Roy Schestowitz

• Microsoft's Financial Problems Mean Shutdowns https://gamerant.com/forza-motorsport-developer-turn-10-xbox-layoffs-june-2025/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 02:07:44

• "Met Office should name storms after fossil fuel companies, say campaigners. Ha ha, yes! Note for non-UK people: "Met Office" is a government weather forecaster, short for "Meteorological Office"." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-06-26_News_headline_of_the_day.gmi    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 02:09:42

• "I'm struggling a lot lately with the screen stuff, and hyperfixations. So, I'm trying something new again." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-06-26.gmi    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 02:10:32

• "Anyways, I find HTTP more and more depressing. Perhaps I'll abandon my site and move things here or run side by side for a little while until I figure all this out. I just don't enjoy using the internet as much these days yet I have this urge to write." gemini://tilde.club/~draw/gemlog/20250626.gmi    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 02:12:11

• sudden calm gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/sudden_calm    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 02:13:27

• Transcript "The whole account is not over yet" Amos Oz's last lecture from 2018 gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-06-27_amos_oz_lecture_transcript.gmi    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 02:14:43

• Netherlands: Vista 10 up, Vista 11 DOWN. https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/netherlands/#monthly-200902-202506    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 02:22:56

• GNU/Linux usage high in Myanmar https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/myanmar/#monthly-200902-202506    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 02:38:30

• iophk: Microsoft further infiltrates Facebook, and Zuck is dumb enough to play along: https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/26/meta-reportedly-recruits-four-former-openai-researchers-superintelligence-lab/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 02:52:00

• "He is likely the equivalent of brooks in Shawshank redemption. He doesn't know the outside world." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyftc6p1 ("I was laid off from Microsoft after 23 years, and I'm still going into the office. I feel responsible for my team and customers.")    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 03:11:16

• 'Employees at Virtually Every Studio Are Worried': Major Layoffs at Xbox Expected Next Week https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2025/06/employees-at-virtually-every-studio-are-worried-major-layoffs-at-xbox-expected-next-week    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 03:43:56

• Report: Xbox layoffs could be devastating, whole studios may close, Turn10 expecting cuts https://www.tweaktown.com/news/106067/report-xbox-layoffs-could-be-devastating-whole-studios-may-close-turn10-expecting-cuts/index.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 03:44:37

• Forza Developer May Be Among Studios Impacted in Xbox’s “Significant” Layoff Plans https://thegamepost.com/forza-developer-studios-xbox-layoff-plans/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 03:45:24

• Old: Braille Is Not Dead (So Stop Trying To Kill It) https://wheresyourdog.com/2015/05/29/braille-is-not-dead-so-stop-trying-to-kill-it/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 04:09:38

• Google, but no Microsoft... anymore. https://2025.fossy.us/sponsorship/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 04:13:12

• Zemlin Gates Foundation aka 'Linux' added Microsoft to Research Advisory Board https://www.linuxfoundation.org/research/leadership    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 04:15:03

• Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/ubuntu-disables-intel-gpu-security-mitigations-promises-20-performance-boost/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 06:01:37

• New OpenELA compatibility toolset helps Enterprise Linux distributors reduce testing costs and resource commitments www.oracle.com/at/news/announcement/new-openela-compatibility-toolset-helps-enterprise-linux-distributors-reduce-testing-costs-and-resource-commitments-2025-06-24/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 06:28:31

• Windows down, down, down https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/india/#monthly-200902-202506    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 06:45:37

• 'shadow fleet' that cuts Internet cables sometimes https://www.thelocal.se/20250620/european-countries-announce-joint-action-against-russias-shadow-fleet    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 06:46:30

• Elite Hackers or ... crackers? https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/russia-expert-elite-hackers-us/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 06:47:00

• Is Vitaly Zdorovetskiy About To Go Free? Russian YouTuber Bail Approved https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vitaly-zdorovetskiy-about-go-free-russian-youtuber-bail-approved-1736396    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 06:52:42

• Pro-Russian hackers disrupt Dutch government websites ahead of NATO summit https://nltimes.nl/2025/06/23/pro-russian-hackers-disrupt-dutch-government-websites-ahead-nato-summit    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 06:53:35

• Why does Germany pay taxes for Russian propaganda? https://www.dw.com/en/why-does-germany-pay-taxes-for-russian-propaganda/a-73037945    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:05:47

• Russia and Belarus release 2 journalists who had been detained for years https://cpj.org/2025/06/russia-and-belarus-release-2-journalists-who-had-been-detained-for-years/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:07:16

• tiktok encourages sexism: The internet’s favorite way to hate women — and still sound feminist https://www.vox.com/culture/416866/sabrina-carpenter-sydney-sweeney-kylie-jenner-girls-tiktok-feminism    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:08:19

• "tiktok-oral-culture": Is the decline of reading poisoning our politics? https://www.vox.com/politics/414049/reading-books-decline-tiktok-oral-culture    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:08:46

• Ukrainian Web3 security auditing company Hacken suffered an attack that allowed a hacker to create 900 million HAI tokens https://dev.ua/en/news/hacken-khaknuly-1750573771    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:09:46

• Interoperability https://xkcd.com/3105/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:10:34

• Farads https://xkcd.com/3106/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:10:50

• Weather Balloons https://xkcd.com/3107/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:11:07

• Is your cat vocal or quiet? https://theconversation.com/is-your-cat-vocal-or-quiet-the-explanation-could-be-in-their-genes-259402    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:19:18

• The mystery of Mercury’s missing meteorites – and how we may have finally found some https://theconversation.com/the-mystery-of-mercurys-missing-meteorites-and-how-we-may-have-finally-found-some-259596    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:20:43

• UK’s F-35A fighter jet deal problem: the RAF has no aircraft to refuel them in mid-air https://theconversation.com/uks-f-35a-fighter-jet-deal-problem-the-raf-has-no-aircraft-to-refuel-them-in-mid-air-259821    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:21:12

• Create??? Amazon is KILLING British businesses. It barely even pays any taxes. Was ibtimes PAID to relay this offensive PR? https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amazon-uks-40bn-investment-plan-new-fulfilment-centres-create-thousands-jobs-1736567    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:22:27

• Court denies claims of Volkswagen against model cars http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/06/small-cars-big-trouble-final-chapter.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:23:50

• basis for trade mark infringement http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/06/post-sale-confusion-alone-can-be-basis.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:25:01

• 'improperly' shared Canadians' data https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cse-intelligence-commissioner-shared-information-1.7566777    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:25:47

• This week in PSC (196) https://blogs.perl.org/users/psc/2025/06/this-week-in-psc-196-2025-06-19.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:26:12

• Linux Weekly Roundup #330 https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2025/06/linux-weekly-roundup-330.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:28:20

• How to install Master PDF Editor onKubuntu 24.04 https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2025/06/how-to-install-master-pdf-editor-on.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:28:47

• Windows down sharply in Senegal https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/senegal/#monthly-200902-202506    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 07:39:36

• EFF become lobbying hammer of SLOP companies! Despicable! https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/copyright-cases-should-not-threaten-chatbot-users-privacy see https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/31/Google_Bribes_EFF_EFF_Promotes_LLM_Slop_as_Fair_Use_To_GAFAM_It.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:49:57

• Slop is not "Artificial Intelligence", stop repeating the lies http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/06/book-review-moral-rights-of-authors-and.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:50:53

• Big X org code reverts, giant data breach, KDE 6.4 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=GAZKxKUum5k    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:53:02

• Modicia OS Is Linux For Multimedia Power https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=QlcMsxUNmLs    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:53:25

• 'cp' - copy files and directories https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=KeAkWb4wgsc    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:54:11

• Elgato Stream Deck Works Amazingly On Linux https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=E9S5j2MR3e0    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:54:28

• Arch Linux Is Adopting A Rust Based Init... https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=UTHIZTMoyIc    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:54:43

• Netdata Complete Tutorial – A Full Course on Server Monitoring (Episode 7) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=TxM1KCJoU3g    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:55:00

• Top 10 INSANE Linux Apps You SHOULD BE USING in 2025! (#4 Blew My Mind)    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:55:13

• Top 10 INSANE Linux Apps You SHOULD BE USING in 2025! (#4 Blew My Mind) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=RTwOvogeEVs"    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:55:21

• Don't Like Systemd, Tough Luck For GNOME Users https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=OvtPdJLj83o    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:55:56

• Debian 12.10.0 Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/3cGPxmfM4Fg    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:56:13

• Fedora Linux Just Terrified Linux Gamers https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=3VRKdMYBQPY    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:56:29

• "A nice way to complete your collections here with Humble Bundle having Bioshock: The Collection and Mafia Trilogy in the latest bundle." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/get-bioshock-the-collection-and-mafia-trilogy-in-the-latest-humble-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:58:11

• "Fans of automation puzzle games and titles from Zachtronics might like Number Machine, an open-ended factory and automation game with math mechanics." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/number-machine-is-an-open-ended-factory-and-automation-game-with-math-mechanics/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:58:40

• "The KDE developers are working towards making the Plasma desktop environment more accessible, with an essential tweak to the defaults." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/kde-devs-disable-potentially-seizure-inducing-plasma-effect-as-accessibility-work-continues/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 08:59:09

• "Chroma Blasters is one you need to try" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/chroma-blasters-is-a-challenging-music-driven-twin-stick-arcade-shooter/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:05:40

• "Ahead of the release of Mecha BREAK on July 1st, Valve have checked it over and given it a rating for Steam Deck and SteamOS." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/mecha-break-now-steam-deck-verified-and-steamos-compatible-ahead-of-release/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:06:04

• "I sat down with Red Hat Accelerator Jasper Wiegratz to talk about what it means to beta test an operating system, what he’s learned doing it, and what he’s looking forward to in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-do-you-beta-jasper-wiegratz | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:07:25

• "Explainability is a feature that identifies the resources and rules allowing or denying workload connectivity." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-advanced-cluster-security-48 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:07:38

• "Red Hat Insights advisor in Satellite is available in technology preview." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-insights-advisor-red-hat-satellite | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:08:04

