Roy Schestowitz

• "I just had a little system administration nightmare. It all started yesterday when I decided that I wasn't going to move the MNT Pocket Reform to Debian stable (Trixie) after all. I had changed the apt sources a while ago, pointing them at Trixie and yesterday I had them point back at unstable." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-08-21-initramfs    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 03:44:12

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-08-21.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 03:46:16

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1389.jpg    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 03:47:06

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1739.jpg    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 03:47:14

• Indico: event management using Python https://lwn.net/Articles/1032422/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 03:57:27

• Roun Tomas Roun https://static.lwn.net/images/2025/europy-roun-sm.png    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 03:58:03

• "The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its rolling-release model and the quality of the documentation in the ArchWiki. No matter which Linux distribution one uses, the odds are that eventually the ArchWiki's documentation will prove useful." https://lwn.net/Articles/1032604/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 03:59:13

• Treating Python's debugging woes https://lwn.net/Articles/1031979/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 04:01:58

• Slop or plagiarism should be turned down by all projects; those caught ought to be banned as they can never be trusted anymore. https://lwn.net/Articles/1032612/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 04:03:47

• The rest of the 6.17 merge window https://lwn.net/Articles/1032095/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 04:04:17

• Possible paths for signing BPF programs https://lwn.net/Articles/1031854/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 04:05:50

• "Microsoft has responded to Game Developer's request for comment by restating plans to undertake a formal review into a report" https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/microsoft-shuts-down-questions-about-layoffs-and-israel-ties-at-gamescom-2025    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 04:16:59

• Forty years, forty links https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/40-links    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 05:49:46

• "Europa Universalis V from Paradox Interactive now has a confirmed release date for November 4." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/europa-universalis-v-set-to-release-november-4/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 07:38:09

• "Gimme! I know a good few people who will be terribly excited for the announced Woolhaven expansion for Cult of the Lamb. Set to arrive in "early 2026" it's a big one too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/woolhaven-expansion-announced-for-cult-of-the-lamb/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 07:38:23

• "After Funcom have patched Dune: Awakening quite a few times since release, the experience on Steam Deck is now good enough that it's been Steam Deck Verified." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/dune-awakening-is-now-steam-deck-verified/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 07:38:41

• "Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 from Paradox finally has a release date with October 21, but it gets expensive if you want all the content." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2-launches-october-21-but-you-have-to-pay-extra-for-all-the-content/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 07:59:40

• "When you think of a trucking sim you probably think American Truck Simulator and Euro Truck Simulator 2 but here comes some big competition with Road Kings." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/scs-software-have-next-gen-trucking-competition-with-road-kings-from-saber-interactive/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 07:59:53

• "A competitive multiplayer game announced with Steam Deck support right away? Not something we see often! World of Tanks: HEAT has me cautiously interested." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/competitive-vehicle-shooter-world-of-tanks-heat-announced-with-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:01:44

• "Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is a new strategy game from Dotemu and developer Alt Shift releasing in Q1 2026." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/battlestar-galactica-scattered-hopes-announced-and-has-me-terribly-excited/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:01:57

• "MicroProse Software are on a bit of a roll lately for their publishing, now they've announced Death By Scrolling from Ron Gilbert of Terrible Toybox" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/death-by-scrolling-is-the-next-game-from-ron-gilbert-of-terrible-toybox-and-publisher-microprose/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:02:21

• "Trump Slams Smithsonian for Harping How 'How Bad Slavery Was'" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-slams-smithsonian-slavery-1235411589/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:02:55

• "Germany’s ad-blocker RISK in 2025: what’s at stake" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/germany%E2%80%99s-ad-blocker-risk-in-2025:e    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:03:09

• "Car Features PAYWALLED: hardware already inside" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/car-features-paywalled-hardware-already:d    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:03:26

• Germany: AdBlockers Could Become Illegal | "Tyskland: AdBlockers kan bli olagliga" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/08/19/tyskland-adblockers-kan-bli-olagliga/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:05:00

• "1700-Year Buddhist Site Discovered in Yadadri District" | https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/telangana/1700-year-buddhist-site-discovered-in-yadadri-district-1898503    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:05:25

• "ICEing the U.S. Economy - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/iceing-the-us-economy    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:06:12

• iophk: odd that a security conference's site would be poisoned by javascript https://www.blackhat.com/us-25/briefings/schedule/#keynote-chasing-shadows-chronicles-of-counter-intelligence-from-the-citizen-lab-48196    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:06:59

• "Pentagon Asks Its Civilian Employees If They Want to Work for ICE" https://www.404media.co/pentagon-asks-its-civilian-employees-if-they-want-to-work-for-ice/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:07:10

• "Vance, Hegseth visit troops amid growing Guard presence in DC" https://www.armytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/08/20/vance-hegseth-visit-troops-amid-growing-guard-presence-in-dc/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:07:27

• "A 20-year-old Florida man at the center of a prolific cybercrime group known as “Scattered Spider” was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison today, and ordered to pay roughly $13 million in restitution to victims." ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/sim-swapper-scattered-spider-hacker-gets-10-years/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:14:12

• "Janine Jackson interviewed Mother Jones‘ Ari Berman about the erasure of the Voting Rights Act for the August 15, 2025, episode of CounterSpin. This is a lightly edited transcript." ☛ https://fair.org/home/its-really-a-full-on-attack-on-the-voting-rights-act/ | Source: FAIR    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:15:34

• "Reduces Early Voting Locations" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/tarrant-county-texas-polling-sites-early-voting-cuts | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:15:45

• Microsoft Didn’t Disclose Key Details to U.S. Officials of China-Based Engineers, Record Shows ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-china-defense-department-cloud-computing-security | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:16:24

• "Nothing like that has ever been done before, he told an interviewer." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-autism-environment-research-funding | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:17:13

• "Spreadshirt will let random users mess with your designs via AI by default — unless you specifically opt out. By leaving Spreadshirt." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/spreadshirt-to-artists-were-taking-your-designs-for-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:26:48

• "Why is it a problem? The problem is first, Generative AI is largely derivative." ☛ https://blog.viditb.com/the-problem-with-ai-filmmaking/ | Source: Vidit Bhargava    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:27:09

• "It is a good question; you should take this quick poll if you have a couple of minutes." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-ecosystem-poll/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:27:53

• "From December 2019 to March 2021, the agreements required Google Search to be exclusively pre-installed on Android devices sold by the carriers, blocking other search engines." ☛ https://insidetowers.com/google-fined-36m-in-australia-over-anticompetitive-search-deals-with-telecoms/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:28:11

• “the dumbest thing I've ever heard.” https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/aws_ceo_entry_level_jobs_opinion/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:32:32

• "Roger Alford, who served as principal deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s antitrust division before being fired, has now delivered a blistering public account of what he witnessed inside the Trump administration’s Justice Department." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/20/fired-antitrust-official-reveals-how-trumps-friends-turned-justice-into-a-pay-to-play-business/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:32:57

• "There are $42.5 billion in broadband grants that are headed to the states thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill most Republicans voted against (yet routinely try to take credit for among their constituents)." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/20/musks-starlink-gets-mad-at-the-state-of-virginia-for-refusing-to-shower-it-with-broadband-subsidies-it-doesnt-deserve/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:38:27

• "In the middle of the 20th century, one in three American workers was a union member." ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/three-crises-of-labor | Source: Hamilton Nolan    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:38:58

• "it’d be journalistic malpractice for a local journalist not to report that a prominent public official listed a boarded-up house as his official residence in order to claim eligibility for his position" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/rights-groups-file-complaint-against-u-s-attorney-who-retaliated-against-the-press | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:41:03

• "The Malagasy government is exposing a worrisome intolerance of reporting that challenges official narratives" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/08/madagascar-threatens-criminal-sanctions-against-2-journalists/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:41:43

• "Sentencing Sherwani for a third time on dubious charges and imposing the maximum penalty shows the authorities’ determination to silence his critical voice and keep him behind bars" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/08/over-4-years-added-to-sentence-of-imprisoned-kurdish-journalist-sherwan-sherwani/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:42:07

