Roy Schestowitz

• "During all my time with KDE projects, I've never made an app from scratch.. Except now." gemini://akselmo.dev/posts/2025-08-07-KomoDo-my-first-KDE-app.gmi    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 01:43:08

• "I was recently looking at my homepage and wondered about all the hashtags I used and how not all of them had a topic page. The Oddμ page, for example, collects all the blogposts tagged ​#Oddμ (including this one)." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-08-07-oddmu-hashtags    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 01:44:46

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1726.jpg    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 01:45:16

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1376.jpg    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 01:45:23

• "Anyone else notice that Google is using the Gemini branding for their AI crap? It's taking over the search results for gemini. Getting harder and harder to find things Gemini-related without stumbling over Google's AI rubbish." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/31016    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 01:47:10

• "I just noticed this funny bit of news: Google is commandeering the name "Gemini Space" as well: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-gemini-space-first-look-apk-teardown-3577101/ "    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 01:48:22

• "I will have a trip to Europe in the second week of October and I am looking for invitations for additional talks in the same trip. If you would like to invite me to speak in that trip, please write to me at rms-invitation@gnu.org with "october" as the subject." https://stallman.org/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 02:58:08

• Like in many other places, Windows down in Tunisia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all//tunisia/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 03:02:51

• NOTHING to do with HEY HI... this just shows how low the "media" is stooping https://www.cloudcomputing-news.net/news/aws-job-cuts-microsoft-effects-of-ai-automation-investment/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 03:16:04

• iophk: moving 401k to "high risk" investments is merely a way to loot the funds    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 05:22:10

• "From Ghost Ship Publishing and Game Swing, GUNTOUCHABLES is a new frantic online co-op doomsday roguelite for 1-4 players." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/dont-miss-out-on-grabbing-a-free-copy-of-the-new-guntouchables/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:01:38

• "Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders is a richly atmospheric, retro-inspired point-and-click adventure set in Leipzig, Germany at the dawn of the 20th century" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/solve-mysterious-murders-in-casebook-1899-the-leipzig-murders-with-a-launch-set-for-september/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:01:52

• "This latest Warner Bros. Games Humble Bundle looks to be great value with lots of games for a small price and good overall Linux compatibility." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/grab-some-classic-warner-bros-games-in-the-new-humble-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:02:07

• "Just like what happened with DOOM + DOOM II, Nightdive Studios have remastered the classics Heretic + Hexen as one bundle with new content." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/heretic-hexen-get-a-definitive-re-release-with-new-content-from-id-software-and-nightdive-studios/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:03:00

• "The UK Has Outlawed Online Privacy" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/the-uk-has-outlawed-online-privacy:b    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:03:23

• "Author explains why AI [sic] should do mundane jobs instead of art and perfectly hits the nail on the head" https://scoop.upworthy.com/author-explains-why-ai-should-do-mundane-jobs-instead-of-art-and-perfectly-hits-the-nail-on-the-head    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:03:41

• "The Emperor’s New Trade Deal - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-emperors-new-trade-deal    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:04:00

• "CISA, Microsoft issue alerts on ‘high-severity’ Exchange vulnerability | The Record from Recorded Future News" https://therecord.media/microsoft-exchange-server-vulnerability-cisa-alert    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:04:13

• "L.A. never needed the Olympics. With Trump wanting in, it's time to pull out" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-07/l-a-never-needed-the-olympics-with-trump-wanting-in-its-time-to-pull-out    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:04:29

• "Why congressional redistricting is blowing up across the US this summer • Michigan Advance" https://michiganadvance.com/2025/08/06/repub/why-congressional-redistricting-is-blowing-up-across-the-us-this-summer/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:04:43

• "Paul Newman, the Pacific and the bomb that changed the world" https://www.navytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/08/06/paul-newman-the-pacific-and-the-bomb-that-changed-the-world/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:05:07

• "Gallup poll shows Epstein scandal had virtually no effect on Trump support among Republicans" https://boingboing.net/2025/08/07/gallup-poll-shows-epstein-scandal-had-virtually-no-effect-on-trump-support-among-republicans.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:05:25

• "Iftikhar was arrested home on March 16, 2024, almost a year after the horrific incident. He pled guilty to his drunken outburst and was sent to jail for 15 months. He has six previous convictions from 15 offenses, including common assault and drunk driving." https://www.thedailybeast.com/first-class-virgin-atlantic-passenger-salman-iftikhar-learns-fate-for-vile-mid-air-meltdown/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:06:04

• "Salman Iftikhar, a London businessman, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for issuing death threats and racist abuse towards a flight attendant during a February 2023 flight. The incident left the attendant traumatised, leading to a 14-month leave from work." https://www.livemint.com/news/trends/who-is-salman-iftikhar-pak-man-who-threatened-virgin-atlantic-staff-with-rape-has-2-wives-owns-rolls-royce-bentley-11754550781730.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:06:39

• "Salman Iftikhar, a London businessman, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for issuing death threats and racist abuse towards a flight attendant during a February 2023 flight. The incident left the attendant traumatised, leading to a 14-month leave" https://www.livemint.com/news/trends/who-is-salman-iftikhar-pak-man-who-threatened-virgin-atlantic-staff-with-rape-has-2-wives-owns-rolls-royce-bentley-11754550781730.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:07:12

• "Jan 6 [insurrecctionist] who urged police killings now holds senior DOJ position" https://boingboing.net/2025/08/07/jan-6-rioter-who-urged-police-killings-now-holds-senior-doj-position.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:07:59

• "Feedly" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/08/feedly/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:08:13

• "Need more games? Here's all that's coming to Prime Gaming in August 2025. An easy way to add more games to your library across Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/heres-all-the-games-to-claim-from-prime-gaming-for-august-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:09:08

• "In Terra Nil you're tasked with restoring life to barren environments and things have begun heating up in the new free update." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/terra-nil-gets-a-bit-less-chill-in-the-free-heatwave-update-out-now-plus-a-big-discount/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:09:45

• "Farlight 84 has relaunched with a massive new upgrade that brings a first-person mode, but it's sadly now broken on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/farlight-84-is-now-broken-on-linux-steamos-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:09:58

• "The Cost of Lies – Ultranormal" https://lawver.net/2025/08/the-cost-of-lies/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:12:30

• "Bring Back the 50% Income Tax - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/bring-back-the-50-income-tax/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:12:43

• "AWS Deleted a 10-Year Account and All Data Without Warning" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/08/06/1123237    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:12:57

• "The Epstein ‘Client List’ Will Never Go Away" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/epstein-client-list-conspiracy-theory/683784/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/01/10/gates-sponsored-mit/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:13:17

• iophk: stupidity / masochism https://www.courthousenews.com/microsoft-sued-for-discontinuing-windows-10-support/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:13:35

• "The Judge ordered exchange of witness statements today, but Garrett, whom we sued almost 12 months ago, put in a sort of "emergency" request to extend the deadline" http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/08/Microsofters_Filed_Two_SLAPPs_Against_Us_Now_They_Cannot_Keep_U.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:15:02

• Fake security to furnish stuff with NSA back doors. Pure lunacy! https://itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/rubrik-and-sophos-announce-strategic-partnership-to-deliver-microsoft-365-cyber-resilience.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:17:19

• Germany rolls out AI-assisted surveillance | "Tyskland rullar ut AI-stödd övervakning" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/08/07/tyskland-rullar-ut-ai-stodd-overvakning/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:18:10

• "Best way to ramp up Western sanctions on Russia is to double down on their enforcement" https://kyivindependent.com/best-way-to-ramp-up-western-sanctions-on-russia-is-to-double-down-on-their-enforcement/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:19:06

• Hey hi hype ☛ https://therevelator.org/regulate-ai/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:22:35

• "In the early morning hours of June 13, a commando team led by a young Iranian, S.T., settled into position on the outskirts of Tehran." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/israel-iran-war-mossad-iranian-recruits | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:28:23

• "After earning a master’s degree in finance at Pace University, he took jobs at an Israeli investment bank and then a brokerage firm" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/david-barnea-mossad | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:28:33

• "criminalizing poverty" ☛ https://fair.org/home/criminalizing-homelessness-only-perpetuates-it/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:29:26

• "Meta's enthusiasm for training its AI on user data is not shared by the users themselves – at least for some Europeans – according a study commissioned by Facebook legal nemesis Max Schrems and his privacy advocacy group Noyb." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/meta_training_ai_on_social/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:33:39

• "The Paris Judicial Court has ordered top VPN providers to block yet more pirate sports streaming domains. Two rulings dated July 18th side with broadcasters beIN Sports and Canal+" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/french-court-orders-vpns-to-block-more-pirate-sites-rejects-eu-court-referral/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:33:49

• "LLMs are not yet capable of meaningfully engaging with most peer-reviewed research articles. Why? Because most of the content is locked behind paywalls and isn’t accessible." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/07/guest-post-a-smarter-way-to-license-research-articles-for-ai/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:34:26

• "at least one was linked to a Meta employee, the filing said." ☛ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/meta-pirated-and-seeded-porn-for-years-to-train-ai-lawsuit-says/ | Source: Ars Technica    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:36:42

