Roy Schestowitz

• "It is with great fanfare and the deepest sincerity that I'm pleased to announce a new Gemini service of profound utility. "T-Minus And Counting (The Gemini Temporal Explorer)" fills, if not a gaping hole, then an extremely tiny impression in the competitive Gemini countdown clock ecosystem." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/bluesman/29908    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:19:03

• Landscape as Spirit gemini://whither.smol.pub/1751565336    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:20:15

• skin on skin on skin gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/skin_on_skin_on_skin    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:20:53

• [cat] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-07-03.gmi    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:22:04

• "There are many negative articles about “AI” (which is not about actual Artificial Intelligence also known as “AGI”). Which I think are mostly overblown and often ridiculous." https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/07/03/fuss-about-ai/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:26:35

• "People often complain about the apparent impossibility of “AI” companies doing what investors think they will do. But this isn’t anything new, that all happened before with the “dot com boom”. I’m not the first person to make this comparison, The Daily WTF (a high quality site about IT mistakes) has an interesting article making this comparison [1]. But my conclusions are quite different."    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:27:22

• "NVidia isn’t ever going to have the future sales that would justify a market capitalisation of almost 4 Trillion US dollars."    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:28:31

• "Companies spending billions of dollars without firm plans for how to make money are going to go bankrupt no matter what business they are in."    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:29:38

• "Companies like NVidia that have high stock prices based on the supposed ongoing growth in use of their hardware will have their stock prices crash. But the new technology they develop will be used by other people for other purposes. If hospitals can get cheap diagnostic ML systems because of unreasonable investment into “AI” then that could be a win for humanity."    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:30:13

• "Companies that bet their entire business on AI even when it’s not necessarily their core business (as Tesla has done with self driving) will have their stock price crash dramatically at a minimum and have the possibility of bankruptcy. Having Tesla go bankrupt is definitely better than having people try to use them as self driving cars."    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:30:42

• "so The superHero(Richard StallMan) Entered, started the GNU Project (1983) to build a free UNIX-like OS. He made lots of tools like compilers, shell,Terminal ,editors — everything but the kernel." https://dev.to/s_mathavi_2fa1e3ea8514f34/who-really-built-linux-the-truth-behind-the-code-23c4    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:34:18

• Irish jobs cut in Microsoft’s latest layoffs affecting roughly 9,000 https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/microsoft-xbox-layoff-ireland-job-cuts-2025-games-cancelled    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:37:36

• Forza Motorsport Could Be in Trouble Following Microsoft Layoffs https://www.motor1.com/news/764722/forza-motorsport-developer-layoffs/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:38:41

• Microsoft's H-1B Visa Applications Questioned Amid Mass Layoffs https://www.newsweek.com/microsoft-layoffs-h1b-visa-applications-2094370    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:39:43

• Xbox was funding Romero Games' new game, but layoffs have left the project in crisis https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-was-funding-romero-games-new-game-but-layoffs-have-left-the-project-in-crisis-172234905.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:41:45

• Romero Games Employee Says 'Whole Studio' Subject to Layoffs After Microsoft Pulls Funding for New Shooter from Doom Co-Creator John Romero https://www.ign.com/articles/update-romero-games-employee-says-whole-studio-subject-to-layoffs-after-microsoft-pulls-funding-for-new-shooter-from-doom-co-creator-john-romero    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:42:13

• Doom creator John Romero's next shooter project loses funding following Microsoft cuts https://www.eurogamer.net/doom-creator-john-romeros-next-shooter-project-loses-funding-following-microsoft-cuts    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:42:41

• Microsoft Reportedly Lays Off Over 70 Employees Behind Forza And Forza Horizon https://www.theautopian.com/microsoft-reportedly-lays-off-over-70-employees-behind-forza-and-forza-horizon/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:43:12

• Xbox hit hard with layoffs: from canceled games to a shuttered studio https://www.theverge.com/news/697125/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-2025    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:43:36

• "Yes many ppl in Atlanta were laid off in the May 13th round and in the July 2nd round. Microsoft Layoffs in Atlanta, Georgia - If you live in the state of Georgia and were recently lay off please let us know." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz88snf6    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:45:08

• "The next round of layoffs. Who’s got intel on when the next round of layoffs will be? No way July 2 was it for the calendar year. Imagine believing anyone with that information would bother wasting their time on this site." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz847y7n    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:45:54

• "Even with these cuts, the company has over 40,000 more employees than 4 years ago globally. Excluding these cuts, the company has 15,000 more employees in the US today than 4 years ago. I understand these forums are a place for people to vent, but some of the THY END IS NEAR posts are laughable." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz6vpg9n    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:46:40

• IBM and Microsoft fake headcount figures. Temps and full timers are not the same. There are loopholes.    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:47:08

• "Politics trumps AI all day long. Still surviving 20+ years later with too many promotions to count and many stock/RSU grants. Internal networking and politics are the best defense against any reduction in force. You think working 10–16-hour day and sacrificing your personal time will help you that much? Same with AI." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz6r96r9    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:48:08

• "It might help very little with so much more work and you are still at risk. Be smart about this. Once you get hit with a RIF, then you understand not to pour your heart out for any company and work smarter." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz6r96r9    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 00:48:17

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-07-04.gmi    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 03:13:01

• "There's been a recent surge in popularity for an initiative called "Stop Killing Games." Simply put, it's against allowing game publishers from revoking your games and rendering them unplayable whenever they feel like it." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20250703-stop_killing_games.txt    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 03:14:06

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1341.jpg    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 03:14:39

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1691.jpg    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 03:14:45

• Wayne Williams of BetaNews still links to his Twitter... ahem X... account. But he has not posted since 2023. Which means he still gave it a short for over a year after MElon takeover.    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 03:29:36

• (a shot)    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 03:29:47

• It's good to see BetaNews implicitly admitting that slopfarming failed them. They took some 3 people back onboard. Good.    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 03:30:25

• Saying you can emulate and thus replace human writers with bots is like saying porn obviates the need for sex or a pipe down your throat means we don't need to prepare or consume any food anymore.    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 03:31:43

• People always learned to reject garbage, even if corporations shoved it down their throat. The question was, how long before it happened (overcoming deceit, marketing, hype)    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 03:32:30

• "Valve have released the data for the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for June 2025, here's the usual GamingOnLinux run over it - with a little extra." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/steam-hardware-software-survey-for-june-2025-is-out-heres-the-latest-for-linux-and-steamos/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:38:24

• "Mesa 25.1.5 is the latest bug-fix release for the current main stable version of open source Linux graphics drivers." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/mesa-25-1-5-brings-more-bug-fixes-for-linux-graphics-drivers/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:38:35

• "While most of Linux gaming revolves around Steam, SteamOS and Steam Deck. GOG and Epic Games can be run on Linux platforms too - here's how." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-play-games-from-gog-and-epic-games-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:46:34

• "Mastodon doesn’t bring me joy – Alex" https://alexsirac.com/mastodon-doesnt-bring-me-joy/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:46:49

• "Favourite Child" https://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2025-07-03-favourite-child.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:47:00

• "Mexico City honors its pre-Hispanic heritage on the 700th anniversary of Tenochtitlán" https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-01/mexico-city-honors-its-pre-hispanic-heritage-on-the-700th-anniversary-of-tenochtitlan.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:47:13

• The Blue Gangsters | "Blågangstrarna" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://idiomdrottning.org/valdsmonopol    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:47:41

• "You MUST listen to RFC 2119" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:47:54

• "What, You Have a Blog? Really?" https://blog.numericcitizen.me/2025/07/02/what-you-have-a-blog.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:48:06

• "Stop Killing Games has seen a massive surge recently and it has hit some vital milestones." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/stop-killing-games-consumer-movement-hits-some-major-milestones/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:49:41

• "Recently CarX Street added in Easy Anti-Cheat which has been causing issues, but they're working on improving it for Linux desktop and Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/carx-street-developers-are-optimising-for-steam-deck-and-adapting-the-game-for-linux/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:52:23

• "POSTAL 2 Redux was announced recently and now it has a Steam page ready for you to follow along for this upcoming Linux game." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/postal-2-redux-gets-a-steam-page/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:53:46

• "Productivity, AI and pushback | Seth's Blog" https://seths.blog/2025/07/productivity-ai-and-pushback/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:55:39

• iophk: too many, this one and more, mistake LLMs for a tool https://www.seangoedecke.com/continuous-ai/ see http://techrights.org/o/2023/02/10/copilot-in-court/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:56:06

• This is not linux, misleading junk https://seiya.me/blog/building-linux-on-macos-natively ("Building Linux kernel on macOS natively")    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:56:30

• iophk: apparently even Wired seems to think that digital rights are not for everyone https://www.wired.com/story/the-promise-and-peril-of-digital-security-in-the-age-of-dictatorship/ ("The Promise and Peril of Digital Security in the Age of Dictatorship")... Conde Nast = Wired.    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:56:59

