Roy Schestowitz

• "What is this shit? Why have we collectively agreed that the only right, natural, and sane response to a probabilitistic plagiarism machine is to brown our noses all the way up its metaphorical ass?" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-07-13    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 01:51:57

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1351.jpg    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 01:53:45

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1701.jpg    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 01:53:51

• "By all means guys, just keep on developing AI. Its working out well so far. 1K here, 9K there. Just keep plugging away at it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkm05hwr    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 03:12:26

• "Keep developing AI. That’s the key. Once its ultra ultra vetted and all polished up, everyone’s job will be safe." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jzes7t7e    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 03:13:14

• "Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses | Courthouse News Service" https://www.courthousenews.com/charges-dropped-against-utah-doctor-accused-of-throwing-away-28000-in-covid-vaccine-doses/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:09:49

• "Here's Why Trump Wants to Revoke Rosie O'Donnell's US Citizenship: 'She's a Threat To Humanity'" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/heres-why-trump-wants-revoke-rosie-odonnells-us-citizenship-shes-threat-humanity-1738176    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:10:01

• "great wars of our time · kivikakk.ee" https://kivikakk.ee/2025/07/13/great-wars-of-our-time    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:10:13

• "'Weird Al' Yankovic Conquers Madison Square Garden at Historic Concert" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-live-reviews/weird-al-yankovic-madison-square-garden-review-1235384517/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:10:24

• "Ferieprojekter | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/ferieprojekter    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:10:35

• "Ukraine must get ready for future in which there is no ceasefire with Russia" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/13/dose-of-realism-would-allow-kyiv-to-focus-on-halting-russian-advance-ukraine    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:10:46

• iophk: it's almost as if they've stopped with that and that Jony Ive has moved on... https://json.blog/2025/07/13/i-cant-keep-waiting-for.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:11:00

• "FEMA Missed Thousands of Texas Flood Victims’ Calls After Noem Fired Contractors | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/fema-missed-thousands-of-texas-flood-victims-calls-after-noem-fired-contractors/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:11:11

• "Most Immigrants at 'Alligator Alcatraz' Don't Have Criminal Convictions" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/alligator-alcatraz-immigrants-criminal-convictions-1235384610/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:11:22

• "The HH-SCDAYU800A is another RISC-V development board built around the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 system-on-chip." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/risc-v-embedded-board-features-th1520-soc-dual-gbe-and-4tops-ai/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:14:21

• "I spent a bit of time looking at CPC stuff on eBay, and realised there were options to avoid using floppies, by replacing the internal floppy drive with e.g. a Gotek" ☛ https://www.ncartron.org/review-of-the-gotek-floppy-simulator-for-the-amstrad-cpc.html | Source: Nico Cartron    

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

• "if you want AI" ☛ https://futurism.com/video-generating-public-commons | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:16:58

• "According to Google, Sol will be the only in-service fibre-optic cable between Florida and Europe." ☛ https://itwire.com/business-it-news/business-technology/google-announces-new-subsea-cable-to-connect-us-and-spain.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:17:18

• "DOGE’s unelected bureaucrats in Washington have no idea how to staff a park, a wildlife refuge" ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/the-us-public-loves-the-national-park-service-trump-is-destroying-it-anyway/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:18:10

• "The incident is not the first to cause a free speech stir in the world of comedy." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/13/comedian-sebastian-hotz-trial-trump-assassination-joke/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:18:36

• "Over the past 2 years RT has increased the number of its African partner TV channels twofold, — from 30 to 60." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/russia-scales-up-propaganda-across-africa-ukrainian-intelligence-says/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:18:55

• Computational Complexity ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/07/how-much-money-did-francis-scott-key.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:19:48

• "underlying scandal and any ties Trump has to it" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/13/jeffrey-epstein-is-about-command-of-attention/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:19:56

• "While there are a handful of low-speed maglevs currently operating in countries like South Korea and Japan" ☛ https://futurism.com/china-train-maglev-chicago | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:20:29

• "That bit was broadcast in September 1991." ☛ https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/budget-rent-a-car-sucks.html | Source: Chris O'Donnnell    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:20:43