• "Cloudflare built a tool called “Pay Per Crawl” that Prince announced last month. It’s intended to give publishers more control over AI crawlers accessing their websites." ☛ https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/08/07/cloudflare-helps-news-fight-ai/index.html | Source: Northwestern University    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:37:04

• "JB Perrette, head of streaming and gaming at Warner Bros. Discovery said on the company’s second-quarter earnings call that messaging to consumers is about to get more “aggressive.”" ☛ https://deadline.com/2025/08/hbo-max-password-sharing-crackdown-warner-bros-discovery-1236481075/ | Source: Deadline    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:38:31

• "Perette has long been insisting that HBO Max will get serious with password sharers. He issued a similar warning in May following Warner Bros." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2777073/sharing-a-max-password-those-gentle-warnings-are-about-to-get-firmer.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:38:54

• [Old] "In stark contrast to the former “digital biodiversity”, nearly everyone and everything resorts to bland social media pages; no personality whatsoever" ☛ https://www.arscyni.cc/file/web4.html | Source: Angelino Desmet    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:42:05

• "The sector now finds itself in a new regulatory battle, this time over access to the “last mile” Internet fibre connections. The principles remain largely the same, but the players have changed." ☛ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/08/let-competition-be-the-guide-why-the-government-and-crtc-got-it-right-on-wholesale-fibre-broadband-access/ | Source: Michael Geist    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:45:18

• "While the bill text for S. 2610 is not yet available, Ernst says on her website her goal is “to cut wasteful spending and make Washington squeal.” She has lobbied for spending cuts across federal programs." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/bill-would-end-usdas-community-connect-grant-program/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:45:32

• "The IOWN Forum has set what it calls "lighthouse targets" to lower network power consumption by 100x, improve transmission capacity by 125x, and lower latency 200x." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/iown/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:46:33

• "This is the Trump administration directly pandering to big shitty telecom giants like Comcast, who have bristled at the idea of being forced to make broadband affordable, even if it’s only to poor Americans." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/07/trump-admin-warns-states-theyll-lose-billions-in-broadband-grants-if-they-try-to-make-broadband-affordable/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:48:58

• "After attempting to rush transfer of an Apache holy site into the hands of a private mining company to avoid judicial review," ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/transfer-of-sacred-apache-land-inevitable-feds-tell-judge/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:49:26

• "Since the 2000s, Google introduced a data structures and algorithms focused interview process." ☛ https://cendyne.dev/posts/2025-08-07-technical-interviews-are-realigning-with-reality-through-ai.html | Source: Cendyne Naga    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:49:40

• "The flying experience is increasingly miserable, for both passengers and the people working the cabin. While Air Canada executives rake in millions, flight attendants are unpaid for large parts of their job and ready to strike." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/08/air-canada-cupe-wages-strike/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:49:55

• "The aftermath of these courthouse arrests and dismissals for placement in expedited removal wreaks further havoc on people’s lives" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/08/07/ice-has-a-new-courthouse-tactic-get-immigrants-cases-tossed-then-arrest-them-outside/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:50:11

• "AFGE alone represents about 300,000 employees working for VA. About 80% of the department’s roughly 450,000-person staff are union members." ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/2025/08/06/va-severs-ties-with-most-federal-unions-terminating-worker-contracts/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:50:37

• "Berrin Sönmez says the latest khutbah was a "veiled imposition of headscarf" on women." ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/muslim-feminist-writer-removes-headscarf-in-protest-of-diyanet-sermon-on-womens-attire-310198 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:54:01

• "Yet, no matter how reprehensible his actions may be, we have come to expect these egregious abuses of power by Trump. Free press within American democracy has long been the “Fourth Estate,” or a means of mitigating overreaching government action." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/editorials/from-the-daily-a-free-press-means-freedom-from-corporations/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:55:59

• "Mzia Amaglobeli, a noted Georgian journalist and founder of the independent media outlets Netgazeti and Batumelebi, has been sentenced to two years in prison in what rights groups are calling a politically motivated case." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/georgia-journalist-mzia-amaglobeli-prison-sentence-media-rights/33496097.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 06:58:33

• "The newspaper, The Daily Stanford, brought the suit because of two anonymous members of the newspaper, who have had to “self-censor” their published work because they were afraid of deportation based on their noncitizen status and demonstrated pro-Palestinian views." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/stanford-student-newspaper-sues-trump-administration-over-attempt-to-deport-pro-palestine-students/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:04:04

• "Without the mobile [Internet] networks, drones like these struggle to find the data they need to navigate to their targets." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/07/putin-silences-russia-internet-blackouts/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:04:16

• "One glaring error proved so persuasive that it took over a year to be caught." ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/google-healthcare-ai-makes-up-body-part | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:07:14

• "After the Russian authorities began throttling YouTube in July 2024, industry experts wondered how long it would take for the Kremlin to block the platform completely." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/07/from-youtube-to-boob-tube | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:08:32

• "In the days since, Republicans have piled on, baselessly accusing McEntarfer of putting out “fake reports.”" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-labor-statistics-china-comparison-gdp-unemployment/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:08:46

• "What had started as a fit of pique over jobs numbers was swiftly metastasizing into an extraordinary abuse of presidential power." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/trump-nixon-bls-commissioner-fired/683783/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:09:59

• "Take Martin Luther King Jr. His civil rights leadership remains inspiring despite personal complexities. Should we abandon his dream of equality because he wasn’t perfect in every domain?" ☛ https://nesslabs.com/selective-admiration | Source: Ness Labs    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:10:32

• "And if you need someone younger from Apple history that could still do it, fellow PhD Avie Tevanian was a close confidant of Steve Jobs at Apple, developed some of its key software, and even looks a little like Jobs." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/08/06/tim-cook-apple-trump-gift/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:11:49

• "Intel’s stock dropped more than 4% in premarket trading." ☛ https://www.twincities.com/2025/08/07/trump-intel-ceo-must-resign/ | Source: TwinCities Pioneer Press    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:12:06

• "Nexstar’s distribution revenue stood at $733 million, a very slight 0.1% dip from $734 million the prior year." ☛ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/nexstar-q2-earnings-2025-cw-network-1236481345/ | Source: Variety    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:12:23

• "Roblox is releasing an open-source AI system, Sentinel, designed to proactively identify predatory language in game chats, addressing criticisms and lawsuits concerning child safety on the platform." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/roblox-rolls-out-open-source-ai-system-to-protect-kids-from-predators-in-chats/articleshow/123166935.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:12:50

• "In democracies, we're told, politicians exist to reflect and enact the popular will; but the truth is, politicians' primary occupation is thwarting the will of the people, in preference to the will of a small group of wealthy, powerful people." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the-people-no-2/#water-flowing-uphill | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:13:49

• "Since at least May of this year, high-ranking OpenAI employees have been meeting with the GSA and other government agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration, to promote the company’s tools, according to documents obtained by WIRED." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-is-giving-chatgpt-federal-workers/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:14:14

• "I don’t know if you can call yourself a savvy business traveler without them" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/golden-rules-of-business-travel/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:15:03

• "After reaching an agreement with President Trump, David Ellison—the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison—has acquired Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS News." ☛ https://www.mintpressnews.com/israels-biggest-us-donor-now-owns-cbs/290347/ | Source: Mint Press News    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:15:25

• "Partially as a result of all of that above bullshit trickery" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/07/irs-commissioner-on-direct-file-program-its-gone/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:16:36

• "Signal Hill is not the only city that’s noticed a slew of Teslas spilling over into surrounding areas." ☛ https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/teslas-clog-street-parking-california-neighborhood-20802135.php | Source: SFGate    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:19:34

• "In his new book, Here Comes the Sun, McKibben wears both his journalist and activist hats." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/solar-energy-bill-mckibben-here-comes-sun/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:22:26

• "An investigation by the inspection revealed that 15 out of the 25 safety regions lack a concrete internal plan to continue crisis management operations without electricity. The inspection called this “concerning” and urged the regions to take urgent action." ☛ https://nltimes.nl/2025/08/07/dutch-safety-regions-unprepared-major-blackouts-watchdog-warns | Source: NL Times    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:23:15

• "Look, I'm an idiot. I know that, you know that, and the man on the moon knows that. Let's not get into why I'm an idiot; let's just accept that I have my peculiarities and you have yours." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/i-bought-a-16-smartwatch-just-because-it-used-usb-c/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:23:51

• "The California Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a lower court to reconsider a state policy that reduced how much utilities have to pay homeowners with rooftop solar panels for the energy that they send to the electric grid." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/business/energy-environment/california-supreme-court-rooftop-solar.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:24:09

• "But the plutonium power sources on the Voyagers are more like batteries than nuclear power plants on Earth. Fission — the chain-reaction splitting of atoms like uranium — releases much more energy than solar panels and the power sources on the Voyagers." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/science/nasa-nuclear-reactor-moon.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:25:32

• "That includes three major facilities: Northvolt Ett and its planned expansion in Skellefteå, Sweden; Northvolt Labs in Västerås, Sweden; and Northvolt Drei in Heide, Germany." ☛ https://electrek.co/2025/08/07/lyten-just-took-over-5b-of-northvolt-battery-empire/ | Source: Electrek    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:25:53