• "His lawyer, Mohammed Abdullah, called the sentence “oppressive” and “predetermined,” noting that it repeats prior rulings." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/kurdistan-authorities-urged-to-release-journalist-following-prison-sentence-extension/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:42:44

• "The letter, sent on Aug 6, is said to have demanded that Mr Biden retract his comments and issue an apology or face a $1bn (£726m) legal action." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2025/08/19/prince-andrew-book-edited-epstein-claims-melania-trump/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:43:34

• "The school year is getting back into gear which unfortunately means that the book banners will get back at it in force at local school board meetings." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/08/get-up-to-date-on-state-of-censorship.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:43:53

• "During the last year of the Trump administration, there was this weird period where the Bill Barr DOJ decided that it could destroy the internet." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/20/new-foias-show-barrs-doj-coordinated-with-congress-on-destroying-section-230/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:44:10

• "Privacy and safety are mutually enforcing rights. People’s ability to communicate without unjustified intrusion - whether online or offline" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/csa-regulation-document-pool/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:47:04

• "It's Already Arrived" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-hollywood-stability/ | Source: Wired | misguided article because 1) a lot of this stuff isn't news. 2) a lot isn't AI at all. 3) wrong attribution to self-serving firm that didn't pioneer what it claims    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:47:31

• Totally possible this article is a form of ad for a company in legal troubles and out of money, trying to sell some demos and gimmicks via Conde Nast    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:48:27

• Conde Nast is, at its core, a marketing company, not a media company. The media is just a "medium" for the marketing.    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:50:24

• The WWW has everything now: slop about spam, slop about slop, and spam about slop    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 09:51:15

• "It is surprisingly difficult to simply figure out: how am I supposed to give you money?" ☛ https://mitchellh.com/writing/advice-for-tech-nonprofits | Source: Mitchell Hashimoto    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:03:02

• "The Congress documents are to be turned over to the committee on Friday, but it is unclear exactly which or how many documents might be produced." ☛ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-21/judge-rejects-bid-to-unseal-jeffery-epstein-jury-transcripts/105679218 | Source: ABC    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:03:37

• "The one thing Trump has been consistently successful at in his lifetime: leading the media away from his failures." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/20/flying-spaghetti-monster-trumps-effort-to-evade-epstein-files-scandal/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:04:20

• Overpopulation ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/08/how-to-reverse-nations-declining-birth-rate/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:05:09

• "the UNFPA’s representative in Việt Nam" ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/08/when-the-cost-of-living-becomes-birth-control-in-viet-nam-part-two/ | Source: The Vietnamese Magazine    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:05:18

• "Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses" ☛ https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/citizen-lab-director-warns-cyber-industry-about-us-authoritarian-descent/ | Source: TechCrunch    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:06:35

• "The ban on TikTok was enacted during former President Biden’s administration, citing national security concerns over the app’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/20/trump-launches-white-house-tiktok-account/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:06:44

• "The basic concept is to use a privacy-preserving credential scheme, and in particular one that can carry other attributes such as age assertions." ☛ https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/age-verify.pdf | Source: Columbia University    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:09:35

• "The GSA is leveraging the State Department's “privacy-preserving” API for passport records to compare passport photos submitted to Login.gov." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/login-gov-passport-identity-verification-state-department-api-fraud-agency-access/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:09:47

• "After the Snowden revelations, I started to wonder about something fundamental: why spy at all?" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/20/billionaireism/#surveillance-infantalism | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:10:20

• "Our submission covers the following topics: [...]" ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5643/privacy-internationals-submission-discrimination-and-right-privacy | Source: Privacy International    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:10:39

• Windows TCO ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/europol-reward-qilin-ransomware-group/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:11:08

• "At the time this story went to press, AWS had not published any security bulletins about the potential for prompt injection and RCE, or the Amazon Q Developer updates." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/amazon_quietly_fixed_q_developer_flaws/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:12:21

• "The letter notes that while Grok doesn’t offer “Spicy” mode for user-uploaded photos" ☛ https://epic.org/epic-joins-coalition-to-urge-the-ftc-to-investigate-grok-spicy-image-generator/ | Source: EPIC    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:12:39

• "PI believes that the use of AI technologies in counter-terrorism poses significant risks to human rights" ☛ https://privacyinternational.org/advocacy/5642/privacy-internationals-submission-artificial-intelligence-counter-terrorism | Source: Privacy International    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:13:01

• "The UK government wanted the tech giant to create a "back door" to let authorities snoop on data uploaded by Apple users if required, for example by law enforcement agencies." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2329665.html | Source: RTL    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:13:42

• "Figuring out what declarative device management (DDM) is sending to or requesting from a Mac can be a challenge." ☛ https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/08/19/reading-ddm-logging-on-macos-sequoia/ | Source: Rich Trouton    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:13:50

• "If microplastics can be as small as 1 micrometer (about the size of a bacterium)—or even 0.1 micrometers" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-08-plastics.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:14:36

• "Over the past few years" ☛ https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-05-28/sig-sauer-p320-pistol-gun-weapon-trigger-pull-safety-lawsuits-liability-immunity-new-hampshire | Source: New Hampshire Public Radio    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:17:20

• "The Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps incident reports, which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, detail unintentional shootings between September 2020 and June 2023." ☛ https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-06-25/documents-detail-u-s-soldiers-shot-by-their-own-sig-sauer-guns-military-says-no-reason-for-concern | Source: New Hampshire Public Radio    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:17:33

• "In October 2020, ICE issued a report linking the gun to an increase in unintentional discharges" ☛ https://www.thetrace.org/2025/07/sig-sauer-p320-pistol-safety-ice-ban/ | Source: The Trace    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:17:51

• "The paper introduces a general machine learning framework for yield curve modeling" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/08/another-interesting-decision-now-for-beyond-nelson-siegel-and-splines-a-model-agnostic-machine-learning-framework-for-discount-curve-calibration-interpolation-and-extrapolation/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:20:23

• "Now, our analysis of the Bedale hoard and other Viking valuables promises to change the story of when their fellow-Scandinavians began travelling thousands of miles to the east to secure the silver that so captivated them." ☛ https://theconversation.com/vikings-were-captivated-by-silver-our-new-analysis-of-their-precious-loot-reveals-how-far-they-travelled-to-get-it-263222 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:20:54

• "Classified as a national treasure of Romania, the nugget has had a home at the Provincial Museum of Buzau – the county in which the relic was found – since 2022." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/rock-used-as-doorstop-for-decades-found-to-be-worth-over-1-million | Source: Science Alert    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:24:50

• "Something cool that I see from the people invested into these “old school” methods" ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/maybe-the-thrill-went-away/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:26:58

• "While I don’t follow Zettelkasten method myself, one thing I do like about it is that it encourages you to go through your notes whenever you’re adding new ones." ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/notes-require-regular-gardening/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:27:10

• "Still, work orders picked up, and she began hiring more programmers. Of her first 300 employees, 297 were women" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/business/stephanie-shirley-dead.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:27:45

• Groklaw Domain Hijacked? Site Now Serving Crypto Content ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/08/groklaw-domain-hijacked-site-now-serving-crypto-content/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:33:26

• "iRacing have announced iRacing Arcade made in partnership with Original Fire Games the developers of Circuit Superstars." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/iracing-arcade-announced-and-its-basically-circuit-superstars-2-with-licensed-cars-and-tracks/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:35:00

• "Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition released recently and it works great on Linux, even better now the online works properly too." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-definitive-edition-fixes-desyncs-between-windows-and-linux-steamos/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:36:01

• "Nightdive Studios announced they're doing Outlaws + Handful of Missions: Remaster, reviving the 1997 classic from LucasArts." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/outlaws-handful-of-missions-remaster-is-the-next-nightdive-studios-release/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:36:18

• "PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant really rolls off the tongue doesn't it? Is it basically Dome Keeper in 3D? Well, sort-of but not quite." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/i-cant-wait-to-fire-that-massive-cannon-in-pvkk-planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:44:16

