Roy Schestowitz

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posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 04:41:01

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posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 04:41:05

• Palm computering gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2025/OCT2025/entry-1 like MincerR with his 11-month old Palm PDA...    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 04:41:58

• "I believe that I am no longer human. I, of course, retain my humanity; however, I feel as if I am no longer human today. Why is it that I feel this way? I do not know. Perhaps I am touched with melancholia today. Perhaps I do not have any time to do that which I feel inclined to do? Perhaps it is a combination of everything. All I can say for sure, today, is that I don't feel quite right." gemini://beyond-mundanity.com/inhuman.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 04:43:03

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-10-12.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 04:43:25

• "In which I discuss the classic argument for believing in God known as Pascal's Wager, and refute both it and related arguments by discussing unconsidered, related possibilities." gemini://thehans255.com/gemlog/2025/pascals-wager.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 04:45:23

• "I continue to experience delays in getting my THAT analog computer. To make a long story short, I finally figured out how to submit a duty dispute request to UPS, which is the process for getting tariff-related problems corrected, but I was told that they are so backed up, that the process would take at least three months." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20251011-0.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 04:46:20

• Austria finds Microsoft 'illegally' tracked students: privacy campaign group https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/digital/austria-finds-microsoft-illegally-tracked-students-privacy-campaign-group/124471276?utm_source=portal_category_widget&utm_medium=homepage    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 06:15:27

• Austria-based privacy group Noyb said Microsoft 365 Education installed cookies that collect browser data and are used for advertising purposes https://www.islandernews.com/news/national/austria-based-privacy-group-noyb-said-microsoft-365-education-installed-cookies-that-collect-browser-data/image_a58171af-f8bc-592e-873d-21037bf55157.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 06:16:12

• Austria: Microsoft Education Tracked Kids https://newscentraltv.com/austria-microsoft-education-tracked-kids/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 06:16:42

• "Forbesk rankings are always a joke. You know that. Everything on Forbes is clickbait." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7b7whws    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 06:22:31

• "I lost count of how many times a version of the phrase “we care about copyright” was invoked at Screentime like a prayer." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/798496/hollywood-openai-training-netflix-paramount-warner | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:24:52

• "Apple was hit with a lawsuit in California federal court by a pair of neuroscientists who say that the tech company misused thousands of copyrighted books to train its Apple Intelligence artificial intelligence model." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-sued-over-use-of-copyrighted-books-to-train-apple-intelligence/articleshow/124469325.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:25:05

• "If that joke seems off-colour, or crass, or some kind of manipulative stretch – please, don’t worry." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/10/sam-altman-copyright-ai-sora-2-video-generator | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:25:14

• "With the aim of making popular Pinterest downloader Pintere.com more difficult to find, the social media giant sent DMCA anti-circumvention notices to Google Search." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/pinterest-accused-of-sending-false-dmca-claims-to-delist-downloader-from-google/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:25:26

• "The likeness to the Mrs Doubtfire star not only struck me as uncanny, it disturbed me to my core" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/robin-williams-daughter-zelda-ai-generated-tiktok-videos-b2843343.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:25:54

• "PERA would overturn long-standing court decisions that have helped keep some of the most problematic patents in check." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/pera-remains-serious-threat-efforts-against-bad-patents | Source: EFF    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:26:39

• "Partnerships provide access to additional resources but also introduce potential complications." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/research/umich-deepens-pharma-partnerships-amid-astrazeneca-lawsuit/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:27:04

• "It will twist words into their antipodes to serve the powerful at the expense of the weak." ☛ https://infrequently.org/2025/10/the-app-store-was-always-authoritarian/ | Source: Alex Russell    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:27:26

• "Here's the latest victory from the land of wallet-based elections: Synology, a leading maker of "network-attached storage" (NAS) devices, has done a quiet (but total) 180 on its enshittificatory policy of blocking third party hard drives from its products: [...]" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/10/synology/#how-about-nah | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:28:50

• "As the singer explained in his note that called for fans to “forget” Amazon and the companies under its umbrella, including Whole Foods Market" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-young-forget-amazon-removing-music-1235445170/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:29:14

• "Neil Young’s message to his fans is a direct one, urging them to avoid shopping on Amazon and Whole Foods Market—which is owned by Amazon." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/10/10/neil-young-pulls-music-amazon/ | Source: Digital Music News    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:29:27

• "But it will cost the city $2.5 million to assess and repair the damage, according to Councilmember Ysabel Jurado, whose district includes downtown and Boyle Heights." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-10/6th-street-bridge-no-longer-lights-up-copper-thieves | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:30:09