• iophk: next up, paid per access for regular people https://cyberscoop.com/cloudflare-ai-web-crawlers-pay-per-crawl-websites-data/ ("Clownflare rolls out ‘pay-per-crawl’ feature to constrain AI’s limitless hunger for data ")    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:57:26

• iophk: this and other articles fail to call out bytedance's tiktok in this incident https://truthout.org/articles/zohran-mamdani-won-in-a-double-digit-blowout-nyc-ballot-results-confirm/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/27/When_Social_Control_Media_in_the_European_Union_is_Controlled_b.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:58:02

• "Why Trump’s big legislative win could be short-lived" https://www.vox.com/politics/418668/trump-bill-reconciliation-unpopular-republican-backlash    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:58:14

• "Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill: What’s actually in it, explained" https://www.vox.com/politics/418599/one-big-beautiful-bill-act-details-explained    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:58:26

• "When he had finished the biblical reading, Beyer said, “Mr. Speaker, the bill before us takes food and drink from the mouths of the poor. It takes healthcare from the sick. A vote for this bill betrays these Gospel teachings, and in our hearts all of us know it.”" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/big-beautiful-bill-passes-vote-gop-trump/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:58:55

• "The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history" https://www.semafor.com/article/07/03/2025/the-us-dollar-is-on-track-for-its-worst-year-in-modern-history    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:59:07

• "Trump’s Big Beautiful Debt Bomb - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-big-beautiful-debt-bomb    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:59:28

• "Military veteran gets a life sentence for plotting an FBI attack after his Jan. 6 arrest | Courthouse News Service" https://www.courthousenews.com/military-veteran-gets-a-life-sentence-for-plotting-an-fbi-attack-after-his-jan-6-arrest/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:59:41

• "stop killing games part 1" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/stop-killing-games-part-1:4 "Stop killing games part two" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/stop-killing-games-part-two:e    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 06:59:55

• "Stop Killing Games" Needs Your Help" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/stop-killing-games-needs-your-help:3    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:00:05

• "According to their community manager they will still maintain Linux platform support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-finals-is-getting-new-kernel-based-anti-cheat-likely-to-break-it-on-linux-steamos-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:00:30

• "Now that NVIDIA GeForce NOW actually has an official dedicated app for the Steam Deck, I've taken it for a spin and came away impressed. Disclosure: NVIDIA gave me access to the Ultimate subscription" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/geforce-now-on-steam-deck-really-can-be-a-game-changer/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:00:47

• "Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy Studios just released a fresh update for The Last of Us Part I with more improvements for all platforms." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-last-of-us-part-i-gets-amd-fsr-4-and-an-audio-fix-for-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:00:57

• "Grooming gangs 'are using a worrying new tactic to target young girls' | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14828787/grooming-gang-suspects-accused-using-different-tactic-target-young-girls.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:01:16

• "Thinking of starting a Code Club? Get practical tips and advice from experienced mentors to help you begin with confidence." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/begin-your-code-club-journey-set-up-a-club-today/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:02:26

• "Waveshare has launched an embedded platform with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi Zero, powered by the RP2350 microcontroller." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/rp2350-pizero-pairs-rp2350-microcontroller-with-raspberry-pi-zero-form-factor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:02:53

• "Meerkat meer10" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/linux-ready-meerkat-meer10-launches-with-intel-core-ultra-pcie-gen5-storage-and-wi-fi-7/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:03:41

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

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:03:53

• fair.org seems to be missing or losing the plot; Iran now only arms terror groups; it also arms Putin to help him attack Europe. Why _won't_ the media applaud removing nuclear capabilities? https://fair.org/home/media-celebrate-international-aggression-against-iran/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:05:51

• If the antiwar movement (or media) becomes a pro-terror movement, then it's not antiwar at all. antiwar.com is already a PRO-RUSSIA WAR and PRO-RUSSIA site, so it's anti-NATO, not antiwar.    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:07:22

• That sort of sad thing will doom the left, as it'll be increasingly associated with hate and terrorism    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:07:55

• If two sides wage a war (or one side like Russia starts a war), then being antiwar does not mean favouring either of the aggressors    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:10:05

• A lot of self-described antiwar sites became just "I hate the West" sites. As if all wars always start there.    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:11:10

• Then come the Code of Conduct people, hailing Western corporations while drowning the Web with anti-West messages... plus, while banning everyone who doesn't agree.    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:12:31

• The cognitive dissonance fosters crazy people, who fail to grasp their own confusions and contradictions    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:13:10

• So IBM carries on working for ACTUAL nazis while its staff attacks people in social control media, alleging IBM critics (or GAFAM critics) are "nazis"    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:14:00

• Sane people do not have the "time of day" to deal with such infantile lunacy    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:14:41

• "Recently I showed I was able to use the new dynamometer fixture I built to capture detailed thermal modeling parameters for motor controllers and motors." ☛ https://blog.mjbots.com/2025/07/03/moteus-performance-analysis-tool/ |    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:17:46

• "The Arduino constantly monitors the ultrasonic sensors. Under normal circumstances, they won’t report seeing anything — or at least not anything close by." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/07/03/this-automatic-emergency-braking-system-protects-rc-cars/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:17:56

• "In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected." ☛ https://qsantos.fr/2025/07/02/the-missing-part-of-espressifs-reset-circuit/ | Source: Quentin Santos    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:18:12

• Nintendo faces government challenge over Switch 2 nuke powers — Brazilian watchdog says end-user license agreement contains 'abusive clauses' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/nintendo-faces-government-challenge-over-switch-2-nuke-powers-brazilian-watchdog-says-end-user-license-agreement-contains-abusive-clauses    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:19:13

• "Post-apocalyptic horror film '28 Years Later' is doing well at the box office, with $100 million in revenue in its first two weeks." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/28-days-later-is-a-hit-on-pirate-sites-23-years-later/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:24:57

• "The first session was looking back at the first year of DMA, and Apple’s interoperability." ☛ https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/up-the-kriek-apple-gets-punchy-in-brussels-dma-compliance-workshop/ | Source: Bruce Lawson    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:25:43

• "The US tech giant has been under pressure after being hit in March with European Union antitrust charges of unfairly favouring its own services" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/google-makes-new-proposal-to-stave-off-eu-antitrust-fine-document-shows/articleshow/122208190.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:25:52

• "Nepal has made significant progress in broadband connectivity." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/07/03/everyone-everywhere-all-the-time-nepals-push-for-rural-broadband-inclusion/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:30:12

• "in accordance with past tradition." ☛ https://www.rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/07/02/dalai-lama-successor-china/ | Source: RFA    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:51:06

• "At least temporarily, all the assorted ephemera related to the Hong Kong icon will be boxed up and stored." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/02/bruce-lee-club-closes-archive-doors-citing-operating-costs/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:51:18

• "As with China’s many popular beliefs, from Confucianism to Buddhism to Christianity, people practicing them do so for internal motivations, such as spiritual growth." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0703/The-Dalai-Lama-s-real-worth-in-China | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:51:40

• "Fears that the death of the aging Dalai Lama would cause his spiritual office to falter under Chinese pressure have intensified in recent months" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/dalai-lama-1.7575322 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:52:38

• "In its most recent report, from 2023, Walk Free’s Global Slavery Index reported that Arab states have the world’s highest prevalence of slaves (10.1 per 1,000 people)" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/justin-marozzi-book-shocking-truth-slavery-islamic-world/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 07:52:58

• "Keeping this fact in mind is essential if we are to nurture hope's embers, and fan them into the flames of change. Trumpism is a coalition of people who hate each other" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/states-rights-trumps-wrongs/#mamdani | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:13:12

• "The court order did not explain the justices’ rationale for seeking a new round of arguments next fall, though it said additional guidance is forthcoming." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/the-supreme-court-delayed-a-ruling-that-could-shape-voting-rights-across-the-us/ | Source: TruthOut    

POSTED fRIDAY, jULY 04, 2025 AT 08:13:31

• "All this explains why G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller... Gawker Diaspora" ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/07/03/go-media-jim-spanfeller-gawker-influence/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:24:18

• "Digital content moderation law figures as part of US-EU trade talks" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/07/03/2025/digital-content-moderation-law-figures-as-part-of-us-eu-trade-talks | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:24:47

• "CBS News' parent company worked with a mediator to resolve the lawsuit." ☛ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/paramount-trump-60-minutes-lawsuit-settlement/ | Source: CBS    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:25:12

• "Việt Nam’s growing crackdown on online dissent has intensified in recent years, with international tech firms caught in the crosshairs." ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/07/facebook-under-scrutiny-legal-initiatives-for-vietnam-presents-new-report-at-igf-2025/ | Source: The Vietnamese Magazine    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:25:24

