Roy Schestowitz

• skwee-rell gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2025/20250804_sqrl    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 02:01:45

• Switched to NixOS: the path of the samurai begins gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-08-04-switched-to-nixos.txt    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 02:02:40

• "Some players have been surprised in "Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead" that zombies can show up around their "safe" base that, in theory, had been cleared of all the local zombies." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/08/04/zombie-threat.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 02:05:40

• in full colour gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/in_full_colour    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 02:06:16

• GNU under DDOS again?    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 02:30:39

• "The current IBM management is dishonorable and is severely lacking in business ethics." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1rdcxmw    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 02:32:45

• "I hate to break this to you but Top executives at IBM NEVER had a moral compass to begin with. That's why the company is such a mess and they need to burn in HE-L for eternity. Top executives at IBM have lost their moral compass. Bad karma and it will come around to bite them eventually - both here and in the afterlife." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k1rdcxmw    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 02:32:53

• Picture Page 🖼 gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-08-05.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 03:10:48

• Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux https://www.tweaktown.com/news/106795/steam-data-reveals-pc-gamers-shifting-from-windows-to-linux/index.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 03:22:49

• openwashing https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-ran-alliance-linux-foundation-160000335.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 03:24:26

• Ponzi scheme coordinator https://mynorthwest.com/local/bellevue-mansion-microsoft/4117139 see https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/03/Definitely_Not_a_Ponzi_Scheme.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 03:43:02

• No videos added in ages already https://www.gnu.org/audio-video/philosophy-recordings.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 04:04:14

• Plus, some gnu.org subsites are not accessible, probably due to ddos by LLM bots    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 04:04:45

• "The connection has timed out" https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 04:07:55

• Windows at 22% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/bangladesh/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 05:30:39

• Windows down sharply https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/kenya/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 05:31:01

• NOTHING to do with "HEY HI"! https://hrsea.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/industry/atlassian-announces-layoffs-amid-ai-integration-controversy/123093713    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:18:16

• ‘Samsung has begun laying off US staff,’ claims employee; ‘don’t know how far-reaching it is’ https://www.financialexpress.com/trending/samsung-has-began-laying-off-us-staff-claims-employee-dont-know-how-far-reaching-it-is/3936161/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:18:34

• "Amazon cuts more than 100 jobs in Wondery overhaul amid major audio division restructuring"    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:19:24

• Buzzwords and openwashing https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/43734-ai-ran-alliance-linux-foundation-team-up-for-ai-ran-innovation    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:37:20

• The issue here is the malware, not "Linux backdoor" https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/plague_linux_backdoor/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Microsoft_and_Windows_Have_Many_Back_Doors_But_LLM_Slop_Keep_Cl.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:39:14

• "Slackware isn't exactly the most user-friendly, but Slackel opens it up to the masses - offering four spins to choose from." https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-makes-slackware-easier-than-ever/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:47:25

• "For a long time, Windows was the only serious choice for PC gaming. But according to a recent Steam survey, the landscape is starting to change. The open-source operating system Linux is gaining ground in the gaming world – and with good reason." https://www.notebookcheck.net/Linux-is-becoming-more-appealing-for-gamers-here-s-why.1078308.0.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:47:58

• Mobile Linux Distro postmarketOS Gets iPhone X Port, More Improvements https://www.howtogeek.com/mobile-linux-distro-postmarketos-gets-iphone-x-port-more-improvements/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:49:27

• Not a back door https://cyberinsider.com/new-plague-backdoor-for-linux-hijacks-ssh-using-malicious-pam-module/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Microsoft_and_Windows_Have_Many_Back_Doors_But_LLM_Slop_Keep_Cl.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:50:09

• New Arch Installer Update Adds U2F Authentication and Bluetooth Support https://news.itsfoss.com/arch-installer-3-0-9/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:51:17

• More buzzword and hype https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-linux-foundation-marks-2025-momentum-of-lf-india-with-expanding-ecosystem-engaged-communities-and-ai-fueled-innovation-302521424.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 06:58:53

• AMD breaks through 40 %, Linux reaches record value on Steam https://www.igorslab.de/en/amd-breaks-40-linux-reaches-record-on-steam/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 07:01:17

• "Dear players of Heroes of Might and Magic 2! Today we are happy to announce a new version of the fheroes2 game engine" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-project-fheroes2-version-1-1-10-has-been-released/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:23:45

• "NVIDIA have released the first Beta for the 580 driver series, with NVIDIA Beta driver 580.65.06 bringing mostly bug fixes. There's also an additional bit of Wayland protocol support included." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/nvidia-beta-driver-580-65-06-released-for-linux-with-bug-fixes-and-expanded-wayland-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:24:15

• "ZOOM Platform that sell a lot of retro games, as well as publish upgrades for retro games, announced they've also been a target of payment processors for adult games" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/zoom-platform-also-had-payment-processor-issues-say-they-have-no-plans-to-remove-any-titles/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:25:03

• "At a time where supporting creators of anything that might be deemed adult content or NSFW is more important than ever, the Queer Games Bundle 2025 is live." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/queer-games-bundle-2025-is-live-on-itch-io/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:26:34

• "The second game from Geert Verhoeff that's only meant to be played on a Steam Deck is Game With Balls, a collection of handcrafted mazes to gyro through. A demo is available for the game right now to get a taste of it." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/gyro-through-a-collection-of-handcrafted-mazes-in-the-steam-deck-exclusive-game-with-balls/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:30:42

• "With a fresh demo released, Dice A Million looks like it will grab a lot of my time in future. It gives off Balatro vibes for the design, as you roll dice and attempt to break the game with all sorts of combinations to watch numbers go up. Delicious." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/dice-a-million-channels-balatro-vibes-into-game-breaking-dice-rolling/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:31:35

• "If you love your chilled casual clicker games, Unboxathon could be a good one for you with a demo available to try." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/click-through-the-joy-of-opening-up-mystery-boxes-in-unboxathon/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:33:01

• "Okay, now this is cool. Frostliner puts you in charge of a train in this survival city builder on rails that's practically Snowpiercer. I also only just realised today that Snowpiercer's final Season 4 did actually release…last year." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/frostliner-announced-recently-is-basically-snowpiercer-as-a-survival-city-builder/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:33:16

• "We really are in the era of remasters aren't we? Sacred 2 Remaster was just recently revealed by THQ Nordic. It was announced during their recent publisher showcase event to show off their games." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/sacred-2-remaster-announced-from-thq-nordic/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:34:29

• "FEX is one way to run x86 appps and games on ARM64, with the latest release 2508 bringing some pretty striking performance improvements." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/x86-on-arm64-emulator-fex-gets-some-huge-gaming-improvements/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:39:57

• "Need some more games to play with your crew? Humble's Better with 4 Friends Co-Op Bundle is live with some highly rated games for you. It's £9.06 for all 8 items." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/grab-some-friends-for-some-gaming-in-the-humble-co-op-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:41:35

• "Heroic is one of the best ways to run games from Epic Games, GOG and Amazon on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck. v2.18.1 brings bug fixes to make it even smoother." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/heroic-games-launcher-v2-18-1-brings-more-bug-fixes-for-gog-and-epic-games-on-linux-steamos/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:42:38

