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  • Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-09-08.gmi    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 02:57:56

  • [japan] [cat] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-09-07.gmi    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 02:59:13

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1757.jpg    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 02:59:22

  • [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1407.jpg    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 02:59:33

  • Game Pass is worth 'jack sh*t' without game developers, ex Bethesda VP says https://www.tweaktown.com/news/107607/game-pass-is-worth-jack-expletive-without-game-developers-ex-bethesda-vp-says/index.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 03:46:56

  • Former Bethesda exec Pete Hines says Game Pass is 'nothing' without the people making the games https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/former-bethesda-exec-pete-hines-says-game-pass-is-nothing-without-the-people-making-the-games    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 03:47:26

  • Microsoft Surface gets trolled, fact checked by X for showcasing iPad OS instead of Windows — "The ultimate research buddy." https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/surface/microsoft-surface-gets-trolled-fact-checked-by-x-community-notes    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 03:48:06

  • Microsoft Says Azure Users May See Disruption After Fibre Cuts In Red Sea https://www.businesstoday.com.my/2025/09/07/microsoft-says-azure-users-may-see-disruption-after-fibre-cuts-in-red-sea/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 03:49:19

  • Multiple undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, hampering internet performance — international cables connecting Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are compromised https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/red-sea-cable-cut-takes-azure-routes-down    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 03:50:04

  • "And instead you find yourself sitting with the worst people in the world, crawling up the ass of some orange convict, rapist, and con artist. If they weren’t tearing the world around them down along with themselves, I could almost feel some pity for those suckers." https://lemmy.world/post/35534529    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 05:46:25

  • "What makes Stallman a creep? I believe many people are judging him by his nerdy look and personality, the guy is really just being himself and not putting up any masks, i would argue any other acting elegant for social status is a bigger creep https://stallman.org/rms-lifestyle.html "    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 05:47:47

  • "Yes Donny Dementia is addicted to McJunk. Otherwise, it would be a case of Vindaloo in Da Loo." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4e2284n    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 06:33:39

  • "There’s nothing brilliant about 99% of the people who come on H1B. The system was designed to push down US tech wages and shift the cost of training onto someone else’s dime (Infosys, TATA, and other outsourcers). It benefits corporations, outsourcers, and people on visas, but it does not benefit US workers or the country as a whole." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3c1bhhm    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 06:34:48

  • "Since US workers vote, and the line has now been crossed, the political class is scrambling because they know whoever takes action here will scoop up millions of votes. The logic is upside down, but that’s how it works."    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 06:35:22

  • "The other issue is that India takes 80% of the visas, which distorts the demographic balance and fuels resentment. If India has 15-20% of the global population, and assuming talent is normally distributed, then the numbers don’t add up. A fair system would not result in 80% of visas going to one country."    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 06:35:50

  • "I’ve worked with some incredible Indian colleagues, but I’ve also seen plenty who were nowhere near "brilliant" - enough to make me question the entire process. And after more than 10 years at Accenture (I left a few years ago), I’ve seen pretty much every shenanigan in the book, so I speak from firsthand experience."    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 06:36:12

  • "ibm canada laid me off in ottawa after 9 years, and just weeks later they labeled me a low performer... i got an email saying this, even though my last review was positive. i asked my manager in toronto why it happened, and he said his director in austin told him to do it, adding that he never thought i'd find out. ibm does this so they can backfill the role with someone else... pure evil!!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4kn35br    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 06:37:11

  • "i think the ceo and senior executives are slowly ki-ling ibm because revenue is not really growing. every year they lay off thousands in north america, europe, and canada, then move jobs to india to cut labor costs by 80%. they make revenue look fine each quarter, but it's a scam cheating the shareholders." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4kn35br    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 06:37:42

  • "yes, i think it's common, they need to 'legally' justify replacing you with a cheaper lesser worker to save money immediately no matter what it does in the long term it gives them 'legal' cover, Do Not Trust the people above you"    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 06:38:15

  • iophk: "If many GNU/Linux users have it turned off the impact will be lessened However, if many have it turned on, the damage will be severe, especially if it is the case that proprietary drivers require or even just recommend activating restricted boot." https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/08/Turn_Off_Microsoft_s_Restricted_Boot_Secure_Boot.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 06:54:59

  • "Stallman Never Said The GNU/Linux Copypasta?!?" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/stallman-never-said-the-gnu-linux:6    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:36:04

  • "The Dangers of Fiscal Dominance - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-dangers-of-fiscal-dominance    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:36:23

  • "Don’t blindly trust the cloud. Back up your files locally, too." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/07/important-data-local-backup-essential/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:38:35

  • iophk: microsoft fears open standards for file formats and the platform independence which they enable https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/microsoft-offers-a-one-year-free-microsoft-365-subscription-to-college-students-eligible-users-get-50-percent-off-the-monthly-plan-after-the-first-year    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:39:01

  • iophk: Nobody remembers SGML, but everyone reinvents it.    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:39:33

  • "Lazy Reading for 2025/09/07 – DragonFly BSD Digest" https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/09/07/lazy-reading-for-2025-09-07/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:39:46

  • "Protesters in D.C. flood the streets demanding an end to Trump’s military deployment" https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/09/06/repub/protesters-in-d-c-flood-the-streets-demanding-an-end-to-trumps-military-deployment/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:40:00

  • "How Trump is weaponizing the government in his second term to settle personal scores" https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-09-07/how-donald-trump-is-weaponizing-the-government-in-his-second-term-to-settle-personal-scores    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:40:13

  • "Blue states hold on to public health dollars while red states lose out • Michigan Advance" https://michiganadvance.com/2025/09/07/repub/blue-states-hold-on-to-public-health-dollars-while-red-states-lose-out/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:40:28

