Roy Schestowitz

• Automaker Ford hits pedal on EV production with $2B US overhaul of U.S. plant https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/automaker-ford-ev-production-kentucky-2-billion-1.7605966    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:21:37

• passengers' personal information stolen in cyberattack https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-cyberattack-passport-stolen-1.7606145    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:22:10

• heat warnings https://www.dw.com/en/germany-updates-weather-service-issues-heat-warnings/live-73618513    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:23:13

• Israel restricts reporting on its war in Gaza https://www.dw.com/en/how-israel-restricts-reporting-on-its-war-in-gaza/a-73617413    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:24:24

• stray dog problem https://www.dw.com/en/india-how-can-new-delhi-deal-with-its-stray-dog-problem/a-73624564    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:25:17

• sanctions over nukes https://www.dw.com/en/iran-eu-leaders-threaten-snapback-sanctions-over-nukes/a-73620576    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:25:51

• private power generators https://www.dw.com/en/iraq-s-private-power-generators-lifesaver-or-environmental-burden/a-73626002    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:26:19

• Cameroon https://www.dw.com/en/macron-acknowledges-french-colonial-repression-in-cameroon/a-73617675    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:26:56

• canola https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/beijing-canada-canola-duties-1.7606557    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:29:35

• Windows near all-time low https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all//zimbabwe/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:30:37

• Yemen a mystery https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop//yemen/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:31:49

• Thailand: Is the military preparing another coup? https://www.dw.com/en/thailand-is-the-military-preparing-another-coup/a-73624722    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:32:30

• dancing can get you fined https://www.dw.com/en/germany-s-strangest-laws-why-dancing-can-get-you-fined/a-73608011    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:33:12

• GNU/Linux 6% in Chad? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop//chad/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:34:07

• heat wave hits https://www.dw.com/en/germany-updates-air-conditioner-sales-rise-as-heat-wave-hits/live-73609604    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:34:58

• dog https://www.dw.com/en/india-dozens-detained-for-protesting-top-court-s-dog-order/a-73615797    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:35:37

• heat wave intensifies https://www.dw.com/en/man-dies-from-burns-in-spain-as-european-heat-wave-intensifies/a-73614868    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:36:20

• closure of news channel premises in Tirana https://www.dw.com/en/protests-after-closure-of-news-channel-premises-in-tirana/a-73612225    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:37:01

• Denver employees say the city may remotely notify workers of layoffs https://kdvr.com/news/politics/denver-employees-say-the-city-may-notify-layoffs-remotely/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:47:52

• Now in relation to Cisco and Oracle they pretend mass layoffs due to business problems are something to do with "HEY HI". Still spreading lies.    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:48:31

• Microsoft MSN right now: "I'm a software engineer, and I've lost my job 4 times in the last 18 years. I don't think AI is the problem."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:50:20

• Oracle India Fires 10% Workforce Under Cloud Infra Teams https://trak.in/stories/oracle-india-fires-10-workforce-under-cloud-infra-teams/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:51:39

• "Many software grunts are being replaced by AI or offshore sweatshops." AI = All India? https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k2p5dqzz    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:52:57

• "Bleak times ahead at the bloatware recycler." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k2q2k5tt    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:53:26

• juntas in the Sahel https://www.dw.com/en/soldiers-families-feel-the-silence-of-the-juntas-in-the-sahel/a-73576687"    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:54:35

• stray dogs https://www.dw.com/en/india-court-orders-removal-of-5-000-stray-dogs-in-new-delhi/a-73597706    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:55:41

• economic downturn https://www.dw.com/en/indian-workers-fear-economic-downturn-under-trump-s-tariffs/a-73597048    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:56:38

• cultural appropriation https://www.dw.com/en/mexico-adidas-apologizes-for-cultural-appropriation/a-73606400    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:57:17

• ShinyHunters sent Google an extortion demand; Shiny comments on current activities https://databreaches.net/2025/08/08/shinyhunters-sent-google-an-extortion-demand-shiny-comments-on-current-activities/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:58:32

• SC: Spartanburg County hit by cyberattack, some online services disrupted https://www.wyff4.com/article/spartanburg-county-cyberattack-services-disrupted/65637950    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 00:59:10

• Why most plastic still ends up as waste https://www.dw.com/en/the-recycling-dilemma-why-most-plastic-still-ends-up-as-waste/a-73498838    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:00:07

• threatens US scientific freedom https://www.dw.com/en/trump-s-new-executive-order-threatens-us-scientific-freedom/a-73603440    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:00:42

• Founders Of Samourai Wallet Cryptocurrency Mixing Service Plead Guilty https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/founders-samourai-wallet-cryptocurrency-mixing-service-plead-guilty    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:01:38

• Windows TCO? Pakistan Petroleum thwarts ransomware attempt, says no critical data compromised https://www.brecorder.com/news/amp/40376980    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:02:20

• Privacy watchdog sues Optus over mass data breach in 2022 https://www.smh.com.au/technology/privacy-watchdog-sues-optus-over-mass-data-breach-20250808-p5mlh1.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:03:06

• Air France and KLM alert customers to data breach on external platform https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/air-france-klm-group/air-france/air-france-and-klm-alerts-customers-to-data-breach-on-external-platform/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:03:47

• 6.4 million Bouygues Telecom just had their data exposed in a huge data breach – and it’s the second to hit French telecoms operators in a month https://www.itpro.com/security/data-breaches/6-4-million-bouygues-telecom-just-had-their-data-exposed-in-a-huge-data-breach-and-its-the-second-to-hit-french-telecoms-operators-in-a-month    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:04:24

• 'destroying trust in science' https://www.dw.com/en/fake-studies-on-the-rise-destroying-trust-in-science/a-73533918    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:05:19

• Scattered Spider has a new Telegram channel to list its attacks https://databreaches.net/2025/08/09/scattered-spider-has-a-new-telegram-channel-to-list-its-attacks/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:06:01

• refeeding syndrome https://www.dw.com/en/after-starvation-in-gaza-sudan-refeeding-syndrome-a-risk/a-73571753    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:07:47