• "According to DCMR, weather conditions on Saturday evening caused the sound to travel farther than usual." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2025/07/13/warm-air-layer-causes-rotterdam-festival-music-travel-triggering-66-noise-complaints | Source: NL Times    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:21:14

• "As reported in The Texas Tribune" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/07/11/citizen-journalist-arrested-for-photographing-sheriffs-deputy-at-texas-county-meeting.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:21:42

• "He also pointed to the state’s open meeting handbook, which government officials and members of the public must comply with." ☛ https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/11/west-texas-publisher-david-flash-jeff-davis-county-arrest/ | Source: The Texas Tribune    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:21:52

• "Big Tech" ☛ https://werd.io/why-big-tech-is-threatened-by-a-global-push-for-data-sovereignty/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:22:22

• "Extrapolating that daily rate for the rest of the month gives a total monthly figure of 6,143" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/13/july-busiest-ever-channel-crossings-summer-sale/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:22:36

• "The Atlantic first released the podcast Autocracy in America last fall" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/07/what-exactly-is-required-to-preserve-our-democracy/683492/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:22:56

• "This isn’t hyperbole." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-democrats-choice-righteous-anger | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:23:12

• "Let's briefly step back into history." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/it-is-1939-and-you-want-to-use-public-key-cryptography/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:23:40

• "the scammers even used deepfake videos in attempts to get hired" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/13/fake_it_worker_problem/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:24:00

• "In a paper I recently published with Claire Robertson and Kareena del Rosario" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/13/are-a-few-people-ruining-the-internet-for-the-rest-of-us | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:24:28

• "The app’s powerful algorithm can send users down a rabbit hole of content within a niche" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/wellbeing/mental-health/disturbing-world-of-social-media-eating-disorders/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:24:52

• "A survey of 2,500 professionals found generative AI actually increased workload for 77% of workers" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/does-ai-actually-boost-productivity-evidence-is-murky/articleshow/122414326.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:25:11

• "those lines caused the Grok AI bot to break from other instructions" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/706498/xai-grok-hitler-antisemitism-tesla-ai-bot | Source: The Verge    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:25:31

• "trouble telling the difference between what’s real and what’s not." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/does-chatgpt-encourage-dangerous-delusions/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:26:13

• "12 percent said they do so because they don't have anyone else to speak to." ☛ https://futurism.com/lonely-children-ai-chatbots | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:26:32

• "egg allergy reduced from 12 percent to 3 percent, and peanut allergy reduced from around 6 percent to 1 percent" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-piece-of-advice-to-parents-slashed-food-allergies-in-children | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:26:56

• "US researchers found it may cause changes in the epigenome, which acts like a set of switches that activate or deactivate genes involved in how our bodies function." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-use-is-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-scientists-discover | Source: Science Alert    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:27:10

• "Rowhammer is a method of attempting to corrupt memory by repeatedly "hammering" rows of memory cells" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/13/infosec_in_brief/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:27:49

• "This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there" ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2025/07/13/the-hunt-for-a-perfect-laptop-continues/ | Source: Nate Graham    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:28:00

• "Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/hungarys-oldest-library-is-fighting-to-save-100000-books-from-a-beetle-infestation/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:28:29

• "This is an advanced insect infestation which has been detected in several parts of the library" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/offbeat/articles/2025-07-13/hungarys-oldest-library-is-fighting-to-save-100-000-books-from-a-beetle-infestation | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:28:39

• "If you have ever tried using the std::adjacent_difference algorithm in c++, I’m sure it left you puzzled." ☛ https://mmapped.blog/posts/43-stepanovs-biggest-blunder | Source: Roman Kashitsyn    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:29:06

• "The purpose of this article is to explain techniques that enabled me to make simulations like the one below" ☛ https://bleuje.com/physarum-explanation/ |    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:29:24

• "Time and memory (also called space) are the two most fundamental resources in computation" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/for-algorithms-a-little-memory-outweighs-a-lot-of-time/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:29:37

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-07-14.gmi    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:32:45

