Roy Schestowitz

• GParted Live 1.7.0-8 Stable Release https://gparted.org/news.php?item=258    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 02:40:41

• CachyOS July 2025 Release https://cachyos.org/blog/2507-july-release/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 02:42:26

• LastOSLinux 2025-07-14 is out https://www.lastos.org/lastoslinux/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 02:44:27

• Zenwalk current-250715 is out http://www.zenwalk.org/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 02:45:14

• "KDE Plasma 5.27.5, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, Xfce 4.18, Openbox 3.6.1" https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-7-8/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 02:45:56

• Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nintendo-touts-high-employee-retention-rate-after-loss-of-Microsoft-jobs-rocks-Xbox-Game-Studios.1061930.0.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 02:48:44

• "Fire Brad Smith, and then ask him if this still applies: “difficult but necessary”,. What a joke." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jzjcq54r    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 02:54:03

• UK GDP unexpectedly falls for second month in a row https://www.dw.com/en/uk-gdp-unexpectedly-falls-for-second-month-in-a-row/a-73238010    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:00:53

• fatal accident https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-ceo-s-wife-investigated-over-fatal-accident/a-73248372    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:01:56

• ‘feed power plants’ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-prepares-to-open-olive-groves-for-mining-to-feed-power-plants-309518    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:03:20

• Kenyan Women’s Gulf Jobs Begin With Hope and End in Horror https://jacobin.com/2025/07/kenyan-women-saudi-work-abuse/ Slaves of Saudi Barbaria    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:04:11

• CPJ, partners: Tunisian authorities must release Sonia Dahmani, end misuse of cybercrime Decree-Law 54 https://cpj.org/2025/07/cpj-partners-tunisian-authorities-must-release-sonia-dahmani-end-misuse-of-cybercrime-decree-law-54/"    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:08:33

• Tribblix 0m37 is out http://tribblix.org/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:09:32

• ] Accessible-Coconut 22.04.04 and Archcraft 2025.07.12 are also out    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:09:52

• How to install Synfig Studio on Kubuntu 24.04 https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2025/07/how-to-install-synfig-studio-on-kubuntu.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:16:22

• How to install Godot on Kubuntu 24.04 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=CHBFY9uqGkE    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:17:27

• deepin 25 overview| Beautiful and Friendly https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=jRBMVbc95U4    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:17:42

• "KDE Is Old, Buggy And Outdated" https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=a2RpmorTj88    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:17:56

• Top 5 lightweight Linux Distros For INSANE Performance! (For 2025) https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=lmg-TxVVroc    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:18:29

• Hyper Fixating On Linux Desktop's Most Important Setting https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=PIXH2pBt5qU    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:18:48

• Stop Complaining About Ubuntu...Just Switch To Arch Already! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=HbBF-bmGe2I    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:19:09

• Revival Of KDE Plasma Bigscreen: KDE For Your TV https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=G3Brncby9cE    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:19:23

• How to install deepin 25 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=foId5-oLEeY    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:19:36

• Xubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/L1_alGpa9Fs    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:19:52

• Pakistan Court Suspends Order Seeking YouTube Ban on Government Critics https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-11/pakistan-court-suspends-order-seeking-youtube-ban-on-government-critics    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:20:52

• YouTuber's Suicide https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mikayla-raines-cause-death-confirmed-new-details-about-youtubers-suicide-emerges-1738485    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:21:19

• Vibrio bacteria https://www.dw.com/en/vibrio-bacteria-how-to-swim-in-european-waters-and-survive/a-73299934    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:21:45

• "Stallman is a real visionary warning us about those risks since de 80s." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44606463    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:33:47

• Intel Corp down about 62% in past 5 years    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 03:35:45

• IBM stress. "I am 41 M and have no idea how people work into their 70s. Stress is making me lose sleep and I am drinking so much. The new manager and I don’t get along because she found out that I had applied for the position." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0j6erj9    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:05:57

• "The market is tough outside and no luck getting anything internal. I casually mentioned this to a buddy and he only half jokingly suggested smoking weed. The coffee to keep me awake at work because I couldn’t sleep the night before is giving me headaches. How can I pay my bills for the next 30 years if I can’t work. I don’t know what to do."    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:06:44

• 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. Either way this doesn't sound good at all. Anyone have more details?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0540gdg    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:08:39

• "No customer will want to pay anything for the privilege of interacting with some useless, ignorant, and hallucinating IBM AI consultant bot. Customers will leave in droves. Great strategy." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0540gdg    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:09:08

• "It is all about costs cutting… revenues are not growing but they want the free cash flow to grow by leaps and bounds… layoffs, offices closing will continue. This is a fire sale… get rid of things/people quickly" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0540gdg    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:10:47

• "Sure - if the AI role is in India. Otherwise, forget about it. Job security is dead - even for top talent. You need to be under 40 and live in India to have a career future at IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k0ccfvbz    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:11:51

• "Usually, I like to do a more detailed write-up of DebConf, but I was already quite burnt out when I got here, so I’ll circle back to a few things that were important to me in later posts." https://jonathancarter.org/2025/07/19/debconf25/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:16:56

• apropos this other post: https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/20/Ageism_in_Tech.shtml see https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/cgi-bin/uy/webpages.cgi?/logicalfallacies/Appeal-to-Novelty    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:33:18

• Now 47 short of goal/target https://www.fsf.org/appeal    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:36:53

• Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (28/2025): Automatically Focussed https://linmob.net/weekly-update-28-2025/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:37:25

• LibreOffice Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin As Currency https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/15/1932202/libreoffice-lands-built-in-support-for-bitcoin-as-currency    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:39:35

• Manual intervention required for OpenRC https://parabolagnulinux.org/news/manual-intervention-required-for-openrc/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 06:39:56

• "Amazingly Apple Notes still retains the ability to use an IMAP server to synchronize notes." ☛ https://www.going-flying.com/blog/notes-via-imap.html | Source: Matthew J Ernisse    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:44:13

• "We recently had a big downtime at work where part of the work was me doing a relatively complex and touchy thing." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ChecklistsAreHardButGood | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:44:32

• Microsoft spam in boingboing; iophk: "Office drama? Not when your software lasts forever" https://boingboing.net/2025/07/18/office-drama-not-when-your-software-lasts-forever.html Microsoft remains panicked about the public discovering universal file formats and Free and Open Source Software.    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:49:01

• "Meghan O’Gieblyn, essayist: ‘I don’t think Trump really believes in God’" https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-07-18/meghan-ogieblyn-essayist-i-dont-think-trump-really-believes-in-god.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:49:18

• "Contributor: Democrats are spiraling into irrelevance. Good riddance" https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-07-18/zohran-mamdani-democratic-politics-extremism    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:49:36

• "No computer science degree needed only to learn coding: Google's head of Android" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/no-computer-science-degree-needed-only-to-learn-coding-googles-head-of-android/articleshow/122780519.cms race to the bottom    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:50:04

• "Online Safety Act – britternas DSA och Chat Control i ett" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/07/19/online-safety-act-britternas-dsa-och-chat-control-i-ett/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:50:16

• "Trump is doing something no one wants" https://www.ekathimerini.com/nytimes/1275721/trump-is-doing-something-no-one-wants/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:50:34

• "Trump's soft-power retreat scrambles U.S.-China race" https://www.axios.com/2025/07/17/trump-china-retreat-soft-power    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:50:47

• "Re: [DNG] text files print landscape" https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20250719.090448.e9fca90a.en.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:51:04