• Hezbollah arms depot https://www.dw.com/en/lebanon-6-soldiers-killed-in-blast-at-hezbollah-arms-depot/a-73585040    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:09:26

• NCERT Issues Advisory on “Blue Locker” Ransomware Targeting Pakistan’s Key Institutions https://www.phoneworld.com.pk/ncert-issues-advisory-on-blue-locker-ransomware-targeting-pakistans-key-institutions/ "The malware specifically targets Windows-based desktops, laptops, servers, network shares, and cloud-synced storage. Even backup systems connected during the attack can be rendered useless."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:11:30

• Connex Credit Union notifies 172,000 members of hacking incident https://databreaches.net/2025/08/10/connex-credit-union-notifies-172000-members-of-hacking-incident/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:12:24

• Bank of America Refused To Reimburse Georgia Customer After Hackers Hit Account. Then a News Station Showed Up. https://dailyhodl.com/2025/08/10/bank-of-america-refuses-to-reimburse-customer-after-hackers-hit-account-drain-70000-report/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:13:10

• Adidas https://www.dw.com/en/mexico-us-designer-regrets-appropriated-adidas-shoes/a-73586612    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:13:40

• waste disaster https://www.dw.com/en/uganda-still-battling-waste-disaster-one-year-on/a-73561936    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:14:55

• Windows usage down: Why Ransomware Attacks Are Decreasing in 2025 https://www.techloy.com/why-ransomware-attacks-are-decreasing-in-2025/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:16:08

• poisoning husband https://www.dw.com/en/australia-mushroom-murderer-accused-of-poisoning-husband/a-73566657    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:16:35

• Violent Crypto Crimes Surge in 2025 Amid Massive Data Leaks https://coindoo.com/violent-crypto-crimes-surge-in-2025-amid-massive-data-leaks/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:18:01

• Hackers breach cancer screening data of almost 500,000 women https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/08/hackers-breach-cancer-screening-data-of-almost-500000-women/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:18:39

• Windows TCO? Yes24, the largest Internet bookstore in Korea, suffered its second ransomware attack in two months https://www.mk.co.kr/en/it/11391124    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:20:03

• "A big issue people have been voicing is a lack of good content on gemini. Places like Antenna are where people make their content known. When people post their aggregators to Antenna we get a huge block of noise on a daily basis. It makes a simple interface annoying to use." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/log/2025-08-16_re_re_please_stop_making_news_aggregators.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:23:32

• "Those who want to manage their Antenna feeds can do so via the Gemini interface that Antenna affords. There *is* a slight difficulty doing that, e.g., where Someone keeps changing the URLs they use, and engages in other sorts of "ban evasion". It's also hard if you need unusual pattern matching." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-08-16_re-please-stop-making-news-aggregators.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:24:25

• "Those who want to manage their Antenna feeds can do so via the Gemini interface that Antenna affords. There *is* a slight difficulty doing that, e.g., where Someone keeps changing the URLs they use, and engages in other sorts of "ban evasion"." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-08-16_re-please-stop-making-news-aggregators.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:24:38

• "Those who want to manage their Antenna feeds can do so via the Gemini interface that Antenna affords. There *is* a slight difficulty doing that, e.g., where Someone keeps changing the URLs they use" gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-08-16_re-please-stop-making-news-aggregators.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:24:54

• "Those who want to manage their Antenna feeds can do so via the Gemini interface that Antenna affords. There is a slight difficulty doing that, e.g., where Someone keeps changing the URLs they use, and engages in other sorts of "ban evasion". It's also hard if you need unusual pattern matching." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-08-16_re-please-stop-making-news-aggregators.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:25:10

• "F1 teams must take three weeks off in the summer. They even have to shut down their email servers. From testing in February to the last race at the beginning of December, it's a long season, so the summer break is a big deal. There isn't a winter break because everyone's flat out prepping new cars for testing." gemini://freeshell.de/f1/2025-08-16_Summer_break.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:25:55

• "I've been over this before, but Gemini continues to expand. There is no "disease" or "stagnation", and it is tiresome to read claims that there's some kind of problem." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-08-16_there-is-no-disease-that-affects-the-geminiverse.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:26:44

• "Gemini is just an information system. It lets people write, transport, render and link to text documents reasonably easily. It has a few other key characteristics. But so long as people are able to do the whole reading and writing thing, it's a success."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:27:02

• "No-one said it had to have a particular level of adoption or, heaven forbid, "engagement" in order to be accounted successful. It's bordering on a straw-man argument to suggest otherwise."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:27:10

• Let's Encrypt and the Butlerian Jihad gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-08-15-lets-encrypt    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:28:09

• "On the forum, I learned that Let's Encrypt currently has one primary and 4 secondary centres; the primary and all but one of the secondaries must succeed. So I though, I must be blocking these at the firewall."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:28:37

• "Even after university, I used to get very overwhelmed when I had a lot to do at once. I'd get upset when someone started talking to me, fearing that I might forget something important. Sometimes I'd be like that for days at a time where nobody could talk to me. The word that comes to mind to describe it is... dysfunctional." gemini://nicholasjohnson.ch/2025/08/15/praise-be-to-gtd/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:29:29

• "This is hard to say too; the trend is not promising and technologies that disappear, like falling stars, it is a sad and brutal reality." gemini://omg.pebcak.club/~freezr/gemlog/2025-08-16-the-disease-that-affects-the-geminiverse.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:31:10

• "If you read this blog on gopher, you should have noticed... absolutely nothing. This post is about that." gopher://tilde.club:70/0/~user18130814200115/posts/0034-a-fresh-coat-of-paint.txt    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:32:09

• "The beta version of Linux Mint 22.2 is available for testing. Mint 22.2, which is called Zara, is based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Noble Numbat. The latest version of Mint ships with Linux 6.14 Kernel as the default. It has a new Hardware Enablement kernel." https://news.filehippo.com/2025/08/august-16-tech-news-roundup-linux-mint-22-2-beta-released-microsoft-thinks-ai-will-make-the-mouse-and-keyboard-obsolete-edge-on-windows-10-to-get-updates-till-2028/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:46:53