  • "Videotips om Chat Control 2 & Proton" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/09/07/videotips-om-chatt-control-   

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:40:41

  • "Microsoft offers a one-year free Microsoft 365 subscription to college students — eligible users get 50% off the monthly plan after the first year"    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:41:23

  • "End of Encryption: How the EU Wants to Spy on ALL Your Messages" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVey06McSmg    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:42:21

  • "The MS-CF16 V3.0 supports a wider selection of Intel processors than its predecessor, with all configurations featuring up to 16 GB of LPDDR5 4800 MHz memory soldered onboard." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/msi-unveils-ms-cf16-v3-0-pico-itx-sbc-with-alder-lake-n-amston-lake-and-twin-lake-processors/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:51:43

  • "When a major rightsholder obtains a site blocking order to counter rampant piracy, transparency is not always guaranteed. More often than not, the public isn't routinely updated. Draft legislation in the U.S. would see initial blocking orders published in the spirit of transparency." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/dynamic-pirate-site-blocking-injunctions-and-the-transparency-illusion-250907/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:52:21

  • "A German woman filed a suit against the US search engine Google after failing to get it to remove intimate pictures of her that were spread online." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/german-woman-sues-google-over-nude-pictures-and-sex-videos/a-73869490 | Source: Deutsche Welle    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:52:49

  • "The case marks the fourth time Brussels has sanctioned Google in an antitrust matter since 2017." ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/eu-fines-google-3-46b-for-antitrust-violations/ | Source: JURIST    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:53:39

  • "network congestion and latency due to multiple faults in the undersea cables that are part of the optimal routes out of the data centers." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/asia_tech_news_roundup/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:54:22

  • "a series of subsea cable outages in the Red Sea has degraded internet connectivity in multiple countries" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/undersea-cables-cut-in-red-sea-disrupts-internet-access-asia-mideast-1902225 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 07:54:50

  • "First, the National Guard is not a police force." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-order-national-guard-protests-rapid-reaction-force-1235422636/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:44:46

  • "Poverty isn't simply the condition of not having enough money. It's the condition of not having enough choice and being taken advantage of because of that." ☛ https://robinrendle.com/notes/notes-on-poverty/ | Source: Robin Rendle    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:44:59

  • "Within hours, the tragedy had been weaponized into evidence that “the left” controls media narratives to suppress stories that don't serve their political agenda." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/how-reactionaries-weaponize-tragedy | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:46:55

  • "As the Acting Chair of the Routing Security Special Interest Group (SIG), Taiji Kimura, Senior Expert at the Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC)" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/09/08/your-elected-leaders-taiji-kimura-routing-security-sig-acting-chair/ | Source: APNIC    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:47:30

  • "This isn’t business negotiation." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-hot-mic-and-the-monsters | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:47:52

  • "implemented with regard to U.S.-bound parcels valued at $800" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-united-nations-marco-rubio-switzerland-bern-b2821529.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:48:28

  • "Time is valuable. There's a cost associated with it." ☛ https://forkingmad.blog/paying-for-the-small-web/ |    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:53:10

  • "The battery charges from solar panels on the roof of the three-bedroom home she shares with her husband, Daniel, and five-year-old daughter, Ida." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/virtual-power-plant-blatchford-1.7625284 | Source: CBC    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:53:55

  • "This framework really resonates with me: it formally captures and improves on a bunch of informal techniques I've tried to apply in my own work." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/the-sift-method/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:55:48

  • "Nepal has imposed a nationwide ban on 26 social media and messaging platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), WhatsApp, YouTube, Reddit and LinkedIn." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ettech-explainer-why-nepal-banned-instagram-x-youtube-and-other-social-media-platforms/articleshow/123744719.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:56:53

  • "Wildly flailing in a job he is utterly unfit for and so eager to deflect from the looming, damning Epstein files he'll do pretty much anything even kill us" ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/further/the-smell-of-fascism-what-the-absolute-flying-fuck | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:57:30

  • "The AI is trained on the corpus of what scholarly written work there already is about the strategy of war" ☛ https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/02/pentagon-ai-nuclear-war-00496884 | Source: Politico LLC    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:57:58

  • "Despite the closure of the eastern border, Russians continue to be able to move to Finland for work and study, reports Finnish news agency STT." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20181505 | Source: YLE    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:58:36

  • Social Control Media ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-restricts-social-media-amid-police-blockade-on-opposition-party-311252 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:59:15

  • "As clips circulated online, viewers dubbed the woman 'Phillies Karen' and attempted to uncover her identity. Within hours, several women were wrongly accused." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/philies-karen-identity-revealed-wrong-woman-goes-viral-snatching-ball-boy-during-fridays-game-1743316 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 09:59:28

  • "Pivot to AI lives on a small and cheap virtual server at Hetzner (who are great). The site’s been slowing badly of late. If you guessed it’s our AI bot friends, you are correct!" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/07/the-ai-scraper-bots-are-hammering-pivot-to-ai-again-please-test/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:00:00

  • "Jules did some bold changes." ☛ https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/09-08-distrust-of-ai-coding-agent-goodle-jules.gmi | Source: Martin Chang    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:00:15

  • "Baked into the Robodebt pie of electronic hubris were a series of base assumptions about a victim’s income, which were extrapolated over an entire year." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/robodebt-and-australias-largest-class-action/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:00:31

  • "The other day, I asked Claude how to do some­thing using a par­tic­ular Ruby library, and it hal­lu­ci­nated three nonex­is­tent methods in a row." ☛ https://www.robinsloan.com/lab/knowledge-and-memory/ | Source: Robin Sloan    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:01:03

  • "Before you start to think this is a breakthrough in clever LLM jailbreaking technology, though" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/psychological-tricks-can-get-ai-to-break-the-rules/ | Source: Wired    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:01:25