• ""Even God Cannot Hear Us Here": What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women's Prison" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/even-god-cannot-hear-us-here-what-i-witnessed-inside-an-ice-womens-prison/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:51:24

• ""Visit Dubai!"" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/visit-dubai/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:51:39

• "Army veteran who trained Neo Nazis gets two years in prison" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-veteran-kyle-benton-sentenced/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:52:14

• iophk: anthropomorphizing LLMs is pure, unadulterated bullshit https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/child-prodigy-ai-needs-guidance-says-mahindra/articleshow/122669600.cms    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:52:48

• "Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: Why MAGA loyalists are abandoning the president" https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/trump-promised-to-bring-down-the-deep-state-to-maga-loyalists-he-s-joined-it-20250720-p5mg9p.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:53:02

• iophk: obviously not the digital border though https://yle.fi/a/74-20173394 http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Finland_and_NATO_Must_Move_to_GNU_Linux_and_Dump_Microsoft_Even.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:54:02

• "‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/19/my-parents-got-me-out-of-soviet-russia-at-the-right-time-should-my-family-now-leave-the-us    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:54:30

• "Trump's Alcatraz prison could cost $2 billion" https://www.axios.com/2025/07/18/trump-alcatraz-prison-cost-2-billion    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:54:59

• "Anti-Press Subpoenas" ☛ https://thedissenter.org/minnesota-supreme-court-rules-against-dapl-companys-anti-press-subpoenas/ | Source: The Dissenter    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 09:55:33

• "Amid a wave of lawsuits targeting how AI companies use copyrighted works to train large language models that generate new works" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/eff-court-dmca-didnt-create-new-right-attribution-you-shouldnt-either-0 | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:06:35

• "EFF opposed this bill from the start." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/california-ab-412-stalls-out-win-innovation-and-fair-use | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:06:48

• "Baldacci is among a group of authors suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the companies’ use of their work to train the AI software behind tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot without permission or payment" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/19/ai-books-authors-congress-courts/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:07:04

• "OpenAI also argued the Copyright Act doesn't apply outside of Canada." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-weighs-plans-on-ai-copyright-as-openai-fights-ontario-court-jurisdiction-1.7589354 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:07:16

• "the agreement has failed to remove the technical tie-in between Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) and Microsoft 365, restricting users in their choice of ID management when deploying Microsoft software in the cloud." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/cispe_microsoft_concessions/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:10:51

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1029767/43b62a7a7408c2a9/ | Source: LWN https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/The_Microsofters_We_Sued_Helped_Microsoft_Make_GNU_Linux_Expire.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:11:32

• "It's also an extremely convenient political philosophy if you are getting rich by stealing from people, or even murdering them." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/19/systemic/#criminality-pure-and-simple | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:11:57

• "I went to Dubai wrongheaded." ☛ https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/everything-else |    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:12:35

• "detention center" ☛ https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/rumeysa-ozturk-what-i-witnessed-inside-an-ice-womens-prison | Source: Vanity Fair    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:13:32

• "There are reasonable grounds for suspicion." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/19/paramount-cbs-trump | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:14:15

• "Maybe it is all CBS said it is, and it's weird they would give him 10 more months on the air if they were just trying to get him out for any recent comments, but it absolutely doesn't look good for CBS here." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/i-may-have-gotten-this-one-wrong/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:14:35

• "Asked about the case during his presidential campaign in 2024, Trump indicated that if reelected, he would release the Epstein files." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/trump-threatens-wall-street-journal-lawsuit-amid-epstein-transparency-controversy/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:14:48

• "closest friend" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/28/behind-trumps-jeffrey-epstein-problem | Source: New Yorker    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:15:23

• "In the suit, Trump says the story was published "at the direction of" Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson ... who are both named as defendants, as well as the 2 WSJ reporters who wrote the story." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2025/07/18/president-trump-lawsuit-defamation-wall-street-journal-news-corp-jeffrey-epstein-birthday-letter/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:15:43

• "On Friday, the president — a well-documented liar — sued the Journal in a federal court in Miami, Florida for assault, libel, and slander, according to CNN." ☛ https://truthout.org/articles/trump-sues-wall-street-journal-over-epstein-report/ | Source: TruthOut    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:16:24

• "Both fake orders, sent via email on June 19 and July 4, appear to show separate rulings by two different judges based on a complaint filed by Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) MP Ahmet Gündüz." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/bianet-receives-fake-court-orders-demanding-removal-of-news-articles-309602 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:16:41

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:17:02

• "The threat to the broadcaster’s funding has sparked a wave of global support from media watchdogs, analysts, and democracy advocates, as well as the audiences in the 27 languages and 23 countries in which RFE/RL broadcasts." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-court-orders-usagm-pay-rferl-fiscal-year-funding/33478034.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:17:15

• "It's part of a broader trend across Central Asia, where freedom of expression continues to erode under government pressure." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/central-asia-media-press-freedom-expression-rights-persecution/33473772.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:24:08

• "The pro-democracy politician-turned-entrepreneur has been running Hunter Bookstore, an independent bookshop in Sham Shui Po, since 2022." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/20/is-it-a-coincidence-hong-kong-independent-bookstores-publishers-face-simultaneous-tax-probes/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:24:15

• "models that were trained using a total computing power of more than 10^25 FLOPs." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/meta_declines_eu_ai_guidelines/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:24:58

• "You see, software code is not main thing companies are built around. Not even close. The main thing are the people, the knowledge they share and the culture they build." ☛ https://nikola.kotur.org/on-new-opportunities | Source: Nikola Kotur    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:25:22

• [Old] "This is certainly an interesting decision, and it raises the question of why now?" ☛ https://www.tradesecretsandemployeemobility.com/microsoft-to-eliminate-noncompetes-for-most-employees-a-harbinger-of-things-to-come |    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:26:01

• "Regardless of who was cut, we're told AWS gave workers no warning." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/aws_sheds_jobs/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:26:20

• "citing legal uncertainties and overreach." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-likely-to-sign-eu-ai-code-of-practice-meta-rebuffs-guidelines/articleshow/122775605.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:26:41

• "hyperscalers" ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/energysource/ground-zero-for-the-us-ai-energy-challenge-a-state-level-case-study/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:27:11

• "hyperscalers" are hype by a name other than "the clown"    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:27:33

• "In a taped deposition shown to jurors in the federal case against Tesla" ☛ https://futurism.com/tesla-autopilot-tracking | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:27:52

• "These three bills aim to provide regulatory clarity for the cryptocurrency industry" ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/four-questions-and-expert-answers-on-the-new-us-cryptocurrency-legislation/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:31:51

• "In numbers, the Elon Musk-owned automaker sold just 4,306 Cybertrucks in the second quarter of 2025, according to the latest data from Cox Automotive's Kelley Blue Book — a stunning 50.8 percent nosedive from the same period last year." ☛ https://futurism.com/cybertruck-sales-dead-water | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:32:19

• "I have recently discovered viaduct, a web app where I can track my train trips. And the best part is: it integrates with the train schedules of some countries." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2025/07/19/tracking-train-rides/ | Source: Henrique Dias    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:32:49

• "The industry donated more than $245 million (€210 million) in last year's elections to boost pro-[cryptocurrency] candidates such as Trump." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/us-trump-signs-law-paving-way-for-dollar-based-stablecoins/a-73332639 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:33:14

• "Meta's data center in Newton County, Georgia, is linked to water problems. Beverly and Jeff Morris faced dry taps and sediment issues." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/their-water-taps-ran-dry-when-meta-built-next-door/articleshow/122786597.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:34:44