• "The Drifter from Powerhoof has released, and it is something truly special for the point and click adventure genre that's one not to be missed. Note: a key was provided to GamingOnLinux." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/the-drifter-is-easily-my-new-favourite-point-and-click-adventure/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:44:03

• "SharePoint ZERO-DAY Lets Hackers Walk Straight In" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/sharepoint-zero-day-lets-hackers-walk:3    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:47:26

• "Rust Rewrites Won't Fix All Your Problems" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/rust-rewrites-won't-fix-all-your:a    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:47:37

• "Death Stranding Photo Mode Beats Discord Age Check" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/death-stranding-photo-mode-beats-discord:d    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:47:54

• "Trump is Getting Desperate - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-is-getting-desperate-and-dangerous    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:48:06

• Dobrindt’s “security package” disregards fundamental rights | "Palantir und biometrische Überwachung: Dobrindts „Sicherheitspaket“ missachtet Grundrechte" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/palantir-und-biometrische-ueberwachung-dobrindts-sicherheitspaket-missachtet-grundrechte/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:48:32

• "Popular Ingush imam detained for illegal arms possession" https://oc-media.org/popular-ingush-imam-detained-for-illegal-arms-possession/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:48:47

• "Trump Tries to Spin, Purge His Way to Declaring Economic Victory" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-economy-spin-purge-bls-mcentarfer-statistics-economy-1235399439/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:49:01

• "Donald Trump's Parallel Ghislaine Maxwell and Vladimir Putin Problems" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/04/donald-trumps-parallel-ghislaine-maxwell-and-vladimir-putin-problems/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:49:16

• "Trump administration moves to end veterans’ abortion access in cases of rape, incest and health" https://kansasreflector.com/2025/08/04/repub/trump-administration-moves-to-end-veterans-abortion-access-in-cases-of-rape-incest-and-health/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:49:30

• "Firing the BLS Commissioner Won't Help Trump's Economy" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/trump-economy-bls-commissioner/683746/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:49:44

• "Who Gets a “Right of Return”?" https://jacobin.com/2025/08/right-of-return-arkansas-zionism/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:50:09

• "Russia Exits Nuclear Treaty With US After Trump's Submarine Move: "Result Of NATO Policies"" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/russia-exits-nuclear-treaty-with-us-after-trumps-submarine-move-result-of-nato-policies-9020370#publisher=newsstand    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:50:25

• "‘Sami rights are at risk’: Reindeer herders, environmentalists oppose mine in Norway's Arctic" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250804-sami-rights-risk-reindeer-herders-environmental-activists-oppose-copper-mine-arctic-norway    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:50:37

• "Stoppa Chat Control 2 – skriv ett vykort" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/08/04/stoppa-chat-control-2-skriv-ett-vykort/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:51:08

• "Epstein victim condemns ‘political warfare’ in Trump administration’s effort to release grand jury transcripts" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/epstein-files-victim-trump-release-b2801900.html http://techrights.org/o/2020/01/10/gates-sponsored-mit/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:51:29

• "Open source i Jesu navn: Derfor droppede kristen kæmpe-NGO Amazon | Ingeniøren" https://ing.dk/artikel/open-source-i-jesu-navn-derfor-droppede-kristen-kaempe-ngo-amazon paywall    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:52:06

• Conservation ☛ https://therevelator.org/global-conservation-report-sharks/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:54:42

• Candidate ☛ https://fair.org/home/media-blame-nyc-shooting-not-on-mayor-adams-but-on-candidate-mamdani/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 08:55:22

• "$14 billion tech megamerger" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/08/big-tech-justice-department-trump/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:01:42

• "growth stocks." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/living-with-a-bigger-ad-duopoly/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:02:37

• "A few months ago, Amazon announced that Kindle users would no longer be able to download and back up their book libraries to their computers." https://www.drewlyton.com/story/the-future-is-not-self-hosted/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:11:37

• "The streaming company is also benefiting from Apple's (AAPL.O), opens new tab approval of its U.S. app update to show subscription prices and external payment links, after a judge barred the iPhone maker from charging commission on off-app purchases." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/business/spotify-raise-premium-subscription-price-select-markets-september-2025-08-04/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:11:48

• "Spotify announced on Monday that its premium subscription prices will increase for users in multiple markets across the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific region." ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/spotify-raises-subscription-prices/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:12:01

• "We also tend to call this connection racing, since it is like a competition where multiple attempts compete trying to “win”" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/04/even-happier-eyeballs/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:13:39

• "There may be some randomness involved, and algorithms aren’t perfectly instructive of how a system has been trained" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/substacks-algorithm-accidentally-reveals-what-we-already-knew-its-the-nazi-bar-now/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:15:48

• "in the coming weeks" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/smithsonian-denies-white-house-pressure-to-remove-trump-impeachment-references/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:21:42

• "coming in cold" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/university-virginia-appoints-interim-president.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:23:48

• "Parnell’s characterization of the new policy was vague, but it represented an abrupt departure from long-established DOD practices" ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/archive/2025/08/hegseth-pentagon-conferences/683743/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:24:26

• "Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online." ☛ https://www.404media.co/steam-itchio-collective-shout-nsfw-games-campaign/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:24:56

• "The number of cases tied to FBK donations is growing. In 2022, courts received two such cases; in 2023, four; and in 2024, 25. In the first seven months of 2025, Mediazona identified 34 new donation-related cases filed in Russian courts." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/04/russia-has-opened-76-criminal-cases-over-donations-to-navalny-founded-anti-corruption-foundation-in-past-three-years | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:25:06

• "It barely works." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/04/meta-fact-check-community-notes-test-facebook-instagram/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:26:01

• "It was cited twice as often as Wikipedia in the top ten most cited domains across AI [sic] (LLMs) in the three months ending 30 June, 2025, the platform said." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/reddit-claims-top-spot-as-most-cited-domain-in-ai-generated-answers/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:26:48

• "NEPLP tracks such resources through residents complaints, reports from government reports, and its own monitoring." ☛ https://kyivindependent.com/latvia-blocks-10-websites-spreading-russian-propaganda/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:27:05

• "Bezos has used a portion of his accumulated wealth on such things as The Washington Post newspaper (2013), a divorce (2019), and a Venice destination wedding for his second wife (2025), among other splurges. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/jeff_bezos_space_web_untangled/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:29:41

• "Many of them have fallen back on more traditional models." ☛ https://werd.io/silicon-valleys-dream-tech-job-is-disappearing/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:30:10

• "Federal agencies have done all of this without any advance notice, without any explanation to the state recipients and in direct contravention of the will of Congress" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/briefs/kansas-governor-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-administration-for-federal-funding-losses/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:30:38

• "Experts and economists interviewed by The Times paint a more nuanced picture." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-04/companies-are-leaving-california-is-the-state-a-bad-place-to-do-business-tesla-in-n-out-texas-chevron-taxes | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:31:03

• "Under the pay plan, Musk would receive 96 million shares valued at around $300 each as long as he remains in an executive position at Tesla for the next two years." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-08-04/tesla-awards-elon-musk-29-billion-in-stock-amid-compensation-battle | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:32:19

