Roy Schestowitz

• healthy environment is a human right https://www.dw.com/en/world-s-top-court-says-healthy-environment-is-a-human-right/a-73373617    

posted Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 23:12:48

• EU's rare earths source https://www.dw.com/en/could-a-village-in-norway-be-the-eu-s-rare-earths-source/a-73213623    

posted Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 23:13:13

• COVID-19 pandemic sped up brain aging, says study https://www.dw.com/en/covid-19-pandemic-sped-up-brain-aging-says-study/a-73357331    

posted Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 23:13:55

• Income inequality https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/statistics-canada-income-gap-1.7586634    

posted Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 23:14:40

• Fantasy economics https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-jackie-forrest-charles-st-arnaud-oil-and-gas-1.7584486    

posted Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 23:15:05

• student suicides https://www.dw.com/en/india-what-is-behind-the-rise-in-student-suicides/a-73383151    

posted Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 23:15:16

• Humans are using more resources than the planet can restore https://www.dw.com/en/humans-are-using-more-resources-than-the-planet-can-restore/a-73320452    

posted Sunday, July 27, 2025 at 23:15:53

• Would compulsory military service hurt the economy? https://www.dw.com/en/germany-would-compulsory-military-service-hurt-the-economy/a-73385575    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:48:22

• Playing with spyphones at work? https://www.dw.com/en/germany-updates-ship-collision-triggers-oil-spill-at-port/live-73377771    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:48:49

• Germany: Comedian 'El Hotzo' acquitted over Cheeto Mussolini posts https://www.dw.com/en/germany-comedian-el-hotzo-acquitted-over-trump-posts/a-73381659    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:49:31

• shadow economy https://www.dw.com/en/german-shadow-economy-booms-amid-high-taxes-and-state-aid/a-73356796    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:50:06

• protests https://www.dw.com/en/columbia-university-disciplines-students-over-protests/a-73377658    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:51:00

• $15B in tax breaks https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/canada-ev-battery-plant-nextstar-contracts-lawsuits-windsor-1.7585769    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:52:21

• wildfire https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/jasper-alberta-wildfire-response-review-1.7588065    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:53:22

• most attuned to our whims and politics https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/colbert-show-cancellation-canada-1.7588303    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:54:17

• quishing https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/qr-code-scams-quishing-1.758725    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:55:16

• 24-hour economy https://www.dw.com/en/ghana-can-a-24-hour-economy-change-a-nation/a-73367189    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:57:18

• fake embassy https://www.dw.com/en/indian-man-caught-running-fake-embassy-with-elaborate-setup/a-73395078    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:58:36

• Diamond mine layoffs https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/surprised-and-disappointed-ekati-layoffs-reverberate-across-n-w-t-1.7588873    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 02:59:08

• Slop pedos https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/child-exploitation-football-ai-lethbridge-1.7588788    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 03:00:06

• student protest movement https://www.dw.com/en/serbia-s-student-protest-movement-maintains-fragile-unity/a-73390943    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 03:01:18

• Freedom of Information https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-media-groups-urge-israel-to-allow-entry-to-gaza/live-73394822    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 03:01:47

• 'extremely vulnerable' clients https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/bruyn-licence-suspended-1.7588423    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 03:02:43

• hijacking of B.C. plane https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-fighter-jets-bc-alleged-plane-hijacking-1.7588750    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 03:04:22

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-07-28.gmi    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 03:58:27

• "I demonstrated to K how much my cat dislikes Molecule 05: Piney Cashmere." gemini://xavi4u.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-07-27.gmi    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 03:59:25

• "It all started with agroschim proposing a game on the Grenzland Discord: A pulp cover gets posted and we propose the title and elevator pitch for the module we’d write for it." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-07-27-1pdc    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:00:03

• "On IRC, anthk advised me to take a look at pkgsrc to install some software on the old Power Mac G4. Also anthk was so kind to point me to a compiler for this system, that might support pkgsrc." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/running-pkgsrc-in-a-freebsd-jail.txt    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:01:16

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1715.jpg    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:01:43

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1365.jpg    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:01:50

• "How one million white Europeans - many seized on the south coast of England - were sold to the Muslim world and brutally exploited in the slavery scandal the Left DON'T want to speak about | Daily Mail Online" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14943981/white-Europeans-south-coast-England-sold-Muslim-slavery-scandal-Left.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:10:25

• "Voters Have Increasingly Little Faith in Democrats: Poll" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/democratic-party-brand-congress-bad-poll-1235394662/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:10:45

• "Trump Is Trying to Deflect Focus From the Epstein Case—Can He?" https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2025/07/epstein-trump-washington-week/683680/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:12:24

• "Trump Demands Prosecution of Kamala Harris Over Alleged Paid Endorsements" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/americas/trump-demands-prosecution-of-kamala-harris-over-alleged-paid-endorsements-1893968    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:12:36

• "Has the Epstein affair strained Trump’s cozy relationship with the Murdoch media empire?" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/27/epstein-trump-murdoch-wsj-fox-news    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:12:49

• "Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell secures DOJ "limited" immunity: Sources" https://www.axios.com/2025/07/26/epstein-maxwell-limited-immunity-trump-doj    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:13:03

• "Trump’s First Months in Office Have Been Riddled Senior Moments" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-biden-senior-moments-health-age-1235394162/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:13:15

• windows tco https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/07/26/1613246    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:13:37

• "Provocative placards at London protest ‘call for violence against women’, says human rights charity " https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/27/we-must-arm-ourselves-say-trans-activists/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:14:33

