Roy Schestowitz

• A Faint Signal From The Dawn of Time Could Reveal The Very First Stars ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-faint-signal-from-the-dawn-of-time-could-reveal-the-very-first-stars    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:25:16

• Radiation Therapy Linked to Lower Alzheimer's Risk, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/radiation-therapy-linked-to-lower-alzheimers-risk-study-finds    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:25:27

• "I was renewing my vehicle registration online today (as you do), and I did not want to pay the extra "service fee" for paying with a credit card (as you don't). So I opted for the "electronic check" option, which requires me to enter my account and routing numbers." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-07-01    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:26:43

• Posts from January to June 2025 gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2025-07-01-posts-from-january-to-june-2025.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:27:31

• "I've had, for a couple years now, a good habit of journaling near-daily. I've fallen off the wagon a bit, though, and I think the reason why (aside from depression and hormone fuckery) is that I keep writing the same things, confronting the same questions without answers." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-07-01.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:28:55

• "I usually buy cheap coffee and by carefully preparing coffee, I’m able to make it taste passable." gemini://aelspire.info/posts/2025-06-25-coffee/post.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:29:54

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-07-02.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:30:31

• "I’m looking for a new image viewer… A GTK version vimiv was deprecated in favor of a Qt version, which doesn’t install on Arch Linux from AUR. Previously I was using imv which is “is currently seeking a new maintainer to adopt it”." gemini://aelspire.info/posts/2025-06-22-image-viewer/post.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:32:09

• "I’ve distrohopped to Arch Linux from Debian on my laptop to have the same distro on both of my computers. Having slightly different config and software on two computers started to get on my nerves. My server and family members’ computers are still on Debian." gemini://aelspire.info/posts/2025-06-20-arch-linux/post.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:32:43

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1339.jpg    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:34:07

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1689.jpg    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:34:14

• Microsoft collapse today: "Spill the tea please! Who knows about the teams being impacted? We all know managers or leadership have their list. Internal calls have taken place to prep for tomorrow. Insider, share the info!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz39vtv1    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:44:08

• "It’s going to be a blood bath in MCAPS [...] Judson taking sabbatical"    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:44:33

• "Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today, bringing a few interesting changes for Linux gamers, as well as various other enhancements and bug fixes." https://9to5linux.com/steam-client-now-enables-proton-by-default-for-games-without-native-linux-builds    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:45:51

• Date surfaces for when Microsoft will begin devastating Xbox layoffs https://www.tweaktown.com/news/106136/date-surfaces-for-when-microsoft-will-begin-devastating-xbox-layoffs/index.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 02:51:15

• "As a Fedora Outreachy intern, my first month has been packed with learning and contributions. This blog shares what I worked on and how I learned to navigate open source communities." https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-dei-outreachy-intern-my-first-month-recap-%f0%9f%8e%8a/ What does Fedora's DEI policy say about blind people?    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 03:25:43

• Bold Plan to DNA Test All Babies in UK Poses Serious Risks, Experts Warn ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bold-plan-to-dna-test-all-babies-in-uk-poses-serious-risks-experts-warn    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:01:33

• Alzheimer's Might Not Actually Be a Brain Disease, Says Expert ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-might-not-actually-be-a-brain-disease-says-expert    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:01:47

• 'Sky-High' Levels of Alzheimer's Protein Found in Newborns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/sky-high-levels-of-alzheimers-protein-found-in-newborns    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:01:58

• Phone Keyboard Reverse Engineered ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/30/phone-keyboard-reverse-engineered/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:02:17

• Building The Marauder LowRacer From Bike Parts ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/06/30/building-the-marauder-lowracer-from-bike-parts/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:02:36

• A Common Assumption About Aging May Be Wrong, Study Suggests ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/well/live/aging-inflammation-lifespan-environment.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:02:58

• QtGrpc - Tips, Tricks & Sweet Spots ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qtgrpc-tips-tricks-sweet-spots    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:03:27

• Tending to youth’s tender innocence ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0630/Tending-to-youth-s-tender-innocence    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:03:48

• What Happens After LLM Slop 'Hey Hi (AI)' Destroys College Writing? ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/07/the-end-of-the-english-paper    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:05:29

• GMKtec NucBox K10 Mini PC Review: Powerful Performance in a Compact Package ☞ https://www.the-diy-life.com/gmktec-nucbox-k10-mini-pc-review-powerful-performance-in-a-compact-package/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:05:49

• Bob Vylan’s Chant Against Israel’s Military at Glastonbury Draws Criminal Inquiry ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/world/europe/bob-vylan-idf-palestine-glastonbury.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:06:51

• As 90th birthday draws near, Dalai Lama may say more about potential successor ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/the-dalai-lama-a-tireless-advocate-for-tibet-and-its-people    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:07:20

• Bangkok building collapsed after Myanmar quake due to construction, design flaws, probe shows ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bangkok-building-collapsed-due-to-construction-and-design-flaws-probe-shows    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:07:34

• Thousands join Budapest Pride March in opposition to anti-LGBTQ+ laws ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/thousands-join-budapest-pride-march-in-opposition-to-anti-lgbtq-laws/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:07:59

• NYC Panel Approves Rent Increases, a Key Issue for Mamdani and Adams ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/nyregion/nyc-mamdani-adams-rent-increase.p;  

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:08:47

• Violence Erupts Between Israeli Settlers and Military in West Bank ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/world/middleeast/violence-israeli-settlers-west-bank.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:09:50

• 'No rest for NATO’s Eastern Flank': what has Daddy Convicted Felon awakened? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2598554/no-rest-for-nato-s-eastern-flank-what-has-daddy-trump-awakened    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:10:23

• NGO research suggests majority of Hong Kong national security convictions wrongfully issued ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/ngo-research-suggests-majority-of-hong-kong-national-security-convictions-wrongfully-issued/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:10:52

• Japan can help the Pacific become more resilient ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/japan-can-help-the-pacific-become-more-resilient/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:12:00

• FSF Blogs: Reverse engineering, DDoS attacks, and why we need your voice. Read more in the spring Bulletin ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/spring-2025-digital-bulletin    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:13:24

• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 898 ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/06/30/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-898/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:13:46

• Fixing Apt Update Issues Due to Unreachable Proxy on Ubuntu ☞ https://anto.online/fix-apt-update-proxy-error-ubuntu/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:14:39

• Why Models-as-a-Service architecture is ideal for Hey Hi (AI) models ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/30/why-models-service-architecture-ideal-ai-models    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:15:52

• How to run MicroShift as a container using MINC ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/30/how-run-microshift-container-using-minc    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:16:02

• Steam and GNU/Linux gaming is safe: Fedora will not drop 32-bit support after all — dev says proposal was 'not some conspiracy to break the gaming use case' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/steam-and-linux-gaming-is-safe-fedora-will-not-drop-32-bit-support-after-all-dev-says-proposal-was-not-some-conspiracy-to-break-the-gaming-use-case    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:16:44

• "AMD Hey Hi (AI) Linux-powered servers are failing to hibernate due to excessive VRAM and a high number of AMD Instinct accelerators per system." ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/supercomputers/massive-vram-pools-on-amd-instinct-accelerators-drown-linuxs-hibernation-process-1-5-tb-of-memory-per-server-creates-headaches    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:17:17

• KDE's KClock is getting Wayland Picture-In-Picture support ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/kdes-kclock-is-getting-wayland-picture-in-picture-support/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:17:37

• GNU/Linux Rises to New Highs in Angola, Africa in General is Abandoning backdoored Windows ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/30/GNU_Linux_Rises_to_New_Highs_in_Angola_Africa_in_General_is_Aba.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:18:22

• GNU/Linux Growing in Sierra Leone This Year ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/30/GNU_Linux_Growing_in_Sierra_Leone_This_Year.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:18:32

• Linux Kernel 6.17 Drops bcachefs ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Kernel-6.17-Drops-bcachefs    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:19:17

• "Navalny figurine drop" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/06/30/bidding-no-farewell | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:21:02

• fossforce? foss?? ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/06/when-nato-spending-fuels-european-startups-and-risks-for-the-us/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:21:36

• Rights organization condemns dismantlement of freedoms in Hong Kong resulting from China pressure ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/rights-organization-condemns-dismantlement-of-freedoms-in-hong-kong-resulting-from-china-pressure/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:22:10

• Diederick de Vries tries a paper calendar ☞ https://rubenerd.com/diederick-de-vries-tries-a-paper-calendar/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:22:41

• The 2025 Most Secure Phone in The World Reviews Are In: Efani, Analytics Insight, Navi, and Cashify ☞ https://puri.sm/posts/the-2025-most-secure-phone-in-the-world-reviews-are-in-efani-analytics-insight-navi-and-cashify/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:23:03

• Request for proposals: production firm for RightsCon 2026 ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/request-for-proposals-production-firm-for-rightscon-2026/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:24:22

• "Political Donations" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:24:39

• "Child Abuse Specialist" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/child-abuse-pediatrician-minneapolis-nancy-harper-cps | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:25:11

• "Towing Reforms" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/connecticut-drivers-towing-law-reform | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:25:29

• Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250630-yes-viral-video-of-tehran-s-evin-prison-explosion-is-ai-generated    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:25:48

• France's public broadcasting reform: What would its impact be? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250630-france-s-public-broadcasting-reform-what-would-its-impact-be    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:26:05

• Iran says usual cooperation with UN nuclear watchdog cannot go forward ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250630-iran-says-usual-cooperation-with-un-nuclear-watchdog-cannot-go-forward    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:26:21

• Hedging on Claim Construction: USPTO Says Keep It to One IPR Petition ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/hedging-construction-petition.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:26:42

• A top official at U.S. Cyber Command is moving on ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/06/a-top-official-at-u-s-cyber-command-is-moving-on/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:28:15

• Casie Antalis Named Executive Director of CISA ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/casie-antalis-named-executive-director-of-cisa/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:28:38

• Airoha Chip Vulnerabilities Expose Headphones to Takeover ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/airoha-chip-vulnerabilities-expose-headphones-to-takeover/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:28:56

• Patrick Ware Named Executive Director of US Cyber Command ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/patrick-ware-named-executive-director-of-us-cyber-command/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:29:52

• Canada Gives Hikvision the Boot on National Security Grounds ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/canada-gives-hikvision-the-boot-on-national-security-grounds/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:30:02

• Ahold Delhaize Data Breach Impacts 2.2 Million People ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ahold-delhaize-data-breach-impacts-2-2-million-people/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:30:29

• Hawaiian Airlines Hacked as Aviation Sector Warned of Scattered Spider Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hawaiian-airlines-hacked-as-aviation-sector-warned-of-scattered-spider-attacks/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:30:40

• "NVIDIA have given an update on their driver support for various GPUs, with an upcoming update being the last for a whole lot of cards." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/nvidia-confirm-upcoming-driver-will-be-the-last-for-maxwell-pascal-and-volta/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:52:40

• "Time is running out for the end of support for the Ubuntu 24.10 series, so you'll need to upgrade quite soon to continue getting security fixes." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/running-ubuntu-24-10-its-time-to-get-upgrading-with-support-ending/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:52:52

• "MangoHud is a fantastic Vulkan and OpenGL performance overlay for monitoring FPS, temperatures, CPU/GPU load and more. Here's how to use it on Linux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-use-mangohud-for-linux-game-performance-monitoring/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:53:33

• "Inspired by one of my favourite movies, Xenopurge channels tactical roguelike action where you're commanding a squad dealing with aliens." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/inspired-by-the-movie-aliens-tactical-roguelike-xenopurge-heads-to-steam-on-july-11/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:53:52

• "ZERO Sievert is a popular single-player top-down extraction shooter that's a lot of fun, and it just had a huge upgrade that's worth a look." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/single-player-extraction-shooter-zero-sievert-gets-gamepad-and-steam-deck-upgrades/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:54:03

