Roy Schestowitz

• "EVE Online is a mix of cognition and perception. In some large and early fights the camera was pointed away from the fight so that CPU was not wasted trying to draw the thousands of ships and explosions and whatnot, therefore the thinking went, less lag. Isn't there then nothing to perceive?" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/09/22/percog.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:40:07

• "I took piano lessons for about seven years as a child. My instructor was the organist at my local church, a pianist with more than 60 years experience, who wanted to take me on as an apprentice to become the next church organist after he retired." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202509/20250922-clair-de-lune.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:40:51

• take my heart to hold help carry the weight and I will carry yours darkness and all ``` ``` thread your soul to mine be the flicker of light and I will be the warmth comfort in the night   

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:41:48

• "I don't want to waste my time doing it just to hear I'm getting RA'd this week or next. Waiting till the last minute to do it. [...]And it depends how high up they are in the executive org chart. The higher they are, the better your chances of getting the job and elbowing out the better qualified applicants. LOL! For most jobs, It's not what you know, it's who you know." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5m52pyh    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:44:00

• "I agree. The main issue is outsourcing, not H1B. Without outsourcing, I wouldn't lose my job in IBM this year !" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5hre60v    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:45:07

• "I have been dissapointed with the FSF's response to the rise of "artificial intelligence" within the software world (or perhaps, the lack thereof). We are facing a situation where any GPL-licensed copyleft code that was ever published in any way obtainable on the internet, has been ingested by algorithms, to be later regurgitated into proprietary products for profit."    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:50:13

• "To conclude: Given that clearly the FSF's values do not align with my own on a matter that is of utmost importance to the future of software, and given that I'm not really in a position with extra income anymore, canceling my recurring payment, and in the future, come renewal time, my membership, seems like the most reasonable and logical course of action." gopher://gopher.linkerror.com:70/0/phlog/2025/20250922    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:51:55

• "Even when we look beyond the commercial world, and look closer at the open source community, and even the Free Software communities (or what's left of them), you'd be hard-pressed to find anyone who actively opposes AI use."    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:52:42

• "If all the above paints a grim picture, it should. The world is ending. Just when we're at a climate crossroads, the tech world decided to double-down on LLM's, the worst way one could possible compute when it comes to carbon output. Creativity and ingenuity has been distilled down to a commodity to be rented from your corporate robot service, robbed of all humanity."    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:53:44

• "Anyway, employment-wise, I don't see any way I can continue in this industry, at all. So as I had mentioned at the end of my vcfmw retrospective, I've started an art business in an attempt to escape the tech world. I can't say it's going well so far, but I'm hoping it will turn around when we start attending events with a booth to sell stuff."    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:54:30

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1422.jpg    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:55:22

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1772.jpg    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:55:26

• Microsoft layoffs. "How many months did you get for your severance?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5869dy9    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:56:35

• "of course there is severance package. Just like all prior layoffs" Microsoft layoffs." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k3heg2he    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 01:57:16

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-09-23.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 04:04:29

• Happy Equinox! gemini://vigrey.com/journal/happy-equinox.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 04:05:44

• "How many times do I have to tell you d-mb fu--s, if you stay at IBM you will be RAed." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5r1a718    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 04:25:54

• "Band 10s in MCC- that’s hilarious….I have an idea….why don’t you thin the leadership pool for letter bands instead of getting rid of people that actually do the work. JA is such a complete joke." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5r1a718    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 04:25:58

• iophk: Little in the news about who is behind the social control media overthrow of the government of Nepal.    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 09:34:05

• "Valve just put the Steam Deck LCD 256GB on sale, so you can get ready for the upcoming Steam Autumn Sale ahead of time with some new hardware." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/grab-the-steam-deck-lcd-256gb-for-cheap-as-valve-gave-it-a-discount/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:19:53

• "An unholy fusion of Risk of Rain 2 with Vampire Survivors is what you'll find with Megabonk and it absolutely freaking rocks. Seriously, this is some glorious and delicious stuff that you don't want to miss out on. Note: personal purchase." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/megabonk-is-risk-of-rain-2-fused-with-vampire-survivors-and-its-glorious/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:20:16

• "Jump into some interesting action adventures thanks to Remedy Entertainment in the new Humble Bundle. We'll also go through any ratings we know for Linux PCs, SteamOS and Steam Deck below." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/pick-up-some-goodies-from-remedy-like-alan-wake-and-control-in-this-humble-bundle/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:20:29

• "From developer Kenney (who makes lots of assets for game developers), MakeRoom is a cute sandbox building game all about building rooms to look sweet. Released back in August, it's gone onto receiving a Very Positive overall rating from users on Steam." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/cute-casual-sandbox-room-designer-makeroom-makes-lots-of-steam-deck-improvements/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:20:54

• "Finished Hollow Knight: Silksong? Didn't find it punishing enough? You should really take a look at Stardust Demon." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/need-more-metroidvania-action-stardust-demon-is-an-overlooked-gem/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:23:21

• "Scrabdackle is an action adventure I've been excited about for years, and now it has a proper fresh trailer along with a big demo upgrade." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/scribbly-adventure-scrabdackle-looks-fantastic-with-a-new-trailer-and-demo-upgrade/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:25:08

• "Team Cherry have now officially released the second patch for Hollow Knight: Silksong, read on to find out everything that's changed and fixed." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/hollow-knight-silksong-patch-2-is-now-officially-live-heres-whats-changed/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:40:26

• "Sometimes I come across a game that really just immediately jumps out at me as something that could be special, and Blanksword is one of those times." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/the-story-driven-roguelike-rpg-blanksword-looks-absolutely-rad-with-a-wild-setting/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:40:43

• "GE-Proton 10-16 was just released which includes a fix for Star Citizen, and a Stellar Blade modding fix amongst various other internal upgrades." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/09/ge-proton-10-16-released-with-a-tweak-for-star-citizen-and-a-stellar-blade-modding-fix/ | Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:41:05

• "Today Mozilla is excited to announce Raffi Krikorian — technologist, innovator and community builder — as our first-ever portfolio wide Chief Technology Officer." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/leadership/mozilla-welcomes-raffi-krikorian-chief-technology-officer/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:45:03

• "The below featured highlights listed on the community’s blog feed aggregator are from September 13 to 19. The week’s Planet highlights Plasma 6.5 beta, OBS’s revamped workflow with diff comments" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/09/22/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:45:42

• "Time to Win the Shutdown" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/22/time-to-win-the-shutdown/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:47:04

• "So much for OpenAI running out of money… | justin․searls․co" https://justin.searls.co/takes/2025-09-22-15h54m39s/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:47:16

• paywall https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/09/22/why-ai-systems-might-never-be-secure    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:47:29

• using the office for pump-and-dump https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/president-trump-posts-an-ai-generated-image-of-him-trading-intel-stock-inside-the-white-house-imaginary-share-was-bought-at-usd20-and-sold-at-usd30-reflective-of-real-world-prices    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:47:46

• "Kirk memorial blends religious revival with partisan politics" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0922/charlie-kirk-memorial-erika-trump    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:47:58

• "Trump links autism to Tylenol and vaccines, claims not backed by science" https://www.ksl.com/article/51378551/trump-links-autism-to-tylenol-and-vaccines-claims-not-backed-by-science    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:48:13

• "How MAGA Mourned Charlie Kirk" https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/how-maga-mourned-charlie-kirk    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:48:27