• "Humble Bundle have announced their monthly selection of games in Humble Choice is getting a price increase." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/humble-choice-is-getting-another-price-increase/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:08:36

• "The Museum Update is the first major update to R.E.P.O since it entered Early Access in February." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/it-took-a-while-but-the-excellent-co-op-horror-game-r-e-p-o-just-got-a-major-content-update/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:08:58

• "Dying Light (the original) is still one of the best open-world zombie games around, and now perhaps just even better with the Dying Light: Retouched update." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/10-years-after-release-dying-light-retouched-is-a-nice-upgrade-for-the-techland-zombie-game/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:09:11

• "It's probably the most important thing to ever happen for Linux gaming as a whole, with it being the reason we have so many games performing so well inside of Proton." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/vulkan-api-developers-try-to-address-some-developer-frustrations-with-a-new-extension/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:12:17

• "California violated civil rights of female students by allowing trans athletes to compete, feds say" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-25/california-title-ix-violation-ocr-finds    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:12:57

• "Zohran Mamdani is the Democratic Establishment’s Fault" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/zohran-mamdani-is-the-democratic    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:13:14

• censorship acceleration report https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/censorship_acceleration_report    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:13:30

• "The biggest sale event is here, the Steam Summer Sale 2025 is now live with lots and lots of games discounted. It runs from now until July 10th, so you've got plenty of time to look over everything." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-summer-sale-2025-is-live-heres-some-top-picks-all-under-20/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:13:52

• DRM "California doesn't acknowledge or enforce ownership laws 🙁" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/california-doesn't-acknowledge-or:0    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:14:08

• "JK Rowling is right about the Guardian’s pro-trans propaganda" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/26/jk-rowling-is-right-about-the-guardian/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:14:21

• "[SLOP] Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/technology/ai-elections-democracy.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:14:38

• "Zohran Mamdani Defeated a Corrupt, Weak Democratic Party Establishment" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/zohran-mamdani-democratic-party-establishment/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:14:51

• "Zohran Mamdani beats Cuomo in NYC mayoral primary: 4 lessons for Democrats" https://www.vox.com/politics/417776/zohran-mamdani-cuomo-nyc-mayor-policies-democrats    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:15:21

• windows is not fit for purpose https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/qilin_ransomware_nhs_death/ ("Qilin ransomware attack on NHS results in confirmed death")    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:15:41

• "Parents are pressured to give kids an '80s summer. Are we wearing nostalgia blinders?" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/80s-summer-kids-1.7570235    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:16:16

• "Burqa On Statue Of Liberty? How MAGA Is Fuming Over Zohran Mamdani's Win" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/burqa-on-statue-of-liberty-how-maga-is-fuming-over-zohran-mamdanis-win-8767750#publisher=newsstand    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:16:30

• "Helsinki neighbourhood grocery struggles with shoplifters as booze, vitamins vanish" https://yle.fi/a/74-20169736    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:16:48

• "Trump warmed to NATO at The Hague. But what about Ukraine?" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/fastthinking/trump-warmed-to-nato-at-the-hague-but-what-about-ukraine/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:17:01

• "Volunteer mosque worker 'encouraged' far-right violence as riots swept Hanley - Stoke-on-Trent Live" https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/volunteer-mosque-worker-encouraged-far-10276036    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:17:14

• "Trump gets king’s treatment at NATO summit while Ukraine sits on the sidelines" https://kyivindependent.com/as-nato-summit-fawns-over-daddy-trump-ukraine-gets-only-words-of-comfort/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:17:26

• "Key Fair Use Ruling Clarifies When Books Can be Used for [SLOP] Training" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/06/25/1712202    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:17:42

• "Iran agrees to suspend cooperation with Atomic Energy Agency" https://www.plenglish.com/news/2025/06/26/iran-agrees-to-suspend-cooperation-with-atomic-energy-agency/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:17:57

• "Putin cannot attend BRICS summit in Brazil as he fears arrest for war crimes" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-cannot-attend-brics-summit-in-brazil-as-he-fears-arrest-for-war-crimes/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:18:09

• "Zelenskyy Signs Accord With Council Of Europe To Create War Crimes Tribunal" https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-council-europe-war-crimes-tribunal-berset/33454875.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:18:22

• iophk: GW == bullshit; PFLOP or TFLOP == computing power https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/us_datacenter_power_crunch/ ("AI's power needs could short-circuit US infrastructure")    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:18:42

• ossf == microsoft, siliconangle = bribes microsoft propaganda site https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/26/open-source-devs-global-cybersecurity-laws-opensourcesummit/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:19:37

• Killing Flies with Cannon Shots (web edition) | "Matar moscas a cañonazos (web edition) | Blog de Thalskarth" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=es&tl=en&u=https://blog.thalskarth.ar/HTML-es-fantastico/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:20:02

• "Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin urges Democrats to refocus on middle-class issues" https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/06/26/repub/michigan-sen-elissa-slotkin-urges-democrats-to-refocus-on-middle-class-issues/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:20:15

• iophk: "mixed" trails are in practice so unsafe for pedestrians as to be bike only in practice https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/06/26/advocates-for-bike-hike-trails-making-progress-in-pine-ridge-area/ ("Advocates for bike-hike trails making progress in Pine Ridge area")    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:20:38

• "The Boy Who Cried World War III - by Garry Kasparov" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/the-boy-who-cried-world-war-iii    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:20:50

• "Experience CS is now live! Six integrated computer science units are available to access, with more on the way." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/experience-cs-a-free-integrated-curriculum-for-computer-science/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:27:07

• "freeing Mahmoud Khalil" ☛ https://fair.org/home/their-goal-is-to-equate-protests-for-palestine-with-support-for-terrorism/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:28:33

• "Janine Jackson interviewed CEPR’s Michael Galant about sanctions and immigration for the June 20, 2025, episode of CounterSpin." ☛ https://fair.org/home/to-address-migration-requires-a-reorientation-of-how-the-us-relates-to-the-global-south/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:28:45

• "Recent events have focused attention on the asymmetry of police demands for ID: [...]" ☛ https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/06/26/asymmetric-demands-for-id/ | Source: Papers Please    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:29:09

• Build the future of *craft: announcing Starcraft Bounties! ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/build-the-future-of-craft-announcing-starcraft-bounties    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:35:12

• Cut data center energy costs with bare metal automation ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/cut-data-center-energy-costs-with-bare-metal-automation    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:36:11

• Accelerating data science with Apache Spark and GPUs ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/accelerating-data-science-with-apache-spark-and-gpus    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:36:59

• How is Livepatch safeguarded against bad actors? ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/how-is-livepatch-safeguarded-against-bad-actors    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:41:23

• "The SoM-SD520 is a compact SoM based on the MediaTek Genio 520 processor." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/som-sd520-with-9-tops-mediatek-genio-520-targets-edge-and-smart-iot-applications/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:41:56

• "The June 2025 release of DietPi v9.14 adds support for new Orange Pi boards, introduces the GZDoom game engine, and brings system improvements, bug fixes, and driver refinements for better SBC compatibility" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-june-2025-update-adds-orange-pi-5-ultra-support-and-major-fixes/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:42:22

• "Libre Computer has released new firmware updates for its low-cost single-board computers, the AML-A311D-CC Alta and the AML-S905D3-CC Solitude" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/libre-computer-updates-alta-and-solitude-sbcs-with-new-firmware-and-wake-on-lan-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:49:02

• "FriendlyElec has released the NanoPi R3S LTS, an updated version of its compact single-board network platform based on the Rockchip RK3566." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/25-nanopi-r3s-lts-router-board-adds-hdmi-and-speaker-support-in-updated-design/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:50:10

• "Radxa has introduced the NX150, a compact System-on-Module featuring the Intel N150 processor and a matching carrier board." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-unveils-intel-n150-som-and-carrier-board-with-dual-ethernet-and-support-for-six-m-2-or-u-2-devices/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:50:34

• "In a pivotal moment for artificial intelligence and copyright law, Meta has secured a bittersweet partial fair use victory in its defense of a 'piracy' lawsuit filed by several book authors." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/meta-secures-bittersweet-fair-use-victory-in-ai-piracy-case-250626/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:52:35

• "Seattle-based Getty's decision to abandon the copyright claim removes a key part of its lawsuit against Stability AI, which owns a popular AI image-making tool called Stable Diffusion." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/getty-drops-copyright-allegations-in-uk-lawsuit-against-stability-ai/articleshow/122074933.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:53:02

• "This was the first time a US court ruled on whether using copyrighted material without permission for AI training is legal." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/ai-and-copyrights-the-fight-for-fair-use/articleshow/122091363.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:54:30

• "That move is in stark contrast to producer Timbaland’s recent controversy in the space. He recently launched an AI-focused entertainment company called Stage Zero and introduced his first AI artist he calls TaTa." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/26/gunna-will-sign-ai-artist/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:54:47

• "Judge Alsup wrote in the summary judgement order." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/25/anthropic-lawsuit-fair-use-win/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:55:15

• "That said, while Judge Chhabria’s ruling in the authors v. Meta suit represents another legal setback for rightsholders, the precedent at hand isn’t nearly as sweeping." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/26/meta-lawsuit-summary-judgement-june-2025/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:56:13

• "And Pemberton’s star did rise. His debut album, Breaking Kayfabe, earned him a cover story in Exclaim! magazine and a nomination for the Polaris Prize, which recognizes the best Canadian album of the year." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/the-death-of-the-middle-class-musician/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:56:46

• "The ruling has sparked predictably divergent takes, with observers claiming it’s both a big win and a big loss for AI." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/26/judge-alsup-training-ai-on-copyrighted-works-fair-use-building-pirate-libraries-not-so-much/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:57:09

• "The Messy Reality Of AI Training Copyright Cases" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/26/two-judges-same-district-opposite-conclusions-the-messy-reality-of-ai-training-copyright-cases/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:57:29