• "Death By A Thousand Slops" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/death-by-a-thousand-slops:5    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:14:55

• "Bobby Brainworms levels up" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/bobby-brainworms-levels-up/    

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

• "Anti-Woke Americans in Russia Follow a Path Paved by Communists" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/anti-woke-americans-in-russia-follow    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:16:20

• "Think of the HPSCI Report as a Time Machine to Launder Donald Trump's Russia Russia Russia Claims" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/27/think-of-the-hpsci-report-as-a-time-machine-to-launder-donald-trumps-russia-russia-russia-claims/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:16:43

• "Zelensky Learned the Wrong Lesson From Trump" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/zelensky-ukraine-anti-corrupt    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:17:07

• "UK Online Safety Act vs. Wikipedia" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/07/27/uk-online-safety-act-vs-wikipedia/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:18:12

• "Zelensky Learned the Wrong Lesson From Trump" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/zelensky-ukraine-anti-corruption-agencies/683672/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:20:35

• "I finished reading the novel `Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray` by Anita Heiss earlier today. I enjoyed the novel and would like to share a few thoughts while it is fresh in my mind." gemini://goyangi.au/gemlog/2025-07-27-bila-yarrudhanggalangdhuray.gmi    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 04:42:10

• "It’s a subtle reminder that someone made this, and owns the copyright. My watermark matches the logo on my website and is part of my brand. I think it looks smart and professional." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/travel-photography/some-photographers-on-social-media-really-hate-watermarks-heres-why-i-put-mine-on-every-image-i-post | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:10:09

• "In Q2 2025, anti-piracy coalition Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment continued to 'seize' domains in bulk, adding to the world's largest collection of former pirate domains maintained by the MPA." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/ace-mpa-continued-to-scoop-up-pirate-domains-in-bulk-during-q2-2025-250727/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:10:19

• "Pew Research Centre made headlines this week when it released a report on the effects of Google’s A.I. Overviews on user behaviour. It provided apparent evidence searchers do not explore much beyond the summary when presented with one." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/blog/unknown-effect-of-google-ai-overviews/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:11:02

• Scam Altman is HIMSELF a fraud ☛ https://futurism.com/sam-altman-ai-fraud-crisis-imitate | Source: Futurism https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/technology/sam-altman-sister-lawsuit.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:12:08

• "The Hype is the Product" ☛ https://rys.io/en/180.html | Source: Michał Woźniak    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:12:47

• "Modern Slavery is an extremely complex and challenging crime type and perpetrators particularly organised crime groups exploit the opportunities that arise from this complexity." ☛ https://www.npcc-msoicu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/msoicu-annual-report-2021.pdf |    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:13:18

• "With temperatures recently soaring past 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in countries like Spain, Italy, France, and Portugal" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/07/uk-heat-waves-workers-rights/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:17:13

• "The other side: Critics say the order won't help people afford homes and that previous attempts at mass institutionalization frequently violated Fourteenth Amendment due process rights." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/civil-commitment-trumps-homelessness-policy | Source: Axios    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:20:37

• "H&M’s purpose was to scare those uppity creatives and models into accepting worse working conditions." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/27/seraphinne-vallora-dubious-ai-model-hype-again/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:21:00

• "Angela Rayner warned the Cabinet last week that the Government must act to address the “the real concerns that people have” about immigration." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/07/26/elite-police-unit-to-monitor-online-critics-of-migrants/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:32:59

• "Some people in China are pushing back, complaining online in at least two cases in recent months after drivers hit pedestrians." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-07-26/china-is-suppressing-coverage-of-deadly-attacks-some-people-are-complaining-online | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:33:32

• "Rupert Murdoch owns a global media empire that includes The Wall Street Journal, The Times and The Sunday Times (UK), The Sun, The Australian, HarperCollins, Herald Sun, Sky News Australia and the Fox Corporation, which includes Fox News and Fox Sports." ☛ https://zambianobserver.com/i-am-94-years-old-i-will-not-be-intimidated-rupert-murdoch-in-response-to-10-billion-trumps-lawsuit/ | Source: The Zambian Observer    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:34:26

• "Adam Aleksic says people finding ways to get around publishing restrictions is nothing new." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/algospeak-and-content-moderation-1.7594212 | Source: CBC    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:34:45

• "religious considerations." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-taliban-suspend-chess-sport/33483886.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:35:45

• "The revision of the EU rules on electronic invoicing will address the shortcomings identified in the evaluation of the rules and aims to mainstream the use of harmonised electronic invoicing within the EU" ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14792-Revision-of-EU-rules-on-the-eInvoicing_en | Source: European Commission    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:38:57

• "All of these things can be true at the same time: [...]" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/07/the-south-park-thing/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:39:14

• "The New York City-born, Harvard-educated Lehrer began making music while studying mathematics in college" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tom-lehrer-song-satirist-dead-obit-1235394850/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:40:46

• "Lehrer had remained on the math faculty of the University of California at Santa Cruz well into his late 70s. In 2020, he even turned away from his own copyright, granting the public permission to use his lyrics in any format without any fee in return." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/tom-lehrer-song-satirist-and-mathematician-dies-at-97/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:48:17

• "the usual jokes about the Army aside, one of the many fine things one has to admit is the way that the Army has carried the American democratic ideal to its logical conclusion" ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/culture/tom-lehrer-comedian-soldier-dies/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:48:50