• "According to the BLS, May needed to be revised down by 125,000 jobs to just 19,000 added jobs; June had to be revised down by even more, with 133,000 erroneous new jobs added to company payrolls that month. That meant just 14,000 new jobs were added in June." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/it_job_market_july/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:35:12

• "Business highlights in the quarter included the U.S. Army consolidating 75 legacy Palantir software contracts into a single 10‑year enterprise agreement with a ceiling of up to $10 billion, signaling a shift to “a la carte,” volume‑based artificial intelligence procurement." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/04/palantir-posts-48-revenue-growth-beats-expectations-across-board/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:35:29

• "Some time ago I hypothesized that all Democratic Senators are using the same text-spam contractor, and wondered whether there was some way to block the entire network. This resulted in many, many replies from people incorrecting me and each other with their zero-information theories." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/08/the-mothership-vortex/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:36:02

• "In its report, Blair's think tank says Brtain lacks the resources to keep up with the US, China and the Gulf States" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/tony_blair_institute_says_uk/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:36:31

• "The Met claims that the guitar was owned by Adrian Miller in 1971. How Miller acquired the guitar is unclear." ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/former-rolling-stones-musician-mick-taylor-claims-his-stolen-guitar-is-at-the-met-180987096/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:36:57

• "The AFP has alleged the woman, who is also an Australian permanent resident" ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/chinese-national-charged-with-foreign-interference-allegedly-targeting-buddhist-group/4sm8gwyf8 | Source: SBS    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:38:17

• "working closely with the intelligence community to develop a framework for managing a layered moving target" ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/space/2025/08/04/space-force-preps-infrastructure-operators-for-target-tracking-mission/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:39:45

• "On the heels of fielding the military’s first attack drone team" ☛ https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2025/08/04/the-marines-now-have-an-official-drone-fighting-handbook/ | Source: USMC    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:40:29

• "The Small UAS and Counter-SUAS Integration Course at Camp Pendleton focuses both on employing their unit’s portable Class 1 drones" ☛ https://news.usni.org/2025/06/25/attack-of-the-drones | Source: USNI    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:40:48

• "Some rival states are currently building visually similar flying wing kamikaze drones" ☛ https://digit.site36.net/2025/08/04/after-russia-us-company-replicates-irans-drones-but-their-design-dates-back-to-the-1980s-in-germany/ | Source: Site36    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:41:18

• "But this misses a key part of the story." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/kids-smartphones-play-freedom/683742/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:42:15

• "The British government is looking to pass new legislation to clamp down on people smugglers who use social media to promote their services" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/uk-social-media-people-smugglers-to-face-jail/a-73514568 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:42:25

• "Smugglers sent three key messages to potential migrants in Libya: Tunisia has closed its borders as a route to Lampedusa" ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/politics/foreign-policy/1277058/countering-smugglers-on-social-media/ | Source: Greece    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:42:43

• "But the people who understand how the internet works, engineers and security experts, are not impressed. In fact, many say this is how you break the internet, thinking you’re saving it" ☛ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/08/data-verification-laws-privacy-concerns/ | Source: Zimbabwe    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:44:32

• "Some recent privacy news: Meta violated privacy law, jury says in menstrual data fight by Margaret Attridge on Courthouse News Service." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/common-sense-one-bullshit-documents-zero/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:46:53

• "Yet a recent paper from researchers at the University of Californian-Irvine found that, of 543 data brokers in California’s data broker registry at time of publishing, 43 percent failed to even respond to requests to access data." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/data-brokers-are-ignoring-privacy-law-we-deserve-better | Source: EFF    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:47:18

• "And so, if leadership is the art of prioritisation, it is unclear why Keir Starmer’s party is spending so much energy on the Online Safety Act. As an exercise it does not appear to support any of the main goals." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/08/the-online-safety-act-humiliates-us-all | Source: New Statesman    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:47:33

• Windows TCO ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/einhaus_group_ransomware_collapse/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:48:10

• "It was the AI software that identified some pixels of a different color in the images taken on Tuesday" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/missing-hiker-ai-drone-recovery/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:51:25

• "Between the lines: AI-generated oddities are showing up in our feeds more often because they're lucrative for creators" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/08/03/ai-slop-viral-videos-content-scrolling | Source: Axios    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:51:50

• "And finally – what do you think is going to happen? That microwaves are just going to go away someday? That we’ll all go back to cooking exactly the way we used to?" ☛ https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/ |    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:52:10

• "The Metaverse only made sense if you’d never heard of the hype around Second Life in the late 2000s." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/04/wear-metas-ai-creepshot-glasses-or-be-left-behind/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:52:27

• "Formally, the first group are "centaurs" (people assisted by machines) and the latter are "reverse-centaurs" (people conscripted into assisting machines): [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:53:08

• "Last week, Krea launched an open model, FLUX.1-Krea, that’s built to avoid the “AI Look”. Their writeup is tremendous: it details the problem, suggests root causes, and details how they overcame the challenge – all while providing necessary context. You should read the whole thing, but here’s the recap: [...]" ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/08/04/the-rise-of-opinionated-models.html | Source: Drew Breunig    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:53:51

• "I've been thinking about “vibe coding” (probably overthinking) and how that might effect development in odd ways." ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2025/08/04.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:55:19

• "Once I started studying computer science, I was exposed to the HCI kids. They studied Jef Raskin’s The Humane Interface. I toiled away in COBOL, C++, and database design." ☛ https://nazhamid.com/journal/different-think/ | Source: Naz Hamid    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:55:56

• "So, I know that I shouldn’t be on my phone as much in front of my toddler but… I do look at my phone." ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/wooden-phone-for-babies/ | Source: Cassidy Williams    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:56:28

• "The Defense Department operates slot machines on US military bases overseas" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/us-military-on-base-slot-machines-gambling-addiction/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:56:40

• "Listening is essential. What the other person with whom I am talking says gives me more information to tailor my understanding." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/08/03/communication-and-understanding | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:57:24

• "In some ways the librarian is the opposite of the enigmatic oracle." ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/librarian/ | Source: The Cyber Show    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:57:40

• "Recently, a study using 3D modeling with MakeHuman, Blender and CloudCompare has added more evidence to the debate." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-08-shroud-turin-image-relief-statue.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:58:04

• "Science should not be a game of strategy, but a process of discovery. Yet when dissemination systems are gamed, the integrity of that process is at risk." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/04/guest-post-how-science-is-gamed/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:58:17

• "This scientist is now 80 years old, having spent 50 of those years as an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the country’s top universities, where he previously served as director of scientific research and as vice president." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-03/claude-canizares-nasa-astrophysicist-if-scientists-cant-speak-the-truth-society-really-isnt-in-a-very-good-place.html | Source: El País    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:58:42

• "This scientist is now 80 years old, having spent 50 of those years as an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), one of the country’s top universities" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-03/claude-canizares-nasa-astrophysicist-if-scientists-cant-speak-the-truth-society-really-isnt-in-a-very-good-place.html | Source: El País    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 09:58:54

• "For a time, I served as Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Computation Theory, and in this role I had to deal regularly with submissions that claimed to resolve the P vs NP problem." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/08/some-thoughts-on-journals-refereeing.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:01:12