• "Californians are tired of paying the price for that theft that steals more than copper" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-10/fiber-cable-vandalism-likely-to-blame-for-verizon-service-outage | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:30:20

• "Millions of rural Americans live in counties with doctor shortages and where high-speed internet connections aren’t adequate to access advanced telehealth services." ☛ https://kffhealthnews.org/dead-zone/ |    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:30:46

• "The Digital Equity Act is part of the sweeping 2021 infrastructure law, which included $65 billion to build high-speed internet infrastructure and connect millions without access to the [Internet]" ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/09/trump-called-the-digital-equity-act-racist-now-internet-money-for-rural-americans-is-gone/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:30:58

• "However, the Leh district administration has invoked legal provisions to prohibit the spread of misinformation on social media platforms in the district, which had witnessed violence last month." ☛ https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/mobile-internet-service-restored-in-leh-101760124194071.html | Source: Hindustan Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:31:15

• "However, what if we flipped the model? We aim to explore an innovative new concept: utilising submarine cable technology to address the longstanding challenges in Africa’s terrestrial infrastructure." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/africas-next-terrestrial-internet-leap-might-come-from-the-sea/272652/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:31:30

• "The strike continued until 1987, when, due to public pressure, the Irish government banned the importation of South African goods. The ban was the first ban of South African imports by a Western Government. " ☛ https://tommyp.org/blog/grapefruit/ |    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:32:10

• "But as Abdullah Aloudh, senior director for countering authoritarianism at the Middle East Democracy Center, explains, speech is far from free in the kingdom." ☛ https://www.vox.com/culture/464429/riyadh-comedy-festival-saudi-arabia-bill-burr-marc-maron | Source: Vox    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:32:30

• "Needless to say, these are all ridiculous lies. The thankless task of correcting Trump has been left to journalists, local officials in Oregon, and even a Trump-appointed federal judge." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/portland-protests-dancing-frog-trump/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:32:51

• "The Taliban administration has largely rolled back rights for women and girls established by elected governments in recent decades." ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/no-women-journalists-at-taliban-fm-muttaqis-press-meet | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:33:07

• "It is learnt that the decision on inviting journalists to the media interaction was taken by Taliban officials accompanying the Foreign Minister." ☛ https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/no-women-journalists-at-muttaqis-press-conference/article70150888.ece | Source: The Hindu    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:33:26

• "refuse to grant women human rights because they do not consider women to be human." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/for-taliban-women-not-human-says-taslima-nasreen-on-row-over-journalist-ban-9437347#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:33:55

• [Old] "Starting summer 2025, the European Accessibility Act will require digital products provided in the EU to meet actual, enforceable accessibility standards. Not “we added some alt text” accessibility. Real accessibility. The kind you can be sued over." ☛ https://denodell.com/blog/a-better-web-for-everyone-everywhere |    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:34:27

• "Iranian journalist Zeinab Rahimi has refused to wear the mandatory hijab for over two years, despite the risk of arrest and imprisonment." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-hijab-woman-life-freedom-tehran-protests/33555684.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:34:43

• "A lesson it took me much too long to learn is that you don’t have to wait for anyone to give you the opportunity to be a writer or reporter." ☛ https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/grennell-college-speech | Source: Marisa Kabas    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:36:38

• "Canadian SF magazine On Spec is closing after 35 years. December’s issue #134 will be the last. Managing editor Diane Walton explained in an editorial to issue #133: [...]" ☛ https://locusmag.com/2025/10/on-spec-to-close/ | Source: Locus Magazine    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:36:59

• "Some fear the law will give the authorities the power to pre-emptively stifle the work of independent journalists and activists." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/uzbekistan-photo-ban-tourism-industry/33555477.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:37:15

• "I understand his point." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/10/10/conservative-distrust-of-journalism-threatens-to-spread-among-liberals/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:37:27

• "Calvin said the answer to these questions was easy: The requested documents didn’t exist." ☛ https://sfstandard.com/2025/09/02/openai-sam-altman-elon-musk-ai-regulation/ | Source: The San Fancisco Standard    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:38:36

• "One Tuesday night, as my wife and I sat down for dinner, a sheriff’s deputy knocked on the door to serve me a subpoena from OpenAI" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/798523/openai-ai-regulation-advocates-subpoenas-police | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:38:53

• "In an open letter to U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Kornbluth said some of the policies would restrict MIT's independence and freedom of expression." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-10-10/mit-refuses-to-accept-white-house-terms-for-funding-other-schools-still-mulling | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:39:05