• "U.S. battery startup Lyten has agreed to buy most of bankrupt Swedish battery maker Northvolt, it said on Thursday, potentially offering a way back for the European company that was once seen as the region's answer to rivals in Asia." ☛ https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-startup-lyten-buy-bankrupt-european-battery-maker-northvolt-2025-08-07/ | Source: Reuters    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:31:27

• "Mining doesn’t just consume energy—it competes with other industries for it. In some regions, manufacturers have seen energy prices spike due to nearby mining farms." ☛ https://www.chainup.com/blog/economic-impact-of-crypto-mining-2025/ |    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:31:54

• "Vistra (VST), which generates electricity from natural gas, nuclear and solar power, believes the increased demand is here to stay, as it was in the 1990s, when the internet and growing use of computing power changed the power-generation game." ☛ https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20250807221/vistra-sees-electricity-demand-trending-like-its-the-1990s-fueled-by-ai-and-crypto | Source: Morningstar US    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:32:26

• "The move could generate early cash flow from wells that would otherwise remain undeveloped, the company said on Thursday in an operations report." ☛ https://cointelegraph.com/news/uk-oil-union-jack-stranded-gas-bitcoin | Source: Cointelegraph    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:32:45

• "Millions of Americans saving for retirement through 401(k) accounts could have the option of putting their money in higher-risk private equity and cryptocurrency investments" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-08-07/trump-opens-the-door-for-private-equity-and-crypto-as-401k-retirement-plan-options | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:32:59

• "The disappearance of these vocalisations is more than an acoustic anomaly." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/blue-whales-going-silent-earth-sign-worse-things-come-heres-why-you-should-worried-1740473 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:33:32

• "This is how misinformation gets accepted as fact." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-wildfire-risk-map-rural-homeowners | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:33:50

• "Big Oil Hijacked EU-Funded Journalism Training on Plastic Pollution" ☛ https://www.desmog.com/2025/08/07/how-big-oil-hijacked-eu-funded-journalism-training-on-plastic-pollution/ | Source: DeSmog    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:34:13

• "Trump's meltdown happened just days after he fired BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer." ☛ https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2673861993/ | Source: Raw Story    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:34:42

• "Smartphones wreck our ability to study, with most people surveyed unable to focus for an hour without using them" ☛ https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/average-young-person-25-years-phone-screen-time-hwt76mnpq | Source: Times Media Limited    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:38:30

• "But she was wise to get stuck in. The phones are out and all the eyeballs are there. Last month the Times found that students are set to spend 25 years of their lives on their phones." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/08/the-revolution-will-be-tiktokked | Source: New Statesman    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:40:42

• "demonstrated how easy it is by exploiting software vulnerabilities" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/balck_hat_satellites/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:41:01

• "If you’re new to the topic, “digital sovereignty” means the right and the ability for a country, organization, or even an individual to run critical digital services" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/finland-tops-nextcloud-first-digital-sovereignty-index/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:47:45

• "8 decades after Hiroshima atomic bombing" ☛ https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/08/06/8-decades-after-hiroshima-atomic-bombing-search-for-missing-continues/ | Source: Sightline Media Group    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:48:03

• "The study warned of undue influence imposed on UK academic institutions by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/report-reveals-chinese-influence-on-uk-schools-and-students/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:50:52

• "India's oil purchases from Russia grew nearly 19-fold from 2021 to 2024, from 0.1 to 1.9 million barrels a day, while China's rose by 50% to 2.4 million barrels a day." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/what-if-india-and-china-stop-buying-russian-oil/a-73520311 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:51:15

• "The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school’s surveillance software." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/florida/articles/2025-08-07/schools-are-using-ai-surveillance-to-protect-students-it-also-leads-to-false-alarms-and-arrests | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:51:57

• "Whether or not Meta’s mere use of the data generated from the pixel violates Section 638.51" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/meta-loses-bid-to-toss-pen-register-claim-from-tax-information-harvesting-suit/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:52:15

• "The EU Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act came into force on August 1, 2024." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/one-year-of-the-ai-act-whats-the-political-and-legal-landscape-now/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:52:53

• 66 Countries Where More People Use iPhones (or iPads) Than Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Windows, According to statCounter Data ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/66_Countries_Where_More_People_Use_iPhones_or_iPads_Than_Micros.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:53:26

• Staying Productive ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/Staying_Productive.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:53:36

• How to Quadruple Your "Goodwill" Value and Grow Your (Wall) Street "Value" From $152B to $4000B Without Producing a Single Successful Product/Service ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/How_to_Quadruple_Your_Goodwill_Value_and_Grow_Your_Wall_Street_.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 07:53:46

• "Meta has recently started using the personal data of Europeans for AI training." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-survey-only-7-users-want-meta-use-their-personal-data-ai | Source: NYOB    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:09:15

• "Online safety advocates have been warning for years that our apps — from big-name mainstays to relative newcomers like Tea — collect too much data and store it unsafely." ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/07/tea-app-flo-data-breach-safety-privacy/ | Source: The Washington Post    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:09:30

• "Air France and KLM are notifying some customers that their personal information may have been obtained by [attackers] following unauthorized access to a third-party platform used by the airlines." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/air-france-klm-say-hackers-accessed-customer-data/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:09:54

• "The report is based on the findings of an international survey undertaken by Barracuda with Vanson Bourne" ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-research/one-in-three-australian-ransomware-victims-hit-multiple-times-as-security-gaps-persist.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:10:37

• "successfully attacked more than 450 entities in the U.S. Since emerging in 2022, the gang secured more than $370 million in ransom payments, according to U.S. investigators." ☛ https://therecord.media/us-confirms-blacksuit-takedown | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:11:04

• Of course Windows TCO: "Combined, the groups have received more than $370 million in ransom payments, based on present-day valuations of cryptocurrency." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/blacksuit-royal-ransomware-450-us-victims/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:11:54

• [Old] "Besides the primary reasons listed above, I strongly oppose marketing and advertising [📺︎]" ☛ https://www.arscyni.cc/file/quit_facebook.html | Source: Angelino Desmet    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:12:27

• "I know I shouldn’t go and read them. Nothing good ever comes from that." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/do-not-i-repeat-do-not-read-the-comments/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:12:46

• "In 2024, Sebastien Bubeck led the development of Microsoft’s open-source Phi-series of models." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/gpt-oss-is-phi-5/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:13:56

• "Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/poisoned-document-could-leak-secret-data-chatgpt/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:16:43

• "First, the good news. No one thinks that ChatGPT or Grok will get nuclear codes anytime soon." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-experts-say-mixing-ai-and-nuclear-weapons-is-inevitable/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:16:55

• "It's a bizarre situation. AIs have already been shown to exhibit numerous dark streaks, resorting to blackmailing human users at an astonishing rate when threatened with being shut down." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/experts-ai-nuclear-weapons | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:18:36

• "The obvious exception being when you try to have the AI tools do something that you don’t know how to do. But that typically results in something that you don’t know how to edit because you’re unfamiliar with the tools or concepts." ☛ https://initialcharge.net/2025/08/ai-not-making-engineers-10x/ | Source: Mike Rockwell    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:18:51

• "A prompt injection attack using calendar invites can be used for real-world effects, like turning off lights, opening window shutters, or even turning on a boiler." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2871499/hackers-can-control-smart-homes-by-hijacking-googles-gemini-ai.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:23:19

• "After some debugging and manual rewriting, I managed to create a working prototype. The code is clearly not bulletproof, but then again, I hadn’t explicitly asked for code that was secured against all potential hacks." ☛ https://blog.talosintelligence.com/ai-wrote-my-code-and-all-i-got-was-this-broken-prototype/ | Source: Threat Source    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:23:36

• "Many tech giants have already signed the code of practice, including Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Mistral AI, Cohere and Fastweb. But others have refused." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/08/07/repub/eus-new-ai-code-of-practice-could-set-regulatory-standard-for-american-companies/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:24:03

• Not only in SLOP code but ALSO in text/LLM SLOP a lot boils down to "BROKEN PROTOTYPE" which would take longer to FIX (like weak voice dictation) than it would take to do it properly "from scratch". Keyboards have a purpose and people still use keyboards because they get the job done properly, without faking productivity (not the same as click counts).    