• "Trump Is Getting Closer to Having an ‘Infinite Money Pit’" https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/archive/2025/09/trump-federal-reserve-control-unchecked-power/684279/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:48:53

• iophk: 1. the orders have no weight unless someone is weak enough to choose to obey 2. the remaining WWII vets are now on his shit list https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-09-22/what-to-know-after-trump-classifies-decentralized-antifa-movement-as-a-domestic-terror-organization    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:49:41

• "Taliban rejects Trump’s bid to retake Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan" https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/09/22/taliban-rejects-trumps-bid-to-retake-bagram-air-base-in-afghanistan/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:52:43

• posthumous https://www.armytimes.com/veterans/military-history/2025/09/21/this-korean-war-hero-awarded-the-medal-of-honor-after-72-years/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:52:55

• "Shamima Begum 'storms out of interview' after being asked two questions - Stoke-on-Trent Live" https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/shamima-begum-storms-out-interview-10519515    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:53:12

• Skinned for Profit: How Global Trade Is Driving Africa’s Donkeys to the Brink ☛ https://therevelator.org/skinned-for-profit-donkeys/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:57:14

• "Turning Patients Away" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/psychiatric-hospitals-emtala-violations-mental-health | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 10:57:56

• Copyrights   

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:13:06

• "The decision marks the end of a controversial practice in which Amazon pooled identical items from different sellers under one barcode." ☛ https://www.modernretail.co/operations/amazon-to-end-commingling-program-after-years-of-complaints-from-brands-and-sellers/ |    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:13:43

• "I had no idea Amazon did this until I complained on Mastodon about how terrible its shopping experience is, and Ben replied referencing this practice, nor did I know it has been doing so for at least twelve years." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/amazon-inventory-commingling/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:14:03

• "Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled in April that Google had built a monopoly over tools that websites use to sell ad space." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/technology/google-ad-tech-monopoly.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:14:15

• "The Federal Trade Commission claims, in a lawsuit filed two years ago, that Amazon tricked tens of millions of people into signing up for its Prime membership program, and then made it hard for customers to cancel when they wanted out." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/technology/amazon-ftc-subscription-practices.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:14:26

• "Cloudflare posted a 2025 founder's letter and I haven't seen much discussion of it. But, when you read through it, what they discuss and propose is deeply troubling for the web as have and currently know it." ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/cloudflare-proposes-the-spotify-model-for-the-web | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:15:16

• "Yeah. Well, streaming music over the [Internet] will initially seem like the best thing in the world, but eventually it will go to shit, like lots of big [Internet] services." ☛ https://gilest.org/notes/19-yo-me.html | Source: Giles Turnbull    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:15:28

• "The glitches - interruptions, freezing, or a black screen - occur when HDCP is enabled or when Digital Rights Management (DRM) is applied to digital audio. Streaming services are not affected." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/windows_11_bluray_stuttering/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:15:45

• "The Trump administration’s changes to the program, however, have disqualified hundreds of thousands of locations — including homes, businesses and community buildings — from receiving internet access" ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/09/22/repub/fewer-households-businesses-will-get-high-speed-internet-under-revamped-federal-plan/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:16:20

• "There is no readily available legal justification for striking these boats, leading to the appropriate conclusion that it is illegal." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-death-long-island-tom-homan-trump-boat-missiles | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:16:42

• "An Emmy-winning, Spanish-language reporter who covers immigration" ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/09/cpj-free-press-lead-call-for-journalist-mario-guevaras-release-from-ice-detention/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:19:01

• "TikTok is being sold to an investor consortium that includes Oracle, the tech company of pro-Trump billionaire Larry Ellison." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/09/trump-ellison-tiktok-media-consolidation/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:19:31

• "Enter Larry Elliason’s son David, who was born into the kind of riches most can barely dream of." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/as-ellison-buys-out-tiktok-us-moves-toward-one-party-media/ | Source: Truthdig    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:19:38

• "It was pretty alarming to become the centre of vitriolic attention, simply for doing our jobs and trying to provide a balanced and accurate record of events." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalists-targeted-by-protesters-at-kent-anti-asylum-rally/ | Source: Press Gazette    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:19:51

• "At the time, we pointed out that was nonsense, and the use here would clearly qualify as fair use, and the district court agreed." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/22/disneys-lawyers-successfully-defended-jimmy-kimmel-about-fair-use-not-his-free-speech-mocking-trump/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:20:32

• "don't pretend it's not censorship. You are managing a speech forum by preventing certain consensual communications from taking place because of your views. Which is fine." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/22/one-throat-to-choke/#communicable-disease | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:20:46

• "In the world of somebody who is an authoritarian, maybe a dictatorship, sooner or later, everyone is going to be touched" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/david-letterman-slams-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-1236523616/ | Source: Variety    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:21:50

• "10 out of 34 provinces are affected, so far, with repercussions feared by the business and educational sectors." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/the-taliban-begins-implementing-fiber-optic-internet-ban-to-prevent-immorality-in-afghanistan-swathes-of-the-country-plunged-into-cyberspace-darkness | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:22:29

• "There’s another clarifying takeaway: as long as Trump continues to abuse his executive power with the presumptive backing of the legislature and the Supreme Court, the titans of American capitalism can’t be relied on to push back against him." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/why-wont-americas-business-leaders-stand-up-to-donald-trump | Source: New Yorker    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:48:06

• "Disney did not say whether all ABC affiliates, some of which balked at carrying “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last week, would carry Tuesday’s show. At least one television group that owns some ABC affiliates said on Monday evening that it would not broadcast it." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/business/media/jimmy-kimmel-returns-abc.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:48:21

• "Of all the consequential, crazy, frightening events that have taken place in recent days, Kimmel’s return should be a moment we all watch" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-22/please-jimmy-dont-back-down-making-fun-of-trump-is-your-patriotic-duty | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:50:28

• "Examples of this abound. The National Park Service asked visitors to tell them which parts of American history exhibits make them feel bad so they can be removed." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/22/trump-admin-continues-to-order-the-erasure-of-american-history-from-our-national-parks/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:50:46

• "Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming." ☛ https://www.tmz.com/2025/09/22/sinclair-not-airing-jimmy-kimmel-abc-affiliate-stations/ | Source: TMZ    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 11:51:02

• "Chinese Surveillance and Propaganda Companies" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/details-about-chinese-surveillance-and-propaganda-companies.html | Source: Bruce Schneier    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:14:54

• "Russia is ramping up disinformation campaigns and covert influence operations ahead of Moldova’s parliamentary election in an attempt to block its path to the European Union, according to Western researchers, leaked documents and Moldovan officials." ☛ https://therecord.media/russia-steps-disinfo-moldova-election | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:15:21

• "Allegations of Russian interference have become a routine feature of Moldovan elections in recent years." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/moldova-accuses-russia-of-election-interference-ahead-of-key-vote/ | Source: Atlantic Council    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:15:43

• "Tracy has written a super-interesting discussion about how the online disinhibition effect has dovetailed with our tendency to send aesthetic signals to our communities, arguing that this has been a key ingredient into our polarization." ☛ https://werd.io/how-aesthetics-destroyed-privacy-and-polarized-us/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:16:09

• "The story is mostly inspired by my friends who are mostly millennials. There’s something self-effacing about claiming we are lost…at forty. But statistics bear it out, with record-low fertility, marriage rates, and homeownership." ☛ https://www.8ball.report/p/the-new-lost-generation | Source: Sean Monahan    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:16:23