• "People that want to keep pushing an agenda to go against these library materials and the First Amendment [right to free speech], I hope they see this, and I hope it's a deterrent." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/wyoming-librarian-settlement-9.6935492 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:39:27

• "Of course, this is not entirely unprecedented. As we’ve covered over the years, whenever laws and rules against hate speech exist, inevitably the powerful seek to use them to protect themselves rather than those who are actually marginalized or vulnerable." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-decides-ice-agents-are-a-protected-class-because-apparently-government-accountability-is-now-hate-speech/ | Source: Techdirt    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:39:52

• "The Moldovan government also confronted these challenges head-on." ☛ https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/10/10/operation-matryoshka-russias-direct-intrusion-into-moldovas-parliamentary-elections/ | Source: New Eastern Europe    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:40:41

• Giving illusion of growth to a Ponzi scheme ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startups/sam-altman-backed-college-startup-campus-acquires-sizzle-ai-hires-metas-exec-as-technology-head/articleshow/124479611.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:41:43

• "We were objectively bad before, but that doesn’t mean past solutions are necessarily repeatable (or were even the reason for that progress), that there isn’t space for improvement, and that those pushing for the change he wants to see aren’t the irrational actors he portrays them to be." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/i-was-wrong-about-steven-pinker/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:42:19

• "Will Brussels ever stand up to Donald Trump and US big tech?" ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/you-can-t-spell-eurostack-without-u/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:42:55

• "He emphasised achieving digital sovereignty by becoming active players, not just customers, and fostering European innovation, while ensuring companies have choices over data storage, infrastructure, and technology supply chains" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eu-need-for-digital-sovereignty-does-not-mean-protectionism-german-minister-says/articleshow/124476076.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:43:18

• "The primary reason for these delays is the missing information, according to the company." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ups-reportedly-destroying-packages-due-to-customs-confusion-thousands-of-parcels-per-day-are-seemingly-affected-by-delays-due-to-documentation-issues | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:43:42

• "They described shipments of tea, telescopes, luxury glassware, musical instruments and more — some worth tens of thousands of dollars — all in limbo or perhaps gone." ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/ups-delay-customs-tariffs-packages-destroyed-rcna236607 | Source: NBC    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:44:12

• "In a renewed push to safeguard America’s digital infrastructure, U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) have introduced the Protecting America from Cyber Threats Act" ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/bipartisan-bill-targets-cybersecurity-gap/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:44:55

• "The Lord does not help those who help themselves. By a miracle, he helps the utterly and pathetically helpless—of whom I am chief. That’s truly good news. It’s also a terrible scandal. And that’s the point." ☛ https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/you-dont-have-to-be-radical-ordinary-christian-life/ | Source: Christianity Today    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:45:10

• "Not all of it." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/a-note-on-sustainability-and-access | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:45:42

• "These changes are creating significant stress on a system designed for a different era. Transmission congestion, bottlenecks, and reliability concerns are becoming more common, with some regions experiencing severe delays in interconnecting new generation projects." ☛ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/power-grid/grid-modernization/the-u-s-high-voltage-grid-is-at-a-crossroads/ | Source: Renewable Energy World    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:46:14

• "The radio is just one feature that Tesla has left out of two new cars in the name of affordability." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/cheaper-tesla-elon-musk-trump/684528/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:46:25

• "A Lithuanian consortium has secured 65 million euros in EU co-financing to establish LitAI, a 130-million-euro artificial intelligence (AI) factory that will be the only facility of its scale in the Baltic states." ☛ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2709522/lithuania-wins-eu-bid-to-set-up-eur130m-ai-factory | Source: LRT    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:46:43

• "Researchers at Georgia Tech developed a mechanochemical method to recycle PET plastics efficiently without heat or solvents." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/georgia-tech-mechanochemical-plastic-recycling | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:47:06

• "This spike in demand is driving an unexpected resurgence in coal generation, which has increased nearly 20 percent year-to-date. The research note, seen by The Register, states: [...]" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/datacenter_coal_power/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:47:19

• "Over the decades, there've been many moments where I've been struck by the parallels between climate activism and tech activism. In both cases, the foundational challenge is getting people to care about the looming catastrophic effects of bad policies." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/11/cyber-rights-now/#better-late-than-never | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:47:34

• "We were not looking for the paintings in particular" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-11/how-a-quiet-dutch-retiree-helped-uncover-nazi-stolen-art-in-argentina | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:48:15