• "Either could now give protected whistleblower statements to Durbin." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/18/pam-bondi-reportedly-created-1000-witnesses-to-the-jeffrey-epstein-file/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:35:05

• Microsoft: we love people who fetishise knives and violent, dangerous men who strangle women    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:35:47

• "There are a number of things that either did not exist in the public version or remain significantly redacted. For example: [...]" ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/19/the-secrets-about-russias-influence-operation-that-tulsi-gabbard-is-still-keeping-from-us/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:36:00

• "national security a society-wide effort" ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0718/finland-national-security-russia-putin-europe | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:36:47

• "In a speech, Singapore’s Coordinating Minister for National Security K. Shanmugam highlighted the activity of UNC3886, an espionage group that has previously targeted routers and network security devices to infiltrate critical entities." ☛ https://therecord.media/singapore-accuses-chinese-backed-hackers-critical-infrastructure-attacks | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:37:39

• "cyber spies" ☛ https://therecord.media/uk-sanctions-gru-personnel-accused-murder-civilians-ukraine | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:37:54

• "Right now, it is 12 Democrats and 35 Republicans, with one vacancy, in a state that [Republican Senator] Ted Cruz couldn’t even get 51 percent of the vote in in 2018" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/texas-gerrymandering-greg-casar-interview/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:38:11

• "Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/newsletter/2025-07-19/how-the-tiktok-algorithm-birthed-new-words-like-unalive | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:38:30

• "one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine" ☛ https://nationalinterest.org/blog/middle-east-watch/why-the-muslim-brotherhood-should-be-designated-as-a-terrorist-organization | Source: National Interest    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:39:08

• "In this connection, 10 people across 6 states have been arrested" ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/isisstyle-religious-conversion-up-police-arrest-10-trace-funding-to-us-uk-dubai-101752918983401.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:39:17

• "Not by choice, not by ideology, not by agreement on what that nation should become, but by the basic fact that we are bound together by the consequences of collective choices whether we like it or not." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-united-opposition-for-america | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:39:28

• "Researchers say a far-right social media campaign — that painted a respected law professor as extremist — caused the suspension of the election of judges to Germany's highest court." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/how-far-right-social-media-influenced-judges-election-to-germanys-highest-court/a-73325056 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:39:37

• "Landline use has been in steady decline over recent years as Britons rely more on smartphones and as voice calls go out of fashion." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/18/landlines-less-popular-than-facebook-messenger-calls/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:42:14

• "Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:42:24

• "Microsoft’s disclosure that it can’t protect French data from being silently accessed by its US business is in apparent tension with the GDPR but in compliance with the US CLOUD Act: [...]" ☛ https://werd.io/microsoft-cant-protect-french-data-from-us-government-access/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:42:37

• "Arch Linux deletes three browser-related AUR packages infected with a Remote Access Trojan, urges users to uninstall and check systems for compromise." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/malware-discovered-in-arch-linux-aur-packages/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:43:12

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/at-least-750-us-hospitals-faced-disruptions-during-last-years-crowdstrike-outage-study-finds/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:43:36

• Windows TCO ☛ https://therecord.media/decryptor-phobos-8base-ransomware-japan-national-police | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:43:46

• "Ted Sarandos, a co-chief executive of Netflix, said the Argentinian science fiction series El Eternauta (The Eternaut) was the first it had made that involved using generative AI footage." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/18/netflix-uses-generative-ai-in-show-for-first-time-el-eternauta | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:44:15

• "We've all searched a flight, found a price, and come back the next day to see that it's spiked by $100. Or, maybe, you got lucky and it dropped by $50. Expect more of that." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/delta-ai-pricing-flights-cost-b2791141.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:44:30

• "We’re in heavy testing phase,” he said. “We like what we see. We like it a lot and we’re continuing to roll it out." ☛ https://www.eweek.com/news/delta-ai-airfare-pricing/ | Source: EWeek    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:44:43

• "Delta’s AI pricing destroys this perception. When an algorithm determines your personal price based on masses of data unique to you but with no transparency, you’ll likely feel cheated." ☛ https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerdooley/2025/07/17/will-delta-airlines-ai-pricing-trigger-a-customer-trust-crisis/ | Source: Forbes    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:44:56

• "Without a public record of all fares, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to determine if Delta is charging vastly different fares to people based on their membership in a protected class." ☛ https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-moves-toward-eliminating-set-prices-in-favor-of-ai-that-determines-how-much-you-personally-will-pay-for-a-ticket/ | Source: Fortune    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:45:14

• "They are trying to see into people’s heads to see how much they’re willing to pay" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/709556/delta-air-lines-ai-ticket-price-rollout | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:45:36

• "Mia Zelu looked every inch the tennis-adjacent celebrity except for one detail: she doesn’t exist" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/19/influencer-who-went-viral-at-wimbledon-is-actually-ai/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:45:58

• "Fueling the multi-billion dollar AI industry is a vast army of remote contract workers, often from less wealthy countries like the Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, and India." ☛ https://futurism.com/documents-ai-training-surge | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:46:20

• "AI shills keep claiming that AI video generators, such as Veo 3, can make professional quality work, and they are lying. But talk is cheap – we’ve got the fails!" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/19/google-veo-fails-week-4-the-final-faildown/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:46:40

• "This made me wonder: how do the sizes of local LLMs compare to the size of offline Wikipedia downloads?" ☛ https://evanhahn.com/local-llms-versus-offline-wikipedia/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:46:59

• "Today’s most popular vision for the future of AI is also the least imaginative one." ☛ https://blog.sshh.io/p/assistants-arent-the-future-of-ai | Source: Shrivu Shankar    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:47:17

• "In the previous post, we completed our analysis of the projection Steve made by looking at some unresolved side effects and questions that would come with such a future." ☛ https://www.ufried.com/blog/ai_and_software_development_5/ | Source: Uwe Friedrichsen    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:47:31

• Proprietary ☛ https://morrick.me/archives/10097 | Source: Riccardo Mori    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:48:03

• [Old] "cars did to streets" ☛ https://www.davidtinapple.com/illich/1983_silence_commons.html |    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:48:48

• "Thanks to a fiber-optic cable, which can extend up to 10-20 kilometers, we can maintain the connection between the drone and its pilot" ☛ https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/07/18/a-revolution-in-drone-warfare-as-russian-fiber-optic-drones-flood-the-battlefield-ukraine-scrambles-to-catch-up-a89881 | Source: The Moscow Times    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:49:08

• "Maybe we need to embrace the approach of a beginner’s mind, to borrow a Zen term." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/07/19/beginners-mind/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:49:31

• "I work on homomorphic encryption (HE or FHE for “fully” homomorphic encryption) and I have written a lot about it on this blog (see the relevant tag)." ☛ https://www.jeremykun.com/frequently-asked-questions-about-fhe/ | Source: Jeremy Kun    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:49:53

• "The problem is that the extraterrestrials that xenolinguists claim to seek are often beings imagined to have technologies, minds or languages similar to ours." ☛ https://aeon.co/essays/is-it-time-to-chart-a-new-path-for-xenolinguistics-through-sci-fi | Source: Aeon Media Group Ltd    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:50:14

• "A key finding in the study is that more than half of the earthquakes recorded in Yellowstone were part of earthquake swarms—groups of small" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-07-machine-uncovers-earthquakes-yellowstone-caldera.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:50:33