• "A small update to Proton Experimental landed with a few fixes for some nuisances for Windows games on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/proton-experimental-gets-fixes-for-the-finals-avatar-frontiers-of-pandora-and-metal-gear-solid-v/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:44:43

• Bluestar 6.16.1 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/bluestar https://sourceforge.net/p/bluestarlinux/activity/?page=0&limit=100#68a5494900989ecc94486e0d    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:49:26

• Three stable kernels for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1034567/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:53:46

• "For now, this means systems running in strict FIPS mode will still see Freshclam updates fail. However, the release candidate does include test keys and certificates so developers can begin trying out the new signing and verification workflow." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/what-to-expect-from-clamav-1-5-open-source-antivirus/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 10:55:59

• AI nonsense. "Vet inte hur dom resonerar men så här tänker jag själv, att det kanske gäller iframtiden om AI blir mycket bättre än hur det är nu, för nu är det kasst." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/ditt-jobb-vs-ai    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:00:18

• 🔤SpellBinding — AUJNORD Wordo: GATED gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-21.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:01:33

• 🔤SpellBinding — BGTLOSI Wordo: LITHO gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-20.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:02:23

• 🔤SpellBinding — ABDEGHI Wordo: SCUMS gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-19.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:03:25

• 🔤SpellBinding — AGINPTZ Wordo: DICTU gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-08-18.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:04:18

• "Ever since I was a pre-teen, I've often gained an odd fascination for alleys. I'm not sure what about them draws me in, but it makes me wonder what goes on back there, and possibly, what hidden treasure may be lying in wait." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2691    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:05:42

• "Day three of the “wireless service unit” and it's becoming clear why so many people are returning it [1]. Bunny's laptop seems to drop consistently from the network, and I can't figure out why it's happening. She needs to turn off Wi-Fi, then turn it back on again, and she can use the Internet for some random period of time." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/08/20.2    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:06:35

• ChatControl gemini://jorgesanz.net/posts/2025-08-21-chatcontrol/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:07:11

• "Over the years, browsers shipped many features that were supposed to be accessible but ended up being not ❶ ." ☛ https://medienbaecker.com/articles/trusting-the-browser | Source: Thomas Günther    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:27:56

• "Performance is one of the standout improvements in this release. Benchmarks show Writer and Calc opening documents up to 30% faster" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/libreoffice-25-8-released-this-is-whats-new/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:29:16

• "For 40 years, Phrack has published papers that have reflected and shaped hacker culture." ☛ https://phrack.org/issues/72/1 | Source: Phrack    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:30:49

• "The five-day event comprised working groups, workshops, panel discussions, and conference sessions on topics including IPv6, AI, network automation and much more." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/08/20/event-wrap-apan-60/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:31:00

• "Groucho Marx was very nearly right when he said there are two certainties in life." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/charles-babbages-analytical-engine-the-computers-that-made-the-world/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:31:22

• "Why does this matter? A lightweight drone isn’t just easier to carry around (a huge perk for travelers and photographers)." ☛ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2025/08/19/drones-under-250-grams/ | Source: The Drone Girl    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:32:07

• "Academic publishing stands at a critical juncture where accessibility has become more than just a compliance requirement." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/19/guest-post-beyond-open-access-part-1-make-academic-content-truly-accessible-for-all/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:33:02

• "You can already see why I might dislike custom/wrapper/proxy REPLs." ☛ https://aartaka.me/customize-repl.html | Source: Artyom Bologov    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:36:04

• "Documenting the evolution of exploitation techniques serves a crucial purpose in security engineering: it helps us understand not just individual vulnerabilities but the systemic patterns that resist conventional fixes." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/20/marshal-madness-a-brief-history-of-ruby-deserialization-exploits/ | Source: Trail of Bits    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:36:20

• "In our previous blog post, Why Hardware Needs a New Foundation, we looked at how legacy engineering tools in the physical realm struggle to keep up with modern demands." ☛ https://info.juliahub.com/blog/engineering-in-the-age-of-agile | Source: Julia Programming Language    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:37:06

• "C++ already allows passing templates as template parameters, but only if they are class templates." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/08/20/cpp26-P2841 | Source: Sandor Dargo    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:37:46

• "A pair of networking researchers have proposed that the Internet Engineering Task Force define support for IPv6 as a best practice for operators of DNS resolvers" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/ietf_dnsop_3901bis_ipv4_ipv6/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:39:45

• "All right, let’s be slightly more serious. Yes, there are countless different Markdown processors out there, and yes, all of them handle edge cases differently." ☛ https://coyotetracks.org/blog/markdown/ | Source: Watts Martin    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:40:00

• "Pine64 is moving from Arm kit to RISC-V. As a result, its higher-end open smartphones is for the chop – but not the lower-end model." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/19/pinephone_pro_riscv/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:41:14

• "It's also, of course, a phone. You can speak to anyone anywhere, with video if desired, for zero marginal cost." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/08/the-phone.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:41:36

• "The machines were in Newbury and the owner needed to clear the whole lot, so wasn't particularly interested in people coming and collecting one at a time" ☛ https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-08-20/ | Source: Jonathan Pallant    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:47:17

• "Wait, what. Yes, KDE is developing its own Linux distro called, well, KDE Linux." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/kde-linux-raw-image-test-virtual.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:48:25

• "This week we talk about the ethical use of Ai and the blurring between humans and code. We take your feedback and answer some questions about VoIP & SIP." ☛ https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/455 | Source: The Ask Noah Show    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:49:54

• "If you're moving from a colo that someone manages to VMware, the cloud, or a differentVMware data center, they all look and feel different." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/disaster-recovery-with-openshift-hot-hot | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:53:40

• "The new support for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops on OpenShift Virtualization allows you to change hypervisors without disrupting Citrix workflows." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/elevate-your-citrix-virtual-apps-and-desktops-experience-red-hat-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:53:56

• "This is where implementing Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization as the foundation for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops makes a difference." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/unlocking-agility-and-efficiency-red-hat-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:55:11

• "One was that in order to talk about what type of architectures are required to develop and scale AI applications, including agents and agentic AI, we needed to provide some context about the evolution of architectures." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/optimizing-application-architectures-ai-monoliths-intelligent-agents-part-1 | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:55:46

• Shallow greenwashing nonsense; Red Hat did a lot of things to prevent old PCs still being used ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-energy-efficient-it-solutions-sustainability | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:57:33

• Scams and pure nonsense promoted by Red Hat ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/production-ai-success | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:58:01

• Red Hat participates in the Ponzi scheme or valuation bubble; IBM is a bottomless pit.    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 11:58:44

• redhat.com with silly buzzwords, as usual ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/20/how-i-built-agentic-application-docling-mcp    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:05:51

• Thibault Martin: Cloud tech makes sense on-prem too ☞ https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/08/20-cloud-tech-on-prem/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:06:45

• Apollonia Sues Prince Estate As Long-Running Trademark Dispute Boils Over, Says ‘Prince Himself Consented’ to the Name’s Usage ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/20/apollonia-prince-estate-lawsuit/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:07:40

• Your agent, your rules: A deep dive into the Responses API with Llama Stack ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/20/your-agent-your-rules-deep-dive-responses-api-llama-stack    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:08:43

• Like "Metaverse" and "Second Life" (IBM), this is more hype and Red Hat believes it can benefit from it before people get bored and move on    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:10:51

• Improve PKGget sync with APT ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202508/improve-pkgget-sync-with-apt.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:12:14

• Rejecting Strategic Partners Argument, TTAB Affirms 2d Refusal of IN HARMONY WITH NATURE for On-line Sale of Personal Care Products ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/08/rejecting-strategic-partners-argument.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:13:05

• Press freedom group urges Kazakhstan to end ban on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/press-freedom-group-urges-kazakhstan-to-end-ban-on-radio-free-europe-radio-liberty/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:14:19

• Texas launches inquiry into deceptive advertising and privacy risks in Hey Hi (AI) therapy chatbots ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/texas-launches-inquiry-into-deceptive-advertising-and-privacy-risks-in-ai-therapy-chatbots/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:15:23