  • "Welcome to the age of ouroboros. Google’s AI Overviews (AIOs), which now often appear at the top of organic search results, are drawing around 10 percent of their sources from documents written by ... other AIs, according to a recent report." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/07/googles_ai_cites_written_by_ai/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:02:43

  • "In the study, published in July, the think tank Model Evaluation & Threat Research randomly assigned a group of experienced software developers to perform coding tasks with or without AI tools." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/ai-bubble-us-economy/684128/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:03:25

  • HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE ☛ https://futurism.com/experts-concerned-nuclear-war | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:03:49

  • "Few other companies have had as much influence on the Mac and its success as Adobe" ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/09/06/a-brief-history-of-adobes-apps/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:04:29

  • "I’ve completely lost faith in Apple over the last year, they are no different to Meta at this point from a company perspective. They no longer line up with the way I believe you should treat other humans." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2025/09/07/tim-cook-how-low-will-you-go/ | Source: Lee Peterson    

posted Monday, S "With this release being one of the most dramatic visual overhauls of macOS's design" ☛ https://basicappleguy.com/basicappleblog/macos-icon-history |    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:13:35

  • "While sometimes it can be hard to see from single release to single release, Apple has steadily been refining the Aqua user interface since first introducing it." ☛ https://512pixels.net/projects/aqua-screenshot-library/ | Source: Stephen Hackett    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:13:52

  • "Reduce mobile phone use to improve your life satisfaction" ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2025/09/07/reduce-mobile-phone-use-to.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:14:29

  • "Often, the things we want the most aren’t directly related to the things we need." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/09/false-scarcity/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:14:52

  • "Her concern: the chemicals known as phthalates" ☛ https://futurism.com/neoscope/plastic-chemical-wreaking-havoc-unborn-babies | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:15:28

  • "The Intel 285K CPU in my high-end 2025 Linux PC died again! 😡 Notably, this was the replacement CPU for the original 285K that died in March" ☛ https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2025-09-07-bye-intel-hi-amd-9950x3d/ | Source: Michael Stapelberg    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:15:59

  • "When one poster challenged Lee on whether he himself had contributed to the destruction of education in the US" ☛ https://futurism.com/ceo-startup-homework-cluely | Source: Futurism    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:17:00

  • "But after a dizzying array of cuts and changes in the months since Trump took office looking to dismantle the agency, the GOP-controlled Congress" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/09/06/repub/trump-campaigned-on-closing-the-education-department-reality-is-more-difficult/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:17:11

  • "Being chronically late to meetings sucks." ☛ https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/09/08/pancakes/ | Source: Herman Õunapuu    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:17:37

  • "For those of us who are not quantum computing professors or rocket scientists, it can be difficult to get your head around this emerging technology" ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/business/can-scotland-make-the-computing-quantum-leap-5305369 | Source: The Scotsman    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:18:33

  • [Old] "In a viral post, Dar shared that YouTube typically generates more views, but Pornhub pays nearly three times the revenue per million views." ☛ https://tribune.com.pk/story/2522801/zara-dars-stem-lectures-on-pornhub-outperform-youtube-in-earnings | Source: The Express Tribune    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:18:54

  • "the boy who cried wolf" ☛ https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/the-boy-who-cried-wolf | Source: Ted Unangst    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:19:45

  • "Turns out taking a creative break isn’t always refreshing. Sometimes it just reminds you why you started creating in the first place. September feels like a good month to get back to it." ☛ https://krabf.com/weeknotes/2025-w36/ | Source: K   

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:20:04

  • "I can’t stop smiling because we already have this." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/blogs-don-t-need-to-be-so-lonely | Source: Manuel Moreale    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:20:20

  • "But that’s not quite what I want to bring to the discussion. I agree with Manu’s advice about linking and commenting, and I practice it too, yet my thoughts on logliness (from the ancient Latin loglinus) wander elsewhere." ☛ https://birming.com/2025/09/07/the-silent-applause/ | Source: Robert Birming    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:20:37

  • "That sounds true, but the article doesn’t draw the obvious connection. People keep going back to the classics today precisely because new movies and TV are so uninspired. Why not go back to the source when so much new stuff is just reboots?" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/comfort-viewing-downside/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:20:51

  • "Matt D'Avella has been an antidote to hustle culture for years now. He preaches something different from the “get‑rich‑quick” guys you see all over the internet, overflowing your life with false truths, fake news, and outright dangerous propositions." ☛ https://yordi.me/do-fewer-things/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:21:24

  • "So we’re presented with the question of how to remedy this typewriter “walking” issue? Fortunately there are a handful of common and inexpensive remedies." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2025/09/07/typewriter-walking-and-singing-improving-typewriter-performance-with-mats-rubber-feet-felt-recovered-platens-and-more/ | Source: Chris Aldrich    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:22:02

  • "With Laser" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/theremin-style-midi-controller-does-it-with-lasers/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:23:03

  • decadence and ruin gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/decadence_and_ruin    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:28:21

  • "Recently visited the ''Rechenwerk Halle'' with a mate to see some computers from the German Democratic Republic." gemini://f6fanatic.smol.pub/1757283934    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:29:35

  • "We are often slaves to time. Our lives are dictated by the unstoppable passage of hands around the clock. I must be at work by 9:00, so I must leave by 8:15, so I must arise at 7:30... I am guilty of letting the clock dictate my actions, or at least influence them unduly." gemini://beyond-mundanity.com/dominion_of_minutes.gmi    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:32:13

  • 🔤SpellBinding — VOPRSUA Wordo: PURRS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-09-08.gmi    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:32:58

  • "Bunny went to the local Michaels Craft store [1] to pick up a project, and she returned with a small" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/09/07.1    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:33:47

