Roy Schestowitz

• 16% towards target now https://www.fsf.org/appeal    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 03:11:12

• Yandex gaining https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share#monthly-200902-202506    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 03:15:31

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-06-25.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 03:16:37

• "Ubuntu 25.10 to ditch Intel graphics security trade-offs for OpenCL and Level Zero Troubled Chipzilla's long-suffering GPU compute stack is getting a breather, as it and Ubuntu’s Canonical have decided to chuck out security mitigations that were kneecapping performance by up to 20 per cent." https://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/61250-canonical-and-intel-scrap-gpu-mitigations    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 04:10:13

• https://www.igorslab.de/en/ubuntu-intel-when-security-becomes-a-brake-pad-gpu-mitigations-before-the-end/   

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 04:12:14

• Ubuntu & Intel: When security becomes a brake pad – GPU mitigations on the brink of extinction https://www.igorslab.de/en/ubuntu-intel-when-security-becomes-a-brake-pad-gpu-mitigations-before-the-end/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 04:12:20

• Xlibre forks to the rescue – but Kubuntu gives X11 the boot https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/mixed_news_for_x11/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 04:40:29

• "The checks Microsoft runs before allowing Windows 11 installation to proceed exclude most PCs manufactured before 2018." https://technical.ly/civic-news/windows-11-upgrade-myth-old-pcs-still-work/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 04:42:25

• How new tools can fix legacy Linux systems that threaten critical infrastructure https://www.scworld.com/perspective/how-new-tools-can-fix-legacy-linux-systems-that-threaten-critical-infrastructure    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 04:43:47

• OpenELA launches verification tool for Enterprise Linux https://www.techzine.eu/news/applications/132473/openela-launches-verification-tool-for-enterprise-linux/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 04:44:48

• "Did they really replace the jobs with AI? Or did they move the jobs to India and just tell Wall Street they replaced them with AI?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfekwf8    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 06:49:37

• "The answer is both. Initially IBM outsourced everything because AI wasn’t very good. As AI has gotten more sophisticated, it has moved upstream and is replacing mundane tasks quite rapidly at a 90% fulfill rate. So not everyone even today is getting replaced by AI (just look at IBM’s HR implementation), BUT 90% of folks who encounter AI do get the ax."    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 06:50:09

• "After some supply chain issues that put both the Steam Deck OLED models out of stock for the US and Canada, they're now back." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-deck-oled-back-in-stock-in-the-us-canada/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:00:35

• "Need a free game? You can currently claim SteamWorld Dig to keep for a limited time, and the later games in the series have heavy discounts." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steamworld-dig-is-free-to-claim-and-keep-with-later-games-heavily-discounted/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:02:07

• "Build up your game collection with the Serenity Forge Humble Bundle." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/the-serenity-forge-humble-bundle-has-more-great-games-for-cheaps/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:02:16

• "Combining the classic game of Billiards with various news rules and roguelike features, Drop Pockets is set to arrive on August 8th." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/billiards-roguelike-drop-pockets-arrives-in-august/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:02:34

• "Maze Mice is getting ready to leave Early Access - that was fast. A major update for this survivor game that blends time-stopping Pac-Man features is out now. From the same developer as Luck be a Landlord." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/time-stopping-pac-man-like-survivor-game-maze-mice-gets-a-big-upgrade/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:13:39

• "It should be criminal for a game as good as Glass Cannon to see so few players and Steam reviews, because it's simply awesome." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/the-criminally-overlooked-turn-based-roguelike-shoot-em-up-glass-cannon-just-got-a-lot-bigger/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:14:26

• "Another free game release for you. Midnight Riff is a rhythm roguelike where you have to jam with the music to deal damage and win battles." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/midnight-riff-is-a-free-new-rhythm-roguelike-to-vibe-with/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:17:18

• "I've been after a competitive game for a while for the Steam Deck and it certainly looks like REMATCH fits the bill." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/rematch-is-the-perfect-competitive-game-for-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:22:14

• "We may potentially be in for some big changes in Fedora 44, with plans in place being discussed to drop 32-bit multilib / i686 packages." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/fedora-linux-devs-discuss-dropping-32-bit-packages-potentially-bad-news-for-steam-gamers/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:22:26

• "If you wish to stress-test your Linux PC or your Steam Deck, it's now easier than ever thanks to OCCT." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stress-testing-toolkit-occt-arrives-on-steam-with-linux-and-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:28:32

• "The total mash-up mod Fortress Connected has been announced for a Steam release where the worlds of Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 collide." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/merging-the-worlds-of-half-life-2-left-4-dead-and-tf2-fortress-connected-is-coming-to-steam/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:29:12

• "Mick Ralphs, Guitarist in Bad Company and Mott the Hoople, Dead at 81" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mick-ralphs-guitarist-bad-company-mott-the-hoople-dead-1235370273/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:30:11

• "Police plead with asylum seekers to ‘respect women’" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/24/police-plead-with-asylum-seekers-to-respect-women/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:30:27

• "The Permanent War Economy Doesn’t Benefit Workers" https://jacobin.com/2025/06/war-economy-military-keynesianism-workers/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:30:39

• "Pickpocketing the Power of the Purse - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/pickpocketing-the-power-of-the-purse/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:30:50

• "As Trump and Netanyahu Push for War, Europe Is Once Again Silent" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-iran-trump-middle-east-diplomacy/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:31:01

• "Trump Changed. The Intelligence Didn’t." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/trump-changed-the-intelligence-didnt/683289/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:31:13

• "What Satellite Images Reveal About the US Bombing of Iran's Nuclear Sites" https://www.wired.com/story/iran-fordow-nuclear-site-satellite-images-damage/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:31:24

• "Mr Mikkelsen, claimed the officers then threatened him with a $5,000 fine or five years in prison if he refused to give the password to his mobile phone." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14842359/Norwegian-tourist-21-barred-entering-US-ICE-guards-meme.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:31:49

• "Noted Ketamine enthusiast posts own SSN on Twitter" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/noted-ketamine-enthusiast-posts-own-ssn-on-twitter/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 07:32:10

• "We share our experiences of adapting curriculum resources with our partners in Kenya, and the impact of this work." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/adapting-our-computing-curriculum-resources-for-kenya-the-journey-so-far/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:19:01

• "Giving Information To The Enemy" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/israels-ban-on-al-jazeera-extends-foreign-broadcasters/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:22:09

• "A consistent theme among organizations considering alternatives to their legacy virtualization platforms was the importance of executive buy-in." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/approaching-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:26:02

• "Built on Red Hat OpenShift, NERC includes several clusters (test, production and infrastructure), each with specific user access limitations." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/lab-enterprise-translating-observability-innovations-research-platforms-real-world-business-value-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:26:13

• The hidden cost of large language models ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/24/hidden-cost-large-language-models    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:26:48

• "Banana Pi has shared hardware details about an embedded platform built around the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/banana-pi-puts-rz-v2n-vision-ai-mpu-into-embedded-platform-with-jetson-like-form-factor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:28:14

• "The release is built on the excellent Qwen3-4B base model and uses a LoRA adapter (Low-Rank Adaptation) to detect legally relevant text" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/06/24/suse-refines-releases-os-llm-to-fuel-community-collaboration/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:28:41

• "Beast plagiarizes himself in the initial demo to avoid any snags, but with the ability to rip off entire channels in one fell swoop or even specific videos, the writing is pretty clearly on the wall." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/06/23/mr-beast-launches-ai-powered-youtube-plagiarism-machine.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:30:46

• "Getty was among the first to recognize the threat AI posed to its business." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/the-trial-that-could-reshape-ai | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:30:55

• "Anthropic bought a huge amount of print books and scanned them into a private library to train from. But it also downloaded 7 million pirate copies of books from LibGen and Books." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/24/anthropic-wins-broad-fair-use-for-training-but-not-on-pirated-books/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:37:46

• "In a nutshell, the judge says that legally purchased books can be used to train AI, as long as the models do not reproduce verbatim the original copyrighted works." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/06/24/training-llms-on-books-judged.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:38:46