• "One may wish to automate the otherwise tedious task of reducing all note events to a single pitch (unless your DAW has a thingy that does that) so that one may more quickly review the rhythm of a melody." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/07/14/melodic-flatline.gmi    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 04:33:38

• "Are you a Windows user thinking of switching to Ubuntu? Wondering how switching operating systems might influence your workflow? Well, I'm a former Windows user who's been using Linux for nearly a decade, and here are five ways Ubuntu changed how I use my PC." https://www.howtogeek.com/ways-ubuntu-changed-how-i-use-my-pc/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 06:16:28

• So a lot of the people who protested against RMS turn out to be pedophiles themselves, so what? What does that mean?    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 06:17:09

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

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 06:18:29

• How To Change Hostname on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/change-hostname-almalinux-10/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 06:18:51

• Gaming inside GNU GNU/Linux Debian 13 via windows-vm? how to get NVIDIA GPU pci-pass-through to kvm vm work ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/07/13/gaming-inside-gnu-linux-debian-13-via-windows-vm-how-to-get-nvidia-gpu-pci-pass-through-to-kvm-vm-work/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 06:19:08

• How to Install Docker on Rocky GNU/Linux 10: A Step-by-Step Guide ☞ https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-docker-on-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 06:19:21

• How to Enable SSH in Debian 12 GNU/Linux Server or desktop ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-enable-ssh-in-debian-12-linux-server-or-desktop/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 06:19:36

• Doing Microsoft's biddings; better to explore KATE ☞ https://idroot.us/install-vscodium-almalinux-10/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 06:20:21

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

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 06:21:20

• Ironically, the tor network has ENABLED a lot of online harassment https://blog.torproject.org/solidarity-against-online-harassment/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 06:22:54

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

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:29:21

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

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:29:45

• How To Install Grub Customizer on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-grub-customizer-almalinux-10/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:30:38

• AppFlowy Basics – How to migrate a simple Notion structure to AppFlowy ☞ https://www.reallinuxuser.com/appflowy-basics-how-to-migrate-a-simple-notion-structure-to-appflowy/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:31:00

• EU Ministers Set To Approve Sanctions Targeting Moldova's 'Destabilizers' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-ministers-sanctions-moldova-destabilizers-russia-shor/33473039.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:31:22

• Macron to boost French defence targets, citing rise of global threats ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250713-macron-to-announce-major-french-defence-targets-citing-russian-threat    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:31:59

• Macron to raise defence targets in Bastille Day address ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250713-macron-to-raise-defence-targets-in-bastille-day-address    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:32:14

• France’s Macron calls for major hike in defence spending: ‘To be free, we must be feared’ ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250713-watch-live-french-president-macron-army-new-defence-targets-russia-nato-military    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:33:07

• Watch live: France’s Macron to announce 'major' defence policy measures on eve of Bastille Day ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250713-watch-live-french-president-macron-army-new-defence-targets-russia-nato-military    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:33:39

• Lull In Russian Attacks On Ukraine Ahead Of Convicted Felon's 'Major Statement' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/respite-ukraine-russia-drone-attacks/33472884.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:33:54

• Several killed in Russian drone strikes on Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250713-several-killed-in-russian-drone-strikes-on-ukraine    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:34:13

• Ukraine Recovery Conference: Europe underlines long-term commitment ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-recovery-conference-europe-underlines-long-term-commitment/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:34:35

• Ukraine can benefit from growing tech ties between Gulf states and the US ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-can-benefit-from-growing-tech-ties-between-gulf-states-and-the-us/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:35:08

• North Korea’s Kim Jong Un vows ‘unconditional support’ of Russia’s war in Ukraine: ‘Invincible fighting brotherhood’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/world-news/north-korea-vows-unconditional-support-of-russias-war-in-ukraine/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:35:36

• President von der Leyen attends Ukraine Recovery Conference and announces a €2.3 billion package to support reconstruction efforts ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ac_25_1819    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:36:01

• World Awaits Convicted Felon’s ‘Major Statement’ On Ukraine-Russia Amid Global Diplomatic Flurry ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-putin-rutte-kellogg/33473036.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:36:19