• "But his entertainment career ultimately took a back seat to academia. In his heart he never quit his day job; he just took a few sabbaticals." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:49:24

• "In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs. So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-07-27/tom-lehrer-musical-satirist-dies-at-97 | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:49:59

• "Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) plans to lay off approximately 2% of its workforce, impacting over 12,000 employees, due to macro uncertainties and AI-driven disruptions." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/information-tech/tcs-to-cut-2-of-workforce-affecting-around-12000-jobs/articleshow/122934402.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:50:21

• "It's all fun and games in this video, but what happened next might not have been." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51346812/have-you-seen-this-when-elephants-playfully-attack | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:55:31

• "I commute and do a fair slice of my regular errands by bike, and it is clear to me that seemingly few people debating this issue actually ride these lanes." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/alberta-ontario-cycling-lanes/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:57:06

• "I borrowed an energy monitor from my local library. It's a device you plug in to determine how much energy your various electronic possessions consume." ☛ https://drmollytov.bearblog.dev/i-now-know-what-it-costs-to-run-almost-everything-in-my-house/ | Source: Dr molly tov    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:57:49

• "Run it all night and it uses far less electricity than an A/C does, and keeps your house nice and cool. If your house is well insulated, you can keep your cool air inside for many hours." ☛ https://aj.bourg.family/whole-house-fan/ | Source: AJ Bourg    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:57:58

• "MRI scans measuring adult brain volumes show that lead exposure in childhood causes very notable abnormalities in men" ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/253596/ | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 05:58:33

• "Instead, public officials, many bound by non-disclosure agreements with the developer" ☛ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/07/27/how-could-a-proposed-hyperscale-data-center-affect-bessemer/ | Source: Alabama Reflector    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:00:11

• https://lwn.net/ down? LLM DDOS?    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:17:49

• How to Resolve the “No space left on device” Error in Ubuntu https://www.techloy.com/how-to-resolve-the-no-space-left-on-device-error-in-ubuntu/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:21:42

• By Microsoft booster/spinner, deflecting to false solution https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/07/27/new-fbi-warning---windows-and-linux-users-must-apply-2fa-now/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:23:06

• "In my bid to find a new home for my older PC after Windows 10 loses support, I've been dipping a toe into several different Linux distros. The one I'm settled in with right now is Fedora with KDE Plasma pre-installed, and I've been really loving it so far." https://www.xda-developers.com/kde-plasma-printer-ink-low/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:23:44

• "My laptop could not upgrade to Windows 11, so I decided to move to Linux. This was the best decision I ever made for my computers, and I’m hooked on this operating system. Even if you can switch over to Windows 11, you may find that Linux Mint is better." https://www.howtogeek.com/my-laptop-couldnt-upgrade-to-windows-11-so-i-switched-to-linux/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:24:18

• Overpopulation ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/07/27/a-billion-people-would-be-plenty-to-sustain-civilisation/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:42:06

• "In the first two posts in this series I described the constant onslaught led by the filthy rich against our democracy, and identified groups of people who supported those attacks." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/26/a-better-future/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:42:31

• "The tech giant wrote to Communications Minister Anika Wells declaring it was considering its legal position if its video sharing platform was included in the ban for children 16 and under." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/google-threatens-to-sue-if-youtube-is-included-in-australias-kids-social-media-ban/axud666av | Source: SBS    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:42:43

• "In making the call, Musk took “the outcome of a war into his own hands,” one source told Reuters." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/07/27/2025/musk-ordered-ukraine-starlink-access-cut-during-2022-counteroffensive-report | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:43:53

• "The United Nations Organisation Stabilisation Mission in the DR Congo has condemned a recent resurgence in violence in the province where this attack happened." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/islamic-state-backed-rebels-kill-38-attack-east-congo-church-2025-07-27/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:44:29

• "The ADF, a rebel group linked to the Islamic State, operates in the border regions of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo and has carried out repeated attacks on civilians for over a decade." ☛ https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/eastern-congo-islamic-state-backed-group-attacks-church-21-killed/articleshow/122933944.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:44:39

• "Eastern Congo has suffered deadly attacks in recent years by armed groups, including the ADF and Rwanda-backed rebels." ☛ https://apnews.com/article/congo-church-attack-islamic-state-deaths-da83ab694e991abfcc8166245a836d86 | Source: Associated Press    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:44:49

• "The most common clandestine ways for migrants to enter the UK are in lorries or other commercial vehicles transported by rail or ferry, in commercial shipping containers, or in small boats." ☛ https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/what-we-do/crime-threats/organised-immigration-crime |    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:45:01

• "Social media, in its broadest terms, is used by people for a variety of reasons. When people use these services, they may be pseudonymous for very good reasons" ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/us-visa-application-social-media-disclosure/tk58gm6wf | Source: SBS    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:45:28

• "Today saw the full introduction of the requirements outlined in the Online Safety Act in the UK, requiring "robust" age checks for users to access adult content online." ☛ https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/brits-can-get-around-discords-age-verification-thanks-to-death-strandings-photo-mode-bypassing-the-measure-introduced-with-the-uks-online-safety-act-we-tried-it-and-it-works-thanks-kojima/ | Source: PC Gamer    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:45:42

• "but it worked just fine" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/07/26/brits-getting-around-age-verification-using-animated-game-faces.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:45:56

• "Well, no, there's a third option of course: circumvention" ☛ https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/compliance-vs-circumvention.html | Source: David Buchanan    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:46:24