  • "The calendar emoji is useless and misleading since the example date is so clearly readable 📆 that people don’t understand that it’s an ipsum. Even people who know can misread it. It’s only good if you’re actually talking about literally July 17th (WhatsApp can go to heck)." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/calmoji    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:34:39

  • "(hi, i'm vaguely back!) i know i mentioned my moon planning previously but i'm not sure if i ever expanded on it. basically i was missing a monthly rhythm and just "observing" the moon, my feelings etc wasn't really doing much as a replacement." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/moonthings1    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:35:33

  • De-corporatize your Internet gemini://beyond-mundanity.com/decorporatize_your_internet.gmi    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:36:25

  • "Allow me to make an analogy. Let's say that Meta's platforms are one mall, Apple's are another, Google's are a third, Twitter's are a fourth, ByteDance/TikTok's are a fifth, Microsoft's are a sixth, Reddit's are a seventh, and so on."    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 10:37:08

  • "Today's most-used map was designed for maritime navigation by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-09-reshaping-perceptions-africa.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:07:25

  • "At work, a common mistake I notice when reviewing candidates’ home assignments is how they wire goroutines to channels and then return early." ☛ https://rednafi.com/go/early_return_and_goroutine_leak/ | Source: Redowan Delowar    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:08:27

  • "Recently, this project surprised me, and I tried to examine the design ideas that make it interesting and effective, while also having some inevitable trade-offs to be aware of." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/elastic-java-sdk-design/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:08:36

  • "That interpretation is wrong. Pipelines don’t run sequentially, they run concurrently." ☛ https://anagogistis.com/posts/pipes-not-sequential/ | Source: Andreas    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:09:47

  • "I didn’t read the rest of the article because I got stuck on the word “necessary”. Why is that so? Why can’t we just write bug-free programs?" ☛ https://www.teamten.com/lawrence/programming/dont-write-bugs.html |    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:10:13

  • "This post goes through how to maximize file IO performance on linux using zig with io_uring." ☛ https://steelcake.com/blog/nvme-zig/ |    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:10:33

  • "Suppose that you have a long string and you want to insert line breaks every 72 characters. You might need to do this if you need to write a public cryptographic key to a text file." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/09/07/splitting-a-long-string-in-lines-efficiently/ | Source: Daniel Lemire    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:10:49

  • "LinearSolve.jl has received a major expansion of its solver capabilities over the summer of 2025, with the introduction of comprehensive mixed precision linear solvers and enhanced BLAS library integration." ☛ https://sciml.ai/news/2025/09/07/recent_developments/index.html | Source: SciML    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:11:20

  • "If you're coming to Zig from a more hand-holding language, one of the things worth exploring is the relationship between the compiler and memory." ☛ https://www.openmymind.net/Everything-Is-A-u8-array/ | Source: Karl Seguin    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:11:40

  • "As part of my ongoing (and somewhat futile) efforts to ReDeCentralise, I'm looking at moving my personal projects away from GitHub." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/some-thoughts-on-personal-git-hosting/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:12:02

  • "Flooding is a growing problem for households across the nation, and forecast to grow as the climate changes." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-09-home-dont.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:13:41

  • "Davey Johnson, former baseball player and manager, recently passed away." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/davey-johnson-former-mets-manager-an-early-proponent-of-sabermetrics/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:14:39

  • "Professionally, I see myself mostly surrounded by frameworks largely dominated by superfans: Rails, Laravel, and Next all make it their business" ☛ https://jmduke.com/posts/post/django/ | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:15:58

  • "There are two CMS choices that I think are particularly well-suited for newsrooms." ☛ https://werd.io/wordpress-for-newsrooms/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:16:11

  • "This is deeply concerning stuff for me. RSS is basically how I’ve experienced the web since like 2004." ☛ https://json.blog/2025/09/07/uh-oh-i-think-my.html | Source: Jason Becker    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:16:42

  • "Fortunately there’s another protection method I can use, besides browser extensions." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/search-malvertising-protection-using-enterprise-policies/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:16:54

  • "But there’s a catch. Both the GUI and hostnamectl update the static hostname (/etc/hostname), but they don’t touch the /etc/hosts file. A typical /etc/hosts entry looks like this: [...]" ☛ https://anagogistis.com/posts/hostname-change/ | Source: Andreas    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:17:26

  • "Kamuriki Linux 4.00, a major update of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12544 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:22:28

  • "[...] Plus we talk about AerynOS, an unusual Linux distribution, and its progress in making package sets for easier system management." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250908 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:22:38

  • "Provided that Posit (formerly RStudio) does not provide official packages for Manjaro, I created my own packages. Here is how to install these: [...]" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/installing-rstudio-and-positron-on-manjaro-linux/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:23:13

  • "Using NATS as a message broker for my home server has been a great choice." ☛ https://simonevellei.com/blog/posts/nats-as-broker-for-my-home-server/ | Source: Simone Vellei    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:23:45

  • "A honeypot is not a direct means of defense. Instead, a honeypot is a tool designed to help you detect and study unauthorized access attempts on your network." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/linux-deploy-a-honeypot-to-catch-your-servers-attackers/ | Source: The New Stack    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:24:00

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

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:25:12

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

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:25:32

  • How To Install [Bard] CLI on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-gemini-cli-manjaro/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:26:00

  • How to Fix HTTP 409 Conflict Error ☞ https://idroot.us/fix-http-409-conflict-error/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:26:23

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

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:35:18

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

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:35:38

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

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:36:11

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

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:36:30

  • Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt Has Almost Gone Down to Zero, Nearly Totally Extinct in Geminispace, the Few Capsules Still Using It Are Spam/Dead/Stagnant (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/Certificate_Authority_Let_s_Encrypt_Has_Almost_Gone_Down_to_Zer.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:37:14