• Dihydroxyacetone Man says US will send Patriot air defence missiles to Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250714-trump-says-us-will-send-patriot-air-defence-missiles-to-ukraine-usa-russia    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:36:48

• Debian has masters. ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2025/07/debconf25-welcomes-sponsors.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:37:55

• Descendant of ‘God of War’ who once ruled Mongolia is a Fentanylware (TikTok) influencer who carries ‘burden’ of his name: ‘Just a girl who drinks matcha’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/world-news/mad-barons-descendent-turns-into-a-matcha-sipping-tiktok-influencer/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:38:37

• What We Learned from Our First Data Science for Open WASH Data Course ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/07/what-we-learned-from-our-first-data-science-for-open-wash-data-course/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:40:44

• EasyOS Excalibur version 6.108 (v7-beta) ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202507/easyos-excalibur-version-6108-v7-beta.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:52:02

• Swapping zpools – moving from using main_tank to using data ☞ https://dan.langille.org/2025/07/13/swapping-zpools-moving-from-using-main_tank-to-using-data/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:54:34

• PHP License Metamorphoses to BSD ☞ https://heathermeeker.com/2025/07/13/php-license-metamorphoses-to-bsd/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:55:44

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 28 (Jul 7 – 13, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-28-jul-7-13-2025/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:56:09

• The Grep Command in GNU/Linux ☞ https://thenewstack.io/the-grep-command-in-linux/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 07:59:42

• Sebastian Wick: Blender HDR and the reference white issue ☞ https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/blender-hdr-reference-white/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:00:13

• "One of the most notable additions is the ability to choose a preferred shell during installation, deciding between pre-configured Fish or Zsh setups, or sticking with a plain-vanilla Bash environment." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/cachyos-july-2025-update-brings-shell-choice-wayland-defaults/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:01:02

• "Today I wanted to try out Bastille 1.0 on a fresh FreeBSD 14.3 machine, so I decided to set up Forgejo in a Jail." ☛ https://www.subnetspider.com/2025/07/13/how-to-install-and-configure-forgejo-on-freebsd.html | Source: Subnetspider    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:01:56

• "We have two sorts of login servers. There's effectively one general purpose login server that people aren't supposed to do heavy duty computation on (and which uses per-user CPU and RAM limits to help with that)" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/LoginServersStillUsed | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:02:31

• "removing the zfs labels from an drive which was part of a zpool which is no longer in use" ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/07/13/clear-the-existing-good-drive-and-add-it-to-the-new-zpool/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:04:20

• "So I searched for some commonly used criteria to identify "bad" domain names, and found these: [...]" ☛ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32102 | Source: SANS    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:04:42

• Coding a load-balanced multithreaded particle system ☞ https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/07/13/coding-a-load-balanced-multithreaded-particle-system/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:05:14

• Using SLAPPs to Cover Up Sexual Abuse and Strangulation ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/12/Using_SLAPPs_to_Cover_Up_Sexual_Abuse_and_Strangulation.shtml    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:20:38

• Reproducing at the EPO Instead of Producing Monopolies for Foreign Monopolies With Their Price-Fixing Cartels ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/13/Reproducing_at_the_EPO_Instead_of_Producing_Monopolies_for_Fore.shtml    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:20:48

• The Microsofters Will Have an Obligation to Compensate Us ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/13/The_Microsofters_Will_Have_an_Obligation_to_Compensate_Us.shtml    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:20:56

• Firefox and Thunderbird updates for armv7hl ☞ https://blog.mageia.org/en/2025/07/13/firefox-and-thunderbird-updates-for-armv7hl/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:21:47

• Bits from Debian: DebConf25 starts today in Brest on Monday, July 14, 2025 ☞ https://bits.debian.org/2025/07/debconf25-starts-today.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:24:58

• Firing Away With Nonsense ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/13/Firing_Away_With_Nonsense.shtml    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:25:15

• The Demise of LLMs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/13/The_Demise_of_LLMs.shtml    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:25:24