• "The Mars flyby in March was primarily to use the planet's gravitational pull to tweak the Europa Clipper's trajectory." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/europa_clipper_mars_flyby/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:01:27

• "When I click on a Story on the BBC homepage, the URL in the browser URL bar stays as bbc.co.uk. I don’t have a link to the Story." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/08/04/stories-and-links | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:01:54

• "This is the better of utility. Finding something that does the job it sets out to do." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/08/what-sort-of-better/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:02:12

• Scarlett Gately Moore: Fostering Constructive Communication in Open Source Communities ☞ https://www.scarlettgatelymoore.dev/fostering-constructive-communication-in-open-source-communities/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:07:57

• "The biggest challenge for the Release Team prior to Autumn release is source code management" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/08/04/leap-16-rc/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:09:18

• Fixit – highly configurable linting framework ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fixit-highly-configurable-linting-framework/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:10:28

• tinifier – image compression tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tinifier-image-compression-tool/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:10:47

• Pigsty 3.6, the meta-distribution for PostgreSQL ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pigsty-36-the-meta-distribution-for-postgresql-3111/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:14:08

• There's a New GNU/Linux Hey Hi (AI) Assistant in Town ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/There-s-a-New-Linux-AI-Assistant-in-Town    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:15:22

• In Many Countries Vista 11 Adoption Stalled or Became Negative ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/In_Many_Countries_Vista_11_Adoption_Stalled_or_Became_Negative.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:15:36

• Microsoft and backdoored Windows Have Many Back Doors, But LLM Slop Keep Claiming That GNU/Linux Has "Backdoor" (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Microsoft_and_Windows_Have_Many_Back_Doors_But_LLM_Slop_Keep_Cl.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:15:46

• KDE Plasma prepares crackdown on focus-stealing window behavior under Wayland ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/kde-plasma-prepares-crackdown-on-focus-stealing-window-behavior-under-wayland/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:16:13

• Planning implies it's not there yet ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/chrome-140-wayland-auto-detection-linux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:18:24

• Newelle, Hey Hi (AI) “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/newelle-ai-assistant-ubuntu-linux-desktop    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:18:46

• "This is where we hit the first snag." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/08/apple-makes-it-hard-to-load-audiobooks-purchased-elsewhere/ | Source: Six Colors    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:19:31

• "Here is the code the data race detector struggles with: [...]" ☛ https://doublefree.dev/go-race-mutex-blindspot/ |    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:20:00

• "Recently I saw this example Go code" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoReadAllFromChannelWithTimeout | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:20:10

• "There a tones of zsh config on internet, but I've decided to build mine and to share it with you." ☛ https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20250803 | Source: Vincent Delft    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:20:50

• "We need regexp of course, but also text/template for interpolation." ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/regexpo | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:29:50

• "I screwed something up the other day and figured it had enough meat on its bones to turn into a story. So, okay, here we go." ☛ https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/08/03/scope/ | Source: Rachel    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:30:26

• "So it was time to replace the hardware. At the same time we moved to another colocation with better network connectivity." ☛ https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/new_build_cluster_speeds_up | Source: NetBSD    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:30:43

• "Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 mainframe easier." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/a-gentle-introduction-to-fortran/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:31:09

• "Here's what I did to be able to filter out certain diagnostic messages in Neovim." ☛ https://qmacro.org/blog/posts/2025/08/04/excluding-specific-diagnostics-in-neovim/ | Source: DJ Adams    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:32:15

• "Swift 6.2 introduces a new Observations type to stream state changes from an Observable type. Let’s see an example of why that can be useful." ☛ https://useyourloaf.com/blog/swift-observations-asyncsequence-for-state-changes/ | Source: Keith Harrison    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:32:27

• Open Data ☛ https://fedscoop.com/statistics-public-data-leaders-condemn-trump-order-fire-bls-commissioner/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:33:01

• "I’ve been building applications with relational databases for years." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/when-your-relational-database-isnt-the-right-tool-anymore/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:33:34

• "It’s well-designed" ☛ https://fantinel.dev/blog/arc-browser-replacement | Source: Matt Fantinel    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:35:40

• "As usual, we’ve made some progress on the Web Platform Tests. We’ve added 13,090 passing tests for a new total of 1,831,856." ☛ https://ladybird.org/newsletter/2025-07-31/ | Source: The Ladybird Browser Initiative    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:35:50

• "Christian ‘Peri Fractic’ Simpson has confirmed that his much touted community-led acquisition of Commodore has been signed, sealed, and paid for." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-corporation-bv-acquisition-completed-by-fan-led-consortium-prepare-for-new-retro-futurist-products-with-the-deal-signed-sealed-and-paid-for-ahead-of-schedule | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:36:43

• "The second stage was having a modern Mac tell the Arduino what keyboard and mouse inputs to send. Jakobs programmed an application in Swift to do that and the user can activate it via a click on a little desktop widget." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/08/05/this-inexpensive-adapter-brings-apple-universal-control-to-vintage-macs/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:37:09

• "Dan converted a motionless Star Wars toy without motors or wheels into a fully animated R2-D2 robot; Raspberry Pi 3, gearing, and parts from existing VEX Robotics construction kits made it walk and turn its head" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/r2-d2-vex-robot/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:37:21

• "The use of snapshots has been routine in both Debian and Ubuntu for several years now—or more than 15 years for Debian, to be precise." ☛ https://aigarius.com/blog/2025/08/04/snapshot-mirrors/ | Source: Aigars Mahinovs    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:38:49

• "KDE Linux isn't based on Ubuntu or Debian. It's built using Arch Linux, but it's different enough" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/kde_linux_prealpha/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:39:24

• "No promises, but we will try to make this one of the shortest release cycles ever... " ☛ https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process | Source: NetBSD    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:40:03

• "I use an eccentric X 'desktop' that is not really a desktop as such in the usual sense but instead a window manager and various programs" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/MyXSessionHowItExits | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:40:34

• "Oh, and one last thing: it’s been almost a year that that site has been up, and good news: I don’t hate the name." ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/08/04/moving-til-computer-to-quartz.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:42:10

• "Three quick CSS tips" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/08/04/three-quick-css-tips | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:42:24

• "But I also found some things I didn’t know about (or only vaguely knew about) so I wrote them down in an attempt to remember them." ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/href-value-possibilities/ | Source: Jim Nielsen    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:42:43

• "There were two online HTML Day events yesterday, one for the Oceania timezone – which was in the morning for me here in the UK" ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/08/03/what-i-made-for-html-day | Source: James G    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:42:54

• "Starting with 7.4.1-2, the following Zabbix system user accounts (previously shipped by their related packages) will no longer be used." ☛ https://archlinux.org/news/zabbix-741-2-may-requires-manual-intervention/ | Source: ArchLinux    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:44:21

• "Large language models (LLMs) have enormous potential, but their hidden deployment costs are a major challenge." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/future-now-13-top-ai-reads-q2 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:45:11

• "The challenge with Confidential Containers is in getting started. Making the decision to deploy a pod into a confidential container is a single line change to a pod manifest." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/validated-patterns-confidential-container-deployment | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:45:25

• Event Wrap: PHNOG 2025 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/08/05/event-wrap-phnog-2025/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:47:29