• "In a democracy, scrutiny is not a threat; it’s a necessity. President Hakainde Hichilema’s recent remarks equating public criticism with hatred risk mischaracterizing legitimate dissent as something malicious." ☛ https://www.lusakatimes.com/2025/06/30/mr-president-criticism-is-not-hatred/ | Source: Lusaka ZM    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:27:04

• "Four staff members of the LeMan satirical magazine have been formally arrested in connection with an ongoing investigation over a controversial cartoon allegedly depicting Prophet Muhammad." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/four-leman-journalists-jailed-over-muhammad-cartoon-309073 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:27:23

• "the removal of a title from a library because someone considers it harmful or dangerous" ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/albertas-book-ban-is-a-blatant-act-of-cultural-vandalism/ | Source: The Walrus    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:27:47

• "This bill would be a disaster for [Internet] speech and innovation." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/02/the-no-fakes-act-has-changed-and-its-so-much-worse/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:28:02

• "The most frequently curated content on the White House Wire" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/politics/698148/white-house-wire-youtube | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:29:01

• "While the company didn't specify the exact number of people who would be losing their jobs, it did say it was less than four per cent of its total workforce, which would be about 9,000 people at most." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/microsoft-layoffs-1.7575145 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:33:45

• "The intrusion left high-level defense experts alarmed — and revealed the Trump administration's increasingly casual approach to national security protocols, the report stated." ☛ https://www.rawstory.com/zuckerberg-trump-2672554890/ | Source: Raw Story    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:35:01

• "Expecting more privacy in the meeting with the commander in chief, some of the officials came away mystified and a bit unnerved." ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/fox-news-maga-hats-cookies-trump-west-wing-rcna214754 | Source: NBC    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:35:21

• "The question is, which side will take it: those working to tear down our democratic institutions, or those fighting to protect them?" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/im-the-daughter-of-immigrants-this | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:36:01

• "On May 29, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced economic sanctions against Funnull Technology Inc." ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/07/big-techs-mixed-response-to-u-s-treasury-sanctions/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:37:52

• "But more troubling is what might be characterized as a different Canadian DST: digital strategy trouble." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/07/canadas-dst-debacle-a-case-study-of-digital-strategy-trouble/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:40:00

• "While much of the budget fight concerned Medicaid and the national debt, there were also protracted negotiations over a planned 10-year moratorium on states regulating AI systems." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/697879/congress-house-senate-pass-trump-obbb | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:40:25

• "The world of FOSS licensing is about to undergo a significant revival: the Copyleft-Next project is back in action, revitalized by its creators, Richard E. Fontana and Bradley M. Kuhn. " ☛ https://linuxiac.com/copyleft-next-license-relaunches-with-new-backing-and-renewed-mission/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:42:18

• "The chief executive officers of 44 companies, which include Europe’s top AI developer Mistral AI, have asked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to delay the AI Act for two years." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/03/europes-biggest-companies-call-two-year-pause-eus-landmark-ai-act/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:42:57

• "What used to be a broad, strategic, and often creative discipline has been reduced to a euphemism for “running ads”." ☛ https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/performance-marketing/ | Source: Jono Alderson    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:44:07

• "The Armenian Parliament has adopted legislative amendments to nationalise the country’s sole electricity company, Electric Networks of Armenia (ENA), in their first reading." ☛ https://oc-media.org/bill-allowing-armenia-to-nationalise-its-electricity-company-passes-first-reading/ | Source: Open Caucasus Media    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:44:38

• "Some web developers have started integrating a program called Anubis to decrease the amount of requests that automated systems send and therefore help the website avoid being DDoSed." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots | Source: FSF    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:46:30

• "Crytocurrency hasn’t just ruined the hunt for an affordable graphics card, or the conversation at that little bar you used to like." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2836251/firefox-is-being-flooded-with-crypto-wallet-scam-extensions.html | Source: PC World    

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

• "A survey by datacenter specialist Onnec finds that AI workloads have increased by an average of 42 percent over the past twelve months" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/tariffs_and_trade_turmoil_driving/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:47:20

• "Understanding how drought can affect the Amazon, an area twice the size of India that crosses into several South American nations, has implications far beyond the region." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/what-would-happen-if-the-amazon-rainforest-dried-out-a-decades-long-experiment-has-some-answers/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:47:55

• "As demand for scheduled services increases, carriers like these are expanding their route maps." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/business-travelers-private-jet-boom/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:48:06

• forthcoming   

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:48:46

• "We got two big pieces of energy news from Google this week. The company announced that it’s signed an agreement to purchase electricity from a fusion company’s forthcoming first power plant." ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/03/1119627/google-electricity-fusion-ai/ | Source: MIT Technology Review    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:48:55

• "Audra Streetman’s story stands as proof that the cybersecurity industry is increasingly open to diverse backgrounds." ☛ https://www.domaintools.com/resources/podcasts/from-newsroom-to-threat-room-audra-streetmans-journey-into-cybersecurity/ | Source: DomainTools    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:50:13

• "The existence of the statistically improbable restaurant implies a statistically probable restaurant distribution" ☛ https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/07/03/stalking-the-statistically-improbable-restaurant-with-data/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:50:35

• "Pakistan is home to over 250 million people" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/microsoft_quits_pakistan/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:51:37

• "The canal basin, which also supplies drinking water to half the country, was last modernized in 1935" ☛ https://ticotimes.net/2025/07/02/protests-rise-over-panama-canals-new-water-project | Source: Cost Rica    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:51:54

• "Bondi has refused to enforce a law passed by Congress last year that classifies TikTok as a national security risk" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/pam-bondi-trump-tiktok-letters-google-apple-microsoft/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:52:45

• "Today constitutional veneration is nowhere near as strong as it was" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/07/independence-day-constitution-democracy-bicentennial/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:53:12

• "obtained by Zhaocheng Anthony Tan, a Google shareholder who sued for their release earlier this year" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/tiktok/697982/trump-tiktok-ban-apple-google-letters-pam-bondi | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:53:31

• "But today we need to exorcise a ghost. The specter of Jerry Falwell Sr. haunts American politics forty-three years" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-ghost-of-jerry-falwell-not-dead | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:54:08

• [Old] "Blow it out your ass, Jerry Falwell" ☛ https://genius.com/Dead-kennedys-moral-majority-lyrics |    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:54:44

• "A search for “punk philosophy” brings up ideas about self-expression, individual freedom, and a DIY ethic." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/07/02/re-indieweb-is-punk/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:55:09

• "The full report from Media Matters is very disturbing." ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/07/03/is-tiktok-banned-yet.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:55:31

• "Racist videos that appear to be created with Google’s AI video generation tool Veo 3 have raked in millions of views across TikTok" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/697188/racist-ai-generated-videos-google-veo-3-tiktok | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:56:05

• "Last November, a jury convicted Kelley of conspiring to murder federal employees" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jan-6-veteran-sentenced-trump-pardon-1.7575687 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:56:44

• "If it had been cloudy in Hiroshima that morning, the bomb would have fallen somewhere else." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/08/kurt-vonnegut-cats-cradle-hiroshima/683255/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 08:57:07

• "It's not the first CA to do so. PositiveSSL, Sectigo, and GeoTrust all offer TLS/SSL certificates for use with IP addresses" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/lets_encrypt_rolls_out_free/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:00:27

• "consent or pay" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/meta_ec_dma_sulk/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:00:42

• Windows TCO ☛ https://therecord.media/virginia-county-says-ransomware-attack-exposed-ssns | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:01:04

• Social Control Media ☛ https://manualdousuario.net/en/superbloom-nicholas-carr-book/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:03:02

• "AI doesn’t know what an orgasm sounds like" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/03/audiobook-voice-actors-ai-robot-narrators | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:03:32

• "Microsoft says this layoff is to reduce layers of management." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/03/microsoft-lays-off-the-staff-who-make-the-money-to-fund-ai-that-doesnt/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:04:23

• "It's already listed in the AI Hallucination Cases database (now listing 168 cases, it was 116 when I first wrote about it on 25th May) which lists a $2,500 monetary penalty." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/trial-court-decides-case-based-on-ai-hallucinated-caselaw/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:05:18

• "In benchmark tests, which are ways of measuring how powerful a device is, the A18 Pro is impressive." ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/07/iphone-chip-in-macbook-actually-brilliant/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:06:00

• "Well, would you look at that? The A18 Pro is 46% faster than the M1 in single-core tasks, and almost identical to the M1 on multi-core and graphics tasks." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/07/about-that-a16-macbook-rumor/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:06:18

• "Unfortunately this trick doesn't help for crawlers that are hitting every possible combination of facets on my search page!" ☛ https://til.simonwillison.net/cloudflare/rate-limiting | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:06:33