• "In 2024, Congress ordered TikTok’s parent corporation to divest its U.S. operations or face a U.S. ban." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/questions-trump-tiktok-deal/684519/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:48:45

• "Over the summer, Trump ordered National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles in response to immigration protests." ☛ https://mainemorningstar.com/briefs/maine-joins-multi-state-lawsuit-over-trump-deploying-national-guard-in-cities/ | Source: Maine Morning Star    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:49:01

• "Rayna Mehta, a clinical psychologist and a school counsellor who runs a private practice in Mumbai" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/children-plug-into-ai-chatbots-leaving-reality-parents-behind/articleshow/124489915.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:49:25

• "Saying “no” — especially to those in power — is an underrated American pastime" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/10/11/in-1776-thomas-paine-made-the-best-case-for-fighting-kings-and-for-being-skeptical/ | Source: Kansas Reflector    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:52:29

• "TikTok is turning right-wing." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-10-11/social-media-completes-its-shift-to-the-right-tiktok-is-consequential.html | Source: El País    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:52:53

• "Plans for the project, which is expected to be based in the northeastern state of Ceara, were disclosed by Reuters in April" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/brazil-to-begin-construction-on-tiktok-data-center-in-six-months-minister-says/articleshow/124469377.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:53:02

• "Connecting Outlook or Gmail lets Copilot retrieve inbox content" ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/copilot-on-windows-now-connects-to-gmail-google-drive-and-more/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:54:05

• "The decision from Austria’s Datenschutzbehörde (DSB) came in response to a 2024 complaint lodged by the Austrian privacy advocacy group noyb" ☛ https://therecord.media/microsoft-violated-eu-law-austria | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:54:32

• "Since one of the uses of the tool is to track productivity through metrics, it is inevitable that Microsoft would add benchmarks for the adoption of Copilot." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/microsoft_copilot_viva_insights/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:54:42

• "The Austrian Data Protection Authority ("DSB") issued a decision finding that Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks students and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-microsoft-365-education-tracks-school-children | Source: NYOB    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:55:04

• "Austria's data protection authority has determined that Microsoft "illegally" tracked students using its education software and must grant them access to their data, a privacy campaign group said Friday." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/austria-finds-microsoft-illegally-tracked-students-privacy-campaign-group/articleshow/124453351.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:55:17

• [Old] "A few quick notes for other folks who are geoblocking the UK. I just set up a basic geoblock with Nginx on Debian." ☛ https://aphyr.com/posts/379-geoblocking-the-uk-with-debian-nginx | Source: Kyle Kingsbury    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:55:32

• "Now Mississippi’s 2024 HB 1126 has made it illegal for essentially any web site to know a user’s e-mail address, or other “personal identifying information”, unless that site also takes steps to "verify the age of the person creating an account”." ☛ https://aphyr.com/posts/395-geoblocking-multiple-localities-with-nginx | Source: Kyle Kingsbury    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:55:52

• "Lawmakers in at least 16 states this year introduced bills to regulate the use of automated license plate readers responsible for collecting large amounts of data on drivers across the country." ☛ https://michiganadvance.com/2025/10/11/repub/despite-widespread-interest-only-3-states-passed-license-plate-reader-laws-this-year/ | Source: Michigan Advance    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:56:06

• "Company data shows that millions of users worldwide now own several Xiaomi devices – from smartphones and wearables to robot vacuums and smart appliances – all managed through a single app." ☛ https://www.straitstimes.com/tech/xiaomi-ai-ecosystem-explained-smart-home-phone-ev | Source: The Straits Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:56:29

• Windows TCO: "Forescout said the short-lived TwoNet hacktivist group fell for one of its researchers' honeypots" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/russia_hacktivists_honeytrap/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:57:17

• Windows TCO: "PowerSchool that he would leak the Social Security #s" ☛ https://therecord.media/powerschool-prison-sentence-hacker | Source: The Record    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:57:28

• "However, YouTube is drawing firm boundaries. The program excludes channels that were removed for severe offenses like copyright violations, abuse of the Creator Responsibility policy, or repeated and egregious misconduct." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-gives-banned-creators-a-second-shot-but-with-a-catch/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:58:12

• "Inspired by Australia's social media ban for under-16s, Brussels is analysing whether to set bloc-wide limits on minors' access to platforms -- with 25 of 27 EU countries coming out Friday in support of at least studying such a measure." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eu-grills-apple-snapchat-youtube-over-risks-to-children/articleshow/124459210.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:58:21