• How to use Red Bait Quay as a proxy cache ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/04/how-use-red-hat-quay-proxy-cache    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:49:41

• Optimize workloads with right-sizing recommendations ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/04/optimize-workloads-right-sizing-recommendations    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:50:23

• NetBSD 11.0 release process underway ☞ http://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/netbsd_11_0_release_process    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:51:36

• Thibault Martin: Over engineering my homelab so I don't pay cloud providers ☞ https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/08/04-overegineering-homelab/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:52:57

• Parabola GNU/Linux-libre: 'zabbix' users: manual intervention may be required ☞ https://parabolagnulinux.org/news/zabbix-users-manual-intervention-may-be-required-1/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:56:32

• Brendan Gregg: When to Hire a Computer Performance Engineering Team (2025) part 1 of 2 ☞ http://www.brendangregg.com/blog//2025-08-04/when-to-hire-a-computer-performance-engineering-team-2025-part1.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:57:00

• Announcing Incus 6.15 ☞ https://stgraber.org/2025/08/03/announcing-incus-6-15/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:58:23

• About a Quarter of Today's "linux" News in Surveillance Giant Google News Came From One Domain and It's a Slopfarm ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/About_a_Quarter_of_Today_s_linux_News_in_Google_News_Came_From_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 10:59:11

• 16 Best Free and Open Source Email Servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-email-servers/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:00:03

• Tamari – fully-featured recipe manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tamari-fully-featured-recipe-manager/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:00:14

• Christian Hergert: Week 31 Status ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2025/08/04/week-31-status/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:01:15

• "Open Source 5-Axis Printer Has Its Own Slicer" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/open-source-5-axis-printer-has-its-own-slicer/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:02:01

• Dr. Andy Farnell Explains How Surveillance Giant Google Turned From "Librarian" Into "Oracle", Telling Us What to Think Instead of Where to Look ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Dr_Andy_Farnell_Explains_How_Google_Turned_From_Librarian_Into_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:02:16

• How Tech Firms Like Surveillance Giant Google and GAFAM Are Embracing the Military ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/technology/google-meta-openai-military-war.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:03:26

• Judges Openly Doubt Government as Justice Dept. Misleads and Dodges Orders ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/politics/trump-justice-department-judges-courts.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:06:12

• Associate of child trafficking for sex gets corrupt media to repeat lies for him https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250804-gates-foundation-pledges-2-5-billion-to-ignored-underfunded-women-s-health see what he wants to distract from http://techrights.org/o/2019/12/21/police-report-bill-gates/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:07:06

• Plastic-clogged 'Thinker' sculpture highlights pollution crisis as UN treaty talks begin ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250804-a-thinker-drowns-in-plastic-garbage-as-un-treaty-talks-open    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:07:33

• The Senate pushes forward on defense and health funding ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/congress/2025/08/the-senate-pushes-forward-on-defense-and-health-funding/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:07:55

• ‘See you in Seoul’: Pope Leo says Catholic Church’s World Youth Day to be held in S. Korea in 2027 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/see-you-in-seoul-pope-leo-says-catholic-churchs-world-youth-day-to-be-held-in-south-korea-in-2027    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:09:17

• 80 years on, Korean survivors of World War II atomic bombs still suffer ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/80-years-on-korean-survivors-of-world-war-ii-atomic-bombs-still-suffer    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:10:18

• Heavy rain to return to S. Korea with extreme downpours in southern regions ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/heavy-rain-to-return-to-s-korea-with-extreme-downpours-in-southern-regions    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:10:34

• Former North Korean soldier, jailed in the South for 42 years, may return home ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/former-north-korean-soldier-jailed-in-the-south-for-42-years-may-return-home    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:11:05

• South Korea, US prepare for summit with details of trade deal unresolved ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/korea-us-prepare-for-summit-with-details-of-trade-deal-unresolved    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:11:28

• South Korea pulls plug on Hey Hi (AI) [LLM Slop] textbooks, leaving schools, companies without funding for them ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-pulls-plug-on-ai-textbooks    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:12:09

• Korea: South removes loudspeakers from border 🕪 ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250804-korea-south-removes-loudspeakers-from-border-%F0%9F%95%AA    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:12:49

• Malaysian police to seek help from Meta in Singapore over defamatory post on artiste: Reports ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-police-to-seek-meta-in-singapore-for-help-after-defamatory-post-made-against-artiste    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:13:17

• Beijing evacuates residents, expands storm alert as deadly floods keep city on edge ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/beijing-on-top-alert-for-heavy-rain-tells-residents-to-avoid-going-out    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:13:59

• Hong Kong sees first chikungunya case from China outbreak ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-sees-first-mosquito-borne-illness-from-china-outbreak    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:14:18

• Australia lifts foreign student cap to 295,000 and prioritises South-east Asia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-lifts-foreign-student-cap-to-295000-and-prioritises-south-east-asia    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:14:50

• China's military conducted patrols in South China Sea, spokesperson says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-military-conducted-patrols-in-south-china-sea-spokesperson-says    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:15:09

• What’s it like to deal with brutal US tariffs? Ask Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/whats-it-like-to-deal-with-brutal-us-tariffs-ask-malaysia    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:15:31

• Philippines, India conduct joint exercises in South China Sea ☞ https://rfa.org/english/southchinasea/2025/08/04/south-china-sea-philippines-india/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:15:41

• "Kremlin spokesman says ‘everyone should be extremely cautious with nuclear rhetoric’ amid Trump–Medvedev exchange" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/04/kremlin-spokesman-says-everyone-should-be-extremely-cautious-with-nuclear-rhetoric-amid-trump-medvedev-exchange | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:20:04

• Russian Nuclear Submarine Base Was Damaged in Earthquake, Satellite Images Show ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/world/europe/russia-earthquake-nuclear-submarine-damage.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:20:36

• Russia Says It Will Stop Abiding By INF Treaty ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/world/europe/russia-missile-treaty.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:20:49

• Free Cybersecurity Training… and a $100m Russian Tech Hub? The Plan to Make Zim a Cyber Power ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/08/free-cybersecurity-training-zimbabwe-cyberus-cyberdom/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:21:06

• China and Russia hold joint naval drills in the Sea of Japan ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250804-china-and-russia-hold-joint-naval-drills-in-the-sea-of-japan    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:21:25

• Details emerge on BlackSuit ransomware takedown ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/blacksuit-ransomware-takedown/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:21:50

• Thousands still happy to travel to Belarus from Latvia every month ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/04.08.2025-thousands-still-happy-to-travel-to-belarus-from-latvia-every-month.a609093/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:22:16

• No, Latvia has not mined its border ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/04.08.2025-no-latvia-has-not-mined-its-border.a609095/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:22:34

• "It’s back to the Middle Ages" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/04/it-s-back-to-the-middle-ages | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:23:33

• "Gasoline trading prices in Russia reach record high following Ukrainian drone attacks" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/05/gasoline-trading-prices-in-russia-reach-record-high-following-ukrainian-drone-attacks | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:24:04

• US Arms Deal With NATO Still Leaves Ukraine In Limbo ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-arms-deal-nato-ukraine-patriot-missile-defense/33494209.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:24:15