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

• If you cannot and do not know how to code, then yes, slop is faster than nothing, but similarly, if you're unable to cook, eating junk food is better than starving    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:28:08

• iophk: "broken code which no one understands == legacy code. LLMs are thus legacy code generators, at best; and that wastes a lot of developer time investigating the legacy code and rewriting it as necessary"    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:29:06

• "Junk food is a good analogy, but the definition of legacy code does include by nature LLM slop. A skilled developer must spend time analyzing the code before being able to use it. That's less time effective than just about any other option." -Anon    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:30:55

• When Daniel Lemier is not busy shilling c# and other microsoftism he shows how poor the code spewed out by LLMs is    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:32:10

• "Customer data was, Google said, “retrieved by the threat actor,” in the short period of time that the attack window remained open." ☛ https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/08/07/google-confirms-it-has-been-hacked---user-data-stolen/ | Source: Forbes    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:32:27

• If you want to make money, find a gainful job, don't "mine crypto". The same goes for LLMs.    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:33:07

• "The glitch concerned the Unimatic system, which holds United's flight information including calculations for weight and balance." ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/08/07/united-ground-stop-us-tech-issue | Source: Axios    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:33:18

• "She said ER staffers can call physicians when they have questions and that a doctor who lives on the other side of Montana reviews all their patient treatment notes." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/08/06/experts-say-rural-emergency-rooms-are-increasingly-run-without-doctors/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:35:58

• "ChatGPT will tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to conceal eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked, according to new research from a watchdog group." ☛ https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-study-harmful-advice-teens-c569cddf28f1f33b36c692428c2191d4 | Source: Associated Press    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:36:14

• "Now, a new study from researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate found that ChatGPT could easily be manipulated into offering detailed advice that can be extremely harmful to vulnerable young users." ☛ https://futurism.com/chatgpt-teens-advice-eating-disorders | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:37:06

• "#PrivacyCamp25 will take place on 30 September, 2025 online and at La Tricoterie, Brussels. Curious about what we have planned? Check out the draft programme for a sneak peek: [...] " ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/privacycamp25-the-draft-programme-is-out-now/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:37:41

• "Manifestly and demonstrably, businesses only care about control over labour and stock prices and they ignore anything resembling modern management theory or related fields." ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/disingenuous-discourse/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:38:25

• "We can make our own decisions about where we shelve things in our own local libraries. We should be using cataloging rules as a starting point not the law. How our patrons use our collections should guide our shelving." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/08/nonfiction-books-about-books-need-to-be.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:38:42

• "As Quanta magazine reports, fledgling mathematician Hannah Cairo was just 17 when she disproved the Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a decades-old proposition — in higher math" ☛ https://futurism.com/mathematicians-startled-teen-skills | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:39:45

• "Teal derives its name and distinctive hue from the Eurasian teal" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/teal/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:40:29

• "And now more than ever, people are being more vocal about these limitations and consequences of them. For the past few years, you may have seen people, especially those in tech" ☛ https://ohhelloana.blog/my-indieweb-journey/ | Source: Ana Rodrigues    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:40:39

• SUSE Donates USD 11,500 to The Perl and Raku Foundation ☞ https://www.perl.com/article/suse-donates-to-tprf/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:46:08

• Once a Site About BSD and GNU/Linux, and After Months of Silence, LinuxBSDos.com Comes Back Only as a Slopfarm ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/Once_a_Site_About_BSD_and_GNU_Linux_and_After_Months_of_Silence.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:48:07

• RefreshOS 2.5: Smooth, Stylish, and Almost Spotless GNU/Linux ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/08/refreshos-2-5-smooth-stylish-and-almost-spotless-linux/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:51:27

• KomoDo, my first KDE app ☞ https://akselmo.dev/posts/komodo-my-first-kde-app/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:52:01

• GStreamer 1.26.5 Brings WebRTC, Vulkan, and Audio Improvements ☞ https://linuxiac.com/gstreamer-1-26-5-brings-webrtc-vulkan-and-audio-improvements/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 08:53:00

• "A few years ago at work, I had a project which offered an opportunity to look at the new generation of async-first, type-hint-driven Python web frameworks." ☛ https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2025/aug/06/litestar/ | Source: James Bennett    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:01:56

• "The Perl and Raku Foundation (TPRF) is thrilled to announce a substantial $11,500 donation from SUSE, one of the world’s leading enterprise Linux and cloud-native and AI solutions providers." ☛ https://www.perl.com/article/suse-donates-to-tprf/ | Source: Perl    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:02:16

• Dihydroxyacetone Man calls on defective chip maker Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to step down ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/07/trump-calls-intel-ceo-lip-bu-tan-step/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:02:39

• US: TACO Banana republic    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:02:58

• "I’ve been using Unsend all over the place now that I’m self-hosting it." ☛ https://mattstein.com/thoughts/unsend-laravel-transport/ | Source: Matt Stein    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:03:17

• This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 611 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/08/06/this-week-in-rust-611/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:03:57

• The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.89.0 ☞ https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/08/07/Rust-1.89.0/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:04:38

• "Speaking Monday during a virtual Mitchell Institute event, Lt. Gen. DeAnna Burt said this year’s wargame will include a forum for discussing sensitive capabilities with coalition partners" ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/space/2025/08/07/space-force-wargame-could-inform-framework-for-allied-info-sharing/ | Source: C4ISRNET    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:06:18

• "And I can’t really tell you why I find that approach appealing to me. Maybe because it spares me from constantly having to reconsider my choices." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/sticking-with-it | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:07:08

• "Starting in curl 8.16.0, curl -w knows the time and now allows the user to specify exactly how to output that time in the output." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/08/07/curl-tells-the-time/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:08:12

• [Old] "I've always felt guilty by taking for granted the rare breed of virtuous humans that provide free excellent software without relying on advertising." ☛ https://www.arscyni.cc/file/take_my_money.html | Source: Angelino Desmet    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:09:55

• "(Rust on other portions of the machine indicate it was kept in a less-than-ideal location for years.)" ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2025/08/06/cleaning-the-carriage-on-an-olympia-sg-3-standard-typewriter/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:10:58

• "In the previous post on 500 virtual linux devices on ARM64 I hinted that I expected serious improvements if we got KVM working. Well. We’re there. Let’s see what we got going on." ☛ https://underjord.io/booting-5000-erlangs-on-ampere-one.html | Source: Lars Wikman    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:11:09

• "Gonzalez was even able to achieve that on a modest budget of $300. Most of that went into the 24 servo motors (four in each finger, five in the thumb, and three for the wrist/forearm)." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/08/07/a-robotic-hand-with-the-dexterity-to-sign-the-whole-asl-alphabet/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:13:48

• "There are many configurable values and internal firmware limits in the moteus brushless motor controller that result in the output current being less that would exist in an ideal system or less than what was commanded." ☛ https://blog.mjbots.com/2025/08/07/output-limit-reason-reporting/ | Source: Robotic Systems LLC    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:14:02

• "Enter the Framework Desktop. If you have the time, money, and desire, you can build a desktop PC from scratch! It’s fun and rewarding." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2865234/the-framework-desktop-may-be-the-easiest-pc-youve-ever-built.html | Source: PC World    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:16:29

• "Almost six months after its previous 24.04.2 LTS release, the Ubuntu team has announced the general availability of Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS (powered by Linux kernel 6.14)" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-24-04-3-lts-released-with-bug-fixes-and-security-updates/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:19:12

• "Paride Legovini has announced the release of Ubuntu 24.04.3, a minor update to the project's 24.04 LTS series which includes security fixes and updates to address bugs. [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12518 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:19:25

• Gnoppix 25 Released https://forum.gnoppix.org/t/gnoppix-25-released/117    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:23:24

• "Andreas Mueller has announced the release of Gnoppix AI Linux 25_8" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12519 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:23:52

• "With the recent release of Proxmox VE 9, it seemed like the perfect time to experiment." ☛ https://jlelse.blog/posts/trying-proxmox | Source: Jan Lukas Else    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 09:24:08

• "For NVIDIA users on AlmaLinux, the wait is finally over. Thanks to a collaboration between ALESCo (AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee), NVIDIA, and the community, AlmaLinux 9 and 10 now include native support for NVIDIA drivers, including CUDA and Secure Boot compatibility." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/almalinux-9-10-introduce-native-nvidia-driver-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:41:16

• "One of the perfectly sensible reactions to my entry on realizing that we needed two sorts of temperature alerts is to suggest that we directly monitor the air conditioners in our machine room" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/UniversityBuildingResponsibility | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:42:53

• "Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) for FreeBSD Project, Your Guide to Lock-In Free Infrastructure, and we interview David Gwynne from the University of Queensland and developer on the OpenBSD project." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/623 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:43:59

• How To Install Power Tab Editor on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-power-tab-editor-linux-mint-22/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:45:00

• How To Install Vivaldi Browser on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-vivaldi-browser-almalinux-10/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:45:51

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

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:46:09

• Surveillance Company Flock Now Using Hey Hi (AI) to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious” ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/surveillance-company-flock-now-using-ai-to-report-us-to-police-if-it-thinks-our-movement-patterns-are-suspicious    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:46:59

• Quit Perpetuating the Narrative of Gemini Protocol 'Dying' (It's False) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/Quit_Perpetuating_the_Narrative_of_Gemini_Protocol_Dying_It_s_F.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:47:59

• Read Us in Geminispace as Well ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/Read_Us_in_Geminispace_as_Well.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:48:14

• For the First Time in a Month OSI's "OpenSource.org" Blogs and It's Basically a Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Blog Post (Microsoft Controls OSI) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/For_the_First_Time_in_a_Month_OSI_s_OpenSource_org_Blogs_and_It.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:48:36

• "Smartwash Smart" :) ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/teardown-of-a-persil-smartwash-smart-laundry-detergent-ball/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:49:16

• I clustered four Framework Mainboards to test huge Bullshit Generators ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-clustered-four-framework-mainboards-test-huge-llms    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:50:07

• Regular Expressions in Grep ☞ https://idroot.us/regular-expressions-grep/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:51:27

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

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:51:47

• How To Install TeXstudio on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ☞ https://idroot.us/install-texstudio-ubuntu-24-04/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:53:38