• "Apply this model of selection pressures to our overview of three microkernels in the Linux context, and you can see that viable mutations are generally Rustafarian - personal motivation and skill sets are changing in that direction." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/linux_has_the_lineage_to/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:16:39

• "curl is not a manufacturer as per the legislation’s terminology so we as a project don’t have those requirements, but we always have our ducks in order and we will gladly assist and help manufacturers to comply." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/09/22/cra-compliant-curl/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:16:55

• "shifting political profile - raised MAGA, possibly moving left - Kirk, 31, has been sanitized, glorified, venerated, his death used as a cudgel to stifle political dissent." ☛ https://www.commondreams.org/further/a-martyr-for-truth-and-faith-and-memorial-plazas | Source: Common Dreams    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:17:34

• "On August 20, Louisiana’s Public Service Commission voted four to one to approve the construction of the plants, which will be run by the utility company Entergy Louisiana" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/louisiana-hands-meta-a-tax-break-and-power-for-its-biggest-data-center/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:18:18

• "heat waves in rivers are accelerating faster than and lasting nearly twice as long" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-09-rivers-faster-air-analysis.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:18:49

• "404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps." ☛ https://www.404media.co/were-suing-ice-for-its-2-million-spyware-contract/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:19:24

• "This is one of the most concrete examples of Trump’s authoritarian threat to democracy—avoiding a fight on this issue is basically admitting that American democracy is finished." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/donald-trump-corruption-thomas-homan/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:20:25

• "While the exercise only involved two subs, the warning was clear: America should contemplate the prospect of confronting a China-Russia alliance." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/09/22/china-and-russia-conduct-joint-sub-patrols-should-america-worry/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:21:46

• "Here’s what actually happened, and how Lukashenko—and Vladimir Putin—scored a triple victory: Good press, sanctions relief, and opening a backdoor for Russia into the West." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/a-cynical-game-how-belaruss-pro-russia | Source: Garry Kasparov    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:21:55

• "It’s hard to quantify, even with those numbers, the geopolitical power that Musk now commands by way of his two space businesses." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-emperor-of-space/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:22:10

• "The protesters had by then mutated into a mob. And, as the state receded, the mob set fire to the symbols of state power in Kathmandu: Singha Durbar, Nepal’s administrative headquarters [...] Outsiders called this mayhem a revolution." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/nepals-violent-gen-z-uprising | Source: New Yorker    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:22:43

• "The Parliament of Nepal right now is Discord" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/nepal-protests-technology/ | Source: The Nation http://techrights.org/n/2024/03/26/Discord_Does_Not_Make_Money_It_s_Spying_on_People_and_Selling_D.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:23:14

• "It was an easy decision for J. Galen Buckwalter, a 69-year-old quadriplegic living in Southern California, to undergo a craniotomy in 2024." ☛ https://therecord.media/neural-data-privacy-brain-implants | Source: The Record    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:25:34

• "The company previously shut down a similar store in 2023 after complaints about quality and design. The latest version comes with a different approach, aiming to push both branding and loyalty" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/palantir-merchandise-sparks-ethical-concerns-ai-t-shirts-tote-bags-1744920 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:25:48

• "According to the Vietnam Cyber Emergency Response Team (VNCERT), the breach involved unauthorized access to the State Bank of Vietnam’s database; the full scope is still being assessed." ☛ https://www.thevietnamese.org/2025/09/massive-data-breach-160-million-vietnamese-credit-records-stolen-in-cic-hack/ | Source: The Vietnamese Magazine    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:26:00

• "The Department of Defense wants to see if private commercial grocery operators or investment firms are willing and able to run 178 commissaries at military bases across the U.S." ☛ https://taskandpurpose.com/news/privatizing-commissaries/ | Source: Task And Purpose    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:26:34

• Windows TCO: "The company at the heart of the problems is Collins Aerospace, based in the US, which confirmed cyberattack on Friday evening." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/eus_cyber_agency_confirms_ransomware/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:27:37

• Windows TCO: "The cyberattack hit services provided by US-based Collins Aerospace, which is owned by RTX (formerly Raytheon)." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/european-airport-disruptions-caused-by-ransomware-attack/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:27:46

• Windows TCO: "Almost immediately after the cyberattack, a group on Telegram called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, claimed responsibility for the hack" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/jlr-jaguar-land-rover-cyberattack-supply-chain-disaster/ | Source: Wired    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:27:55

• "Can we go back to like, sharing stuff we actually write, saying stuff in our own words, and having conversations about things we think?" ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/social-network-nitpicks/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:28:43

• "Today we’re announcing support for Mastodon quote posts in Micro.blog. This is a new feature in Mastodon 4.5 that has been in development for quite some time. It is live on mastodon.social and mastodon.online, the two servers run by Mastodon gGmbH" ☛ https://www.manton.org/2025/09/22/mastodon-quote-posts-in-microblog.html | Source: Manton Reece    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:29:05

• "The social media purge was not confined to posts related to Charlie Kirk." ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2025/09/22/navy-issues-instructions-for-reporting-improper-social-media-use/ | Source: US Navy Times    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:29:29

• "U.S. Senior District Judge Jeffrey S. White denied Meta’s motion to dismiss the breach of contract and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/meta-remains-on-the-hook-in-false-advertising-suit/ | Source: Court House News    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:29:43

• iophk: Yes, like I've pointed out, the goverment of Nepal was violently overthrown and NO ONE is asking questions about who is behind it and what their goals are. http://techrights.org/n/2024/03/26/Discord_Does_Not_Make_Money_It_s_Spying_on_People_and_Selling_D.shtml they can have military briefings now in Discord.cn    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:31:16

• iophk: Instead they are all mistakingly treating social control media as bonafide messaging services, which they most certainly are not. Yes, and not just in Nepal :/ I once asked similar questions about who owns / controls Discord in the context of military personnel exposure to it. The people I asked got worried enough but the concern, apparently, did not make it even a little way up the chain of command.    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:33:08

• "Using AI creates a convenient moral distance between people and their actions — it can induce them to request behaviors they wouldn’t necessarily engage in themselves, nor potentially request from other humans" ☛ https://futurism.com/ai-study-unethical-behavior | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:33:53

• "It’s an odd way of addressing the question. ChatGPT correctly identifies that those names do end with s, but why bring them up?" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-meltdown-specific-question | Source: Futurism    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:34:04

• "Everyone on these panels just presumes AI is obviously the best thing in the world. But they cannot tell you what a business is supposed to get back from all that money." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/21/stop-worrying-about-ais-return-on-investment-said-the-wallet-inspector/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:34:34

• "Now, with AI Britain in full swing, TBI has surveyed the British public — and the public doesn’t like AI so much." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/22/the-uk-public-doesnt-trust-ai-the-tony-blair-institute-is-very-worried/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:37:15

• "The web server I use (nginx) logs errors to a file. I check this occasionally to make sure nothing’s going wrong with my server. I typically get these kinds of 404 requests: [...]" ☛ https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-09-22-harnessing-chatgpt-hallucinations/ | Source: Amit Patel    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:37:31

• "Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models: [...]" ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/09/ai-company-finds-a-way-to-be-even-more-cartoonishly-evil/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:37:46