• "The judgement itself is a very readable 32 page PDF, and contains all sorts of interesting behind-the-scenes details about how Anthropic trained their models." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/anthropic-training/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:39:06

• "A judge rules that Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal fair use, but that stealing the books in the first place is illegal." ☛ https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:39:26

• "removed all mentions of its partnership with Jony Ive’s new hardware startup io from its website" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/23/openai-jony-ive-partnership-scrubbed-trademark-dispute/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:40:23

• "However, Windows will continue ignore the default browser in two heavily-used Microsoft applications, Outlook and Edge." ☛ https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/british-browser-boiz-fun-microsoft-dma-compliance-meeting/ | Source: Bruce Lawson    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:40:49

• Digital Restrictions (DRM): "The feature is still in development, with no confirmed release date yet. APK teardowns typically only provide hints about future releases—references to Spotify’s still missing HiFi tier were discovered years ago" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/23/spotify-music-import-tool/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:41:23

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2025-06-24-subscription-costs-for-my-entertainment.html | Source: Björn Wärmedal    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:41:28

• "In the last edition of Beyond Their Intended Scope, our series analysing BGP leaks" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/06/24/the-scourge-of-excessive-as-sets/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:41:50

• "A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is: [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/#galen-weston-is-a-rat | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:42:21

• "In an excerpt from her book, I Want to Burn This Place Down, Maris Kreizman writes about the way law enforcement officers are mythologized in popular culture — and how she became 'radicalized' by reality" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/copaganda-book-excerpt-1235351675/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:42:41

• "Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops: [...]" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/fucklapd-dot-com/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:45:51

• "We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up" ☛ https://www.404media.co/fucklapd-com-lets-anyone-use-facial-recognition-to-instantly-identify-cops/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:46:13

• "The Trump administration wants to open up tens of millions of acres of national forest to development." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/692299/national-forest-fire-trump-rescind-roadless-rule-usda | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:46:45

• "Bacon said the House Speaker assured him that money lost in the massive bill would be restored later." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/06/23/accurate-information-our-responsibility/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:48:25

• "Here is the video archive for our FOIA Forum where we explained how we got records about Massive Blue, a company selling AI personas to cops." ☛ https://www.404media.co/heres-the-video-for-our-sixth-foia-forum-massive-blue/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:48:33

• "campaign of retribution" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/technology/media-matters-ftc-lawsuit.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 08:57:30

• "After handing over his password, Mads was told he would not be allowed to go through with his planned vacation after two images were not to the officers' liking." ☛ https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/world-news/man-refused-entry-us-border-31925059 |    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:01:12

• "A visitor from Norway was reportedly denied entry to the United States after border officers found an unflattering meme of Vice President JD Vance on it." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/06/24/european-tourist-denied-entry-to-us-over-jd-vance-meme-on-his-phone.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:01:20

• "Mads from Tromsø reacts strongly to the treatment he received at American border control on his way into the United States: [...]" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/always-scrub-your-travel-phone-of-jd-vance-memes/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:02:35

• "NO FAKES Act" ☛ https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/services/files/BBD6E069-2ED5-473A-B81A-4815134B876F |    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:03:09

• "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the revised version of the NO FAKES Act, reintroduced in April, would be a disaster for free speech and innovation if signed into law." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/say_no_to_no_fakes_act_eff/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:03:19

• "Empire of AI covers the history of OpenAI, from before ChatGPT to early 2025. It profiles CEO Sam Altman and several other executives. It also discusses the broader AI industry." ☛ https://evanhahn.com/empire-of-ai-book-notes/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:05:24

• "Cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. today announced that it has acquired Invariant Labs AG, a Swiss artificial intelligence security research firm, for an undisclosed price." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/24/snyk-acquires-invariant-labs-expand-ai-agent-security-capabilities/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:06:23

• "Thousands of councillors in more than 500 municipalities have received AI emails from a group called KICLEI, a name that mimics the international network ICLEI." ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/a-weaponized-ai-chatbot-is-flooding-canadian-city-councils-with-climate-misinformation/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:06:36

• "But really the thing that I've really not been praising enough is Thunderbird's new approach to donation campaigns." ☛ https://blog.cyrneko.eu/everyone-should-copy-thunderbird |    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:07:44

• "Globeleq, an independent power company in Africa, has signed a share purchase agreement with Norfund," ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydro-power/globeleq-to-acquire-majority-stake-in-zambias-lunsemfwa-hydro-power-company/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:09:03

• "As Chinese EV brands expand from competing on low prices to promoting premium features and sleek designs, they are increasingly putting their factories in the spotlight." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/china-electric-vehicle-factory-tours-xiaomi/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:09:58

• "Over the last year, I’ve been unintentionally planning a bike route." ☛ https://austingil.com/luger/ | Source: Austin Gil    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:39:31

• "And it’s not the only e-flop from a legacy automaker: Just last week Ferrari announced that it is delaying its second EV model (the first will arrive in October) until at least 2028 because of weak demand." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-why-high-end-electric-cars-are-failing/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:39:51

• "In other words, the findings are a grim sign of things to come for the environmental impacts of the AI industry: the more accurate a model is, the higher its toll on the climate." ☛ https://futurism.com/ai-pollution-carbon-energy | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:40:10

• "Trump’s fossil fuel orders are a death sentence for my generation" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/youth-who-fought-the-climate-crisis-in-court-are-now-targeting-trump/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:40:24

• "Stocks of eel species, most notably those in temperate Northern Hemisphere regions, have exhibited declines." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-06-grilled-eel-products-japanese-retail.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:40:40

• "At present, heat action plans (HAP) are India’s primary approach for managing heat waves and keeping essential services running." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/india-is-using-ai-and-satellites-to-map-urban-heat-vulnerability-down-to-the-building-level/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:41:09

• "Amid Elon Musk's attempt to kneecap OpenAI, attorneys for the billionaire claim he doesn't use a computer — even though he obviously does, including the fact that he's posted about doing so multiple times in the recent past." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-lawyers-computer | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:42:58

• [Old] "Instead, what our democracy needs is a democracy movement: a bipartisan recognition of how our Republic has failed, and a political movement powerful enough to bring about a remedy." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-i-ran-for-president | Source: New Yorker    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:44:06

• [Old] "On August 11th, I took the leap and, with a small team, launched my campaign Web site." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-i-dropped-out | Source: New Yorker    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:45:54

• "political speech" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/embrace-irony | Source: New Yorker    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:46:10

• "Yet Taiwan, which has set an ambitious target of producing 180,000 drones per year by 2028, is struggling to create this industry from scratch." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/taiwans-rush-to-make-its-own-drones-before-its-too-late/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:46:28

• "Ukraine aims to produce 4.5 million drones in 2025 alone, three times as many as in 2024." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/working-with-ukraine-is-how-australia-can-supercharge-defence-innovation/ | Source: The Strategist    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:46:47

• "The U.S. House's chief administrative officer informed congressional staffers Monday that messaging app WhatsApp is banned on their government devices, Axios has learned." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/06/23/whatsapp-house-congress-staffers-messaging-app | Source: Axios    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:47:06

• "Elon Musk’s Twitter (surely no-one really calls it X?) is suing New York State." ☛ https://grahamcluley.com/twitter-refuses-to-explain-what-its-doing-about-hate-speech-and-misinformation-sues-new-york-state-for-asking/ | Source: Graham Cluley    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:49:21

• "This change in attitude didn’t come out of nowhere. There is growing evidence that social media can do real harm, especially to children." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-turned-against-democrats | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:49:38

• "The chamber’s chief administrative officer issued a memo Monday that the messaging app is not approved for official use." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/meta-confused-over-whatsapp-ban-issued-to-house-staffers/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:49:50

• "This talk aims to give an introduction into the design, protocol and implementation of onion services" ☛ https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-52-onion-services-design-protocol-and-implementation | Source: CCC    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:54:34

• "One of the incidents resulted in the illegal downloading of about 190 million wireless customer accounts." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/court-okays-atts-177-million-data-breach-settlement/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:55:11

• Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub) trash ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/setting-ubuntu-desktop-installation-ssh-quickly | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:56:02

• Windows TCO" ☛ https://therecord.media/mclaren-health-care-data-breach-notification-ransomware | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:56:23

• "Only one thing will take me from zero to 60 faster than a museum selfie-taker, and that’s a museum selfie-taker who thinks it’s beyond hilarious to assume the same pose as the subject of the painting." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/24/ban-selfie-takers-from-museums/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:57:08

• "Therefore YouTube thumbnails are often a contentious topic." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-i-make-thumbnails-youtube | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:57:20

• "Young people have always felt misunderstood by their parents, but new research shows that Gen Alpha might also be misunderstood by AI." ☛ https://www.404media.co/ai-models-and-parents-dont-understand-let-him-cook/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:57:32

• "The parallels with our AIs are not subtle." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/23/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-ai-part-three/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:57:56

• "We understand that DeepSeek has willingly provided and will likely continue to provide support to China's military and intelligence operations" ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseek-aids-chinas-military-evaded-export-controls-us-official-says-2025-06-23/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:58:11

• "The U.S. could restrict DeepSeek soon, especially through unofficial platforms many Zimbabweans use." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/06/deepseek-accused-of-helping-chinese-military-evade-us-tech-bans/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 09:58:31

• "This document provides an overview of three R packages, RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, and meteo, that implement spatial machine learning methods" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/specialized-r-packages-for-spatial-machine-learning-an-introduction-to-randomforestsgls-spatialrf-and-meteo/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:00:06

• "Platform engineers are on the front lines of securing these AI systems, especially as large language models (LLMs) enter production." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/6-key-security-risks-in-llms-a-platform-engineers-guide/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:00:25

• "In contrast, ‘hard-to-learn tasks’ do not have a clear connection between performing an action and achieving the desired outcome." ☛ https://criticaledtech.com/2025/06/25/ai-not-great-for-hard-tasks-and-teaching-is-full-of-hard-tasks/ | Source: Neil Selwyn    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:00:42

• "One area of AI which is being spoken a lot about at the moment is Computer Vision" ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/data/what-is-computer-vision-a-beginner-friendly-introduction-with-real-world-examples.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:00:59

• "The strategy? Ride the hype wave of AI search traffic to quietly drop malware onto the systems of curious users." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/poisoning-google-search-results-infostealers/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:01:27

• "We know that in the past two or three days, the Iranians have been trying to connect to cameras to understand what happened and where their missiles hit to improve their precision" ☛ https://therecord.media/iran-espionage-israeli-security-cameras-missile-attacks | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:02:45

• "It’s going to be a long summer." ☛ https://mandarismoore.com/2025/06/23/macos-beta-is-worse.html | Source: Mandaris Moore    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:02:53

• "Redline was one of the most widely used tools by cybercriminals until the takedown last year, allowing hackers to steal usernames, browser information, passwords, credit cards, VPN logins and more from infected devices." ☛ https://therecord.media/data-leak-paraguayan-millions-infostealer | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:03:19

• "Digesting hundreds of posts through my RSS feed is becoming a tiring task rather than a pleasant one, so I’m dedicating less and less time to it" ☛ https://contino.com/blog/42 | Source: Andrea Contino    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:03:58

• "There is another working group that looked at the topic of polygamy." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/social-control-media-technology-catholicism-synod-on-synodality-progress-review-feedback/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

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

• "That's when a company charges different customers different amounts based on inferences about their willingness to pay." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/# | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:04:23

• "this post investigates how recent MKL versions behave on Zen CPUs. You should read the MKL license before using MKL. I shall not be held responsible for how you use MKL." ☛ https://danieldk.eu/Intel-MKL-on-AMD-Zen | Source: Daniël de Kok    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:04:33

• "That’s why some people still swear by their old Fujis, their beat-up Leicas or even a creaky old DSLR that feels like home." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/mirrorless-cameras/we-obsess-over-specs-but-no-one-asks-how-the-camera-feels | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:04:50

• "These nationwide trends are reflected in the University. Other than plant biology and pediatric dentistry, the majority of the University’s 10 least popular majors are in the humanities field." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/web/data/mapping-major-trends-at-umich/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:05:20

• "In other words, while the purpose of other departments is ultimately to create a product, a humanities education is meant to be different, because the student herself is the product." ☛ https://www.vox.com/advice/413189/ai-cheating-college-humanities-education-chatgpt | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:05:30

• "The past decade has brought with it the increasingly accelerating passage of time." ☛ https://blakewatson.com/journal/40/ | Source: Blake Watson    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:05:52

• "Wiegert and his team calculated that 2024 YR4 could create a kilometre-wide crater on the moon – the largest lunar impact for at least the past 5000 years, though relatively small compared with a typical crater." ☛ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2484769-asteroid-on-collision-course-with-moon-could-fire-shrapnel-at-earth/ | Source: New Scientist    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:06:36

• "All experiments are conducted in a closed dark room at 20°C ± 1°C room temperature and 30% ± 3% relative humidity." ☛ https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00221-8 | Source: Cell Press    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:08:48

• "The first ever DinoCon will be this summer — Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th August at the University of Exeter." ☛ https://svpow.com/2025/06/24/come-hear-matt-and-mike-at-darrens-dinocon/ | Source: Matt Wedel    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:09:06

• "While ARRL Field Day is a fun, social, occasion to get together and get on the air, it also serves as an opportunity to test equipment in a way that it would be needed in a time of crisis." ☛ https://www.arrl.org/news/view/local-county-and-state-governments-proclaim-value-of-amateur-radio | Source: ARRL    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:12:07

• "The promises of the [Internet] I grew up with have gone whistling past, in the mad rush to addict users to everything" ☛ https://www.sevarg.net/2025/06/23/ebr-i-tour-and-automation/ | Source: Russell Graves    

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

• "Back in May of 2011, I was 22 and had just recently finished University." ☛ https://www.tommyp.org/blog/is-it-shorts-weather-today/ | Source: Tommy Palmer    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:13:31

• "A lot of people seem to dislike this notion, but I don't understand why—I don't believe free will exists." ☛ https://vereis.com/posts/my_take_on_free_will | Source: Vereis    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:13:41

• "I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3’s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now." ☛ https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/ | Source: Doug Brown    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:14:09

• "I wish my 3D printer was big enough to pull this off: [...]" ☛ https://512pixels.net/2025/06/quinn-nelson-printed-his-own-macintosh/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:14:22

• "This means we would have to add a new “button” and have it briefly connect two wires." ☛ https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/heating-water-from-afar/ | Source: Max Bernstein    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:14:33

• Enable confidential computing in OpenShift Virtualization ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/24/enable-confidential-computing-openshift-virtualization    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:16:26

• How to automate multi-cluster deployments using Argo CD ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/24/how-automate-multi-cluster-deployments-using-argo-cd    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:17:03

• "AuraGem Search now has a new domain: aurasearch.ddns.net. I've been hard at work the past week optimizing the speed and crawling of the search engine and cleaning up the capsule" gemini://auragem.ddns.net/techlog/20250625_aurasearch.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:28:25

• to my mother who loves water gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/to_my_mother_who_loves_water    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 10:29:40

• "Beyond that, here are the last couple things I need to not need SCSS anymore: [...]" ☛ https://nathansnelgrove.com/2025/06/the-slow-removal-of-scss-from-my-projects | Source: Nathaniel Snelgrove    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:18:23

• "I can now read all the passport information, including biometrics." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/reading-nfc-passport-chips-in-linux/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:19:02

• [Old] "This approach does not require using any custom serializers or deserializers." ☛ https://brandonrozek.com/blog/filesystem-as-persistent-kvs-python/ | Source: Brandon Rozek    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:19:20

• "It has become common practice to start with a "Hello World" program when learning a new programming language. This is a simple program that outputs the text "Hello, World!" to the screen." ☛ https://blog.sylver.dev/build-a-compiler-from-scratch-part-11-a-hello-world-of-sorts | Source: Geoffrey Copin    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:20:01