• "Cloudflare announced Tuesday it will allow customers to block or charge fees for web crawlers deployed to scrape their websites and data on behalf of AI systems." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/cloudflare-ai-web-crawlers-pay-per-crawl-websites-data/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:08:06

• "Installing new Nikon firmware with third-party lenses like Viltrox attached can lead to lens failure. Here's what you need to know to avoid costly damage and frustration" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/digital-cameras/warning-dont-update-your-nikon-cameras-firmware-with-third-party-lenses-you-could-brick-your-gear | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:08:23

• "The victim then receives an email containing a link to a Zoom meeting, and is instructed to run a malicious script posing as a Zoom SDK update." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/north-korean-hackers-use-fake-zoom-updates-to-install-macos-malware/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:08:35

• "One startup founder who spoke to The Register on condition of anonymity praised the old program, but said some warning would have been useful as this has wrecked budgets and may sink the entire project." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/microsoft_azure_startup/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:09:01

• Victims of false promises from Microsoft    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:09:27

• "On the bright side, the joy they felt was just as intense as if it had been real" ☛ https://birming.com/2025/07/03/id-rather-be-a-fake/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:10:45

• "That rate has held relatively steady over the past few years, with around 26 million people in the US currently without health insurance." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-big-beautiful-bill-would-leave-millions-without-health-insurance/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:10:56

• "In its big-picture PFAS action plan from 2019, the agency said it would attack this complex problem on multiple fronts." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/epa-has-terminated-over-15-million-in-funding-for-forever-chemicals-research/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:11:08

• "Republicans are at varying levels of misleading, avoidance, or denial about this." ☛ https://www.vox.com/politics/418843/trump-medicaid-cuts-promise-big-beautiful-bill | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:11:29

• "At some point soon, I’ll get a monitor arm and free up some desk space. Until then, it looks great." ☛ https://jarunmb.com/posts/my-home-command-center | Source: MB    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:11:48

• "What’s the moral of the story? Transparency is good until it creates troubles." ☛ https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2025/transparency/ | Source: Victor Kropp    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:11:59

• "If Intel does decide to write off the 18A process, it would be seen as a massive blow to Intel’s foundry strategy." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/02/report-intel-considers-moving-on-18a-chip-manufacturing-process/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:12:15

• "I generally have a good job. My boss is great, most of my coworkers are good, I am good at the actual tasks, and I can set my own pace and priorities (within a limit)." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/my-job/ | Source: Ava    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:12:37

• "The second reason is a bit subtle. Particularly for more senior engineers, when a company employs you, they’re not just renting the time you spend sitting down and typing code." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/overemployment/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:12:58

• "They’re renting the ambient processing you’re doing for the rest of the workday. Or even the ambient processing you’re doing in the shower, or while you sleep, and so on."    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:13:20

• "I have worked with very effective engineers who only spent an hour or two a day actively “working”. But they were so effective because they spent the rest of the day thinking."    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:13:44

• "When they sat down to work, they had hours and hours of background processing helping them make the right decisions and come up with useful new ideas."    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:13:58

• "Look, there's no doubt plenty of bias encoded within processes. All processes should be regularly reviewed and updated. Breaking a process in extremis can be a good idea." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/process-vs-prejudice/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:14:12

• "According to AP, websites for the national assessments and the US Global Change Research Program were offline on Monday and Tuesday, with no links, notes or referrals elsewhere." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/why-us-climate-report-websites-taken-down-2025-national-assessment-nasa-noaa-data-donald-trump-united-states-world-news-101751488824519.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:14:31

• "More evidence of this popular mandate keeps emerging. This week, the European Commission released the latest issue of the Eurobarometer, which has been surveying the beliefs of European Union residents since the EU’s founding in 1993." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/89-percent-climate-data/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:14:42

• "For many years https://jpieper.com was a home for my personal writings and projects. As some of those projects turned into mjbots, the line became pretty blurry." ☛ https://jpieper.com/2025/06/02/separating-mjbots-com-from-jpieper-com/ | Source: J Pieper    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:15:12

• "The future is not an escapist place to occupy. All of it is the inevitable result of what we do today, and the more we take it in our hands, imagine it as a place of justice and pleasure, the more the future knows we want it, and that we aren’t letting go." ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/the-inevitable-result-of-what-we-do-today | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:15:25

• A Day To Remember gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2656    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 09:16:54

• JetPack 4 EOL – how to keep your userspace secure during migration ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/jetpack-4-eol    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:23:54

• "KDE Plasma 6.4 as a the forefront of these updates alongside KDE Frameworks 6.15.0 and KDE Gear 25.04.2." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/07/03/tw-monthly-update-june/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:25:16

• "designed to propel your career" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/level-your-skills-5-reasons-try-red-hat-learning-subscription | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:25:45

• They just pay for a Brand(tm) https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/manage-scale-infrastructure-with-services-checklist    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:27:08

• "modern" as in proprietary RHEL :) https://www.redhat.com/en/engage/migrate-modern-virtualization-platform-ebook    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:27:48

• J William Murdock looks a lot like Ian. Are they related?? https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/generative-ai-applications-llama-stack-notebook-guided-journey-intelligent-operations-agent    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:28:50

• Not Ian Ashley Murdock (April 28, 1973 – December 28, 2015) but they look alike! https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=d-Wad6EAAAAJ&hl=en    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:29:58

• Debian's Ian Ashley Murdock has 3 kids. Children must be doing something...    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:31:11

• Or it could even be brother or cousin    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:31:35

• Used to be at htttp://bill.murdocks.org    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:34:02

• "His most significant achievement was not in writing any particular lines of code, but in creating a mechanism to protect code as a public good, and motivating a massive number of persons to embrace it." https://jamie-love.medium.com/richard-stallman-5794689451b9    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:39:11

• "The airwaves over the Baltic Sea have been compromised ever since the war began." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/europe/2025/07/02/researchers-home-in-on-origins-of-russias-baltic-gps-jamming/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:41:50

• "After trying out a few blog posts and listening to them, I decided to find a Python version of the model." ☛ https://micro.webology.dev/2025/07/02/ditching-cloud-apis-how-i/ | Source: Jeff Triplett    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:42:26

• "A Random Vector Functional Link (RVFL) artificial neural network with 2 regularization parameters has been successfully used" ☛ https://thierrymoudiki.github.io//blog/2025/07/01/r/python/ridge2-bayesian | Source: Thierry Moudiki    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:42:37

• "The actual bottlenecks were, and still are, code reviews, knowledge transfer through mentoring and pairing, testing, debugging, and the human overhead of coordination and communication." ☛ https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck |    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:43:37

• "C and C++ compilers like GCC first take your code and produce assembly, typically a pure ASCII output (so just basic English characters)." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/07/03/base64-for-compression/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:43:50

• "I usually prefer to run Poudriere inside FreeBSD Bhyve VM – its just faster to setup – but as sometimes its desired to use the power of FreeBSD Jails instead – here is how to do this." ☛ https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/poudriere-inside-freebsd-vnet-jail/ | Source: Vermaden    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:44:06

• "Because one’s Artemis feed may update daily with new links, I have been thinking about what a piece of software designed with breaks in mind looks like." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/07/02/designing-calm-software-with-breaks-in-mind | Source: James G    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:45:45

• "Vivaldi 7.5 has officially landed, as one of the browser’s most user-centered updates yet, with a sharp focus on visual organization, smoother interaction, and privacy enhancements." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/vivaldi-browser-7-5-lands-with-colored-tab-stacks/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:46:01

• "curl features no telemetry, and the curl website has no logs and no tracking." ☛ https://curl.se/docs/survey/2025/ | Source: cURL    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:46:53

• "I’m pleased to announce that once again I have collected the results, generated the graphs and pondered over conclusions to make after the annual curl user survey." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/03/curl-user-survey-2025-analysis/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:47:31

• "ow disables CD-ROM sources automatically" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-trixie-installer-rc2-now-available/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:48:30

• "To be honest, I’m not clear why the change was made and it looks like others are just as confused." ☛ https://fzakaria.com/2025/07/02/nix-s3-multi-user-woes | Source: Farid Zakaria    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:48:59

• "Void Linux is a rolling distro, but it tends to run a bit behind other rolling releases like Arch when it comes to software versions. That’s because Void doesn’t push out the newest packages “as fast as possible”—instead, it puts a focus on stability." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-lands-in-void-linux/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:51:30

• "Key highlights from this update include important fixes in popular applications. For instance, users of the KDE clock app, kclock, will appreciate the fix for the alarm form that previously overflowed on larger screens." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-gear-25-04-3-apps-collection-rolls-out-heres-whats-new/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:54:58

• "Recently I read Apps shouldn’t let users enter OpenSSL cipher-suite strings by Frank Denis (via)" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OnChangingTLSCipherSuites | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:55:47