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/28/infosec_in_brief/ | Source: The Register UK http://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/The_Register_MS_is_Inventing_or_Giving_Air_Time_to_New_Conspira.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:47:21

• "Speed, as his fans call him, had become famous during the pandemic for his hyperactive" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/07/27/ishowspeed-streamer-darren-watkins-lithuania/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:47:49

• "Officials say these pranks crossed from harmless fun into criminal acts, causing significant disruption and distress." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/who-heston-james-nuisance-tiktoker-arrested-after-series-disruptive-pranks-arizona-1739408 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 06:48:26

• Richard Stallman - The Ethical Dilemma of Large Language Models https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-SmCqLWsic    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 07:02:27

• "Stallman warned us about in Right to Read." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705240    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 07:03:32

• "IMHO, the push for age verification is just a stepping stone towards requiring a mandatory ID for all social media posts made from EU." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44705240    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 07:04:23

• "There is some amusing irony in the EU relying on the US for furthering its own authoritarianism. It's unfortunate that freedom (in the classic rebellious, American sense) never became that popular in the EU, or for that matter, the UK."    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 07:04:51

• "So far, this newsletter has spoken to a marketeer and a novelist about AI and writing. This week, we’re speaking to a comedy writer. (Can’t promise we will be funny, though.)" ☛ https://chiefwordofficer.substack.com/p/an-ai-walks-into-a-bar |    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 07:08:46

• "An AI trend that’s emerged in the last few months1 is the idea of a “cognitive core”. Instead of trying to build the largest, most capable model we can, should we be trying to build a small model?" ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/cognitive-core/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 07:09:13

• [Old] "Although some reports insinuate that the bots had at this point invented a new language in order to elude their human masters" ☛ https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40790258 | Source: BBC    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 07:09:30

• "Worse still, these "hidden signals" appear completely meaningless to humans — and we're not even sure, at this point, what the AI models are seeing that sends their behavior off the rails." ☛ https://futurism.com/ai-models-subliminal-messages-evil | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 07:09:47

• "What was most alarming was how little effort it took to get the bot to break its own guardrails" ☛ https://futurism.com/chatgpt-encouraging-ritual-molech | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:04:45

• "Similar questions will doubtless be asked in other domains as AI is deployed routinely. For some, the answer may lie in prompt injections that subvert a system they believe has lost its way." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/25/is-including-hidden-ai-prompts-in-academic-papers-gaming-the-peer-review-system-or-keeping-it-honest/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:04:56

• "The gap is not only geographical. In the United States and China, private individuals and companies invest billions, while in Europe, public funds are dispersed over initiatives that are too small" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/60-italian-mayors-want-to-be-the-unlikely-solution-to-self-driving-cars-in-europe/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:05:10

• "In my opinion, one of the best critiques of modern AI design comes from a 1992 talk by the researcher Mark Weiser where he ranted against “copilot” as a metaphor for AI." ☛ https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/07/27/enough-ai-copilots-we-need-ai-huds.html | Source: Geoffrey Litt    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:05:26

• "In particular, chatbots’ tendency to agree with users could worsen delusions in the mentally ill. OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been downloaded 900m times, has admitted its chatbots have engaged in sycophancy and heaping unnecessary praise on users." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/27/doctors-fear-chatgpt-fuelling-psychosis/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:05:59

• "Indian surgeons successfully performed two complex robotic surgeries in Indore while attending a conference in France, using the SSI Mantra Surgical Robotic System." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/indian-docs-in-france-perform-complex-surgeries-on-2-patients-in-indore-courtesy-robotics-tech/articleshow/122933745.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:06:08

• "Soon we'll be starting research and interviews for a Cybershow mini-series featuring older people who are technology experts in their 70s and 80s." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/ageoftech/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:08:45

• "Emphasising the importance of holistic development for students, Supreme Court Justice Manoj Mishra on Saturday said that studying computers, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and technology alone cannot inculcate humanity in students." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/studying-ai-technology-alone-cannot-foster-humanity-in-students-need-literature-arts-sc-judge/articleshow/122930876.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:11:43

• "Does this project actually excite me? Does this offer align with who I am and what I love?" ☛ https://birming.com/2025/07/27/passion-as-the-recipe-for/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:11:54

• [Old] "The archive, Derrida reminds us, is never neutral. To preserve is to select; to keep is also, quietly, to discard." ☛ https://writingslowly.com/2025/06/30/dont-let-your-notemaking-system.html |    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:12:09

• "So should programming students spend their time on vibe coding — learning enough to manually fix code that’s generated by AI?" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/dhh-on-ai-vibe-coding-and-the-future-of-programming/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:12:49

• "The sciences are also struggling, as physics faculties will start the new year with 61% of their seats unoccupied and mathematics faculties with a shortfall of 52%." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/society-in-depth/1276458/being-a-professor-or-officer-no-longer-appeals/ | Source: Greece    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:12:59

• "Consider the following infinite grid of numbers, where the numbers are arranged in a spiral-like manner, but the spiral reverses direction each time it reaches the edge of the grid" ☛ https://susam.net/zigzag-number-spiral.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:13:30

• "This intermediate proof involved showing that an important kind of equation called an elliptic curve can always be tied to a completely different mathematical object called a modular form." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/a-grand-unified-theory-of-math-just-got-a-little-bit-closer-fermats-last-theorem/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:13:43

• "Anyway! I do enjoy writing about interesting and cool things, so I thought as an entremón I’d share some tech I used this weekend that made my life better." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/some-tech-that-made-my-weekend-better/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:14:18