• "In this series, we'll go through this journey together, one tiny iteration at a time. We'll build a program to compile a minimalistic language inspired by Python into x86 assembly code." ☛ https://blog.sylver.dev/build-a-compiler-from-scratch-part-0-introduction | Source: Geoffrey Copin    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:20:16

• "Interesting is a neutral word" ☛ https://ericwbailey.website/published/quality-is-a-trap/ | Source: Eric Bailey    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:20:34

• "If you're given some function of f(x: int, y: int, …): int and a set of unit tests asserting specific inputs give specific outputs, then you can find a polynomial that passes every single unit test." ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/you-can-cheat-a-test-suite-with-a-big-enough/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:21:14

• "Join Andrea Richetta, Principal Product Evangelist at Arduino, and Roxana Escobedo, EDU Product Marketing Specialist" ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/24/arduino-cloud-cafe-teach-real-coding-concepts-with-arduino-ai-assistant/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:21:54

• "Vectors are a popular topic for databases now, related to LLM and “AI” use cases." ☛ https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2025/06/24/waiting-for-sql-202y-vectors | Source: Peter Eisentraut    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:22:15

• "This version includes important security updates to Firefox" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1454/ | Source: Tor    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:23:00

• "There are some handy fresh features in this version." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/firefox_140_esr/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:23:10

• "The Browser Choice Alliance is a coalition of browsers dedicated to the principle that consumers should have the right to use their browser of choice on Windows devices." ☛ https://browserchoicealliance.org/ |    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:23:45

• "The v0.2 branch in git will only receive bugfixes. Further work on new features will continue on the master branch." ☛ https://chawan.net/news/chawan-0-2-0.html | Source: Chawan    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:23:51

• "ssh-import-id - retrieve one or more public keys from a public keyserver and append them to the current user's authorized_keys file" ☛ https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/ssh-import-id.1.html |    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:24:12

• "Fedora targets Fedora 44 to remove i686 packages and multilib support, impacting Wine, Steam, and any remaining 32-bit dependencies on 64-bit installations." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-44-plans-to-drop-i686-support-and-32-bit-multilib-compatibility/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:24:42

• "Only a week after Plasma 6.4 was released, the KDE team rolled out version 6.4.1, the first bugfix update to its 6.4 series." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-4-1-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:26:10

• "But maybe you don’t have the money for that. Or maybe you’re repelled by Windows 11." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2803571/dont-toss-your-windows-10-pc-try-switching-to-kde-plasma-instead.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:26:15

• "Well, this one really caught me off guard. As you probably know, after the dramatic fork of the Xorg server into a new project called XLibre—led by the developer who’s been its most active contributor in recent years—the open-source community was buzzing with intense debate. And now, there’s another twist in the story." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/xlibre-proposed-as-fedoras-new-default-x11-server/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:27:55

• "Hyprland, the popular open-source Wayland compositor known for its sleek, highly customizable user experience, is introducing a paid subscription service called Hyprland Premium. For €5 per month (plus tax), subscribers gain access to exclusive perks, including: [...] " ☛ https://linuxiac.com/hyprland-launches-subscription-plan-to-sustain-development/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:28:01

• "Back in the early days of GPU computation, the hardware, drivers, and software were so relatively untrustworthy" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ComputeGPUsStillFinicky | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:29:11

• [Old] "The following are the steps that I take to replace a hard drive in Btrfs with a drive of equal capacity or larger." ☛ https://brandonrozek.com/blog/replacing-drive-btrfs/ | Source: Brandon Rozek    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:29:17

• "Fredrik talks to Gitte Klitgaard about managers, diversity, and communication." ☛ https://kodsnack.se/international/648/ | Source: Kodsnack    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:29:42

• "Anthropic and Apple have a bar fight" ☛ https://grahamcluley.com/the-ai-fix-56/ | Source: Graham Cluley    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:29:50

• Thibault Martin: Why is my Raspberry Pi 4 too slow as a server? ☞ https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/06/24-why-restore-raspi-slow/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:31:17

• A ‘peace through strength’ Iran-Russia bank shot for Convicted Felon ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/06/24/opinion/a-peace-through-strength-iran-russia-bank-shot-for-trump/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 11:31:47

• US secures release of Belarusian prisoners but pressure must continue ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/us-secures-release-of-belarusian-prisoners-but-pressure-must-continue/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:27:07

• North Korea is playing a key role in Russia’s war against Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/north-korea-is-playing-a-key-role-in-russias-war-against-ukraine/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:27:24

• Russian strikes kill 19 in Ukraine region as Zelenskyy seeks more Western help ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250624-russian-strikes-kill-19-in-ukraine-region-as-zelenskyy-seeks-more-western-help    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:27:35

• Rights group warns against increased Russia attacks on Sumy City in Ukraine ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/rights-group-warns-against-increased-russia-attacks-on-sumy-city-in-ukraine/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:28:03

• At NATO summit, anxious Europeans extend a hand to placate Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2025/0623/trump-nato-alliance-europe-iran-ukraine    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:28:19

• NATO Summit Opens as Israel-Iran Cease-Fire Takes Hold: What to Watch ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/world/europe/nato-what-to-watch.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:28:41

• NATO Leader’s Aim? Give Convicted Felon What He Wants: A Win on Military Spending. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/world/europe/trump-ukraine-russia-nato.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:28:55

• Zelensky Visits U.K. After Russian Attack on Kyiv Kills at Least 9 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/europe/ukraine-russia-kyiv-attack.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:29:24

• Dnipro ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/24/ukrainian-officials-report-rising-casualties-in-dnipro-after-russian-missile-strikes-hit-civilian-infrastructure-and-passenger-train | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:29:51

• "Ukrainian drone hits apartment building near Moscow" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/24/ukrainian-drone-hits-apartment-building-near-moscow-injuring-two | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:30:06

• Sumy ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/24/russian-drone-strike-on-sumy-region-village-kills-three-including-child | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:30:34

• "far-right group" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/24/the-bureau-s-niche-project | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:32:51

• "stateless individuals" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/24/russia-passes-law-allowing-stateless-individuals-to-enlist-in-its-military | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:33:14

• "We want our own people in charge" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/24/we-want-our-own-people-in-charge | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:33:46

• 5 Years Later, RFE/RL Journalist Losik Still Behind Bars On Charges Seen As Convicted Feloned Up ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/rfe-journalist-losik-charges-trumped-up-anniversary/33453720.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:34:11

• "clear position" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/24/kremlin-spokesperson-says-moscow-has-helped-iran-by-taking-a-clear-position | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:34:35

• forbidden secrets of ancient X11 scaling technology revealed ☞ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:37:01

• Songwriters Guild of America and Society of Composers & Lyricists File Brief in High-Stakes Copyright Termination Case ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/24/songwriters-guild-of-america-copyright-termination-brief/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:37:46

• Christine Hieber Named TTAB Acting Chief Administrative Trademark Judge ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/06/christine-hieber-named-acting-chief.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:39:58

• New LibreOffice merchandise is here! ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/24/new-libreoffice-merchandise-is-here/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:41:16

• GNOME Attacks Lunduke & XLibre Dev, in Anti-Jewish, Libelous, Defamatory Way ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-attacks-lunduke-and-xlibre    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:42:05

• GNOME: "Wayland is Gay" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-wayland-is-gay    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:42:25

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

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:44:01

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

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:44:14

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

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:44:33

• How to draw a pie chart on a map in R with ggplot2 and scatter pie? An example for Turkey ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/how-to-draw-a-pie-chart-on-a-map-in-r-with-ggplot2-and-scatter-pie-an-example-for-turkey/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:45:24

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

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:45:54

• How To Install Telegram on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-telegram-manjaro/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:46:05

• GNU Guix: Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-46415, CVE-2025-46416) ☞ https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025//    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:50:29

• GSoC'25 Kwin Project Blog Post: Week 1-2 ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/24/gsoc25-kwin-project-blog-post-week-1-2/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:51:52

• IPFire GNU/Linux Firewall Now Ships with Support for the WireGuard VPN Protocol ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-linux-firewall-now-ships-with-support-for-the-wireguard-vpn-protocol    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:52:58