• "LizardByte released the latest major update to Sunshine, the game streaming host platform for Moonlight to stream games from one system to another." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/sunshine-game-stream-host-for-moonlight-gets-security-fixes-linux-improvements-and-more-features/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:55:18

• "White House Falsely Insists 'Big Beautiful Bill' Will Save Medicaid" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/white-house-falsely-insists-big-beautiful-bill-medicaid-1235376060/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:56:08

• Combatting slop deception https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/29/you-fund-our-work-here-send-5-to-pivot-to-ai/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:56:33

• "Pakistani nonprofit tackles child abuse and other taboo topics" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2025/0701/Pakistan-Rozan-child-sexual-abuse-violence    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:56:44

• "Destroy "AI"" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/destroy-ai/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:56:54

• "Republicans Beware: Medicaid Is Not a Soft Target" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/republicans-beware-medicaid-is-not    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:57:06

• "The Billionaires Are Abandoning Humanity" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/peter-thiel-billionaires-abandoning-humanity/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:57:17

• "Trump administration finds Harvard in violation of Civil Rights Act" https://www.semafor.com/article/06/30/2025/trump-administration-finds-harvard-in-violation-of-civil-rights-act    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:57:29

• "Trump freezes $6.8 billion in education funding; California hit hard" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-30/trump-administration-freeze-5-billion-in-federal-k-12-education-funds-nationwide    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:57:41

• "Trump Insults America—Again" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/06/trump-insults-americaagain/683384/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:57:52

• Court halts French age verification for online porn | "Domstol stoppar fransk ålderskoll för nätporr" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/06/30/domstol-stoppar-fransk-alderskoll-for-natporr/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:58:46

• "Trump says he will ‘take a look’ at deporting Musk as feud reaches new height" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-deporting-elon-musk-feud-b2780342.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:59:16

• "If this is the Trump Doctrine, Australia had better pay attention" https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/if-this-is-the-trump-doctrine-australia-had-better-pay-attention/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:59:25

• "The fitness classes in Indian schools that have religious leaders outraged" https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/kerala-schools-zumba-muslim-hindu-backlash-b2780388.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 04:59:44

• "Zambia : Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ will blow up US debt, inflation" https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/07/01/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-will-blow-up-us-debt-inflation/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:01:01

• "Stepping off the Trump treadmill: A CBC correspondent bids farewell to Washington" https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-correspondent-cbc-panetta-1.7564297    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:01:13

• "Military requests pulling 200 troops back from California protest duty" https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/06/30/military-requests-pulling-200-troops-back-from-california-protest-duty/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:01:28

• "How the NRA and Gun Industry Targets White Men for Gun Sales" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/nra-gun-industry-white-men-1235369222/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:01:41

• "Want to know what's popular on Steam Deck? Got you covered here with the latest details on the most popular games for June 2025." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/heres-the-most-played-games-on-steam-deck-for-june-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:01:51

• "PlayStation 2 emulator PCSX2 v2.4 has been released, bringing with it many enhancements to game support and improved Linux support too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/open-source-ps2-emulator-pcsx2-v2-4-brings-sdl-3-wayland-support-lots-of-compatibility-fixes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:01:58

• "New Marines arrive in Los Angeles as first wave heads home" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/new-marines-rotating-into-la/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:03:46

• iophk: EFF are microsoft apologists, and thus against actual digital rights https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/effecting-change-eff-turns-35 https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/31/Google_Bribes_EFF_EFF_Promotes_LLM_Slop_as_Fair_Use_To_GAFAM_It.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:04:18

• "Elon Musk Vows to Destroy Republican Party If Its Budget Passes" https://futurism.com/elon-musk-destroy-republican-party    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:05:59

• "Pentagon halts key weapons shipment to Ukraine amid US stockpile worries" https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250702-pentagon-weapons-ukraine-us-stockpiles-russia    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:06:14

• "Ukraine's capital under attack" https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/07/01/ukraines-capital-under-attack/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:06:25

• "Chat Control 2 – utan garantier mot ändamålsglidning" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/07/01/chat-control-2-utan-garantier-mot-andamalsglidning/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:06:36

• "Women can be drafted into the Danish military as Russian aggression and military investment grow - KOB.com" https://www.kob.com/ap-top-news/women-can-be-drafted-into-the-danish-military-as-russian-aggression-and-military-investment-grow/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:06:48

• "Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” explained" https://www.vox.com/politics/418325/trump-big-beautiful-bill-gop-medicaid-tax-cuts-explained    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:07:03

• "Trump Wanted to Date Princess Diana, But She 'Tossed His Bouquets in the Bin,' Friend Reveals" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-wanted-date-princess-diana-she-tossed-his-bouquets-bin-friend-reveals-1737149    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:07:16

• "What we know about Oropouche fever, a rising vector-borne disease" https://www.vox.com/climate/418186/oropouche-virus-disease-midge-infection-brazil-outbreak    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:07:27

• "Putin's escalating air offensive is overwhelming Ukraine's defenses" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-escalating-air-offensive-is-overwhelming-ukraines-defenses/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:07:38

• "'Agonizing': How Alaska's Pivotal Republican Senator Decided to Vote for Donald Trump's Bill" https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-07-01/agonizing-how-alaskas-pivotal-republican-senator-decided-to-vote-for-donald-trumps-bill    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:07:52

• "Trump's megabill passes Senate in 51-50 vote." https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-07-01/trump-megabill-senate-vote    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:08:11

• "Republicans rewrote the US Senate megabill in its last moments" https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/07/01/repub/republicans-rewrote-the-us-senate-megabill-in-its-last-moments/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:08:26

• "The One Big Beautiful Bill Act: A Big, Bad, Very Ugly Bill" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/big-beautiful-bill-trump-deaths/683385/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:08:35

• "We're campaigning to support every school and library in the UK to set up a free Code Club so all young people can thrive in the age of AI." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/a-code-club-in-every-school-and-library/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:10:00

• "record number of attendees" ☛ https://insighthungary.444.hu/2025/07/01/orban-accuses-eu-of-orchestrating-pride-march-after-record-number-of-attendees | Source: Insight Hungary    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:10:39

• Downplayed ☛ https://fair.org/home/fair-study-sunday-talkshows-downplayed-criticism-during-trumps-second-transition/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:10:47

• "There are dozens of similar copyright lawsuits working through the courts right now" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/01/1119486/ai-copyright-meta-anthropic/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:15:32

• "But it still does not comply with this European regulation, which aims to promote fair competition in the digital space. The Commission has ordered Apple to stop charging any fees on such transactions." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/apple-is-making-a-mockery-of-dma | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:16:13

• "The decision allows the case to go forward in what could be a years-long fight for Apple against enforcers' attempt to lower what they say are barriers to competition with Apple's iPhone." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-loses-bid-to-dismiss-us-smartphone-monopoly-case/articleshow/122171675.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:16:22

• "Every year since I blogged about fixing exclusive app distribution way back in 2011, there have been little cracks appearing in Apple’s monopoly wall. Growing developer resentment." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/06/30/app-store-monopoly-cracks.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:16:37

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/netflix-to-livestream-nasa-launches-spacewalks-starting-summer/articleshow/122166110.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:17:34

• "The US space agency will live stream everything, from rocket launches and spacewalks to broadcasts from the International Space Station (ISS)." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2833404/nasa-will-start-streaming-live-on-netflix-later-this-summer.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:17:46

• "Low-Earth Orbit satellite broadband services like Starlink have their uses, but will always be dealing with capacity constraints." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/01/elon-musks-starlink-adds-750-congestion-charge/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:49:24

• "Whether you are travelling or just wondering if the signal in your area is particularly bad" ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/business/consumer/mobile-phone-dead-zones-with-worst-signal-5203094 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:51:09

• "The tool allows website owners to choose whether artificial intelligence crawlers can access their material" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/cloudflare-launches-tool-to-help-website-owners-monetise-ai-bot-crawler-access/articleshow/122180909.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 05:52:01

• ""Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare is now blocking all AI scrapers accessing content by default in an industry first. ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/major-uk-and-us-publishers-join-forces-to-block-ai-scrapers/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:14:01

• "Crucially, WSJ reports that Amazon is now on the brink of having more robots in its warehouses than humans." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/amazon-just-deployed-its-one-millionth-robot-in-its-warehouses-and-theyll-soon-outnumber-humans-generative-ai-to-help-cut-robot-fleet-travel-time-by-10-percent | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:17:31

• "Building out the detention capacity of US immigration enforcement by nearly a fourfold factor would elevate the ghoulish white-nationalist policy mandates of Miller into a permanent federal legacy" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/trump-bill-police-state/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:18:10

• "Earlier this month, the Trump Administration pulled the federal government out of the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement" ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2025/07/salmon-tribal-sovereignty-and-energy-collide-as-us-abandons-resilient-columbia-basin-agreement.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:18:28

• "Not content with just shipping people to a foreign concentration camp, Donald Trump now has his own, homegrown concentration camp in Florida." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/01/trump-launches-americas-first-concentration-camp-complete-with-tacky-merch/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:18:52

• "But even if one were to get away from light pollution and stare up at the stars — which have guided humanity from its earliest beginnings" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/loss-of-the-night-sky | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:19:14

• "Many exiled Tibetans fear China will name a successor to bolster control over a territory it poured troops into in 1950." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/30/exiled-tibetan-spiritual-leader-dalai-lama-suggests-institution-to-continue-at-90th-birthday-prayers/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:19:34

• "Republicans are bragging about their cruel ingenuity, and using it as a fundraising tool." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/sadism-alligator-auschwitz/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:21:29

• "The stretch of land, known as a national defense area, spans 250 miles of the Rio Grande River through Hidalgo and Cameron counties, and will be administered as an extension of Joint Base San Antonio." ☛ https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-military/2025/06/30/air-force-to-manage-new-militarized-zone-along-us-mexico-border/ | Source: Air Force Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:25:13

• "Tibet is a historical region on the Tibetan Plateau in Asia, known as the “Roof of the World” for its high elevation, averaging over 4,500 meters." ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/dalai-lama-succession-talk-stirs-controversy/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:25:21

• "The announcement is set to be the most consequential in modern Tibetan history" ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/07/01/dalai-lama-birthday-succession/ | Source: RFA    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:25:32

• "The charges relate to a December 2017 Helsingin Sanomat article about the Finnish Intelligence Research Centre and follow-up stories, some of which were not published." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20170451 | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:26:50

• "One of the ways Trump has discussed cracking down on leakers and the press is by wielding the Espionage Act, a 1917 law criminalizing the dissemination of sensitive information that could harm U.S. national security or aid a foreign nation" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/espionage-act-team-trump-plan-media-1235376198/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:27:06

• "Zaza is the owner and editor-in-chief of Noos Social news site, a senior member of Syria’s Free Media Union, and the Syrian representative of the International Federation of Arab Journalists." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/06/kurdish-journalist-hassan-zaza-detained-in-syria-whereabouts-unknown/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:27:22

• "letter to our valued Eagle Times Community" ☛ https://www.reformer.com/news/eagle-times-newspaper-suspends-all-publication/article_9eafb29f-14dd-4e07-8616-50a3a1752f4b.html | Source: Brattleboro Reformer, Vermont    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:28:04

• "one of the news outlets that Hongkongers relied on." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/30/us-funded-radio-free-asia-halts-cantonese-service-in-face-of-trumps-funding-cuts/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:28:17

• "Media repression had already intensified on the heels of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/07/georgia-increasingly-blocks-entry-to-western-journalists-amid-authoritarian-turn/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:30:35

• "Seconds after he stepped out of the apartment" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-us-prisoner-release/33460908.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:30:52

• "I would have hoped for a different decision" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20170408 | Source: YLE    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:33:02

• "The issue arose last year when, in an interview with a French right-wing media outlet, Sansal questioned Algeria’s current borders" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-01/algerian-court-upholds-writers-5-year-sentence-in-a-case-thats-strained-ties-with-france | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:33:25