• Popular VPN extension for Surveillance Giant Google Chrome is a security nightmare, screenshots every page users visit and sends them to anonymous developer — FreeVPN.One flagged over enormous privacy concerns ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/a-popular-vpn-extension-for-google-chrome-has-been-screenshotting-every-page-users-visit-freevpn-one-flagged-over-enormous-privacy-concerns    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:17:09

• Guest Post: Quintara Clarifies — and Complicates — Trade Secret Identification Under the DTSA ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/08/damore-trade-secret-particularity.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:18:00

• Syrian and Israeli Officials Meet for U.S. Brokered Talks ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/world/middleeast/syrian-israel-meet-paris.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 12:18:17

• "Forlinx Embedded, an NXP gold partner, has officially launched its FET-MX9596-C SoM and the companion OK-MX9596-C development board. Built around NXP’s i.MX 95 processor family, the platform targets industrial automation, medical systems, and edge AI applications." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/forlinx-fet-mx9596-c-som-arrives-with-nxp-i-mx-95-dual-10gbe-and-onboard-npu/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:11:15

• "DFRobot has officially introduced the FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4, a compact microcontroller board built for computer vision and multimedia projects." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/low-cost-firebeetle-2-esp32-p4-now-available-with-wi-fi-6-mipi-csi-dsi-and-risc-v-core/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:11:29

• Dihydroxyacetone Man denies women in need access to contraception ☞ https://overpopulation-project.com/trump-denies-women-in-need-access-to-contraception/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:13:36

• Health Ministry launches program to reduce soda intake among minors ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/health-ministry-launches-program-reduce-soda-intake-among-minors/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:14:11

• South Korea’s Lee intends to retain ‘comfort women’ pact with Japan, paper says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-koreas-lee-intends-to-retain-comfort-women-pact-with-japan-paper-says    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:14:32

• North Korea dismisses South Korean president's 'gibberish' ahead of US summit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-dismisses-south-korean-presidents-gibberish-ahead-of-us-summit    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:15:13

• Malaysia scraps plan to buy Black Hawk helicopters derided by its King as ‘flying coffins’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-scraps-plans-to-buy-black-hawk-helicopters-derided-by-king-as-flying-coffins    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:15:26

• 12-year-old girl selling explicit pictures online raises concerns for Malaysia authorities: Home Minister ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/12-year-old-girl-in-malaysia-sets-up-website-to-sell-explicit-pictures-says-home-minister    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:15:52

• Malaysian health experts, activists suggest following Singapore’s tough stance on vaping ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-health-experts-activists-suggest-following-singapores-tough-stance-on-vaping    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:16:15

• North Korea reportedly has secret missile base near China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-reportedly-has-secret-missile-base-near-china    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:16:32

• Xi Jinping Visits Tibet as Dalai Lama’s Succession Looms ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/world/asia/xi-tibet-dalai-lama.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:16:50

• Australia hits back at Netanyahu over ‘weak’ leader outburst as ties sour ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-lashes-netanyahu-over-weak-leader-outburst    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:19:04

• China to stage massive military parade marking WWII surrender of Japan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-to-stage-massive-military-parade-marking-wwii-surrender-of-japan    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:19:33

• China, India pledge to resume flights as Beijing’s top diplomat wraps up visit ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/china-india-pledge-to-resume-flights-as-beijings-top-diplomat-wraps-up-visit    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:20:04

• New policy in China fuels rise in fertility treatments ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/new-policy-in-china-fuels-rise-in-fertility-treatments    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:20:43

• ‘There is no shame’: Divorce less of a taboo for women in China as attitudes shift ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/there-is-no-shame-divorce-less-of-a-taboo-for-women-in-china-as-attitudes-shift    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:21:00

• China’s Pooh-tin makes second-ever visit to Tibet as president ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-xi-makes-second-ever-visit-to-tibet-as-president    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:21:22

• China, Afghanistan hold talks on mining, Belt and Road participation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-afghanistan-hold-talks-on-mining-belt-and-road-participation    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:21:43

• India test-fires nuclear-capable ballistic missile, with eye on China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/india-test-fires-ballistic-missile-ahead-of-us-tariff-hike    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:21:59

• China’s Pooh-tin pushes for mega dam, rail links to boost Tibet development ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-xi-pushes-for-mega-dam-rail-links-to-boost-tibet-development    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:22:20

• China emissions fall while chemicals emerge as new hot spot ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-emissions-fall-while-chemicals-emerge-as-new-hotspot    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:22:50

• Why rivals China and India really need each other right now ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/why-rivals-china-and-india-really-need-each-other-right-now    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:23:09

• Huawei's Kirin 9020 integrates 5G modem, China-made 5G FEM — chip symbolizes resilience to U.S. sanctions ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/huaweis-kirin-9020-integrates-5g-modem-china-made-5g-fem-chip-symbolizes-resilience-to-u-s-sanctions    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:23:32

• China’s Pooh-tin makes a rare visit to Tibet to mark 60 years of contested rule ☞ https://rfa.org/english/tibet/2025/08/21/tibet-xi-jinping-visit-china/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:23:53

• Facing China on two fronts, the US needs strategic focus ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/facing-china-on-two-fronts-the-us-needs-strategic-focus/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:24:19

• Review or spam? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/terramaster-d1-ssd-plus-review/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:25:11

• "Building A Robotic Arm " ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/20/building-a-robotic-arm-without-breaking-the-bank/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:25:39

• "Just use an I/O pin per switch." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/20/instant-macropad-just-add-qmk/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:26:11

• Embedding Wren in Hare ☞ https://drewdevault.com/2025/08/20/2025-08-20-Hare-and-Wren.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:27:13

• “Networking for System Administrators, 2nd edition” sent to copyedit ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24396    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:28:22

• Andrea Corbellini: It will take decades to undo the damage done by "AI" ☞ https://andrea.corbellini.name/2025/08/20/it-will-take-decades-to-undo-the-damage-done-by-ai/ "Some of them go as far as forcing software developers to use such tools under the threat of being fired if they don’t comply."    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:29:46

• Qt encourages plagiarism and bad 'coding' ☞ https://www.kdab.com/ai-coding-with-qt-qt-ai-assistant-for-qt-creator/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:30:54

• Tomasz Torcz: Actalis EAB ACME works – it was base64url issue ☞ https://enotty.pipebreaker.pl/posts/2025/08/actalis-eab-acme-works-it-was-base64url-issue/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:31:28

• Waveshare ESP32-P4-ETH development board supports Ethernet and PoE ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/20/waveshare-esp32-p4-eth-development-board-supports-ethernet-and-poe/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:31:58

• Kiwi TCMS: Self Support Subscription Explained ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/08/20/self-support-subscription-explained/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:32:23

• Kiwi TCMS: Private Tenant Subscription Explained ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/08/20/private-tenant-subscription-explained/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:32:33

• CentOS 7 vs CentOS 8 – Which is a Better Choice For You? ☞ https://dekisoft.net/centos-7-vs-centos-8-comparison/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:33:07

• Sven Hoexter: Istio: Connect via a VirtualService to External IP Addresses ☞ http://sven.stormbind.net/blog/posts/gcp_istio_vs_external_serviceentry/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:34:18

• Rights group says US authorities using Hey Hi (AI) to surveil pro-Palestinian protesters ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250821-rights-group-us-authorities-ai-pro-palestinian-protesters    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:35:47

• Krita Monthly Update - Edition 29 ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/monthly-update-29/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:36:45

• Your plants can now play your video games ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/08/20/your-plants-can-now-play-your-video-games/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:37:39

• Tails 6.19 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:38:29

• mesa 25.2.1 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/mesa-dev/2025-August/226550.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:39:57

• The Kids Aren’t Alright Online: Building a Safer, Better Internet ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/the-kids-arent-alright-online-building-a-safer-better-internet/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:41:00

• Накратко за Chatcontrol 2025 ☞ https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/chatcontrol-in-brief-bulgarian/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:41:19

• Windows TCO: Microsoft’s August 2025 security updates are breaking recovery tools on backdoored Windows 10 and backdoored Windows 11 PCs ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsofts-august-2025-security-updates-are-breaking-recovery-tools-on-windows-10-and-windows-11-pcs    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:41:51