• "Recently I was looking through a database of known stalkerware services and found one I wasn’t familiar with: Catwatchful." ☛ https://ericdaigle.ca/posts/taking-over-60k-spyware-user-accounts/ |    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:55:56

• "Drug cartels used technical surveillance to find, fix and finish FBI informants and witnesses" ☛ https://risky.biz/RB798/ | Source: RiskyBiz    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:56:25

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

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:57:31

• How To Install Zabbix on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-zabbix-linux-mint-22/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 11:59:50

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

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:00:46

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

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:05:31

• How To Install Waydroid on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-waydroid-linux-mint-22/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:06:05

• "How many billions must be burned in the AI furnace before this stops?" https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/former_and_current_microsofties_react_layoffs/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:08:12

• This confirms that Tuxera acts as Microsoft proxy: "Pyle, a former principal program manager at Microsoft and now Enterprise Storage Officer at Tuxera, is famous for his efforts to eliminate the outdated and insecure SMBv1 protocol." http://techrights.org/wiki/Tuxera/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:09:53

• Redmond and Bellevue: almost 4,000 MSFT staff laid off there alone this summer alone https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employee-notifications/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn-layoff-and-closure-database    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:11:21

• Don't worry, Microsoft can SELL its GOODWILL any time! http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/01/Symptom_or_Hallmark_of_Ponzi_Schemes_Microsoft_Says_It_Gains_Ov.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:12:10

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

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:12:54

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

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:13:02

• Microsoft "Layoffs in Atlanta today too - replacement in progress" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz88snf6    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:13:40

• Microsoft Leaving Atlanta http://techrights.org/o/2023/04/27/microsoft-leaving-atlanta/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:14:08

• Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird - 7/2/1977 - Oakland Coliseum Stadium (Official) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxIWDmmqZzY    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:15:07

• "h1bs are being hired while layoffs are ongoing!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz9qjxq5 "You all need to get a big group and go to the White House. Make noise,"    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:16:03

• "you realize there was a person 1 month ago posting to this site calling the July 2 layoffs. But I guess they wasted their time on this website. Id--t." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz847y7n "Wasting their time on this site? Oh, you must work for Microsoft HR, lol. Don't be such a hater, beeyotch."    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:17:10

• Here's How to Watch Mercury Photobomb Your 4th of July Fireworks ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/heres-how-to-watch-mercury-photobomb-your-4th-of-july-fireworks    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:18:56

• HMD Global and Hogan Lovells successfully fend off Huawei lawsuits ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/hmd-global-and-hogan-lovells-successfully-fend-off-huawei-lawsuits/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:19:44

• How to install PrestaShop on Debian 13 ☞ https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-prestashop-on-debian-13/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:20:43

• How to Reach CRA Compliance ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/how-to-reach-cra-compliance    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:21:01

• Stuart Langridge: A (limited) defence of footnotes ☞ https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2025/07/03/a-limited-defence-of-footnotes/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:22:23

• 🔤SpellBinding — ATIMPSB Wordo: ADDER gemini://tilde.team/~stack/ensemble/gemlog/2025-07-04.gmi    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:42:24

• "There is too much focus on entities/concepts in our today world. In a way, this can be considered as an obsession for things that have limits. It is an obsession for "things" and for "limits". For things that have a beginning and an end." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2025-07-04__On_Mindfulness.gmi    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:44:53

• Swap Two- and Three-Finger Tap Actions in Ubuntu 24.04 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/07/swap-two-and-three-finger-tap-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:49:58

• More lobbying by Microsoft front group ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/keeping-europe-safe-and-advancing-open-source-osi-provides-feedback-to-the-eu-cybersecurity-act http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/29/The_Openwashing_Shills_Initiative_OSI_Part_III_IRS_and_Status_o.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:51:07

• Mexico Confirms Arrest Warrant for Boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/world/americas/mexico-arrest-warrant-boxer-julio-cesar-chavez-jr.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:52:03

• This automatic emergency braking system protects RC cars ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/07/03/this-automatic-emergency-braking-system-protects-rc-cars/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:53:59

• Hash-tag baby ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/07/hash-tag-baby/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:54:31

• R Package Quality: Documentation ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/07/r-package-quality-documentation/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:55:10

• Materials for our “Embedded GNU/Linux Networking” training released ☞ https://bootlin.com/blog/materials-for-our-embedded-linux-networking-training-released/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:55:50

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1028554/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:56:51

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Stabilizing naked functions ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/07/03/stabilizing-naked-functions/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:57:15

• packages   

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:58:02

• SEVERAL rust packages have HOLES in them again. So much for "memory safety" https://lwn.net/Articles/1028554/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 12:58:08

• openSUSE turned 20 ☞ https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/opensuse-turns-20/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:04:20

• Can a Complete Beginner Survive Linux? Reacting to Betty from Switch and Click trying GNU/Linux ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/videos/can-a-complete-beginner-survive-linux-reacting-to-betty-from-switch-and-click-trying-linux/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:08:15

• Spoof IP Address on Kali GNU/Linux Using Scapy with DoS Testing ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/spoof-ip-address-scapy-kali-linux-dos/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:14:39

• DOOM doomed by Microsoft strings https://www.techradar.com/gaming/romero-games-has-lost-funding-for-its-next-unannounced-game-with-one-staffer-claiming-the-whole-studio-has-been-laid-off-due-to-microsoft-cuts    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:18:00

• DOOMED killed by Satan Nutella    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:18:28

• SerialTool – Serial-Port/TCP/UDP debugging tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/serialtool-serial-port-tcp-udp-debugging-tool/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:19:37

• 5 Best Free and Open Source Font Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-font-managers/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:19:47

• fstl-e – fast stl viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fstl-e-fast-stl-viewer/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:19:56

• "crime boss Vagif Suleymanov" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/04/moscow-police-arrest-azerbaijani-crime-boss-vagif-suleymanov-amid-rising-diplomatic-tensions-between-moscow-and-baku | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:20:30

• "medical staff at Russian hospital" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/03/patient-with-knife-attacks-medical-staff-at-russian-hospital-leaving-two-women-critically-injured | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:22:54

• Russia Becomes First Country to Recognize Afghanistan’s Taliban Government ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/world/asia/russia-afghanistan-recognize.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:23:09

• Lithuania revokes Russian citizen’s residency over frequent travel to Russia, Belarus ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2601552/lithuania-revokes-russian-citizen-s-residency-over-frequent-travel-to-russia-belarus    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:23:21

• luhansk ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/03/former-mayor-of-russian-occupied-luhansk-killed-in-city-center-explosion | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:23:46

• Kursk ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/03/russian-navy-deputy-head-killed-in-kursk-region-moscow-confirms | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:24:19

• "including Syrian nationals" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/03/russian-missile-strike-on-odesa-kills-two-and-injures-six-including-syrian-nationals | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:24:41

• "patriotic credentials" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/04/reading-the-room | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:25:39

• Russia becomes first country to recognise Afghanistan's Taliban government ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250703-russia-taliban-government-afghanistan    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:26:12

• "completely destroy" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/03/two-dead-after-back-to-back-explosions-in-northern-ukraine-completely-destroy-industrial-facilities-and-homes | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:29:05

• Dnipropetrovsk ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/03/pushing-west | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:29:28

• Top Russian General Killed in ‘Combat Operations’ Near Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/world/europe/russian-general-killed-ukraine-strike.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:29:51

• Russians and Belarusians trapped in administrative limbo in Serbia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20250703-russians-and-belarusians-trapped-in-administrative-limbo-in-serbia    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:30:04

• Arms deliveries, sanctions loopholes: How Convicted Felon's recent moves benefit Russia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250703-arms-deliveries-sanctions-loopholes-how-trump-recent-moves-benefit-russia-ukraine-war    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:30:21

• Too late to win over Convicted Felon? Europe frets as US freezes some weapons for Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20250703-too-late-to-win-over-trump-europe-frets-as-us-freezes-some-weapons-for-ukraine    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:30:42

• Does the Convicted Felon administration have a coherent policy to establish a stable peace in Ukraine? ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/does-the-trump-administration-have-a-coherent-policy-to-establish-a-stable-peace-in-ukraine/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:31:07

• Europe’s lesson for Australia: invest in defence now, or spend more later ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/europes-lesson-for-australia-invest-in-defence-now-or-spend-more-later/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:35:31

• Beijing cannot allow Russia to lose Ukraine war because it wants America distracted, top Chinese diplomat told EU: report ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/world-news/china-cannot-allow-russia-to-lose-ukraine-war-foreign-minister-tells-eu-report/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:36:02

• "hourlong phone call" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/07/03/trump-and-putin-reportedly-discuss-ukraine-iran-and-traditional-values-films-in-hourlong-phone-call | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:36:34