• "Trump tested the waters on martial law during his last term, threatening to send troops out to handle George Floyd protests. [...] Los Angeles swap meet was treated like an open-air market in some Middle Eastern country we’re currently at (undeclared) war with." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/01/national-guard-troops-sent-to-california-by-trump-are-just-out-there-doing-drug-busts/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:34:12

• "detained the staff members" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/07/satirical-turkish-weekly-leman-targeted-over-muhammad-cartoon/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:34:42

• "A legal investigation was launched after the magazine's Jun 26 issue, and the cartoonist, identified only by the initials D.P." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/rights-groups-condemn-police-treatment-of-detained-leman-cartoonist-309026 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:34:56

• "As Books & Ideas reports, this was classic Russian disinformation targeting two key countries in Russia's new African sphere" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/06/30/penis-theft-panic-in-africa-reveals-russian-propaganda-campaign-against-france.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:35:30

• "Dozens of accounts on X that promoted Scottish independence went dark during an [Internet] blackout in Iran." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/iranian-blackout-affected-misinformation-campaigns.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:35:40

• "Dr. Salil Patkar, Consultant Medical Oncologist at Medicover Hospital, emphasizes the importance of collaboration between the medical field and tech platforms." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/tabloid/hyderabad-chronicle/the-cancer-of-misinformation-1888263 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:35:55

• "According to Chase Hughes, one of the best defenses against misinformation, psyops, propaganda, or whatever you want to call it is to be very good in spotting logical fallacies." ☛ https://huijzer.xyz/posts/96 | Source: Rik Huijzer    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:36:10

• "down nine percentage points from last year and five points below the prior low from 2020." ☛ https://mihobu.lol/micro-20250701121725 | Source: Michael Burkhardt    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:37:05

• "said we'll take all the capacity you have wherever it is. It could be in Europe, could be in Asia, we'll just take everything." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/oracle_cloud_ai/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:37:25

• "Major tech firms prefer federal control to avoid regulatory patchworks that could hinder innovation." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/us-senate-strikes-ai-regulation-ban-from-trump-megabill/articleshow/122179699.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:37:41

• "This shows a lack of foresight and a big void in leadership, because AI is going to impact every role at every level within an organization. Which means AI adoption has to be a top-down, strategic priority." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/do-you-need-a-caio-the-rise-of-the-chief-ai-officer-in-2025/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:38:01

• "No longer bound to Microsoft's infrastructure, OpenAI is looking to expand its network of compute providers to the likes of Oracle, CoreWeave, and apparently even rival model builder Google." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/openai_google_tpu/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:38:17

• "The company first revealed it planned to go public and had confidentially filed its paperwork with the SEC on April 15." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/01/figma-makes-ipo-plans-public-following-earlier-confidential-sec-filing/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:38:44

• "mentions AI more than 150 times" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/figma_files_to_go_public/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:39:13

• "AI models gain access to its design servers to make coding more efficient." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/696253/figma-ipo-public-filing | Source: The Verge    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:39:40

• "The Senate voted 99-1 in the predawn hours Tuesday to strip the AI-law moratorium from the bill" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/01/ai-moratorium-defeat-senate-silicon-valley/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:40:03

• package   

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:40:25

• "pay package includes equity, in the first year the stock vests immediately, sources say." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-meta-offer-top-ai-talent-300-million/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:40:33

• "Customers often just choose a pre-set tip option instead of holding up the line. This gives tech designers a lot of influence over tipping." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/tipflation-the-growing-pitfalls-of-proper-tipping/a-73016403 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:41:01

• "We have a long history of interacting with other animals, trying to feed them and gauging their responses." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/orcas-sharing-prey-1.7574759 | Source: CBC    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:41:30

• "Among a barrage of bad news for climate initiatives, including a new tax credit for coal and the sunsetting of electric vehicle tax credits, the bill forces an aggressive cutoff for tax credits for wind and solar." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/the-senate-just-put-clean-energy-for-ai-in-the-crosshairs/ | Source: Wired    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:41:56

• "More than 60% of traffic collisions at intersections involve left turns. Some US cities – including San Francisco, Salt Lake City and Birmingham, Alabama – are restricting left turns." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/cities-are-stopping-you-from-turning-left-heres-why | Source: Science Alert    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:42:12

• "So how much power have we generated in six months? well its…. 766,739kwh. (766 MWH)." ☛ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/07/01/solar-farm-six-months-of-proper-generation-plus-regos/ | Source: Positech Games    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:42:38

• "He's right about the price tag. As the Guardian notes, a suite of lidar sensors runs about $12,000 per vehicle, compared to the $400 it costs to install cabin cameras." ☛ https://futurism.com/robotaxi-fails-elon-musk-decision | Source: Futurism https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer-says-company-faked-full-autopilot/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:43:07

• "Our goal was to gain in-depth insights into acoustics, aerodynamics, and driving behavior at extreme speeds." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/deutsche_bahn_test/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:43:23

• "as much like the Royal yacht as possible" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/06/30/elizabeth-iis-beloved-royal-train-to-be-scrapped/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:46:44

• Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/chiseled-ubuntu-containers-openjre "These images are highly optimized for size and security, containing only the dependencies that are strictly necessary."    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:47:47

• Update Livepatch Client for the newest kernel module signing certificate ☞ https://canonical.com//blog/update-livepatch-client-for-the-newest-kernel-module-signing-certificate    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:48:45

• Live Linux kernel patching with progressive timestamped rollouts ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/live-linux-kernel-patching-with-progressive-timestamped-rollouts    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:49:35

• "When a U.S.-based health insurer faced the need to move to a more modern virtualization platform" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/modernizing-virtualization-healthcare-red-hat-and-teksystems-success-story | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:50:15

• "MCP does not directly connect LLMs with tools. The MCP client component accesses the LLM, and the MCP server component accesses the tools." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/model-context-protocol-mcp-understanding-security-risks-and-controls | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:50:25

• "In this third installment, we continue to build on your foundational knowledge with 10 more essential Linux questions" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/linux-interview-questions-and-answers-for-linux-beginners/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:51:12

• "Key features include Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support, optional 4G connectivity, and dual RJ45 Ethernet ports, including a 1GbE and an extra 2.5GbE port" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/yy3588-development-board-with-up-to-32gb-ram-2-5gbe-port-and-onboard-nfc/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:51:53

• "The Shuttle NT10H is part of the XPC nano lineup and is designed as a compact, NUC-style mini PC for multitasking and heavier workloads." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/shuttle-nt10h-leverages-intel-core-ultra-and-available-in-barebones-option/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:52:17

• "Heat warnings were issued for parts of Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, and the UK, with new highs expected on Wednesday before rain is forecast to bring respite to some areas later this week." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/heatwave-in-europe-disrupts-train-services-top-of-eiffel-tower-in-paris-shut-updates-101751362330217.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:55:02

• "Forever chemicals have polluted the water supply of 60,000 people, threatening human health, wildlife and the wider ecosystem. But activists say this is just the tip of the [PFAS] iceberg" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/01/pfas-forever-chemicals-water-contamination-saint-louis-france-aoe | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:55:18

• "The Zambian government this year agreed to allocate 9,000 square km (3,475 square miles) to India for the exploration of cobalt" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/business/india-sends-geologists-to-zambia-to-explore-copper-and-cobalt-deposits-1888618 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:55:34

• "Jeremy Berg, former editor-in-chief of Science magazine and one of the signatories to the letter" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/epa-declaration-of-dissent-trump-policies.html | Source: EcoWatch    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:55:56

• [Old] "The development of UNIX manpages can be divided into the Prehistory, before UNIX; the Classical Age, during the development of UNIX; and the Renaissance, where traditional UNIX utilities were re-written." ☛ https://manpages.bsd.lv/history.html |    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:56:31

• "American Oversight is pressing ahead with its lawsuit to uncover the truth behind the agency’s political undoing and orders to destroy records." ☛ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-denounces-usaids-closure-as-politically-motivated-sabotage-behind-closed-doors/ | Source: American Oversight    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:56:53

• "Sorry, did I say “bad news”? That was actually the good news, based on estimates that turned out to be far too rosy." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/birth-rate-population-decline/683333/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:57:55

• "Rural drinking water schemes in the Bengaluru Rural district have evolved considerably since their inception in the 1970s." ☛ https://journals.plos.org/water/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pwat.0000138 | Source: PLOS    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:58:15

• "In Karnataka, this rocky reality is nearly absolute: about 99% of the State relies on these stubbornly unyielding formations for its water needs." ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/groundwater-crisis-deepens-karnataka-hard-rock-terrain/article69758601.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:58:40

• "Although reservoirs are mostly full, Hasenyager is also calling on residents to take steps to reduce water consumption amid the dry conditions." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51338508/utah-seeing-water-trend-that-typically-occurs-later-in-the-summer | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 06:59:02

• "Moscow has expanded its economic and diplomatic ties with the Islamist group since it returned to power in Afghanistan" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/01/taliban-diplomat-to-take-role-as-moscow-ambassador-a89639 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:00:07

• "One challenge for many of these former employees is reconciling how they see themselves – as loyal Americans who have dedicated their lives to their nation " ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0701/usaid-workers-trump-doge-layoffs | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:01:13

• "The sophisticates hate this clarity. They prefer the safety of euphemism, the comfort of complexity that never quite arrives at moral judgment." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/01/the-moral-imperative-of-clear-language/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:01:39

• "The protests are focused on freeing the U.S. from billionaires' power, poverty, unlawful orders, and the politics of fear, the website said." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/july-4-free-america-trump-protests-usa | Source: Axios    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:02:01

• "Starlink may dazzle, but South Africa is far from a technological wasteland." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/the-starlink-seduction/266056/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:02:57

• "A total of 40.4 per cent of live births in Britain in 2024 were to families with at least one parent not from the UK - up from 35.1 per cent in 2021" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/01/four-in-ten-babies-born-to-foreign-parents/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:03:10

• "France and Britain have vowed to crack down on people smugglers who heap migrants on flimsy dinghies" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2317369.html | Source: RTL    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:04:06

• "Hundreds of US companies are believed to have been duped into hiring North Korean IT workers" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/us-storms-29-laptop-farms-in-crackdown-on-north-korean-it-worker-schemes/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:04:39

• "FBI officials said the laptop farms allowed an undisclosed number of North Koreans to illegally work at more than 100 U.S. companies." ☛ https://therecord.media/doj-raids-laptop-farms-crackdown | Source: The Record    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:04:51

• "This is sneaky, you can see in the first paragraph it states they do not sell your data, it’s shared as per the privacy statement." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2025/07/01/stop-using-casio-step-trackers-they-are-selling-your-personal-data-to-advertisers/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:06:10

• "The cops certainly had fun partnering with Ring, the surveillance camera company now owned by Amazon." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/30/surveillance-against-the-state-doorbell-cam-owners-are-tipping-people-off-about-ice-raids/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:06:21

• "Meta is demanding access to all of your photos, even the ones you haven't uploaded anywhere yet — and it's being incredibly shifty about what it intends to do with them." ☛ https://futurism.com/meta-sketchy-training-ai-private-photos | Source: Futurism    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:10:07

• "IMY issues an administrative fine of SEK 75, 000 against each companies." ☛ https://www.imy.se/en/news/administrative-fines-against-two-companies-in-the-sl-group/ | Source: Sedishj Authority for Privacy Protection    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:10:31

• "Those who signed contracts under the old rules were required to submit their biometric data by July 1." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/01/russia-to-begin-cutting-mobile-service-for-foreigners-not-registered-in-biometric-database | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:10:57

• "The feature, called Face Check, prompts users to take a short video selfie that is used to verify their identity." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-07-01/tinder-mandatory-face-recognition-rolls-out-for-california-users | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:11:19

• "In a classic demonstration of how a SIM swapping attack works" ☛ https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/50-customers-of-french-bank-hit-after-insider-helped-sim-swap-scammers | Source: Bitdefender    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:12:04