• "people like Anya Lacey are part of a new spectrum of tradwives with OnlyFans accounts. That is, conservative housewives who show off their naked bodies on social media and make a lot of money doing so." ☛ https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-10-10/ultraconservative-housewives-on-onlyfans-the-paradox-of-the-maga-women-who-strip-naked-on-social-media.html | Source: El País    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:58:37

• "There are some good things I’m going to miss, specially the interaction with some people I met there –others are long time acquaintances coming from Twitter–, but there is nothing to do about it: you can’t not be and be there." ☛ https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/i-m-not-on-mastodon/ | Source: Juan J Martínez    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:58:53

• "While the dynamic is most advanced on X" ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/10/was-the-left-wrong-to-leave-x-for-bluesky | Source: New Statesman    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 10:59:23

• "Fueling the machine causing issues we are fighting against - Ethical dilemma about using social media for civil society causes" ☛ https://bianet.org/haber/trapped-in-the-algorithm-rethinking-medias-role-in-a-rigged-digital-world-312475 | Source: BIA Net    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:00:15

• "Ryanair now requires every passenger to have a so-called "smart" phone. I suspect that it requires every passenger to run a nonfree Ryanair app, too, meaning that a snoop-phone running some non-Google Android variant won't work." https://www.stallman.org/ryanair.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:03:42

• "This is a very dangerous form of pressure, and other airlines will be tempted to imitate it. Please, even if you do carry a snoop-phone, boycott the airlines that exclude the people who don't have one."    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:03:57

• "The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way." https://www.azquotes.com/quote/755256?ref=capitalism    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:04:28

• "Reading Oatmeal stuff is always such a seesaw for me. It’s so riddled with like boobshark jokes and I’m like, yeah yeah ha ha. I don’t hate that kind of humor or find it offensive, I just don’t think it’s very funny." ☛ https://chriscoyier.net/2025/10/10/oatmeal-on-ai-art/ | Source: Chris Coyier    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:11:49

• "This technology may, to some extent, break down the barriers involved in making video, but we should not pretend that is the objective here, or even halfway considered by any of these A.I. companies. They want to make gimmicks." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/hank-green-sora-2/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:11:58

• "Yesterday I wrote a post about why I wasn’t using those Written by a Human buttons, despite appreciating their intentions (or at least, I thought I did, more on that in a moment)." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/feedback-on-those-written-by-humans-buttons/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:12:11

• "But I also overthink everything! So I have a few reservations." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/written-by-humans-not-ai-badges/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:12:25

• "Not that those initiatives are paying off, mind you. A recent study from MIT found that 95 percent of enterprises have seen zero ROI on their AI projects - and that's hardly a new story." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/ai_is_displacing_entrylevel_professionals/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:17:11

• "a telling new data point has emerged: Donaldson is worried that his niche could be threatened by AI." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mrbeast-ai-slop-sora2 | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:21:30

• "It is the implementation of APIs, stupid! Someone could go rogue and screw you so hard that you could end up crying in a corner." ☛ https://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/lets-talk-about-llm-guardrails/ | Source: Adnan Siddiqi    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:21:51

• "On Wednesday we had a terrific panel discussion about AI at the CUNY Graduate Center, which will eventually be available on YouTube." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-ai-with-martin-wolf | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:22:10

• "One way to get around the filters is ASCII smuggling — where you hide your command in weird high-end Unicode characters." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/10/11/google-wont-fix-ascii-smuggling-hack-in-gemini-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:22:26

• "SlopTok" ☛ https://tiv.today/the-sort-of-mother-fucker-who-makes-sloptok/ | Source: The Independent Variable    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:23:14

• "I think a lot about AI-assisted and AI-based coding. The first one is a human who writes code with more or less support of an AI solution." ☛ https://www.ufried.com/blog/ai_assisted_coding/ | Source: Uwe Friedrichsen    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:23:31

• "I’m assembling a full report from my slop writing on 8Ball. If you want to review what I’ve written so far, links and graphics are below: [...]" ☛ https://www.8ball.report/p/the-aura-farm-and-the-slop-distillery | Source: Sean Monahan    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:23:50

• "Suppose, not hypothetically, that your system is running some systemd based service or daemon that resets or erase your carefully cultivated state when it restarts." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdRestartAfterService | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:31:15

• "The ransomware gang caught exploiting Microsoft SharePoint zero-days over the summer has added a new tool to its arsenal: Velociraptor, an open-source digital forensics and incident response app not previously tied to ransomware incidents." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/ransomware_velociraptor/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:31:41