• "It’s hard to see this as mere coincidence." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/why-china-no-longer-wants-us-ai-chips | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:38:07

• "This is the clearest explanation yet I've seen of these problems in a mainstream publication. Fingers crossed relevant people with decision-making authority finally start taking this seriously!" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/why-ai-systems-might-never-be-secure/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:38:24

• "Maggie Harrison Dupré for Futurism. It turns out having an always-available "marriage therapist" with a sycophantic instinct to always take your side is catastrophic for relationships." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/chatgpt-is-blowing-up-marriages/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:38:40

• " large-scale manipulation of individuals including children, national and international security concerns, mass unemployment, and systematic human rights violations." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/ai_un_controls/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:39:06

• " Yet a recent report from the MIT Media Lab found that 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies. So much activity, so much enthusiasm, so little return. Why? " ☛ https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity | Source: Harvard University    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:39:33

• " Yet a recent report from the MIT Media Lab found that 95% of organizations see no measurable return on their investment in these technologies. So much activity, so much enthusiasm, so little return. Why? " ☛ https://hbr.org/2025/09/ai-generated-workslop-is-destroying-productivity | Source: Harvard University    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:39:57

• "Meanwhile, the rushed application of undercooked automation is having hugely problematic impacts across privacy, energy, climate, propaganda, mental health, public safety, and labor." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/22/ai-slop-startup-to-flood-the-internet-with-thousands-of-ai-slop-podcasts-calls-critics-of-ai-slop-luddites/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:40:16

• "Well, I’d like to see ABC not bow down to government censorship in the first place, but I guess the next best thing is to reverse the decision a few days later." ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/kimmel-is-returning-as-republicans-wonder-are-we-the-baddies/ | Source: Matt Birchler    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:42:17

• "If mobile customers were in scope for the outage then it raises serious concerns about the ability of mobile handsets to route emergency calls to alternative networks." ☛ https://danielpocock.com/en/mayday-optus-emergency-calling-crisis/ | Source: Daniel Pocock    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:42:58

• "Flyswatters are fricking amazing. You can’t do it with your hands. If you’re mad enough you can do it with your baseball cap. But hands?" ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2025/09/22/flies/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:43:41

• "MediaTek is negotiating production of certain chips in the U.S. with TSMC in a bid to meet customer requirements for locally manufactured components." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/mediatek-reportedly-mulling-us-chip-production-could-use-tsmcs-arizona-fab-to-avoid-tariff-fallout | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:44:22

• "Today in Tedium: A few years ago, I gave a writer with an interesting interest in the machinations of the Billboard chart a place to publish." ☛ https://tedium.co/2025/09/21/drum-machines-pop-music-history/ | Source: Tedium    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:44:35

• "I had no concept of how the world would change so significantly as I became a librarian. Public libraries are often first on the chopping block when towns and cities are looking to decrease their budgets." ☛ https://slate.com/life/2025/09/librarian-personal-essay-book-bans-defunding-lgbtq-teens.html | Source: Slate    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:45:22

• "I have been a Public Librarian since the summer of 2000" ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/09/essay-by-librarian-about-having.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:45:52

• "The famed Field Notes tagline is all very well but what if, even having written it down, you fail to remember it? Quasi-disaster ensues, if you’re me. As usual, the culprit is past me not paying enough attention to future me’s needs." ☛ https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/notebooks-need-followup | Source: Jeremy Cherfas    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:46:12

• "We attracted investment from around the world in part because we had rule of law: Businesses trusted us to honor property rights and enforce contracts." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/hey-lets-undermine-americas-technology | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:46:35

• "with the agency’s research offices gutted, various data collection contracts in limbo and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) — the agency’s statistical branch — left with just three employees, questions swirl over whether the task is feasible." ☛ https://fedscoop.com/education-department-research-data-college-admissions-layoffs-doge-restructuring-federal-contracts/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:46:49

• "I have published the first five chapters of Think Linear Algebra! You can read them here or follow these links to run the notebooks on Colab. Here are the chapters I have so far: [...]" ☛ https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2025/09/22/think-linear-algebra/ | Source: Allen Downey    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:47:16

• "In 1839, the gifted mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was attached to the Philosophy department at the University of Berlin working for less than full pay even though he had become a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1832." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/a-note-on-the-dirichlet-distribution/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:47:52

• "There is a deep connection between mathematics and programming." ☛ https://bartoszmilewski.com/2025/09/22/identity-types/ | Source: Bartosz Milewski    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:48:09

• "The internals of the Proof datatype are irrelevant to the user." ☛ https://www.philipzucker.com/kdrag_proof_rules/ | Source: Philip Zucker    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:48:27

• "Now, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the University of California may have found a way to combine the best of both. Working with UC Berkeley, UC Riverside, and UC Santa Barbara, the team has miniaturized quadrupole ion traps using high-resolution 3D printing." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/3d-printed-ion-traps-quantum-computing | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:48:47

• "I’m in the midst of doing research, teaching, and outreach activities on a set of questions around economic growth and its relationship to what we value." ☛ https://crookedtimber.org/2025/09/22/the-care-economy-or-radical-economic-growth/ | Source: Crooked Timber    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:49:53

• "I read a lot of tech blog posts and have written a few of my own. I think a lot about the varied ways people read." ☛ https://evanhahn.com/people-read-your-blog-in-many-different-ways/ | Source: Evan Hahn    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:50:00

• "Violence against God" ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/09/22/paintings-of-dantes-inferno-9-violence-against-god/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 12:50:06

• "Six months after the previous 8.0.1 release, the team behind elementary OS, one of the most attractive and appealing faces of the Linux desktop, has rolled out the second maintenance update to the 8.x series, elementary OS 8.0.2, built on the Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS release." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/elementary-os-8-0-2-brings-kernel-6-14-better-accessibility/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:09:24

• elementary OS 8.0.2 Available Now ☞ https://blog.elementary.io/os-8-0-2-available-now/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:09:52

• Zero trust automation on proprietary trap AWS with Ansible and Terraform ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/22/zero-trust-automation-aws-ansible-and-terraform    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:11:32

• People read your blog in many different ways ☞ https://evanhahn.com/people-read-your-blog-in-many-different-ways/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:11:56

• Symless Becomes KDE's Supporter ☞ https://ev.kde.org/2025/09/22/symless-becomes-kde-supporter/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:15:13

• MX GNU/Linux 25 “Infinity” Enters Public Beta Testing Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mx-linux-25-infinity-enters-public-beta-testing-based-on-debian-13-trixie    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:39:58

• RPM 6.0 Released with Support for Multiple OpenPGP Signatures per Package ☞ https://9to5linux.com/rpm-6-0-released-with-support-for-multiple-openpgp-signatures-per-package    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:40:11

• OBS Studio 32.0 Adds PipeWire Video Capture Improvements, Basic Plugin Manager ☞ https://9to5linux.com/obs-studio-32-0-pipewire-video-capture-improvements-basic-plugin-manager    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:40:19

• How I Configure Polybar to Customize My GNU/Linux Desktop ☞ https://itsfoss.com/configuring-polybar-linux/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:40:37

• Aaron Rainbolt: Setting up a weird dual-boot DOS workstation ☞ https://arraybolt3.substack.com/p/setting-up-a-weird-dual-boot-dos    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:40:54

• "To safely manage threads and processes in Go, I'd normally need to modify Go's internals." ☛ https://antonz.org/multi/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:41:37