• "Nope! The Brother printers don't appear to be exempt1. What's the maximum penalty Brother could be subject to?" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/are-brothers-insecure-printers-illegal-in-the-uk/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:12:11

• Windows TCO: ICC says new cybersecurity incident has been contained ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/icc-says-new-cybersecurity-incident-has-been-contained/articleshow/122165153.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:13:17

• Windows TCO: "Marks & Spencer CEO Stuart Machin informed shareholders that the majority of the cyberattack's impact from April is expected to be resolved by August." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ms-ceo-most-of-cyberattack-impact-will-be-behind-us-by-august/articleshow/122182364.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:13:31

• Windows TCO: "As substations become more digitized, incorporating IEC 61850, Ethernet, USB, and remote interfaces, relays are no longer isolated devices, but networked elements in a broader SCADA network" ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/securing-protection-relays-modern-substations/ | Source: Google    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:13:51

• Windows TCO: "With 86 claimed victims for the month of June, Qilin was more than 50 claimed attacks ahead of rivals like Akira, SafePay, Play, and INC (image below)." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/qilin-top-ransomware-group/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:14:03

• Windows TCO: "On average, South Africa firms that fell victim to a ransomware attack and engaged with the attackers ended up paying about 64% of the ransom demanded of them." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/ransomware-epidemic-hits-south-africa/266043/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:14:13

• Windows TCO: "It did not contain credit card details, financial information or passport details." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/02/qantas-confirms-cyber-attack-exposes-records-of-up-to-6-million-customers | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:14:28

• "we can be exposed to the political opinions of our friends and neighbors more than ever before, often with a knee-jerk "they think what?!" response." ☛ https://werd.io/self-censorship-and-the-spiral-of-silence-why-americans-are-less-likely-to-publicly-voice-their-opinions-on-political-issues/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:14:57

• "In a since-deleted Instagram post, Ruiz used an old picture to make a point about uniform standards, blurring out the face of a soldier wearing a medal-strewn World War II-era uniform." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/sgt-maj-audie-murphy/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:15:09

• "Most Worrisome …" ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/most-worrisome/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:15:20

• "Personally, I like both things– I like having my own site, and I like participating on social media. I like social media so much, that an important feature of my own blog is making it easy to participate in many social networks." ☛ https://json.blog/2025/07/01/why-do-i-want-to.html | Source: Jason Becker    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:15:38

• "Since the dotcom era, tech companies have boasted about giving stuff away but "making it up in volume," inventing an ever-sweatier collection of shell-games that let them hide the business's true profit and loss." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/30/accounting-gaffs/#artificial-income | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:16:12

• "refers to generative AI as "parasitic cancer."" ☛ https://mmapped.blog/posts/42-parasites-found | Source: Roman Kashitsyn    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:16:33

• "Now Clownflare has stepped in with a global plan to put the crawling choice in the hands of website owners and AI developers rather than globally disjointed bureaucratic decision-makers." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/cloudflare-puts-a-default-block-on-ai-web-scraping/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:17:00

• "Crawlers are supposed to obey a given website’s directions (provided through a robots.txt file) to determine whether they can crawl there, but some AI companies have been accused of ignoring these instructions." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/01/1119498/cloudflare-will-now-by-default-block-ai-bots-from-crawling-its-clients-websites/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:17:13

• "I’m concerned that this default goes too far. Clownflare has enormous power to intercept web traffic, because they’ve effectively re-centralized DNS for so many websites." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/07/01/cloudflare-is-on-the-offensive.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:17:36

• "AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors." ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/using-ai-to-humiliate-women-the-men-behind-deepfake-pornography-a-0de338f9-9cec-4ae8-a5ef-9a356b0a5bd4#ref=rss | Source: Spiegel    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:17:59

• "Springer publishes 14,000 books a year with 9,000 employees. Nobody at Springer even looks at the books. Springer concerns itself with the important part — charging $200 for a pile of chatbot spew." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/01/219-springer-nature-textbook-on-ai-was-written-with-a-chatbot/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:18:15

• "Schneider highlighted another risk back in 2017 that on the face of it appear more far-fetched but personally I give more weight." ☛ https://interconnected.org/home/2025/07/01/karman | Source: Matt Webb    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:18:35

• "The list isn’t just useful for trying to spot if some text was generated by AI. (That’s a hard task that’s probably a bad idea to do because you end up blaming too many innocent people" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/how-to-write-less-like-a-bot/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:19:01

• "More importantly, a judge recently granted preliminary approval to settlement terms." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2833058/was-your-data-stolen-in-the-att-breaches-you-may-be-entitled-to-money.html | Source: PC World    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:19:36

• "Algorithms are not innocent codes based on machine learning and artificial intelligence, but ideological devices that shape the flow of digital information, making some content visible and hiding others." ☛ https://bianet.org/yazi/algorithmic-bias-platform-capitalism-data-and-reality-309027 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:20:12

• "Children in previous decades may not have had designated bike lanes" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/07/kids-biking-decline/683377/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:21:25

• "The consequences will be dire." ☛ https://www.vox.com/health-care/418431/big-beautiful-bill-lose-medicaid-trump | Source: Vox    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:21:44

• "forbid smoking in bus shelters and within a 10 meter (33 foot) radius of libraries, swimming pools and schools" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/france-smoking-ban-on-beaches-goes-into-effect/a-73081431 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:22:08

• "The perception that profitability outweighs patient interest, as well as leaking of healthcare data to companies like Google, among other factors" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/bulletin/2025/spring/free-software-can-strengthen-the-us-healthcare-system | Source: FSF    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:29:00

• "While the cause of death has not been released, her passing has sparked renewed scrutiny of mental health pressures within the adult film sector." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/kylie-pages-death-highlights-unspeakable-crisis-young-female-porn-stars-face-skyrocketing-1737078 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:29:28

• "No doubt there’s waste and fraud in Medicaid, as there is in any system created and run by human beings." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/republicans-beware-medicaid-is-not | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:29:58

• "The apparent randomness of all of this was inescapable. I had done nothing to cause or deserve my miracle." ☛ https://theviewfromguppylake.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-hopeful-solace-of-randomness.html | Source: Nathaniel Borenstein    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:30:12

• "Every product you buy comes with some king of warranty which gives you, the consumer confidence that if there is a manufacturer fault, you will be looked after. Warranties are useful PERIOD. However, reading the fine-print is arguably even more important." ☛ https://merecivilian.com/short-story-warranties/ | Source: Mere Civilian    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:30:50

• "This led to significant inventory buildup in America that will now need to be cleared, according to market watcher Canalys." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/pc_united_states_shipping_figs/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:31:11

• "If, like me, you have a newer Intel hybrid CPU, with P-Cores and E-Cores, you may hit an issue running rr in Linux to debug things. Here is how to solve it." ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/using-rr-on-newer-intel-cpus/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:31:30

• "Let that sink in for a while. Read it again, and again. Internalise it" ☛ https://jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/07/01/you're-all-cto-now | Source: Jamie Lawrence    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:32:49

• "To keep the writing concise, I’ll be using the phrase “senior junior”1 to describe those that have made such a career switch." ☛ https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/07/01/career-switch/ | Source: Herman Õunapuu    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:33:08

• "The Ann Arbor area, home to the University of Michigan, is No. 1 and the Lansing-East Lansing metropolitan area is 30th." ☛ https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/06/this-michigan-city-tops-list-as-most-educated-in-america.html | Source: Michigan News    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:33:37

• "A Bengaluru CEO criticised declining coding standards, revealing over 1,000 backend applicants submitted mostly unusable or AI-generated code." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/bengaluru-ceo-offering-50-lpa-laments-talent-crisis-as-1000-applicants-fail-basic-coding-task-101751371567813.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:33:57

• "Many of us have got into the habit of listening to podcasts, audiobooks and other online content at increased playback speeds." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/video-playback-speed-brain-impact-b2780273.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:37:40

• "Visitors to the State Museum in the state capital will soon have access to a digital library offering research materials and reference books, to be set up in the Old Kothi building located behind the museum on the Lucknow Zoo premises." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/lucknow-news/digital-library-vintage-caf-and-more-in-store-for-state-museum-visitors-101751394160762.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:37:51

• "A basic lesson to guide the construction of a square would light up four points. The child could then string threads between those points to form the sides of the square in glowing colors." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/07/01/this-unique-electronic-toy-helps-children-learn-their-shapes/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:38:01

• Diego Escalante Urrelo: The New Troll Diet ☞ https://diegoe.be/2025/07/01/the-new-troll-diet/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:39:11

• Steven Deobald: Disability Pride ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07/01/disability-pride/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:40:11

• GNOME has gone full crazy: Shamans, corrupt people, bullies... oh, gosh. Made in Mexico, bolstered by Microsoft moles.    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:41:01

• Dave Airlie (blogspot): nvk: blackwell support ☞ https://airlied.blogspot.com/2025/07/nvk-blackwell-support.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:42:09

• "RP2350pc is an Open Source Hardware complete computer with: [...]" ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/07/01/rp2350pc-open-source-hardware-all-in-one-computer-with-rp2350b-8mb-psram-16mb-flash-four-usb-host-dvi-hdmi-output-and-audio-codec-for-retro-computer-emulation-and-education/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:43:23

• "European RISC-V biz Codasip has put itself up for sale, citing an expression of interest during a recent funding round, and is now openly touting for buyers." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/codasip_sale/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:43:38

• Kindle Comic Converter – transform images to ebooks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kindle-comic-converter-transform-images-ebooks/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 07:51:03

• Pulp – skim excessive feeds ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pulp-skim-excessive-feeds/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:03:26

• TEAMGROUP PD20 Mini External SSD Review ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/teamgroup-pd20-mini-external-ssd-review/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:04:16

• MODICIA O.S. – GNU/Linux multimedia distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/modicia-os-linux-multimedia-distribution/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:04:38

• Microsoft Lost 400,000,000 backdoored Windows Users, According to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Microsoft_Lost_400_000_000_Windows_Users_According_to_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:07:38

• KDE releases Plasma 6.4.2 bringing multiple bug fixes ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-releases-plasma-642-bringing-multiple-bug-fixes/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:08:42

• Japachar – learn Japanese characters ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/japachar-learn-japanese-characters/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:09:45

• Best Free and Open Source Software: June 2025 Updates ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-software-june-2025-updates/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:10:14

• Guido Günther: Free Software Activities June 2025 ☞ http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_June_2025.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:11:03

• Handover Day: Nat. security will safeguard city’s development amid global uncertainty, leader John Lee says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/01/handover-day-nat-security-will-safeguard-citys-development-amid-global-uncertainty-leader-john-lee-says/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:12:11

• David Bremner: Hibernate on the pocket reform 2/n ☞ https://www.cs.unb.ca/~bremner//blog/posts/hibernate-pocket-2/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:13:47

• Microsoft Lost 29% of backdoored Windows Users, Based on Microsoft, Now Come Massive Layoffs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/02/Microsoft_Lost_29_of_Windows_Users_Based_on_Microsoft_Now_Come_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:13:57

• Microsoft XBox Layoffs: Almost 2,000 Layoffs Became "Over 2,000"? (Over 20% of the Staff) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/30/Microsoft_XBox_Layoffs_Almost_2_000_Layoffs_Became_Over_2_000_O.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:14:11

• "This is a follow up to Adding in a hot-spare for zfs on FreeBSD from two months ago." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/06/30/adding-in-a-stand-by-spare-drive-for-zfs-on-freebsd/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:14:52

• "In an aside in a recent entry, I said that one reason that X terminals faded away is that what I called the "personal computer" model of computing had some pragmatic advantages over the "terminal" model." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/ScalingTerminalsVsPCs | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:15:02

• "Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table." ☛ https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/check-uncheck-all-in-a-table.html | Source: Adriaan Roselli    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:15:17

• How To Install KDE Plasma on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-kde-plasma-fedora-42/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:16:17