• "Following the points to their logical conclusion, and particularly given the alleged infringement’s nature, it’s possible that the suit could wrap sooner rather than later." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/26/quavo-sculptor-copyright-suit/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:58:08

• "bottomless pit of plagiarism" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-disney-just-threw-a-punch-in-a-major-ai-fight/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:58:32

• "the companies, to avoid liability for copyright infringement, will generally need to pay copyright holders for the right to use their materials." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/26/meta-beats-kadrey-ai-training-was-fair-use-what-this-means/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:58:55

• "As Amgen senior vice president John Bruich told Bloomberg [it has a website but i wouldn't call it a website when it has a print magazine]" ☛ https://futurism.com/microsoft-copilot-ai-embarrassment | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 09:59:48

• "Another issue we rarely see addressed is the extreme reach of Microsoft in business computing. The problem is not just bigwigs who mostly don't know a hypervisor from an email server; the techies who advise them are also a problem." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/cost_of_microsoft_dependency/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:00:08

• "Apple on Thursday announced major changes to its EU app policies. Here’s the gist: [...]" ☛ https://sixcolors.com/link/2025/06/apple-makes-big-app-store-changes-in-the-eu/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:00:25

• "But "technological soveriegnty" is a slippery and easily abused concept" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/25/eurostack/#viktor-orbans-isp | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:01:16

• "Broadband and bridge repairs are to be counted as defence spending under Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to redraw the definition of national security." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/17/starmer-rural-broadband-defence-spending/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:01:29

• "Apparently, the Starmer government would consider Project Gigabit’s $6.8 billion program budget as the fiscal equivalent of a Royal Air Force squadron of F-38B Lightning fighter jets." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/british-pm-wants-rural-broadband-deployment-to-count-as-defense-spending/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:01:41

• "allowing agencies to recognize some unions while barring others" ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/judge-blocks-trump-order-curtailing-federal-union-rights-citing-plausible-retaliation-concerns/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:02:28

• "They also reported that Hyatt's front-line call work will now be handled out of El Salvador and the Philippines." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hyatt-hotels-cuts-hundreds-us-jobs-favour-workers-el-salvador-earning-400-month-ai-1736804 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:03:04

• "Agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are facing scrutiny after the public saw them wearing masks during their operations." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/why-do-ice-agents-wear-masks-boss-defends-move-amid-surge-doxxing-death-threats-1735024 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:03:53

• "Numerous GOP lawmakers on the Appropriations Committee, including Chairwoman Susan Collins" ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/06/25/repub/trump-drive-to-defund-npr-pbs-resisted-by-republicans-from-rural-states/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:05:25

• "Tbilisi City Court has fined a person for a comment made on Facebook about an Interior Ministry representative. The case followed a series of fines imposed on several government critics over social media posts." ☛ https://oc-media.org/georgian-court-fines-person-over-facebook-comment-about-a-government-official/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:05:49

• "One of the writers of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book Abundance is betting that by leaving legacy media" ☛ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/why-abundance-author-derek-thompson-left-atlantic-substack-1236295189/ | Source: Hollywood Reporter    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:06:08

• "Advertising agency Stagwell spends around $5bn per year on marketing for its clients and is urging them to spend at least 3% of their media buy on news." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/brand-safety-news/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:06:39

• "The French quickly issued decrees to restrict press freedom, granting the Governor-General sole authority to license newspapers. These licenses could be granted or revoked at will; obtaining one was notoriously difficult" ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/06/does-journalism-truly-exist-in-vietnam/ | Source: The Vietnamese Magazine    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:08:47

• Chinese journalist ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/26/chinese-journalist-reportedly-injured-in-drone-attack-in-russia-s-kursk-region | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:09:18

• "Zeynep Durgut, a reporter for the Mesopotamia Agency (MA), has been threatened following her coverage of a prostitution network case in the Kurdish-populated southeastern province of Şırnak." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/journalist-zeynep-durgut-receives-threats-after-reporting-on-alleged-sex-trafficking-ring-in-sirnak-308837 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:10:01

• "Figueredo refused to comply with a June 23 police summons, reviewed by CPJ." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/06/cuban-journalist-targeted-with-threats-intimidation-after-refusing-police-summons/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:10:18

• "As the library world is preparing for the 2025 ALA Annual Conference (beginning Friday), the EveryLibrary Institute released a FREE and compressive report on the state of censorship in libraries since 2020" ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/06/everlibrary-institutes-free-report-on.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:14:45

• "First he clarifies that not all speech should be free. Some speech acts like incitement of violence should not be protected. But opinions should always be free." ☛ https://huijzer.xyz/posts/94 | Source: Rik Huijzer    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:15:00

• "a 21-year-old Norwegian tourist (not to be confused with the Danish actor of the same name), made to his hometown newspaper Nordlys after a planned two-month vacation to the states was cut short before it even began" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/jd-vance-meme-immigration-1235371114/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:15:33

• "The Hereti radio holding company brought together three stations: Radio Tbilisi in the capital, Radio Hereti in Kakheti, and Radio Tsitrusi in Adjara." ☛ https://oc-media.org/georgian-radio-companys-accounts-and-assets-frozen/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:15:51

• "dear god" ☛ https://www.404media.co/vance-babyface-meme-mads-mikkelsen-norway-tourist/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:16:14

• "authoritarian blindness" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/26/autostabilizer/#slicey-bois | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:17:43

• "Five popular AI models all show signs of bias toward viewpoints promoted by the Chinese Communist Party, and censor material it finds distasteful, according to a new report." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/top_ai_models_parrot_chinese/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:19:34

• "The 18th General Assembly and Conference of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) was held in Oslo, Norway on May 14-16, 2025." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/24/debate-journal-editors-do-not-need-to-worry-about-preventing-misinformation-from-being-spread/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:20:46

• "By backing various regimes and militias in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, and Gaza, the Islamic Republic of Iran has been responsible, directly or indirectly" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/iran-propaganda-palestine/683322/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:21:06

• "The Sylva Project, led by Linux Foundation Europe" ☛ https://blog.powerdns.com/powerdns-achieves-sylva-project-validation | Source: PowerDNS    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:23:27

• "The company is already valued at $10 billion. The scale of this fundraising is unprecedented" ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/the-profitable-ventures-of-openai | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:24:33

• "Anduril, an American defense technology company specializing in autonomous systems and products used by the military" ☛ https://southeastohiomagazine.com/the-privately-held-defense-technology-unicorn-anduril-industries-is-a-virtual-reality-to-pickaway-county/ | Source: Southeast Ohio    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:24:50

• "The three other OpenAI researchers who have reportedly joined Meta are Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov and Xiaohua Zhai." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/26/meta-reportedly-recruits-four-former-openai-researchers-superintelligence-lab/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:26:24

• "Meta has hired a highly influential OpenAI researcher, Trapit Bansal, to work on its AI reasoning models under the company’s new AI" ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/meta-hires-key-openai-researcher-to-work-on-ai-reasoning-models/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:27:09

• "ByteDance has chosen HFA’s Rumblefish—owned by SESAC—to handle data, licensing, and royalty management services to ByteDance" ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/26/bytedance-rumblefish-tiktok-rights-administration/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:27:21

• "Europe's landmark AI rules entered into force in June last year with various provisions to be implemented in a phased manner." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/tech-lobby-group-urges-eu-leaders-to-pause-ai-act/articleshow/122080652.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:27:29

• "Freedom of choice in Linux? The XLibre Xserver case suggests it's not as simple as it sounds" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/the-curious-case-of-xlibre-xserver/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:27:46

• "Many Americans may associate financial surveillance with authoritarian regimes." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/25/1119324/katie-haun-bank-secrecy-act-oped/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:28:27

• "I’ve been swimming at Walden since high school, some 50 years ago. Little has changed since then." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2025/0626/Walden-Pond-nature-refuge-peace | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:29:58

• "Tree Energy Solutions (TES) and CPC Finland have launched a joint venture (JV) to develop a 500MW green hydrogen-to-synthetic natural gas (e-NG) project." ☛ https://www.h2-view.com/story/tes-cpc-finland-launch-jv-to-build-500mw-finnish-hydrogen-based-e-ng-project/2128621.article/ | Source: H2 View    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:31:05

• "Two new studies published Wednesday in the academic journal Science presented the results of those experiments." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1273547/scientists-retrace-30000-year-old-sea-voyage-in-a-hollowed-out-log/ | Source: Greece    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:31:37

• "Power required by AI datacenters in the US may be more than 30 times greater in a decade, with 5 GW facilities already in the pipeline.." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/us_datacenter_power_crunch/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:31:55

• "Large swaths of the US have seen brutal heat this week, with multiple days in a row nearing or exceeding record-breaking temperatures." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/26/1119358/summer-grid-ai-air-conditioning/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:33:05

• "Plans to kill the tax credit by the end of the year would be tantamount to a death sentence for much of the residential solar industry and bring major layoffs" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/06/26/2025/us-rooftop-solar-companies-are-bracing-for-devastation | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:34:29

• "This week, CBS News decisively broke that pattern." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/cbs-news-climate-journalism/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:58:31

• "The researchers discovered that uranium becomes dangerously mobile in specific underground environments—a finding that could help local communities monitor and manage this health threat." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-06-uncover-uranium-groundwater-contamination.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:58:48

• "Cargo ship sinks" ☛ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/cargo-ship-sinks-in-the-pacific/ | Source: Mexico News Daily    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 10:59:03

• "How do we know? Just look at who’s funding the fight." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/06/tax-bill-trump-big-business/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:25:01

• "Too far south for spices, and too close to the rim of the earth to be inhabited by anything but freaks and monsters" ☛ https://joshwithers.blog/2025/06/26/abel-tasmans-voyage-to-tasmania.html | Source: Josh Withers    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:25:21

• "Comfortable With Corruption" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/26/we-have-all-become-too-comfortable-with-corruption/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:43:05

• "Team America" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/tech-tactics/marine-corps-lightning-carrier-pacific/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:43:41

• "They’re all wrong. Liberalism isn’t a political tribe or a set of policy preferences." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-new-liberal-enlightenment | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:54:23