• "The beta version of Linux Mint 22.2 is available for testing. Mint 22.2, which is called Zara, is based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS Noble Numbat. The latest version of Mint ships with Linux 6.14 Kernel as the default." https://news.filehippo.com/2025/08/august-16-tech-news-roundup-linux-mint-22-2-beta-released-microsoft-thinks-ai-will-make-the-mouse-and-keyboard-obsolete-edge-on-windows-10-to-get-updates-till-2028/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:47:58

• Desktop Linux apps on Android phones https://liliputing.com/lilbits-desktop-linux-apps-on-android-phones-xbox-pc-gaming-on-arm-based-computers-and-a-cheaper-kindle-color/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:49:22

• Bored on Linux? Try These 7 Open Source Ports of Classic Games https://www.howtogeek.com/open-source-ports-of-classic-games-on-linux/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:50:08

• "Linux Ubuntu wireless client via Wi-Fi 4/5 router to a wired Linux Debian server [6] This section describes our physical testbeds deployed for real-time testing of both wired and wireless setups for the three CCAs" https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Linux-Ubuntu-wireless-client-via-Wi-Fi-4-5-router-to-a-wired-Linux-Debian-server-6-This_fig3_394463420    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:57:25

• "I decided to do something out of the ordinary. My goal was to run a full-fledged Linux desktop inside a container. I don't want just a shell; I want a fully functional GUI that exists where it's not supposed to. This is what happened when I tried." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-run-a-full-linux-desktop-in-docker-just-because-i-can/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:58:34

• 6 Linux command line tricks everyone should know https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-command-line-tricks-everyone-should-know/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 01:59:48

• GNU/Linux 5% in Sudan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/sudan/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 02:13:39

• In Slovenia, GNU/Linux gains at Windows' expense https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/slovenia/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 02:14:48

• "While on the wiki page, I made some of my own to the osd section. Factual and with references. I don't know how our history was eliminated from this page. Nice to do some wiki edits, reminded me of the Nupedia days before the open source well was so poisoned." - Techrights reader trying to find misinformation about OSI    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 02:27:54

• "Randomly chosen images from Geminispace" gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-08-17.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 04:12:02

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1385.jpg    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 04:12:27

• "Why the Magnuson-Moss warranty act is just a meme" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/why-the-magnuson-moss-warranty-act-is:b    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:33:34

• iophk: privacy and cybersecurity under attack https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/uk-piracy-blocks-your-vpn's-uk-exit:3    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:34:32

• "Steamrolled: Vladimir Putin Shares an Existential Secret with Trump and You Just Saw the Result" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/16/steamrolled-vladimir-putin-shares-an-existential-secret-with-trump-and-you-just-saw-the-result/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:35:06

• "The Dangers and Absurdities of Trump’s DC Occupation" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/washington-dc-trump-occupation/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:35:20

• "‘How is it that a war criminal is actually coming to America?’ Ukrainian refugees in Alaska on Putin coming to the U.S. for talks with Trump" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/15/how-is-it-that-a-war-criminal-is-actually-coming-to-america    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:35:34

• "Trump Drops Ukraine Ceasefire Demand After Putin Summit - The Moscow Times" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/08/16/trump-drops-ukraine-ceasefire-demand-after-putin-summit-a90247    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:35:51

• "Trump ends Putin’s isolation without reaching a ceasefire in Ukraine" https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-08-16/trump-ends-putins-isolation-without-reaching-a-ceasefire-in-ukraine.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:36:10

• "Trump-Putin Meeting Details Were Left In A Hotel Printer In Alaska, Report Says" https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/08/16/details-of-trumps-alaska-summit-with-putin-left-in-hotel-printer-report-says-including-meeting-times-locations-and-gifts/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:36:25

• "Saudi’s PIF takes $8 billion writedown on megaprojects" https://www.semafor.com/article/08/15/2025/saudis-pif-takes-8-billion-writedown-on-megaprojects    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:36:42

• "West Virginia sends National Guard to Washington, D.C." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0816/west-virginia-governor-national-guard-trump-dc    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:36:58

• "Why would Putin need to make a deal with him?" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-putin-ukraine-talks/683899/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:37:12

• "Russia's refusal to declare ceasefire casts doubt on peace process, Zelensky says ahead of White House talks" https://kyivindependent.com/russias-refusal-to-declare-ceasefire-casts-doubt-on-peace-process-zelensky-says-ahead-of-white-house-talks/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:37:26

• "Trump Leaves Alaska Empty-Handed" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/trump-putin-alaska-summit/683897/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:37:40

• "Trump Greets Putin With a Red Carpet. Ukrainians Feel Betrayed." https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-16/trump-greets-putin-with-a-red-carpet-ukrainians-feel-betrayed    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:38:03

• "Ukrainians left dismayed as Trump gives Putin the red carpet treatment" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukrainians-left-dismayed-as-trump-gives-putin-the-red-carpet-treatment/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:38:19

• "Russia jubilant after Trump summit as Putin reportedly demands of Donetsk and Luhansk" https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41688624.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:38:37

• "‘Putin restored Russia’s status as a superpower’ The main outcomes of the Alaska summit, according to the Kremlin’s state media guidelines" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/16/putin-restored-russia-s-status-as-a-superpower    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:38:58

• "'Putin cannot be trusted' — Nordic, Baltic countries issue joint statement supporting Ukraine's sovereignty" https://kyivindependent.com/putin-cannot-be-trusted-nordic-baltic-countries-issue-joint-statement-supporting-ukraines-sovereignty/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:39:13

• "Experts react: Trump and Putin just left Alaska without a deal. Here’s what that means for Russia’s war on Ukraine." https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/experts-react/trump-and-putin-just-left-alaska-without-a-deal-russias-war-on-ukraine/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:39:27