• US envoy Witkoff is expected to visit Russia ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250804-us-envoy-witkoff-is-expected-to-visit-russia    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:24:33

• The Insurrectionist’s Parallel Ghislaine Maxwell and Vladimir Putin Problems ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/04/donald-trumps-parallel-ghislaine-maxwell-and-vladimir-putin-problems/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:25:01

• Original Amiga prototype spotted at VCF West 2025 vintage computing show — rarely seen forerunner to Amiga 1000 from early 1984 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/original-amiga-prototype-spotted-at-vcf-west-2025-vintage-computing-show-rarely-seen-forerunner-to-amiga-1000-from-early-1984    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:25:30

• Dihydroxyacetone Man To Raise India Tariffs Over Russian Oil As Envoy Witkoff Expected In Moscow ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-putin-ukraine-russia-witkoff/33493789.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:25:46

• BUZZWORD OVERLOAD!! https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/04/d-wave-releases-open-source-toolkit-integrate-quantum-computing-ai-training/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:37:16

• "Quantum" + openwashing + Hey Hi (AI)    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:37:38

• Late Night Linux – Episode 345 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-345/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:38:21

• Destination Linux 430: Interview with John Overton of Kove, Software Defined Memory ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/430    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:39:44

• Dear Mr. District Attorney, Fight 3D Printed Guns the Right Way ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/08/dear-mr-district-attorney-fight-3d-printed-guns-the-right-way/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:40:21

• An invitation to reflect ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/From-the-Editors/2025/0804/An-invitation-to-reflect    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:40:50

• Pluralistic: Hey Hi (AI) software assistants make the hardest kinds of bugs to spot (04 Aug 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:41:10

• Open Letter: Implementation of Palestine Action Proscription on Social Media ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/open-letter-implementation-of-palestine-action-proscription-on-social-media/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:42:00

• SANDF terms disinformation a threat to national security ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sa-defence/sa-defence-sa-defence/sandf-terms-disinformation-a-threat-to-national-security/ "This time around it’s an offensive video on Fentanylware (TikTok) and other unnamed social control media platforms attracting the ire of Defence Corporate Communication head Rear"    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:44:01

• "ceasefire deadline he imposed" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/04/trump-says-u-s-special-envoy-steve-witkoff-will-visit-russia-later-this-week-ahead-of-ceasefire-deadline-he-imposed | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:45:04

• "Estonia installs ‘massive’ metal gates on bridge between Narva and Russia’s Ivangorod" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/04/estonia-installs-massive-metal-gates-on-bridge-between-narva-and-russia-s-ivangorod | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:45:22

• "filming video in front of burning oil depot" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/04/russian-police-arrest-three-in-sochi-for-filming-video-in-front-of-burning-oil-depot | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:45:39

• "Russia’s deadliest strike on Kyiv in over a year" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/04/a-night-of-terror | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:45:56

• Main Suspects In 2024 Moscow Terrorist Attack Plead Guilty On First Day Of Trial ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33493433.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:46:11

• "Jewelry, medicine, books, oh my! Plenty of seemingly innocuous items have landed travelers in trouble at Russia’s border." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/cards/jewelry-medicine-books-oh-my | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:46:31

• A powerful new tool that could change how we access decades of creative history ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/it-modernization/2025/08/a-powerful-new-tool-that-could-change-how-we-access-decades-of-creative-history/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:46:53

• LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2025 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/04/libreoffice-project-and-community-recap-july-2025/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:47:51

• "removing "offensive" packages" https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-has-gone-full-woke    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:48:24

• "Azerbaijani outlets responded by renaming Russian cities." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/04/what-s-in-a-name | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:48:53

• "Russia ends unilateral moratorium on deploying intermediate- and shorter-range missiles" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/04/russia-ends-unilateral-moratorium-on-deploying-intermediate-and-shorter-range-missiles | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:49:12

• "Russian defense executives owning adjacent villas on Dubai’s artificial island" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/05/boys-and-their-crystal-bathtubs | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:49:35

• After Russia, US company replicates Iran’s drones – but their design dates back to the 1980s in Germany ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/08/04/after-russia-us-company-replicates-irans-drones-but-their-design-dates-back-to-the-1980s-in-germany/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:50:50

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

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:51:36

• How To Install Opera Browser on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-opera-browser-linux-mint-22/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:51:58

• How To Install UNetbootin on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-unetbootin-rocky-linux-10/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:52:11

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

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:52:43

• "How To Design 3D-Printed Parts With Tolerance In Mind" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/how-to-design-3d-printed-parts-with-tolerance-in-mind/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:53:33

• How to Live Forever and Get Rich Doing It ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/11/how-to-live-forever-and-get-rich-doing-it "But has the human body already reached its limits?"    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:54:18

• Disable the darn thing, abolish it ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-secure-boot-signing/ https://techrights.org/o/2022/07/29/richard-hughes-secure-boot-sham/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:55:21

• Firefox Nightly: Custom Profile Avatars Arrive in Nightly – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 186 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/08/04/custom-profile-avatars-arrive-in-nightly-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-186/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:56:05

• Australia to buy 11 advanced warships from Japan: Defence minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-to-buy-11-advanced-warships-from-japan-defence-minister    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:56:20

• bill gates says.... hamas says https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250804-hamas-says-it-will-allow-aid-for-hostages-if-israel-opens-humanitarian-corridors-halts-airstrikes    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:57:17

• More Gazans die as aid fails to reach most needy ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250804-more-gazans-die-as-aid-fails-to-reach-most-needy    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 11:57:43

• Model Rocket Performance ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/a-simple-simulator-for-model-rocket-performance/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:02:30

• The Tape Speed Keyboard ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/the-tape-speed-keyboard/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:02:57

• "Smart Glasses" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/brilliant-labs-has-new-smart-glasses-with-a-new-display/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:03:11

• What Happens if Every Light in The World Is Switched on at Once? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/what-happens-if-every-light-in-the-world-is-switched-on-at-once    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:04:22

• siliconangle keeps endorsing many ponzi schemes and scams in exchange for a fee; siliconangle is like tech mafia    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:05:44

• IBM Kyndryl "stock down more than 13% in extended trading."    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:06:06

• Image on The Shroud of Turin May Not Belong to a Real Human ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/image-on-the-shroud-of-turin-may-not-belong-to-a-real-human    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:06:52

• Study Reveals How Many IVF Babies Have Been Born Worldwide ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/study-reveals-how-many-ivf-babies-have-been-born-worldwide    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:07:09

• Untested Peptide Injections Are Being Sold as 'Next-Gen Biohacks' ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/untested-peptide-injections-are-being-sold-as-next-gen-biohacks    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:07:32

• Prehistoric Air Has Been Reconstructed From Dinosaur Teeth in an Amazing First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/prehistoric-air-has-been-reconstructed-from-dinosaur-teeth-in-an-amazing-first    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:07:45

• There's One Simple Method to Reduce Alcohol Intake, Scientists Say, And It Works ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-one-simple-method-to-reduce-alcohol-intake-scientists-say-and-it-works    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:07:58

• TTABlog Test: Is BUFFALO CITY for Alcoholic Beverages Confusable with BUFFALO TRACE for Bourbon? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/08/ttablog-test-is-buffalo-city-for.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:08:51