• "In this live stream, I explore the relationship between personal spiritual practice and political engagement, arguing that maintaining conscious control over our attention is fundamental to preserving democratic society." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/how-to-stay-free-in-unfree-times | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:54:37

• "Over the past decade, key institutions upholding the international order have been diminished, crippled or compromised." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jun/26/are-we-witnessing-the-death-of-international-law | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:54:59

• "Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored data encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/whatsapp-banned-us-house-representatives-devices-memo-2025-06-23/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:55:30

• "Yet, for all the genuine reluctance that prominent MAGA figures are airing over the prospect of veering into another Middle East quagmire," ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-evangelicals-christian-nationalists-iran-israel-end-times/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:56:45

• "in the coming school year, students in these territories will no longer be able to study Ukrainian at all." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/26/the-geopolitical-situation-has-changed | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:56:53

• "1Bln Euros in Sanctioned Aircraft Parts" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/06/26/russia-has-imported-1-bln-euros-in-sanctioned-aircraft-parts-since-2022-yle-a89579 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:57:20

• "bipartisan group of lawmakers" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/bipartisan-bill-aims-to-block-chinese-ai-from-federal-agencies/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:58:15

• "I think the safest way of describing it is that Iran knows where it is, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the public doesn't, and if the [Americans/Israelis] do, they're not telling" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-uranium-bombing-mystery-hunt/33455695.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:58:25

• "damning examples of Trump administration dissembling and defiance of lower courts, and warnings of more defiance of federal courts from an emboldened president." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-06-26/supreme-court-shadow-docket-deportation | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 11:58:55

• "What disturbed me was something far more subtle and far more dangerous: watching someone with extraordinary wealth and influence treat the most consequential questions of human existence—the survival of our species" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/ideas-without-love | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:00:17

• "We have been consistently clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon." ☛ https://www.twincities.com/2025/06/26/other-voices-the-push-to-end-irans-nukes-must-continue/ | Source: TwinCities Pioneer Press    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:00:26

• "The implications for the legal community, who face strict solicitor-client confidentiality requirements, are particularly notable." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/why-bill-c-2-faces-a-likely-constitutional-challenge-by-placing-solicitor-client-privilege-at-risk/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:01:29

• "the data is not connected; AI is only powerful when the data is connected." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/kaseya_ceo_why_ai_adoption/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:04:34

• "It is your job to ensure veteran privacy is being maintained at VA." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2025/06/25/lawmakers-press-va-for-details-on-doge-access-to-vets-records/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:05:03

• "Simply put, The Corporate Cover-Up Act (S.B. 690) is a blatant attack on digital privacy, and is written to eviscerate long-standing privacy laws and legal safeguards Californians rely on. If passed, it would: [...]" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/californias-corporate-cover-act-privacy-nightmare | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:06:07

• "The law is set to take effect on July 1, 2025, and Pornhub’s parent company Aylo will begin restricting access to its adult sites for residents in South Dakota in protest on June 30, 2025" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2823666/best-vpn-for-south-dakota-pornhub-workarounds.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:06:42

• [Old] "Unfortunately, also, capitalism. Even at the University where I work, which should be above such things" ☛ https://vowel.space/stuff/posts/2024-05-24-email.html | Source: Kevin B McGowan    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:08:44

• >Windows TCO: "One patient sadly died unexpectedly during the cyberattack." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/qilin_ransomware_nhs_death/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:09:24

• "My server is getting absolutely obliterated by AI scrapers today. Load is 140+ and I just manually banned 58,000 IP addresses." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/under-attack-please-stand-by/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:11:54

• "I am a nerd for terminology and selecting the right word. Anytime I find myself debating terms, seeking to map out the detail they bring to our discussions, I end up making a table, like so: [...]" ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/25/prompts-vs-context.html | Source: Drew Breunig    

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

• "The public really, really does not like governments using automated systems to punish them." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/06/25/we-will-find-you-how-a-flawed-algorithm-terrorized-welfare-recipients.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:16:54

• "even as the models otherwise become more advanced — a problem that will likely get worse as AI embeds itself ever more deeply into our lives." ☛ https://futurism.com/chatgpt-bleach-vinegar | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:17:47

• "Backed by tech money" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/06/ai-education-mackenzie-price-tech/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:18:14

• "So you may have seen that Elon Musk’s long-hyped Robotaxis have finally “launched” in Austin. And it’s going just about how you’d expect if you’re familiar with the fit and finish of Elon Musk promises." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/26/trump-nhtsa-investigates-tesla-robotaxis-failing-to-adhere-to-basic-austin-traffic-laws/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:19:16

• "I think this is a slippery slope. Let’s take one area that came up personally—self-assessments and reflections at work." ☛ https://bentsai.org/posts/you-think | Source: Ben Tsai    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:23:54

• "Following up on our earlier post, “How Long Contexts Fail”, let’s run through the ways we can mitigate or avoid these failures entirely" ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/26/how-to-fix-your-context.html | Source: Drew Breunig    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:24:06

• "So up to 10% of responses are not accurate." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/25/verizons-new-ai-chatbot-customer-disservice/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:24:23

• "The issue is that hackers working for one side can use the cameras in the opposing country to gather military intelligence, either to plan an attack or to assess the effectiveness of one" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/security-cameras/there-are-40-000-easily-hacked-security-cameras-out-there-are-they-helping-iran-and-israel-wage-war | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:31:19

• "The local authority has confirmed the attack started on June 19 and attributed it to a supply chain issue involving a third-party contractor's supplier." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/glasgow_city_council_cyberattack/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:31:33

• "Be warned though that you will have to jump through hoops to share stuff between a Windows laptop and an iPhone for example." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/06/how-to-choose-your-next-smartphone/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:32:13

• "Successful exploitation of the security defect could lead to unintended control flow and denial-of-service (DoS), Citrix notes in its advisory." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-citrix-netscaler-flaw-exploited-as-zero-day/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:32:45

• "An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by uploading a crafted file to the affected device." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-cisco-ise-vulnerabilities-allow-remote-code-execution/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:33:42

• "Citrix on Wednesday disclosed an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting multiple versions of NetScaler products" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/citrix-zero-day-netscaler/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:34:43

• "I'm having an interesting issue with Cloudflare again, possibly once again due to Caching." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/cloudflare-quartz/ | Source: Ava    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:37:08

• "Across social media, iPhone owners are complaining that their Wallet app sent out a push notification offering a $10 discount at Fandango for anyone buying two or more tickets to the film." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/24/iphone-customers-upset-by-apple-wallet-ad-pushing-f1-movie/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:37:52

• "The main selling point for me is that Kagi isn’t powered by AdTech and allows us who have the money to pay a monthly fee for a pleasant search experience." ☛ https://flamedfury.com/posts/how-i-use-kagi/ | Source: Flamed Fury    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:38:06

• "Considering recent news, you may have missed that the 2025 trustees reports for Social Security and Medicare are out." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-06-26/social-security-medicare-insolvency-trustees | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:40:06

• "What I learned from obsessively tracking my health for half a year is that paying too much attention to what your body is doing can ruin your life." ☛ https://www.vox.com/technology/417713/apple-watch-oura-whoop-health-tracking-fitness | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:40:27

• "Planned Parenthood is already barred from receiving federal money for abortion care but the 6-3 ruling would also allow states to cut off reimbursements for other medical services" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2316165.html | Source: RTL    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:40:54

• "Driving the news: The case, Medina v. Planned Parenthood, stemmed from South Carolina's move to block Medicaid recipients from getting care at Planned Parenthood clinics in the state." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/06/26/planned-parenthood-scotus-decision-trump | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:41:20

• "On Thursday, however, the Republican justices ruled, in Medina v. Planned Parenthood, that Medicaid patients may not choose their health provider." ☛ https://www.vox.com/scotus/417844/supreme-court-medicaid-abortion-medina-planned-parenthood-south-carolina | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:43:11

• "Now Kennedy is asserting a position that the U.S. will no longer support vaccination abroad as safe, effective, and a core pillar of medicine and public health" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/why-young-people-are-hooking-up-less-than-ever | Source: New Yorker    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:43:24

• "Each year, over 50,000 concerts take place in the United States. More than 140 artists performed at Coachella alone. Netflix offers more than 5,000 films and 2,500 series." ☛ https://nesslabs.com/yama | Source: Ness Labs    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:43:37

• "It’s created such wreckage to have implied that history and humanities are luxury goods, rather than essential services." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/26/did-my-fathers-world-die-with-him-grieving-the-incalculable-costs-of-stem/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:44:27

• "When I started to apply just a little queueing theory, it absolutely revolutionized my practice. If you’re responsible for the health of a software service, watch this talk." ☛ https://blog.danslimmon.com/2025/06/25/lecture-queueing-theory-on-a-cocktail-napkin/ | Source: Dan Slimmon    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:46:28

• "The scientist also knew the artifact had been contaminated with glue used for its restoration, which meant, as with the first dating, the results wouldn’t be reliable." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-06-26/boomerang-carved-from-mammoth-tusk-shows-homo-sapiens-had-symbolic-thinking-42000-years-ago.html | Source: El País    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:46:59

• "Now, based on new analyses, researchers are more confident in the boomerang’s timeline." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-worlds-oldest-boomerang-is-even-older-than-scientists-thought-a-new-analysis-suggests-180986885/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:47:17

• "We introduced a prime number visualization called Jacob’s Ladder." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/06/the-distribution-of-prime-numbers.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:47:48

• "An unprecedented study reveals maternal lineages, female-centered practices, and a “surprising shift” in a 9,000-year-old settlement associated with a goddess cult." ☛ https://www.404media.co/dna-from-prehistoric-proto-city-reveals-surprising-signs-of-female-centered-society/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:48:19

• "Have you ever wondered what more there is to see beyond the colors of the rainbow? Our world is awash in light, much of which remains invisible to the human eye." ☛ https://news.sparkfun.com/14067 | Source: SparkFun Electronics    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:49:10