• "The number of users reporting issues with Microsoft 365 had fallen to 136 as of 5.38 p.m. ET, compared with 17,000 earlier, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-bytes/microsofts-productivity-software-suite-recovers-after-outage/articleshow/124453433.cms | Source: India Times    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:31:51

• "One of the changes Apple has introduced with macOS Tahoe is the ability to use SSH at the unified login screen available on Apple Silicon Macs. Apple has built on this to provide a way to allow a FileVault-encrypted Mac to be unlocked via an SSH session. Apple mentions this new capability as part of the following KBase article: [...]" ☛ https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/unlocking-filevault-via-ssh-on-macos-tahoe/ | Source: Rich Trouton    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:32:03

• "One of the changes Apple has introduced with macOS Tahoe is the ability to use SSH at the unified login screen available on Apple Silicon Macs. Apple has built on this to provide a way to allow a FileVault-encrypted Mac to be unlocked via an SSH session. [...]" ☛ https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/unlocking-filevault-via-ssh-on-macos-tahoe/ | Source: Rich Trouton    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:32:16

• "This is software developed by a company with the net worth of some countries! What’s the opposite of imposter syndrome?" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/outlook-for-mac-fun/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:32:46

• "we do not plan to support SoundTouch products through any other app" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/798501/bose-soundtouch-speakers-cloud-discontinue-shut-down | Source: The Verge    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:33:03

• "one in five high schoolers in the US — 19 percent" ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/high-schoolers-romantic-relationship-with-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:37:09

• "Artificial intelligence (AI) has continued to alter the educational experiences of teachers, students, and parents" ☛ https://cdt.org/insights/hand-in-hand-schools-embrace-of-ai-connected-to-increased-risks-to-students/ | Source: Center for Democracy & Technology    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:37:21

• "I do not use QWERTY, instead opting for Colemak-DH." ☛ https://vale.rocks/posts/typing-systems | Source: Declan Chidlow    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:37:47

• "I’m coming up on 20 years of professional web development and I still don’t get it sometimes. I tend to measure myself or view work productivity through the lens of “How much code did I write?” and that does a great disservice to myself and what I do." ☛ https://daverupert.com/2025/09/you-cant-drink-coffee-on-a-running-horse/ | Source: Dave Rupert    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:38:15

• "The first week back at work. It could have been much worse…" ☛ https://jimmitchell.org/2025/10/11/the-return-to-work/ | Source: Jim Mitchell    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:38:26

• "Carved into the Tyndall stone above the arched entrance to Winnipeg's first public library are the words "Free to All," but for the past 11 years, it's been closed to everyone." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/carnegie-library-winnipeg-archives-history-1.7642166 | Source: CBC    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:38:44

• "In this interactive article, we explore the borderline-magical algorithm known as the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT). It powers data compression in bzip2, and is used by sequence alignment tools like bowtie and bwa, both of which were named after the algorithm." ☛ https://sandbox.bio/concepts/bwt |    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:39:07

• "Also antenna pattern normalization and polarimetric calibration suitable for drone mounted SAR with non-linear track is described." ☛ https://hforsten.com/synthetic-aperture-radar-autofocus-and-calibration.html |    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:39:18

• "I wasn’t intending to rework my tasks and notes system. It just happened to me" ☛ https://bentsai.org/posts/text-is-best | Source: Ben Tsai    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:39:42

• "This post is interesting in terms of users thinking they 'own' a platform or offer value, but never will. Which is a weird thing to think as a platform user, but whats the alternative?" ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/free-content/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:40:40

• "And then Kev Quirk described his experience of switching from contact forms to “bare” email addresses and the protections he put in place (like plus-addressing), only to discover that he didn’t need it at all." ☛ https://danq.me/2025/10/11/email-vs-contact-form-spam/ | Source: Dan Q    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:40:54

• "The idea always seemed to be drifting away from me, and there was always some excuse to put it off and say, “Not today, maybe tomorrow.” A huge source of this feeling for me is the need to put everything in its right place." ☛ https://matanabudy.com/thoughts-things-1/ | Source: Matan Abudy    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:41:05

• "so entirely blind to the virtues and beauties of compassion?" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-birth-of-the-sociopath-why-smart | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 11:41:17

• "First, I'm back posting on gemini! I know it's been a while. Got my server setup tweaked a bit so that I'm happier with it. Mainly the OpenBSD sysupgrade(1) stuff is better now with more space for /usr (for now)." gemini://thfr.info/ublog/2025-10-11-news.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:19:11

• 🔤SpellBinding — ACELVUO Wordo: LUVYA gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-10-12.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:20:00

