and moves around constantly. She was initially in her office (connected via ethernet cable), and then moved to multiple conference rooms (Wi-Fi), and is currently on a business trip (multiple VPN sessions)." ☛ https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/06/19/tracking-historical-ip-assignments-with-defender-for-endpoint-logs/ | Source: NVISO Labs    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:12:46

  • "If you're running your own mail server, it's best practice to connect to it securely with an SSL/TLS connection." ☛ https://www.howtoforge.com/securing-your-ispconfig-3-managed-mailserver-with-a-valid-lets-encrypt-certificate/ | Source: HowTo Forge    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:13:05

  • "This tutorial will take you through installing your own ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated servers for the panel, web, DNS, mail, and webmail. The DNS server will have a mirror server for redundancy. You can easily add more servers of a certain type afterwards." ☛ https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/ispconfig-multiserver-setup-debian-ubuntu/ | Source: HowTo Forge    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:13:42

  • How To Install Uv Python Package Manager on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-uv-python-package-manager-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:14:47

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

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:14:59

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

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:17:02

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

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:17:17

  • Smartctl Command on GNU/Linux with Examples ☞ https://idroot.us/smartctl-command-linux/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:17:36

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

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:18:14

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

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:18:24

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

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:18:32

  • get rid of phone ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/how-to-get-rid-of-annoying-phone-notifications-ajQ6w4Q6940q    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:22:32

  • Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1026007/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:23:54

  • Microsoft-controlled openwashing front ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/introducing-the-new-api-for-osi-approved-licenses    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:25:03

  • Hyprland Starter and Dotfiles Installer on Arch GNU/Linux KDE Plasma 6.3.5 ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2025/06/hyprland-starter-and-dotfiles-installer.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:35:15

  • This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 604 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/06/18/this-week-in-rust-604/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:37:58

  • Slopwatch: Linuxsecurity, BetaNews, and GNU/Linux Journal ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/20/Slopwatch_Linuxsecurity_BetaNews_and_Linux_Journal.shtml    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:39:08

  • "Let the one without sin cast the first stone" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/19/let-the-one-without-sin-cast-the-first-stone | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:41:23

  • Why Ukraine’s Hey Hi (AI) drones aren’t a breakthrough yet ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/why-ukraines-ai-drones-arent-a-breakthrough-yet/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:41:50

  • Addressing Georgia’s slide away from European integration ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/addressing-georgias-slide-away-from-european-integration/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:43:19

  • Russia and Ukraine carry out another POW exchange ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250619-russia-and-ukraine-carry-out-another-pow-exchange    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:43:28

  • Legislation, not technology, is the biggest problem for ADF drone defence ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/legislation-not-technology-is-the-biggest-problem-for-adf-drone-defence/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:43:43

  • Russia court dismisses appeal of Ukraine national convicted of espionage ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/russia-court-dismisses-appeal-of-ukraine-national-convicted-of-espionage/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:44:22

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man envoy to meet Belarus' Lukashenko – media ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2594092/trump-envoy-to-meet-belarus-lukashenko-media    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:44:36

  • No Rock Stars, No Mercedes: A Russian Expo Shows the Cost of Divorce With the West ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/world/europe/russia-ukraine-economic-forum-st-petersburg.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:44:47

  • China Is Hacking Russia to Steal War Secrets ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/world/europe/china-hackers-russia-war-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:45:01

  • This Oregon Native Went to Kyiv as a Volunteer. He Died in a Russian Attack. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-american-fred-grandy.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:45:18

  • UK court sentences Chinese student to life in prison for ‘campaign of rape’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/20/uk-court-sentences-chinese-student-to-life-in-prison-for-campaign-of-rape/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:45:40

  • Zelensky ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/20/zelensky-appoints-new-commander-of-ukraine-s-ground-forces | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:46:12

  • "raise more funds for Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/19/e-u-weighs-riskier-investments-of-frozen-russian-assets-to-boost-returns-and-raise-more-funds-for-ukraine-politico | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:46:21

  • "passportization" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/19/a-false-semblance-of-choice | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:46:38

  • Putin hosts Indonesia's Prabowo in Russia in bid to deepen ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/putin-hosts-indonesias-prabowo-in-russia-in-bid-to-deepen-ties    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:46:56

  • Zelenskyy Says Russia 'Chooses To Kill' As Putin Repeats Hard-Line Demands ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-zelenskyy-trump-russia-ukraine-kyiv-klitschko/33448240.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:47:11

  • New EU and US energy sanctions are needed to disarm Putin’s war machine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/new-eu-and-us-energy-sanctions-are-needed-to-disarm-putins-war-machine/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:48:02

  • Pure BS and hype. Bad journalism, not even that... https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/19/quantum-computing-strategy-sasinstitute/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:48:29