• "Just having a blog and website and no social media is admittedly something I am in a very very sturdy bubble in." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/blog-website-eval/ | Source: Ava    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:49:40

• "Lake Tahoe Boat Tragedy Claims Longtime Apple Employee Paula Bozinovich" ☛ https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/25/lake-tahoe-boat-tragedy-claims-longtime-apple-employee-paula-bozinovich | Source: John Gruber    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:50:01

• "I have been thinking about how quick time is going." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/how-time-flies/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:50:22

• "Bill Moyers, a key member of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson's inner circle who went on to become a guiding force in American journalism during more than 40 years in public television, died on Thursday aged 91." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-06-26/bill-moyers-broadcaster-and-lbjs-white-house-press-secretary-dies-at-91-washington-post | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:50:49

• "Bill Moyers, the esteemed journalist, presidential adviser and philanthropist, died on Thursday at age 91 in New York." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/free-press-mourns-bill-moyers | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:51:10

• "But Moyers was often frustrated with the restraints of corporate-owned media and returned to non-commercial PBS each time." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-06-26/bill-moyers-dead-pbs-journalist-white-house-aide | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:51:30

• "In 1988, Moyers produced "The Secret Government" about the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration and simultaneously published a book under the same name." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51336131/bill-moyers-the-former-white-house-press-secretary-turned-acclaimed-tv-journalist-dead-at-91 | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:51:50

• Microsoft's Financial Problems Mean Shutdowns, Not Just Mass Layoffs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/27/Microsoft_s_Financial_Problems_Mean_Shutdowns_Not_Just_Mass_Lay.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:54:47

• No, I.C.B.M. Does Not Care About People With Disabilities ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/27/No_IBM_Does_Not_Care_About_People_With_Disabilities.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:54:57

• WebProNews is a Slopfarm ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/WebProNews_is_a_Slopfarm.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:55:08

• "Inspired by Arnov Sharma’s project on Hackster, your author decided to try to create a Pico-powered drum machine using a DF Mini Player to play the drum samples." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-powered-drum-machine/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:55:51

• Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2 is Available to Download ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/ubuntu-25-10-snapshot-2-is-available-to-download/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:57:30

• Canonical Seems to Have Culled Some Sources of LLM Slop From Planet Ubuntu ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/Canonical_Seems_to_Have_Culled_Some_Sources_of_LLM_Slop_From_Pl.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:58:54

• Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2 is Now Available to Download ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-25-10-snapshot-2-released    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 12:59:02

• KDE Update Turns Off Potentially Seizure Triggering Effect ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kde-plasma-6-4-1-update-disables-a-seizure-triggering-effect    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 13:00:59

• OpenShift 4.19 brings a unified console for developers and admins ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/26/openshift-419-brings-unified-console-developers-and-admins    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:04:20

• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4.8 simplifies management, enhances workflows, and offers deeper external IP visibility https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-advanced-cluster-security-48-simplifies-management-enhances-workflows-and-offers-deeper-external-ip-visibility"    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:06:24

• 3 steps to secure network segmentation with Ansible and proprietary trap AWS ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/26/3-steps-secure-network-segmentation-ansible-and-aws    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:08:01

• Cockpit Project: Cockpit 341 and Cockpit-podman 108 ☞ https://cockpit-project.org//blog/cockpit-341.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:08:45

• Plasma 6.4 review - A worrying trend ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-6-4-review.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:10:01

• Stupid buzzwords https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/redhat-ai-with-redhat-services-checklist    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:12:38

• Seems like a sponsored puff piece https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/Red-Hat-launches-llm-d-community-project later Red Hat links to it    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:14:15

• Looks like LLM slop disguised as an article https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/opinion/Container-native-infrastructure-The-missing-link-between-DevOps-and-enterprise-scale    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:15:28

• Openwashing spam, sponsored by GAFAM-Epsteingate Foundation ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/26/thecube-analyzes-rise-open-source-observability-opensourcesummit/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:20:30

• "according to new research from The 'Linux' Foundation" = PAID SPAM!!! https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/26/linux-foundation-open-source-ai-opensourcesummit/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/27/What_Linux_Foundation_Research_is_Paid_Marketing.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:21:03

• GStreamer 1.26.3 Delivers Bug and Security Fixes ☞ https://linuxiac.com/gstreamer-1-26-3-delivers-bug-and-security-fixes/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:25:47

• Elelem – versatile LLM client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/elelem-versatile-llm-client/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:26:14

• 15 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Password Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-password-managers/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:26:39

• "The most striking novelty of Deepin 25 is the new Deepin Desktop Environment (DDE) 7.0, redesigned with a focus on elegance and usability. Leveraging QML, the development team has achieved a pleasing, fluid, and visually coherent desktop interface." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/deepin-25-launches-as-immutable-linux-release/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:27:48

• "Key elements, such as skeuomorphic icons and gracefully rounded window corners, offer users a polshed and inviting aesthetic" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/deepin-25-launches-as-immutable-linux-release/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:28:05

• "Tails 6.17 privacy-focused Linux distro is out now with a new "Show Password" feature, alongside critical Tor Browser and uBlock Origin updates." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tails-6-17-released-with-improved-password-management/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:28:35

• BredOS – Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution designed for single-board computers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bredos-arch-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:29:00

• "Furthermore, I decided to try using Wayland. As I said in my Xlibre article, I have no emotional investment in software. I don't care. I want things to work." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-6-4-review.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:29:30

• "Since the Plasma team spends a lot of work and energy in making their desktop pretty and shiny, including Wayland support, I decided to give it a go. And that's the very first thing I will cover in this review. Then, we shall expand more on the finer points of the sweet Plasma desktop. Let us begin, shall we."    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:29:51

• "Those of you upgrading to Plasma 6.4.1 (released yesterday) may notice a more substantive change than the type we typically make in bug-fix releases: The “highlight window” effect for Task Manager thumbnails is now off by default." ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/25/a-slight-ux-change-in-plasma-6-4-1/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:30:44

• "This is the effect that makes other windows fade out when you hover over a window’s thumbnail." ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/25/a-slight-ux-change-in-plasma-6-4-1/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 14:31:08

• "Along with improved storage of EXIF data and official HDR support, the standard now officially supports APNGs – animated PNGs. This extension was devised by Mozilla and it's become part of the standard" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/new_version_of_png/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 15:47:57

• "The sRGB and Adobe RGB options on cameras both use the RGB color model, where images are made up of red, green and blue color channels. That’s how digital cameras capture colors, how computer monitors and mobile devices display them and how we usually edit them." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/srgb-or-adobe-rgb-which-color-space-should-you-use-on-your-camera-and-whats-the-difference | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 15:48:10

• "Jokes aside, this is exciting news." ☛ https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/ | Source: Chris Blume    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 15:49:22

• "I get Travis’ sentiment." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/inside-javas-language-renaissance/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:04:16

• "I recently needed to build a custom Lua interpreter in Go." ☛ https://www.zombiezen.com/blog/2025/06/why-go-rocks-for-building-lua-interpreter/ | Source: Zombie Zen    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:04:35

• "Go 1.25 is scheduled for release in August, so it's a good time to explore what's new." ☛ https://antonz.org/go-1-25/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:04:56

• "I recently wrote about how the X Window System didn't immediately have (thin client) X terminals." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XTerminalsSomeNotes | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:05:42

• "In order to draw a plot having a similar pattern with above one, I will use only ggplot2 and ggpubr packages. Texts are from windows family. I do not import any extra fonts." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/how-to-make-a-financial-times-plot-with-ggplot2-in-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:06:15

• "Candlestick charts are a type of financial chart used to depict the price movements of an asset over a specific period." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/how-to-draw-a-candlestick-chart-in-r-both-ggplot2-and-plotly/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:06:45

• "In our previous post, we introduced the four components that make up a litmus package score: documentation, popularity, code quality, and maintenance. In this post, we’ll look at package popularity." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/r-package-quality-package-popularity/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:07:01

• "Now that we’ve extracted data from the FIT file, what else can we do with it?" ☛ https://www.perl.com/article/analysing-fit-data-with-perl-producing-png-plots/ | Source: Perl    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:08:04

• "In large centralised organisations, there is a support function whose (thankless) job it is to absorb some of that impact before passing it on to the people who are responsible for fixing the problem." ☛ https://arunraghavan.net/2025/06/the-unbearable-anger-of-broken-audio/ | Source: Arun Raghavan    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:08:30

• "This post was prompted by Nicolas Martyanoff’s post on pathnames and the mention of logical pathnames there." ☛ https://aartaka.me/logical-pathnames.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:08:58

• "A simple, useful, plain-text variant of Donald Knuth’s paragraph-filling algorithm can be expressed as a fold. This algorithm runs in time linear to the length of its input and usually produces better results than the classic greedy text-flow algorithm" ☛ https://www.sigwinch.xyz/cs/2024/flow-fold.html | Source: Wolfgang    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:12:41

• "It can be quite difficult to judge whether Framework X is worth your valuable time. Most often, the answer is no—especially for web frameworks. Jake Lazaroff claims that Web Components will outlive your JavaScript framework." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/06/no-time-to-learn-web-framework-x/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

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

• "C23 has a new rule for struct, union, and enum compatibility finally appearing in compilers starting with GCC 15, released this past April, and Clang later this year." ☛ https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/06/26/ | Source: Chris Wellons    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:13:30

• "Commissioned by the Sovereign Tech Agency, the Foundation is pleased to share that work began in April 2025 on a new project to enable Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) for FreeBSD." ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/software-bill-of-materials-sbom-for-freebsd-project/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:14:17

• "In this Julia for Devs post, we will discuss improving the performance of simulation code written in Julia by eliminating sources of type-instabilities." ☛ https://blog.glcs.io/sim-performance-type-stability | Source: Great Lakes Consulting Services Inc    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:14:45

• "If you use the terminal daily for 10 or 20 years, even if you don’t understand exactly why these things happen" ☛ https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/06/24/new-zine--the-secret-rules-of-the-terminal/ | Source: Julia Evans    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:15:40