• Brett Wilson LLP "Takes it Personal" (Character Assassination, Not Professionalism). Everybody Can See That. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/14/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Takes_it_Personal_Character_Assassination_Not_.shtml    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:25:42

• Turns Out LLMs for Code Don't Save Time and Don't Improve Quality (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/13/Turns_Out_LLMs_for_Code_Don_t_Save_Time_and_Don_t_Improve_Quali.shtml    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:25:54

• Microsoft Repeats the Mistakes Made by the EPO After We Exposed a Major Microsoft/EPO Scandal 10 Years Ago (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/13/Microsoft_Repeats_the_Mistakes_Made_by_the_EPO_After_We_Exposed.shtml    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:26:03

• Pissing Contests and Pissing Off Everyone (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/13/Pissing_Contests_and_Pissing_Off_Everyone.shtml    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:26:11

• ESP32-S3 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/jcorp-nomad-esp32-s3-offline-media-server-in-a-thumbdrive/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:27:06

• Hong Kong court to hear appeals from 13 jailed democrats and gov’t in landmark nat. security case ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/14/hong-kong-court-to-hear-appeals-from-12-jailed-democrats-and-govt-in-landmark-nat-security-case/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:28:05

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck - 2025-07-13 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2025-07-13-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:28:25

• Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc6 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1029716/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:29:21

• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian suffered injury in Israeli airstrike during 12-day war: report ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/world-news/iranian-president-masoud-pezeshkian-was-injured-in-israeli-airstrike-during-12-day-war-report/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:31:52

• Gaza civil defence says 40 dead in Israeli strikes as truce talks remain deadlocked ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250713-gaza-civil-defence-says-40-dead-in-israeli-strikes-as-truce-talks-remain-deadlocked    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:32:02

• Germany urges tough EU response if 'fair deal' cannot be reached on US tariffs ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250713-germany-urges-tough-eu-response-if-fair-deal-cannot-be-reached-on-us-tariffs    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:32:20

• Valnet Inc. Dominates Real (Not LLM Slop) GNU/Linux Coverage in 2025 ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/13/Valnet_Inc_Dominates_Real_Not_LLM_Slop_GNU_Linux_Coverage_in_20.shtml    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:32:39

• Nottodbox – organize notes, to-dos and diaries ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nottodbox-organize-notes-to-dos-diaries/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:33:32

• Nornir – pluggable multi-threaded framework ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nornir-pluggable-multi-threaded-framework/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:33:41

• Trusted-CGI – lightweight self-hosted lambda/applications/cgi/serverless-functions engine ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/trusted-cgi-lightweight-self-hosted/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:34:25

• Event Wrap: PacNOG 35 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/07/14/event-wrap-pacnog-35/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:35:07

• "I'm a big fan of the go programming langauge, this is well known. But when asked what about the language I don't like, my answer surprises people: channels." ☛ https://mediocregopher.com/lab/go-channels.gmi | Source: Mediocregopher    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:35:43

• "Did I really just say that?" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/the-grep-command-in-linux/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:36:26

• [Old] "What prompted the creation of the Bourne shell?" ☛ https://www.computerwoche.de/article/2720775/the-a-z-of-programming-languages-bourne-shell.html |    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:36:43

• "You are given a string containing only lower case English letters and digits." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/counter-nice.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:37:22

• "This document describes differences between the 5.42.0 release and the 5.40.0 release." ☛ https://perldoc.perl.org/perldelta | Source: Perl    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:37:31

• "As a successful Open Source project I acknowledge and am aware that we (I mean curl) might get more attention than some others" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/07/13/how-i-do-it/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:38:42

• "In search of an alternative method to generate and publish posts" ☛ https://box.matto.nl/elisping-like-it-is-1998.html | Source: MJ Fransen    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:38:57

• "Pulse-width modulation (PWM) is a well-established method of digital-to-analog conversion. It’s inexpensive, easy to understand, and easy to implement." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/pico_pwm.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:39:09

• "And then, to see just how slow javascript really is, I simulated even MOAR particles in rust. Way more." ☛ https://dgerrells.com/blog/how-fast-is-swift-heavy-metal-edition-feat-nardi | Source: David Gerrells    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:39:26