  • They call it "cloud computing" because your head must be in the clouds to believe that BS hype    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:49:07

  • Dr. Demento Announces Retirement From Radio After 55 Years ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/19/dr-demento-retiring-from-radio/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:49:46

  • Finland joins Baltics, Poland in quitting anti-landmine treaty ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2594223/finland-joins-baltics-poland-in-quitting-anti-landmine-treaty    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:50:40

  • Russian who jumped from Lithuania transit train still missing, search area expanded ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2594143/russian-who-jumped-from-lithuania-transit-train-still-missing-search-area-expanded    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:51:00

  • Russia's Zapad drill up to three times smaller than in 2021, says Nausėda ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2594013/russia-s-zapad-drill-up-to-three-times-smaller-than-in-2021-says-nauseda    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:51:21

  • China unleashes hackers against its friend Russia, seeking war secrets ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-unleashes-hackers-against-its-friend-russia-seeking-war-secrets    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:51:40

  • Forget Europe, Russian travel agents say. How about a North Korean resort? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0619/russia-tourism-vacation-iran-korea-afghanistan    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:51:55

  • Trying to Satisfy Convicted Felon, NATO Is Running Into Difficulties ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/world/europe/nato-spending-russia-trump.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:52:06

  • "prisoner exchange" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/19/moscow-and-kyiv-carry-out-another-prisoner-exchange | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:53:14

  • Cert Petition Preview: Federal Circuit’s Broad Reading of TrafFix in CeramTec ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/petition-circuits-ceramtec.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:54:21

  • Marijuana’s Links to Heart Attack and Stroke Are Becoming Clearer ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/well/marijuana-heart-health-risks.html    

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

  • RSU launching new master’s programme in digital health ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/19.06.2025-rsu-launching-new-masters-programme-in-digital-health.a603911/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:59:28

  • South Korea drafts second extra budget as new leader seeks to spur growth ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-drafts-second-extra-budget-as-new-leader-seeks-to-spur-growth    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 18:59:48

  • South Korea’s Cabinet approves universal cash grant amid controversy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-cabinet-approves-universal-cash-grant-amid-controversy    

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

  • Paywalled as usual https://www.techrepublic.com/resource-library/checklist/ubuntu-server-installation/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:05:29

  • I Install These Linux Terminal Apps on Every System https://www.howtogeek.com/i-install-these-linux-terminal-apps-on-every-system/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:06:15

  • New Linux Flaws Enable Full Root Access via PAM and Udisks Across Major Distributions https://thehackernews.com/2025/06/new-linux-flaws-enable-full-root-access.html    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:08:42

  • I found a file-transferring app that works between Android and Linux - and it's free to use https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-found-a-file-transferring-app-that-works-between-android-and-linux-and-its-free-to-use/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:09:28

  • "CISA warns US federal agencies about attackers targeting a serious security flaw in the OverlayFS submodule of the Linux kernel. This vulnerability allows attackers to gain root privileges." https://www.techzine.eu/news/security/132379/attackers-exploit-linux-vulnerability-with-poc-exploit/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:10:06

  • How CVE-2025-6018 and CVE-2025-6019 Enable Full Root Access on Linux https://socradar.io/cve-2025-6018-and-cve-2025-6019-root-access-on-linux/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:10:31

  • Steam OS as a desktop? I used the Legion Go S as my work PC https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/steam-os-as-a-desktop-i-used-the-legion-go-s-as-my-work-pc    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:11:05

  • Valve's Steam Deck kickstarted a movement that might actually bring us "the year of the Linux desktop" https://www.xda-developers.com/steam-deck-year-linux-desktop/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:11:38

  • "We talk a lot about Microsoft's problems at XDA, and how the company seems to be trying to drive Windows 11 into the ground a lot of the time. But it's not just us saying it, and in fact, a recent piece of news out of Denmark suggests that governments are getting tired of Microsoft, too." https://www.xda-developers.com/even-the-danish-governemnt-is-tired-of-microsoft-replacing/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:11:59

  • "Fwupd 2.0.12 has been released today as the twelfth maintenance update to the fwupd 2.0 series of this open-source Linux firmware update utility, adding support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes." https://9to5linux.com/fwupd-2-0-12-linux-firmware-updater-adds-support-for-hp-portable-usb-c-hubs    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:12:30

  • Microsoft operative in the media pointing the finger at Google, Linux etc. as usual https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/06/19/google-chrome-warning---windows-android-mac-and-linux-users-act-now/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:13:23

  • Linux Foundation is not Linux, only about 2% of the Linux Foundation's budget is devoted to Linux, so it is misleading and should be renamed; https://www.tvbeurope.com/ip-migration/ebu-naba-and-linux-partner-on-mxl-software-development-kit the Openwashing Foundation    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:14:47