• "In Südhof’s laboratory at Stanford University in California, such a mistake took place in studies about the functioning of the brain." ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nobel-laureate-on-americas-crisis-in-academia-the-goal-of-the-trump-administration-is-to-destroy-the-elite-a-cf3d8532-e44e-42f4-87b0-dbc27a4c3722#ref=rss | Source: Spiegel    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:50:52

• Jonathan Carter: DebConf25 ☞ https://jonathancarter.org/2025/07/19/debconf25/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:51:34

• "That gives maintainers, testers, and derivative distribution builders just a few intense weeks to wrap up remaining work. Moreover, community release parties are being organized worldwide—an open invitation for users and contributors to celebrate and compare upgrade notes in real time." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-set-to-launch-on-august-9/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:56:24

• Garuda GNU/Linux Retires MHWD and Settings Manager ☞ https://linuxiac.com/garuda-linux-retires-mhwd-and-settings-manager/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:56:54

• The end of Clear GNU/Linux ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1030563/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 10:58:41

• "In a recent survey of IT professionals, facility managers and physical security leaders conducted by HID" ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/why-the-future-of-pacs-depends-on-open-standards.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:07:26

• "By March 2016, almost one year later, I had a dozen Go projects, all of them needed releasing." ☛ https://carlosbecker.com/posts/codecon-goreleaser/ | Source: Carlos Becker    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:08:00

• "The profiling tools in go will tell you where allocations happened in the code, but won't record the type of the allocation." ☛ https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/go-allocation-probe/ | Source: Jamie Brandon    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:08:09

• "Well, I spoiled it in the title: the missing term is ‘asynchrony’, but why?" ☛ https://kristoff.it/blog/asynchrony-is-not-concurrency/ | Source: Loris Cro    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:11:30

• "Plenty of great apps have been created using the Mac’s scripting languages, but commercial developers have largely relied on compiled languages used and supported by Apple for app and system development." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/19/a-brief-history-of-primary-coding-languages/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:11:37

• "Well, me more than Matt. But I think we’d probably both says we’re surprised" ☛ https://svpow.com/2025/07/19/did-journal-articles-survive-the-last-ten-years/ | Source: Matt Wedel    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:12:01

• "More importantly, the model weights were released in the open, alongside detailed technical docs showing how they'd done it." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/19/openai_us_china/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:12:23

• "I asked around about good current Linux books for beginners, and got some recommendations" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/linux-books-for-beginners/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:13:06

• "One of my little web twitches is the lax handling of unknown query parameters." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ApacheQueryParametersCarryOver | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:13:41

• "Rescuezilla 2.6.1 has introduced a new version based on the latest interim Ubuntu release, while also updating its existing builds on older versions." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/rescuezilla_261/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:14:14

• "Now I’ve retired, I avoid unnecessary expenditure even more dogmatically than I used to" ☛ https://kevinboone.me/antix_mx.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:18:11

• "A heartfelt thank you to every developer, user, and contributor who helped shape Clear Linux OS over the last 10 years. Your feedback and contributions have been invaluable." ☛ https://community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/10716 |    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:18:30

• "How do I find the wl_surface backing an Xwayland X11 Window?" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/xscreensaver-wayland-and-locking/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:19:32

• Neon Lamp Detects Lightning Strikes ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/19/neon-lamp-detects-lightning-strikes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:22:36

• Transitous Hack Weekend July 2025 ☞ https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/07/19/transitous-hack-weekend-july-2025.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:23:08

• "2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time" https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/rescuezilla_261/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:24:21

• Nearly 400 Drones, Missiles Fired At Ukraine As Russia Shows No Signs Of Let-Up ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-drones-missiles-putin-trump-war/33478432.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:24:40

• UK sanctions Russia intelligence force, including those responsible for Mariupol theater bombing ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/uk-sanctions-russia-intelligence-force-including-those-responsible-for-mariupol-theater-bombing/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:25:08

• Zelensky calls for new peace talks as Russian strikes kill three in Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250719-russian-strikes-kill-three-across-ukraine    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:25:27

• Russian strikes kill at least three across Ukraine amid escalating drone attacks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250719-russian-strikes-kill-at-least-three-across-ukraine-amid-escalating-drone-attacks    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:25:41

• Russia prisoner sentenced to additional years for discussing Ukraine invasion with cellmates ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/russia-prisoner-sentenced-to-6-years-for-discussing-ukraine-invasion-with-cellmates/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:25:59

• Usyk Knocks Out Dubois In Fifth Round To Reclaim Undisputed Heavyweight Title ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/usyk-ukraine-britain-boxing-dubois/33478658.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:26:43

• Russia Makes Gains in Ukraine in Summer Offensive ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/world/europe/russia-ukraine-military-economy.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:26:56

• New Russian law criminalizes online searches for controversial content ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250719-new-russian-law-criminalizes-online-searches-for-controversial-content    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:27:07

• Russia Set to Ban Facebook? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Russia_Set_to_Ban_Facebook.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:27:26

• The Secrets about Russia’s Influence Operation that Tulsi Gabbard Is Still Keeping from Us ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/19/the-secrets-about-russias-influence-operation-that-tulsi-gabbard-is-still-keeping-from-us/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:27:41

• US federal judge certifies class action against Anthropic over Hey Hi (AI) training piracy ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/us-federal-judge-certifies-class-action-against-anthropic-over-ai-training-piracy/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:28:20

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

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:29:11

• How To Fix mysql_native_password Not Loaded Errors on MySQL ☞ https://idroot.us/fix-mysql_native_password-not-loaded-errors-mysql/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:29:30

• How To Install Kitty Terminal on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-kitty-terminal-almalinux-10/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:29:43

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:30:21

• Lupa Will Soon Know of 3,100+ Active Gemini Capsules ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Lupa_Will_Soon_Know_of_3_100_Active_Gemini_Capsules.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:30:28

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

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:31:08

• How To Install Monitorix on CentOS Stream 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-monitorix-centos-stream-10/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:31:29

• How To Install Angie Web Server on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-angie-web-server-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:31:41

• KDE sources and custom Git commit hooks ☞ https://cukic.co/2025/07/19/kde-git-hooks    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:33:20

• Backpacking in the Balkans - Part 1 ☞ https://carlschwan.eu/2025/07/19/backpacking-in-the-balkans-part-1/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:34:08

• Krita 5.2.11 Released with Fixes & Removed Ubuntu 20.04 Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/07/krita-5-2-11-removed-ubuntu-20-04-support/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:38:26

• The European Patent Office Cannot Attract Proficient Patent Examiners Who Master Their Domain (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/The_European_Patent_Office_Cannot_Attract_Proficient_Patent_Exa.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:39:35

• This Week in Linux: CachyOS, Hyprland, Chrome OS & Android Merging?, Lossless Scaling for GNU/Linux & more GNU/Linux news ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-320/ https://thisweekinlinux.com/320    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:45:23

• Cool photo spots, viral food videos: Malaysia plans to woo Chinese tourists via social control media ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cool-photo-spots-viral-food-videos-malaysia-plans-to-woo-chinese-tourists-via-social-media    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:46:01

• Elegoo ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/19/elegoo-rapid-petg-vs-petg-pro-same-price-similar-specs-which-to-buy/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:46:24

• Easy Excalibur 6.111 V7-beta2 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202507/easy-excalibur-6111-v7-beta2-released.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:46:44

• Malicious packages uploaded to the Arch GNU/Linux AUR ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1030603/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:47:30

• The Top Five — For the Week Ending July 18, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/07/the-top-five-for-the-week-ending-july-18-2025/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:47:57