• "Putin ideologist’s Obama portrait" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/slides/russia-s-oscar-rigging-solovyov-s-praise-for-zelensky-and-a-putin-ideologist-s-obama-portrait | Source: Meduza    

POSTED fRIDAY, jULY 04, 2025 AT 13:37:27

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Says Call with Putin Yields No Progress on Ukraine Cease-Fire ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-putin-call-ukraine-iran.html    

POSTED fRIDAY, jULY 04, 2025 AT 13:37:43

• Putin Tells Convicted Felon He Won’t Give Up Goals In Ukraine, Kremlin Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-trump-call-ukraine-russia-war/33463336.html    

POSTED fRIDAY, jULY 04, 2025 AT 13:37:58

• Doorstep by President von der Leyen with President Costa, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and Danish Prime Minister Frederiksen ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_1719    

POSTED fRIDAY, jULY 04, 2025 AT 13:38:27

• Putin says he won't back down from Ukraine goals in hour-long call with Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250703-putin-says-wont-back-down-from-ukraine-goals-hour-long-call-to-trump    

POSTED fRIDAY, jULY 04, 2025 AT 13:38:43

• Deputy head of Russian Navy killed in Kursk 'combat' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250703-moscow-says-deputy-head-russian-navy-gudkov-killed-kursk-combat    

POSTED fRIDAY, jULY 04, 2025 AT 13:39:00

• System76 Meerkat mini GNU/Linux PC now available with up to defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra 7 255H Arrow Lake ☞ https://liliputing.com/system76-meerkat-mini-linux-pc-now-available-with-up-to-intel-core-ultra-7-255h-arrow-lake/    

POSTED fRIDAY, jULY 04, 2025 AT 13:39:25

• Deepin Font Manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/deepin-font-manager/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:44:10

• 9 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Disk Encryption Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/diskencryption/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:44:23

• GNU/Linux is Replacing Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Windows. But We Need to Eradicate Microsoft, It's a Hub of Crime. (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/02/GNU_Linux_is_Replacing_Microsoft_Windows_But_We_Need_to_Eradica.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:44:35

• Hash Calculator – calculates around 50 cryptographic hashes of strings and files ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hash-calculator-calculates-cryptographic-hashes/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:44:45

• Soundux is a cross-platform soundboard ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/soundux-cross-platform-soundboard/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:44:59

• Slopwatch: GNU/Linux Journal, Linuxsecurity, and Surveillance Giant Google News Getting Even Worse (More Slopfarms Added Which Attack GNU/Linux With Bruce-Force SPAM) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/03/Slopwatch_Linux_Journal_Linuxsecurity_and_Google_News_Getting_E.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:45:09

• Mystery Surrounding the PCLinuxOS Sites and PCLinuxOS Magazine ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/03/Mystery_Surrounding_the_PCLinuxOS_Sites_and_PCLinuxOS_Magazine.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:45:18

• GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in the United States of America ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/02/GNU_Linux_Reaches_All_Time_High_in_the_United_States_of_America.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:45:27

• Video: Monzy - Kill -9 Song ☞ http://www.montanalinux.org/video-kill-dash-nine-song.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:46:12

• openSUSE Tumbleweed's June update brings KDE Plasma 6.4 and critical security fixes ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/opensuse-tumbleweeds-june-update-brings-kde-plasma-64-and-critical-security-fixes/    

posted <§u>Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:47:26

• Pluralistic: Convicted Felon's not gonna protect workers from forced labor (03 Jul 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/03/states-rights-trumps-wrongs/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:50:31

• Solution one task of Boolean Algebra via Python module utilizing **dict(zip([keys],[values])) ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2025/07/solution-one-task-of-boolean-algebra.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:51:40

• epanet-js ☞ https://macwright.com/2025/07/03/epanet-placemark.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:52:58

• 95: He’s Gonna Get It Anyhow ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24229 "so hot my face is melting"    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:53:34

• NanoPi R3S LTS dual Gigabit Ethernet router board gains HDMI output and speaker connector ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/03/nanopi-r3s-lts-dual-gigabit-ethernet-router-board-gains-hdmi-output-and-speaker-connector/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:54:12

• Lawmaker urges more English-language TV, radio programming, two years after gov’t cuts to required broadcast hours ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/03/lawmaker-urges-more-english-language-tv-radio-programming-two-years-after-govt-cuts-to-required-broadcast-hours/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 13:54:42

• curl user survey 2025 analysis ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/03/curl-user-survey-2025-analysis/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:01:57

• 'Islamic regime uses ordinary citizens and civilians as a bargaining tool for their own interests' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250703-islamic-regime-uses-ordinary-citizens-and-civilians-as-a-bargaining-tool-for-their-own-interests    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:04:48

• X.Org Server alive and well ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-GLAMOR-Zink-DMA-BUF http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/28/Start_X.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:05:27

• Fedora Does Not Care About Diversity and Inclusion, It's About Optics (Corporate Image) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/04/Fedora_Does_Not_Care_About_Diversity_and_Inclusion_It_s_About_O.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:05:43

• It is a "conspiracy theory" that Elvin is dead and Princess Diana was killed. IBM: it's a "conspiracy theory" that we plot to kill X.    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:06:46

• (Elvis)    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:06:57

• Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS 14.3 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/07/03/kiwi-tcms-143/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:08:02

• Joint press release: Investment of €3.66 billion from EU emissions trading revenues in cleaner energy systems ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1714    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:12:04

• The benefits of auto-merging Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub and GitLab repositories ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/07/03/benefits-auto-merging-github-and-gitlab-repositories    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:13:14

• Surveillance Used by a Drug Cartel ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/07/surveillance-used-by-a-drug-cartel.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:13:39

• Google Hey Hi (AI) summaries increase frequency of ‘zero clicks’ to search results, sinking traffic to news sites: report ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/media/google-ai-tools-depressing-traffic-to-news-sites-report/ Those sites relied too much on third parties; misguided approach    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:14:46

• Since Assange was release a year ago no more videos from his wife https://yewtu.be/channel/UC7VY_cUCjd9EbiOoO5LuxjA    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 14:16:02

• Imagining Krita on a Phone ☞ https://valdyas.org/fading/hacking/krita-hacking/imagining-krita-on-a-phone/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:36:24

• Microsoft Staff Harassing Women, Strangling Women, Telling Women to Kill Themselves and Worse? Not a Problem! (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/03/Microsoft_Staff_Harassing_Women_Strangling_Women_Telling_Women_.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:37:17

• Happy Independence Day to Our American Readers ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/03/Happy_Independence_Day_to_Our_American_Readers.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:37:26

• People and Companies Do Learn Some Lessons From Their Mistakes (Stubborn Ones Don't) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/03/People_and_Companies_Do_Learn_Some_Lessons_From_Their_Mistakes_.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:37:43

• Microsoft Media Operatives and Bill Epsteingate-Funded Sites Said Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Lays Off 9,000, But Other Sites Say More (Including 2,300 in Redmond Alone) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/02/Microsoft_Media_Operatives_and_Bill_Epsteingate_Funded_Sites_Sa.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:37:53

• Don't Buy the Excuses for Microsoft's Mass Layoffs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/04/Don_t_Buy_the_Excuses_for_Microsoft_s_Mass_Layoffs.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:38:05

• Recertified HDD vendor goHardDrive caught leaking thousands of customer details — company pays astonishingly low $20 bug bounty ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/recertified-hdd-vendor-goharddrive-caught-leaking-thousands-of-customer-details-company-pays-astonishingly-low-usd20-bug-bounty-for-discovery-of-inexplicable-online-database-of-names-addresses-phone-numbers-and-more    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:38:47

• PipeWire workshop 2025: Updates on video transport, Rust efforts, TSN networking, and Bluetooth support ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/07/03/pipewire-workshop-2025-updates-video-transport-rust-bluetooth/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:39:22

• Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down abortion ban from 1800s ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/wisconsin-supreme-court-strikes-down-abortion-ban-from-1800s/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:40:01

• South Lebanon Shia Muslims seek solace in community mourning ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0703/ashoura-mourning-lebanon-shia    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:40:48

• US, India pushing for trade pact after Convicted Felon strikes deal with Vietnam: Sources ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/us-india-push-for-trade-pact-after-trump-strikes-deal-with-vietnam-sources    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:40:57

• One flight from Vilnius to Paris cancelled amid air traffic controller strike in France ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2602028/one-flight-from-vilnius-to-paris-cancelled-amid-air-traffic-controller-strike-in-france    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:41:18

• Press advocacy group condemns Israel airstrike that killed Palestine journalists ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/cpj-condemns-israel-airstrike-against-palestinine-journalists/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:41:40

• Gaza: In the rubble of a cafe bombed by Israel ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250703-gaza-al-baqa-cafe-israeli-air-strike    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:41:56