• Firefox 140 ESR Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/firefox-140-esr-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:53:06

• GIMP 3.2 Promises New Paint Mode, Support for Importing Photoshop Patterns ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gimp-3-2-promises-new-paint-mode-support-for-importing-photoshop-patterns    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:53:13

• Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15 Disk Cloning/Imaging Tool Released with Various Changes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-2-2-15-disk-cloning-imaging-tool-released-with-various-changes    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:53:20

• KDE Plasma 6.4.1 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-1-released-with-various-improvements-and-bug-fixes    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:53:29

• Jiri Eischmann: GNU/Linux Desktop Migration Tool 1.5 ☞ https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2025/06/23/linux-desktop-migration-tool-1-5/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:56:32

• devd is a local web server for developers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/devd-local-web-server-developers/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:56:54

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, June 27, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-06-27-irc    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:57:20

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, July 11, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-07-11-irc    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:57:27

• FSF Blogs: Look at what we've achieved together ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/look-at-what-weve-achieved-together    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:57:52

• GNUnet News: GNUnet 0.24.3 ☞ https://gnunet.org/en/news/2025-06-0.24.3.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:58:15

• GIMP 3.1.2 Released as First Dev Version for Next GIMP 3.2 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/gimp-3-1-2-released-as-first-dev-version-for-next-gimp-3-2/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:58:42

• Firefox 140.0 is Available with Custom Search Engine ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/firefox-140-0-is-available/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:59:04

• Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/firefox-140-new-features-update    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:59:24

• This Rubbish Icon Might Get a Makeover in Ubuntu 25.10 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-trash-icon-redesign    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 12:59:37

• Kubuntu 25.10 Won’t Come with a Plasma X11 Session ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kubuntu-25-10-drops-x11-session    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:00:11

• The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 897 ☞ https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/06/23/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-897/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:00:35

• "Homelessness" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-homelessness-hotels | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:01:53

• IBM: blind people, DIE!! Also IBM: poor people, DIE!! That is IBM "DEI" https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Change-No-i686 see http://techrights.org/o/2022/04/08/planned-obsolescence-ibm/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:02:58

• IBM is an acronym that stands for two words: evil f-ers.    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:03:36

• Two Local Privilege Escalation Flaws Discovered in Linux ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Two-Local-Privilege-Escalation-Flaws-Discovered-in-Linux    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:04:36

• Turning GNU/Linux Into a Political Football ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Turning_GNU_Linux_Into_a_Political_Football.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:04:46

• "judge, who handled the Oracle v. Surveillance Giant Google case" ☞ https://heathermeeker.com/2025/06/24/ai-training-ruled-fair-use/ As covered by a Microsofter who backs a GPL violating machine, GitHub    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:06:16

• Apple, Netflix, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Sites ‘Hacked’ for Tech Support Scams ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-netflix-microsoft-sites-hacked-for-tech-support-scams/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:06:48

• Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 140 ☞ https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-140/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:07:33

• Only a Third of or 1 in 3 Web-Connected Devices is a Desktop or Laptop, According to statCounter (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Only_a_Third_or_1_in_3_of_Web_Connected_Devices_is_a_Desktop_or.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:08:09

• Photo-Stealing Spyware Sneaks Into Fashion Company Apple App Store, Surveillance Giant Google Play ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/photo-stealing-spyware-sneaks-into-apple-app-store-google-play/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:09:16

• Cassidy, in Break With RFK Jr., Calls for Vaccine Meeting Delay ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/cassidy-kennedy-vaccine-committee.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:10:52

• Toronto Sees Record Temperatures as Extreme Heat Settles Over Canada ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/world/canada/toronto-heat-wave.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:11:06

• The Drug That Could Revolutionize the Fight Against H.I.V. ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-drug-that-could-revolutionize-the-fight-against-hiv    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:11:19

• Survey: How are Convicted Felon-era workforce changes impacting your mental health? ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/survey-how-are-trump-era-workforce-changes-impacting-your-mental-health/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:11:33

• Korean students seek ‘digital undertakers’ amid US visa social control media screening ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/korean-students-seek-digital-undertakers-amid-us-visa-social-media-screening    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:17:27

• statCounter Estimates Only 1 in 300 Iranians Would Use Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for Search ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/statCounter_Estimates_Only_1_in_300_Iranians_Would_Use_Microsof.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:17:43

• Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Another_Told_You_So_XBox_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Many_Recent_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:17:49

• Nirbheek Chauhan in Planet GNOME Explains Why Wayland Pushers Are Losing ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Nirbheek_Chauhan_in_Planet_GNOME_Explains_Why_Wayland_Pushers_A.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:17:56

• The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/The_New_BetaNews_7_New_Articles_All_of_Them_LLM_Slop.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:18:02

• The Days Are Getting Shorter, the First Half of 2025 is Almost Over ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/The_Days_Are_Getting_Shorter_the_First_Half_of_2025_is_Almost_O.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:18:08

• Exactly a Week Ago "BetaNews Staff" Said "Betanews Is Growing Alongside You". Since Then Every Article (All by "Camila Nogueira") Has Been LLM Slop. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Exactly_a_Week_Ago_BetaNews_Staff_Said_Betanews_Is_Growing_Alon.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:18:15

• Peter Moon's (Computerworld) Interview With Richard Stallman ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/23/Peter_Moon_s_Computerworld_Interview_With_Richard_Stallman.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:18:22

• Microsoft to fire more employees next week, said to be fourth biggest layoff in past 18 months https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/microsoft-to-fire-more-employees-next-week-said-to-be-fourth-biggest-layoff-in-past-18-months-2745792-2025-06-25    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:19:17

• Richard Stallman Coming Back to Europe This Autumn to Give More Talks ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Richard_Stallman_Coming_Back_to_Europe_This_Autumn_to_Give_More.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:20:18

• Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Another_Told_You_So_XBox_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Many_Recent_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:20:24

• From Do Your Own Research to Do Your Own Search ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/23/From_Do_Your_Own_Research_to_Do_Your_Own_Search.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:20:30

• Polygamy, from Catholic Synod on Synodality to Social Control Media & Debian CyberPolygamy (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Polygamy_from_Catholic_Synod_on_Synodality_to_Social_Control_Me.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:20:36

• How Many More Women Will Managers at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Strangle and Tell to Kill Themselves (or Try to Kill)? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/How_Many_More_Women_Will_Managers_at_Microsoft_Strangle_and_Tel.shtml    

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

• Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Social_Control_Media_Technology_Catholicism_Synod_on_Synodality.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:20:48

• When the Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Aggressors Rely on Several Law Firms ('Attack Dogs', 'Guns for Hire'), Not Just One, Lawyering Up Against Techrights (Acting on Behalf of Americans Against UK Publishers) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/When_the_Microsoft_Aggressors_Rely_on_Several_Law_Firms_Attack_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:20:56

• Nirbheek Chauhan: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. ☞ https://blog.nirbheek.in/2025/06/a-strange-game.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:21:18

• "Team Wayland" is scoring MANY own goals this month. Trying to FORCE some distros to default to Wayland isn't winning, it's making a lot more enemies and earning even MOAR pushback than ever before.    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:22:38

• China slams Taiwan leader over ‘country’ speech – state media ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/24/china-slams-taiwan-leader-over-country-speech-state-media/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:23:42

• Mali Junta Continues War Against Free Speech, Multiparty Politics ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/06/mali-junta-continues-war-against-free-speech-multiparty-politics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mali-junta-continues-war-against-free-speech-multiparty-politics    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:24:04

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppRedis 0.2.6 on CRAN: Extensions ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/06/24#rcppredis_0.2.6    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:24:24

• Uwe Kleine-König: Temperature and humitidy sensor on OpenWrt ☞ https://blog.kleine-koenig.org/ukl/temperature-and-humitidy-sensor-on-openwrt.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:25:10

• Israel imposes sweeping censorship on foreign media ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/israel-imposes-sweeping-censorship-on-foreign-media/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:25:30