  • Slop is Extremely Rare in Geminispace, Slop Images Are Unheard Of (Despite Images Being Supported) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/Slop_is_Extremely_Rare_in_Geminispace_Slop_Images_Are_Unheard_O.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:37:24

  • How to manage a US alliance: what Canberra and Seoul can learn from each other ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-to-manage-a-us-alliance-what-canberra-and-seoul-can-learn-from-each-other/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:38:14

  • How to Fix ‘Failed to connect to system scope bus’ Error in GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-fix-failed-to-connect-to-system-scope-bus-error-in-linux    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:38:41

  • 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 7th, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-september-7th-2025    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:39:16

  • :happened to a large number of my peers on YouTube." ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/youtube-views-are-down-dont-panic    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:41:06

  • Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook (Farcebook) and YouTube ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/asia/nepal-bans-social-media-platforms.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:41:31

  • YouTube survival show contestant rescued after going missing for 18 hours in Michigan forest ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/us-news/youtube-survival-show-contestant-rescued-after-going-missing-for-18-hours-in-michigan-forest/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:41:47

  • Step-by-Step Guide to Use RSelenium with Firefox (Linux and Windows) ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/step-by-step-guide-to-use-rselenium-with-firefox-linux-and-windows/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:43:07

  • Some Papua New Guinea data doodles by @ellis2013nz ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/some-papua-new-guinea-data-doodles-by-ellis2013nz/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:43:21

  • Fix for sudo-sh simple sudo replacement ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202509/fix-for-sudo-sh-simple-sudo-replacement.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:47:19

  • EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.0.8 released ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202509/easyos-excalibur-series-version-708-released.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:48:23

  • New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with Silk Song - 2025-09-06 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2025-09-06-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:51:22

  • Cox v. Sony and the Future of Patent Contributory Liability: How a Copyright Case Could Reshape Patent Law ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/09/contributory-liability-copyright.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:52:41

  • Debian 13.1 “Trixie” Released with Crucial Security Updates and Stability Improvements ☞ https://linuxconfig.org/debian-13-1-trixie-released-with-crucial-security-updates-and-stability-improvements    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:55:15

  • Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 36 (Sep 1 – 7, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-36-sep-1-7-2025/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:56:44

  • Linux: Deploy a Honeypot to Catch Your Server’s Attackers ☞ https://thenewstack.io/linux-deploy-a-honeypot-to-catch-your-servers-attackers/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:57:14

  • Beelink EQi13 Pro Review – Part 3: Ubuntu 24.04 on an defective chip maker Intel Core i5-13500H mini PC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/07/beelink-eqi13-pro-review-ubuntu-24-04-on-an-intel-core-i5-13500h-mini-pc/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 12:59:54

  • "rising prescription drug" ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/health/falls-deaths-elderly-drugs.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:00:42

  • RFK Jr., Rejecting Vaccine Data, Fuels Distrust of Public Health Agencies ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/us/politics/kennedy-health-vaccines-cdc.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:00:58

  • Knee damage increasingly found in young adults, with expert revealing two key reasons ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/health/knee-pain-is-becoming-more-common-in-younger-adults-for-two-specific-reasons/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:01:13

  • Young doctors in South Korea abandon residencies, open dermatology clinics instead ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/young-doctors-in-south-korea-abandon-residencies-open-dermatology-clinics-instead    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:01:51

  • South Korean and Japanese defence ministers to hold talks in Seoul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korean-and-japanese-defence-ministers-to-hold-talks-in-seoul    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:02:14

  • Trial begins for New Zealand woman accused of murdering her two children ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/trial-begins-for-new-zealand-woman-accused-of-murdering-her-two-children    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:02:48

  • More BS trying to paint routine automation as "Hey Hi" ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/in-a-first-in-south-korea-ai-locates-missing-person-by-analysing-camera-footage    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:03:32

  • South Korea Negotiates Release of Korean Workers Detained in Georgia Raid ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/asia/south-korea-trump-hyundai-lg.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:03:50

  • What We Know About the Hyundai-LG Plant Immigration Raid in Georgia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/us/politics/hyundai-plant-immigration-raid-georgia.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:04:02

  • Koreans learning that OrangeNazi does not particularly like Asians either; his ilk, their policy ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0907/south-korea-immigration-georgia-hyundai    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:04:47

  • Tagged as ‘just resting’, South Korean youth feel anything but rested ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/tagged-as-just-resting-south-korean-youth-feels-anything-but-rested    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:05:14

  • Seoul completes talks with US to release detained South Korean workers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-has-finished-talks-with-us-to-release-korean-workers    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:05:38

  • Child depression in South Korea jumps 70% in 4 years: Study ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/child-depression-in-south-korea-jumps-70-in-4-years-study    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:05:59

  • South Korea to separate prosecution, budget-drafting functions in major overhaul ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-separate-prosecution-budget-drafting-functions-in-major-overhaul    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:06:38

  • South Korea to fly detained workers back as US vows more raids on employers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-to-fly-detained-workers-back-as-us-vows-more-raids-on-employers    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:07:02

  • Vape litter becoming an e-waste hazard in Malaysia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vape-litter-becoming-an-e-waste-hazard-in-malaysia    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:08:01

  • China criticises Australian, Canadian warships in Taiwan Strait ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/07/china-criticises-australian-canadian-warships-in-taiwan-strait/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:08:43

  • For Americans in Ukraine, Opportunity and the Lure of Combat ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/europe/ukraine-american-volunteers.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:09:13

  • Russia Strikes Ukraine Government Building in Largest Drone Assault of War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/europe/russian-strike-kyiv-ukraine.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:09:27

  • Russia Hits Key Ukrainian Government Building For First Time Amid Record Drone Barrage In Kyiv ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-kyiv-russia-invasion/33523903.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:09:43