• "Trump reportedly to back ceding of Ukrainian territory to Russia as part of peace deal" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/ukraine-russia-peace-deal-donbas-region    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:39:42

• 2025-08-16 passive microwave repeaters ☞ https://computer.rip/2025-08-16-passive-microwave-repeaters.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:42:16

• hydropower ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/how-to-convert-a-drain-into-a-hydropower-facility/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:43:44

• Who's Not Getting Laid Off? ☞ https://danielmiessler.com/blog/tech-layoffs-signal    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:44:45

• Don't Talk to Bullies ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/16/Don_t_Talk_to_Bullies.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:45:53

• The Case for Software Freedom in Europe Becomes Stronger as GAFAM and the US Become Allies of Those Who Invade Europe ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/16/The_Case_for_Software_Freedom_in_Europe_Becomes_Stronger_as_GAF.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 06:46:05

• "Site-blocking orders are usually binary; a court issues an order for a domain to be blocked, or it does not." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/how-a-court-order-to-block-internet-archives-open-library-was-put-on-hold/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:00:57

• "Last month Cloudflare began blocking pirate site domains already subject to blocking orders obtained years ago" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/new-cloudflare-pirate-site-blocking-may-already-involve-thousands-of-domains-250815/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:01:28

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://molodtsov.me/2025/08/spotify-payouts/ | Source: Yury Molodtsov    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:02:15

• "One of the most significant single advancements in telecommunications technology was the development of microwave radio" ☛ https://computer.rip/2025-08-16-passive-microwave-repeaters.html | Source: Computers Are Bad    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:04:24

• "cultural practices and commercial powwows" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/albuquerque-native-americans-north-america-b2809011.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:07:20

• "his first interview since being released" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/yesypenko-journalist-russian-custody-torture/33503944.html | Source: RFERL    

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

• "Now I want to answer your questions about the future of news technology, and about how news works behind the scenes." ☛ https://werd.io/ask-a-newsroom-technology-leader/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:09:23

• "Section 230 protects users’ online speech by protecting the online intermediaries we all rely on to communicate on blogs" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/new-documents-show-first-trump-doj-worked-congress-amend-section-230 | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:10:08

• "A five-and-a-half hour portrait of what happens when the concept of a free press turns into a contradiction in terms" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/my-undesirable-friends-russia-documentary-review-1235398093/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:10:33

• "After a 7am police raid in July in which officers seized two telephones, an iPad and computer, Mr Moss, a former Labour councillor, said he felt like a criminal." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08/16/police-orwellian-powers-gag-firefighter-free-speech-row/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:11:01

• "The arrests began last year but have accelerated since March, when the police arrested Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul, citing allegations of corruption, which he denies." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/europe/turkey-erdogan-corruption-drive.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:11:33

• "The Supreme Court had overturned an initial ruling in October 2024 due to procedural errors – among other things, because no connection between Mohammadi and armed groups could be proven." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/women/death-sentence-against-human-rights-activist-sharifeh-mohammadi-upheld-80813 | Source: ANF News    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:15:05

• "Nearly 82 million people use Roblox daily, with more than half of them being younger than 18 years of age" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2328965.html | Source: RTL    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:38:48

• Wild elephants ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/mom-i-m-sorry-baby-elephant-dashes-back-to-worried-mother-after-wandering-too-far-video-101755339703608.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:40:33

• "Power-hungry data centers have been popping up all over, to serve the boom in artificial intelligence." ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5502671 | Source: NPR    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:47:08

• "Culture warriors and industry lobbyists have turned electric vehicles into a proxy battle for deeper anxieties about class, control, and who might be left behind in a green economy." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/08/canada-china-evs-environment-affordability/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:47:23

• "My conclusion was that either these people were innocently unaware of the basics of money supply and its relationship with market pricing mechanisms, or they were not very innocently trying to part the more innocent with their money." ☛ https://nxdomain.no/~peter/forgotten_blockchain_account_scam.html | Source: Peter N M Hansteen    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:47:44

• "The Federal Reserve has ended its "novel activities" supervision programme, created in 2023 to monitor banks' involvement in [cryptocurrency] and fintech." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/fed-to-scrap-program-devoted-to-policing-banks-on-crypto-fintech-activities/articleshow/123335825.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:48:00

• "During a plenary on August 9, three observers independently told Grist that the negotiations felt like Groundhog Day, as countries reiterated familiar talking points." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/un-plastics-treaty-talks-once-again-end-in-failure/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:51:20

• "They have no incentive to come up with a plan and we've seen that time and time again in these negotiations." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/global-plastics-treaty-consensus-1.7610277 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:51:35

• "If we keep going like this, in 15 years we won’t be able to fish anymore. We’ve approached the sea with the mindset of how many fish we want to catch, not how many the sea can actually give." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/environment/1278209/when-i-started-the-sea-was-still-alive/ | Source: Greece    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:51:59

• "The results were stark: Just a ten percent reduction in precipitation from the Atlantic Ocean, or a more than 65 percent destruction, can push the rainforest into an inexorable path towards "a drier savanna-like environment"" ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/climate-change-amazon-rainforest-tipping-point | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 11:52:29

• "Afrin leads the YPJ, a Kurdish militia that celebrated its 12th anniversary this spring." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/where-do-the-kurdish-militias-go-from-here/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:05:31

• "But we cannot credibly claim the United States is currently functioning as a democracy" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-clarifying-note-on-the-performance | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:05:58

• "The Alaska summit between Trump and Putin wasn’t a failure of diplomacy. It was diplomacy’s negation" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-performance-of-power | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:06:16

• "raises concerns" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-taliban-afghanistan-legitimacy-central-asia/33501968.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:13:06

• "The disclosure comes as the council faces criticism for removing Union Jack and St George's Cross flags" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/leaked-email-admits-birmingham-council-too-afraid-take-down-palestine-flags-without-police-1741288 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:13:30

• "Trump's capitulation to Putin over Ukraine is the most extreme expression of his predecessors’ failings." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/half-baked-alaska-trump-putin-and | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:14:02