• "Python 3.14’s new t‑strings add flexibility and power to the language’s arsenal of string processing tools." ☛ https://davepeck.org/2025/09/22/introducing-tdom-html-templating-with-python-t-strings/ | Source: Dave Peck    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:41:59

• "A t-test is a statistical procedure used to check whether the difference between two groups is significant or just due to chance." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/09/t-test-in-r/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:42:44

• "I understand why people focus on DSA: it’s a concrete thing to learn about, there are web sites devoted to testing you on it, and most importantly, because job interviews often involve DSA coding questions." ☛ https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202509/testing_is_better_than_dsa.html | Source: Ned Batchelder    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:43:04

• "That it’s purpose is this project and this project alone." ☛ https://lmika.org/2025/09/22/dont-choose-to-reuse-yet.html | Source: Leon Mika    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:43:25

• "But, on the longer term, I’m not sure how true that is. AI is making us worse developers, and we’re too addicted to the dopamine hit of instant code to notice." ☛ https://nmn.gl/blog/ai-code-review | Source: Namanyay Goel    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 13:43:40

• Open Access/Content: "The scholarly publishing community has achieved something remarkable over the past decade: the creation of functional, open-source technology for open access book metrics" ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/09/22/guest-post-building-sustainable-infrastructure-for-oa-book-metrics/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:01:59

• "the United Nations to ask for permission to get the data with a 48 hrs access so that I could download it and reshare" ☛ https://pacha.dev/blog/2025/09/22/tradestatistics/ | Source: Mauricio “Pachá” Vargas S    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:03:00

• "Tor Browser 15.0a3 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-150a3/ | Source: Tor    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:04:34

• "We offer full commercial support on curl done by the masters of curl. We can handle [...]" ☛ https://curl.se/support.html | Source: cURL    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:05:06

• "Sadly, it has been dominated by a bitter debate: the project will no longer be called Varnish Cache, but Vinyl Cache." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/varnish-cache-8-0-arrives-in-the-middle-of-a-heated-rebranding-controversy/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:05:32

• "The first libghostty library will be libghostty-vt: a zero-dependency library that provides an API for parsing terminal sequences and maintaining terminal state, extracted directly from Ghostty's real-world proven core. It doesn't even require libc!" ☛ https://mitchellh.com/writing/libghostty-is-coming | Source: Mitchell Hashimoto    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:06:46

• "Why bothering with such bad websites, when you have a simpler, better solution." ☛ https://nflatrea.bearblog.dev/stop-using-shady-apps-for-media-conversion/ | Source: Noë Flatreaud    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:07:17

• "Among the fixes, users will notice improvements in rendering, where problems with multi-audio file output and two-pass encoding have been resolved." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-25-08-1-released-with-stability-fixes-and-ui-improvements/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:07:33

• "The OpenBSD project has announced the release of version 9.6 of rpki-client: [...] " ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250922061303 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:08:03

• "After eighty-three nominations, ten candidates in forum discussions with FSF associate members, months of conversations between current board members and all candidates, and a review of all sitting board members, the confirmation of Oliva after his three month trial period now concludes the FSF's first board process as initiated in 2021." ☛ https://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-confirms-alexandre-oliva-to-board-of-directors | Source: FSF    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:08:21

• "This payload package is called LIFT for “LoRa Integrated Flight Telemetry,” which tells you the other big feature of the system: it transmits data from the rocket to a ground station via LoRa." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/09/23/gathering-weather-telemetry-with-a-nano-33-ble-sense-payload/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:13:03

• "RP2350-PICO2-BB48 is improved version of Raspberry PI PICO2 with the following features: [...]" ☛ https://olimex.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/new-rp2350-pico2-open-source-hardware-development-board-with-all-48-gpios-exposed-in-breadboard-friendly-layout/ | Source: Olimex    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:13:28

• "It is a CoreXY machine with a 256×256×256mm print volume, direct drive extrusion and shipping with Klipper firmware on a Makerbase board running Armbian 22.05." ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/com/two_trees/sk1 | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:13:43

• "The company released a 30-second clip featuring the N1 performing a cartwheel and a 360-degree jump. The video opens with the caption “N1 kung fu show” before the robot executes a sequence of movements that underline its balance, coordination, and actuator power." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/humanoid-robot-cartwheel-and-jump | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:13:56

• "Bring your own PCI Express device or pair it with one of our 2230-format Raspberry Pi NVMe SSDs." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/m-2-hat-compact-on-sale-now-at-15/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:14:12

• "The MX Linux team has announce the availability of the initial beta release of MX Linux 25. The project's upcoming major update, now based on Debian 13, is available in both "systemd" and "SysV" variants (for the Xfce and Fluxbox editions) and "systemd" only for the KDE Plasma flavour: [...]" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12567 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:15:45

• "For years, MX positioned itself as a systemd-free option. Instead of adopting systemd as the default init system, the distro has traditionally shipped sysVinit as its baseline." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/mx-25-infinity-beta-launches-with-debian-13-trixie-base/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:15:59

• "There are still VPs reporting to VPs in MCC but sure, attack the already depleted band 10s again, why not? Literally no semblance of an upward moving career left in MCC unless you were already at VP level. KG reporting to SM are both jokes. Kick them out first!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k5r1a718    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:18:52

• So it looks like the IBM/Red Hat layoffs are indeed going ahead. http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/23/The_Next_Wave_of_IBM_Red_Hat_Layoffs_Being_Discussed_Already.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:19:18

• "The most striking feature is the newly added RPM v6 package format, which moves all size limits to 64-bit, drops obsolete crypto algorithms like MD5 and SHA-1, and adds SHA-512 and SHA3-256 for payloads." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/rpm-6-0-package-manager-released-with-new-package-format/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:20:29

• "Two of the biggest names in fixed-release distros are nearly finished and ready to drop. You can taste them now, but they're not fully baked yet." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/fedora_ubuntu_betas/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:21:25

• "For some reason I gravitated back towards Plan9/Inferno again. Call it dissatisfaction with present day computing, if you will, but I keep looking for something smaller, faster and more efficient" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/os/plan9 | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:21:41

• TR reader: "Excellent. There is a lot of benefit to the Free and Open Source Software community at large from your and Rianne's work!"    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:22:07

• "Well... last week I learned to never underestimate the ingenuity of a teenager with a computer, a still-developing prefrontal cortex, and too much time on their hands." ☛ https://flower.codes/2025/09/22/boundaries | Source: Zach Flower    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:23:25

• "Historically, Unix mail programs (what we call 'mail clients' or 'mail user agents' today) have had two different approaches to handling your email" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/TwoMailClientApproaches | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:23:34

• Kubernetes v1.34: Pod Level Resources Graduated to Beta ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/09/22/kubernetes-v1-34-pod-level-resources/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:24:31

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

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:27:39

• Sha1sum Command in GNU/Linux with Examples ☞ https://idroot.us/sha1sum-command-linux/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:27:53

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

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 14:28:21

• How To Install KubeSphere on Manjaro ☞ https://idroot.us/install-kubesphere-manjaro/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:36:34

• How To Install Apache Solr on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-solr-linux-mint-22/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:37:07

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

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:37:51

• "When a regular user needs to make changes that affect the entire system, they must use either the su or sudo command to gain temporary administrative privileges." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/su-vs-sudo-and-how-to-configure-sudo-in-linux/ | Source: TecMint    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:39:05