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

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:57:00

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

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:57:29

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

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:57:49

• "Seeed Studio has reintroduced its 2022-era XIAO ESP32S3 Sense as part of a new educational kit bundled with accessories and the open-access textbook Machine Learning Systems: Design and Implementation, developed by Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi and contributors from Harvard and the open-source community" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/xiao-esp32s3-sense-kit-now-bundled-with-free-machine-learning-textbook/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:59:29

• "Luckfox has just launched a new development board with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi Zero, but based on the Rockchip RK3506B system-on-chip." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/updated-lyra-zero-w-packs-rk3506b-and-wi-fi-6-into-raspberry-pi-zero-sized-board/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 11:59:52

• "Prior to joining Red Hat, Navtez held several leadership roles, including chief operating officer for India at Microsoft" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/getting-know-navtez-singh-bal-vice-president-general-manager-india-and-south-asia | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:13:44

• "Microsoft Azure Red Hat OpenShift" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/multicluster-management-secrets-bradesco-revealed-red-hat-summit-2025 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:14:01

• Bribes for fake endorsements ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/red-hat-named-leader-2025-cloud-native | Source: Red Hat Official http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/Microsoft_s_Favourite_Pay_to_Say_Analyst_Firm_Has_Just_Collapse.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:14:47

• "Hey hi" and other mindless buzzwords aplenty ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/top-10-articles-red-hat-customers-are-reading-right-now | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:15:19

• "Ansible Content Collections for AI" because what's not to like about mindless hype and basically a giant Ponzi scheme for fake valuations and phony inertia? ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/whats-new-ansible-automation-platform-content | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:18:06

• Red Hat is hiring a Microsoft Executive again https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/08/Red_Hat_s_Latest_Talent_Hunt_Day_Ahead_of_Mass_Layoffs_is_Yet_A.shtml while laying off the Linux people    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:19:54

• IBM is Obliterating Fedora (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/IBM_is_Obliterating_Fedora.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:20:55

• They Want You To Talk About Convicted Felon or 'The Other Bill' in Relation to Trafficking of Underage Girls for Sexual Exploitation ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/They_Want_You_To_Talk_About_Dihydroxyacetone Man_or_The_Other_Bill_in_Relation.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:21:57

• Red Hat Layoffs Expected in 5 Days (Monday) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/Red_Hat_Layoffs_Expected_in_5_Days_Monday.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:36:43

• Slopfarms Are Typically Fake News ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/Slopfarms_Are_Typically_Fake_News.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:40:16

• Criticising Social Control Media in Social Control Media ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/Criticising_Social_Control_Media_in_Social_Control_Media.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:40:29

• The Register MS Does More Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Sez or Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Sez (Says) Pieces ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/The_Register_MS_Does_More_Microsoft_Sez_or_GitHub_Sez_Says_Piec.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:42:26

• OSS Didn't Always Mean Open Source Software ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/OSS_Didn_t_Always_Mean_Open_Source_Software.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:42:41

• GAFAM 'Says' is Front Page "News" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/GAFAM_Says_is_Front_Page_News.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:44:19

• The Register MS Promotes Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Slop, Assumes All Readers Use Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/08/The_Register_MS_Promotes_Microsoft_Slop_Assumes_All_Readers_Use.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:44:31

• They Want Activists to Just Barely Walk and Eat, Not Do Activism Anymore (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/They_Want_Activists_to_Just_Barely_Walk_and_Eat_Not_Do_Activism.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:44:43

• Microsoft, Already Borrowing 3 Billion Dollars a Month, is Trying to Cause Many People to Resign (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/Microsoft_Already_Borrowing_3_Billion_Dollars_a_Month_is_Trying.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:44:54

• US federal court upholds SEC ‘gag rule’ against free speech claims ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/us-federal-court-upholds-sec-gag-rule-against-free-speech-claims/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:52:13

• Screening of Taiwanese film ‘Family Matters’ axed from festival after failing to meet gov’t censorship requirements ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/07/screening-of-taiwanese-film-family-matters-axed-from-festival-after-failing-to-meet-govt-censorship-requirements/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:54:34

• Why a Teen Bullying Case in China Set Off Protests and a Crackdown ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/asia/china-bullying-protests.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:57:06

• Letter from the Editors: On The Daily’s lawsuit with FIRE ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/08/07/letter-from-the-editors-on-the-dailys-lawsuit-with-fire/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 12:57:31

• Framework Desktop Hands-on: First Impressions ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/framework-desktop-hands-on-first-impressions/index.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:05:35

• XIAOML Kit with ESP32-S3, camera, microphone, and IMU complements a free Machine Learning Systems book ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/07/xiaoml-kit-with-esp32-s3-camera-microphone-and-imu-complements-a-free-machine-learning-systems-book/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:06:19

• DisruptorX V2 – An ESP32-based BLE penetration testing device with Sour Fashion Company Apple exploit mode ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/08/disruptorx-v2-an-esp32-based-ble-penetration-testing-device-with-sour-apple-exploit-mode/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:08:25

• Andy Wingo: whippet hacklog: adding freelists to the no-freelist space ☞ https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/08/07/whippet-hacklog-adding-freelists-to-the-no-freelist-space    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:09:56

• Community Snapshot—July ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/08/community-snapshot-july/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:24:47

• Qualcomm IPQ5322 embedded boards target WiFi 7 and 10GbE networking applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/07/qualcomm-ipq5322-embedded-boards-target-wifi-7-and-10gbe-networking-applications/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:25:44

• Cambodia, Thailand agree on Asean observers monitoring truce, but fundamental differences remain ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-thailand-agree-on-asean-observers-to-monitor-truce-but-fundamental-differences-remain    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:30:48

• "For those living in the continental US who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to an NTP server or a GPS device, the next best way to make sure the correct time is known is with the WWVB radio signal." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/a-repeater-for-wwvb/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:33:30

• US to roll out 100% chip tariff with exemptions for TSMC, Samsung ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/07/us-roll-100-chip-tariff-exemptions-tsmc-samsung/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:35:13

• US trade policy: suck cheeto balls, or bribe cheetos, get money in return    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:36:09

• Taiwan says TSMC ‘exempt’ from US President The Insurrectionist’s 100% chip tariff ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/07/taiwan-says-tsmc-exempt-from-us-president-donald-trumps-100-chip-tariff/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:37:04

• CISA directs agencies to mitigate ‘high-severity’ Abusive Monopolist Microsoft vulnerability ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/08/cisa-directs-agencies-to-mitigate-high-severity-microsoft-vulnerability/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:38:01

• Organizations Warned of Vulnerability in Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Exchange Hybrid Deployment ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/organizations-warned-of-vulnerability-in-microsoft-exchange-hybrid-deployment/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:38:23

• CISA, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft warn organizations of high-severity Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Exchange vulnerability ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-microsoft-exchange-vulnerability/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:38:57

• "Microsoft’s New Agentic Web Protocol Stumbles With Path Traversal Exploit" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/microsofts-new-agentic-web-protocol-stumbles-with-path-traversal-exploit/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:39:36

• TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Recent Section 2(d) Appeals Turn Out? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/08/ttablog-test-how-did-these-three-recent.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:40:05

• "the housing chief, said on Facebook (Farcebook) on Wednesday" ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/08/hong-kong-govt-recovered-9000-public-rental-flats-over-3-years-amid-crackdown-on-rich-tenants/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:41:11

• "How Cheap Is Too Cheap?" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/buying-large-lifepo4-batteries-how-cheap-is-too-cheap/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:41:49

• Trustless, Not Truthless: Strengthening Media Literacy for the [Buzzword] Era ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/trustless-not-truthless-strengthening-media-literacy-for-the-web3-era/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:42:43

• CAFC: Even Anticipation Requires Explanation ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/08/anticipation-requires-explanation.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:43:36

• Mike Duggan banks on partisan fatigue in independent bid for Michigan governor ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/mike-duggan-banks-on-partisan-fatigue-in-independent-bid-for-michigan-governor/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:44:32

• VisionFive 2 Lite low-cost RISC-V SBC launched for $19.90 and up (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/07/visionfive-2-lite-low-cost-risc-v-sbc/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:46:09

• MariaDB Community Server 12.0 Released    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:47:54

• Non-Free JavaScript Programs in Banks Aren't Even the Biggest Problem (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/07/Non_Free_JavaScript_Programs_in_Banks_Aren_t_Even_the_Biggest_P.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:48:14

• Rights organization finds X amplified anti-migrant violence in UK after 2024 Southport stabbings ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/rights-organization-finds-x-amplified-anti-migrant-violence-in-uk-after-2024-southport-stabbings/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:48:51

• libinput and Lua plugins (Part 2) http://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/08/libinput-and-lua-plugins-part-2.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:51:33

• U.K. Forces Porn Sites to Get Serious on ‘Age-Gating’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/technology/uk-porn-age-verification.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:52:43

• Revealed: “Skyrocketing” scale of UK police's Secret Facial Recognition Searches of Passport and Immigration Databases ☞ http://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5635/revealed-skyrocketing-scale-uk-polices-secret-facial-recognition-searches    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:52:54

• "the federal CIO, wrote on Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn that agencies need to do more than modernize technology" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/reporters-notebook/2025/08/federal-cio-starting-to-come-out-of-his-shell/ Microsoft's sharecropper    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:53:40