• "The Cambridge Cybercrime Centre‘s eight one day conference on cybercrime was held on Monday, 23rd June 2025" ☛ https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2025/06/25/cambridge-cybercrime-conference-2025-liveblog/ | Source: Light Blue Touchpaper    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:15:49

• "But Google being Google I now had to spend a moment figuring out how to update it in order to make it work with Manifest V3." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/minimal-new-page | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:16:28

• "My-Mind is a simple mind map application, with not many bells and whistles. I see that as a big advantage." ☛ https://box.matto.nl/mymind-wonderful-selfhosted-mindmap-web-application.html | Source: MJ Fransen    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:16:50

• "One goal of this malware is to create a network proxy on the devices of unsuspecting buyers" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/fbi-warning-iot-devices-how-tell-if-you-are-impacted | Source: EFF    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:17:17

• "Following my appointment as VP Engineering for Ubuntu, I moved all of my machines from NixOS to Ubuntu." ☛ https://jnsgr.uk/2025/06/from-nixos-to-ubuntu/ | Source: Jon Seager    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:18:15

• "The deepin distribution team has announced version 25 of its operating system." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12486 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:18:40

• "Automatic upgrades are available from Tails 6.0 or later to 6.17." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_17/ | Source: Tor    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:19:35

• "After deepin 25 Preview, Alpha, and Beta community co-creation testing phases, deepin 25 makes its grand debut today! Centered on the theme "All Advancing, All Renewed", this release delivers four major innovations, implements over 1000 optimizations and fixes, offering developers and users a more reliable, smoother, and freer open-source operating system experience." https://www.deepin.org/en/deepin-25/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:21:02

• Eugenics giant IBM attacking poor people again ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/fedora-linux-ponders-dropping-32-bit-packages-could-force-bazzite-to-shut-down-according-to-its-creator | Source: Tom's Hardware http://techrights.org/o/2022/04/08/planned-obsolescence-ibm/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:24:14

• What is "MATA"? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/What_is_MATA.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:24:59

• Wayland is Perfect, Nobody Can Escape Its Perfection! (Or Not) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Wayland_is_Perfect_Nobody_Can_Escape_Its_Perfection_Or_Not.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:25:10

• Wayland Pushers Lose the Argument, Use LLM Slop and Chatbots to Make Up Arguments for I.C.B.M. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Wayland_Pushers_Lose_the_Argument_Use_LLM_Slop_and_Chatbots_to_.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:25:24

• Michael Meeks: 2025-06-24 Tuesday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-06-24.html "partner call in the evening" https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-06-25.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:25:52

• Slopwatch: A Wreck and a Dreck, "Flooding the Zone With Dreck" or Flooding the Web With Junk ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Slopwatch_A_Wreck_and_a_Dreck_Flooding_the_Zone_With_Dreck_or_F.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:27:58

• Microsoft Has Lost "The War" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Microsoft_Has_Lost_The_War.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:28:07

• BetaNews Beginning to Show What Its True Goals Are ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/BetaNews_Beginning_to_Show_What_Its_True_Goals_Are.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:28:22

• 5,600 Pages/Articles Per Year ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/5_600_Pages_Articles_Per_Year.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:28:33

• Bumble's Hey Hi (AI) icebreakers are mainly breaking EU law ☞ https://noyb.eu/en/bumbles-ai-icebreakers-are-mainly-breaking-eu-law    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:29:11

• Why the "Wayland People" and "Rust People" Will Lose Hearts and Minds (Same Reasons) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Why_the_Wayland_People_and_Rust_People_Will_Lose_Hearts_and_Min.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:29:31

• Why Techrights Cannot be Vilified (and Instead It Gets SLAPPed Repeatedly by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft People) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Why_Techrights_Cannot_be_Vilified_and_Instead_It_Gets_SLAPPed_R.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:29:46

• EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part I - Burnout and Family Health ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/EPO_Squeezing_the_Staff_Part_I_Burnout_and_Family_Health.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:30:55

• On "Weak Claims" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/On_Weak_Claims.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:31:04

• Free Software Foundation (FSF) Campaigns Against Vista 11, Adds 4 New Associate Members Per Day ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Campaigns_Against_Vista_11_Adds_4_.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:32:25

• Next Month Marks 11 Years Since Our In-Depth EPO Coverage ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/Next_Month_Marks_11_Years_Since_Our_In_Depth_EPO_Coverage.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:33:20

• How to Kill a Monopoly ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/How_to_Kill_a_Monopoly.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:33:29

• China Keeps Breaking Into Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Systems, So for True Sovereignty, Nations Wary of China Need to Dump Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/China_Keeps_Breaking_Into_Microsoft_Systems_So_for_True_Soverei.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:33:40

• No, I Don't Want Your Latest XYZ, ThankYouVeryMuch... ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/No_I_Don_t_Want_Your_Latest_XYZ_ThankYouVeryMuch.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:33:54

• Taiwan says it is determined to defend itself as China vows to boost combat readiness ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-military-vows-to-boost-combat-readiness-after-taiwan-president-speeches    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:35:12

• Mozilla Localization (L10N): Reconnecting in Berlin: A Celebration of Mozilla’s Localization Community ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2025/06/26/reconnecting-in-berlin-a-celebration-of-mozillas-localization-community/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:35:32

• 10,000+ Articles in About 20 Months (and How We Got Here) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/10_000_Articles_in_About_20_Months_and_How_We_Got_Here.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:37:11

• Technical People Need Technical Lawyers ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/Technical_People_Need_Technical_Lawyers.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:37:25

• Kay Bailey Hutchison: 'Europe can count on America, our Congress is overwhelmingly pro-NATO' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250626-kay-bailey-hutchison-europe-can-count-on-america-our-congress-is-overwhelmingly-pro-nato    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:37:40

• Japanese police arrest 2 schoolteachers for taking and sharing indecent photos of girls ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japanese-police-arrest-2-school-teachers-for-taking-and-sharing-indecent-photos-of-girls    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:38:29

• A Photo Gone Wrong in the Uffizi Fuels Selfie Worries in Europe’s Museums ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/world/europe/uffizi-selfies-tourists-museums.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:38:46

• This 1D camera captures 2D images of things it can’t see ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/25/this-1d-camera-captures-2d-images-of-things-it-cant-see/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:39:15

• Microsoft Layoffs Next Week: About 10% to be Laid Off in Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Gaming (2 Days Before Independence Day), About 20%+ of XBox Staff (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/Microsoft_Layoffs_Next_Week_About_10_to_be_Laid_Off_in_Microsof.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:39:55

• IBM - Like Abusive Monopolist Microsoft - is a Dying Company and Perishing Brand ("AI" is a Lie and Decoy) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/IBM_Like_Microsoft_is_a_Dying_Company_and_Perishing_Brand_AI_is.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:40:07

• EPO Squeezing the Staff - Part II - Office Breaks Rules, Ignores Courts, Defies Justice (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/EPO_Squeezing_the_Staff_Part_II_Office_Breaks_Rules_Ignores_Cou.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:40:18

• The 'Case' of the Serial Strangler From Abusive Monopolist Microsoft is a Lot of Copypasta (Maybe Also LLM Slop) From the Matthew Garrett 'Case' (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/The_Case_of_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_is_a_Lot_of_Cop.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:41:29

• EPO Examiners Point Out to the Heads of Delegations in the Administrative Council of the EPO That the "AI Policy" of the Office is Illegal (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/EPO_Examiners_Point_Out_to_the_Heads_of_Delegations_in_the_Admi.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:41:41

• White House Bans WhatsApp ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/06/white-house-bans-whatsapp.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:42:06

• New homegrown China server chips unveiled with impressive specs — Loongson's 3C6000 CPU comes armed with 64 cores, 128 threads, and performance to rival Xeon 8380 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/new-homegrown-china-server-chips-unveiled-with-impressive-specs-loongsons-3c6000-cpu-comes-armed-with-64-cores-128-threads-and-performance-to-rival-xeon-8380    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:43:18

• "DragonFly BSD is clearly the one of the four “main” BSD operating systems, that I’m least familiar with." ☛ https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-4-a-critical-look-at-dragonfly-bsds-installer/ | Source: Eerie Linux    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:44:33

• "Sovereign Tech Agency," ☛ https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd-ports-and-packages-security-project/ | Source: FreeBSD    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:44:43

• "But what if your PC doesn’t meet the spec?" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/before-windows-10-goes-eol-im-testing-three-alternative-linux-distros-to-save-my-6-year-old-laptop-from-the-landfill | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:45:31

• "our family's Atari 800" ☛ https://scottandrew.com/blog/2025/06/you-can-now-play-plot-of-the-phantom-the-text-adventure-game/ | Source: Scott Andrew    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:46:04

• "If we don't respect each other, we don't play a good game. And then life as well." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/this-architectural-engineer-has-been-playing-chess-against-public-londons-streets-16-years-1736780 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:46:13

• "FreeBSD version 14.3 is available, Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware, My website is ugly because I made it" ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/617 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:46:47

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-06-27.gmi    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:51:07

• 🔤SpellBinding: ABCENKH Wordo: BARNS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-06-27.gmi    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:51:50

• "Anyways, I want to see if Gemini will stick. Maybe I'll abandon my site and move things here but it's more likely that I'll run them side by side for a little while until I figure all this out. While I don't enjoy using the internet as much these days, I have this urge to write." gemini://tilde.club/~draw/20250626.gmi    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:53:41

• Editor's note from the "Kol Ha'am" newspaper gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-06-27_the_editors_article_p1.gmi    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:54:59

• "It hasn't been long since we launched the site, but the challenges are evident. Most people nowadays are busy with social networks such as Facebook and Instagram, or television and radio, and do not find their way to sites like ours."    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:56:57

• "Unfortunately, many people are not even aware of the Jimny network, and even among the people close to me, they do not have the necessary technological knowledge to find the site, send an email, or even operate a computer."    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:57:04

• With very technical sites it is less of a problem as the target audience tends to be inherently technical, can do RSS or figure out sites are not "APPS" or "ON FACEBOOK"!    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:57:11