• "I originally wrote much of this as part of a larger travelogue on my most recent trip to Alcatraz, which was coincidentally the same day as a visit by Pam Bondi and Doug Burgum to "survey" the prison for potential reopening." ☛ https://computer.rip/2025-07-27-a-technical-history-of-alcatraz.html | Source: Computers Are Bad    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:14:37

• "There’s been posts in other places I read recently that made me sad. They all had one thing in common: Defeatism about changing anything about tech use." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/defeatism-antidote/ | Source: Ava    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:14:52

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

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:15:38

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

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:15:52

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

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:16:05

• GNU/Linux Debian 13 how to install veeam ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/07/27/gnu-linux-debian-13-how-to-install-veeam/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:16:37

• How to Install Surveillance Giant Google Chrome on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-google-chrome-on-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:16:56

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

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:17:47

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

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:18:04

• "Microsoft has consistently threatened and abused anyone that lifts their head in the classroom or workplace to dare to even /ask/ about ICT. ICT has been not just a forbidden topic but one so taboo that it is not allowed to discuss it in any context, especially shortcoming and capabilities" -Anon    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:34:34

• Techrights to resume in the afternoon    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 08:34:56

• Kentaro Hayashi: Switching from NVIDIA GPU to AMD GPU ☞ https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2025/07/27/193217    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:47:35

• Bringing together Clazy and Clang-Tidy ☞ https://alex1701c.github.io/2025/07/27/clazy-clangtidy.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:49:31

• Monday Briefing: Ukraine’s Other War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/briefing/ukraine-protest-europe-us-trade-deal.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:50:57

• EU urges Ukraine to uphold independent anti-corruption bodies; Zelenskiy signals swift action ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/eu-urges-ukraine-to-uphold-independent-anti-corruption-bodies-zelenskiy-signals-swift-action    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:51:10

• Russian navy parade cancelled due to 'security reasons' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250727-russian-navy-s-parade-of-warships-cancelled-for-security-reasons    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:51:47

• Think of the HPSCI Report as a Time Machine to Launder The Insurrectionist’s Russia Russia Russia Claims ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/27/think-of-the-hpsci-report-as-a-time-machine-to-launder-donald-trumps-russia-russia-russia-claims/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:52:08

• iDeal 2025.07.27 is relesed ☞ https://distrowatch.com/ideal    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:52:45

• Russia Tones Down Naval Celebrations As Drones Fly Near Putin’s Hometown ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-navy-drones-security-putin-parade/33485157.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:52:58

• Ukrainian drone attacks force Russia to cancel naval parade during Putin visit ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/27/world-news/ukrainian-drone-attacks-force-russia-to-cancel-naval-parade-during-putin-visit/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:53:13

• openSUSE Conference 2025 ☞ https://sysadmin-journal.com/opensuse-conference-2025/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:53:30

• The Hype is the Product ☞ https://rys.io/en/180.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:54:48

• Don Marti: Links for 27 Jul 2025 ☞ https://blog.zgp.org/mlp-2025-07-27/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:56:09

• Inside a Gathering of America’s Growing Home-School Movement ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/style/home-schooling-movement.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:56:58

• Anne Enright Reads “The Bridge Stood Fast” ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/anne-enright-reads-the-bridge-stood-fast    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:57:23

• Human Brains Rapidly Aged in The Pandemic, And It Wasn't Just The Virus ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/human-brains-rapidly-aged-in-the-pandemic-and-it-wasnt-just-the-virus    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 14:57:42

• Inside Open Sauce, a science festival for makers, with over 500 projects on display ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/inside-open-sauce-a-science-festival-for-makers-with-over-500-projects-on-display    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:07:31

• Bastien Nocera: Digitising CDs (aka using your phone as an image scanner) ☞ https://www.hadess.net/2025/07/digitising-cds-aka-using-your-phone-as.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:07:46

• Game Boy Camera In Wedding Photo Booth ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/27/game-boy-camera-in-wedding-photo-booth/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:09:20

• S’porean trainee doctor in Melbourne arrested for allegedly filming colleagues in toilets since 2021 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/sporean-trainee-doctor-in-melbourne-arrested-for-allegedly-filming-colleagues-in-toilets-since-2021    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:09:35

• Raspberry Pi 5 gets a microSD Express HAT ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/28/raspberry-pi-5-gets-a-microsd-express-hat/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:10:01

• Just Trying to Keep Web Sites Honest (Journalistic Integrity) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Just_Trying_to_Keep_Web_Sites_Honest_Journalistic_Integrity.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:11:37

• Kapitano (Linux Antivirus Scanner) Developer Abandons Ship ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/kapitano-linux-antivirus-abandoned-by-dev    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:14:48

• Shotcut 25.07 Video Editor Introduces Speech to Text Model Downloader ☞ https://9to5linux.com/shotcut-25-07-video-editor-introduces-speech-to-text-model-downloader    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:15:48

• quick-lint-js – finds bugs in JavaScript programs ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/quick-lint-js-finds-bugs-javascript-programs/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:16:16

• GNU Binutils 2.45 Released https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=2bc7af1ff7732451b6a7b09462a815c3284f9613    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:17:03

• Install & Configure MPD in Ubuntu 24.04 | 25.04 ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/07/install-mpd-ubuntu/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:17:34

• KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Low Printer Ink Notifications ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/kde-plasma-6-5-printer-ink-level-notifications    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:18:02