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

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:16:35

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

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:16:59

• "Zabbix 7.4 is out now, delivering new templates, enhanced TLS support, UI improvements, and 100+ bug fixes for the enterprise monitoring platform" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/zabbix-7-4-open-source-monitoring-tool-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:17:45

• How To Install RPM Fusion on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-rpm-fusion-fedora-42/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:18:08

• How To Set Up Nginx Server Blocks on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/set-up-nginx-server-blocks-almalinux-10/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:18:33

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

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:20:43

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

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:21:09

• How To Block IP Address on Apache ☞ https://idroot.us/block-ip-address-apache/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 08:21:39

• "Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM), the popular open-source tool for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a user-friendly interface, has just released version 2.12.4, with a mix of under-the-hood improvements, bug fixes, and expanded DNS provider support for Certbot." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/nginx-proxy-manager-2-12-4-released-with-certbot-enhancements/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:48:18

• "Tracked as CVE-2025-6554, the bug is described as a type confusion in the open source V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/chrome-138-update-patches-zero-day-vulnerability/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:49:03

• "For government websites, this is often a problem. Accurate, up-to-date content is key to serving the public. Commonly used content management systems (CMS) are designed for authors." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/06/why-cms-matters-giving-government-the-tools-to-manage-its-own-voice/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:49:50

• "So, what does it actually mean to validate a Shiny app? " ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/building-trust-with-code-validating-shiny-apps-in-regulated-environments/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:50:15

• "I had the idea to write a little shell in go. Called gosh, of course. There’s a few people playing with the same theme, but nothing exactly the same." ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/writing-a-gosh | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:50:44

• "Gist of Go: Semaphores" ☛ https://antonz.org/go-concurrency/semaphores/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:51:37

• "The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) has come a long way from its humble beginnings on Tim Berners-Lee’s NeXT cube at CERN." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/07/02/bootstrapping-http-1-1-http-2-and-http-3/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:52:41

• "Have you ever noticed those striped patterns on nearly everything you buy? From your morning coffee to your latest gadget, barcodes are everywhere." ☛ https://www.amitgawande.com/blog/2025/barcodes/ | Source: Amit Gawande    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:52:51

• "A fundamental shortcoming of this configuration is that the backend server becomes oblivious to who is actually visiting the website" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/07/01/a-first-look-at-the-proxy-protocol-and-its-security-implications/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:53:04

• "For more than 30 years he was said to be a dominating presence in one of the most tumultuous newsrooms in Fleet Street’s history." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/obituaries/vic-chapple-the-complete-reporter-dies-aged-93/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:54:07

• "Well, it was a menu alright, but there was no option for hiding the side panel. Bummer." ☛ https://www.datagubbe.se/dimburger/ | Source: Carl Svensson    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:54:35

• "The premise of this article is that you’re taking a tour around a commercial cave system, so tripods and using a flashgun aren’t allowed." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/travel-photography/how-to-take-stunning-photographs-of-caves | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:54:51

• "NOAA is also looking to cut more than $1.8 billion from its current budget." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2025/06/noaa-seeks-17-cut-to-workforce-next-year-after-firing-hundreds-of-probationary-employees/ | Source: Federal News Network    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:55:32

• "She was right—and with that, Cairo solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem first proposed in the 1980s that had kept the harmonic analysis community had been working on for decades." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2025-07-01/a-17-year-old-teen-refutes-a-mathematical-conjecture-proposed-40-years-ago.html | Source: El País    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:55:52

• "Probability is the branch of mathematics that deals with uncertainty." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/sharded-vs-distributed-the-math-behind-resilience-and-high-availability/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:56:07

• "I’m pleased that this paper is at Palaeontologia Electronica — the original open-access palaeontology journal." ☛ https://svpow.com/2025/07/01/baffled-by-diplodocoids-need-a-comprehensive-introduction-youre-in-luck/ | Source: Matt Wedel    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 09:56:20

• "Unsurprisingly, the notification area also ended up saturated and discarded as yet another digital dumping ground." ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/alerts-fatigue-journalism/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:02:30

• "Many of these consist of internal stuff that isn't very visible to the wider world, but sometimes major changes are submitted for debate. In the last couple of weeks, two major changes have been made, discussed, and pretty firmly vetoed." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/fedora_43_i686_32bit/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:03:24

• "Fedora 42 is here, and so Fedora 43 is taking shape. That means members of the Fedora community can submit proposals for changes to the distro's future direction." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/fedora_43_i686_32bit/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:03:33

• "Plasma 6.4.2 addresses key bugs in KWin, Plasma Desktop, and Powerdevil, including wakeup alarm handling, display brightness control, and more." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-4-2-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:04:13

• "Last Thursday, I published my review of the latest version of the fantastic Plasma desktop environment." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-6-4-performance-wayland-x11-comparison.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:04:42

• "I need some help though. Pixel Wheels is translated in quite a few languages" ☛ https://agateau.com/2025/looking-for-translators/ | Source: Aurélien Gâteau    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:05:30

• "This time around, bcachefs maintainer Kent Overstreet submitted a PR that included some new functionality." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/bcachefs_may_get_dropped/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:06:13

• "That's a big no-no: the RC phase is for fixing stuff sent in during the merge window. Torvalds was not happy, but Overstreet, as he tends to, didn't back down but rather defended the change." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/bcachefs_may_get_dropped/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:06:34

• "Overstreet has been rebuked before; indeed, he was barred from contributing to kernel 6.13 in November 2024. Linux Weekly News summarizes what's happening and we link to that because Overstreet himself appears to be defending his moves at some length in the article comments."    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:06:54

• "This week we discuss a proposal in Fedora 44 to remove support for 32 bit libraries. We address your Kubernetes questions and talk about 2-in-one laptops with touchscreens!" ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/449 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:07:28

• TTAB Quarterly Index: April - June 2025 ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/07/ttab-quarterly-index-april-june-2025.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:08:11

• PKGget now syncs with APT ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202507/pkgget-now-syncs-with-apt.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:12:04

• Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in June 2025 ☞ https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2025/07/01/foss-activity-in-june-2025.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:12:53

• Using rr On Newer defective chip maker Intel CPUs ☞ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/using-rr-on-newer-intel-cpus/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:14:05

• Security updates for Tuesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1027971/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:16:31

• Sparky news 2025/06 ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-news-2025-06/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:16:51

• Linux App Release Roundup (June 2025) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/linux-app-release-roundup-june-2025    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:17:58

• SerialTest – test tool for serial port, Bluetooth, TCP and UDP ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/serialtest-test-tool/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:18:11

• Ten Forward – control a NAT-PMP gateway ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ten-forward-control-nat-pmp-gateway/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:18:20

• Jekyll Publishing on FreeBSD ☞ https://euroquis.nl/blabla/2025/07/01/jekyll.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:18:51

• Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google Serves to People GNU/Linux Slop and GNU/Linux FUD (Made by Bots) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/02/Slopwatch_Google_Serves_to_People_Linux_Slop_and_Linux_FUD_Made.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:19:40

• TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 GNU/Linux Laptop Now Ships with AMD Ryzen 9 CPUs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-stellaris-16-gen7-linux-laptop-now-ships-with-amd-ryzen-9-cpus    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:19:52

• KDE Plasma 6.4.2 Improves the Kicker App Menu Widget, Spectacle, and More ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-2-improves-the-kicker-app-menu-widget-spectacle-and-more    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:20:02

• First Arch GNU/Linux ISO Release Powered by Linux 6.15 Is Now Available for Download ☞ https://9to5linux.com/first-arch-linux-iso-release-powered-by-linux-6-15-is-now-available-for-download    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:20:13

• GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1028010/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:25:09

• GnuCash 5.12 Released with Many Fixes & Improvements [Ubuntu PPA] ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/07/gnucash-5-12-released-ubuntu-ppa/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:25:40

• Windows all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/denmark/#monthly-200902-202507    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 10:37:48

• "It’s always the individual contributors and not executive management" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz2ra43z    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 11:05:14

• "I guess the communications will formally happen starting tomorrow" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz39vtv1    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 11:06:49

• Windows all-time low in Finland https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/finland/#monthly-200902-202507    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 11:11:34

• What lies is Microsoft briefing its media moles to tell today? Probably something something "HEY HI"...    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 11:19:18

• GNU/Linux up to 8.2% in Poland https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/poland/#monthly-200902-202507    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 11:20:18

• Windows around 10% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/philippines/#monthly-200902-202507    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 11:41:25

• "Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced that their TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen7 laptop can now be purchased with an AMD processor too, namely the AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX and 9955HX3D." https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-stellaris-16-gen7-linux-laptop-now-ships-with-amd-ryzen-9-cpus    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 12:04:57

• "Some Linux distributions are more demanding, requiring extra precaution when it comes to installing and updating. Here's four examples and what makes them so tricky." https://www.zdnet.com/article/4-linux-distros-that-cant-be-upgraded-on-autopilot-and-why-theyre-still-worth-trying/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 12:05:33

• "If you're considering a switch from Windows or MacOS, these essential tips will make the transition seamless and help you get the most out of your new OS." https://www.zdnet.com/article/7-things-every-linux-beginner-should-know-before-downloading-their-first-distro/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 12:06:13

• "The latest installment in the continuing drama over the next-gen bcachefs filesystem is that Torvalds accepted the code, for now, but added a sobering warning" https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/bcachefs_may_get_dropped/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 12:09:25

• "I have seen many more than a few abuse IBM's LOA leave of absence to buy more time and kick the can down the road to try and extend. Things like "mental    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:33:35

• "I have seen many more than a few abuse IBM's LOA leave of absence to buy more time and kick the can down the road to try and extend. Things like "mental stress" etc. Turns my stomach people actually do it but I saw it..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz1yamfb    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:33:44

• "All these numbers are fake. Consulting firm gets hired to implement SAP. Uses ChatGPT to write client emails and status reports. Calls it "Gen-AI Revenue". LOL." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz47dc9a Slop is not productivity    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:34:30

• Windows fell by a lot in Oceania https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/oceania/#monthly-200902-202507    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:37:27

• Windows steadily down in Belarus https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/belarus/#monthly-200902-202507    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:41:47

• Republic Of Korea: Android all-time high, Windows down https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/south-korea/#monthly-200902-202507    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:42:48

• Also in Brazil https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/brazil/#monthly-200902-202507    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:43:59

• GNU/Linux rose to 4% in Iran, at Windows expense https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/iran/#monthly-200902-202507    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:44:45

• And the same in Israel https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/israel/#monthly-200902-202507    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:45:23

• Hard to find any nation where Windows has any momentum whatsoever    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:45:45

• FSF Blogs: Call for volunteers: Help us with the GNU Press shop ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/cfv-2025-08    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:49:45

• Barman 3.14.1 Released ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/barman-3141-released-3096/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:50:14

• Will Gulagboy be "missing out" an event in Brest? https://gwolf.org/2025/06/get-your-personalized-map-of-debconf25-in-brest.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:51:41

• Introducing Canonical builds of OpenJDK ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/introducing-canonical-builds-of-openjdk    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 13:53:01

• Poorest Americans Would Be Hurt By Convicted Felon’s Big Bill ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/business/poor-americans-senate-legislation.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:31:57

• Australia calls for infectious disease tests of 1,200 children after man charged with sex offences ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-health-authorities-call-for-infectious-disease-tests-of-1200-children-after-man-charged    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:32:27

• What Therapists Treating Immigrants Hear ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-therapists-treating-immigrants-hear    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:33:01

• Senate passes Convicted Felon’s big tax and spending cuts bill as Vance breaks a 50-50 tie ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/07/senate-republicans-search-for-support-trumps-big-bill-in-overnight-session/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:33:43

• Turkey: Intense wildfires sweep through Izmir region ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250701-turkey-intense-wildfires-sweep-through-izmir-region    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:34:01

• South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk Yeol defies summons in martial law probe ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-former-president-yoon-defies-summons-in-martial-law-probe    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:34:15