• Hundreds of flights cancelled as French air traffic controllers go on strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20250703-hundreds-of-flights-cancelled-as-french-air-traffic-controllers-go-on-strike    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:42:13

• Why Annobón’s internet shutdown should matter to the world ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/shutdown-stories-annobon/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:42:54

• #KeepItOn coalition ramps up campaign to end prolonged shutdown in Annobón ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/keepiton-coalition-ramps-up-campaign-to-end-prolonged-shutdown-in-annobon/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:43:16

• #KeepItOn call on the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights to help end the shutdown in Annobón ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/keepiton-call-on-the-african-commission-on-human-and-peoples-rights-to-help-end-the-shutdown-in-annobon/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:43:33

• Why client-side scanning on encrypted platforms is a lose-lose proposition ☞ https://www.accessnow.org/why-client-side-scanning-is-lose-lose-proposition/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:44:07

• Undetectable Android Spyware Backfires, Leaks 62,000 User Logins ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/undetectable-android-spyware-backfires-leaks-62000-user-logins/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:44:28

• "African Stream" is Kremlin propaganda outlet, some sites that support Hamas support Putin also https://www.mintpressnews.com/african-stream-removed-us-accusations/290109/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:46:21

• But the real issue is social control media, which means astroturfing and disinformation hub    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:46:47

• Censor-busting dissident shines light on overworked Chinese students ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/07/03/teacher-li-china-students-influencer/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:47:11

• Blinken Ordered the Hit. Big Tech Carried It Out. African Stream Is Dead. ☞ https://www.mintpressnews.com/african-stream-removed-us-accusations/290109/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:47:57

• censorship ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/07/03/ten-million-people-read-us-i-ll-talk-to-them | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:48:12

• Statement by Civil Society Organizations on the Upcoming French Cour de Cassation Hearing Regarding Immunities for State Officials ☞ https://phr.org/news/statement-by-civil-society-organizations-on-the-upcoming-french-cour-de-cassation-hearing-regarding-immunities-for-state-officials/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:49:21

• Carbon Emissions ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/ai-might-kill-us-all-with-carbon-emissions/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:49:44

• Alligator Alcatraz: Yes, US Homeland Security posted AI-photo of alligators with ICE hats ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250703-alligator-alcatraz-yes-us-homeland-security-posted-ai-photo-of-alligators-with-ice-hats    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:50:09

• Hong Kong proposes tightening prison rules to restrict visiting of inmates on national security grounds ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/03/hong-kong-proposes-tightening-prison-rules-to-restrict-visiting-of-inmates-on-national-security-grounds/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:50:36

• Proper fix for network tray applet ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202507/proper-fix-for-network-tray-applet.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:51:17

• WisMesh Board ONE allows you to build a custom Meshtastic Node with OLED, GPS, battery, enclosure, and more ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/03/wismesh-board-one-build-a-custom-meshtastic-node/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:52:05

• Around Los Angeles, ICE Raids Are Casting a Shadow on July 4th Plans ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/immigration-raids-fourth-of-july.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:52:51

• BSD Now 618: Funding BSD projects ☞ https://www.bsdnow.tv/618    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:53:35

• Courts Agree: Hey Hi (AI) Training Ruled As Fair Use in Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/courts-agree-ai-training-ruled-as-fair-use-in-bartz-v-anthropic-and-kadrey-v-meta/ Ignoring much of the ruling; this NGO is infiltrated by Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:55:23

• How to Enable HTTPS Protocol on Debian 13 ☞ https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/enable-https-on-debian-13/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:57:09

• Qt shilling proprietary Microsoft spyware https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-extension-1.6.0-for-vs-code-released    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:57:29

• Richards: Introducing tmux-rs ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1028583/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:58:15

• Cheese May Actually Fuel Nightmares, Surprising Study Confirms ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cheese-may-actually-fuel-nightmares-surprising-study-confirms    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:58:45

• You Can Now Rent a Flesh Computer Grown in a British Lab ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/you-can-now-rent-a-flesh-computer-grown-in-a-british-lab    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:59:03

• New Weight-Loss Drugs Under Scrutiny Amid Pancreas Concerns ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/new-weight-loss-drugs-under-scrutiny-amid-pancreas-concerns    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 15:59:11

• How Drinking Alcohol Affects You in Older Age ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/well/alcohol-older-age-risks.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:00:15

• European Commission sets new 2040 climate target of emissions reduction ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/european-commission-sets-new-2040-climate-target-of-emissions-reduction/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:00:34

• The big business behind weight-loss drugs: Global market to hit $150 billion by 2035 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/people-profit/20250703-the-big-business-behind-weight-loss-drugs-global-market-to-hit-150-billion-by-2035    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:00:47

• Super relaxing vacation activity can lower your blood pressure and boost your immune system: study ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/health/vacation-activity-can-lower-blood-pressure-boost-immune-system/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:02:10

• Epidemiologists search for cause of strep throat infection in Rīga ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/03.07.2025-epidemiologists-search-for-cause-of-strep-throat-infection-in-riga.a605406/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:02:22

• Smoking quitting programme developed in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/03.07.2025-smoking-quitting-programme-developed-in-latvia.a605443/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:02:31

• ​North Korea Beach Resort Opens With Fanfare but No Foreigners ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/world/asia/north-korea-wonsan-kalma-beach.html    

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

• South Korea president Lee says doing ‘utmost’ for trade deal with US ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-president-lee-says-doing-utmost-for-trade-deal-with-us    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:03:23

• South Korea’s Lee pledges ‘bold’ economic policy after martial law crisis ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-pledges-bold-economic-policy-after-martial-law-crisis    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:03:33

• South Korean universities ramp up global recruitment as US tightens visa screenings ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-universities-ramp-up-global-recruitment-as-us-tightens-visa    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:04:01

• US’ Rubio calls off his Japan and South Korea visit, Nikkei reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-rubio-calls-off-his-japan-and-south-korea-visit-nikkei-reports    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:04:28

• Elderly duo travel across Malaysia for cable car ride seen in clip – only to find out it was all Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/elderly-duo-travels-across-malaysia-for-cable-car-ride-seen-in-clip-only-to-find-out-it-was-all-ai    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:04:59

• China set to cancel part of EU summit in latest strain on ties ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-set-to-cancel-part-of-eu-summit-in-latest-strain-on-ties    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:05:27

• ‘Big Comrade’: Former defence chief takes reins as acting Thai PM ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/big-comrade-former-defence-chief-takes-reins-as-thai-pm    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:05:40

• US-Vietnam trade deal sows new China uncertainty ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/us-vietnam-trade-deal-sows-new-china-uncertainty    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:05:54

• Chinese carrier Shandong moors in Hong Kong on ‘maritime great power’ visit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinese-carrier-shandong-moors-in-hong-kong-on-great-power-visit    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:06:10

• China denies military base ambitions in Pacific Islands, focus instead on improved livelihoods ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-denies-military-base-ambitions-in-pacific-islands    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:06:22

• 'Many lifetimes of commitment': Richard Gere vows to keep fighting for Tibetan cause ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/many-lifetimes-of-commitment-richard-gere-vows-to-keep-fighting-for-tibetan-cause    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:06:46

• US aircraft carrier makes Philippines port call as the allies increase defence cooperation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/us-aircraft-carrier-makes-philippines-port-call    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:07:00

• US tariff deal provides relief for Vietnam, and a sting in the tail for China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/us-tariff-deal-provides-relief-for-vietnam-and-a-sting-in-the-tail-for-china    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:07:18

• China web search giant Baidu upgrades Hey Hi (AI) engine as market share slips ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-web-search-giant-baidu-upgrades-ai-engine-as-market-share-slips    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:07:33

• War between China, US inconceivable and avoidable, says top Chinese official ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/war-between-china-us-inconceivable-and-avoidable-says-top-chinese-official    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:07:55

• Nvidia's incendiary 12VHPWR connector consumes its latest victim — Chinese RTX 3060 Ti melts down despite modest power draw after ASUS shipped it with the wrong cable ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidias-incendiary-12vhpwr-connector-consumes-its-latest-victim-chinese-rtx-3060-ti-melts-down-despite-modest-power-draw-after-asus-shipped-it-with-the-wrong-cable    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:08:13

• White House lifts chip design export ban on China in exchange for rare earth materials compromise — export licences for EDA software sales no longer required ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/white-house-lifts-chip-design-export-ban-on-china-in-exchange-for-rare-earth-materials-compromise-export-licences-for-eda-software-sales-no-longer-required    

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

• Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong arrives in Hong Kong ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/03/chinese-aircraft-carrier-shandong-arrives-in-hong-kong/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:09:00

• Top China official accuses US defence chief of ‘inciting conflict’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/03/top-china-official-accuses-us-defence-chief-of-inciting-conflict/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:09:20