  • Openwashing: "There are some cool new features in this From AI powered OCR to form editor to more file compatibility, ONLYOFFICE is getting better with each release." https://news.itsfoss.com/onlyoffice-docs-9-release/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:15:13

  • "There's no shortage of choice when managing packages on Linux. The most popular option is apt, which is the default for many Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu and Linux Mint." https://www.xda-developers.com/this-is-by-far-the-best-linux-package-manager/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:16:24

  • Hype! Needs existing access to the machine. https://www.thestack.technology/new-linux-bug-a-critical-and-universal-risk/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:17:18

  • How to Control Your Steam Deck from a Mac, Windows, or Linux PC https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-control-steamos-with-a-mac-windows-or-linux-pc/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:17:45

  • CISA Flags CVE-2023-0386 as Actively Exploited Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Threat https://thecyberexpress.com/cisa-warns-cve-2023-0386-linux-vulnerability/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:18:28

  • Jonathan Carter: My first tag2upload upload ☞ https://jonathancarter.org/2025/06/19/my-first-tag2upload-upload/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:25:09

  • LLM slop!!! https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/elementary-os-8-where-privacy-meets-design-simplicity-better-linux-experience http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/20/Linux_Journal_Might_Have_Become_the_Latest_Slopfarm_Targeting_L.shtml    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:26:46

  • MElon's xSlop is projected to lose $13 billion in 2025 — Hey Hi (AI) Slop project burns $1 billion a month in expenditures ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musks-xai-is-projected-to-lose-usd13-billion-in-2025-ai-project-burns-usd1-billion-a-month-in-expenditures    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:28:14

  • Despite archbishop’s censorship efforts, the Marilyn Manson show will go on in San Luis Potosí ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/marilyn-manson-slp-san-luis-potosi/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:29:07

  • Measuring 'fake' frames — Steam beta in-game overlay now detects DLSS/FSR frame generation and reports both framegen and native frame rates ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/measuring-fake-frames-steam-beta-in-game-overlay-now-detects-dlss-fsr-frame-generation-and-reports-both-framegen-and-native-frame-rates    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:29:21

  • Microsoft bribes IDC to lie again https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/idc-business-value-study-a-306-roi-within-3-years-using-ubuntu-linux-on-azure/ bribery is the business model of IDC http://techrights.org/wiki/IDC/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:36:10

  • HackLED Pro LED controller – An Adafruit Sparkle Motion alternative with WS2812 and RGBCW LED support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/19/hackled-pro-led-controller-an-adafruit-sparkle-motion-alternative-with-ws2812-and-rgbcw-led-support/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:39:05

  • Dropping security updates for WordPress versions 4.1 through 4.6 ☞ https://wordpress.org/news/2025/06/dropping-security-updates-for-wordpress-versions-4-1-through-4-6/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:41:59

  • Taiwanese rethink China travel as Beijing raises stakes for 'separatist' speech ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2025/0619/Taiwan-China-travel-separatist-speech    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:43:47

  • This GNOME Extension Simplifies iPhone Screen Sharing on GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/uxplay-control-gnome-shell-extension    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:44:24

  • OnlyOffice Desktop Editors Released 9.0 with .VSDX, .MD, .ODG & .XLSB Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/onlyoffice-9-0-vsdx-md-odg-xlsb/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:48:54

  • Not "perfect at separating the wheat from the statistically-glued collage of plagiarised and paraphrased words [...]" ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/mozilla-deepfake-ai-detector-closing-down    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:50:42

  • Steam OS as a desktop? I used the Legion Go S as my work PC ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/steam-os-as-a-desktop-i-used-the-legion-go-s-as-my-work-pc    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:52:32

  • Enable backdoored Windows Only Steam Games on Ubuntu GNU/Linux ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/windows-only-steam-game-linux/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:53:05

  • Aaron Rainbolt: The bug that code couldn't fix... ☞ https://arraybolt3.substack.com/p/the-bug-that-code-couldnt-fix    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:54:15

  • Week 1-2 Progress and Updates | GSoC 2025 ☞ https://coosmos.github.io/posts/Week1-2/    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:54:49

  • Intel to layoff 10,000+ employees, and why none of them will be getting any severance https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/intel-to-layoff-10000-employees-and-why-none-of-them-will-be-getting-any-severance/articleshow/121933196.cms    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 19:57:48

  • Six years of Gemini! gemini://geminiprotocol.net/news/2025_06_20.gmi    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 20:09:08

  • "So apparently telling people something about the content they are about to consume is a bad thing, I've known that people hated that for a very long time, but I never understood why." gemini://cyi1341.smol.pub/itco2    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 20:09:52

  • "that doesn't pay well" and other things my parents said that confuse me now gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-06-20    

posted Friday, June 20, 2025 at 20:10:42

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