• "As we build, we need to think about how we’ll shape our own developer experience, and the developer experience of other humans. Chances are, a human using your tool/API/utility/library/etc." ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/tools-using-tools/ | Source: Cassidy Williams    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:39:41

• "The short version of this shower thought: storing the tags for sum types after the payload rather than before can save a surprising amount of space." ☛ https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/store-tags-after-payloads/ | Source: Jamie Brandon    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:39:53

• "So I went home and spent a few hours making this, a list of words found in the dialogue of Network, ranked by their estimated frequency in the English language." ☛ https://thingswemake.com/lettervoxd/ |    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:40:10

• "The papers are fertile ground for scholarly research into Congress’ role in shaping U.S. history" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/07/12/universities-in-every-state-care-for-congressional-papers-federal-cuts-put-their-work-at-risk/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:43:06

• "The event welcomed participants for five days of workshops and the conference day." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/07/14/event-wrap-pacnog-35/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:43:32

• "When we launched the first Data Science for Open WASH Data (ds4owd) course in October 2023" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/07/what-we-learned-from-our-first-data-science-for-open-wash-data-course/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:43:54

• "Koko Analytics to keep track of New Leaf Journal" ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/five-years-of-the-koko-analytics-wordpress-plugin/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:44:33

• "My home is getting more and more connected, and the number of my automations grows each passing month." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/home-assistant/8/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:45:39

• "A security vulnerability on American trains was discovered in 2012" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/security-vulnerability-on-u-s-trains-that-let-anyone-activate-the-brakes-on-the-rear-car-was-known-for-13-years-operators-refused-to-fix-the-issue-until-now | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:45:49

• "Spent a little more time working on my Godot game, mainly around level 4-2." ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/07/12/devlog-godot-project-some-feelings.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:46:12

• UN agencies warn fuel shortage could “collapse” humanitarian operations in Gaza ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/un-agencies-warn-fuel-shortage-could-collapse-humanitarian-operations-in-gaza/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:51:39

• Cancer deaths from obesity have tripled in 20 years — which states have the highest and lowest rates ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/health/cancer-deaths-from-obesity-have-tripled-in-20-years-study/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:53:53

• Former South Korea president rearrested over martial law controversy ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/former-south-korea-president-rearrested-over-martial-law-controversy/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:54:18

• Cannabis Use Is Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Discover ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-use-is-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-scientists-discover    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:55:07

• Cyborg Beetles Could Be Unlikely Heroes in Future Disaster Rescues ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cyborg-beetles-could-be-unlikely-heroes-in-future-disaster-rescues    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:55:25

• Your Next Flight Might Signal Our Existence to Alien Civilizations ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-next-flight-might-signal-our-existence-to-alien-civilizations    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:57:03

• Mondayitis Could Have a Deadly Effect On Your Body ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mondayitis-could-have-a-deadly-effect-on-your-body    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:57:15

• One Piece of Advice to Parents Slashed Food Allergies in Children ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-piece-of-advice-to-parents-slashed-food-allergies-in-children    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:57:33

• Intel axes thousands of technicians and engineers in sweeping U.S. layoffs — cutting 4,000 positions in the U.S., 2,392 in Oregon ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-axes-thousands-of-technicians-and-engineers-in-sweeping-u-s-layoffs-cutting-4-000-positions-in-the-u-s-2-392-in-oregon    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:58:03

• Kyrgyzstan court orders liquidation of independent news broadcaster ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/kyrgyzstan-court-orders-liquidation-of-independent-news-broadcaster/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:58:36

• McDonald's McHire bot exposed personal information of 64M people by using '123456' as a password in 2025 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/mcdonalds-mchire-bot-exposed-personal-information-of-64m-people-by-using-123456-as-a-password-in-2025    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:59:23

• Iran to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog despite security concerns ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/iran-to-cooperate-with-the-un-nuclear-watchdog-despite-security-concerns/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 08:59:53