  • Zelenskyy Demands 'Strong' US Response To Latest Russian Air Assault On Kyiv ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-kyiv-ukraine-russia-trump-sanctions-cabinet/33524079.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:09:56

  • Ukrainian soldier recounts near-death escape from Russian captivity ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2666649/ukrainian-soldier-recounts-near-death-escape-from-russian-captivity   

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:10:59

  • Record Russian drone attack pounds Ukraine, damaging government building ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250907-record-russian-drone-attack-pounds-ukraine-damaging-government-building    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:11:22

  • Russia hits Ukraine with more that 800 drones and decoy drones in biggest-ever aerial barrage ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250907-russia-hits-ukraine-with-more-that-800-drones-and-decoy-drones-in-biggest-ever-aerial-barrage    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:11:41

  • Disturbing video of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska’s murder is proof America has a serious crime problem ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/opinion/disturbing-video-of-ukrainian-refugee-iryna-zarutskas-murder-is-proof-america-has-a-serious-crime-problem/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:12:01

  • Russia Steps Up Disinformation Efforts as Convicted Felon Abandons Resistance ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/business/russia-disinformation-trump.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:12:21

  • Tanker carrying sanctioned Russian Arctic LNG leaves Chinese port ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/tanker-carrying-sanctioned-russian-arctic-lng-leaves-chinese-port    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:12:33

  • A View From Inside Iran ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/briefing/inside-iran-japan-prime-minister-kyiv-attack.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:12:51

  • European Leaders To Visit US This Week For Talks On Ukraine War, Convicted Felon Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-zelenskyy-ukraine-trump-security-gurantees-peace-deal/33523325.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:13:10

  • Offline By Default | LINUX Unplugged 631 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/631/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:13:55

  • Speed Isn't Everything When Buying SSDs - Here's What Really Matters! ☞ https://itsfoss.com/ssd-parameters/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:15:20

  • 14 Themes for Beautifying Your Ghostty Terminal ☞ https://itsfoss.com/ghostty-themes/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:15:41

  • Stunning 'Blood Moon' Lunar Eclipse Seen by Millions Across 3 Continents ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/stunning-blood-moon-lunar-eclipse-seen-by-millions-across-3-continents    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:16:26

  • No, Your Cravings Aren't a Reliable Sign of Cancer, Expert Explains ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/no-your-cravings-arent-a-reliable-sign-of-cancer-expert-explains    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:16:38

  • Colombia demonstrates its willingness to fight against drug trafficking ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250907-colombia-demonstrates-its-willingness-to-fight-against-drug-trafficking    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:17:15

  • Giant Dinosaurs Were Riddled With a Devastating Disease, Fossils Show ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/giant-dinosaurs-were-riddled-with-a-devastating-disease-fossils-show    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:19:10

  • One Kind of Music Could Be an Unexpected Cure For Motion Sickness ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-kind-of-music-could-be-an-unexpected-cure-for-motion-sickness    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:19:22

  • An Expert Reveals What Happens if You Eat Too Much Protein ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/an-expert-reveals-what-happens-if-you-eat-too-much-protein    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:19:34

  • Couples Are More Likely to Share Psychiatric Disorders, But Why? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/couples-are-more-likely-to-share-psychiatric-disorders-but-why    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:19:49

  • The Cause of Alzheimer's Could Be Coming From Within Your Mouth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-within-your-mouth    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:20:07

  • Gains in Human Life Expectancy May Have Already Passed Their Peak ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/gains-in-human-life-expectancy-may-have-already-passed-their-peak    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:20:18

  • Image Recognition On 0.35 Watts ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/image-recognition-on-0-35-watts/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:20:56

  • Australia mushroom murderer Erin Patterson jailed for minimum of 33 years after killing elderly relatives ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/world-news/australia-mushroom-murderer-erin-patterson-jailed-for-minimum-of-33-years-after-killing-elderly-relatives/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:21:26

  • A Town Reluctantly Let a Mosque Expand. Then Came the Backlash. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/nyregion/oyster-bay-mosque-lawsuit.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:21:53

  • NYC’s new e-bike battery crackdown includes push to confiscate ‘uncertified’ batteries ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/09/07/us-news/nycs-new-e-bike-battery-crackdown-includes-push-to-confiscate-uncertified-batteries/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:22:56

  • "After a firmware release earlier this year, Bambu printers could only work with Bambu’s own slicer." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/the-saga-of-hacking-a-bambu-x1-carbon/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:23:26

  • As Syria Tries to Move Away From Dictatorship, Signs of Authoritarianism Linger ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/middleeast/syria-shara-authoritarian-reform.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:24:19

  • Dihydroxyacetone Man Is Met With Mostly Boos at U.S. Open as Security Delays a Match ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/us/politics/trump-us-open-tennis-boos-delays.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:24:56

  • Shigeru Ishiba: The ‘smile again’ Japanese PM voters frowned on ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/shigeru-ishiba-the-smile-again-japanese-pm-who-voters-frowned-on    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:25:08

  • ‘Appropriate time to step down’: Japan PM Ishiba resigns after electoral blows for ruling LDP ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-pm-ishiba-resigns-to-stave-off-split-in-ruling-ldp    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:25:24

  • Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices' — systems described as 'solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain,’ other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and Popeyes also vulnerable ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/burger-king-hacked-digital-platform-as-solid-as-a-paper-whopper-wrapper-in-the-rain-easy-security-bypass-exploited-catastrophic-vulnerabilities-also-worked-on-other-rbi-brands-like-tim-hortons-and-popeyes    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:25:45

  • Burger King hacked, attackers 'impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices' — systems described as 'solid as a paper Whopper wrapper in the rain,’ other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and Popeyes vulnerable ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/burger-king-hacked-digital-platform-as-solid-as-a-paper-whopper-wrapper-in-the-rain-easy-security-bypass-exploited-catastrophic-vulnerabilities-also-worked-on-other-rbi-brands-like-tim-hortons-and-popeyes    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:26:13