• Rakudo Weekly 2025.31 Snappy Turtles ☞ https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/08/04/2025-31-snappy-turtles/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:10:04

• "For Five decades; For freedoms; For all users" (Original EMACS Turns 50 Next Year) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/For_Five_decades_For_freedoms_For_all_users_Original_EMACS_Turn.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:10:20

• Renesas RZ/G3E Arm Cortex-A55/M33 MPU targets mid-range HMI systems requiring Hey Hi (AI) acceleration ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/04/renesas-rz-g3e-arm-cortex-a55-m33-mpu-targets-mid-range-hmi-systems-with-ai-acceleration/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:11:02

• Why Android 15 Makes Some Phones 30% Faster, And Why You Might Miss Out ☞ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/08/android-15-speed-boost-software-updates/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:11:27

• Google addresses six vulnerabilities in August’s Android security update ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/android-security-update-august-2025/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:11:46

• "Texas Pastors May Gain Political Power" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-churches-endorse-candidates-texas | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:12:14

• "Oil Companies Withhold Millions in Royalties From ND Mineral Owners" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/north-dakota-mineral-owner-royalty-deductions | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:12:54

• Status lights should stop blinding me ☞ https://rubenerd.com/status-lights-should-stop-blinding-me/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:13:39

• Flameshot Screenshot App Gets First Major Update in 3 Years ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/flameshot-13    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:14:22

• Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 903 ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/08/04/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-903/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:15:01

• Flameshot Screenshot Tool Released 13.0.0 After 3 Years of Development ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/08/flameshot-released-13-0-0/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:15:55

• FSF Blogs: July GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring seventeen new GNU releases: Bash, Cflow, and more! ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2025-july-gnu-spotlight    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:16:44

• Best GNU/Linux Remote Administration Tools 2025 – Complete Guide ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/best-linux-remote-administration-tools-2025/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:17:27

• brokefetch – neofetch clone ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/brokefetch-neofetch-clone/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:17:39

• Expanding battery charge control support in GNU/Linux ☞ https://vdwaa.nl/charge-types-api-upower.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:18:29

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1032371/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:19:04

• The Power of Volunteers: Connecting an Indigenous Community in Panama ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/08/the-power-of-volunteers-connecting-an-indigenous-community-in-panama/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:25:03

• As the US retreats from internet governance, Europe must step up ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/as-the-us-retreats-from-internet-governance-europe-must-step-up/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:25:16

• Tariffs may sting LA docks. Deeper changes are coming to this blue-collar bastion. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2025/0804/trump-tariffs-LA-docks    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:26:00

• Unreported $3.5 billion Bitcoin hack from 2020 dwarfs Mt. Gox in value, is worth $14.5 billion today — intelligence firm uncovers heist that shuttered 6th-largest bitcoin mining pool ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cryptocurrency/usd3-5-billion-bitcoin-hack-from-2020-dwarfs-mt-gox-in-value-is-worth-usd14-5-billion-today-intelligence-firm-uncovers-heist-that-shuttered-6th-largest-bitcoin-mining-pool    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:26:42

• A lot of the online media is a scam. What does that mean? Well, there is a scam, like some fake coins, and some media chooses to help boost and promote this scam. It basically becomes an unregulated participant in the scam. It never gets penalised for doing so.    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:28:10

• AWS accused of a ‘digital execution’ after it deleted 10 years of users' data without warning — software engineer details “complete digital annihilation” at the hands of proprietary trap AWS admins, claims false excuses given for account deletion ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/aws-accused-of-a-digital-execution-after-it-deleted-10-years-of-users-data-without-warning-software-engineer-details-complete-digital-annihilation-at-the-hands-of-aws-admins-claims-false-excuses-given-for-account-deletion    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:28:52

• AWS accused of a ‘digital execution’ after it deleted 10 years of users' data without warning ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/cloud-storage/aws-accused-of-a-digital-execution-after-it-deleted-10-years-of-users-data-without-warning-software-engineer-details-complete-digital-annihilation-at-the-hands-of-aws-admins-claims-false-excuses-given-for-account-deletion    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:29:09

• NetEase Cloud Music Sues SM Entertainment Over Alleged ‘Market Abuse’ — Trial Reportedly Set for August 6th ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/04/netease-cloud-music-sm-entertainment-lawsuit/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:29:35

• Elizabeth Warren, Campaigning for Mamdani, Scorns Cuomo and Billionaires ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/nyregion/mamdani-elizabeth-warren-cuomo.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:30:20

• Seimas’ committee chair says defence minister should go, hints at his own candidacy ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2633062/seimas-committee-chair-says-defence-minister-should-go-hints-at-his-own-candidacy    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:31:04

• Hong Kong cancels passports of 12 activists wanted under nat. sec law after involvement with overseas group ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/04/hong-kong-cancels-passports-of-12-activists-wanted-under-nat-sec-law-after-involvement-with-overseas-group/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:31:27

• Israeli ex-security chiefs urge The Insurrectionist to help end Gaza war ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250804-israeli-ex-security-chiefs-urge-donald-trump-to-help-end-gaza-war    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:31:55

• Israel wants world attention on hostages held in Gaza ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250804-israel-wants-world-attention-on-hostages-held-in-gaza    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:32:11

• 'Expulsion: There's no such thing as the emigration of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250804-expulsion-there-s-no-such-thing-as-the-emigration-of-palestinians-out-of-the-gaza-strip    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:32:31

• ‘Highly evasive’ Vietnamese-speaking hackers stealing data from thousands of victims in 62+ nations ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/highly-evasive-vietnamese-speaking-hackers-stealing-data-from-thousands-of-victims-in-62-nations/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:33:03

• Australia and Indonesia can deepen security cooperation by fighting hybrid threats ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-and-indonesia-can-deepen-security-cooperation-by-fighting-hybrid-threats/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:37:38

• Sheinbaum pushes back on claims of strained US security relations: Monday’s mañanera recapped ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/sheinbaum-pushes-back-claims-strained-us-security-relations-mondays-mananera-recapped/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:38:15

• Gene Sequencing Giant Illumina Settles for $9.8M Over Product Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/gene-sequencing-giant-illumina-settles-for-9-8m-over-product-vulnerabilities/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:38:54

• Northwest Radiologists Data Breach Impacts 350,000 Washingtonians ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/northwest-radiologists-data-breach-impacts-350000-washingtonians/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:39:22

• Tellico 4.1.3 Released ☞ https://tellico-project.org/tellico-4-1-3-released/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:41:06

• nytimes is running a ponzi scheme-boosting series this monday. How much was it paid to do so?    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:41:44

• "Analog Clock For Microsoft Windows" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/2025-one-hertz-challenge-analog-clock-for-microsoft-windows/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:47:36

• IBM is running marketing junk for Microsoft ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/04/net-container-troubleshooting-openshift-4    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:49:29

• NVIDIA Releases GNU/Linux Display Driver v580 Beta ☞ https://linuxiac.com/nvidia-releases-linux-display-driver-v580-beta/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:50:34

• Big Changes Ahead for MX GNU/Linux 25 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/big-changes-ahead-for-mx-linux-25/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:50:45