• Young Latvians compete at 'Cybersecurity camp' ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/20.08.2025-young-latvians-compete-at-cybersecurity-camp.a611120/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:42:55

• A look at those Convicted Felon has targeted in tactic of revoking security clearances ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/intelligence-community/2025/08/a-look-at-those-trump-has-targeted-in-tactic-of-revoking-security-clearances/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:43:22

• GPT-5 Has a Vulnerability: Its Router Can Send You to Older, Less Safe Models ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/gpt-5-has-a-vulnerability-it-may-not-be-gpt-5-answering-your-call/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/13/GPT_5_is_Another_Microsoft_Dead_Cat_Trying_to_Bounce.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:44:12

• UK withdraws Fashion Company Apple data access mandate amidst pressure from US ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/uk-withdraws-apple-data-access-mandate-amidst-pressure-from-us/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/Unlike_GAFAM_Free_Software_Serves_You_It_Does_Not_Serve_Governm.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:44:59

• Elastic Refutes Claims of Zero-Day in EDR Product ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/elastic-refutes-claims-of-zero-day-in-edr-product/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:45:23

• Tycoon Jimmy Lai did not ask activists to halt sanctions push after nat. sec law enacted, prosecutor says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/20/tycoon-jimmy-lai-did-not-ask-activists-to-halt-sanctions-push-after-nat-sec-law-enacted-prosecutor-says/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:45:56

• RapperBot Botnet Disrupted, American Administrator Indicted ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/rapperbot-botnet-disrupted-american-administrator-indicted/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:46:16

• Snapdragon W5+ and W5 Gen 2 wearable platforms gain NB-NTN satellite support ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/21/snapdragon-w5-and-w5-gen-2-wearable-platforms-gain-nb-ntn-satellite-support/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:47:18

• Avalue EMX-TWLP – A Twin Lake mini-ITX motherboard for industrial applications ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/08/20/avalue-emx-twlp-a-twin-lake-mini-itx-motherboard-for-industrial-applications/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:47:42

• Pharmaceutical Company Inotiv Confirms Ransomware Attack ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/pharmaceutical-company-inotiv-confirms-ransomware-attack/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:49:04

• Flaws in Software Used by Hundreds of Cities and Towns Exposed Sensitive Data ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/flaws-in-software-used-by-hundreds-of-cities-and-towns-exposed-sensitive-data/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:49:14

• Intel Employee Data Exposed by Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/intel-employee-data-exposed-by-vulnerabilities/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:49:36

• Pentagon officials blast Washington Post for putting ‘lives at risk’ with report on Pete Hegseth’s security ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/media/pentagon-officials-blast-washington-post-for-putting-lives-at-risk-with-report-on-pete-hegseths-security/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:49:55

• Subverting AIOps Systems Through Poisoned Input Data ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/subverting-aiops-systems-through-poisoned-input-data.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:50:40

• Settings ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1087/settings    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:50:57

• Hong Kong jobless rate rises to 3.7% as construction, F&B among sectors hardest hit ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/20/hong-kong-jobless-rate-rises-to-3-7-as-construction-fb-among-sectors-hardest-hit/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:51:39

• "Since the 0.85″ TFT display would be wasted on multi-megapixel images, [Raphael] has dedicated this project to images from the Game Boy Camera." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/20/carry-your-grayscale-memories-with-this-tiny-game-boy-photo-frame/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:52:24

• Friends to all: achieving Australia’s shared vision for the Pacific ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/friends-to-all-achieving-australias-shared-vision-for-the-pacific/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:53:55

• Boulos’s family ties could help advance US national security interests in Libya ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/bouloss-family-ties-could-help-advance-us-national-security-interests-in-libya/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 14:54:25

• The U.S. should bolster investment reviews to combat China ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/cfius-2024-report-tech-china-investment-security-us-national-security/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:02:55

• Authorities dismantle major transnational rhino horn trafficking network ☞ https://www.protectionweb.co.za/civil-security/authorities-dismantle-major-transnational-rhino-horn-trafficking-network/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:03:40

• US hits ICC with more sanctions, targets French judge involved in Netanyahu arrest warrant ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250820-us-hits-icc-with-more-sanctions-targets-french-judge-involved-in-netanyahu-arrest-warrant    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:04:08

• Hong Kong democrats recently released from jail over landmark national security case say they got married ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/20/hong-kong-democrats-released-jail-national-security-married/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:05:12

• Sri Lanka police continue targeting families of the ‘disappeared,’ HRW warns ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/sri-lanka-police-continue-targeting-families-of-the-disappeared-hrw-warns/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:05:52

• Airtell Router Scans, and Mislabeled usernames, (Wed, Aug 20th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32216    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:07:00

• US: Nebraska introduces opening of immigration detention center ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/us-nebraska-introduces-opening-of-immigration-detention-center/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:07:35

• UN official warns of worsening humanitarian situation in South Sudan ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/08/un-official-warns-of-worsening-humanitarian-situation-in-south-sudan/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:07:56

• China calls for enhancing exchanges, security with Pakistan, Afghanistan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-calls-for-enhancing-exchanges-security-with-pakistan-afghanistan    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:08:25

• New Zealand spy service warns of China interference ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/new-zealand-faces-most-challenging-security-environment-in-recent-time-report-shows    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:08:46

• The Best PS2 Games For Emulation and Steam Deck in 2025 ☞ https://dekisoft.net/best-ps2-games-for-emulation-steam-deck/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:14:34

• Valve's secretive 'Fremont' gaming device surfaces in benchmarks with 2X more processing power than Steam Deck OLED ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/valves-secretive-fremont-gaming-device-surfaces-in-benchmarks-with-2x-more-processing-power-than-steam-deck-oled-device-powered-by-six-core-zen-4-cpu-and-rx-7600-gpu    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:16:24

• Mamdani, Skeptical of Casinos, Won’t Try to Block Them in New York City ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/nyregion/mamdani-casinos-nyc-mayor.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:17:27

• Why the rule of law is the key to prosperity: Lessons from thirty years of data ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/issue-brief/why-the-rule-of-law-is-the-key-to-prosperity-lessons-from-thirty-years-of-data/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:18:09

• In 32nd lawsuit against Convicted Felon, Michigan AG Dana Nessel defends $37M for crime victims ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/in-32nd-lawsuit-against-trump-michigan-ag-dana-nessel-defends-37m-for-crime-victims/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:18:30

• Irish rap group Kneecap at court for waving Hezbollah flag on stage ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250820-irish-rap-group-kneecap-at-court-for-waving-hezbollah-flag-on-stage    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:19:05

• Gabbard slashing intelligence office workforce and cutting budget by over $700 million ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/intelligence-community/2025/08/gabbard-slashing-intelligence-office-workforce-by-40-cutting-budget-by-more-than-700-million/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:20:00

• Australia’s deepfake dilemma and the Danish solution ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australias-deepfake-dilemma-and-the-danish-solution/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:22:51

• Spotify Takes Down Pirate App EeveeSpotify—Cloned Version Immediately Takes Its Place ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/08/20/spotify-takes-down-pirate-app-eeveespotify/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:25:42

• Ousted Fire Chief in L.A. Claims Mayor Bass Retaliated Against Her in Legal Filing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/los-angeles-fire-chief-mayor-bass.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:26:15

• Zig version 0.15.1 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1034583/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:27:30

• Lithuania’s inflation above EU average in July – Eurostat ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2649389/lithuania-s-inflation-above-eu-average-in-july-eurostat    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:27:57

• Congress Cuts Medicaid to Fund ICE: How H.R. 1 Harms Communities ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/congress-cuts-medicaid-to-fund-ice-how-h-r-1-harms-communities    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:30:03

• This Is How Much Protein You Really Need, Expert Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-how-much-protein-you-really-need-expert-says    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:31:33

• Rock Used as Doorstop For Decades Found to Be Worth Over $1 Million ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/rock-used-as-doorstop-for-decades-found-to-be-worth-over-1-million    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:31:55