  • Burger King hacked; other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and Popeyes vulnerable ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/burger-king-hacked-digital-platform-as-solid-as-a-paper-whopper-wrapper-in-the-rain-easy-security-bypass-exploited-catastrophic-vulnerabilities-also-worked-on-other-rbi-brands-like-tim-hortons-and-popeyes    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:26:30

  • Burger King hacked; other RBI brands like Tim Hortons and Popeyes vulnerable ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/burger-king-hacked-digital-platform-as-solid-as-a-paper-whopper-wrapper-in-the-rain-easy-security-bypass-exploited-catastrophic-vulnerabilities-also-worked-on-other-rbi-brands-like-tim-hortons-and-popeyes    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:27:00

  • Gammath SPOT updated ☞ https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Gammath_SPOT    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:27:20

  • JS fetch converts string request bodies to UTF-8 ☞ https://evanhahn.com/js-fetch-converts-strings-to-utf8/    

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

  • Building a communalist revolution through the Rojava experience ☞ https://bianet.org/yazi/building-a-communalist-revolution-through-the-rojava-experience-311236    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:29:22

  • Microsoft backdoored Windows Fell to 3.9% "Market Share" in Bahamas ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/08/Microsoft_Windows_Fell_to_3_9_Market_Share_in_Bahamas.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:31:19

  • Lawyers Who Think They Are Online Assassins Don't Deserve a Licence to Operate ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/08/Lawyers_Who_Think_They_Are_Online_Assassins_Don_t_Deserve_a_Lic.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:31:30

  • How the European Union (EU) Fell Out of Love With Free/Libre Software (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/08/How_the_European_Union_EU_Fell_Out_of_Love_With_Free_Libre_Soft.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:31:39

  • The Register Bill ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/06/The_Register_Bill.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:31:51

  • Throwing Away "Old" Computers (Mozilla and Other Climate Deniers) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/Throwing_Away_Old_Computers_Mozilla_and_Other_Climate_Deniers.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:32:03

  • The UEFI 9/11 is 3 Days Away ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/The_UEFI_9_11_is_3_Days_Away.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:32:12

  • Trying to Silence Techrights Was a Huge Mistake (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/Trying_to_Silence_Techrights_Was_a_Huge_Mistake.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:32:26

  • Hubert Figuière: Dev Log August 2025 ☞ https://www.figuiere.net/hub/wlog/dev-log-august-2025/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:33:37

  • Almost 900 arrested in London for supporting banned group Palestine Action ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250907-almost-900-arrested-in-london-for-supporting-banned-group-palestine-action    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:34:17

  • Malware found hidden in image files, can dodge antivirus detection entirely — VirusTotal discovers undetected SVG phishing campaign ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/security-software/hackers-hide-malware-in-svg-files    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:35:23

  • Coffee shop chatter, week 37 2025 ☞ https://rubenerd.com/coffee-shop-chatter-week-37-2025/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:35:37

  • Thrust Into the Line of Fire, Iranians Worry About What Comes Next ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/world/middleeast/thrust-into-the-line-of-fire-iranians-worry-about-what-comes-next.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:36:02

  • Houthi Drone Hits Israeli Airport After Warning System Failure ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/middleeast/houthi-drone-israeli-airport.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:36:15

  • Millions of Londoners Brace for Transit Disruption as Tube Strike Begins ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/world/europe/london-tube-strike.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:36:45

  • Why is Israel striking residential towers in Gaza? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250907-why-is-israel-striking-residential-towers-in-gaza    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:37:06

  • Artificial intelligence saves tech giant Surveillance Giant Google from divest order... for now ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/tech-24/20250907-artificial-intelligence-saves-tech-giant-google-from-divest-order-for-now    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:37:27

  • Google Versus Journalism ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/Google_Versus_Journalism.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:37:37

  • Nothing is right ☞ https://alirezahayati.com/2025/09/07/nothing-is-right/ "I’ve been feeling a lot of pressure lately, both in my personal life and at work. Nothing feels right anymore. It seems like everything is off balance. It’s not just me. The situation in the country keeps getting worse."    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:38:36

  • Lazy Reading for 2025/09/07 ☞ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/09/07/lazy-reading-for-2025-09-07/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:39:19

  • FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:39:29

  • FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE Release Notes https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/relnotes/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:40:17

  • FreeBSD 15.0-ALPHA1 Now Available https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable/2025-September/003112.html    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:41:17

  • KIWI 1P5 – A low-cost GOWIN GW1N industrial FPGA board with onboard USB-JTAG/UART ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/09/08/kiwi-1p5-a-low-cost-gowin-gw1n-industrial-fpga-board-with-onboard-usb-jtag-uart/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:42:00

  • Live Raizo 16.25.09.06 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/liveraizo    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:42:35

  • Multiple undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, hampering internet performance — international cables connecting Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are compromised ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/red-sea-cable-cut-takes-azure-routes-down    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:43:37

  • #SciArtSeptember: Virus ☞ https://rubenerd.com/sciartseptember-virus/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:43:57

  • Image Recognition On 0.35 Watts ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/image-recognition-on-0-35-watts/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:45:15

  • "Retrotechtacular" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/retrotechtacular-exploring-the-moon-on-surveyor-1/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:45:33

  • Slick MPD Client Euphonica is Now Available on Flathub ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/euphonica-mpd-client-available-on-flathub    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:46:23

  • New Icons, Theme Tweaks Land in Ubuntu 25.10 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/ubuntu-25-10-yaru-new-icons    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:46:55

  • "Once upon a time, mono was good enough. Then someone realized humans have two ears, and everyone wanted stereo." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/maurice-brings-immersive-audio-recording-to-the-masses/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:47:30