• "Launched in 2020, GKOP is an enterprise platform built on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA), a fully managed turnkey application platform." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/revolutionizing-development-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:39:50

• "The HAT connects directly to the PCIe 2.0 interface on Raspberry Pi 5 through a flex-rigid PCB, eliminating the need for a separate ribbon cable" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-m-2-hat-compact-released-with-2230-nvme-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:40:47

• "The hardware configuration is based on the RP2350B processor, which integrates dual Cortex-M33 or dual RISC-V cores operating at 150MHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/olimex-rp2350-pico2-bb48-open-source-development-board/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:40:56

• From a phone call to a melting glacier: an interview with Katie Paterson ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2681407/from-a-phone-call-to-a-melting-glacier-an-interview-with-katie-paterson    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:41:53

• Nearly 17 million euros earmarked for science research in Latvia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/22.09.2025-nearly-17-million-euros-earmarked-for-science-research-in-latvia.a615324/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:42:23

• R.F.K., Jr.: A Day in the Life ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/09/29/robert-kennedy-a-day-in-the-life    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:43:11

• Co-living improves mental health of at-risk homeless women, Hong Kong NGO finds ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/23/co-living-improves-mental-health-of-at-risk-homeless-women-hong-kong-ngo-finds/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:43:52

• Congress ends nutrition program, Michigan rep called results disappointing ☞ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/congress-ends-nutrition-program-michigan-rep-called-results-disappointing/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:56:00

• University cuts Stanford Living Education program ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/09/21/university-cuts-stanford-living-education-sled-program/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:57:25

• Latvia produces quite a few healthcare professionals ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/22.09.2025-latvia-produces-quite-a-few-healthcare-professionals.a615277/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:57:56

• Wood-burning stove is not waste bin, experts remind public ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/environment/22.09.2025-wood-burning-stove-is-not-waste-bin-experts-remind-public.a615305/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:58:26

• Queer singer Mabel Matiz appears at courthouse to give statement in ‘obscenity’ probe over song lyrics ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/queer-singer-mabel-matiz-appears-at-courthouse-to-give-statement-in-obscenity-probe-over-song-lyrics-311767    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 15:58:51

• Vincent Bernat: Akvorado release 2.0 ☞ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2025-akvorado-2.0    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:04:09

• Summarize YouTube videos with Fabric ☞ https://major.io/p/summarize-youtube-videos-fabric/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:06:37

• Lithuanian court convicts 85 in landmark Covid-era parliament riot case ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2688696/lithuanian-court-convicts-85-in-landmark-covid-era-parliament-riot-case    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:07:10

• Evgeni Golov: Booting Vagrant boxes with UEFI on Fedora: Permission denied ☞ https://www.die-welt.net/2025/09/booting-vagrant-boxes-with-uefi-on-fedora-permission-denied/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:08:24

• parallel @ Savannah: GNU Parallel 20250922 ('Iryna Zarutska') released [stable] ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10817    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:10:12

• Install Python 3.13 on Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux from EPEL ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/09/22/install-python-313-red-hat-enterprise-linux-epel    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:10:34

• Firefox Nightly: Firefox 144 Highlights: Faster Add-ons, Smarter DevTools, and Tab Group Boosts – These Weeks in Firefox, Issue 189 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/09/22/firefox-144-highlights-faster-add-ons-smarter-devtools-and-tab-group-boosts-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-189/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:11:04

• Leader of South Korea’s unification church jailed after court issues warrant ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/leader-of-south-koreas-unification-church-jailed-after-court-issues-warrant    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:44:40

• Top diplomats from US, South Korea, Japan voice concern on Taiwan Strait ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Top-diplomats-from-US-South-Korea-Japan-voice-concern-on-Taiwan-Strait    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:44:56

• Kim Jong-un Open to Talks if U.S. Drops Demand to Denuclearize ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/world/asia/kim-north-korea-trump-talks.html    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:45:08

• Unification Church leader faces possible arrest in South Korea's ex-first lady probe ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Unification-Church-leader-faces-possible-arrest-in-South-Koreas-ex-first-lady-probe    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:51:21

• South Korea prosecutors seek death penalty for teacher who killed 8-year-old pupil ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-prosecutors-seek-death-penalty-for-teacher-who-killed-8-year-old-pupil    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:53:15

• South Korea arrests Unification Church leader over alleged bribery linked to ex-first lady ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-arrests-unification-church-leader-over-alleged-bribery-linked-to-ex-first-lady    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:53:30

• Leader of South Korea's unification church jailed after court issues warrant ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Leader-of-South-Koreas-unification-church-jailed-after-court-issues-warrant    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:53:39

• Surveillance by new app ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-qr-code-immigration-clearance-trial-some-sporeans-unable-to-register-in-new-app    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:55:03

• Prosecution appeals against Malaysia’s former minister Syed Saddiq’s acquittal in graft case ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/prosecution-appeals-against-former-malaysia-minister-syed-saddiqs-acquittal-in-graft-case    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:55:20

• Cheaper RON95 fuel for Malaysians from Sept 30 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cheaper-ron95-fuel-for-malaysians-from-sept-30-but-foreigners-continue-to-pay-full-price    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:55:33

• Parrot in China with separation anxiety melts hearts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/parrot-in-china-with-separation-anxiety-melts-hearts    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:55:43

• RTÉ Investigates documentary reveals cotton produced by forced labour camps in China may be found in clothes sold in Major Irish Retailers ☞ https://about.rte.ie/2025/09/22/rte-investigates-documentary-reveals-cotton-produced-by-forced-labour-camps-in-china-may-be-found-in-clothes-sold-in-major-irish-retailers/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:56:15

• In the land of couscous, pulled noodles from China create a stir ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0922/algeria-chinese-noodles    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:56:50

• Europe emerges from the shadows at Taiwan's largest defence show ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Europe-emerges-from-the-shadows-at-Taiwans-largest-defence-show    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:57:08

• Watch first, then wipe: China’s restrooms put toilet paper behind paywall ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/watch-first-then-wipe-chinas-restrooms-put-toilet-paper-behind-paywall "Users have to scan a QR code and watch a 30-second ad before they are rewarded with toilet paper."    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:58:06

• China cracks down on online content inciting hostility, pessimism ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-cracks-down-on-online-content-inciting-hostility-pessimism    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:58:25

• Pacific policing becomes new front in China-West rivalry ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/pacific-policing-becomes-new-front-in-china-west-rivalry    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:58:42

• North Korea’s Kim Jong Un says he will strengthen ties with China more vigorously: KNCA ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-kim-jong-un-says-he-will-strengthen-ties-with-china-more-vigorously-knca    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 16:59:18

• Great new example of enshittification https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/watch-first-then-wipe-chinas-restrooms-put-toilet-paper-behind-paywall    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:00:08

• China bets on DUV as EUV blockade reshapes chipmaking — but it won't dethrone ASML's advanced lithography, for now ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-bets-on-duv-as-euv-blockade-reshapes-chipmaking    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:03:04

• Evacuees in Philippines, Taiwan take shelter as Super Typhoon Ragasa nears ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/22/evacuees-in-philipines-taiwan-take-shelter-as-super-typhoon-ragasa-nears/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:03:43