• S. Korea’s ex-PM Han accused of belatedly endorsing martial law decree, then destroying document ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-koreas-ex-pm-han-accused-of-belatedly-endorsing-martial-law-decree-then-destroying-document    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:34:34

• ‘Lovebugs’ are swarming Seoul as South Korea warms, and residents aren’t happy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/lovebugs-are-swarming-seoul-as-south-korea-warms-and-residents-arent-happy    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:34:57

• 7 in 10 foreign students in South Korea eager to stay on: Survey ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/7-in-10-foreign-students-in-south-korea-eager-to-stay-on-survey    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:35:34

• South Korea to have 118 days off in 2026 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-have-118-days-off-in-2026    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:36:01

• Loansharks in Malaysia hold ‘funerals’ for debtors ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/loansharks-in-malaysia-hold-funerals-for-debtors    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:36:36

• The U.S. Sends Lots of Plastic Trash Overseas. Malaysia Just Said No Thanks. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/climate/plastic-recycling-malaysia-import-ban.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:36:58

• Bangladeshis cling to protest dreams a year after revolution ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/bangladeshis-cling-to-protest-dreams-a-year-after-revolution    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:37:31

• Malaysia mulls extending mandatory seatbelt ruling to cover more bus categories ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-mulls-extending-mandatory-seatbelt-ruling-to-cover-more-bus-categories    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:37:51

• ‘No hope on my salary’: Young South Koreans turn to early investing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/no-hope-on-my-salary-young-south-koreans-turn-to-early-investing    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:38:25

• Video Shows Drone Rescuing Man During Flood in China ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/asia/video-drone-rescue-flooding-china.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:38:43

• China Bans Some Portable Batteries From Flights as Safety Concerns Grow ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/asia/china-portable-battery-ban-planes.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:39:06

• China Used to Emulate America. Now the Reverse Is True. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opinion/america-china-similarities-differences.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:39:23

• China sanctions former Philippine senator on maritime claims ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-sanctions-former-philippine-senator-on-maritime-claims    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:39:38

• China appoints ethnic affairs head as Xinjiang Communist Party chief ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-appoints-ethnic-affairs-head-as-xinjiang-communist-party-chief    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:40:06

• 2 killed, 6 missing after heavy rains in central China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/heavy-rains-kill-two-in-central-china-state-media    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:40:29

• Central Chinese cities fight floods unleashed by record rain ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/central-chinese-cities-fight-floods-unleashed-by-record-rain    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:40:39

• Hong Kong rights record under fire as it marks China handover anniversary ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-rights-record-under-fire-as-it-marks-china-handover-anniversary    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:40:58

• Dalai Lama to meet senior Buddhist monks before likely reincarnation statement ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/dalai-lama-to-meet-senior-buddhist-monks-before-likely-reincarnation-statement    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:41:10

• Under China’s threat, Taiwan needs its own power sources more than ever ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/under-chinas-threat-taiwan-needs-its-own-power-sources-more-than-ever    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:41:25

• Israel urges China to pressure Iran to rein in nuclear ambitions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/israel-urges-china-to-pressure-iran-to-rein-in-nuclear-ambitions    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:41:42

• Singapore Hey Hi (AI) chip court case adjourned until August — trio accused of illegally smuggling Nvidia chips to China for use by Hey Hi (AI) firm DeepSeek ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/singapore-ai-chip-court-case-adjourned-until-august-trio-accused-of-illegally-smuggling-nvidia-chips-to-china-for-use-by-ai-firm-deepseek    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:42:07

• ADB acting on US concerns over China, bank chief says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/01/adb-acting-on-us-concerns-over-china-bank-chief-says/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:42:40

• China military says aircraft carriers conduct combat training in Pacific ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/01/china-military-says-aircraft-carriers-conduct-combat-training-in-pacific/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:43:06

• In Pictures: Hong Kong celebrates 28th Handover anniversary ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/01/in-pictures-hong-kong-celebrates-28th-handover-anniversary/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:43:41

• Hong Kong activist Lui Yuk-lin stages solo protest on Handover anniversary ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/01/hong-kong-activist-lui-yuk-lin-stages-solo-protest-on-handover-anniversary/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:43:58

• The US must enforce sanctions to prevent Iran from rebuilding its nuclear program ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-us-must-enforce-sanctions-to-prevent-iran-from-rebuilding-its-nuclear-program/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:44:23

• As China expands resource control in Myanmar, Australia-India collaboration matters ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/as-china-expands-resource-control-in-myanmar-australia-india-collaboration-matters/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:44:57

• Kadyrov ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/01/the-kadyrov-succession-plan | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 14:45:18

• "Any changes to the severance package? I'm starting to worry that one of these days they'll just start letting us go without offering anything at all." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz5ngwmy    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:01:29

• Microsoft begins substantial layoff process across gaming division, King and Zenimax impacted https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-begins-substantial-layoff-process-across-gaming-division-king-and-zenimax-impacted    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:15:29

• Microsoft continues Xbox layoffs, with jobs cut at King and ZeniMax Media — read Phil Spencer's note to staff https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-july-2025    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:15:58

• Xbox hit in yet another wave of Microsoft layoffs https://www.pcgamesinsider.biz/news/75275/xbox-hit-in-yet-another-wave-of-microsoft-layoffs/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:16:25

• More Xbox Layoffs Announced, Phil Spencer Explains Why They Were Necessary https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-layoffs-begin-with-200-cuts-in-europe-report/1100-6532905/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:16:55

• One Laptop Manufacturer Had To Stop Janet Jackson Crashing Laptops ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/01/one-laptop-manufacturer-had-to-stop-janet-jackson-crashing-laptops/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:17:36

• DIY Book Lamp ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/01/diy-book-lamp-is-a-different-take-on-the-illuminated-manuscript/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:17:54

• Are Service Loops A Good Idea? ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/01/are-service-loops-a-good-idea/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:23:21

• Square A Voltage ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/01/challenge-square-a-voltage/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:23:45

• Tesla shares slump after Convicted Felon threatens MElon with DOGE and entertains deportation ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/01/tesla-shares-slump-trump-threatens-elon-musk-doge-entertains-deportation/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:24:08

• Zapping Volunteers' Brains With Electricity Boosted Their Maths Skills ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/zapping-volunteers-brains-with-electricity-boosted-their-maths-skills    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:24:30

• Nightmares Could Make You 3 Times More Likely Die Before 75 ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/nightmares-could-make-you-3-times-more-likely-die-before-75    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:24:49

• Case Note: FCC v. Consumers’ Research, No. 24-354 (S. Ct.) ☞ https://project-disco.org/competition/case-note-fcc-v-consumers-research/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:25:17

• Government warned cuts to journalism training ‘weaken civic fabric’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/government-warned-cuts-to-journalism-training-weaken-civic-fabric/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:25:40

• If this is the Convicted Felon Doctrine, Australia had better pay attention ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/if-this-is-the-trump-doctrine-australia-had-better-pay-attention/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:26:01

• Space Cargo of Human Remains And Cannabis Lost at Sea Following Mission Failure ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/space-cargo-of-human-remains-and-cannabis-lost-at-sea-following-mission-failure    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:26:47

• A Simple Change To Your Evening Routine Could Help You Exercise More ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-simple-change-to-your-evening-routine-could-help-you-exercise-more    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:27:04

• Ozempic Alternative Ditches The Needle And One Major Side Effect ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ozempic-alternative-ditches-the-needle-and-one-major-side-effect    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:27:18

• There's a Critical Thing We Can All Do to Hold Alzheimer's Symptoms at Bay ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-critical-thing-we-can-all-do-to-hold-alzheimers-symptoms-at-bay    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:27:41

• BMI Is an Awful Predictor of Early Death. We've Had a Better Option For Decades. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/bmi-is-an-awful-predictor-of-early-death-weve-had-a-better-option-for-decades    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:27:55

• The Secret to Better Sleep Could Be As Simple As Eating More Fruit And Veggies ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-secret-to-better-sleep-could-be-as-simple-as-eating-more-fruit-and-veggies    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:28:07

• Ticket Scalpers Are Driving O2 London Ticket Prices Up to 490%—Industry Calls for Urgent Cap ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/07/01/ticket-scalpers-drive-up-o2-london-tickets/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:29:51

• 15 Years of OsmAnd ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1027973/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:30:14

• How Educators Run the Internet ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/07/how-educators-run-the-internet/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:31:14

• US federal appellate court expands immunity for CIA contractors, rules no jurisdiction over Guantanamo detainee case ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/us-federal-appellate-court-expands-immunity-for-cia-contractors-rules-no-jurisdiction-over-guantanamo-detainee-case/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:32:11

• The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Conscious Evolution of Psychological Operations ☞ https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/07/investigative-series/the-legacy-of-barbara-marx-hubbard-and-the-conscious-evolution-of-psychological-operations/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:33:13

• Senate Votes to Allow State Hey Hi (AI) Laws, a Blow to Tech Companies ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/state-ai-laws.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:34:46

• Columbia Will Pay $9 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over U.S. News Ranking ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/nyregion/columbia-university-us-news-ranking.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:35:11

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Falsely Claims Mamdani Is an Illegal Immigrant and Threatens to Arrest Him ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/trump-zohran-mamdani.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:36:01

• ‘Fresh brewed news’: Community café offers locals a chance to sip with reporters ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2025/0701/local-news-cafe-maine-midcoast-villager    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:36:37

• Social Security Backs Off Listing Living Migrants as Dead ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/social-security-immigrants-dead.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:37:10

• Rogue IT worker gets seven months in prison over $200,000 digital rampage — technician changed all of his company's passwords after getting suspended ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/rogue-it-worker-gets-seven-months-in-prison-over-usd200-000-digital-rampage-technician-changed-all-of-his-companys-passwords-after-getting-suspended    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:37:30

• Microsoft not here yet, can help show how big a lie they told re layoffs https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employee-notifications/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn-layoff-and-closure-database    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:39:14

• Microsoft Makes Significant Layoffs Across Gaming Division, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Confirms in Memo to Staff https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-makes-significant-layoffs-across-gaming-division-xbox-boss-phil-spencer-confirms-in-memo-to-staff    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:39:51

• Now they say 9100 https://gamingbolt.com/microsoft-initiates-mass-layoffs-about-9100-employees-affected-rumor    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:41:05

• OVER 9.000 https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/layoffs-news-microsoft-to-cut-over-9-000-jobs-as-part-of-streamlining-workforce-efforts-details-here-11751461625648.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:41:49

• Microsoft confirms largest layoffs since 2023, more than 2,200 Seattle-area jobs cut https://mynorthwest.com/local/microsoft-layoffs-seattle-jobs-cut/4105992    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:43:00

• Rare’s Everwild Cancelled Amid Xbox Layoffs https://insider-gaming.com/rares-everwild-cancelled-amid-xbox-layoffs/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 15:45:27

• https://www.gematsu.com/2025/07/everwild-canceled-amid-microsoft-gaming-layoffs   

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 16:40:27

• yet another one cancelled https://www.gematsu.com/2025/07/everwild-canceled-amid-microsoft-gaming-layoffs    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 16:40:34

• Rare's mysterious nature sim Everwild has been cancelled as part of Xbox mass layoffs, according to reports https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rares-mysterious-nature-sim-everwild-has-been-cancelled-as-part-of-xbox-mass-layoffs-according-to-reports    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 16:41:42

• Last major pro-democracy party in Hong Kong announces dissolution ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/hong-kongs-last-major-pro-democracy-party-announces-dissolution/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 16:44:48

• Research suggests majority of Hong Kong national security convictions wrongfully issued ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/ngo-research-suggests-majority-of-hong-kong-national-security-convictions-wrongfully-issued/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 16:45:09

• Firefox Nightly: Highlights from Volunteer Contributors – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 184 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/07/01/highlights-from-volunteer-contributors-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-184/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 16:46:07

• TheRegister links to MICROSOFT MOLES as source :) :) CUTE! https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/02/microsoft_layoffs/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 17:56:44