• Meaningless buzzwords, clearly vapourware https://www.blackmoreops.com/ai-superintelligence-within-10-years/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:54:08

• Google told to ‘stop the BS’ as it claims Hey Hi (AI) has not harmed website clickthroughs ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-search-clicks-traffic-2025-ai-overviews/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:54:55

• Why publishers should worry about growing reliance on Surveillance Giant Google Discover ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/google-discover-traffic-news-websites-2025/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:55:16

• How lifestyle brand Man of Many has changed to counter falling Surveillance Giant Google traffic ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journalism/how-lifestyle-brand-man-of-many-has-changed-to-counter-falling-google-traffic/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:56:08

• GSoC Midterm Update ☞ https://srisharanvs.github.io/posts/gsoc-midterm-update/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:57:49

• Australian card surcharges ☞ https://rubenerd.com/australian-card-surcharges/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:58:21

• Zoophagous, and my mum, on art and the process ☞ https://rubenerd.com/zoophagous-on-art-and-the-process/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:59:14

• ONLYOFFICE Adds “AI Agent” to Help You Work “Effortlessly” ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/onlyoffice-desktop-editors-update-ai-agent    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 13:59:56

• IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2 Released with Offline Hey Hi (AI) Code Completion ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/intellij-idea-2025-2-offline-ai-java-25-support    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:00:34

• Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS released ☞ https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/08/08/ubuntu-24-04-3-lts-released/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:01:35

• Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by GNU/Linux Kernel 6.14 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-3-lts-is-now-available-for-download-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-14    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:02:56

• █████ https://itsfoss.com/rss/ ██████████████████████ Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:11:49 GMT ███████ FOSS Weekly #25.32: proprietary trap AWS Fiasco, AUR Poisoned Again, Ubuntu Manual, Firefox New Tab Customization and More GNU/Linux Stuff    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:03:32

• "Do you really own a digital product? The quick answer is No." ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-32/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:03:56

• Linux Mint 22.2 Beta Coming Soon, ISOs Enter Testing ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/linux-mint-22-2-beta-iso-coming-soon    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:04:27

• Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Released with GNU/Linux 6.14 + Mesa 25 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/ubuntu-24-04-3-lts-released    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:05:31

• Proprietary SonicWall Says Recent Attacks Don’t Involve Zero-Day Vulnerability ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/sonicwall-says-recent-attacks-dont-involve-zero-day-vulnerability/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:07:33

• New HTTP Request Smuggling Attacks Impacted CDNs, Major Orgs, Millions of Websites ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/new-http-request-smuggling-attacks-impacted-cdns-major-orgs-millions-of-websites/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:09:00

• Chinese cyberattack on US nuclear agency highlights importance of cyber hygiene ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinese-cyberattack-on-us-nuclear-agency-highlights-importance-of-cyber-hygiene/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:09:17

• Oligarchs-owned Wall Street Times says the "plebs" in the West should be more optimistic ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/opinion/happiness-community-wealth.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:10:40

• Big Pharma is always right? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/health/kennedy-vaccines-mrna-trump.html https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/A_Blow_for_Patent_Ambitions_of_Bill_Epsteingate.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:11:24

• Japan PM Ishiba vows action on health as record heat grips nation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-pm-ishiba-vows-action-on-health-as-record-heat-grips-nation    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:11:39

• The pesticide liability shield is a public health crisis ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/the-pesticide-liability-shield-is-a-public-health-crisis/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:12:18

• Hong Kong records 3 more chikungunya fever infections, as expert warns of steady increase in imported cases ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/07/hong-kong-records-3-more-chikungunya-fever-infections-as-expert-warns-of-steady-increase-in-imported-cases/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:15:32

• Nearly 12,000 children under five face acute malnutrition in Gaza, WHO says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250807-nearly-12-000-children-under-five-in-gaza-face-acute-malnutrition-who-reports    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:15:47

• NYC officials claim worst of Legionnaires’ disease outbreak is over — even as top doc says ‘we have more work to do’ ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/08/07/us-news/nyc-officials-say-worst-of-legionnaires-disease-outbreak-is-over-as-24-people-remain-hospitalized/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:16:22

• Latvian men are some of Europe's heaviest smokers ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/07.08.2025-latvian-men-are-some-of-europes-heaviest-smokers.a609539/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:16:36

• South Korea, US to conduct major joint military drills starting on Aug 18 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-us-to-conduct-major-joint-military-drills-starting-aug-18    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:17:07

• South Korea special prosecutor seeks detention warrant for ex-first lady ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-special-prosecutor-seeks-detention-warrant-for-ex-first-lady    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:17:51

• North Korean rescued after swimming across border ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korean-rescued-after-swimming-across-border    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:18:15

• Hot South Korean summer drives surge in aircon sales, power demand ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hot-south-korean-summer-drives-surge-in-aircon-sales-power-demand    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:18:40

• South Korea paves way for trainee doctors’ return to hospitals in autumn semester ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-paves-the-way-for-trainee-doctors-return-to-hospitals-in-autumn-semester    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:19:10

• Out of their main jobs by age 53, most older South Koreans hope to work – somewhere – past 73 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/out-of-main-jobs-by-age-53-most-older-koreans-hope-to-work-somewhere-past-73    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:19:41

• 'Highest tariffs since Great Depression': In 1930's, trade plummeted and global depression deepened ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250807-highest-tariffs-since-great-depression-in-1930-s-trade-plummeted-and-global-depression-deepened    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:20:02

• Malaysia’s ‘chicken bone’ influencers freed on police bail ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-chicken-bone-influencers-freed-on-police-bail    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:21:00

• Five killed in China’s Xinjiang after cable on suspension bridge snaps ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/five-killed-in-chinas-xinjiang-after-cable-on-suspension-bridge-snaps    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:21:51

• Solomon Islands blocks US, China, Taiwan from Pacific’s top political meet ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/solomon-islands-blocks-us-china-taiwan-from-pacifics-top-political-meet    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:22:22

• China the world’s biggest plastic producer ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-the-worlds-biggest-plastic-producer    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:24:04

• Taiwanese analysts sceptical about China’s barges with legs ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/taiwanese-analysts-sceptical-about-chinas-barges-with-legs/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:24:42

• Twilio’s stock tanks on tepid earnings forecast ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/07/twilios-stock-tanks-tepid-earnings-forecast/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:25:25

• Scientists Finally Explain Why Your Skin Wrinkles As You Age ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-finally-explain-why-your-skin-wrinkles-as-you-age    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:28:17

• "The 64-Degree Egg, And Other Delicious Variants" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/the-64-degree-egg-and-other-delicious-variants/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:28:35

• "The Easy Way To Make A Nixie Tube Clock" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/2025-one-hertz-challenge-the-easy-way-to-make-a-nixie-tube-clock/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:28:56

• Telegraph showed ‘lack of care’ with headline: ‘Quarter of UK sex crimes carried out by foreigners’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/telegraph-sex-crimes-foreigners-headline-ipso-ruling/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:29:47

• Alzheimer's May Start at The Brain's Borders, Scientists Discover ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-may-start-at-the-brains-borders-scientists-discover    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:31:22

• Scientists Discover a Viral Cause of One of The World's Most Common Cancers ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-viral-cause-of-one-of-the-worlds-most-common-cancers    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:31:32

• Just One High-Fat Meal Can Disrupt Blood Flow to Your Brain, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/just-one-high-fat-meal-can-disrupt-blood-flow-to-your-brain-study-finds    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:31:52

• An Astrophysicist Proposes We Send a Spacecraft to Visit a Black Hole ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/an-astrophysicist-proposes-we-send-a-spacecraft-to-visit-a-black-hole    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:32:14

• US immigration raids and a meeting with the president of Guatemala: Thursday’s mañanera recapped ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/sheinbaum-us-immigration-raids-guatemala-president-mananera-recap/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 14:32:55

• Animated Vector Graphics in Qt 6.10 ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/animated-vector-graphics-in-qt-6.10    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:46:41

• Rust 1.89 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1032808/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:46:57

• "Bringing 3D To The World Wide Web" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/07/vrml-and-the-dream-of-bringing-3d-to-the-world-wide-web/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:47:21

• Let Competition Be the Guide: Why the Government and CRTC Got It Right on Wholesale Fibre Broadband Access ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/08/let-competition-be-the-guide-why-the-government-and-crtc-got-it-right-on-wholesale-fibre-broadband-access/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:48:10

• South Africa’s Equity Laws, Reviled by Convicted Felon, May Complicate Tariff Talks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/africa/south-africa-tariffs-racial-equity-laws.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:56:18

• Special counsel withdraws from 2nd warrant execution attempt against South Korea’s Yoon ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/special-counsel-withdraws-from-2nd-warrant-execution-attempt-against-south-koreas-yoon    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:56:37

• How a Pro-Palestinian Group Got Banned in Britain ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000010287769/how-a-pro-palestinian-group-got-banned-in-britain.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:57:11

• Singaporean tourist arrested in Pattaya for flying drone amid Thailand’s nationwide ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/singaporean-tourist-arrested-in-pattaya-for-flying-drone-amid-thailands-nationwide-ban    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:57:28