• This Week in Plasma: rounded bottom corners ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/07/19/this-week-in-plasma-rounded-bottom-corners/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:48:47

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-07-20.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 11:49:46

• Microsoft's proprietary prison Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/tinkerers-discover-boot-exploit-for-software-bricked-wii-u-consoles-by-repairing-destroyed-and-discarded-sd-cards-from-nintendo-factory-team-posts-paid-the-beak-exploit-to-github    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:28:00

• MeshCore is a lightweight alternative to Meshtastic LoRa-based off-grid messaging ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/19/meshcore-lightweight-alternative-to-meshtastic-for-lora-based-off-grid-messaging/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:29:08

• Singapore facing 'serious' cyberattack by espionage group with alleged China ties ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20250719-singapore-facing-serious-cyberattack-by-espionage-group-with-alleged-china-ties    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:29:37

• Tropical Cyclone Wipha: Hong Kong raises T3 storm signal, will consider T8 in early hours of Sunday ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/19/tropical-cyclone-wipha-hong-kong-raises-t3-storm-signal-will-consider-t8-in-early-hours-of-sunday/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:30:11

• U.S. legislators criticize decision to resume Nvidia H20 GPU shipments to China — demand new export rules for Hey Hi (AI) hardware ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/u-s-legislators-criticize-decision-to-resume-nvidia-h20-gpu-shipments-to-china-demand-new-export-rules-for-ai-hardware    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:30:36

• UN chief demands justice after killings and mass displacement in Syria city of Suweida ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/un-chief-demands-justice-after-killings-and-mass-displacement-in-syria-city-of-suweida/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:30:45

• 🔤SpellBinding — BEKNOSP Wordo: ACHES gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-07-20.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:31:31

• Exploring Norway: Tromsø and Lofoten gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2025-07_exploring-norway.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:32:07

• "A very helpful resource for understanding the false teachings of Joseph Smith and of Mormonism is the "King Follet Discourse", which is a sermon he gave in front of 20,000 Mormons in 1844 in connection with the recent death of Elder King Follet." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/your-word/20250719-0.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:32:48

• "I teach at a University on a 9-month contract. That means I get unpaid summer vacations!" gemini://gem.sdf.org/beej/blog/2025-07-19-summertime.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:33:30

• 5 Questions, July 2025 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jdd/phlog/20250719-5questions.txt    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:34:53

• "The system for the 2025 edition of the Old Computer Challenge, an old Power Mac G4, is kind of a mini-tower system under the desk, and a display, keyboard, and mouse on the desk." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/occ25-wrap-up.txt    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:35:37

• Unconsuming fire gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-07-20-burn.txt    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:36:32

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1357.jpg    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:37:10

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1707.jpg    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:37:17

• Astronomer CEO Andy Byron Resigns After Video at Coldplay Concert Exposes Alleged Affair ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/style/coldplay-andy-byron-astronomer-video.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:42:53

• Internet trolls roasted Astronomer CEO and HR chief for Coldplay scandal — here’s what they said ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-news/internet-trolls-roast-kiss-cam-astronomer-ceo-and-hr-chief/    

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

• Humanity Has Dammed So Much Water It's Shifted Earth's Magnetic Poles ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/humanity-has-dammed-so-much-water-its-shifted-earths-magnetic-poles    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:43:37

• Virus Traces Discovered in The Brain Lining of People With Schizophrenia ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/virus-traces-discovered-in-the-brain-lining-of-people-with-schizophrenia    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:43:48

• Confirmed: Uranus Really Is Hotter Than It Has Any Right to Be ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/confirmed-uranus-really-is-hotter-than-it-has-any-right-to-be    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:44:16

• "80s Toy" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/19/punch-card-controlled-cyberdeck-lives-in-80s-toy/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:45:09

• Typhoon Wipha: Hong Kong hoists T10 hurricane warning – highest signal – as residents urged to stay home ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/20/typhoon-wipha-hong-kong-hoists-t9-storm-warning-will-consider-t10-residents-urged-to-stay-home/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:45:29

• GTA 5 finally launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE 12 years after its global release — will be age-rated 21+ as part of the new regulatory framework ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/gta-5-finally-launches-in-saudi-arabia-and-the-uae-12-years-after-its-global-release-will-be-age-rated-21-as-part-of-the-new-regulatory-framework    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:46:06

• "Jailbreak" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/19/a-spectrophotometer-jailbreak-to-resolve-colorful-disputes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:46:40

• The Insurrectionist escalates war on the press as journalists face mounting pressure ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250719-donald-trump-escalates-war-on-the-press-as-journalists-face-mounting-pressure    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:47:08

• "The moment MSFT stock fails to start tumbling, that’s the beginning of another corporate giant going under." ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/20/The_moment_MSFT_stock_fails_to_start_tumbling_that_s_the_beginn.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:47:33

• Microsoft is at 0% "Market Share" in Most Areas ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/20/Microsoft_is_at_0_Market_Share_in_Most_Areas.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:47:42

• [Meme] 9AM Meeting at Brett Wilson LLP ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/18/Meme_9AM_Meeting_at_Brett_Wilson_LLP.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:47:52

• Free Software Foundation Reaches 75% of Funding Goal ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Free_Software_Foundation_Reaches_75_of_Funding_Goal.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:48:02

• The Demise of GAFAM Necessitates Greater and Broader Awareness ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/The_Demise_of_GAFAM_Necessitates_Greater_and_Broader_Awareness.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:48:11

• Yes, Your Mastodon Instance Will Also Shut Down ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Yes_Your_Mastodon_Instance_Will_Also_Shut_Down.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:48:21

• Fascistic Policies Got 'Normalised' in 'Public Office'. Let's Not Let the Same Happen in 'Tech'. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Fascistic_Policies_Got_Normalised_in_Public_Office_Let_s_Not_Le.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:48:31

• What Wayland and Microsoft/IBM systemd Have in Common ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/What_Wayland_and_Microsoft_IBM_systemd_Have_in_Common.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:48:41

• The Slopfarms Are Taking Real News Articles and Replacing Them With Lies Generated by Machines ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/The_Slopfarms_Are_Taking_Real_News_Articles_and_Replacing_Them_.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:49:02

• Next Year It'll Be Half a Decade Since the Fall of Freenode (and IRC is Still Doing OK) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Next_Year_It_ll_Be_Half_a_Decade_Since_the_Fall_of_Freenode_and.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:49:12

• US House approves $9B in budget cuts to public broadcasting and foreign aid ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/us-house-approves-9b-in-budget-cuts-to-public-broadcasting-and-foreign-aid/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:50:13

• Gaza Health Ministry Says Israeli Military Killed 32 Near Aid Site ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/world/middleeast/gaza-humanitarian-foundation-israel-attack.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:50:23

• Babies born from three-person IVF trial ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250719-babies-born-from-three-person-ivf-trial    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:50:40

• From the Community | What we’re getting wrong about mental health — and what neuroscience really tells us ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/07/19/from-the-community-what-were-getting-wrong-about-mental-health-and-what-neuroscience-really-tells-us/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:51:01

• "Infographic: Every Microsoft Acquisition Since 1986" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/07/19/0023239    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:51:26

• Slopwatch: 7 New Examples of Fake 'Linux' Slop Pieces (Plagiarism With Misinformation) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Slopwatch_7_New_Examples_of_Fake_Linux_Slop_Pieces_Plagiarism_W.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:52:11