• "On August 14, 1945, when word reached Hawaii that Japan had accepted the Allies’ terms of surrender" ☛ https://www.vintag.es/2025/08/hawaii-vj-day-celebrations.html | Source: Vintage Everyday    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:14:29

• "New research is shedding light on the inner workings of the multimillion-dollar gray market for video game cheats." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/russia-crack-down-end-to-end-encrypted-calling/ | Source: Wired    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:15:20

• "On Monday, 11 August, the High Court of Justice dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) Categorisation Regulations." ☛ https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/08/11/wikimedia-foundation-challenges-uk-online-safety-act-regulations/ |    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:15:38

• "The Wikimedia Foundation just lost its court challenge to block these rules, which are part of Britain's Online Safety Act." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/08/11/uk-law-would-force-wikipedia-to-unmask-anonymous-editors.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:19:24

• "They are at it again. The so-called “Chat Control” proposal is back on the table to be voted soon." ☛ https://n3wjack.net/2025/08/16/the-eu-wants-to-read-your-private-messages/ | Source: N3wjack    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:19:42

• "A lot of people who use social media intensively, even including smaller services or instances" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/overly-online/ | Source: Ava    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:20:34

• "I was still living in the world of instant messaging, IRC, ICQ, AIM" ☛ https://flamedfury.com/posts/i-never-liked-myspace/ | Source: Flamed Fury    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:20:55

• "YouTube is nothing without its advertisers." ☛ https://futurism.com/youtube-drowning-ai-slop | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:24:19

• "Yet another team of lawyers was found leaving AI slop in court documents." ☛ https://futurism.com/the-byte/lawyers-ai-slop-murder-case | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:24:37

• "A US senator on Friday announced an investigation into whether Meta AI chatbots were allowed to engage in potentially harmful online exchanges with children." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/meta-probed-over-ai-chatbot-talk-with-children/articleshow/123328148.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:25:18

• "winning the AI race" ☛ https://futurism.com/trump-anti-science-agenda-ai-plans | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:25:44

• "If you run a photography business, chances are that AI hasn't impacted your bottom line yet." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/commercial-photography/im-worried-were-in-another-big-tech-bubble-and-its-about-to-burst-all-over-your-photography-business | Source: Digital Camera World    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:26:11

• "Butlerian Jihad" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/08/butlerian-jihad/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:26:42

• "When the tools generated false statements, the bad content was taken down silently without corrections or retractions." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/16/at-politico-ai-content-doesnt-need-editorial-standards/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:27:11

• "Glyph proposes that many LLM-assisted programmers who speak highly of the reliability and value of AI tools are falling prey to two cognitive biases: [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/16/jackpot/#salience-bias | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:27:47

• "Australian radio station Triple J recently talked to a number of children, young adults, and their counselors to uncover the extent of those bots' effects on their mental health." ☛ https://futurism.com/teen-hospitalized-ai-chatbot | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:30:46

• "I went to our local GP after our spate of recent health adventures, and she disclosed that our consultation would be recorded and transcribed by an AI tool." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/doctors-using-ai-transcription/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:31:04

• "Originally introduced as LD 1018 and later enacted as part of the budget in June, the law safeguards the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program" ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/briefs/big-pharma-sues-maine-over-new-law-protecting-federal-drug-discount-program/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:31:31

• "It’ll also be the first time in a while that I’ve run NetBSD on real hardware instead of VMs, so that’ll be cool." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/buying-a-thinkpad-x230/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:34:19

• "flexible structural mechanisms" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/humanoid-robots-have-a-serious-design-flaw-and-we-need-to-fix-it | Source: Science Alert    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:34:34

• "the 103rd edition of People and Blogs" ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-loren-stephens | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:35:59

• [Old] "That times were different is… inadequate verbiage." ☛ https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-silicon-graphics | Source: Bradford Morgan White    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:36:30

• "I head a team of researchers that has uncovered new evidence that commoners also made khipus in the Inca empire" ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-inca-data-system-extended-further-than-we-thought | Source: Science Alert    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:37:23

• "For thousands of years, Andean peoples have woven intricate patterns, known as khipus" ☛ https://www.404media.co/a-strand-of-hair-just-changed-what-we-know-about-the-inka-empire/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:37:46

• "Well, I do have quite a lot of hobbies, and I probably could turn this into a proper series, if I had enough inspiration to do so." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/how-to-get-into-every-hobby-i-like/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:38:23

• "It may sound like a disadvantage, but I don’t think it is. My English improves, and maybe some readers even prefer shorter, simpler texts." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/08/16/writing-within-limits/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:38:50

• "For me, reading and blogging are interconnected; what I read influences what I write about." ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/08/16/what-to-read-big-questions/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:39:35

• A Slackware theme for your Grub ☞ https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/a-slackware-theme-for-your-grub/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 12:41:17

• "Before the arrival of Mac OS X, our Macs had remained almost free from the property lists and other XML files that now seem to fill them." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/08/16/a-brief-history-of-xml-and-property-lists/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:52:37

• "Linear algebra operations form the computational backbone of scientific computing" ☛ https://sciml.ai/news/2025/08/16/linearsolve_autotuning/index.html |    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:53:16

• "How many different ways can we place two identical knights on an \( n \times n \) chessboard" ☛ https://susam.net/mutually-attacking-knights.html | Source: SusamPal    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:53:28

• "Store all those information in a csv file, and then, add the honesty/ethics high-very high percentage" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/the-non-ethics-of-capitalism/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:54:12

• "The Marginalia Search index has been largely rewritten to perform much better" ☛ https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_123_index_io/ |    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:54:59

• "Recently, the CEO of Tigerbeetle, Joran Dirk Greef" ☛ https://jmcph4.dev/posts/not-so-direct-io.html |    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:55:16

• "I won’t use GIMP because it’s not like Photoshop. NextCloud doesn’t feel like Dropbox. And on and on." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/08/16/foss-photoshop-alternatives-pixieditor-node-procedural/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:55:53