• Some modern tech that made my weekend better ☞ https://rubenerd.com/some-tech-that-made-my-weekend-better/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:20:45

• We're Going to Focus Less on the Molotov Cocktail-Throwing Microsofters and More on Patents ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/We_re_Going_to_Focus_Less_on_the_Molotov_Cocktail_Throwing_Micr.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:21:19

• Fuel of Interest, Fire of Genius: Lincoln’s Patent Philosophy ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/07/interest-lincolns-philosophy.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:21:51

• LLM Slop Has Only Been a Boon for Misinformation Online ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/LLM_Slop_Has_Only_Been_a_Boon_for_Misinformation_Online.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:22:05

• Pushers of systemd Rewrite History (Richard Stallman Said UNIX "Was Portable and Seemed Fairly Clean") (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Pushers_of_systemd_Rewrite_History_Richard_Stallman_Said_UNIX_W.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:42:21

• Trajectory of The Register: From News Site/s Into "B2B"... and Into Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Salespeople (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Trajectory_of_The_Register_From_News_Site_s_Into_B2B_and_Into_M.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:43:14

• The Week to Come ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/We_re_Going_to_Focus_Less_on_the_Molotov_Cocktail_Throwing_Micr.1.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:44:47

• When They Tell You It's Free, Does That Mean No Charges (If So, Who's Paying and Why)? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/When_You_Tell_You_It_s_Free_Does_That_Mean_No_Charges_If_So_Who.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:44:56

• The Register MS is Inventing or Giving Air Time to New Conspiracy Theories so as to Distort the Narrative As High-Profile Agencies Fall Prey to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Holes ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/The_Register_MS_is_Inventing_or_Giving_Air_Time_to_New_Conspira.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:45:22

• Most Editors at The Register Are American, Including the Editor in Chief, a Decade-Long Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Stenographer (Writing Prose to Sell Microsoft) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/Most_Editors_at_The_Register_Are_American_Including_the_Editor_.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:48:25

• "New Techrights" Soon Turns 2 (A Few Days Before the FSF Turns 40) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/New_Techrights_Soon_Turns_2_A_Few_Days_Before_the_FSF_Turns_40.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:48:34

• When Silence Says So Much ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/When_Silence_Says_So_Much.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:49:15

• The Register in Trouble ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/27/The_Register_in_Trouble.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:49:27

• Doing My Share to Tackle Online Slop and SPAM ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/Doing_My_Share_to_Tackle_Online_Slop_and_SPAM.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:50:42

• Slopwatch: Fakes, FUD, Duplicates, and Charlatans Galore ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/Slopwatch_Fakes_FUD_Duplicates_and_Charlatans_Galore.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:51:20

• The Register UK Seems to Have Become American and Management is Changing (Microsofter as Editor in Chief) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/07/26/The_Register_UK_Seems_to_Have_Become_American_and_Management_is.shtml    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:51:33

• "The last few weeks I've been working on adding an HTTP 1.1 stack to the standard library of Inko as part of this pull request." ☛ https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/three-http-versions-later-forms-are-still-a-mess/ | Source: Yorick Peterse    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:57:31

• Three HTTP versions later, forms are still a mess

  The last few weeks I've been working on adding an HTTP 1.1 stack to the standard library of Inko as part of this pull request. The work is still ongoing but the initial set of changes will include an HTTP 1.1 server, client, basic cookie handling, generating and parsing of forms, and a request router. This work is based on the following RFCs: [...]

   

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:57:40

• "Printing statistics to the terminal or plotting data extracted from FIT files is all well and good." ☛ https://www.perl.com/article/analysing-fit-data-with-perl-interactive-data-analysis/ | Source: Perl    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:58:17

• "You are given a date in the format YYYY-MM-DD." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/odd-date.html | Source: Arne Sommer    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:58:26

• "Git has become a fundamental part of our developers' daily routine that it’s hard to remember our lives without it." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/git-default-options/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:59:02

• "And then… by the same token, you can add ActiveJobs into the same module." ☛ https://blog.julik.nl/2025/07/hexatetrahedral-rails | Source: Julik Tarkhanov    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 15:59:11

• "Let’s fall into the rabbit hole of how I would use a computer without a main browser, and consider the current use cases: [...]" ☛ https://thejollyteapot.com/2025/07/27/could-i-use-the-internet-without-a-proper-web-browser/ | Source: Nicolas Magand    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 16:02:22

• "[...] We also talk about plans to introduce a pre-configured desktop install option for FreeBSD and share progress from the Wayback" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250728 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 16:04:27

• "There's a certain sort of person who feels that the platonic ideal of Unix is somewhere around Research Unix V7" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/UnixHadToEvolve | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 16:04:35

• "Somewhat surprisingly—but also kind of expected—Plasma 6.3.6 has been accepted to Debian’s testing branch." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/debian-13-to-ship-with-kde-plasma-6-3-6-desktop-environment/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 16:05:27

• "Optical Network Terminals (ONTs) are devices that convert fibre-optic signals to Ethernet signals" ☛ https://spaceraccoon.dev/getting-shell-lau-g150-c-optical-network-terminal/ | Source: Spaceraccoon    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 16:06:34

• "Several other companies have also released their own compute modules in the same form factor" ☛ https://liliputing.com/argon-one-up-is-modular-laptop-powered-by-a-raspberry-pi-cm5/ | Source: Liliputing    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 16:07:48