• China prepares to evacuate 400,000 as Super Typhoon Ragasa makes landfall in Philippines ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/09/22/china-prepares-to-evacuate-400000-as-super-typhoon-ragasa-makes-landfall-in-philippines/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:04:02

• Mexico captured 24% of US import market that China lost between 2018-2024 ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-captured-24-percent-us-import-market-china-lost/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:04:30

• Dark Smoke Billows After Horrific Collision Between Flying Cars ☞ https://futurism.com/the-byte/collision-flying-cars-china    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:05:20

• SpaceX Now Causing NASA to Lose Space Race to China, Experts Say ☞ https://futurism.com/space/spacex-nasa-losing-space-race-china    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:05:37

• China Opens Bodega Entirely Run by Robot ☞ https://futurism.com/china-bodega-robot    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:06:08

• Apt Command is Finally Getting the Much Needed History Features ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/apt-upcoming-history-features/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:06:47

• Git 3.0 May Make Rust Mandatory as Developers Discuss Transition ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/git-3-rust/ Microsoft is doing this http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/19/Microsoft_E_E_E_Git_Will_Now_or_Very_Soon_Fully_Depend_on_Rust_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:07:35

• "vows to shoot down" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/22/polish-prime-minister-vows-to-shoot-down-any-objects-that-threaten-country-s-airspace | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:08:02

• "Unidentified drones force closures at Copenhagen and Oslo airport" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/23/unidentified-drones-force-closures-at-copenhagen-and-oslo-airports | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:08:36

• Robot Balances Ball On A Plate ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/22/robot-balances-ball-on-a-plate/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:09:23

• Dihydroxyacetone Man pushes Tylenol warning, vaccine changes despite no scientific evidence ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250923-trump-pushes-tylenol-warning-vaccine-changes-despite-no-scientific-evidence    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:09:49

• Unusual Gravitational Wave May Be Sign of Wormhole Linking Universes ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/unusual-gravitational-wave-may-be-sign-of-wormhole-linking-universes    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:10:17

• World's Second Largest Diamond Awaits Pricing After Discovery in Botswana ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-second-largest-diamond-awaits-pricing-after-discovery-in-botswana    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:10:27

• Kenvue, the Company Behind Tylenol, Tries to Navigate Its Latest Crisis ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/health/tylenol-autism-kenvue.html    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:10:42

• Tylenol, Autism and Vaccines: What to Know After Convicted Felon’s Announcement ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/health/autism-tylenol-vaccines-explained.html    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:10:52

• Sam Thursfield: Status update, 22/09/2025 ☞ https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/status-update-22-09-2025/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:11:43

• Linux User Space Episode 6:01: Yet Another Clanker ☞ https://www.linuxuserspace.show/601    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:13:34

• Late Night Linux – Episode 352 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-352/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:14:06

• "FSB officers linked to poisonings" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/23/new-investigation-names-additional-fsb-officers-linked-to-poisonings-of-alexey-navalny | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:14:30

• The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 244: Kris Klein on the Long Road to a Right to be Forgotten Under Canadian Privacy Law ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/09/law-bytes-podcast-episode-244/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:15:08

• If Open Source Stops Being Global, It Stops Being Open ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/09/if-open-source-stops-being-global-it-stops-being-open/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:16:21

• Ukraine's ex-PM Yatsenyuk warns Putin only understands force, urges NATO to match words with action ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250922-ukraine-s-ex-pm-yatsenyuk-warns-putin-only-understands-force-urges-nato-to-match-words-with-action    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:16:40

• Any talk of territorial concessions to Putin is a red herring, analyst says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250922-any-talk-of-territorial-concessions-to-putin-is-a-red-herring-analyst-says    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:16:53

• Putin Offers To Extend Last Nuclear Arms Pact With US ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-nuclear-us-new-start-treaty/33537093.html    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:17:08

• Human Rights In Russia In 'Seismic Decline' Amid War On Ukraine, UN Expert Says ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/rights-decline-russia-torture-ukraine-vulnerable/33537015.html    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:17:36

• Putin Proposes One More Year of Nuclear Caps With U.S. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/world/europe/putin-trump-start-nuclear-treaty.html    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:17:57

• "the former Senate aide who accused Biden of sexual assault" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/22/putin-grants-russian-citizenship-to-tara-reade-the-former-senate-aide-who-accused-biden-of-sexual-assault-and-later-moved-to-moscow | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:18:18

• "set to expire in February" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/22/putin-proposes-extending-only-remaining-u-s-russia-nuclear-treaty-set-to-expire-in-february-for-one-more-year | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:18:31

• Cheeto is Russia's de facto ambassador to Europe    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:19:24

• Ukraine charity in Latvia invites you to an open day ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/22.09.2025-ukraine-charity-in-latvia-invites-you-to-an-open-day.a615326/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:19:35

• Youths in Latvia accused of extensive support of Russian army ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/22.09.2025-youths-in-latvia-accused-of-extensive-support-of-russian-army.a615255/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:19:46

• Lithuanian schoolchildren taught to fly drones in order to strengthen defense capabilities ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250922-lithuanian-schoolchildren-taught-to-fly-drones-in-order-to-strengthen-defense-capabilities    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:20:05

• UN commission finds Russia targets Ukrainian civilians using short-range drones ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/un-commission-finds-russia-targets-ukrainian-civilians-using-short-range-drones/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:20:24

• UK sanctions Georgia businessmen with ties to Russia ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/09/uk-sanctions-georgian-businessmen-with-ties-to-russia/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:20:56

• Zelensky Urges ‘Powerful Pressure on Russia’ at U.N. General Assembly ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/world/europe/unga-zelensky-ukraine-russia.html    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:21:14

• >Russia plans tighter controls on diesel trading as prices rise amid Ukrainian drone strikes on refineries ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/23/russia-plans-tighter-controls-on-diesel-trading-as-prices-rise-amid-ukrainian-drone-strikes-on-refineries | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:21:37

• Latvia presents protest note to Russia over Estonian incursion ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/diplomacy/22.09.2025-latvia-presents-protest-note-to-russia-over-estonian-incursion.a615264/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:35:41

• #SciArtSeptember: Random ☞ https://rubenerd.com/sciartseptember-random/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:36:01

• Lithuania’s Yukon Group completes liquidation of Russian subsidiary ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2688507/lithuania-s-yukon-group-completes-liquidation-of-russian-subsidiary    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:36:14

• Vilnius authorities to replace eight commemorative plaques with Russian inscriptions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2688457/vilnius-authorities-to-replace-eight-commemorative-plaques-with-russian-inscriptions    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:36:29

• Lithuania restores citizenship to man after failing to prove he served in Russian army ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2688358/lithuania-restores-citizenship-to-man-after-failing-to-prove-he-served-in-russian-army    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:36:47

• Lithuania protests to Russia over Estonian airspace violation ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2688163/lithuania-protests-to-russia-over-estonian-airspace-violation    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:37:07

• Dihydroxyacetone Man vows to defend Poland, Baltics if Russia escalates – media ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2688125/trump-vows-to-defend-poland-baltics-if-russia-escalates-media    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:37:27

• Russia’s Ban on I.B. Schools Deepens Its Rupture With the West ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/world/europe/russia-ban-international-baccalaureate-schools.html    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:37:37

• "started cutting wages and hiring fewer employees" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/22/russian-defense-companies-have-started-cutting-wages-and-hiring-fewer-employees-analysis-finds | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:37:58