• "We have a new domain name for the PuTTY website!" ☛ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/#domain | Source: Chiark    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:56:13

• "I've got 3D printers and lots of low-power single board computer (SBC) and related items in my office" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/3d-printed-media-server | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:56:47

• "Before you start wondering about that age — yes, that’s 100000 in binary, or 0x20 years in hexadecimal." ☛ https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/08/msg00006.html | Source: Debian    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:57:14

• "Plasma 6.5—scheduled for October 21—is shaping up to be an exciting release packed with changes users have been waiting for. Rounded bottom corners, automatic light and dark theme switching, and new Bluetooth and Wi-Fi toggles are already confirmed." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/plasma-6-5-takes-shape-with-improved-notifications-and-theme-tweaks/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:59:11

• "There are lots of interesting and useful changes coming to KDE Plasma" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/kde-plasma-removing-third-party-software-icons/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 14:59:24

• "There turns out to be some interesting aspects to these probes." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/DNSProbesPromptArrival | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:00:37

• "The Linux mail command allows users to send and receive emails directly from the command line." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/linux-email-from-the-command-line/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:00:47

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

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:01:56

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

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:02:12

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

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:02:35

• How To Install Nano Text Editor on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nano-text-editor-debian-13/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:02:49

• Various desktop GNU/Linux tips for newbies ☞ https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-to-linux-2025/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:03:20

• "soft" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/morphlex-the-tpu-filament-that-goes-soft-after-you-print-it/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:03:40

• Linux: Email From the Command Line ☞ https://thenewstack.io/linux-email-from-the-command-line/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:04:09

• Hex Colordle – color guessing game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hex-colordle-color-guessing-game/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:05:54

• Holloway’s Upscaler – image and video upscaling ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/holloways-upscaler-image-video-upscaling/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:06:07

• Slopwatch: Surveillance Giant Google News, LinuxSecurity, LinuxBSDos.com, and Garbage From Brian Fagioli ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/16/Slopwatch_Google_News_LinuxSecurity_LinuxBSDos_com_and_Garbage_.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:06:24

• Grml 2025.08 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/grml https://9to5linux.com/debian-trixie-based-grml-2025-08-is-out-to-celebrate-debians-32nd-birthday    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:06:55

• godl – Godot version manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/godl-godot-version-manager/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:08:36

• GNOME 49 Beta Released with Per-Monitor Brightness Control ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/08/gnome-49-beta-released/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:08:55

• "The Wine Project, a compatibility layer renowned for enabling Linux and macOS users to run Windows applications, has officially released version 10.13 as the thirteenth maintenance update to the stable 10.x series." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/wine-10-13-improves-gaming-and-windows-runtime-support-on-linux/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:13:38

• "There has been quite a surge in interest towards desktop Linux lately." ☛ https://akselmo.dev/posts/how-to-linux-2025/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:14:01

• "After a delay due to the release manager travelling, the Wine 10.13 release is officially out now for the Windows compatibility layer." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/wine-10-13-released-with-improvements-for-wow64-bcrypt-and-more/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:14:35

• "Espressif Systems ESP32-P4-EYE is a compact development kit in a mini digital camera form factor designed for real-time image processing and edge AI applications." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-p4-eye-vision-development-board-with-camera-lcd-and-wireless-connectivity/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:15:28

• "The ELM11 is a scriptable microcontroller board from BrisbaneSilicon that runs Lua applications with hardware acceleration." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/elm11-microcontroller-board-runs-lua-with-hardware-acceleration-and-multi-core-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:15:40

• 15 Best Free and Open Source Remote Desktop Clients ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-remote-display-clients/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:17:04

• TinyDNS – tiny DNS server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tinydns-tiny-dns-server/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:17:15

• 15 Best Free and Open Source CLI Data Hashing Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-cli-data-hashing-tools/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:17:28

• QSerial – cross-platform serial port utility ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/qserial-cross-platform-serial-port-utility/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:17:44

• Nvidia says H20 export controls didn’t stop China’s Hey Hi (AI) progress — claims 'they only stifled U.S. economic and technology leadership' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-says-h20-export-controls-didnt-stop-chinas-ai-progress-claims-they-only-stifled-u-s-economic-and-technology-leadership    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:20:57

• Iran, China are increasing military cooperation and missile production, Israeli media warns ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/08/16/world-news/iran-china-are-increasing-military-cooperation-and-missile-production-israeli-media-warns/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:21:16

• Zelensky ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/16/zelensky-to-meet-trump-in-washington-on-august-18 | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:21:37

• 'Mysterious Giant' Hints at The First Detection of a Black Hole Trinary ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-giant-hints-at-the-first-detection-of-a-black-hole-trinary    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:24:38

• Building Blocks of Life Discovered Circling a Baby Star ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/building-blocks-of-life-discovered-circling-a-baby-star    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:24:53

• Metric, Imperial, And Flexibility ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/metric-imperial-and-flexibility/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:25:17

• New Statue of Martin Luther King Jr. Draws Criticisms Over Its Proportions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/us/mlk-statue-florida.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:25:47

• Rights groups file criminal charges against German ministers amidst Afghan deportations in Pakistan ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/rights-groups-file-criminal-charges-against-german-ministers-amidst-afghan-deportations-in-pakistan/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:26:24

• Arizona court finds K-12 school funding system unconstitutional ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/arizona-court-finds-k-12-school-funding-system-unconstitutional/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:26:54

• "The late 1970s were an interesting time for microcomputers." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/the-nibbler-was-quite-a-scamp/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:28:48

• August Update: Note-able Tablet Updates ☞ https://pine64.org/2025/08/16/august_2025/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:30:49

• Air Canada’s Flight Attendants Begin Strike, Crippling the Airline ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/world/canada/air-canada-flight-attendant-strike.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:36:23

• Government Shuts Down Air Canada Strike That Grounded Hundreds of Flights ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/canada/air-canada-strike.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:36:52

• Canadian government intervenes in Air Canada flight attendant strike ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250816-canadian-government-intervenes-in-air-canada-flight-attendant-strike    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:37:14