• "It often strikes me as so wild, the fact that I’m typing this in a curses UI in 2025. I see this less as a vindication of the durability of the textual software stack (although it is) and more as a failure of the stack as the whole. [I hate laptops] but Linux on the laptop and desktop was in a great place." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/cursed-android    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:21:52

• J.G. Ballard’s The Drought gemini://idiomdrottning.org/jg_ballard-the_drought    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:22:36

• "'formalized' is important as there have been prior arguments that anticipate some forms of Pascal's reasonings, the Apaṇṇaka Sutta (MN60) being perhaps the earliest known. 'reasonings' is plural on account of there being apparently at least four forms of Pascal's wager in Pensées." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/10/12/odds.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:23:27

• "I’ve been watching fairly alternative OSs like Haiku (the BeOS clone) and I wanted to really clear the slate and assume multiple orders of magnitude of work done just for this OS. Otherwise an operating system is just a way to run stuff that people can already run on a Linux distribution or macOS." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/os/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:26:49

• "This fellow predicted the 2008 depression (I know, that word is on the Controlled Words list, and has a variable definition) in 1997. And, he predicted a worse one for 2026." gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~tfurrows/phlog/2025-10-09_depressionOf2026.txt    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:28:04

• "In my 20s, I had a Fossil PalmOS watch. That thing was clunky, and had horrible battery life. But hey, it had a tiny stylus and PalmOS!" gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~tfurrows/phlog/2025-10-09_watches.txt    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:28:59

• "There are far too many films that I've watched over and over again. If I had to list films that I've seen more than half a dozen times, you would move on before reaching the end. I have a friend who studied film, he helped me expand my selections a bit while he was around." gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~tfurrows/phlog/2025-10-12_Christinas5Qs.txt    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:29:56

• "I was excited to finally remove django-extensions from my pyproject.toml file when 5.2 dropped" ☛ https://jmduke.com/posts/post/django-shell/ | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:34:54

• "I’m excited to announce a significant usability improvement for all moteus controllers" ☛ https://blog.mjbots.com/2025/10/09/uuid-based-addressing-and-python-multiple-device-support/ | Source: Robotic Systems LLC    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:35:01

• "This release brings over 3400 integration rules from the renowned RUBI (Rule-Based Integrator) system, originally from Mathematica, now available natively in Julia." ☛ https://sciml.ai/news/2025/10/10/SymbolicIntegration/index.html | Source: SciML    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:37:31

• "Lack of memory safety is such a predominant cause of security issues that we have a responsibility as professional software engineering to robustly mitigate it in security-sensitive use cases—by using memory safe languages." ☛ https://words.filippo.io/compromise-survey/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:37:43

• "You know we have seen more than our fair share of slop reports sent to the curl project so it seems only fair that I also write something about the state of AI when we get to enjoy some positive aspects of this technology." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/10/a-new-breed-of-analyzers/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:38:09

• "So I see this as a great opportunity to talk about the nature of proof, correctness, and how "correct" code can still have bugs." ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/three-ways-formally-verified-code-can-go-wrong-in/ | Source: Buttondown LLC    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:38:21

• "What many fail to grasp is that the world is not the United States. Not every country follows the same rules and laws." ☛ https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/10/10/when-bigger-stops-being-better/ | Source: Stefano Marinelli    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:38:52

• "I’m pleased to announce nim-yottadb, a language binding that connects Nim with the YottaDB database." ☛ https://yottadb.com/nim-meets-yottadb/ | Source: YottaDB    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:39:18

• "However, AWStats shows I’m getting referrals: – Google .com ( catchall ) 41,634/ 41,634 – Google .com 12,960/ 12,972" ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/10/10/question-my-sites-not-indexed-but-im-getting-referrals-from-google/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:39:54

• "Hello! Earlier this summer I was talking to a friend about how much I love using fish, and how I love that I don’t have to configure it. They said that they feel the same way about the helix text editor, and so I decided to give it a try." ☛ https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/10/10/notes-on-switching-to-helix-from-vim/ | Source: Julia Evans    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:40:37

• "According to the changelog, the release fixes crashes related to filter jobs and effects on sequence clips—issues that could interrupt editing workflows. Problems with transitions and effects, including the “fade to black” preset being incorrectly applied, have also been resolved." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kdenlive-25-08-2-released-with-stability-fixes-and-polished-effects/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:40:48

• "OpenSSH 10.2 addresses bugs and prepares to deprecate SHA1 SSHFP records, pushing for stronger, SHA256-based security." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/openssh-10-2-released-with-key-bugfix-for-controlpersist-issue/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:41:07