• linuxconfig.org Joins linuxtechlab.com and Others, Becomes a Slopfarm With Fake GNU/Linux 'Articles' (LLM Slop) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/linuxconfig_org_Joins_linuxtechlab_com_and_Others_Becomes_a_Slo.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:52:19

• The Microsofters We Sued Helped Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Make GNU/Linux 'Expire' This Year ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/The_Microsofters_We_Sued_Helped_Microsoft_Make_GNU_Linux_Expire.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:52:29

• Finland (and NATO) Must Move to GNU/Linux and Dump Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Even Faster ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Finland_and_NATO_Must_Move_to_GNU_Linux_and_Dump_Microsoft_Even.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:52:39

• Linux Already Has About 60% of the "Market" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Linux_Already_Has_About_60_of_the_Market.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:52:51

• Intel axes Clear Linux, the fastest distribution on the market — company ends development and support, effective immediately ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/intel-axes-clear-linux-the-fastest-distribution-on-the-market-company-ends-support-effective-immediately    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:53:51

• 2012 Article About the Free Software Foundation Blasting Canonical/Ubuntu Over Adoption of "Secure" Boot (Microsoft's Remote Control Over GNU/Linux Since PCs' Power-on) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/2012_Article_About_the_Free_Software_Foundation_Blasting_Canoni.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:54:04

• In Norway, Android/Linux Has Just Hit All-Time High (First Time Since 2020), GNU/Linux Already Very Prevalent (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/In_Norway_Android_Linux_Has_Just_Hit_All_Time_High_First_Time_S.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 12:54:12

• Hong Kong axes flights, classes as Typhoon Wipha nears ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-axes-flights-classes-as-typhoon-wipha-nears    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 14:55:06

• Dihydroxyacetone Man duties to decimate China profits, says Bloomberg Economics ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/trump-duties-to-decimate-china-profits-says-bloomberg-economics    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 14:55:26

• China vows tougher action against smuggling of strategic minerals ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-vows-tougher-action-against-smuggling-of-strategic-minerals    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 14:55:45

• How China’s growing cyber-hacking capabilities have raised alarm around the world ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-chinas-growing-cyber-hacking-capabilities-have-raised-alarm-around-the-world    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 14:56:17

• China defends growth model, says domestic consumption is driving the economy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-defends-growth-model-plans-consumption-as-greater-driver    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 14:57:05

• Tear It Down, They Said. He Just Kept Building. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/world/asia/china-demolition-house.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 14:57:27

• South Korea pulls plane crash report after victims’ families protest ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-pulls-plane-crash-report-after-victims-families-protest    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:06:32

• Autogate glitch at Malaysia’s major checkpoints causes chaos for S’porean and foreign travellers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/autogate-glitch-causes-chaos-at-klia-and-johor-checkpoints-foreign-passport-holders-affected    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:06:53

• Three dead, three missing after South Korea landslide ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/three-dead-three-missing-after-south-korea-landslide    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:08:21

• South Korea’s ex-president Yoon indicted again as martial law probe continues ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-ex-president-yoon-indicted-again-as-martial-law-probe-continues    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:08:44

• From propaganda to passion: N. Korean TV show mimics K-drama to fend off banned media from the South ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/from-propaganda-to-passion-n-korean-tv-show-mimics-k-drama-to-fend-off-banned-media-from-the-south    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:09:07

• South Korea ex-President Yoon indicted on additional criminal charges ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2025/0719/South-Korea-ex-President-Yoon-indicted-on-additional-criminal-charges    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:09:23

• One killed as South Korea rain death toll rises to 11 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/one-killed-as-south-korea-rain-death-toll-rises-to-11    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:10:01

• "PicoGUS Adds CD-ROM Emulation To ISA Bus" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/19/picogus-adds-cd-rom-emulation-to-isa-bus/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:10:38

• "Funhouse Mirror Look At A Future That Never Was" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/19/symbos-is-a-funhouse-mirror-look-at-a-future-that-never-was/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:11:33

• "Software Defined Retro ROMs" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/19/software-defined-retro-roms/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:11:51

• US citizen and veteran says immigration officials detained him for 3 days without explanation ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/us-citizen-and-veteran-says-immigration-officials-detained-him-for-3-days-without-explanation/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:12:13

• France withdraws last troops in Senegal, ending permanent presence ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/france-withdraws-last-troops-in-senegal-ending-permanent-presence/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:12:41

• UEFI 'Secure' Boot Abuses by Abusive Monopolist Microsoft to be Brought Up in the UK High Court in 3 Months ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/UEFI_Secure_Boot_Abuses_by_Microsoft_to_be_Brought_Up_in_the_UK.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:12:51

• "It worked, but wasn't as fast as it could be." https://blog.canoozie.net/async-i-o-on-linux-and-durability/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:13:55

• Debian Can Dump Blind Users Because I am Not Blind (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Debian_Can_Dump_Blind_Users_Because_I_am_Not_Blind.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:14:31

• Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Very Wide-Ranging, Media Focused on Gaming Though Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Mass-Firing Lawyers and "AI" Staff (Contradicting Its Supposed "Investment" in "AI") (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Microsoft_s_Mass_Layoffs_Very_Wide_Ranging_Media_Focused_on_Gam.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:14:41

• Simon Ser: Status update, July 2025 ☞ https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/status-update-78/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:14:57

• Docker Desktop: The Easiest Way to Debug Docker Containers ☞ https://thenewstack.io/docker-desktop-the-easiest-way-to-debug-docker-containers/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:16:04

• Intel is shutting down Clear GNU/Linux OS ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-is-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:17:04

• v02enc – symmetric encryption for multiple recipients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/v02enc-symmetric-encryption-for-multiple-recipients/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:18:26

• Essential Utilities: Flash OS Images ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/flashos/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:18:35

• SPFtoolbox – look up DNS records ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/spftoolbox-dns-records/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:18:43

• Stratbook – strategies, tips, and tricks ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stratbook-strategies-tips-tricks/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:18:55

• 11 Best Free and Open Source Mind Mapping Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-mind-mapping-software/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:19:08

• DomainMOD – manage your domains and other internet assets in a central location ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/domainmod-manage-domains-internet-assets/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:19:16

• Reminduck – simple reminder app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/reminduck-simple-reminder-app/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:19:26

• Intel Shuts Down "Clear Linux" Distribution Development https://www.techpowerup.com/339074/intel-shuts-down-clear-linux-distribution-development    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:21:33

• "You’ve probably used Linux today without even realizing it. From your phone to the cloud, it’s everywhere. Here are five surprising facts about Linux that most people don’t know." https://www.howtogeek.com/beginner-facts-about-linux/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:22:36

• "The open-source favorite has scored record adoption among US desktop users, following a just over 5% dip in Windows popularity since December 2024." https://uk.pcmag.com/operating-systems/159213/linux-just-hit-a-big-milestone-in-the-desktop-os-race    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:22:59

• Intel Discontinues Clear Linux https://hardforum.com/threads/intel-discontinues-clear-linux.2042501/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:23:29

• "Windows ... According to Statcounter's figures, it's lost 5.1% of its market share since December." https://uk.pcmag.com/operating-systems/159213/linux-just-hit-a-big-milestone-in-the-desktop-os-race    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:24:36

• "Nevertheless, these numbers indicate a significant jump in Linux market share, which finally surpasses that of the "Unknown" category at 4.76%. Chrome OS trails the pack at just 2.71%." https://www.notebookcheck.net/2025-could-finally-be-the-year-of-the-Linux-desktop-as-the-OS-attains-5-US-desktop-market-share-for-the-first-time.1060391.0.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:25:11