• Michigan Medicine confronts national emergency department overcrowding crisis ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/public-safety/michigan-medicine-confronts-national-emergency-department-overcrowding-crisis/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 16:11:13

• Breakthrough as two FDA-approved drugs are found to reverse Alzheimer’s — including restoring memory ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/07/27/health/breakthrough-as-two-fda-approved-drugs-are-found-to-reverse-alzheimers-including-restoring-memory/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 16:11:27

• North Korea says South Korea’s overtures ‘great miscalculation’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-says-south-koreas-overtures-great-miscalculation    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 16:12:18

• Father dies after saving three children from drowning in S. Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/father-dies-after-saving-three-children-from-drowning-in-s-korea    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 16:12:48

• South Korean father who shot son with homemade gun at birthday party ‘felt betrayed’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/father-who-shot-son-with-homemade-gun-at-birthday-party-in-s-korea-says-he-felt-betrayed    

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

• Jeju Air jet still had a working engine when it crashed, investigation update says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/jeju-air-jet-still-had-a-working-engine-when-it-crashed-investigation-update-says    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:04:26

• At least 11 deaths linked to scorching heatwave in S. Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/at-least-11-deaths-linked-to-scorching-heat-wave-in-s-korea    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:04:50

• No deal yet – South Korea on tenterhooks as Aug 1 US tariff deadline looms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/no-deal-yet-south-korea-on-tenterhooks-as-aug-1-us-tariff-deadline-looms    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:05:20

• North Korea says South Korea's overtures 'great miscalculation' ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/north-korea-says-south-koreas-overtures-great-miscalculation    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:05:53

• At Convicted Felon’s Urging, Thailand and Cambodia to Meet for Cease-Fire Talks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/world/asia/thailand-cambodia-conflict.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:06:10

• Thai, Cambodian leaders to meet in Malaysia on July 28 for talks on border conflict ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-fm-says-cambodian-thai-leaders-to-discuss-conflict-on-monday-bernama-reports    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:06:21

• Thai-Cambodian border clashes: Convicted Felon threatens to withhold trade deals until ceasefire ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250727-thai-cambodian-border-clashes-trump-threatens-to-withhold-trade-deals-until-ceasefire    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:06:43

• Failed bid to oust Taiwan opposition gives China new leverage ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/failed-bid-to-oust-taiwan-opposition-gives-china-new-leverage    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:07:43

• A Timeline of Convicted Felon’s Tariff Fight With Canada, Mexico, China and the E.U. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/business/economy/trump-tariff-timeline.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:08:02

• WTF does ROBOTICS have to do with China’s Hey Hi (AI)? They are conflating two unrelated things! ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/humanoid-robots-embodiment-of-chinas-ai-ambitions    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:09:22

• US, China to resume tariff talks in effort to extend truce by 90 days ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-china-to-resume-tariff-talks-in-effort-to-extend-truce-by-90-days    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:10:42

• Taiwanese voters reject attempt to recall China-friendly lawmakers ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250727-taiwanese-voters-reject-attempt-to-recall-china-friendly-lawmakers    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:10:54

• China calls for shared Hey Hi (AI) future, offering tech to developing countries ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250727-china-calls-for-shared-ai-future-offering-tech-to-developing-countries    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:11:12

• Pakistan’s Ishaq Dar on a trade deal with Convicted Felon, balancing the US and China, and peace with India ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/pakistans-ishaq-dar-on-a-trade-deal-with-trump-balancing-the-us-and-china-and-peace-with-india/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:15:25

• "A Cable Modem, The Way All Network Gear Should Be Mounted" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/27/a-cable-modem-the-way-all-network-gear-should-be-mounted/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:16:11

• World's Most Common Pain Relief Drug May Induce Risky Behavior, Research Suggests ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-most-common-pain-relief-drug-may-induce-risky-behavior-research-suggests    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:16:45

• Eating Eggs Can Actually Lower Bad Cholesterol, New Study Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/eating-eggs-can-actually-lower-bad-cholesterol-new-study-says    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:17:27

• What Would Happen if a Baby Were Born in Space? A Scientist Explains The Risks. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/what-would-happen-if-a-baby-were-born-in-space-a-scientist-explains-the-risks    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:17:54

• "This eye-catching entry to the One Hertz Challenge pairs vintage LED indicators with a modern RPi board to create a one-of-a-kind clock. The RPI TinynumberHat9 by [Andrew] brings back the beautiful interface from high end electronics of the past." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/27/2025-one-hertz-challenge-rpi-tinynumberhat9/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:18:35

• "Most of you know how an NFC tag works. The reader creates an RF field that has enough energy to power the electronics in the tag; when the tag wakes up, two-way communication ensues" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/27/the-power-free-tag-emulator/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:19:21

• Amnesty International declares Eswatini MPs ‘prisoners of conscience’ amid deepening crackdown on dissent ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/amnesty-international-declares-eswatini-mps-prisoners-of-conscience-amid-deepening-crackdown-on-dissent/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:21:37

• Manuals – read developer documentation ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/manuals-read-developer-documentation/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:22:20

• Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cp ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-cp/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:22:38

• 15 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Web Servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-web-servers/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:22:57

• Pyflakes – checks Python source files for errors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pyflakes-checks-python-source-files-errors/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:34:43

• 14 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Tools for Novelists ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/novelists/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:35:04

• Bar Assistant – manage your home bar ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/bar-assistant-manage-home-bar/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:35:24

• readest – modern, feature-rich ebook reader ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/readest-modern-feature-rich-ebook-reader/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:35:50