• Dozens killed in violent clashes in predominantly Druze Syrian city ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250714-dozens-killed-in-violent-clashes-in-predominantly-druze-syrian-city-sweida    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 09:00:05

• Grok-4 Falls to a Jailbreak Two Days After Its Release ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/grok-4-falls-to-a-jailbreak-two-days-after-its-release/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 09:00:29

• Review of GL.iNet Comet (GL-RM1) KVM-over-IP solution and ATX power control board ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/13/review-of-gl-inet-comet-gl-rm1-kvm-over-ip-solution-and-atx-power-control-board/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 09:00:59

• "Serious Flight Simulator" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/what-will-it-take-to-restore-a-serious-flight-simulator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 09:16:01

• "Robotic Dog" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/from-leash-to-locomotion-cara-the-robotic-dog/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 09:16:16

• "Move over, keytar — [Rory Scammell]’s Balfolk Boombox is the real deal." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/hurdy-posting-continues-with-the-balfolk-boombox-a-synth-gurdy/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 09:16:38

• "One Hertz Challenge" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/2025-one-hertz-challenge-ham-radio-foxhunt-transmitter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 09:18:35

• "Smart Coffee Table" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/13/smart-coffee-table-to-guide-your-commute/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 09:18:49

• "Birding has experienced a surge in popularity over the past decade, in part due to the pandemic, which forced so many of us outside (or to stare through our windows at the world outside) while also illuminating the inequities around access to outdoor spaces." https://thewalrus.ca/birding/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:14:26

• This means ANOTHER Microsoft exec JUMPED SHIP https://htxt.co.za/2025/07/lillian-barnard-to-lead-enterprise-partner-solutions-for-microsoft-in-middle-east-and-africa/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:45:30

• Layoff riddle: Why are companies getting worse at letting employees go? https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/us-layoffs-microsoft-bumble-meta-zuckerberg-ai-leadership-empathy-workforce-anxiety-whitney-wolfe-herd-xbox-challenger-11752334529921.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:45:55

• Microsoft announced 9,000 layoffs. What does that mean for WA state? https://www.theolympian.com/news/state/washington/article310407150.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:46:27

• "Playing With AI" = burning money https://www.thegamer.com/xbox-layoffs-time-to-stop-using-generative-ai/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:47:20

• Xbox’s Recently Closed Studio The Initiative Was Said To Be ‘AAAA Team’ https://tech4gamers.com/xbox-the-initiative-aaaa-team/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:49:02

• "I don't understand how people on LinkedIn keeps mentioning about being promoted or has found a higher title than before at Microsoft and this is happening at the the same time. This is just strange or that person has some great connections, because I know talented people who have years working here and still    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:50:02

• "take a while to get promoted." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jzvrtf3n    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 11:50:11

• Nadhim Zahawi’s lawyer at risk of sanction over alleged use of ‘Slapp’ https://www.ft.com/content/aa538de1-525d-4d12-b64a-b0b8e05ce0a7    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 13:03:46

• Solicitor held in contempt to face SDT hearing https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/solicitor-held-in-contempt-to-face-sdt-hearing/5123794.article    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 15:15:48

• "I don't really know what I imagined ever going into this category, so might as well start with the basics. Try to get eight hours a day and go to bed and wake at the same time, every day, seven days a week. If you go to sleep a bit late one day, don't try and sleep a bunch extra, just get up at your normal time." gemini://8by3.net/~sbr/rest/2025-07-11.sleep.gmi    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 15:20:58

• How to block AI bots with Nginx gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/log/2025-07-13_how_to_block_ai_bots_with_nginx.gmi    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 15:22:15

• 🔤SpellBinding — AINUQRO Wordo: FROZE gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-07-14.gmi    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 15:23:06

• returned to mother earth gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/returned_to_mother_earth    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 15:24:06

• "We wish you sunny weather, a warm summer, a vacation filled with inspiration and new meanings. May you have time for walks, communication with friends, old places and new discoveries." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2665    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 15:24:50

• "I run a few different services, which I tend to run inside a purpose built jail, i.e service A lives in jail A, which exists only for service A." gemini://8by3.net/~sbr/log/2025-07-14.rc-template.gmi    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 15:25:44