• "I can assure you there have been comms" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz5bmjkc    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:02:20

• More shutdowns reported https://www.dualshockers.com/details-gaming-teams-gutted-microsoft-mega-layoffs/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:12:24

• The Irish should be glad this is happening https://www.businesspost.ie/tech/concerns-for-irish-jobs-as-microsoft-confirms-9000-layoffs-with-focus-on-sales-staff/ Microsoft is a WEAPON AGAINST Ireland https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Microsofts-ICC-email-block-reignites-European-data-sovereignty-concerns    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:24:06

• Why can't the corporate media treat is like good news when CRIMINAL companies have layoffs? THAT is "toxic positivity"... being HAPPY FOR CRIMINALS, too.    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:25:05

• And it is worth noting that Nat Friendman's dad is a Fraud Street Operative. http://techrights.org/o/2021/11/22/defrauding-microsoft-shareholders/ http://techrights.org/o/2021/10/25/github-series-outline/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:26:00

• If Nat Friedman sponsors the SLAPPs against Techrights, he will need to pay a LOT of money http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/04/10_Step_Strategy_to_Get_BRETT_WILSON_LLP_Gun_for_Hire_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:26:37

• Radxa Cubie A7A is a powerful SBC based on Allwinner A733 Cortex-A76/A55 Hey Hi (AI) SoC with up to 16GB RAM ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/02/radxa-cubie-a7a-powerful-allwinner-a733-sbc-cortex-a76-a55-ai-soc-16gb-ram/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:52:53

• "C++ Encounters Of The Rusty Zig Kind" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/01/c-encounters-of-the-rusty-zig-kind/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:53:17

• "Too Much Choice" and "Too Many Programming Languages" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Too_Much_Choice_and_Too_Many_Programming_Languages.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:53:29

• House appropriators slam DHS for ‘egregious’ ICE overspending ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/budget/2025/07/house-appropriators-slam-dhs-for-egregious-ice-overspending/ Fly Eagle(3) fly: Faster inference with vLLM & speculative decoding ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/07/01/fly-eagle3-fly-faster-inference-vllm-speculative-decoding    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:54:40

• Dave Airlie: radv: VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 support ☞ https://airlied.blogspot.com/2025/07/radv-vkkhrvideoencodeav1-support.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:55:17

• Fedora Community Blog: Fedora DEI Outreachy Intern – My first month Recap 🎊 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-dei-outreachy-intern-my-first-month-recap-%f0%9f%8e%8a/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:55:54

• Fedora supports a whole wide diversity of bullsh--    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:56:13

• Especially every little dumpling of BS from IBM's back side    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:56:35

• Protecting Kids Shouldn’t Mean Weakening the First Amendment ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/protecting-kids-shouldnt-mean-weakening-the-first-amendment/ MS-infiltrated org https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:57:29

• Ali Shamkhani, Top Iran Official, Survived Israeli Strike ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/iran-shamkhani-israel-attack.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:58:30

• Israel is 'strong and powerful': Netanyahu push for regime change in Iran is 'childish and immature' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250701-israel-is-strong-and-powerful-netanyahu-push-for-regime-change-in-iran-is-childish-and-immature    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:58:56

• France asks airlines to reduce flights due to planned air traffic controller strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250701-france-asks-airlines-reduce-flights-due-planned-air-traffic-controller-strike    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 18:59:16

• LibreArts Weekly recap — 29 June 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/06/week-recap-29-jun-2025/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:01:18

• Fedora Community Blog: Simplifying Fedora Package Submission Progress Report – GSoC ’25 ☞ https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/simplifying-fedora-package-submission-progress-report-gsoc-25/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:02:38

• Victor Ma: Bugs, bugs, and more bugs! ☞ https://victorma.ca/posts/gsoc-4/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:03:15

• My GSoC 2025 Journey - Part 1 ☞ https://shubshinde.bearblog.dev/my-gsoc-2025-journey-part-1/ "Hi, I'm thrilled to be part of Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2025 with KDE Community, working under the mentorship of Carl Schwan, Claudio Cambra, and Aakarsh MJ."    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:03:41

• Profiling by Proxy: How Meta’s Data Driven Ads Fuel Discrimination ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/profiling-by-proxy-how-metas-data-driven-ads-fuel-discrimination/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:05:18

• Meta Requires More Transparency About Anti-Gambling Ads Than Gambling Ads ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/meta-requires-more-transparency-about-anti-gambling-ads-than-gambling-ads/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:05:41

• Mike Blumenkrantz: Behind Schedule ☞ https://www.supergoodcode.com/behind-schedule/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:06:44

• This is spam. Marketing spam. One person changing a job is not really news. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/simmons-simmons-partner-joins-carpmaels-ransford-in-london/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:15:53

• No, IPRs and PGRs Aren’t Interchangeable ☞ https://patentprogress.org/2025/07/no-iprs-and-pgrs-arent-interchangeable/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:16:42

• Don’t Get it Twisted: New Discretionary Denials Process Hurts American Inventors ☞ https://patentprogress.org/2025/07/dont-get-it-twisted-new-discretionary-denials-process-hurts-american-inventors/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:16:52

• Unified files amicus in support of Motorola's mandamus petition in Fed. Cir. ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/6/30/unified-files-amicus-in-support-of-motorolas-mandamus-petition-in-fed-cir    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:17:02

• "Miscarriage Is Increasingly Dangerous for Women in Texas" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-miscarriage-blood-transfusions-methodology | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:18:30

• "Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-miscarriage-blood-transfusions | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:18:48

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

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:19:18

• "shaken" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/child-abuse-pediatrician-nancy-harper-minnesota-shaken-baby-syndrome | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:19:37

• The Fridge: Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) reaches End of Life on 10th July 2025 ☞ https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/07/01/ubuntu-24-10-oracular-oriole-reaches-end-of-life-on-10th-july-2025/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:20:07

• digiKam 8.7.0 Released with Improved Hey Hi (AI) Tools ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/digikam-8-7-0-new-ai-tools    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:20:28

• Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) reaches End of Life on 10th July 2025 ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/07/01/ubuntu-24-10-oracular-oriole-reaches-end-of-life-on-10th-july-2025/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:20:56

• How to configure and manage Argo CD instances ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/07/01/how-configure-and-manage-argo-cd-instances    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:23:42

• XSAs released on 2025-07-01 ☞ https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2025/07/01/xsas-released-on-2025-07-01/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:25:07

• Microsoft Uses LLM Slop to Defraud (or Rob) Shareholders (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Microsoft_Uses_LLM_Slop_to_Defraud_or_Rob_Shareholders.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:25:30

• The "Davos Effect": Tarnishing the Reputation of Places Not by Overtourism But by Oligarch Infestation (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/The_Davos_Effect_Tarnishing_the_Reputation_of_Places_Not_by_Ove.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:25:40

• "Wayland People" Behave Like the Googles and Microsofts of This World ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/02/Wayland_People_Behave_Like_the_Googles_and_Microsofts_of_This_W.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:25:57

• What Happens When Your Law Firm is Preoccupied With Harassing and Trying to Extort a Humble Couple in Manchester, Even on Behalf of Violent Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Staff From Another Continent ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/What_Happens_When_Your_Law_Firm_is_Preoccupied_With_Harassing_a.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:26:08

• Lawyer X, Law Firm X and MElon's X: scandals linked by Old Xaverian ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/Lawyer_X_Law_Firm_X_and_Elon_Musk_s_X_scandals_linked_by_Old_Xa.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:26:19

• Olimex RP2350pc computer board features Raspberry Pi RP2350B MCU, HDMI/DVI video output, 4x USB ports ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/01/olimex-rp2350pc-computer-board-features-raspberry-pi-rp2350b-mcu-hdmi-dvi-video-output-4x-usb-ports/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:27:05

• People Who Disagree With You on Technical Matters May or May Not Agree With You on Political Things (But Usually They Do) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/People_Who_Disagree_With_You_on_Technical_Matters_May_or_May_No.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:27:36

• When Words Lose Their Intended Meaning ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/When_Words_Lose_Their_Intended_Meaning.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:27:51

• The Web is a Dead End ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/01/The_Web_is_a_Dead_End.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:28:01

• Don Marti: how to write less like a bot ☞ https://blog.zgp.org/how-to-write-less-like-a-bot/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:28:43

• How to Check and Enable exFAT Support in Ubuntu ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-check-and-enable-exfat-support-in-ubuntu/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:30:03

• Microbe 'Flavors' Tell Octopuses Which Babies Deserve Their Care ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/microbe-flavors-tell-octopuses-which-babies-deserve-their-care    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:30:35

• digiKam 8.7.0 is released ☞ https://www.digikam.org/news/2025-06-30-8.7.0_release_announcement/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:30:58

• SPAMNIL still shilling ProprietaryGarbage, as if the alternative to Microsoft is.... more of Microsoft https://tfir.io/how-to-avoid-sql-server-enterprise-licensing-costs-in-the-cloud/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:32:05

• This is fine ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1082/this-is-fine    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:37:57

• Iranian Blackout Affected Misinformation Campaigns ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/iranian-blackout-affected-misinformation-campaigns.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:38:56

• Wow PKGget window resizable ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202507/wow-pkgget-window-resizable.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:39:36

• "cryptocurrency largely seems to be a fad of the previous decade" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/01/a-crypto-miner-takes-the-straight-and-narrow/ | Source: Hackaday http://techrights.org/o/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:40:12

• ADLINK SBC35-MTL – A 3.5-inch defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra SBC with up to 96GB DDR5, SBC-FM I/O expansion ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/01/adlink-sbc35-mtl-a-3-5-inch-intel-core-ultra-sbc-with-up-to-96gb-ddr5-sbc-fm-i-o-expansion/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:40:39

• His USAID career over, one worker wonders if he can still serve his country ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0701/usaid-workers-trump-doge-layoffs    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:41:32

• Red Hat Says: Wayland is Perfect, It's Your Software That's Broken ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/red-hat-says-wayland-is-perfect-its http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Wayland_is_Perfect_Nobody_Can_Escape_Its_Perfection_Or_Not.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:42:13

• Chimera GNU/Linux is "Here to Further Woke Agenda by Turning Free Software Gay" ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/chimera-linux-is-here-to-further    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:43:16

• How Hell Toupée’s Budget Bill Jeopardizes Wi-Fi, and How We Got Here ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/how-president-trumps-budget-bill-jeopardizes-wi-fi-and-how-we-got-here/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:43:53

• Public Knowledge Opposes Senate Budget Bill Risking Nation’s Wi-Fi ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-opposes-senate-budget-bill-risking-nations-wi-fi/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:44:04

• 📣 The New LibreOffice 25.2 User Guides Are Here! ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/01/%f0%9f%93%a3-the-new-libreoffice-25-2-user-guides-are-here/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:44:47

• Junichi Uekawa: Japan is now very hot. ☞ http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-Jul-2.html.en#2025-Jul-2-10:12:41 "Japan is now very hot. If you are coming to Banpaku, be prepared."    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:48:33

• Hong Kong delivery workers’ rights group ceases operations ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/01/hong-kong-delivery-workers-rights-group-ceases-operations/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:49:06

• Guido Günther: Free Software Activities June 2025 ☞ https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_June_2025.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:49:34

• KDE Plasma 6.4.2, Bugfix Release for July ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.2/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:50:01

• This unique electronic toy helps children learn their shapes ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/07/01/this-unique-electronic-toy-helps-children-learn-their-shapes/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:51:05

• Perspiration, Bilocation, and Plagiarisation: “The Heat Wave” (1929) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-heat-wave    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:51:21

• Critical Microsens Product Flaws Allow Hackers to Go ‘From Zero to Hero’ ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/critical-microsens-product-flaws-allow-hackers-to-go-from-zero-to-hero/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:52:24

• Clownflare Puts a Default Block on Hey Hi (AI) Web Scraping ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cloudflare-puts-a-default-block-on-ai-web-scraping/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:52:58