• To some people, today and years ago, "open a browser" or "enter address in a browser" means nothing; they think that "it's an app" or something in "my wall" or "the timeline"; it's clear who stands to benefit from such collective ignorance. It also lessens the "need" for Web censorship...    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 16:59:50

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 605 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/06/25/this-week-in-rust-605/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:01:21

• Haha... "hyperscale clown computing"... telling Japan to open its butt cheeks for GAFAM ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/digital-dai-ichi-with-right-balance-japan-can-shape-its-hyperscale-future/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:02:12

• Putin cannot attend BRICS summit in Brazil as he fears arrest for war crimes ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putin-cannot-attend-brics-summit-in-brazil-as-he-fears-arrest-for-war-crimes/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:02:36

• Russia’s persecution of the Crimean Tatars must not be forgotten ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-persecution-of-the-crimean-tatars-must-not-be-forgotten/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:02:55

• Council of Europe and Ukraine agree to establish Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/council-of-europe-and-ukraine-agree-to-establish-special-tribunal-for-the-crime-of-aggression/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:03:18

• A Show Of Support But No Action: Ukraine’s Diplomatic Disappointment in Brussels and The Hague ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-ukraine-nato-brussels-membership-diplomacy/33455926.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:03:33

• Death Toll From Russian Missile Attack On Dnipro Rises; Ukraine Claims To Stabilize Sumy Front Line ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-missile-strike-front-line/33455726.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:03:46

• N. Korea sending more troops to Russia for Ukraine war: Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-may-send-more-troops-to-russia-in-july-or-august-for-ukraine-war-seoul-says    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:04:00

• Taiwan to issue new air-raid guidance, learning from Ukraine and Israel ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-to-issue-new-air-raid-guidance-learning-from-ukraine-and-israel    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:04:22

• They Escaped War in Ukraine. It Found Them in Israel. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/world/europe/ukrainian-family-israel-iran-war.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:04:39

• Why Ukraine Fell Down the Agenda at the NATO Summit ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/world/europe/russia-ukraine-nato-summit-trump-zelensky.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:04:53

• The Weapon That Terrorizes Ukrainians by Night ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/magazine/ukraine-russia-war-drone-shahed-iran.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:05:07

• "war crimes investigations in Ukraine" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/27/white-house-recommends-cutting-funding-for-war-crimes-investigations-in-ukraine-reuters | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:08:29

• "Russian offensive in Sumy region has stalled" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/26/ukraine-s-top-commander-says-russian-offensive-in-sumy-region-has-stalled | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:08:43

• "North Korea could send troops to support a new Russian offensive" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/26/north-korea-could-send-troops-to-support-a-new-russian-offensive-in-ukraine-as-soon-as-july-south-korean-intelligence-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:09:01

• China hosts Iranian, Russian defence ministers against backdrop of ‘momentous change’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/26/china-hosts-iranian-russian-defence-ministers-against-backdrop-of-momentous-change/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:09:21

• EU ‘very likely’ to agree on new Russia sanctions – Lithuanian FM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2598001/eu-very-likely-to-agree-on-new-russia-sanctions-lithuanian-fm    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:09:32

• Lithuania passes legislation in anticipation of national Russia sanctions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2597934/lithuania-passes-legislation-in-anticipation-of-national-russia-sanctions    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:09:44

• North Korea may send more troops to Russia by August, South Korea says ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/06/26/north-korea-russia-troops-deployment/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:09:57

• China hosts Iranian, Russian defence ministers against backdrop of ‘momentous change’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-hosts-iranian-russian-defence-ministers-against-backdrop-of-momentous-change    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:10:15

• Iran relies on China and Russia. They didn’t show up for its fight with Israel. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0626/china-russia-iran-korea-axis-upheaval    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:10:39

• Grand Jury Indicts Russian Scientist on Smuggling Charges ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/science/russian-scientist-harvard-smuggling-deportation-petrova.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:10:52

• North Korea targets Russian tourists for new Wonsan beach resort: Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-targets-russian-tourists-for-new-wonsan-beach-resort-seoul    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:11:10

• "new law on ‘protecting’ the Russian language" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/cards/vulgar-borrowings-that-pollute-and-distort | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:11:27

• "U.S. officials add new felony charges to case against Russian scientist Kseniia Petrova" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/06/26/u-s-officials-add-new-felony-charges-to-case-against-russian-scientist-kseniia-petrova | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:11:49

• "An App Store ultimatum New legislation will require Apple to open iPhones and iPads to Russia’s state-backed marketplace" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/27/an-app-store-ultimatum | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:12:08

• Meta Wins Partial Summary Judgment in Hey Hi (AI) Infringement Claim ☞ https://heathermeeker.com/2025/06/26/meta-wins-partial-summary-judgment-in-ai-infringement-claim/    

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

• Public Knowledge Opposes Bill Paywalling the Law ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-opposes-bill-paywalling-the-law/ Public Knowledge = https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:13:50

• Meta comes out winner in Hey Hi (AI) copyright monopoly case against authors ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/25/meta-comes-winner-ai-copyright-case-authors/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:14:16

• Recommended Reading: The Trademark Reporter, May-June 2025 Issue ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/06/recommended-reading-trademark-reporter.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:14:41

• Judge Says Authors Made the Wrong Arguments in Ruling for Meta on Fair Use ☞ https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/06/26/judge-says-authors-made-wrong-arguments-ruling-meta-fair-use/id=189857/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:15:13

• ‘Artificially Intelligent’ Economics of Fair Use ☞ https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/06/26/artificially-intelligent-economics-fair-use/id=189846/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:15:23

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

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:15:38

• U.S. Government: NPEs Deserve Injunctive Relief when their Patents Are Infringed ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/government-injunctive-infringed.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:16:54

• Ubuntu's Parent Company Made $292 Million Last Year ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntus-parent-company-made-292-million    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:17:10

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

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:18:06

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

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:18:25

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

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:18:54

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

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:22:59

• Terrible thing to be doing as this is proprietary spyware of Microsoft that steals all user passwords without consent ☞ https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-edge-almalinux-10/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:24:11

• https://www.softpedia.com/ became a zombie site. After they killed the Linux news section they basically ended all news altogether. Shot in their own foot.    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:27:29

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

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:27:39

• How To Install OBS Studio on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-obs-studio-centos-stream-10/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:32:10

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

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:32:46

• How To Install VLC Media Player on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-vlc-media-player-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:33:28

• How to Install Wiki.js on Debian 12 ☞ https://www.howtoforge.com/step-by-step-installing-wikijs-on-debian-12/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:53:04

• How to add non-Steam games to your Steam Deck with Heroic Games Launcher ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/how-to-add-non-steam-games-to-your-steam-deck-with-heroic-games-launcher    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:53:55

• Bits from Debian: AMD Platinum Sponsor of DebConf25 ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2025/06/amd-platinum-debconf25.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:54:41

• Pluralistic: Surveillance is inequality's stabilizer (26 Jun 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/26/autostabilizer/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:55:46

• Keeping Things Accessible ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/Keeping_Things_Accessible.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:56:50

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1027082/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:57:23

• Orchestrating Hey Hi (AI) in clinical settings with jBPM ☞ https://opensource.net/orchestrating-ai-in-clinical-settings-with-jbpm/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:57:48

• Microsoft-funded openwashing propaganda (LF) https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/26/open-source-devs-global-cybersecurity-laws-opensourcesummit/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:58:46

• Fake, bribed-for coverage again: "opensourcesummit" https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/26/chronosphere-logs-2-0-boosts-cloud-native-observability-efficiency-opensourcesummit/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 17:59:55

• How Bad Is It?: Convicted Felon Strikes Iran, and His Base Hits Back ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/how-bad-is-it-trump-strikes-iran-and-his-base-hits-back    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:00:33

• "[Ruud], the creator of [Capturing Dust], started his latest video with what most of us would consider a solved problem: the dust collection system for his shop already had a three-stage centrifugal dust separator with more than 99.7% efficiency." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/26/optimizing-dust-separation-for-extreme-efficiency/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:01:34

• Linux Journal is a Slopfarm, It's Experimenting With LLM 'Authors' ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Linux_Journal_is_a_Slopfarm_It_s_Experimenting_With_LLM_Authors.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:01:44

• R Package Quality: Package Popularity ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/r-package-quality-package-popularity/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:12:44

• admiral 1.3.0: documentation go!! ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/admiral-1-3-0-documentation-go/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:12:55

• KDE Plasma 6.4: Opening the Hood to See What’s New ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/kde-plasma-6-4-opening-the-hood-to-see-whats-new/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:13:24

• Modicia OS: Multimedia-Focused GNU/Linux With Flair ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/modicia-os-multimedia-focused-linux-with-flair/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:13:43

• Gnome Fundraiser Asks You to Donate Less ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/gnome-fundraiser-asks-you-to-donate-less/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:14:36

• NYC biz owner honored for supporting 35K Asian-American-owned small companies during COVID pandemic ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/06/26/us-news/nyc-business-owner-honored-for-supporting-35k-asian-american-owned-small-companies-during-covid-pandemic/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:15:12

• People Are Trying Nicotine Gum For Long Covid – Could It Treat Brain Fog? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/people-are-trying-nicotine-gum-for-long-covid-could-it-treat-brain-fog    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:15:25

• No more seaside Zooms? Lithuanian employers rethink remote work ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2597767/no-more-seaside-zooms-lithuanian-employers-rethink-remote-work    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:15:57

• The Fairphone (Gen. 6): Getting hands-on with Fairphone’s latest model ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/06/26/getting-hands-on-with-the-fairphone-gen-6/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:16:32

• A Simple Bayesian Multi-state Survival Model for a Clinical Trial ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/a-simple-bayesian-multi-state-survival-model-for-a-clinical-trial/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:17:55

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including 3Dsen PC - 2025-06-25 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-06-25-edition/index.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:18:14

• The Curious Case of XLibre Xserver ☞ https://linuxiac.com/the-curious-case-of-xlibre-xserver/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:19:05