• Mozilla Privacy Blog: Is Germany on the Brink of Banning Ad Blockers? User Freedom, Privacy, and Security Is At Risk. ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/08/14/is-germany-on-the-brink-of-banning-ad-blockers-user-freedom-privacy-and-security-is-at-risk/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:41:03

• Zelensky and E.U. Leaders Try to Understand Why Convicted Felon Abandoned Idea of a Cease-Fire ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/europe/ukraine-russia-trump-zelensky.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:41:33

• "Putin restored Russia’s status as a superpower" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/16/putin-restored-russia-s-status-as-a-superpower | Source: Meduza    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:42:25

• With Putin by his side, Convicted Felon repeats his claims of a ‘Russia Hoax.’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/16/world/trump-putin-meeting-alaska/with-putin-by-his-side-trump-repeats-his-claims-of-a-russia-hoax    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:42:42

• Europe moves to back Ukraine after Convicted Felon drops cease-fire demand. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/16/world/trump-putin-meeting-alaska/europe-moves-to-back-ukraine-after-trump-drops-cease-fire-demand    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:43:00

• Putin keeps talking about the ‘root causes’ of the war. What does he mean? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/16/world/trump-putin-meeting-alaska/putin-keeps-talking-about-the-root-causes-of-the-war-what-does-he-mean    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:43:15

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Backs Off Cease-Fire Demand in Ukraine War, Aligning With Putin ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/europe/trump-putin-ukraine-ceasefire-peace-deal.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:43:39

• After Meeting Putin, Convicted Felon Reverts to Land Swaps for Peace in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/europe/trump-putin-ukraine-land-swap.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:43:54

• Europeans Worry Convicted Felon Will Pressure Zelensky After Meeting With Putin ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/europe/putin-trump-alaska-summit-ukraine.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:44:08

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Backs Plan to Cede Land for Peace in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/16/world/trump-putin-meeting-alaska    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:44:22

• The Power of the Convicted Felon-Putin Presidential Photo Op ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/europe/trump-putin-red-carpet-photo-op.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:44:38

• 6 Takeaways From Convicted Felon’s Meeting With Putin ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/politics/trump-putin-meeting-takeaways.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:44:55

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Bows to Putin’s Approach on Ukraine: No Cease-Fire, Deadlines or Sanctions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/us/politics/trump-putin-approach-ukraine.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:45:12

• SDesk 2025.08.16 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/sdesk https://stevestudios.net/sdesk/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:46:21

• Focus Shifts To Zelenskyy's Washington Trip After Inconclusive Alaska Summit ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-visit-trump-putin-alaska-summit/33504802.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:46:50

• Mixed Reactions In Ukraine As Convicted Felon Hails ‘Great Day’ In Alaska ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-reactions-alaska-summit-russia-war/33504986.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:47:19

• Ukraine Claims Gains In East Days Ahead Of Zelenskyy's Crucial White House Visit ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-zelenskyy-putin-sumy-russia-ukraine-alaska/33505068.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:47:39

• Russia-Ukraine: Is negotiating a peace treaty realistic at this stage in the war? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250816-russia-ukraine-is-negotiating-a-peace-treaty-realistic-at-this-stage-in-the-war    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:47:59

• ‘Fear’ in Ukraine following Convicted Felon-Putin talks ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250816-fear-in-ukraine-following-trump-putin-talks    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:48:18

• Ukrainians left dismayed as Convicted Felon gives Putin the red carpet treatment ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukrainians-left-dismayed-as-trump-gives-putin-the-red-carpet-treatment/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:48:48

• Rinkēvičs comments on Convicted Felon/Putin meeting ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/president/16.08.2025-rinkevics-comments-on-trumpputin-meeting.a610557/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:49:18

• Pluralistic: LLMs are slot-machines (16 Aug 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/16/jackpot/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:50:40

• "STM32 Blinks In Under 50 Bytes" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/2025-one-hertz-challenge-stm32-blinks-in-under-50-bytes/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:51:30

• "Lately, this peculiar little single wheel monorail came to our attention. Built by [extraglide1976], all from Meccano" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/a-second-chance-for-the-single-wheel-monorail/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:51:59

• "Some people like their homelabs to be as big and fancy as possible, with racks of new or surplus server hardware sucking down power." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/16/from-smartphone-to-a-home-server/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:52:36

• 🔤SpellBinding: GWINORH Wordo: FLOWN gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-17.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:58:55

• 🔤SpellBinding: EHITNRK Wordo: YORES gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-16.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 15:59:34

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1385.jpg    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:00:15

• "At pretty much every job I've ever held, I've had to use at least one Atlassian tool. In every case, I've used Jira. In some cases, I've used Confluence. In all cases, these tools were abysmal and shockingly slow." gemini://sporiff.dev/2025/08/17/slow_tools/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:01:27

• Countries where each couple, on average, has over 6 kids https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:05:30

• i dont like the youtube ai update (big surprise) gemini://zahmbie1.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-08-17.gmi "In all seriousness, I am NOT entering my government issued ID to a company WHO SHOULDNT EVEN GET IT IN THE FIRST PLACE."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:08:38

• "This was a great read. I've been ready for this bubble to break for ages. Let's just get this over with already." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/AI/31484    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:09:13

• "The market has been overvalued since the great recession made money cheap. Perhaps too cheap. The wealthy literally have too much money and not enough places to dump it into to make MORE money. Stocks have high returns with little maintenance."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:09:55

• "Hype bubbles are ways to make 10x your investment quick, even if you know the underlying tech is trash. It is never enough for the wealthy. But it is zero sum so someone gets stuck holding the bag. If you do it right, it is the retail investor who got in way late. Oh, and the companies and their employees of course."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:10:04

• Some people say stuff like, no way a company this big would do a scam. Oh year? Check history. It may be a scam, and a BIG scam. Scams happen.    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:12:38

• Re: PLEASE STOP MAKING NEWS AGGREGATORS gemini://benj.smol.pub/1755390497    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:13:14