• China-linked attacker hit France’s critical infrastructure via trio of Ivanti zero-days last year ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/france-government-ivanti-zero-days-china/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:09:51

• Cowbell ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/i-gotta-print-more-cowbell/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:15:55

• Gen Z turns to ‘old-school’ money hack to curb spending: ‘Helps create awareness’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/lifestyle/cash-only-weekends-are-gen-zs-new-money-saving-hack/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:16:19

• Pez Blaster Shoots Candy Dangerously Fast ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/pez-blaster-shoots-candy-dangerously-fast/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:22:14

• China aircraft carrier 'Shandong' draws crowds in first Hong Kong visit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-aircraft-carrier-shandong-draws-crowds-in-first-hong-kong-visit    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:22:43

• Nantucket homeowner lists property for $10M after chopping down neighbor’s 50-year-old trees to create ‘sweeping’ ocean views: lawsuit ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/03/us-news/nantucket-homeowner-lists-property-for-10m-after-chopping-down-neighbors-55-year-old-trees-to-create-sweeping-ocean-views-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:23:44

• The state of Mexico’s sharks, 50 years after ‘Jaws’ ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/lifestyle/sharks-after-jaws-shark-fin-trade-mexico/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:24:00

• Iraqi authorities shut down news channel for covering ‘sensitive topics’ ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/iraqi-authorities-shut-down-news-channel-for-covering-sensitive-topics/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:25:56

• Hong Kong to tighten prison rules, citing national security ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-to-tighten-prison-rules-citing-national-security    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:26:24

• How UMich computer science students are navigating a shifting job market ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/how-umich-computer-science-students-are-navigating-a-shifting-job-market/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 16:27:12

• Hackaday Supercon Still Wants You! ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/last-chance-2025-hackaday-supercon-still-wants-you/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:18:16

• Netherlands dispatch: ICC cyberattack exposes digital vulnerabilities in Hague’s legal fortress ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/netherlands-dispatch-icc-cyberattack-exposes-digital-vulnerabilities-in-hagues-legal-fortress/ fortress??? https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Microsofts-ICC-email-block-reignites-European-data-sovereignty-concerns    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:19:07

• Canada’s Hikvision ban can inspire wider collective action ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/canadas-hikvision-ban-can-inspire-wider-collective-action/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:19:42

• Cisco Warns of Hardcoded Credentials in Enterprise Software ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-warns-of-hardcoded-credentials-in-enterprise-software/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:20:00

• OpenMIDIStomper ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/openmidistomper-makes-sure-your-gear-does-what-your-foot-says/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:22:37

• Nitric Acid ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/a-miniature-ostwald-reactor-to-make-nitric-acid/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:23:08

• Smart Mjolnir Makes Questionable Judgement Call On Your Worthiness ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/03/smart-mjolnir-makes-questionable-judgement-call-on-your-worthiness/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:23:35

• The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-mowing-devil    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:23:55

• KDE Gear 25.04.3 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/gear/25.04.3/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:24:18

• TTABlog Test: Is BREAK OUT THE BANDIDO Confusable with BANDIT for Overlapping Alcoholic Beverages? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/07/ttablog-test-is-break-out-bandido.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:24:51

• Texas Lobbyists ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-texas-lobbyists-influence-law | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:25:18

• Vivaldi 7.5 Browser Adds Tab Stack Colours, New DNS Settings ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/vivaldi-7-5-browser-update-changes    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:25:49

• Slopwatch: GNU/Linux Journal, Linuxsecurity, and Surveillance Giant Google News Getting Even Worse (More Slopfarms Added Which Attack GNU/Linux With Bruce-Force SPAM) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/03/Slopwatch_Linux_Journal_Linuxsecurity_and_Google_News_Getting_E.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:26:05

• Thunderbird 140 Adds ‘Mark as Spam’ and ‘Mark as Starred’ Actions to Notifications ☞ https://9to5linux.com/thunderbird-140-adds-mark-as-spam-and-mark-as-starred-actions-to-notifications    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:27:12

• Libreboot 25.06 Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Adds More Hardware Support ☞ https://9to5linux.com/libreboot-25-06-open-source-bios-uefi-firmware-adds-more-hardware-support    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:27:31

• KDE Gear 25.04.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 25.04 Series ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-25-04-3-released-as-the-last-update-in-the-kde-gear-25-04-series    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:28:06

• Debian 13 Installer Now Supports Rescuing of Btrfs Systems Installed via Calamares ☞ https://9to5linux.com/debian-13-installer-now-supports-rescuing-of-btrfs-systems-installed-via-calamares    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:28:15

• SBA Demands Venues Return Millions In COVID Relief Disbursements — Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, Marshmello Could Also Face Clawbacks ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/07/02/sba-demands-svog-funds-return/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:29:07

• The Site of the Jonestown Massacre Is Opening to Tourists ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/world/americas/jonestown-guyana-tourists.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:29:29

• Russell Coker: The Fuss About “AI” ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/07/03/fuss-about-ai/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:29:44

• Fairphone Moments: Switch to distraction-free digital minimalism ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/07/03/fairphone-moments-switch-to-distraction-free-digital-minimalism/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:30:41

• How the Convicted Felon Administration Justified Ignoring the Fentanylware (TikTok) Ban ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/trump-bondi-tiktok-executive-power.html    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:31:02

• Canonical adds extra shots to Ubuntu Java https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/canonical_java_extra_shot/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:32:40

• "GNOME is one of the more popular desktop environments available for Linux distros. It's found in the primary release of Fedora and Ubuntu and is relied on by millions to handle everything from managing windows to creating the graphical user interface." https://www.xda-developers.com/gnome-extensions-could-never-live-without-on-windows/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:34:17

• Linux Users Urged to Patch Critical Sudo CVE https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-users-urged-to-patch/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:35:11

• Steam on Linux dips slightly as AMD takes CPU crown https://www.fudzilla.com/news/61303-steam-on-linux-dips-slightly-as-amd-takes-cpu-crown    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:35:54

• "While the Linux terminal is still a part of Linux, you can break your system with it if you're not careful. Here's how I stay safe in the terminal, and I show you how you can fix things if you do make mistakes." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-use-the-linux-terminal-without-destroying-my-os/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:36:48

• LFSpam. It's a THING now. https://www.londondaily.news/linux-foundation-cka-certification-50-discount-2025/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:38:25

• "By Penda SEO". Yes, SEO.    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:38:40

• Experimental and controlled by Microsoft https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/wayback_wayland_display_server/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/29/Our_Desktops_Are_Not_Your_Experiments_X_is_Not_an_Experiment.shtml    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:39:48

• Facing Trouble Opening Maildir in Thunderbird? Here’s the Linux Fix https://vocal.media/01/facing-trouble-opening-maildir-in-thunderbird-here-s-the-linux-fix-tn393p0ziv    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 17:40:44

• "Like many sports, the team you choose to support in F1 is a somewhat subjective and arbitrary one. People have many different reasons. For some, they may like either one or both of the team's drivers. Others may feel an allegiance to a particular car manufacturer or even Team Principal." gemini://dazlab.uk/log/2025/0005.gmi    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 18:07:29

• https://betanews.com/2025/07/04/microsoft-firewall-errors-windows-11-update/   

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 18:17:43

• Vista 11 is slopware https://betanews.com/2025/07/04/microsoft-firewall-errors-windows-11-update/    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 18:17:50

• With a week left, FSF is now 40% thru to the target. Will July 11 change to a later date?    

posted Friday, July 04, 2025 at 18:20:06

• Zig Roadmap 2026 gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Zig/29942    

posted Saturday, July 05, 2025 at 01:40:21

• "When people find out that I watch F1, they often ask who I support. The straightforward answer is, no one. OK, the more nuanced answer is that I like to see the underdog beat the usual suspects." gemini://freeshell.de/f1/2025-07-04_Who_do_you_support__JBanana_.gmi    

posted Saturday, July 05, 2025 at 01:41:32

• stairs gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2657    

posted Saturday, July 05, 2025 at 01:42:17

• "Since the last weekend we had always temperatures around 30 - 37 degrees C, it was... not pleasant" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/040725.txt    

posted Saturday, July 05, 2025 at 01:44:00

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1342.jpg    

posted Saturday, July 05, 2025 at 01:44:59

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1692.jpg    

posted Saturday, July 05, 2025 at 01:45:04

• make the cut gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/make_the_cut    

posted Saturday, July 05, 2025 at 01:45:59

• "Today's tale will walk through some music, and a little exploration into a hypothetical about it." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2658    

posted Saturday, July 05, 2025 at 01:46:48

• "I'm looking for a protocol description of 'gemlog' and 'gemini feed'. Can anyone point me to links? (I am studiously avoiding the word 'definitive' here intentionally) 🤔" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/1881    

posted Saturday, July 05, 2025 at 01:47:46

• tml