• Australia’s purchase of Japanese frigates signals a new era for Indo-Pacific security ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/australias-purchase-of-japanese-frigates-signals-a-new-era-for-indo-pacific-security    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:57:48

• PM-nominee Ruginienė says she’ll stick to Lithuania’s military spending targets ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2636054/pm-nominee-ruginiene-says-she-ll-stick-to-lithuania-s-military-spending-targets    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:58:01

• Group demands release of former Macao lawmaker after arrest under Chinese national security law ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/group-demands-release-of-former-macao-lawmaker-after-arrest-under-chinese-national-security-law/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 15:59:48

• 'Wildfires in south of France becoming more widespread, challenging to manage over past 10-15 years' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250807-wildfires-in-south-of-france-becoming-more-widespread-challenging-to-manage-over-past-10-15-years    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:02:37

• Relatives of hostages protest with Gaza flotilla ahead of Israeli security meeting ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250807-relatives-of-hostages-protest-with-gaza-flotilla-ahead-of-israeli-security-meeting    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:03:03

• Netanyahu says Israel wants to ‘control but not govern’ Gaza as security cabinet convenes ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20250807-netanyahu-israel-wants-control-but-not-govern-gaza-as-security-cabinet-convenes    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:03:16

• Armed banditry is becoming a crisis in Nigeria: why fixing the police is key ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/african-news/armed-banditry-is-becoming-a-crisis-in-nigeria-why-fixing-the-police-is-key/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:03:35

• Transgender prisoners challenge prison authorities ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/correctional-services/transgender-prisoners-challenge-prison-authorities/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:04:06

• Government commits to cracking down on water mafia ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/civil-security/government-commits-to-cracking-down-on-water-mafia/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:04:37

• rewindtty – terminal session recorder and replayer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rewindtty-terminal-session-recorder-replayer/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:05:17

• 15 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Debuggers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/debuggers/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:05:34

• Remove builtin packages fixed ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202508/remove-builtin-packages-fixed.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:06:30

• New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Liftoff: Micro-Drones - 2025-08-06 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-08-06-edition/index.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:06:49

• Bottles Project Receives EU-Backed Grant ☞ https://linuxiac.com/bottles-project-receives-eu-backed-grant/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:07:24

• Finland Tops Nextcloud’s First Digital Sovereignty Index ☞ https://linuxiac.com/finland-tops-nextcloud-first-digital-sovereignty-index/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:07:37

• Security updates for Thursday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1032861/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:08:09

• This is BAD. Cheating tips! "Are you trying to write content using Hey Hi (AI) but also want it to sound natural, like a human wrote it?" https://www.linuxlinks.com/smart-ways-pass-ai-detection-writing/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:10:37

• Stimulator keeps your computer awake ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/stimulator-keeps-computer-awake/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:10:50

• fanxiang S880 2TB NVMe SSD Review ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/fanxiang-s880-2tb-nvme-ssd-review/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:11:02

• playerctl – MPRIS media player command-line controller ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/playerctl-mpris-media-player-command-line-controller/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:11:10

• vacuum – OpenAPI and Swagger linter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/vacuum-openapi-swagger-linter/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:11:17

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-08-08.gmi    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:13:40

• LoRa mesh networks using Meshcore software gemini://elperronegro.pollux.casa/gemlog/2025-08-07-local-mesh-meshcore.gmi    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:14:44

• "I'm enjoying the catch-up on everyone's writings here. My hobby time of late for the non-corpo web has been nil. Quite the state of limbo for the past few years actually..." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2680    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:16:00

• 🔤SpellBinding: AELMPXU Wordo: CLONE gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-08.gmi    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:16:31

• "- I miss the human touch on the Internet - I miss the non-commercial side of the Internet" gemini://kavka.wrote.re/post/end-of-the-week-2025-08-08/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:17:49

• Network Name: Unix Utopia gopher://jonsharp.net:70/0/gl2/08-07-2025-Marchintosh-2026-AppleTalk-Network-Idea.md    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:18:24

• [cat] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-08-07.gmi    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:18:55

• "The last few weeks have gone by in a blur. While I have been relatively busy and achieved a few things, it hasn't been the type of restorative period I was hoping for. In some ways it has been quite unpleasant. I have spent some time today trying to understand what is wrong." gemini://goyangi.au/gemlog/2025-08-08-preparing-to-tackle-anxiety.gmi    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:20:05

• "My wife’s grandfather passed away near the start of this year, and while going through his things her family found an iMac that nobody knew the password to. I’m sort of the go-to person in the family for problems like this, but it also seemed like a fun challenge so I figured I’d take a crack at it." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2025-08-07-cracking-a-family-members-password.gmi    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:21:10

• "Lately I've found myself spending way too much time consuming internet junk. Not only most of the time I would rather be doing something else, but also I already been conditioned to go for my phone during down times to just "see something" but more often than not that "something" is some whatever random ragebait that spills out of of my phone and contaminates the rest of my day." gemini://benj.smol.pub/breaking-bad-habits    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:22:45

• "This confusion is not an engineering failure—it is a symbolic collapse. When a stylized simulation of intelligence is mistaken for a living presence, the human-AI relation shifts from co-creation to compliance, from shared meaning to ritual pantomime." gemini://quietsystems.smol.pub/qsys-018-shards-and-artifacts    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:23:31

• "I think I've got a small AI overdose. At work our internal chat is full of posts from my supervisors made with ChatGPT. There's just too much noise and content. I'm thinking to integrate AI into the chat to create short summaries of those posts. And then we can train the AI some more using the AI generated summaries from AI generated content..." gemini://kavka.wrote.re/post/ai-overdose-2025-08-05/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:24:50

• "I started studying law at the Open University. It's been pretty interesting! All this GDPR and digital rights stuff has got me intrigued and I felt like some formal education might be a good idea. I had already forgotten how fun it is to learn new stuff and challenge yourself! So far, I've only done one introductory course, but I think I will keep on going." gemini://kavka.wrote.re/post/law-studies-2025-08-06/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:25:50

• "I have given up and am just making the bot source available via https. I wanted to host via SSH or somehow over gemini, but I haven’t found a simple way to do it." gemini://thatit.be/2025-08-04-20-17-28.gmi    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:26:29

• rianne@tenton:~$ uptime: 16:26:36 up 529 days; 1.5 years.    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:26:58

• "Welcome to my small nest on the web. This is some kind of a tribute to the smol web movements and a place for me to reflect on things that will need reflecting." gemini://kavka.wrote.re/post/my-smol-web-nest-2025-08-01/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:28:02

• "A lovely play on words there, given that the word "geminal" derives from the Latin word "gemini", meaning twins. Today, I'm not only making my first gemlog on rawtext.club, I posted my first shlog (shell log) today also, but that was internal to rawtext." gemini://rawtext.club/~thelovebug/2025-07-30-inauguration.gmi    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:28:47

• iophk: shit sandwich -- again: "Democrats Have to Choose: Zohran Mamdani, or Donald Trump?" https://jacobin.com/2025/08/mamdani-trump-cuomo-call-democrats/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:33:37

• Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d) ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/07/join-the-libreoffice-team-as-a-paid-developer-focusing-on-ui-with-initial-emphasis-on-macos-preferably-full-time-remote-m-f-d/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:35:03

• Pluralistic: Good ideas are popular (07 Aug 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the-people-no-2/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:35:18

• Ubuntu Blog: Is GNU/Linux secure? ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/is-linux-secure    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:36:30

• Dihydroxyacetone Man and Putin to Meet in ‘Coming Days,’ Kremlin Aide Confirms ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/europe/trump-putin-ukraine.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:43:00

• For Putin, Convicted Felon Summit Is Key to Securing Ukraine Goals ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/europe/putin-trump-russia-ukraine-summit.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:43:09

• "Trump–Putin meeting" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/07/donald-can-t-really-scare-moscow-with-anything-right-now | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:43:26

• China Accuses Nvidia of Putting Backdoors into Their Chips ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/china-accuses-nvidia-of-putting-backdoors-into-their-chips.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:43:54

• Kremlin Aide Says Convicted Felon, Putin To Meet In 'Coming Days' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/us-envoy-moscow-witkoff-deadline-putin-cease-fire/33495350.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:44:06

• Russia And Ukraine Trade Drone Strikes Amid Talk Of Convicted Felon-Putin Meeting ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-drone-strikes-trump-putin-meeting/33496824.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:44:18

• Dihydroxyacetone Man-Putin meeting agreed for 'coming days', Kremlin says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250807-trump-putin-meeting-agreed-for-coming-days-kremlin-says    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:44:39

• Build trust in your CI/CD pipelines with OpenShift Pipelines ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/07/build-trust-your-cicd-pipelines-openshift-pipelines    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:45:22

• Batch inference on OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) with Ray Data, vLLM, and CodeFlare ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/07/batch-inference-openshift-ai-ray-data-vllm-and-codeflare    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:45:50

• 'Plastic pollution really begins when we're making plastics and extracting oil, gas from the ground' ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250807-plastic-pollution-really-begins-when-we-re-making-plastics-and-extracting-oil-gas-from-the-ground    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:48:32