• "My daughter just turned 8, and one of her birthday gifts was a tiny thermal printer - the kind that spits out little notes, stickers and Sudokus with no ink, just magic." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Electronics/30220    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 15:26:25

• 🖨️ Tiny thermal printer is a lot of fun gemini://sava.rocks/blog/tiny-thermal-printer-is-a-lot-of-fun/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 15:27:02

• [japan] [food] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-07-14.gmi    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 19:52:51

• "The following are all of the BOFH stories from 1995 to 1999 as archived on bofharchive.org. Each story has been downloaded, ran through html2gmi, and published here for your viewing pleasure." gemini://tilde.team/~khuxkm/bofharchive/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 19:54:09

• Taming the daemons, the POSIX way gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-07-14-taming-the-daemons.txt    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 19:54:51

• "Today I installed the WPA2 update on my Palm TX." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/installed-the-wpa2-update-on-palm-tx.txt    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 19:59:07

• Fresh from telling laid-off employees to console themselves with AI, Microsoft doubles down by advertising Xbox jobs with pathetic AI image: 'So tone deaf I hope it is satire' https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/fresh-from-telling-laid-off-employees-to-console-themselves-with-ai-microsoft-doubles-down-by-advertising-xbox-jobs-with-pathetic-ai-image-so-tone-deaf-i-hope-it-is-satire/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:06:04

• Microsoft Employee Criticized for Advertising Xbox Graphics Role Using AI 'Slop' Artwork, Just Weeks After Mass Layoffs https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-employee-criticized-for-advertising-xbox-graphics-role-using-ai-slop-artwork-just-weeks-after-mass-layoffs    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:06:30

• "Wtf,I got 1 year 1 month basic pay only as I am in sales and exceeded my number ever other year" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jz5ngwmy    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:08:37

• "By all means keep providing feedback, insight and suggestions to make AI better. If it replaces you, it’ll be ok because you made a difference by making AI better. You can say, “I may be let go, but AI….that’s me…I made it better….I made a difference.” So realizing that makes it all better." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jzjcq54r    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:09:21

• IBM " RTP main campus closing? The e-mail went out to RTP employees saying everyone is 'consolidating' to the small 500 complex. This sounds like they are either selling off the main campus or shutting it down" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0540gdg    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:09:53

• "I'm looking into ways to mirror Mission:Libre's fediverse posts on the non-free social networks without sacrificing free software principles too much. (If you didn't know, Mission:Libre is a project to promote free software to teens)." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-07/msg00003.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:15:59

• "Unfortunately, this isn't something I can do by myself. If you might be interested in helping, please could you flick me an e-mail? I'll tell you more about what I need help with off-list. Ideas and thoughtsare always welcome, too." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-07/msg00003.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:16:22

• "The purpose of AI in most of this context is **not** about improving productivity!! It's about taking away tech-worker labor power. Cory Doctorow explains it all very clearly: [1]https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs " https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-07/msg00004.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:17:38

• "There will be a day when AI is actually productively helpful, but that's not today for most things. Today, it is a cudgel for bosses to use to take away power from workers, even if the results for productivity are worse." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-07/msg00004.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:17:44

• "The purpose of AI in most of this context is _**not**_ about improving productivity!! It's about taking away tech-worker labor power. Cory Doctorow explains it all very clearly: [1]https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs " https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-07/msg00004.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:18:38

• "There will be a day when AI is actually productively helpful, but that's not today for most things. Today, it is a cudgel for bosses to use to take away power from workers, even if the results for productivity are worse." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-07/msg00004.html    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 20:18:50

• Gemini Style Sheets gemini://breebee.smol.pub/gemini_style_sheets_07_14_2025    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 22:19:45

• Xbox Graphics Lead Puts Out Tone-Deaf Hiring Call With AI-Slop, Shortly After Devastating Layoffs https://wccftech.com/xbox-tone-deaf-hiring-call-ai-slop-microsoft-layoffs/    

posted Monday, July 14, 2025 at 22:42:42

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