• Deadliest Animal in Australia Revealed, And It's a Big Surprise ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/deadliest-animal-in-australia-revealed-and-its-a-big-surprise    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:32:22

• One Form of Exercise Improves Sleep The Most, Scientists Say ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-form-of-exercise-improves-sleep-the-most-scientists-say    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:32:55

• A Mysterious Glow in The Ocean Turns Out to Be Billions of Tiny Creatures ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-mysterious-glow-in-the-ocean-turns-out-to-be-billions-of-tiny-creatures    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:33:14

• Supernova Reveals What The Inside of a Star Really Looks Like ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/supernova-reveals-what-the-inside-of-a-star-really-looks-like    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:33:34

• Your Phone Is Covered in All Kinds of Germs. Here's The Solution. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-phone-is-covered-in-all-kinds-of-germs-heres-the-solution    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:33:58

• Giant Dinosaurs Would Have Chomped You Up in Very Different Ways ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-dinosaurs-would-have-chomped-you-up-in-very-different-ways    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:34:32

• Email-based publisher The Flyover has 25 full-time staff two years after launch ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/email-based-publisher-the-flyover-has-25-full-time-staff-two-years-after-launch/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:39:35

• Gavin Newsom’s Latest Role: Social Media Troll ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/newsom-trump-social-media.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:40:13

• "One-Motor Drone" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/20/one-motor-drone-mimics-maple-seeds-for-stability/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:40:46

• "Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/20/hide-capacitive-touch-buttons-in-your-next-3d-print/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:41:10

• High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in Chrome, Firefox ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-vulnerabilities-patched-in-chrome-firefox/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:42:28

• Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds summit 2025 to take place in Vienna ☞ https://reproducible-builds.org/news/2025/08/20/reproducible-builds-summit-in-vienna/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:46:39

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: x13binary 1.1.61.1 on CRAN: Micro Fix ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/08/20#x13binary_1.1.61.1    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:47:10

• Michael Meeks: 2025-08-19 Tuesday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-08-19.html "bid a fond farewell to the American Meeks'"    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:47:48

• While Zemlin et al (people who reject Linus) rake in GAFAM money to exploit people who develop Free software the developers themselves lack income ☞ https://cassidyjames.com/blog/heres-to-whats-next/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:49:50

• Michael Meeks: 2025-08-20 Wednesday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-08-20.html Published the next strip: on Fixed Price projects https://www.collaboraonline.com/torf/torf31    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:50:44

• (At Least) Second Wave of Mass Layoffs in Abusive Monopolist Microsoft This Month ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/21/At_Least_Second_Wave_of_Mass_Layoffs_in_Microsoft_This_Month.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:51:00

• IBM Layoffs in MCC, or Marketing, Communications and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/19/IBM_Layoffs_in_MCC_or_Marketing_Communications_and_Corporate_So.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:51:11

• Microsoft said “GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organisation.” But it's just an empty shell created earlier this year. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/19/Microsoft_said_GitHub_and_its_leadership_team_will_continue_its.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:51:24

• Accessibility Isn't Overrated ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/19/Accessibility_Isn_t_Overrated.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:52:21

• Before CoreAI There Was Builder.ai ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/Before_CoreAI_There_Was_Builder_ai.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:52:39

• Many Companies Are Run by Liars Who Ride Other People's Money ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/Many_Companies_Are_Run_by_Liars_Who_Ride_Other_People_s_Money.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:52:52

• The Register MS, Paid to Promote "AI" Hype, Does "Sez" (Says) Pieces ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/The_Register_MS_Paid_to_Promote_AI_Hype_Does_Sez_Says_Pieces.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:53:03

• In Vietnam, Microsoft's Search Engine "Market Share" Fell to Almost 0%, CocCoc More Than 5 Times Bigger ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/In_Vietnam_Microsoft_s_Search_Engine_Market_Share_Fell_to_Almos.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:53:15

• Microsoft May Have Become - at Least Partially - Like a Boiler Room Scam ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/Microsoft_May_Have_Become_at_Least_Partially_Like_a_Boiler_Room.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:53:30

• Build a container image for a Quarkus project using Buildpacks ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/20/build-container-image-quarkus-project-using-buildpacks    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:54:18

• Paradox of chatbots and other nonsense, conflating them with "trust"; Red Hat jumping the shark ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/08/20/building-trustworthy-ai-developers-guide-production-ready-systems    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:56:08

• How To Install Fail2ban on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fail2ban-debian-13/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:57:59

• How To Install Squid Proxy on AlmaLinux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-squid-proxy-almalinux-10/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:58:17

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

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:58:44

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

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:59:08

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

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 15:59:43

• Pakistan’s financial capital Karachi hit by torrential rain and floods ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/pakistans-karachi-hit-by-torrential-rain-and-floods    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:00:01

• Emmanuel Kasper: Benchmarking 3D graphic cards and their drivers ☞ https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/bencharkings-3d-graphic-cards-and-their-drivers/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:00:37

• How To Install FFmpeg on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-ffmpeg-debian-13/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:01:27

• A Lot of What Happened in Ex-Twitter Was Bots, Botfarms, and Troll Farms. It's Even Worse Now (Under X.com) and People Are Noticing. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/A_Lot_of_What_Happened_in_Twitter_Was_Bots_Botfarms_and_Troll_F.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:06:56

• This 3D printer was repurposed as a robotic camera — and it doubles as a photogrammetry rig for 3D scanning ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/this-3d-printer-was-repurposed-as-a-robotic-camera-and-it-doubles-as-a-photogrammetry-rig-for-3d-scanning    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:07:20

• Bangkok’s Jay Fai restaurant fined over hidden pricing for ‘VVIPs’ after YouTuber complaint ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bangkoks-jay-fai-restaurant-fined-over-hidden-pricing-for-vvips-after-youtuber-complaint    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:07:51

• "Over on his YouTube channel [Ryan Inis] has a video about how electrostatic motors are breaking all the rules." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/20/lets-brief-you-on-recent-developments-for-electrostatic-motors/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:08:14

• Easy Excalibur version 7.0.3 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202508/easy-excalibur-version-703-released.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:09:07

• Linux Gets HDR Support in Chromium on Wayland ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linux-gets-hdr-support-in-chromium-on-wayland/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:09:30

• Microsoft "Intifada" Shut Down After 4 Hours ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/microsoft-intifada-shut-down-after    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:09:56

• Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1034546/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:11:10

• Adding stubble to Ubuntu's generic Arm64 Desktop ISOs ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1034579/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:11:29

• rescrobbled – music scrobbler daemon ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rescrobbled-music-scrobbler-daemon/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:12:33

• Krafna – Obsidion dataview plugin-like tool for command line ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/krafna-obsidion-dataview-plugin-tool/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:12:45

• Sessions – focus with timed work intervals ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sessions-focus-timed-work-intervals/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:12:56

• rdict – offline CLI dictionary ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rdict-offline-cli-dictionary/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:16:07

• Proprietary spyware controlled by a hostile company; try Jitsi or Jami instead? ☞ https://idroot.us/install-microsoft-teams-almalinux-10/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:17:01

• How To Install LibreOffice on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-libreoffice-debian-13/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:17:18

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

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:17:38

• 99Managers Futsal Edition – futsal team-management game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/99managers-futsal-edition-futsal-team-management-game/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:18:47

• 15 Useful Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Foreign Language Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/foreignlanguagetools/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:19:00

• Slopwatch: Serial Sloppers and Slopfarms in Surveillance Giant Google News (e.g. GNU/Linux Journal and WebProNews) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/Slopwatch_Serial_Sloppers_and_Slopfarms_in_Google_News_e_g_Linu.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:19:10

• Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS running Linux: Introduction to the Series ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/aiffro-k100-all-ssd-nas-running-linux-introduction/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:19:22

• Microsoft bloatware made in Microsoft proprietary software does the expected https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-259-Requirements    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:19:59

• Gnuinos 2025.08.20 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/gnuinos    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:21:13

• Besgnulinux 3-0 also released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/besgnulinux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:21:23

• LibreOffice 25.8: smarter, faster and more reliable ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/20/libreoffice-25-8/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:28:02