• Help people bypass censorship: Run Snowflake ☞ https://alirezahayati.com/2025/06/24/help-people-bypass-censorship-run-snowflake/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:25:43

• In war, the firs casualty is free speech (and truth)    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:26:13

• South Korea special prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for ex-President Yoon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-special-prosecutor-seeks-arrest-warrant-for-ex-president-yoon-yonhap-says    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:30:16

• Train driver’s nomination to be Labour Minister in South Korea’s Cabinet gets mixed reaction ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/train-drivers-rise-to-south-koreas-cabinet-gets-mixed-reaction    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:30:33

• North Korea mobilizes students to collect stones daily for flood prevention walls ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/06/24/north-korea-students-flood-prevention-walls/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:30:49

• The ‘ironclad’ US-South Korea alliance is outdated. A new age requires a ‘titanium’ alliance. ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-ironclad-us-south-korea-alliance-is-outdated-a-new-age-requires-a-titanium-alliance/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:31:08

• Why South Korea won’t build the bomb ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/why-south-korea-wont-build-the-bomb/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:31:20

• 3 Singaporeans arrested in Selangor as Malaysia police bust cocaine vape syndicate ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/3-singaporeans-arrested-in-selangor-as-malaysia-police-bust-cocaine-vape-syndicate    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:31:42

• ​China calls them fish farms – South Korea fears they have another use ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-calls-them-fish-farms-south-korea-fears-they-have-another-use    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:32:01

• The Yellow Sea Dispute Between China and South Korea ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/world/asia/china-south-korea-sea-dispute.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:32:10

• Singapore-China ties more vital than ever amid global uncertainty, says PM Wong ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/spore-china-ties-more-important-than-ever-amid-global-uncertainty-says-pm-wong    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:32:23

• China announces September military parade to mark end of WWII ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-announces-september-military-parade-to-mark-end-of-wwii    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:32:33

• China tries to shift appetite for extreme eating shows ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-tries-to-shift-appetite-for-extreme-eating-shows    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:32:57

• Surge in ‘Shopping in China’ by tourists due to changes in visa, tax policies ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/shopping-in-china-boom-among-tourists-drawn-by-changes-in-visa-tax-policies    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:33:13

• India and European Union drawing closer to navigate Convicted Felon, China pressures ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-and-european-union-are-drawing-closer-to-navigate-trump-china-pressures    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:33:25

• What are China’s economic interests in Iran? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/what-are-chinas-economic-interests-in-iran    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:33:32

• China’s heavy reliance on Iranian oil imports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-heavy-reliance-on-iranian-oil-imports    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:34:40

• China helpless as Middle East war craters regional leverage: Analysts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-helpless-as-middle-east-war-craters-regional-leverage-analysts    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:34:54

• Japan protests against new Chinese structure in East China Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/japan-protests-against-new-chinese-structure-in-east-china-sea    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:35:05

• Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions — military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/mosquito-sized-drone-is-designed-for-chinese-spy-missions-military-robotics-lab-reveals-incredibly-tiny-bionic-flying-robots    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:35:18

• China President Pooh-tin urges Singapore PM to jointly resist ‘hegemony’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/24/china-president-xi-urges-singapore-pm-to-jointly-resist-hegemony/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:35:33

• Zelensky ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/24/white-house-confirms-trump-to-meet-with-zelensky-during-nato-summit | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:35:50

• Software Patents: Another Dialect natural language patent monopoly challenged ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/6/23/another-dialect-natural-language-patent-challenged    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:36:40

• UPC is illegal and this is EPO corruption merging with the illegality at the EU level; now EU patent law is one big giant corruption ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/g1-24-enlarged-boards-of-appeal-harmonise-epo-and-upc-legislation/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:37:34

• Hidden Ratchet in Eurasian Patent Applications ☞ https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/06/24/hidden-ratchet-in-eurasian-patent-applications/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:38:23

• Seeds of Doubt: Sexual Reproduction and Territorial Limits in Plant Patent Law ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/sexual-reproduction-territorial.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:38:50

• USPTO Implements Penalty System for False Small/Micro Entity Status Claims ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/implements-penalty-system.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:39:07

• Label-Plus Infringement: The Tinderbox Theory of Generic Inducement ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/infringement-tinderbox-inducement.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:39:22

• USPTO Discontinues Accelerated Examination Program for Utility Applications (Design Patent Rocket Docket is also Suspended) ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/discontinues-accelerated-applications.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:39:36

• Why Purism Manufactures Electronics in the USA ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/why-purism-manufactures-electronics-in-the-usa/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:40:08

• First Run Experience Progress ☞ https://merritt.codes/blog/2025/06/24/2025/first-run-experience    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:40:38

• ESPHome 2025.6.0 adds ESP32-P4 and OpenThread support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/24/esphome-2025-6-0-adds-esp32-p4-and-openthread-support/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:41:11

• The "Tarzan Effect" in Compilers and Software ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/The_Tarzan_Effect_in_Compilers_and_Software.shtml    

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

• Heavy rain batters south-west China; shopping mall basements underwater ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/heavy-rain-leaves-south-west-china-underwater-more-storms-on-horizon    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:42:43

• A burned-out nature writer gets a radical reset breeding ducks ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2025/0624/james-rebanks-the-place-of-tides    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:43:03

• Support for Istio 1.24 has ended ☞ https://istio.io/latest//news/support/announcing-1.24-eol-final/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:43:45

• Gunnar Wolf: Private key management • Oh, the humanity... ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/06/private-key-management-oh-the-humanity.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:44:27

• Firefox 140.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1026701/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:44:41

• Rethinking my keyboard shortcuts (part 1) ☞ https://cukic.co/2025/06/23/rethinking-my-keyboard-shortcuts    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:46:43

• Next-generation EasyOS 6.94 V7pre-alpha ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202506/next-generation-easyos-694-v7pre-alpha.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:47:31

• Using Bash Declare: Gateway For Effective Variable Management ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/bash-declare/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:48:29

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1026646/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:48:45

• Evgeni Golov: Using LXCFS together with Podman ☞ https://www.die-welt.net/2025/06/using-lxcfs-together-with-podman/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:49:17

• Flrig is a transceiver control program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/flrig-transceiver-control-program/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:50:36

• Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/orangepi-rv2-single-board-computer-running-linux-power-consumption/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:50:43

• minesVIiper is a minesweeper clone with mouse and VT220 support ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/minesviiper-minesweeper-clone/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:50:49

• 23 Essential Free and Open Source LaTeX Tools – typeset beautifully ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/latextools/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:50:56

• roobuilder – Vala and JavaScript IDE ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/roobuilder-vala-javascript-ide/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:51:03

• Future got better at finding global variables ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/future-got-better-at-finding-global-variables/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:51:55

• Segmented Total Bar Chart in R with “`ggsegmentedtotalbar“` ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/segmented-total-bar-chart-in-r-with-ggsegmentedtotalbar/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:52:30

• R version of ‘Backpropagating quasi-randomized neural networks’ ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/r-version-of-backpropagating-quasi-randomized-neural-networks/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:52:58

• One year later: NGOs renew pressure over EU-Israel data adequacy ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/ngos-renew-pressure-over-eu-israel-data-adequacy/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:53:41

• Siemens Notifies Customers of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Defender Antivirus Issue ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/siemens-notifies-customers-of-microsoft-defender-antivirus-issue/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:54:02

• The Strait of Hormuz: what Iran sees as its trump card ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-strait-of-hormuz-what-iran-sees-as-its-trump-card/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:54:31

• Pakistan military condemned over drone strikes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/rights-group-says-pakistan-disregarded-civilian-lives-when-conducting-drone-strikes/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:55:03

• Strike Set Back Iran’s Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/iran-nuclear-sites.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:55:22

• Early US assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites: US media ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250624-early-us-assessment-suggests-strikes-on-iran-did-not-destroy-nuclear-sites-us-media    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:55:31

• Intel Report on Iran Upends Victory Lap Convicted Felon Was Hoping for at NATO ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/trump-nato-iran.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:55:47