• "The bottom line is red. OpenAI lost billions last year AFTER REVENUES. They're on track to lose billions more this year. They only have one financial backer left willing to pour the missing billions into the venture (SoftBank), and that backer is already borrowing at least some of those billions on credit" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-08-15    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:14:26

• "Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are also losing money - so much so that Microsoft actually announced significant cutbacks in its planned data center builds (while also somehow claiming it has the capacity to handle the explosive growth in Copilot use it claims is coming."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:14:49

• "It's not just the actual AI companies, either. CoreWeave is massively overcommitted to hardware with no clear path to actually producing it. Nvidia is the only company involved in all this whose financials make a lick of sense at this point - and even then, it's only one lick, not enough to get to the center of the Tootsie Roll pop."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:15:38

• "Yet their stock keeps going up. EVERYONE'S stock in this business keeps going up. It's built on a foundation made of debt, lies, and nonsense, but it's getting built!"    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:15:48

• "The market, for reasons I absoultely do understand (greed and hype), not only rewards these hype men but punishes the companies whose financials are sound yet who aren't doing the hype dance. In July, Amazon's share price slid because the company wasn't investing as much in AI as Wall Street wanted"    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:16:19

• "If the gen AI bubble was limited to gen AI companies, it'd still be a big deal. Tech companies are over-represented in the S&P 500; a significant downturn in their stock values will result in a signficant market drop, even if everyone else is left untouched. But a lot of "everyone else" is choosing not to remain untouched."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:17:06

• "LLMs and similar generative-AI tools don't do what they claim they can do. LLMs extrude factually false and emotionally manipulative text all the time, and they cannot actually be prevented from doing so. AI "art" and "video" are filling the Web with slop and causing more harm than good."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:17:45

• "LLMs and similar generative-AI tools don't do what they claim they can do. LLMs extrude factually false and emotionally manipulative text all the time, and they cannot actually be prevented from doing so. AI "art" and "video" are filling the Web with slop and causing more harm than good."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:18:14

• "Vibe coding" has an uncanny knack for hiding fatal flaws in plain sight - things that few humans would insert into code and thus few humans go looking for, unless they intend to exploit them."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:18:24

• "(Aside: When Scam Altman claimed that GPT-5 is like talking to someone with a PhD, I said "So it cries when you ask it how the writing is going?" This man doesn't spend a lot of time around actual PhDs.)"    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:18:51

• "But they don't have to. Because they're not being sold to writers, researchers, programmers, and artists. They're being imposed on these groups by Business Idiots (perfect term, Ed, thanks) - managers who failed their way to their current position and who only hear "we don't have to pay people anymore!""    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:19:14

• "The market for generative AI isn't ordinary people and never will be. It's capitalists. It's every business that wants to save money - excuse me, "increase shareholder value" - by cutting its workforce. But generative AI can't do what it's being "hired" to do."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:19:44

• "These companies are gaining a quick buck as market darlings by positioning themselves as "AI-first," to the detriment of their long-term growth. They're on the bubble as well."    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:19:55

• 🔤SpellBinding — WHNORTG Wordo: WAILS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-15.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:23:32

• Not direct relation but: the richer the country is, the less kids people will have OR countries that have fewer kids are better off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_fertility_rate    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:40:13

• The Register MS now: "Scam Altman, busily planning to spend "trillions" more on datacenters".... WAIT, trillions??? Really? http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/Meme_Don_t_Worry_They_Say_There_s_7_Trillion_Dollars_Waiting_at.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/TRILLIONS_And_TRILLIONS_and_TRILLIONS_and_TRILLIONS_Invest_toda.shtml    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:46:03

• SLOP site ET Telecom with "Cisco does not aim to use AI to cut jobs, says Chuck Robbins: Report" - this is more of the phony "AI" narrative, wherein people can be replaced by slop, which really does not work in practice    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:53:13

• Edward Jones confirms plans to carry out layoffs in its ‘home office’ – here's why https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/edward-jones-confirms-plans-to-carry-out-layoffs-in-its-home-office-heres-why-101755419506334.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 16:53:42

• Windows falling in Nepal https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/nepal/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 17:49:44

• "There has been a recent phenomenon where Antenna is flooded with the output of a news aggregator. The content of the news aggregator itself is at least partly interesting to me, except for the articles in a language I do not speak." gemini://carcosa.net/journal/2025-08-17-aggregators.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 19:37:25

• between the ribs gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/between_the_ribs    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 19:39:03

• Revisio 6.05 gemini://eljasverve.smol.pub/1755455076    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 19:39:39

• "I doubt I'll ever write much about cooking at least as far as posting recipes and offering unsolicited advice. In fact, this is one area of the media landscape that is not doing so bad." gemini://lagrange-point.space/log/cooking.gmi    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 19:40:35

• This One Command Turned My Arch Install Into a Beautiful Hyprland Setup https://news.itsfoss.com/omarchy/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 19:53:17

• How Linux Can Help You Succeed in College https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/linux-help-succeed-college-130015716.html    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 19:54:08

• Distrobox is the greatest way to try other Linux distros in your Terminal https://www.xda-developers.com/distrobox-greatest-way-try-other-linux-distros-terminal/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 19:57:58

• "Level up your Linux CLI experience with these cool tricks" https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-command-line-tricks-everyone-should-know/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 19:58:54

• 5 Linux distros that will make your old laptop feel brand new https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distributions-resurrect-your-old-laptop/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 19:59:26

• You told me to try this Linux distro for tablets, and it's actually not terrible https://www.xda-developers.com/you-told-me-try-this-linux-distro-tablets-not-terrible/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 20:00:24

• "A sudden wave of layoffs at Intel leaves Linux drivers orphaned and vulnerable." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-trouble-intel-employees-drivers-laid-off/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 20:01:10

• "Desktop environments are so cool" https://www.xda-developers.com/windows-learn-from-linux-but-this-one-feature-really-want/    

posted Sunday, August 17, 2025 at 20:03:02