• 263,000 Impacted by Esse Health Data Breach ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/263000-impacted-by-esse-health-data-breach/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:53:18

• Thousands of Citrix NetScaler Instances Unpatched Against Exploited Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/thousands-of-citrix-netscaler-instances-unpatched-against-exploited-vulnerabilities/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:53:37

• Iranian Hackers’ Preferred ICS Targets Left Open Amid Fresh US Attack Warning ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/iranian-hackers-preferred-ics-targets-left-open-amid-fresh-us-attack-warning/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:54:35

• Maja T. transferred to prison hospital in Hungary, decision on immunity of MEP Ilaria Salis postponed ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/07/01/maja-t-transferred-to-prison-hospital-in-hungary-decision-on-immunity-of-mep-ilaria-salis-postponed/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:56:28

• Dev snapshot: Godot 4.5 beta 2 ☞ https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-5-beta-2/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:56:50

• TTAB Posts July 2025 Hearing Schedule ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/07/ttab-posts-july-2025-hearing-schedule.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:57:55

• Supreme Court Grants Cert in First (and only) IP Case of 2024: Billion-Dollar ISP Copyright Contributory Liability Case ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/07/copyright-contributory-liability.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:58:33

• America’s Creative Edge—New Copyright Alliance Campaign Rallies Music Pros to Shape Hey Hi (AI) Policy ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/07/01/copyright-alliance-campaign-ai-policy/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:58:53

• Copyleft-next Relaunched ☞ https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jul/01/copyleft-next-relaunched/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 19:59:49

• Lithuania sends officers to Latvia to help deal with irregular migration ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2600764/lithuania-sends-officers-to-latvia-to-help-deal-with-irregular-migration    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:01:12

• Lithuanian border guards report sharp rise in secondary migration via Latvia ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2600850/lithuanian-border-guards-report-sharp-rise-in-secondary-migration-via-latvia    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:01:35

• "hikes nearing 40 percent in some cities" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/01/russia-to-raise-utility-rates-starting-july-1-with-hikes-nearing-40-percent-in-some-cities | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:02:25

• Top Russian General Convicted in High-Profile Corruption Case ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/europe/russia-timur-ivanov-verdict.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:02:37

• Denmark Begins Drafting Women as Russian Threat Looms ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/europe/denmark-military-draft-women-russia.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:02:52

• Land mine ban was a global triumph. Here’s why Finland is leaving. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0701/finland-land-mines-treaty-withdraw    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:03:11

• Brothers arrested by Russia were tortured and beaten to death, says Azerbaijan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/azerbaijan-says-brothers-arrested-by-russia-were-tortured-and-beaten-to-death    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:04:04

• Deaths Of Azerbaijanis After Russian Police Raid Fuel Diplomatic Row With Baku ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/azerbaijan-russia-police-raid-deaths-caucasus-diplomacy/33460707.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:04:17

• Former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Ivanov Gets 13 Years On Corruption Charges ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-moscow-city-court-timur-ivanov-sentence-prison-corruption-war/33460898.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:04:35

• US sanctions bulletproof hosting provider for supporting ransomware, infostealer operations ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/bulletproof-hosting-provider-aezagroup-sanctions/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:04:59

• autopsy ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/01/azerbaijan-opens-torture-investigation-after-autopsy-shows-brothers-arrested-in-russia-died-from-severe-injuries | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:15:17

• "I don’t want this exchange anymore" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/01/i-don-t-want-this-exchange-anymore | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:15:37

• ‘Siberian Jesus’ sentenced to Russian prison after harming followers in bizarre cult ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/01/world-news/siberian-jesus-sentenced-to-russian-prison-after-harming-followers-in-bizarre-cult/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:15:53

• "We asked readers how it’s upending their lives." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/01/we-re-back-in-the-early-2000s | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:16:13

• "Azerbaijani" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/02/tit-for-tat-arrests | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:16:34

• ‘Orwellian’ ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/01/trump-envoy-calls-kremlin-statement-blaming-u-s-and-ukraine-for-stalled-peace-talks-orwellian | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:16:59

• "future of war crimes" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/01/hunted-in-kherson | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:17:21

• "killing three and injuring dozens" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/01/ukrainian-drones-strike-russian-defense-plant-in-izhevsk-killing-three-and-injuring-dozens | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:17:43

• Under a Drone-Swarmed Sky: Surviving in Eastern Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-frontline.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:19:23

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Pauses Some Weapons Transfers to Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/politics/trump-ukraine-weapons.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:19:32

• Ukraine’s spiritual culture on the front lines ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0701/Ukraine-s-spiritual-culture-on-the-front-lines    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:19:43

• Ukrainian Drone Strike Hits Russian Defense Plant In Izhevsk, Killing 3 ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/drone-strike-izhevsk-kupol-casulaties-brechalov-attack-ukraine-russia-udmurtia/33460794.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:19:51

• Some US Weapons Won’t Be Sent To Ukraine Following Pentagon Review ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-weapons-supply-war-pentagon-trump/33461518.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:20:05

• Pentagon halts key weapons shipment to Ukraine amid US stockpile worries ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250702-pentagon-weapons-ukraine-us-stockpiles-russia    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:20:17

• Not just drones, but massed swarms of them. Defences can’t cope ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/not-just-drones-but-massed-swarms-of-them-defences-cant-cope/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:20:36

• Latvia to send 42 Patria vehicles to Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/01.07.2025-latvia-to-send-42-patria-vehicles-to-ukraine.a605181/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:20:56

• €30 million pilot launched to support Finnish SMEs' exports to Ukraine ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1692    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:21:11

• "first phone call in nearly three years" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/01/putin-and-macron-hold-first-phone-call-in-nearly-three-years | Source: Meduza    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:21:54

• Macron and Putin Discuss Iran and Ukraine in Rare Call ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/europe/putin-macron-ukraine-iran.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:22:14

• This $37 tactile dial for PCs supercharges your scrolling with incredible 0.043-mm precision — Ploopy Knob is a 3D-printed open source project you can also make on your own ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/this-usd37-tactile-dial-for-pcs-supercharges-your-scrolling-with-incredible-0-043-mm-precision-ploopy-knob-is-a-3d-printed-open-source-project-you-can-also-make-on-your-own    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:22:43

• Macron urges Putin to accept Ukraine ceasefire in first phone call since 2022 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250701-macron-urges-putin-accept-ukraine-ceasefire-first-phone-call-since-2022-russia-france    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:23:06

• Putin’s escalating air offensive is overwhelming Ukraine’s defenses ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/putins-escalating-air-offensive-is-overwhelming-ukraines-defenses/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:23:28

• The Disaster That Just Passed the Senate ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-matthew-yglesias.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:23:56

• What’s in the SOSS? Podcast #34 – S2E11 From Lockpicking to Leadership: Tabatha DiDomenico on Security, Open Source, and Building Community ☞ https://openssf.org/podcast/2025/07/01/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-34-s2e11-from-lockpicking-to-leadership-tabatha-didomenico-on-security-open-source-and-building-community/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:24:24

• Lyon, France Adopts OnlyOffice: From Russia With Love ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/07/lyon-france-adopts-onlyoffice-from-russia-with-love/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:24:58

• Top UK online publishers: X plummets, Reddit surges, news publishers ranked ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/biggest-website-publishers-uk-2025-x-twitter-reddit-tiktok-bbc-mail/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:26:39

• Who’s Gonna Buy TikTok? Familiar Names Resurface: Oracle, Blackstone, Andreessen Horowitz ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/07/01/whos-gonna-buy-tiktok-names-resurface/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:27:01

• 5 common Linux dealbreakers that could ruin your Windows 10 switch https://www.pcworld.com/article/2827724/5-common-linux-dealbreakers-that-could-ruin-your-windows-10-switch.html    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:31:00

• "It reminded me of something that emerged a little while ago that I had yet to have a proper look at. So I'm rectifying that, today." https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/a-microsoft-engineer-made-a-linux-distro-thats-like-a-comfort-blanket-to-ex-windows-users    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:31:46

• Openwashing with Microsoft https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/07/agent2agent-linux-foundation/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:32:27

• I installed Bazzite on the Steam Deck, and I regret it https://www.xda-developers.com/bazzite-on-steam-deck-verdict-is-in/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:41:18

• Linux's remarkable journey from one dev's hobby to 40 million lines of code - and counting https://www.zdnet.com/article/linuxs-remarkable-journey-from-one-devs-hobby-to-40-million-lines-of-code-and-counting/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:42:38

• "Fedora's 32-bit removal plan has been dropped due to intense backlash from the community." [sic] https://news.itsfoss.com/fedora-32-bit-support-stays/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:43:12

• "The Fedora community has quickly dropped a couple of recent proposed changes – one highly controversial, the other rather less so." https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/fedora_43_i686_32bit/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:43:34

• Sudo local privilege escalation vulnerabilities fixed (CVE-2025-32462, CVE-2025-32463) https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/07/01/sudo-local-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-fixed-cve-2025-32462-cve-2025-32463/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:44:00

• Massive VRAM pools on AMD Instinct accelerators drown Linux's hibernation process — 1.5 TB of memory per server creates headaches https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/supercomputers/massive-vram-pools-on-amd-instinct-accelerators-drown-linuxs-hibernation-process-1-5-tb-of-memory-per-server-creates-headaches    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:45:58

• "I recently made the switch to using Linux full time, leaving Windows behind. And since then, I’ve come to appreciate the incredible variety of open-source software available, not just because it's free but because it respects your privacy." https://www.xda-developers.com/5-underrated-linux-apps/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:46:22

• "Are you looking for some Linux apps to install on your Chromebook? Since ChromeOS gained native Linux app support a while ago, Chromebooks have been completely revolutionized with their capabilities." https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-the-best-linux-apps-to-use-on-chromeos/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:47:13

• "Maintaining 32-bit support will allow Steam to keep functioning on popular Linux distribution" https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/steam-and-linux-gaming-is-safe-fedora-will-not-drop-32-bit-support-after-all-dev-says-proposal-was-not-some-conspiracy-to-break-the-gaming-use-case    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:47:48

• "A proposal to drop all support for 32-bit software in the distant Fedora 44 release has been withdrawn after backlash from the community. If you have critical 32-bit software running on a Fedora instance, you can rest assured an upgrade to version 44 won't disrupt your experience, at least not for that reason." https://www.howtogeek.com/fedora-44-will-not-lose-32-bit-software/    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 20:48:27

• Breather gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/7-02.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:32:53

• "But when Cloudflare is down, a large part of the public Internet is down, too. If they censor a country, a company, or an individual, everybody using their service automatically partakes in the action." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-07-02-cloudflare    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:33:43

• The adventure of choosing a plant-based yogurt gopher://box.matto.nl/0/the-adventure-of-choosing-a-plant-based-yogurt.txt    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:34:39

• 🔤SpellBinding: ACJKLWO Wordo: ROWER gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-07-02.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:35:55

• [KISS] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-07-02.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:37:08

• "I was recently playing around with a program called Tootik. Tootik is a fediverse client, like Mastodon, but instead of being over https, it's over gemini. This immediately peaked my interest because I had been needing to move instances and this client even had a migration feature to make that easy." gemini://breebee.smol.pub/tootik_a_gemini_fediverse_client_07_02_2025    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:38:30

• "The point: To spend July exploring the small Web and/or real life instead of spending time on the corporate/commercialized Web." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-07-02    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:39:31

• Six truths gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2655    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:40:06

• "Soon after I started this blog, I started working full time again. I got a job as a front desk host at the same hotel that my partner works as a head chef inside of. (the restaurant isn't own by the hotel, just located inside)" gemini://sorrel-sour.smol.pub/log-250702    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:41:08

• to be loved gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/to_be_loved    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:42:06

• Elibre Radio nuevamente gemini://tecnico-ligero.duckdns.org/gemlog/41--2025-07-01-Elibre-Radio-nuevamente.gmi    

posted Wednesday, July 02, 2025 at 21:43:04

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