• Live Updates: Israel and Iran Claim Victory as Cease-Fire Takes Hold ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/24/world/ceasefire-iran-israel-trump    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:55:58

• What to Know About the U.S. Strike on Iran and the Israel-Iran Cease-Fire ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/world/middleeast/israel-iran-strikes.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:56:08

• White House Postpones Briefing Congress on Iran Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/world/middleeast/white-house-briefing-iran-strikes.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:56:21

• Timeline: Did Iran or Israel Violate the Cease-Fire With Strikes? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/world/middleeast/israel-iran-ceasefire-timeline.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:56:32

• Iran Mounts Attack on Beersheba, Israel, Hours Before Cease-Fire ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/world/middleeast/israel-iran-beersheba-strike.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:56:46

• Iran’s Capital Tehran Endures Intense Attacks Before Cease-Fire With Israel ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/world/middleeast/israel-iran-war-ceasefire-tehran-strikes.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:56:58

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Says ‘Time for Peace’ After Iran Gives Warning Before Firing on U.S. Base ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/middleeast/iran-missile-attack-us-base-qatar.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:57:09

• Dihydroxyacetone Man admin officials slam leaked bomb damage assessment indicating Iran could restart nuclear program within months: ‘Completely preposterous’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/06/24/us-news/trump-admin-officials-slam-leaked-bomb-damage-assessment-indicating-iran-could-restart-nuclear-program-within-months/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:57:26

• Mozilla Addons Blog: Updated Add-on policies — simplified, clarified ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/06/23/updated-add-on-policies-simplified-clarified/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:57:56

• Data flows and digital repression: Civil society urges EU to reassess Israel’s adequacy status ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/data-flows-and-digital-repression-civil-society-urges-eu-to-reassess-israels-adequacy-status/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:58:20

• OPEN LETTER: The European Commission must act now to defend fundamental rights in Hungary ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-the-european-commission-must-act-now-to-defend-fundamental-rights-in-hungary/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:58:39

• Switching Wallpapers With Hyprpaper in Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles on Fedora 42 ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2025/06/switching-wallpapers-with-hyprpaper-in.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:59:18

• You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial ☞ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/you-can-cheat-a-test-suite-with-a-big-enough/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 13:59:52

• My Copy of The Internet Phone Book ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/internet-phone-book/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:00:53

• ‘Soft resistance is real’: Hong Kong leader warns of ‘pervasive’ national security risks ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/24/soft-resistance-is-real-hong-kong-leader-warns-of-pervasive-national-security-risks/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:01:32

• The “Private” Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg (ca. 1895–1903) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/berg-and-hoeg    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:01:50

• Quick Password Brute Forcing Evolution Statistics, (Tue, Jun 24th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32068    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:02:21

• Pitfalls in PySide6 ☞ https://www.basyskom.de/pitfalls-in-pyside6/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:02:53

• Brent Loves Building Things | LINUX Unplugged 620 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/620/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:04:42

• MuseAmp is an audio normalizer for MP3/FLAC ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/museamp-audio-normalizer-mp3-flac/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:04:59

• Linux Matters: The Very Hungry Caterpillar ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/58/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:05:22

• Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/25/image-compatibility-in-cloud-native-environments/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:06:06

• LLM slop!! https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/windows-freedom-how-zorin-os-18-makes-migrating-linux-seamless    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:06:33

• Software Patents: $3,000 awarded for Cloud-Native Heroes Challenge - prior art found on Lower48 ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/6/24/3000-awarded-for-cloud-native-heroes-challenge-prior-art-found-on-lower48    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:07:08

• 🔤SpellBinding — CGHLNSO Wordo: CADDY gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-06-25.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:08:37

• "I made a new blog post about my (short) time on gemini so far" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/Breebee/29263    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:09:35

• LinuxFest Northwest: GNU/Linux Loves All → https://www.infosecurity.us/blog/2025/6/24/linuxfest-northwest-gnulinux-loves-all    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:11:27

• "A little while ago, I gave Linux Mint a spin as a Windows fanboy. At the time, it was a fun experiment; I had just reported on PewDiePie making the jump, and I thought, well, why not? Turns out, Linux Mint worked a ton better than I thought it would" https://www.xda-developers.com/i-refuse-upgrade-windows-11/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:12:16

• Kali Linux 2025.1c Fixes Key Issue, Adds New Tools and Interface Updates https://hackread.com/kali-linux-2025-1c-fix-issue-adds-tools-interface-update/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:12:33

• "The Fedora developers do at least note in the proposal that Wine and Steam are part of the dependencies on this, so they are thinking it through and aware of the issues." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/fedora-linux-devs-discuss-dropping-32-bit-packages-potentially-bad-news-for-steam-gamers/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:13:35

• "It's the end of an era in Linux history." Tell us IBMers. https://www.zdnet.com/article/x11s-dying-days-mean-youll-be-forced-to-switch-to-wayland/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:14:00

• This MIGHT be their first REAL writer. MIGHT be. https://betanews.com/author/elena-martin/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:58:20

• Probably a real person this time https://bestdaily.com/finance    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 14:59:30

• On Microsoft, 1 hours ago: "how can the tech companies justify having thousands of workers who do nothing. Literally nothing. What a waste of their increasing debt $$$$$$" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyhnv9xa    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:12:05

• "Lay us off = we might get brain aneurysms. I can't. Just stop" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfe4ta8    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:12:31

• Now where did we hear that one before ? LOL !" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyjv5w7m    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:13:09

• "Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic to get the maximum share price for IBM before Alvind's House Of Cards collapses...it's called "Winning "." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyjv5w7m    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:13:21

• "AI Winner in what way? Has anyone bought Watson X and deployed it in Prod? Or just got it as part of an ELA for existing SW? The more autonomous a company gets, the less people it has, the richer the company will become." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyjv5w7m    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:13:36

• Pet Hacks Winners ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/announcing-the-2025-pet-hacks-winners/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:14:48

• Bench Meter ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/do-you-need-a-bench-meter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:15:03

• Strange Cellular Entity Challenges Very Definition of Life Itself ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/strange-cellular-entity-challenges-very-definition-of-life-itself    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:15:24

• 2032 'City-Killer' Impact Threatens Earth's Satellites, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/2032-city-killer-impact-threatens-earths-satellites-study-finds    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:15:50

• Social Media Might Impair Your Recovery From Injury. Here's Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/social-media-might-impair-your-recovery-from-injury-heres-why    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:15:59

• Behold! World's Largest Camera Snaps Millions of Galaxies in First Pics ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/behold-worlds-largest-camera-snaps-millions-of-galaxies-in-first-pics    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:16:07

• Sharks Do Something Bizarre When Turned Upside Down, And We Don't Know Why ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sharks-do-something-bizarre-when-turned-upside-down-and-we-dont-know-why    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:16:22

• Record-Sized Comet Seen Belching Jets From Surface as It Heads Our Way ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/record-sized-comet-seen-belching-jets-from-surface-as-it-heads-our-way    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:16:32

• Scientists Revealed How Much Exercise You Need to 'Offset' Sitting All Day ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-revealed-how-much-exercise-you-need-to-offset-sitting-all-day    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:16:41

• Virus Discovery Among Bats in China Fruit Orchards Draw Exposure Concerns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/virus-discovery-among-bats-in-china-fruit-orchards-draw-exposure-concerns    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:16:48

• Your Vision Can Predict Dementia 12 Years Before a Diagnosis, Study Discovers ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-vision-can-predict-dementia-12-years-before-a-diagnosis-study-discovers    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:16:55

• Mexico posts stronger-than-expected growth as inflation hovers above 4.5% ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-growth-inflation/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:18:02

• Hack Turns Nissan Leaf Into Giant RC Car ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/hack-turns-nissan-leaf-into-giant-rc-car/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:18:19

• Hong Kong court suspends pro-Beijing lawmaker’s libel suit against 3 democrats ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/24/hong-kong-court-suspends-pro-beijing-lawmakers-libel-suit-against-3-democrats/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:18:40

• What's New in QML formatting ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/whats-new-in-qml-formatting    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:19:01