• LibreOffice 25.8 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1034558/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:28:14

• "The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8. This latest version of the market-leading free open source office suite maintains its focus on digital sovereignty and privacy protection."    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:28:26

• LibreOffice 25.8 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-8-open-source-office-suite-officially-released-this-is-whats-new    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:28:51

• Linux Kernel 6.15 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to GNU/Linux Kernel 6.16 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-15-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-16    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:29:11

• SIM-Swapper, Scattered Spider Hacker Gets 10 Years ☞ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/sim-swapper-scattered-spider-hacker-gets-10-years/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:42:38

• Half million allocated for enhanced guarding of Latvia's eastern border ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/20.08.2025-half-million-allocated-for-enhanced-guarding-of-latvias-eastern-border.a611029/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:43:06

• What happened in Latvia between August 18 and 21, 1991? ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/features/19.08.2025-what-happened-in-latvia-between-august-18-and-21-1991.a610880/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:43:16

• "after attack on Druzhba pipeline" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/20/russian-oil-flows-to-hungary-restored-after-attack-on-druzhba-pipeline | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:43:45

• "foreign agents" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/20/russia-s-finance-ministry-proposes-hiking-income-tax-rate-for-foreign-agents | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:45:34

• "Russian drone crashed and exploded on Polish territory" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/20/russian-drone-crashed-and-exploded-on-polish-territory-warsaw-says | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:45:55

• Why Georgia, Once on Democracy’s Vanguard, Is Drifting Toward Russia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/magazine/georgia-russia-autocracy-dictatorship.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:46:13

• Mike Rogers Doesn’t Exculpate Convicted Felon on “Collusion” Like Convicted Felon Once Thought ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/20/mike-rogers-doesnt-exculpate-trump-on-collusion-like-trump-once-thought/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:47:44

• Report: Russian Sabotage Operations In Europe Have Quadrupled Since 2023 ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-sabotage-europe-hybrid-attacks/33508179.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:48:02

• Lithuania stepping up border security ahead of Zapad drills ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2649228/lithuania-stepping-up-border-security-ahead-of-zapad-drills    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:48:33

• New disinformation operation targets Armenian government with corruption claims ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250820-disinformation-operation-armenia-government-corruption-scandal "multiple accounts with ties to pro-Dihydroxyacetone Man and pro-Russian networks"    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:49:30

• French researcher in Russian jail faces new espionage charge ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250820-french-researcher-russian-jail-espionage    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:49:58

• Russian cyber group exploits seven-year-old network vulnerabilities for long-term espionage ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/russian-static-tundra-hacks-cisco-network-devices-cve-2018-0171/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:50:18

• "a shortage could be looming" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/cards/fuel-fallout | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:50:56

• "New comments by Russia’s foreign minister confirm that Moscow has not made the concessions in Ukraine talks claimed by the Trump administration" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/20/worlds-apart | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:51:25

• "a misguided sense of patriotism" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/08/21/court-in-russian-occupied-luhansk-imprisons-local-ukrainian-man-for-treason-attributing-his-actions-to-a-misguided-sense-of-patriotism | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:51:45

• "Russian oil is flowing to Europe again — and so is the bad blood between Ukraine and Hungary" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/21/russian-oil-is-flowing-to-europe-again-and-so-is-the-bad-blood-between-ukraine-and-hungary | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:52:15

• Wednesday Briefing: An Uncertain Path to Peace in Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/briefing/ukraine-russia-trump-gaza-netanyahu-indonesia-rainforest.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:53:54

• Russia Demands Role in Guaranteeing Ukraine’s Postwar Security ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/world/europe/ukraine-russia-security-guarantees.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:54:10

• Rubio Takes on Tricky Task of Drafting Security Guarantees for Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/marco-rubio-ukraine.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:54:27

• North Korea leader Kim praises ‘heroic’ troops in Russia, state media says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-leader-kim-praises-heroic-troops-in-russia-state-media-says    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:54:58

• Ukrainian Counterattacks Cut Russian Advance Near Pokrovsk But Civilians Still Suffer ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33507622.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:55:11

• Work On Security Guarantees For Ukraine Already Under Way, Yermak Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-war-europe-yermak-vance-trump-security-guarantees/33509007.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:55:24

• No chance of European troops in Ukraine without US backing – Lithuania’s committee chair ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2649555/no-chance-of-european-troops-in-ukraine-without-us-backing-lithuania-s-committee-chair    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:55:41

• Under Geneva Convention, Russia has no automatic claim to territory simply by virtue of occupying it ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250820-under-geneva-convention-russia-has-no-automatic-claim-to-territory-simply-by-virtue-of-occupying-it    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:55:58

• ‘Today it’s paper, tomorrow it’s nothing’: the perils of security guarantees for Ukraine ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250820-today-it-s-paper-tomorrow-it-s-nothing-the-perils-of-security-guarantees-for-ukraine    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:56:23

• Russia not vying for peace but seeking Ukraine's surrender, former NATO official says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250820-russia-not-vying-for-peace-but-seeking-ukraine-s-surrender-former-nato-official-says    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:56:36

• Kroenig in Foreign Policy urges Convicted Felon to play the nuclear card to end the war in Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/insight-impact/in-the-news/kroenig-in-foreign-policy-urges-trump-to-go-nuclear-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:57:20

• Over €37,000 raised in two days in LSM's charity drive for Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/20.08.2025-over-eur37000-raised-in-two-days-in-lsms-charity-drive-for-ukraine.a611028/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:57:40

• What third country nationals need to know entering Latvia from September ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/transport/20.08.2025-what-third-country-nationals-need-to-know-entering-latvia-from-september.a611035/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:57:57

• Powerful Ukrainian documentary gets Rīga screening ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/video/20.08.2025-powerful-ukrainian-documentary-gets-riga-screening.a611106/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:58:19

• Social Control Networks Give You False Metrics to 'Addict' You To Them ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/Social_Control_Networks_Give_You_False_Metrics_to_Addict_You_To.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:59:03

• IBM Operatives Inside The Register MS and More Shady Money to Follow ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/IBM_Operatives_Inside_The_Register_MS_and_More_Shady_Money_to_F.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 16:59:47

• All That's Left of MSNBC (Microsoft-NBC) is Abusive Monopolist Microsoft NOW (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/All_That_s_Left_of_MSNBC_Microsoft_NBC_is_Microsoft_NOW.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:00:01

• On the Internet, Nobody Knows Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and backdoored Windows Are Becoming Niche Players Until Data is Shown Correctly, Not Microsoft-Sponsored Articles in Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Publishers (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/08/20/On_the_Internet_Nobody_Knows_Microsoft_and_Windows_Are_Becoming.shtml    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:00:14

• Wilco v. Weeks Marine: When Expert Disagreements Don’t Create Genuine Disputes of Material Fact ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/08/disagreements-disputes-material.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:00:56

• Kangaroo Court of corrupt EPO at it again ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/g1-25-eba-to-decide-on-hydroponic-case-between-knauf-and-rockwool/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:01:50

• Even a Glancing Blow From Hurricane Erin May Cost the Outer Banks a Crucial Lifeline ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/weather/highway-12-ocracoke-hatteras-north-carolina-hurricane-erin.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:02:26

• LibreOffice 25.8 Released with PDF 2.0 Export, Faster Performance ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/libreoffice-25-8-released-pdf-2-performance-boost    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:04:30

• Ubuntu Blog: Canonical is now a platinum member in the Open Source Robotics Alliance ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/osra-membership    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:04:43

• Proprietary = garbage-ware ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/08/free-vpn-chrome-extension-spying-on-users    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:07:17

• LibreOffice 25.8 Released! PDF 2.0 Export & Many New Calc Functions ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/08/libreoffice-25-8-released/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:07:51

• CSA Regulation Document Pool ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/csa-regulation-document-pool/ EU still welcomes this dude... SOMEHOW https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:09:06

• So it would seem the EU is more or less implicitly OK with child sexual abuse as long as rich and high-profile people do it    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:09:40

• Matthew Palmer: Progress on my open source funding experiment ☞ https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2025/08/21/open-source-funding-experiment-progress.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:10:40