• "Russian jets and drones keep ‘straying’ into NATO airspace." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/22/causes-and-consequences | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:38:21

• As the U.S. Pulls Back From the U.N., Rivals Stand to Gain ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/briefing/un-china-russia-palestine-typhoon.html    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:38:44

• "undergoing cancer treatment" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/22/russian-propagandist-margarita-simonyan-announces-she-s-undergoing-cancer-treatment | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:39:10

• "honored by Chechen special forces" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/22/the-blacklisted-z-blogger | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:39:29

• "Russia says it downed 36 drones headed towards Moscow overnight" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/09/23/russia-says-it-downed-36-drones-headed-towards-moscow-overnight | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:39:48

• Is There a Middle Ground in the Tug of War Between News Publishers and Hey Hi (AI) Firms? Part 1: Framing the Problem ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/is-there-a-middle-ground-in-the-tug-of-war-between-news-publishers-and-ai-firms-part-1-framing-the-problem/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:40:16

• Time for GNU/Linux freedom https://gulfnews.com/business/markets/microsoft-to-stop-updating-windows-10-why-your-pc-may-be-at-risk-1.500280304    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:41:17

• Software Patents https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pocketpairs-latest-palworld-game-might-make-nintendo-patent-farming-mechanics-palfarm-is-heading-to-pc    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:41:48

• Major Labels Fire Off Amended Suno Complaint — New ‘Stream-Ripping’ Claims Take Center Stage ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/22/suno-lawsuit-amended-complaint-labels/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:58:38

• Mike Tyson and Producer Ty Fyffe Jointly Dismiss ‘Murdergram’ Copyright Infringement Lawsuit ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/22/mike-tyson-lawsuit-murdergram-dismissed/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 17:59:09

• Japan city passes ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-city-passes-ordinance-to-cap-smartphone-use-at-2-hours-per-day    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:00:07

• Japanese city implements two-hour daily recreational smartphone usage limit — ordinance comes into effect from October 1, no enforcement or penalties proposed ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/phones/japanese-city-implements-two-hour-daily-recreational-smartphone-usage-limit-ordinance-comes-into-effect-from-october-1-no-enforcement-or-penalties-proposed    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:00:32

• App-solutely Modded: Surveying Modded App Market Operators and Original App Developers ☞ https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2025/09/22/app-solutely-modded-surveying-modded-app-market-operators-and-original-app-developers/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:01:19

• This $550 GNU/Linux Phone Has Kill Switches That Protect Your Privacy ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/furi-labs-flx1s/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:01:53

• LibreOffice-focused talks at the Open Source Conference 2025 Luxembourg ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/22/libreoffice-talks-at-the-oss-conf-2025-lux/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:03:47

• Community Member Monday: Devansh Varshney ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/09/22/community-member-monday-devansh-varshney/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:04:05

• Magats in charge ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/politics/tiktok-deal-algorithm-trump.html    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:04:31

• Fentanylware (TikTok) as joint propaganda tool of US "Magats" and Communists ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/21/white-house-china-tiktok-deal/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:05:23

• More Details Emerge on US/China Fentanylware (TikTok) Deal: No New App; Murdochs, Michael Dell Among American Owners, Per Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/09/22/more-details-emerge-on-us-china-tiktok-deal/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:05:44

• Hong Kong airport to halt most flights as Super Typhoon Ragasa nears ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-airport-mulls-over-36-hour-closure-as-super-typhoon-ragasa-nears    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:06:30

• ProtonUp-Qt v2.14 Brings New Proton-EM Compatibility Tool ☞ https://linuxiac.com/protonup-qt-v2-14-0-brings-new-proton-em-compatibility-tool/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:06:57

• Opinion | Homes, not handouts: Let builders build, stop giving out subsidies ☞ https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-homes-not-handouts-let-builders-build-stop-giving-out-subsidies/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:07:47

• Strawser | The time for collective action is now ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/09/21/strawser-the-time-for-collective-action-is-now/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:07:57

• Surveillance Businesses Have Human Rights Responsibilities ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/surveillance-human-rights    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:09:10

• Slopwatch: Blaming the Victims for Microsoft's Failures and Plagiarising Phoronix ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/09/22/Slopwatch_Blaming_the_Victims_for_Microsoft_s_Failures_and_Plag.shtml    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:09:24

• Building Your Own DVB-S2 Receiver ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/22/building-your-own-dvb-s2-receiver/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:10:00

• Full Scale Styrofoam DeLorean Finally Takes Flight ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/22/full-scale-styrofoam-delorean-finally-takes-flight/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:10:39

• Award-Winning Art Project Recreates Dinosaur Sounds With Bizarre Instruments ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/award-winning-art-project-recreates-dinosaur-sounds-with-bizarre-instruments    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:11:52

• Stem Cells Repair Brain Damage Caused by Stroke in Mice ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/stem-cells-repair-brain-damage-caused-by-stroke-in-mice    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:12:04

• Da Vinci's Genetic Secrets May Soon Be Revealed by Ambitious DNA Project ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/da-vincis-genetic-secrets-may-soon-be-revealed-by-ambitious-dna-project    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:12:17

• Ghost Particles Could Boost Gold Production in Neutron Star Collisions ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/ghost-particles-could-boost-gold-production-in-neutron-star-collisions    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:12:28

• Breakthrough: Quantum Entanglement Achieved Between The Hearts of Two Atoms ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/breakthrough-quantum-entanglement-achieved-between-the-hearts-of-two-atoms    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:12:46

• "Blue Alchemist Promises Rocket Fuel From Moon Dust" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/22/blue-alchemist-promises-rocket-fuel-from-moon-dust/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:20:07

• Sound Blaster 2.0 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/22/reviving-a-scrapped-sound-blaster-2-0-isa-soundcard/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:20:30

• "Matchmaker" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/09/23/play-capacitor-cupid-with-the-matchmaker/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:21:00

• Origins of Siberia's Mysterious Craters May Lie Deeper Than We Thought ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/origins-of-siberias-mysterious-craters-may-lie-deeper-than-we-thought    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:24:30

• RPM 6.0.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1039071/    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:24:47

• 🖼️ xkcd: Piercing #3145 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3145.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:40:42

• "I suppose there's multiple meanings. This is my second real attempt at a Gemini presence (I'll save that for another log). That could be it, but there's a second meaning to "again" that I am taliking about." gemini://tilde.pink/~manuconn/gemlog/loggin.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:41:37

• "A man was assassinated in front of a live audience, and I cannot gather the will to mourn this man. Two children lost their father, a wife lost her husband, two parents lost their kid, the hundreds in the audience are traumatized, an entire nation is discussing the political ramification of his death. And I cannot shed a single tear." gemini://tilde.pink/~manuconn/gemlog/kirk.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:42:20

• 🔤SpellBinding: UCEHNTB Wordo: TEMPO gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-09-23.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:42:56

• "As I'm wont to do, I've reread a novel I really enjoyed. In this case, Neal Stephenson's Anathem. It’s a strange and beautiful book where cloistered scholars argue about math, philosophy, and physics until those arguments suddenly become very practical." gemini://remort.app/posts/2025-09-22-anathem.gmi    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:43:35

• voidrane — project log, ruminations, and social commentary. depressed, but present. gemini://voidrane.smol.pub/1758586851    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:44:23

• Qt Creator 18 Beta released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18-beta-released    

posted Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 18:45:17