• Intel shuts down Clear Linux OS, its high-performance Linux distribution https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-shuts-down-clear-linux-os-its-high-performance-linux-distribution    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:25:31

• Recording Your Screen on Linux Is Easy With This App https://www.howtogeek.com/record-your-screen-on-linux-with-spectacle/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:26:26

• "I think one of the coolest aspects of Linux distros is the sheer number of them. You might think of Linux distros as something akin to Windows and macOS, with a desktop that you run apps on. However, there are some distros that do one specific job, and they do it very, very well." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distro-built-for-home-theatres/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:26:57

• Intel Shuts Down Clear Linux OS After a Decade of High-Performance Innovation https://vocal.media/01/intel-shuts-down-clear-linux-os-after-a-decade-of-high-performance-innovation    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:27:12

• Top 6 Privacy Note Apps for Linux and Android That Actually Sync https://hackernoon.com/top-6-privacy-note-apps-for-linux-and-android-that-actually-sync    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:29:00

• Sammalvasemmisto gemini://sampsa.smol.pub/sammalvasemmisto    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:42:05

• "Christina formulated five new questions [1]." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/5-questions-july-2025.txt    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:42:56

• post-9/11 security theater https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/419601/homeland-security-airport-travel-terrorism-shoes-9-11    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:52:51

• A year after cyber attack, Columbus could invest $23M in cybersecurity upgrades https://eu.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/07/14/columbus-ohio-hack-city-cybersecurity-data-updates/84611651007/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:55:12

• Cheeto Mussolini Plans to Hand Taxpayer Data to Homeland Security to Speed Up Deportations https://truthout.org/articles/trump-plans-to-hand-taxpayer-data-to-homeland-security-to-speed-up-deportations/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:56:16

• Joy in Digital Security https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/podcast-episode-finding-joy-digital-security    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:56:56

• Migrating my NAS from CoreOS/Flatcar Linux to NixOS https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-07-13-nixos-nas-network-storage-config/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:57:42

• slashdot is feeding a malicious slopfarm of a Serial Slopper ttps://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/10/0112201/red-hat-gives-developers-free-access-to-enterprise-linux-for-business-use    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 15:58:59

• Indian Ocean Nations Grapple with Illegal Chinese Fishing Trawlers https://adf-magazine.com/2025/07/indian-ocean-nations-grapple-with-illegal-chinese-fishing-trawlers/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:00:32

• Rationing Meals https://www.truthdig.com/articles/texas-food-banks-are-rationing-meals-for-flood-survivors-because-of-trumps-cuts/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:02:39

• Cheap Drugs Matter: Why Make Them More Expensive With Patent Monopolies? https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/15/cheap-drugs-matter-why-make-them-more-expensive-with-patent-monopolies/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:03:41

• Climate change made recent European heatwave 'up to 4C hotter' https://www.thelocal.dk/20250709/climate-change-made-european-heatwave-up-to-4c-hotter-study    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:04:21

• Politicians Are Betraying Gen Z on Climate https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/11/politicians-are-betraying-gen-z-on-climate/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:04:33

• Al Gore Puts Down ‘Climate Realism’ https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/11/al-gore-puts-down-climate-realism/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:04:47

• Future of climate ‘resilience hubs’ uncertain after Cheeto Mussolini cuts https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/future-climate-resilience-hubs-uncertain-after-trump-cuts    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:05:10

• Flash Floods and Climate Policy https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/flash-floods-and-climate-policy    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:05:26

• Climate Change is Not a Hoax https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/14/no-mr-president-climate-change-is-not-a-hoax/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:05:47

• Climate Erasure Replaces Climate Denial Under Cheeto Mussolini Administration https://truthout.org/articles/climate-erasure-replaces-climate-denial-under-trump-administration/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:06:00

• 1,500 Deaths in Europe’s Heat Wave Were Due to Climate Crisis, Study Shows https://truthout.org/articles/1500-deaths-in-europes-heat-wave-were-due-to-climate-crisis-study-shows/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:06:15

• Co-leader calls for climate resilience to be put on a statutory footing https://greenparty.org.uk/2025/07/14/co-leader-calls-for-climate-resilience-to-be-put-on-a-statutory-footing/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:06:38

• Chased by Climate Disaster in North Carolina https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/chased-by-climate-disaster-in-north-carolina    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:06:56

• How Climate Change Could Force FIFA to Rethink the World Cup Calendar https://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2025-07-16/how-climate-change-could-force-fifa-to-rethink-the-world-cup-calendar    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:07:10

• India Wants Air Conditioners to Be Made With Milder Temperature Settings to Save Energy https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-07-14/india-wants-air-conditioners-to-be-made-with-milder-temperature-settings-to-save-energy    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:07:52

• Cheeto Mussolini Sabotages Clean Energy as Power Demand and Outages Increase https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/15/trump-sabotages-clean-energy-as-power-demand-and-outages-increase/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:08:09

• Romanian Jewish Representative Criticises President for Challenging Hate Speech Bill https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-11/romanian-jewish-representative-criticises-president-for-challenging-hate-speech-bill    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:08:59

• Bob Vylan controversy https://www.dw.com/en/music-industry-faces-censorship-after-bob-vylan-controversy/a-73266843    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:09:29

• Censorship As Regime Change https://scheerpost.com/2025/07/12/usaid-leaks-censorship-as-regime-change/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:09:59

• Kremlin Says Wartime Censorship Is Justified https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-11/kremlin-says-wartime-censorship-is-justified    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:10:30

• The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy https://www.projectcensored.org/military-weaponization-media-literacy/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:10:43

• Qilin claims attack on Accu Reference Medical Laboratory. It wasn’t the lab’s first data breach. https://databreaches.net/2025/07/11/qilin-claims-attack-on-accu-reference-medical-laboratory-it-wasnt-the-labs-first-data-breach/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:30:33

• Alberta wastewater unlocked key information about COVID-19. Could it help with measles too? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-wastewater-unlocked-key-information-about-covid-19-could-it-help-with-measles-too-1.7585529    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:31:20

• underweighted meat sales https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-underweighted-meat-proposed-class-action-1.7586065    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:32:22

• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Expected to Testify in $8 Billion Facebook Privacy Lawsuit https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-07-16/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-expected-to-testify-in-8-billion-facebook-privacy-lawsuit    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:35:16

• Facebook Privacy Practices the Focus of $8 Billion Trial Targeting Zuckerberg https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-07-16/facebook-privacy-practices-the-focus-of-8-billion-trial-targeting-zuckerberg    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 16:35:25

• Obligations under Canada’s data breach notification law https://www.lexpert.ca/news/legal-faq/obligations-under-the-data-breach-notification-law/392922    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 17:03:36

• Loblaw https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-underweight-meat-proposed-class-action-1.7586065    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 17:41:47

• smell of smoke in cabin https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/porter-airlines-emergency-landing-regina-enroute-vancouver-1.7586146    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 17:42:08

• McDonald’s McHire leak involving ‘123456’ admin password exposes 64 million applicant chat records https://www.yorkregion.com/news/mcdonalds-mchire-data-leak/article_d34b98d2-bef7-513d-aadf-457a2a81728e.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 17:42:43

• Louis Vuitton hit by data breach in Türkiye, over 140,000 users exposed; UK customers also affected https://databreaches.net/2025/07/11/louis-vuitton-hit-by-data-breach-in-turkiye-over-140000-users-exposed/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 17:43:33