• Neovim vs Vim Comparison – Which is a better Editor? ☞ https://dekisoft.net/neovim-vs-vim-compared/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:11:55

• Seems like openwashing of slop, with some standing to gain financially while producing nothing of real value ☞ https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-nsf-nvidia-open-ai-models-science/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:12:47

• SEP 12 | The Three Faces of Transnational Repression: The Citizen Lab at APSA Annual Meeting ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/08/sep-12-the-three-faces-of-transnational-repression-the-citizen-lab-at-apsa-annual-meeting/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:13:35

• "fortress belt" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/08/20/the-dealbreaker | Source: Meduza    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:14:56

• Stop the World: on Ukraine war, Russia expert Galeotti is optimistic about becoming optimistic ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/stop-the-world-on-ukraine-war-russia-expert-galeotti-is-optimistic-about-becoming-optimistic/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:15:19

• Inside Convicted Felon’s Effort on Russia and Ukraine ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000010349018/inside-trumps-effort-on-russia-and-ukraine.html    

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

• What Russia Is Doing to Grab Ukrainian Land While It Still Can ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/world/europe/ukraine-russia-battlefield.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:16:03

• The "hey hi" (AI) hype kills people ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/report-states-like-michigan-simply-not-prepared-for-data-center-water-demand/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:16:53

• Russia is dragging on peace in Ukraine – Convicted Felon must pressure Putin where it hurts to stop the killing once and for all ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/opinion/russia-is-dragging-on-peace-in-ukraine-trump-must-pressure-putin-where-it-hurts-to-stop-the-killing/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:17:29

• "This week Jonathan and Dan chat with Farid Abdelnour about Kdenlive!" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/08/20/floss-weekly-episode-843-money-usually-helps/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:18:01

• Will Giant Companies Always Have a Monopoly on Top Hey Hi (AI) SLOP Models? ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/racial-justice/will-giant-companies-always-have-a-monopoly-on-top-ai-models    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:19:10

• White House launches Fentanylware (TikTok) account as September deadline for platform’s ban looms ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/08/20/white-house-launches-tiktok-account-as-september-deadline-for-platforms-ban-looms/ China to have control over the communications of the highest American office    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:21:05

• Why Covid Cases Are Up This Summer ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/well/why-covid-is-spreading-again-this-summer.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:22:05

• Covid cases on the rise in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/20.08.2025-covid-cases-on-the-rise-in-latvia.a611115/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:22:18

• Antoine Beaupré: Encrypting a Debian install with UKI ☞ https://anarc.at/blog/2025-08-20-luks-ukify-conversion/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:22:42

• Newelle: The Hey Hi (AI) Helper App for GNU/Linux ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/08/newelle-the-ai-helper-app-for-linux/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:23:30

• [Podcast] The inevitability of centrality ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/08/21/podcast-the-inevitability-of-centrality/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:24:14

• Going GNU/Linux #470 · How to try GNU/Linux without affecting your current system Pt. 2 ☞ https://goinglinux.com/episode-470-how-to-try-linux-without-affecting-your-current-system-pt.-2/index.html    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:25:04

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppArmadillo 14.6.3-1 on CRAN: Minor Upstream Bug Fixes ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/08/20#rcpparmadillo_14.6.3-1    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 17:27:53

• "For years, Linux has quietly powered the digital engines of business, running everything from bank transactions to airline bookings. Now, it’s preparing to shift gears from the racks of servers to the car in our driveways, and Red Hat wants to put it in the driver’s seat." https://www.eetimes.com/red-hat-pushes-safety-certified-linux-into-automotive-sector/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:02:15

• The issue here is a hole in Apache software already patched 2 years ago, nothing to do with Linux https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/a-clever-new-linux-malware-is-breaking-into-systems-and-then-shutting-the-door-behind-it-to-avoid-detection    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:03:51

• New DripDropper Malware Exploits Linux Flaw Then Patches It Lock Rivals Out https://hackread.com/dripdropper-malware-exploits-linux-flaw-patche-lock-out/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:04:54

• ActiveMQ is not Linux and not part of Linux    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:06:01

• "Linux kernel 6.16 is already available in the stable repositories of various distributions, including openSUSE Tumbleweed and Arch Linux." https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-15-reaches-end-of-life-its-time-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-6-16    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:06:25

• "This is where Linux enters the conversation. Unlike Windows, which is a proprietary operating system owned and controlled by Microsoft, Linux is open source. That means its source code is freely available and developers can inspect, modify" https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/08/20/beckhoff-opinion-operating-systems-for-industrial-automation-starts-with-people-not-tech/93796/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:07:33

• "Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans" https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/cachyos_distrowatch/    

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

• "Now we can all enjoy one of the best RTS games ever, with lots of enhancements and actually working multiplayer between platforms without having to resort to special external fixes. What a time to be alive." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-definitive-edition-fixes-desyncs-between-windows-and-linux-steamos/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:08:31

• How to Install Tor Browser on Linux https://www.techloy.com/how-to-install-and-use-tor-browser-on-linux/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:08:59

• "The highly sophisticated post-compromise tool abuses the Linux kernel's io_uring interface to remain hidden from endpoint detection and response systems." https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/ringreaper-sneaks-past-linux-edrs    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:10:09

• The Frustrations and Resentment of Working-Class Russians https://jacobin.com/2025/08/russia-working-class-neoliberalism-resentment/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:32:33

• Polish officials say crashed drone is Russian 'provocation' https://www.dw.com/en/polish-officials-say-crashed-drone-is-russian-provocation/a-73709484    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:32:55

• German Prosecutors Charge Russian With Planning Attack on Israeli Embassy in Berlin https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-20/german-prosecutors-charge-russian-with-planning-attack-on-israeli-embassy-in-berlin    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:33:34

• Russia Bars Entry to 21 People It Says Spread Disinformation Against It in UK Media https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-20/russia-bars-entry-to-21-people-it-says-spread-disinformation-against-it-in-uk-media    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:33:57

• No more German visas for Kremlin critics fleeing Russia? https://www.dw.com/en/no-more-german-visas-for-kremlin-critics-fleeing-russia/a-73664017    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:35:47

• WhatsApp Accuses Moscow of Trying to Block Secure Communication for Millions of Russians https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-08-14/whatsapp-says-russia-is-trying-to-block-it    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 18:38:59

• An entertaining essay by one of my favourite authors, Neal Stephenson: In The Beginning Was The Command Line (1999) gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 22:50:39

• Looking at web server logs gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-08-21-web-server-logs    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 22:51:34

• "Debian 13 (trixie) has been released on 2025-08-09. So up to upgrading! What could possibly go wrong?" gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2025/20250820-welcome-trixie.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 22:54:07

• 🖼️ xkcd: Cesium #3131 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3131.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 22:56:22

• [jp] [cat] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-08-21.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 22:57:05

• [jp] [cat] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-08-20.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 22:57:40

• "1. Technology has negatively impacted the way we interact with one another in person." gemini://genxalt.pollux.casa/gemlog/2025-08-21_Observations_on_Dating.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 22:58:59

• Psilocybe, en Cositas, de Benoît Coquil gemini://plr.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-08-21-psilocybe-en-cositas-de-benoît-coquil.gmi    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 22:59:51

• warm as a dream gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/warm_as_a_dream    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 23:00:28

• Not again! Microsoft blames config tweak for 365 outage in parts of North America https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/microsoft_365_outage/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 23:07:29

• Microsoft stays mum about M365 Copilot on-demand security bypass https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/microsoft_mum_about_m365_copilot/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 23:12:08

• Windows at lowest level in years https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/asia/#monthly-200902-202508    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 23:13:23

• "Bungie CEO Pete Partons is retiring from his position and new studio head Justin Truman, a Bungie and Destiny veteran of 15 years, is stepping up to the plate." https://www.gamesradar.com/games/destiny/bungie-ceo-pete-parsons-is-out-new-studio-head-steps-up-with-destiny-2-flailing-marathon-in-limbo-and-the-eye-of-sony-burning/    

posted Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 23:49:59