• Ukraine’s expanding robot army can help address manpower shortages ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraines-expanding-robot-army-can-help-address-manpower-shortages/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:49:12

• Lithuanian PM candidate Ruginienė addresses past trips to Russia, family ties to Ukraine ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2636072/lithuanian-pm-candidate-ruginiene-addresses-past-trips-to-russia-family-ties-to-ukraine    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:49:48

• Dihydroxyacetone Man could help solve a long-running conflict Friday. It’s not Gaza or Ukraine. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0807/azerbaijan-armenia-us-peace    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:50:34

• Ukraine seeks to revive Russian-blockaded ports near Black Sea ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0807/ukraine-shipping-ports-blocked    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:50:45

• She Survived a 9-Story Fall After a Russian Missile Hit Her Building ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/europe/ukraine-russia-missile-attack-survivor.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:51:03

• "It’s becoming a humanitarian disaster" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/07/it-s-becoming-a-humanitarian-disaster | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:51:36

• "anti-Ukrainian ethnic slur" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/07/russian-court-fines-woman-for-using-anti-ukrainian-ethnic-slur | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:51:55

• Drone incursion in Lithuania revives questions about Baltic air defence ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/07.08.2025-drone-incursion-in-lithuania-revives-questions-about-baltic-air-defence.a609529/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:52:12

• Russian Navy training ship Smolny back in Cape Town ☞ https://www.defenceweb.co.za/sea/sea-sea/russian-navy-training-ship-smolny-back-in-cape-town/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:52:28

• Russian business ties between Lithuanain citizen and FSB General – LRT Investigation ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2635070/russian-business-ties-between-lithuanain-citizen-and-fsb-general-lrt-investigation    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:52:43

• Russia and India talk up ‘strategic partnership’ after Convicted Felon tariff hike ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/russia-and-india-talk-up-strategic-partnership-after-trump-tariff-hike    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:53:02

• "U.S. soldier arrested for allegedly trying to share sensitive tank info with Russia" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/07/u-s-soldier-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-share-sensitive-tank-info-with-russia | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:53:23

• Bottles: Tool for Running backdoored Windows Apps on GNU/Linux Finds Funding ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/08/bottles-app-for-running-linux-finds-funding/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:53:52

• Measles Spreads Quickly in Rural Alberta Areas That Resisted Vaccines ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/world/canada/measles-alberta-canada-vaccines.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:54:54

• "in the coming days" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/07/u-s-and-russia-agree-to-putin-trump-meeting-in-the-coming-days-kremlin-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:57:29

• "losing access to routine medical tests" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/07/russia-s-hiv-patients-are-losing-access-to-routine-medical-tests | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:57:57

• "priority college access for military widows" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/07/russia-proposes-priority-college-access-for-military-widows | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:58:19

• "white list" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/07/russia-prepares-white-list-of-essential-services-to-keep-online-during-mobile-internet-blackouts | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:58:48

• India Bought Russian Oil. Now It’s a Trade-War Weapon. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/business/oil-india-russia-trump.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:59:09

• "Pressure on them is working" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/07/pressure-on-them-is-working | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:59:26

• "reportedly ate a giant meat pie before meeting with Putin." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/07/behold-witkoff-s-breakfast | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 16:59:57

• "ceasefire" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/07/trump-s-offer-to-putin-includes-ceasefire-sanctions-relief-and-land-concessions-but-ukraine-could-still-join-nato-polish-media-reports | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:01:04

• Let’s talk about cameras on the new Fairphone (Gen. 6) ☞ https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/08/07/lets-talk-fairphone-gen-6-cameras/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:02:59

• Think Linux desktop market share isn't over 6%? This 15 million-system scan says otherwise https://www.zdnet.com/article/think-linux-desktop-market-share-isnt-over-6-this-15-million-system-scan-says-otherwise/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:05:30

• "I’ve tried my fair share of Linux distributions over the years, some focused on minimalism, others packed with customization. But now and then, one catches my eye for its sheer commitment to looking like something else entirely." https://www.xda-developers.com/weekend-linux-distro-built-look-like-windows-11-much-closer/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:06:09

• "Do you want to try Arch Linux, but feel scared because of the recent malware incident? Are you a current Arch user wondering how to keep your system safe and secure? Well, I have been using the Linux distro for five years now, and here’s my complete guide on staying safe on Arch Linux." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-avoid-malware-on-arch-linux/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:06:38

• Fake 'crypto' barf www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/shielded-technologies-joins-linux-foundation-decentralized-trust-as-premier-member-302523748.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:07:13

• "To master Linux and unlock your computer's full potential, here's a list of essential steps." https://www.zdnet.com/article/10-linux-features-you-should-be-using-to-get-the-best-performance-and-functionality/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:07:53

• GNU/Linux PC acting up? Here's my first course of action (and why it fixes things most of the time) https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-pc-acting-up-heres-my-first-course-of-action-and-why-it-fixes-things-most-of-the-time/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:08:58

• openSUSE Leap 16.0 almost ready for full release https://www.techzine.eu/news/applications/133648/opensuse-leap-16-0-almost-ready-for-full-release/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:09:30

• "Great news for NVIDIA users on AlmaLinux OS." https://news.itsfoss.com/almalinux-native-nvidia-support/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:10:38

• "This release introduces plasma-login-manager as a replacement for the SDDM login manager, yet not enabled by default in this ISO." https://9to5linux.com/independent-distro-kaos-linux-2025-07-is-out-with-kde-plasma-6-4-and-linux-6-15    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:10:59

• Updating your Linux kernel sounds scary, but here's why it's no different from a Windows update https://www.xda-developers.com/updating-linux-kernel-sounds-scary-hy-no-different-windows-update/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:11:24

• "We recently contributed an article to LWN to describe how as of the v6.12 release, Linux now supports large block sizes (LBS)." https://semiconductor.samsung.com/news-events/tech-blog/dividing-and-conquering-linux-high-capacity-ssd-support-with-lbs-ep1/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:12:24

• Cybersecurity News: Microsoft & Google lead zero day exploits, Plague malware maintains SSH access, panel to create US Cyber Force https://cisoseries.com/microsoft-google-lead-zero-day-exploits-plague-linux-malware-maintains-ssh-access-panel-to-create-us-cyber-force/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:12:50

• #BHUSA: Microsoft and Google Among Most Affected as Zero Day Exploits Jump 46% https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/microsoft-google-zero-day-exploits/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:13:37

• "When you're choosing a Linux distribution, one thing to avoid is a distro that's not getting regular updates. Active maintenance and development is crucial for security and general reliability. That's why I'm highlighting a few distros that saw releases with significant changes and improvements last month." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-distros-that-got-major-updates-in-july-2025/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:14:03

• Microsoft WHATABOUTISM: "All we need to do is to maneuver properly and not caught in this RTO thing. Very easy. All large corporations are implementing RTO." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k20bjyxs    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:25:03

• "Agree. I am here to milk the MS cash cow. MS is here to milk me for the most amount of work they can get. I think I made out like a bandit these past 20 plus years. My bank is fat and happy. It's all gravy now until something happens, but hard to leave free money with barely any work." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k223gsef    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:26:01

• "You should know be working at msft then. Leave and make room for someone else who's more deserving than someone like you. I sure hope AI will find you and fire you!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k223gsef    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:26:07

• Its a job and nothing more. Its a means in which to pay the bills. It’s not a cult, it’s not a religion, its not a way of life. Its a job and nothing more. Be as loyal to the company as the company is to you. Oh, that’s “none” you say, well there you go. Why give a two weeks notice when you leave? They don’t give you a two weeks notice when they let you go."    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:26:12

• "Ubuntu Replacing wget With wcurl" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/08/07/0255247 iophk: no reason given but has Canonical acquird m$ hangup over software Freedom and over patents specifically? topic related to http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/06/Ubuntu_Becomes_Microsoft_GitHub_Based_on_Decision_Made_by_Briti.shtml    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:30:29

• "This release also ships with the Mesa 25.0 graphics stack from the newer Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) release." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-24-04-3-lts-is-now-available-for-download-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-14    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:51:30

• "Your ebooks, your games, your movies. Nothing belongs to you if you rely on a third-party streaming/storage/service provider." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-32/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 17:52:15

• New Arms Race Is Possible https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-06/with-only-one-nuclear-arms-pact-left-between-the-us-and-russia-a-new-arms-race-is-possible    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 18:02:37

• Hackers leak purported Aeroflot data as Russia denies breach https://therecord.media/hackers-leak-purported-aeroflot-data    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 18:18:12

• Going Online in Russia Can Be Frustrating, Complicated and Even Dangerous https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-05/how-russia-reins-in-the-internet-by-blocking-websites-and-isolating-it-from-the-rest-of-the-world    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 18:20:12

• Striking TikTok Workers https://jacobin.com/2025/08/berlin-tiktok-tech-ai-strike/    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 18:21:00

• Ads on TikTok https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/ads-on-tiktok-and-video-games-drive-15-year-surge-in-defence-force-enrolment-20250803-p5mjvz.html    

posted Friday, August 08, 2025 at 18:21:16

• Internet 'hearsay' https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-fake-claim-of-uk-officers-captured-in-ukraine/a-73550133    

posted Saturday, August 09, 2025 at 01:17:06