• Shotcut 25.07 Video Editor Adds Speech-to-Text Model ☞ https://linuxiac.com/shotcut-25-07-video-editor-adds-speech-to-text-model/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:36:08

• Convert Hex to ASCII Easily ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/tools/hex-ascii-converter/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:37:11

• "As hardware ages, it becomes harder and harder to keep it in service." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/27/a-non-sony-playstation-motherboard-replacement/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:39:17

• DreamHAT+ 60 GHz mmWave Radar HAT+ brings high-precision motion sensing to Raspberry Pi 4/5 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/07/27/dreamhat-60-ghz-mmwave-radar-hat-brings-high-precision-motion-sensing-to-raspberry-pi-4-5/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:40:40

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with The King is Watching - 2025-07-27 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2025-07-27-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:47:10

• Python: Introduction to Timestamps and Time Strings ☞ https://thenewstack.io/python-introduction-to-timestamps-and-time-strings/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:48:11

• "As single board computers have become ever smaller and more powerful, so have those experimenting with them tried to push the boundaries of the machines they can be used in." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/07/27/a-very-tidy-handheld-pi-terminal-indeed/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:48:59

• Setup Dotfiles Installer on openSUSE Tumbleweed based on hyprutils-0.8.1-19.2.src.rpm ☞ https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2025/07/setup-dotfiles-installer-on-opensuse.html    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 17:55:34

• Australian judge William Gummow to stay on Hong Kong’s top court for 3 more years ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/07/28/australian-judge-william-gummow-to-stay-on-hong-kongs-top-court-for-3-more-years/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 18:00:20

• Federal judge issues injunction halting Convicted Felon administration’s cancellation of NEH grants ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/federal-judge-issues-injunction-halting-trump-administrations-cancellation-of-neh-grants/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 18:02:34

• Intel spins off Network and Edge group as standalone business after posting $2.9b loss — seeking investors for NEX division amid massive internal restructuring ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-spins-off-network-and-edge-group-as-standalone-business-after-posting-usd2-9b-loss-seeking-investors-for-nex-division-amid-massive-internal-restructuring    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 18:03:07

• Latest Linux Kernel 6.16 is all Focused on AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA https://news.itsfoss.com/linux-kernel-6-16/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 18:47:56

• Linux 6.16 Released with OpenVPN Speed Boost, 5-Level Paging + More https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/linux-6-16-released-openvpn-speed-boost-5-level-paging    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 18:50:16

• 7 Linux Apps I Install on Every New PC https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-i-install-on-every-new-pc/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 18:51:27

• I Played This Free Linux Skills Game and Learned 6 New Commands https://www.howtogeek.com/i-played-this-free-linux-skills-game-and-learned-new-commands/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 18:54:44

• These 5 Linux distros are perfect for reviving PCs that can't handle Windows 11 https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-perfect-reviving-pcs-cant-handle-windows-11/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 18:55:32

• 🔤SpellBinding — ACFUOTM Wordo: SPITS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-07-28.gmi    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:05:01

• How to Maintain a Healthy Self-Image With Autism gemini://nicholasjohnson.ch/2025/07/28/how-to-maintain-a-healthy-self-image-with-autism/    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:05:55

• "Hi. I've been blogging since 2004. Frequency of posts heavily declined after I finished uni and started a full-time job. Something else also has changed. At that point in life I've been quite optimistic about technology in general, I can't say I'm that optimistic anymore." gemini://gim.org.pl/gemlog/2025-07-28-hello-gemini.gmi    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:06:36

• "I have a burgeoning theory that most living things desire to be smaller for safety. Someone has probably written about this more formally, but just bear with me even though most of this is probably not scientific per se..." gemini://xavi4u.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-07-28.gmi    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:07:33

• "Anti-tethical to the thing they are a weak fascimile of, they stand there, lacking the dynamic and short-lived beauty of their natural counterparts." gemini://gemini.metro.cx/posts/20250728_plastic_flowers.gmi    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:08:31

• "I made the mistake of reading the news, you see. I should have known better. Since I was a kid, after reading Zamyatin, Orwell and being fed so many concentration camps and STASI stories I've had one terrible fear." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2674    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:09:17

• A new life gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2025-07-28-new-life.gmi    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:09:57

• fleeting relief gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/fleeting_relief    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:11:24

• "The last two decades have been a whirlwind. But the last five or so years have been particularly hard. My partner and I lost our daughter around a year and a half ago and I still haven't found peace in the wake of her death." gemini://goyangi.au/gemlog/2025-07-26-reflection-on-the-last-few-years.gmi    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:12:22

• "I have admired the gemini protocol and the community that has grown around it for a few years now. I finally have some time to dedicate to endeavours other than paying rent so I thought I would try my hand at writing. I hope it proves to be of interest to someone out there." gemini://goyangi.au/gemlog/2025-07-25-getting-started.gmi    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:13:29

• you have to ignore politics (re. kensanata) gopher://baud.baby:70/0/phlog/fs20250728.txt    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:15:26

• Dryer repair gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2025/20250728_dryer    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:16:39

• "Well, things are moving in the right direction again. After cleaning up (most of) my parents financial misadventures (or at least sorting so much out that a there is a light at the end of the tunnel) everything calms back down a bit." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/280725.txt    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:20:02

• Two popular external commands can make you a shell REST API king gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-07-28-shell-api-king.txt    

posted Monday, July 28, 2025 at 19:21:12

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