• $2,000 for Jeffrey M. Gross entity, Conexus, network security patent monopoly prior art ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/8/4/2000-for-jeffrey-m-gross-entity-conexus-network-security-patent-prior-art    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:53:16

• On Window Activation ☞ https://blog.broulik.de/2025/08/on-window-activation/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:53:52

• Torrential rain lashes southern Taiwan, leaving five dead and over 5,900 evacuated ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/southern-taiwan-lashed-by-torrential-rain-four-dead-more-than-5900-evacuated    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:54:17

• 14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Gemini Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-gemini-clients/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:55:20

• astronaut – Gemini browser for the terminal ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/astronaut-gemini-browser-terminal/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:55:40

• Flagging or Tagging Slop That We Find Online ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Flagging_or_Tagging_Slop_That_We_Find_Online.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:57:20

• Microsofters' Lawyers Are Name-calling and Insulting Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Critics, Even Their Spouses ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Microsofters_Lawyers_Are_Name_calling_and_Insulting_Microsoft_C.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:57:29

• Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025 ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_Layoffs_Continue_in_August_2025.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:57:40

• Microsoft's Stock is Like a Religion, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Goes Into 'Hiding' (From Shareholders) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Microsoft_s_Stock_is_Like_a_Religion_Microsoft_Goes_Into_Hiding.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:57:51

• Groklaw Static Site Relaunches With New Theme, But Many Pages and All the Comments Are Missing ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/Groklaw_Static_Site_Relaunches_With_New_Theme_But_Many_Pages_an.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:58:01

• In Spain, Microsoft's Search Engine Market Share Fell to 2% ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/04/In_Spain_Microsoft_s_Search_Engine_Market_Share_Fell_to_2.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:58:11

• They Tell Us That "Clown Storage" is Safe and Robust to Incidents Like Fires ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/03/They_Tell_Us_That_Cloud_Storage_is_Safe_and_Robust_to_Incidents.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:58:22

• Online Safety Act Tries to Accomplish the Impossible ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/03/Online_Safety_Act_Tries_to_Accomplish_the_Impossible.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 12:58:33

• "GOOD. Hire and Pay based on performance." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jre2ja5n    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:01:54

• ChatGPT in Trouble ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/ChatGPT_in_Trouble.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:02:05

• The Register MS Links to the Wrong statCounter Page ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/The_Register_MS_Links_to_the_Wrong_statCounter_Page.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:02:18

• UK university free speech law comes into force ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/uk-university-free-speech-law-comes-into-force/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:05:49

• A ‘truce’ over free speech in Iran? ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/0804/A-truce-over-free-speech-in-Iran    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:06:11

• North Macedonia Investigates After Anti-Albanian Chants At Basketball Match ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/anti-albanian-chants-north-macedonia-basketball/33494070.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:06:23

• Refugee rights group decries US and Costa Rica deportation agreement ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/refugee-rights-group-decries-us-and-costa-rica-deportation-agreement/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:07:16

• How the Economic Case for International Students Lost Steam ☞ https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-the-economic-case-for-international-students-lost-steam    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:08:49

• New Feature: Daily Trends Report, (Mon, Aug 4th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32170    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:10:18

• First Sentencing in Scheme to Help North Koreans Infiltrate US Companies ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/first-sentencing-in-scheme-to-help-north-koreans-infiltrate-us-companies.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:11:24

• Nvidia Triton Vulnerabilities Pose Big Risk to Hey Hi (AI) Models ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/nvidia-triton-vulnerabilities-pose-big-risk-to-ai-models/    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:12:00

• Cambodia, Thailand begin talks after biggest clashes in decades ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-thailand-begin-talks-after-biggest-clashes-in-decades    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:12:22

• Peter Hutterer: unplug - a tool to test input devices via uinput ☞ http://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/08/unplug-tool-to-test-input-devices-via.html    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 13:13:35

• "I've been thinking about “vibe coding” (probably overthinking) and how that might effect development in odd ways. And by “vibe coding” I mean in its original meaning [1], “where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists.”" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/08/04.1    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 15:22:52

• Lagrange v1.18.6 released gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Lagrange/30918    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 15:24:30

• 🔤SpellBinding: ACHWNSI Wordo: EASED gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-05.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 15:25:13

• 🖼️ xkcd: Grounded #3124 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3124.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 15:26:17

• "Occasionally, blog entries note degraded performance when org files grow to a big number of lines." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/one-big-org-text-file.txt    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 15:27:33

• Microsoft lays off 40 more employees in Washington state https://www.cnbctv18.com/technology/microsoft-layoffs-washington-state-2025-19649002.htm    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 15:35:21

• Microsoft confirms another round of layoffs at its Redmond campus https://mynorthwest.com/local/microsoft-layoffs-redmond/4119076    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 15:35:58

• Microsoft layoffs: Windows maker cuts more jobs amid AI investments https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/microsoft-layoffs-windows-maker-cuts-more-jobs-amid-ai-investments-article-13391690.html/amp    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 15:36:35

• Microsoft Layoffs Continue in August 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/05/Microsoft_Layoffs_Continue_in_August_2025.shtml    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 15:37:32

• "There's been some discussion (via Antenna and on the BBS) about supposed stagnation in Gemini." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-08-05_there-is-no-stagnation.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 17:31:54

• "minor cat scratch infection but not from my cat :(" gemini://xavi4u.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-08-05.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 17:32:47

• "The concept that AI prompts "are the source code" isn't really far fetched. At least not when you think about who actually uses Vibe Coding as a "useful tool."" gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/log/2025-08-05_re_when_vibe_coding_isnt_the_source_code_the_prompt.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 17:33:59

• Windows at 2% in Sudan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/sudan/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 18:14:55

• Down to 15% in Ethiopia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/ethiopia/#monthly-201503-202508    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 18:15:35

• "We spend our Sunday at the Opel Zoo near Frankfurt and junior had an absolute blast there. I swear, he was running every minute we were there!" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/050825.txt    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 21:56:49

• "I've been thinking about adding last.fm integration to my site for a while now, but I've never been able to fit it with the style. It's really just not a great thing for my website, because most of my online "personality" is on bsky(1), so I decided to put it on my bsky profile." gemini://gemini.soap.systems/blog/bsky-bio-music.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 21:57:50

• "My take on small web solutions is driven by two key ideas, statically generated text content and distributed ownership based on a consistent format. The gemlog format, which is primarily concerned with the log index with entries following" gemini://8by3.net/~sbr/log/2025-08-05.cookbook.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 21:58:28

• [japan] [jp] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-08-05.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 21:59:34

• "Alhena 5.2.5 dropped yesterday. It has support for printing (and therefore PDFs). There's optional favicon.txt support for the many sites that have them. Did I mention favicon.txt is optional?" gemini://ultimatumlabs.com/gemlog/20250805.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 22:00:21

• wool shawl gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/wool_shawl    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 22:01:40

• "There are 4549 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3112 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 22:03:16

• https://lists.gnu.org is offline again. Second time (at least second) today.    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 22:35:58

• Or maybe it's flapping at this stage. A lot of the day it was unreachable for hours.    

posted Tuesday, August 05, 2025 at 22:36:45