• How Qt Helped Him Build a Career in Cross-Platform App Development ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/how-qt-helped-him-build-a-career-in-cross-platform-app-development    

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

• How Policy Experts Run the Internet ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/06/how-policy-experts-run-the-internet/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:19:54

• Pong In Discrete Components ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/pong-in-discrete-components/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:21:23

• 64-Megapixel Upgrade ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/digitally-converted-leica-gets-a-64-megapixel-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:21:50

• "Spending time as wee hackers perusing the family atlas taught us an appreciation for a good map, and [Billy Roberts], a cartographer at NREL, has served up a doozy with a map of the data center infrastructure in the United States." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/nrel-maps-out-us-data-infrastructure/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:22:24

• AIDS ☞ https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-06-24-AIDS.en.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:22:40

• KDE Plasma 6.4.1, Bugfix Release for June ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.1/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:23:20

• Beyond the Buzz: How ‘Deep Tech’ Startups Are Changing the Game ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/beyond-the-buzz-how-deep-tech-startups-are-changing-the-game/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:23:54

• X Server Still Works for Many People ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/X_Server_Still_Works_for_Many_People.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:24:02

• Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 Jun 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:24:28

• China: Truck with driver inside dangling in mid-air ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250624-china-truck-with-driver-inside-dangling-in-mid-air    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:25:08

• qBittorrent 5.1.1 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Improves Wayland Support ☞ https://9to5linux.com/qbittorrent-5-1-1-open-source-bittorrent-client-improves-wayland-support    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:25:30

• Roderika Fan-Art - Elden Ring ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1081/roderika-fan-art-elden-ring    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:25:58

• Australia regulator and YouTube spar over under-16s social control media ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australia-regulator-and-youtube-spar-over-under-16s-social-media-ban    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:26:13

• YouTube exemption from Australian teen social control media ban opposed by regulator ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/youtube-exemption-from-australian-teen-social-media-ban-opposed-by-regulator    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:26:20

• Trijets ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/why-trijets-lost-against-twinjets/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:26:43

• Shiny in Production 2025: Lightning Talk Lineup ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/shiny-in-production-2025-lightning-talk-lineup/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:27:30

• Specialized R packages for spatial machine learning: An introduction to RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, and meteo ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/specialized-r-packages-for-spatial-machine-learning-an-introduction-to-randomforestsgls-spatialrf-and-meteo/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:27:36

• CMA set to force Surveillance Giant Google to work more fairly with UK publishers ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-to-force-google-to-work-more-fairly-with-uk-publishers/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:28:09

• Microsoft Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Microsoft_LinkedIn_is_Dying_and_Many_More_Layoffs_Are_on_the_Wa.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:28:21

• Google News Does Great Harm by Promoting Slopfarms as Legitimate News Sites ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Google_News_Does_Great_Harm_by_Promoting_Slopfarms_as_Legitimat.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:28:27

• UK regulator proposes giving Surveillance Giant Google ‘strategic market status’ under new antitrust law ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/24/uk-regulator-proposes-giving-google-strategic-market-status-new-antitrust-law/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:28:59

• And what about Microsoft. Did Microsoft bribe the UK gov. ENOUGH? http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/01/It_s_Cheaper_to_Pay_Bribes_and_Produce_Press_Releases_Than_to_P.shtml    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:29:44

• The Challenge of Rebuilding Syria ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010114624/the-challenge-of-rebuilding-syria.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:30:35

• Red Pitaya STEMlab 125-14 PRO Gen 2 is an AMD Zynq 7010/7020-based board for measurement, control, and signal processing ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/24/red-pitaya-stemlab-125-14-pro-gen-2-is-an-amd-zynq-7010-7020-based-board-for-measurement-control-and-signal-processing/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:30:57

• AAEON UP TWL and UP TWLS – Two credit card-sized, wide temperature Twin Lake SBCs ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/24/aaeon-up-twl-and-up-twls-two-credit-card-sized-wide-temperature-twin-lake-sbcs/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:31:33

• 'Fixing' malware ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-fixes-windows-vista-boot-sound-bug-in-latest-windows-11-insider-build-adds-recall-homepage-and-customizable-system-indicators    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:32:38

• Electric Boats Offer a More Eco-Friendly Way to Travel in the Amazon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/americas/electric-boats-ecuadorian-amazon.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:33:05

• 21 Hong Kong residents in Israel and Iran seek help, all but 1 depart safely, leader John Lee says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/24/21-hong-kong-residents-in-israel-and-iran-seek-help-all-but-1-depart-safely-leader-john-lee-says/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:33:26

• This novel wearable provides touchless haptic feedback for VR typing ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/23/this-novel-wearable-provides-touchless-haptic-feedback-for-vr-typing/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:33:41

• Prometei Botnet Activity Spikes ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/prometei-botnet-activity-spikes/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:34:20

• Chinese APT Hacking Routers to Build Espionage Infrastructure ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-apt-hacking-routers-to-build-espionage-infrastructure/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:35:37

• Meta hits back after US House bans WhatsApp for staffers ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/23/meta-hits-back-us-house-bans-whatsapp-staffers/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:37:05

• American Oversight Sues Convicted Felon Administration Over Withheld Records on DOGE Social Security Takeover ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-trump-administration-over-withheld-records-on-doge-social-security-takeover/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:37:18

• Australia’s fuel insecurity is not hypothetical ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-fuel-insecurity-is-not-hypothetical/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:37:44

• ASPI Defence Conference: Australia’s shared security with PNG and the Pacific ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/aspi-defence-conference-australias-shared-security-with-png-and-the-pacific/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:37:58

• New INTERPOL report warns of sharp rise in African cybercrime ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/cyber-security/new-interpol-report-warns-of-sharp-rise-in-african-cybercrime/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:39:08

• Spain says NATO 5% spending target is 'unreasonable' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250624-spain-says-nato-5-spending-target-is-unreasonable    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:39:33

• Hong Kong man who challenged local security law after being denied early prison release loses appeal ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/24/hong-kong-man-who-challenged-local-security-law-after-being-denied-early-prison-release-loses-appeal/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:39:58

• US Supreme Court allows government to remove migrants with minimal notice ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/us-supreme-court-removes-preliminary-injunction-on-deportations-allows-government-to-remove-migrants-with-minimal-notice/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:40:22

• Canada and EU Sign Defense Agreement as Convicted Felon Promises to Reduce International Security ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/europe/canada-eu-security-defense-trump.html    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:40:37

• Al-Shabaab Alliance With Houthis Continues to Grow ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/06/al-shabaab-alliance-with-houthis-continues-to-grow/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:43:24

• University of Southern California Moves to Dismiss Entire Sony Music Infringement Suit: ‘USC Is Not Subject to Personal Jurisdiction in New York’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/24/sony-music-usc-lawsuit-dismissal-push/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 15:44:03

• Instead of "uploading to the CLOWN" people need to learn how to make encrypted media. But regimes do NOT like that. https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/howto-linux-hard-disk-encryption-with-luks-cryptsetup-command/    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 16:52:47

• "IBM Research is working on Artificial Aneurysms .. the next big thing!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfe4ta8 Only if it is also on the blockchain in Second Life metaverse.    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 19:05:09

• "without any bots I managed to get to 666th generation and named my plant Beelzebub 😀." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Astrobotany/29562    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 19:09:01

• "I learnt to program computers when I was about 5 years old, on my dad's TRS-80 Pocket Computer, with its single line LCD display and 1Kb of RAM. For better and for worse, I was largely self-taught." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-06-25_learning-to-code.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 19:10:26

• "The stigma against mental illness, homosexuality, left-wing views, secular or simply different – is destructive. These artists were not given a foothold, neither in the establishment nor in society; Sometimes not even in the family." gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-06-25_how_not_to_die_as_david_avidan.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 19:12:07

• "Filespooler is a Unix utility for managing queues in a decentralized and strictly ordered way. Filespooler takes commands from a source and writes them to jobs, which can be piped into a stream or written to a file system." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202506/20250625-robs-filespooler-guide.gmi    

posted Wednesday, June 25, 2025 at 19:13:23

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