• Cosmoe: New C++ toolkit for building native Wayland apps https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/cosmoe_new_cpp_toolkit/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:22:39

• "Over the course of my post-secondary studies, I was exposed to plenty of different operating systems. Like many people, my bread and butter is Windows, but I'm no stranger to macOS either, doing most of my work on the go with my M2 MacBook Air." https://www.xda-developers.com/3-things-linux-needs-to-have-before-i-can-make-the-swap/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:23:11

• Manage Linux storage space with du and df commands https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/feature/Manage-Linux-storage-space-with-du-and-df-commands    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:23:33

• Exploring Katana Dragon: Ninja Action RPG with Native Linux and Steam Deck Support https://news.itsfoss.com/katana-dragon-review/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:24:10

• IBM exterminates things https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/fedora-linux-ponders-dropping-32-bit-packages-could-force-bazzite-to-shut-down-according-to-its-creator    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:24:54

• "If you're trying to revive a sluggish or aging PC, Linux Lite 7.4 is a lightweight, beginner-friendly distro that's well worth a try." https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-free-linux-distro-is-the-easiest-way-to-revive-your-old-computer-how-it-works/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:25:30

• "Are you sick of reading cryptic manuals and boring articles for learning Linux? Look no further, because you can learn Linux by playing games. It's not only fun but also quite engaging. Moreover, all of them are free to play, and some are even open-source." https://www.howtogeek.com/hone-your-linux-skills-with-these-free-games/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:25:57

• on the tongue gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/on_the_tongue    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:36:29

• In Recent Hours Surveillance Giant Google News Promoted at Least 3 Slopfarms That Relayed 'Linux' Foundation Propaganda Made by Bots or LLM "Bullshit Generators" (as Dr. Stallman Dubbed Them) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/In_Recent_Hours_Google_News_Promoted_at_Least_3_Slopfarms_That_.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:43:47

• Moral Duty for "Linux Sites" to Speak Out Against LLM Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Moral_Duty_for_Linux_Sites_to_Speak_Out_Against_LLM_Slop.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:43:56

• Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Brian_Fagioli_Created_Another_Slopfarm_Targeting_Linux_After_Be.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:44:05

• Austrian GNU/Linux Usage Up to About 5% as More of Europe Abandons Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Austrian_GNU_Linux_Usage_Up_to_About_5_as_More_of_Europe_Abando.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:44:13

• This Month's Mail (MX) Server Survey Shows Abusive Monopolist Microsoft at 0.20% "Market Share" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/This_Month_s_Mail_MX_Server_Survey_Shows_Microsoft_at_0_20_Mark.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:44:21

• Mozambique: GNU/Linux Rose From 0.5% Last Year to 3% This Year ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/Mozambique_GNU_Linux_Rose_From_0_5_Last_Year_to_3_This_Year.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:44:31

• Linux Journal Wants Ads on Its LLM Slop or Ads as 'Articles' ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/Linux_Journal_Wants_Ads_on_Its_LLM_Slop_or_Ads_as_Articles.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:44:40

• 94: I’d Derailed Her ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24208    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:45:20

• Before backdoored Windows 10 goes EOL, I'm testing three alternative GNU/Linux distros to save my 6-year-old laptop from the landfill ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/before-windows-10-goes-eol-im-testing-three-alternative-linux-distros-to-save-my-6-year-old-laptop-from-the-landfill    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:46:12

• The Netherlands: GNU/Linux Measured at All-Time High ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/27/The_Netherlands_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_All_Time_High.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:46:27

• LWN is a Voice of GAFAM (Through 'Linux' Foundation, Their Front Group or Occupying Force Inside Linux) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/LWN_is_a_Voice_of_GAFAM_Through_Linux_Foundation_Their_Front_Gr.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:46:35

• French Cities Dumping Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Because They Recognise Software Freedom, Open Standards, GNU/Linux Autonomy (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/26/French_Cities_Dumping_Microsoft_Because_They_Recognise_Software.shtml    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:46:44

• My-Mind wonderful self-hosted mindmap web application ☞ https://box.matto.nl/mymind-wonderful-selfhosted-mindmap-web-application.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:47:31

• Software Patent: Fortress entity DivX video codec patent monopoly affirmed invalid by Federal Circuit ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/6/24/fortresssoftbank-entity-divx-video-codec-patent-affirmed-invalid-by-federal-circuit    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:48:45

• "Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project"... so it harvested data fir GAFAM and then shut down    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:49:40

• Rust 1.88.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1027120/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:50:05

• Kenya must obey court orders and #KeepItOn during protests ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/kenya-must-obey-court-orders-and-keepiton-during-protests/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:50:31

• Israel-Backed Aid Sites In Gaza Pose Lethal Risk for Palestinians Amid Deadly Fighting ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/world/middleeast/gaza-aid-violence.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:51:23

• RFK Jr.’s New Advisers Rescind Recommendations for Some Flu Vaccines ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/health/rfk-jr-vaccines-acip-cdc.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:51:41

• RFK Jr. Accuses Gavi, Global Vaccine Agency, of Ignoring Science ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/kennedy-vaccines-gavi.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:51:55

• The Evolution of Convicted Felon’s Views on Foreign Aid ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/health/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-video.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:52:07

• Transforming HTML With Netlify Edge Functions ☞ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/transform-html-with-edge-functions/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:52:49

• RAKwireless Raspberry Pi CM4-based industrial gateway supports both MIOTY and LoRaWAN ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/26/rakwireless-raspberry-pi-cm4-based-industrial-gateway-supports-both-mioty-and-lorawan/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:53:38

• How we turned a real car into a Mario Kart controller by intercepting CAN data ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/how-we-turned-a-real-car-into-a-mario-kart-controller-by-intercepting-can-data/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:53:58

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.88.0 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/06/26/Rust-1.88.0/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:54:36

• Steven Deobald: Donate Less ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/06/26/donate-less/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:55:24

• 2025: Finding a job, and the understanding the market ☞ https://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/2025-finding-a-job-and-the-understanding-the-market/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:56:18

• "what the marketing and PR people call "AI"" ☞ https://rubenerd.com/what-else-are-you-doing/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:56:58

• "This release also improves save activation/deactivation of the filter-graph in module-filter-chain to avoid crashes." https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-4-6-adds-new-option-to-disable-raop-improves-the-alsa-plugin    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 18:59:34

• Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/introducing-cc-signals-a-new-social-contract-for-the-age-of-ai There is no "Age of Hey Hi (AI)", it's a slop frenzy boosted by liars and scammers    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 19:01:26

• Second beta for Amarok 3.3 available ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/25/second-beta-for-amarok-3.3-available/    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 19:02:27

• KDE will drop Qt5 CI Support at the End of September 2025 ☞ https://tsdgeos.blogspot.com/2025/06/kde-will-drop-qt5-ci-support-at-end-of.html    

posted Friday, June 27, 2025 at 19:02:48

• Man Who Hacked Organizations to Advertise Security Services Pleads Guilty ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/man-who-hacked-organizations-to-advertise-security-services-pleads-guilty/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:02:22

• Bipartisan Bill Aims to Block Chinese Hey Hi (AI) From Federal Agencies ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/bipartisan-bill-aims-to-block-chinese-ai-from-federal-agencies/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:02:37

• "The 2006 VA data breach shined a spotlight on cybersecurity challenges facing government. Many of those issues persist to this day." ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/06/a-cybersecurity-awakening-at-the-va/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:03:08

• CISA Warns AMI BMC Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-warns-ami-bmc-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:03:22

• Central Kentucky Radiology Data Breach Impacts 167,000 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/central-kentucky-radiology-data-breach-impacts-167000/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:03:41

• British Man Suspected of Being the Hacker IntelBroker Arrested, Charged ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/british-man-suspected-of-being-the-hacker-intelbroker-arrested-charged/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:04:05

• Australia’s classification system must balance secrecy and usability ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-classification-system-must-balance-secrecy-and-usability/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:04:34

• Funny Hacking Stories That Will Make You Question Everything You Know About Hackers ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/hilarious-cybersecurity-breaches-funny-hacking-stories/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:06:56

• How will the Iran crisis impact Africa? ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/daily-news/international-news/how-will-the-iran-crisis-impact-africa/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:07:24

• 2 Chinese men arrested in South Korea for filming US carrier ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/26/2-chinese-men-arrested-in-south-korea-for-filming-us-carrier/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:08:32

• Hong Kong lawmakers pass nat. security amendments to labour union laws ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/26/hong-kong-lawmakers-pass-nat-security-amendments-to-labour-union-laws/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:08:46

• US judges condemn impeachment calls, urge greater security at House hearing ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/us-judges-condemn-impeachment-calls-urge-greater-security-at-house-hearing/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:09:21

• Why Cyber Resilience Requires a Cultural Shift ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/why-cyber-resilience-requires-a-cultural-shift    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:09:48

• China vows to retaliate against Taiwan for blacklisting Huawei, SMIC from chip tech — "Such despicable acts are utterly contemptible" says China spokesperson ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-vows-to-retaliate-against-taiwan-for-blacklisting-huawei-smic-from-chip-tech-such-despicable-acts-are-utterly-contemptible-says-china-spokesperson    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:10:32

• South Korea nuclear watchdog approves first dismantlement of nuclear power plant ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-nuclear-watchdog-approves-first-dismantlement-of-nuclear-power-plant    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:11:00

• Departing US top official in Hong Kong criticises reach of national security law ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/departing-us-top-official-in-hong-kong-criticises-reach-of-national-security-law    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:11:18

• Pacific Islands delay security plan that could open door to China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/pacific-islands-delay-security-plan-that-could-open-door-to-china    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:11:37

• Iran’s Attack on a U.S. Base in Qatar Is a Nightmare Come True for Gulf States ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/world/middleeast/gulf-states-iran-attack-us-qatar-base.html    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:11:46

• OpenSSF Welcomes New Members and Presents Golden Egg Award ☞ https://openssf.org/press-release/2025/06/26/openssf-welcomes-new-members-and-presents-golden-egg-award/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/    

posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 01:12:18

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