  • PikaOS 25.09.06 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/pikaos    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:48:04

  • Kamuriki 4.00 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kamuriki    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:48:16

  • Kamuriki Linux 4 https://nmimusic.github.io/lgx/nrrk-400/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 13:57:40

  • WM Live 12.12 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/wmlive    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:09:53

  • SliTaz 2025-09-07 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/slitaz    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:10:08

  • Slopwatch: LinuxSecurity, GNU/Linux Journal, and the Serial Slopper ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/Slopwatch_LinuxSecurity_Linux_Journal_and_the_Serial_Slopper.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:11:44

  • The UEFI 9/11 - Part VIII - Denial of Service and Selling Us WSL (Windows) Instead of "Risky" (Prone by Breakage by Microsoft) GNU/Linux ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/The_UEFI_9_11_Part_VIII_Denial_of_Service_and_Selling_Us_WSL_Wi.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:11:57

  • Not Much Left in News Cycles ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/07/Not_Much_Left_in_News_Cycles.shtml    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:12:09

  • GreenBANG 070925 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/greenbang    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:24:46

  • LinuxHub 2025.09.07 is also released☞ https://distrowatch.com/linuxhub    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:25:01

  • Slint 15.0-8 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/slint    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:25:43

  • Shanios 2025.09.07 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/shanios    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:25:56

  • Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 306 released ☞ https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-306-released/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:27:46

  • France: What you need to know about the political crisis ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250907-france-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-political-crisis    

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

  • Smartphone Sensors Unlocked: Turn Your Phone Into A Physics Lab ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/07/smartphone-sensors-unlocked-turn-your-phone-into-a-physics-lab/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:29:39

  • Turkey restricts social control media amid police blockade on opposition party ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-restricts-social-media-amid-police-blockade-on-opposition-party-311252    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:30:03

  • Elephant – general purpose datasource and executor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/elephant-general-purpose-datasource-executor/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:31:52

  • FileGator – powerful multi-user file manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/filegator-powerful-multi-user-file-manager/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:32:03

  • 11 Best Free and Open Source Zsh Plugin Managers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-zsh-plugin-managers/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:32:15

  • Flowinity – image uploader and file storage solution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/flowinity-image-uploader-file-storage-solution/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:32:26

  • Aura – package manager for Arch GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/aura-package-manager-arch-linux/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:33:50

  • markdownlint – tool to check markdown files and flag style issues ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/markdownlint-tool-check-markdown-files-flag-style-issues/    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:34:51

  • "I've continued slowing working through Roberge's 2nd ed op amp book, taking another pass through the first chapter. The biggest take away so far has been the value of the "virtual ground" technique." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250907-0.gmi    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:43:49

  • "Ten years ago I contributed code to the F-Droid app store. I was already using it on all my devices and saw the importance of the project. I am glad that it is still going strong, and it is still the primary app store on all my Android devices." gemini://tobykurien.com/microblog.gmi    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 14:44:38

  • "IBM could probably fire 80% of its current employee base, and keep the most productive 20%" What they actually seem to be doing is the opposite, RAing the productive 20% and keeping the deadwood." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4fkycj8    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 16:05:30

  • "IBM Consulting is full of Band Ds and Band Cs with high sounding titles indicating major leadership responsibilities who have ZERO or maybe 1-2 direct reports (who themselves are Band 10s or Ds but have no directs) and who haven't been in front of a client in the better part of a decade." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4fkycj8    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 16:06:00

  • "Started April Fools Day 4-1-93 when the G Man Lou Gerstner came in and THOUGHT he had a culture problem that needed to be destroyed, visibly and violently. He knew nothing about IT and computers and had never been in a data ctr etc. [...] It’s time that IBM management takes a good hard look in the mirror, and begins to address the elephant in the room." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4fkycj8    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 16:07:12

  • "Under Alvind, IBM has become an unethical and disreputable company. This is all you can expect from a gangster who claims a lot of wonderful things, but is worthless trash." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4kn35br    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 16:07:58

  • GAFAM bribes: "The summit was open to the public, the dinner required a donation to the Inaugural Fund.' https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k4e2284n    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 16:09:13

  • "This seems as good a place as any to ask the question: what's the big deal with translucency? Personally, I find it more a pain in the ass than anything, but everyone makes it seem like it's the holy grail of computing." https://addons.videolan.org/p/1122298    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 16:19:17

  • "I'll place some links to some pictures in this post which I'll upload later from home. A picture is far to big to clog up the limited LoRa frequencies. And it would take an hour to upload." gemini://redterminal.org/gemlog/2025-09-08-ROOPHLOCH_2025_-_1100_meters_LoRa_transmission.gmi    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 17:53:06

  • "This assumes you have a machine with an existing 9front installation, some other network connection (presumably ethernet) already available, and a supported wifi card." gemini://tealeg.smol.pub/setting-up-wifi-in-9front    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 19:01:27

  • "It's the 8th of September, 2025, and here is that guy who complains about everything complains about something yet again." gemini://cyi1341.smol.pub/random58    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 19:02:24

  • "I decided to write my own terminal bassed Gemini browser in Python, purely for the fun of it and because "how hard can it be, really?". Turns out it's actually pretty hard. I'm having a lot of fun though." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/MisterImpossible/32429    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 19:03:08

  • [cat] [japan] [box] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-09-08.gmi    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 20:06:47

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posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 20:16:58

  • Tomorrow (soon): The UEFI 9/11 - Part IX - Shunning Old Computers (in 2023 the Certificate Was Updated/Overridden, Underlying Aim May Be Herding/Forcing People to Get TPM and Other 'Novel' Restrictions)    

posted Monday, September 08, 2025 at 20:17:05

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