• Infosys McCamish Systems Enters Consent Order with Vermont DFR Over Cyber Incident https://www.goodreturns.in/news/infosys-mccamish-cyber-incident-consent-order-011-1442095.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 17:46:04

• German court offers EUR 5000 compensation for data breaches caused by Meta https://thepaypers.com/fraud-and-fincrime/news/german-court-offers-eur-5000-compensation-for-data-breaches-caused-by-meta    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 17:53:27

• Air Force Employee Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Unlawfully Disclose Classified National Defense Information https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/air-force-employee-pleads-guilty-conspiracy-disclose-unlawfully-classified-national-defense    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 17:54:04

• CISA tags Citrix Bleed 2 as exploited, gives agencies a day to patch https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-tags-citrix-bleed-2-as-exploited-gives-agencies-a-day-to-patch/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 17:55:47

• Chinese hackers suspected in breach of powerful DC law firm https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/politics/chinese-hackers-suspected-law-firm-hack    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 17:56:52

• Stormous claims to have protected health info on 600,000 patients of North Country Healthcare. The patient data appears fake. (3) https://databreaches.net/2025/07/13/stormous-claims-to-have-protected-health-info-on-600000-patients-of-north-country-healthcare-the-data-appear-fake/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:02:14

• Multiple lawsuits filed against Doyon Ltd over April 2024 data breach and late notification https://fm.kuac.org/2025-06-30/lawsuits-say-doyon-data-security-subpar-in-2024-cyberattack    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:03:11

• Back from the Brink: District Court Clears Air Regarding Individualized Damages Assessment in Data Breach Cases https://www.alstonprivacy.com/back-from-the-brink-district-court-clears-air-regarding-individualized-damages-assessment-in-data-breach-cases/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:04:11

• Ransomware in Italy, strike at the Diskstation gang: hacker group leader arrested in Milan https://decripto.org/en/ransomware-in-italy-strike-at-the-diskstation-gang-hacker-group-leader-arrested-in-milan/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:05:15

• Mississippi Law Firm Sues Cyber Insurer Over Coverage for Scam https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/mississippi-law-firm-sues-cyber-insurer-over-coverage-for-scam    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:13:03

• Ministry of Defence data breach timeline https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/national/25315134.ministry-defence-data-breach-timeline/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:13:44

• Computer Whiz Gets Suspended Sentence over 2019 Revenue Agency Data Breach https://www.bta.bg/en/news/bulgaria/930763-computer-whiz-gets-suspended-sentence-over-2019-revenue-agency-data-breach    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:14:48

• Police disrupt “Diskstation” ransomware gang attacking NAS devices https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/police-disrupt-diskstation-ransomware-gang-attacking-nas-devices/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:15:19

• Meta fixes bug that could leak users’ AI prompts and generated content https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/meta-fixes-bug-that-could-leak-users-ai-prompts-and-generated-content/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:15:52

• Windows TCO https://healthexec.com/topics/health-it/cybersecurity/70-healthcare-cyberattacks-result-delayed-patient-care-report-finds    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:16:36

• real estate fraud https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/brampton-man-accused-real-estate-fraud-more-victims-charges-1.7583236    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:18:59

• Cheeto Mussolini tax https://www.dw.com/en/eu-readies-for-escalation-as-trump-puts-35-tariff-on-canada/a-73235790 https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-hits-canada-35-tariff-then-dangles-deal-if-they-help-him-one-thing-1738157    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:24:06

• sexually explicit ttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-school-library-book-rules-1.7581787    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:24:31

• Most of Nova Scotia's universities are in the red. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/n-s-universities-grappling-with-budget-shortfalls-amid-financial-challenges-1.7576133    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:25:36

• Tigray https://www.dw.com/en/a-look-at-eritrea-s-role-as-new-tigray-war-looms-in-ethiopia/a-73283778    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:26:21

• uptick in people living alone https://www.dw.com/en/germany-sees-uptick-in-people-living-alone/a-73300486    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:26:54

• Wildfire https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/patuanak-saskatchewan-residents-fly-to-lloydminster-due-to-wildfire-1.7582415    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:27:09

• union at Amazon facility https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/delta-amazon-facility-unionized-1.7583281    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:27:45

• 100 https://www.dw.com/en/holocaust-survivor-anita-lasker-wallfisch-turns-100/a-73286973    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:32:04

• young entrepreneurs https://www.dw.com/en/how-germany-can-better-support-young-entrepreneurs/a-73290251    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:32:26

• Japan decries China threat https://www.dw.com/en/japan-decries-china-threat-after-string-of-risky-encounters/a-73296532    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:33:13

• Mark Carney Is Hacking Away at Canada’s Public Sector https://jacobin.com/2025/07/mark-carney-canada-austerity-cuts/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:33:47

• less than 25% of normal rainfall in June https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/june-national-drought-report-extreme-1.7582886    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:34:15

• Can debt-laden NATO members spend billions more on defense? https://www.dw.com/en/can-debt-laden-nato-members-spend-billions-more-on-defense/a-73235846    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:35:04

• 'brain training' https://www.dw.com/en/can-classroom-brain-training-really-boost-kids-learning/a-73273124    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:35:31

• "I want to talk about the "sign-meaning" construction. Long have been the days when society created this construction. It can also be called "symbol-meaning", "word-meaning", "variable-value"... these are the only synonyms that I am remembering now." gemini://tilde.club/~keyboardan/gemlog/2025-07-20__Meaning.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:36:37

• "This news follows Microsoft laying off over 9,000 employees earlier this month, including staff under the Xbox division." https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2025/07/switch-port-specialist-virtuos-confirms-270-layoffs    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:42:35

• Russian officials ordered to use spy-linked Max messaging app by September https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-officials-ordered-spy-linked-080404503.html https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/19/Russia_Set_to_Ban_Facebook.shtml    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:46:34

• "Intel confirms it is laying off not 4,000 but 5,000 employees this week". At least, UNLIKE Microsoft, it admits when the original totals are FAKE.    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:47:25

• “I wanted to give my take because there is so much hype and bluster about what OpenAI is doing, and very little ground-level information about what the culture of being there actually is like" https://techstory.in/former-openai-engineer-speaks-out-on-company-culture/ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/sam-altman-sister-lawsuit.html    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:49:13

• What are forever chemicals and why do they matter? https://www.dw.com/en/what-are-forever-chemicals-and-why-do-they-matter/a-73215481    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:52:54

• Rogers launching new satellite-to-mobile text messaging trial https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/rogers-launching-new-satellite-mobile-text-trial-1.7585401    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 18:53:21

• tightrope https://www.dw.com/en/europe-walks-tightrope-amid-intensifying-us-china-rivalry/a-73273914    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 23:20:13

• Germany's Constitutional Court https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-constitutional-court-becomes-political-football/a-73274830    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 23:20:53

• Germans driving cars more https://www.dw.com/en/germany-updates-germans-driving-cars-more-report/live-73280375    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 23:21:55

• capsule gemini://tilde.club/~didje/articles/2025/2025_07_20_miroir_html.gmi    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 23:22:52

• wool and woodsmoke gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/wool_and_woodsmoke    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 23:24:12

• Liquified Natural Gas https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-liquified-natural-gas/a-73214892    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 23:26:48

• Germany's business elite and the illusion of meritocracy https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-business-elite-and-the-illusion-of-meritocracy/a-73229971    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 23:32:39

• 5 months of silence https://www.howtogeek.com/author/david-mckay/    

posted Sunday, July 20, 2025 at 23:35:22

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