• "Cranking up the heat for the upcoming OpenBSD 7.8 release, the OpenSSH project has issued OpenSSH 10.2." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251010131052 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:41:16

• "Welcome back to our thirteenth episode of State of the Thunder! Nothing unlucky about this latest installment, as Managing Director Ryan Sipes walks us through how Thunderbird creates its roadmap." ☛ https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-thunder-13-how-we-make-our-roadmap/ | Source: Thunderbird    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:41:31

• "In a surprising move, Andrew Dolgov (known online as “fox”), the original developer of the popular self-hosted open-source RSS reader and news aggregator Tiny Tiny RSS (TT-RSS)" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tt-rss-shuts-down-but-the-project-lives-on-under-a-new-fork/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:41:56

• "To me, uninstalling apps is just as fun as trying out new ones." ☛ https://thejollyteapot.com/2025/10/11/uninstalling-apps-part-2/ | Source: Nicolas Magand    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:42:45

• "Well, it's not quite all new, but it's getting some love in a new post, because some things have changed" ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/the-pebble-appstore-is-back-and-better/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:43:41

• "The coreboot project is pleased to announce the release of coreboot 25.09" ☛ https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2025/10/10/announcing-coreboot-25-09-release/ | Source: Coreboot (Official)    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:46:21

• "Node-RED is a visual programming environment that is commonly associated with IoT" ☛ https://taoofmac.com/space/dev/javascript/node-red | Source: Rui Carmo    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:46:54

• "We all know there are plenty of AUR helpers out there that make life easier for Arch users when installing packages." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/pacsea-is-a-new-tui-that-makes-arch-package-browsing-easier/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:47:11

• "I've been running Gentoo as my desktop's main operating system for about a year now, so I consider myself something of an expert." ☛ https://gabrielsimmer.com/blog/year-of-gentoo | Source: Gabriel Simmer    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:47:28

• "The end of Windows 10 support is the perfect opportunity to break free from this cycle and switch to GNU/Linux operating system" ☛ https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2025-end-of-windows-10 | Source: FSF    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:48:30

• "A month after the previous 6.18 release, KDE announced the launch of Frameworks 6.19" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-frameworks-6-19-released/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:48:52

• "In practice, that means updates do not interrupt the user. They are read shortly after, and the entire content is spoken rather than just the part that changed. You can override this behavior by setting your own ARIA properties if needed." ☛ https://denodell.com/blog/html-best-kept-secret-output-tag |    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:49:59

• "My slide show from Pacificon on the Counterpoise." ☛ https://perens.com/2025/10/10/the-counterpoise-the-other-half-of-your-antenna/ | Source: Bruce Perens    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:50:08

• "Yesterday I wrote about restarting or redoing something after a systemd service restarts." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/NotesAreForMyselfToo | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:50:40

• "Specifically, we had someone write in and say that their spacing on their emails was a little wonky for reasons passing understanding." ☛ https://jmduke.com/posts/post/superhuman/ | Source: Justin Duke    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:50:50

• "I want to draw some vertical bar charts. I don't want to use a 3rd party library, or bundle someone else's CSS, or learn how to build SVGs." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/10/quick-and-dirty-bar-charts-using-htmls-meter-element/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:51:00

• "Welcome to the inaugural SciML Developer Chat!" ☛ https://sciml.ai/news/2025/10/10/SciMLDevChat1/index.html | Source: SciML    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:51:32

• "The M5Stack Unit C6L is a compact LoRa module featuring the ESP32-C6 SoC and SX1262 transceiver." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/compact-m5stack-unit-c6l-integrates-risc-v-esp32-c6-and-sx1262-for-lora-meshtastic-use/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:52:20

• "DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property" https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/dhs-fps-memo-mazzara-chicago-portland    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:52:30

• iophk: microsoft misrepresented as an authority rather than as the cause of the insecurity https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/microsoft_payroll_pirate/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/10/12/The_Register_MS_Microsoft_is_the_Security_Expert_Not_the_Prime_.shtml    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:53:04

• "U.S. stock markets tumble after Trump says he's raising China tariffs to 100%" https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-threatens-more-tariffs-china-market-reaction-9.6934975    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:53:55

• Monitor those suspected of crimes – not everyone else, all the time | "Övervaka dem som misstänks för brott – inte alla andra, hela tiden" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/10/10/overvaka-dem-som-misstanks-for-brott-inte-alla-andra-hela-tiden/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:54:17

• In reality, it's very simple... | "I virkeligheden er det meget simpelt... | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/i-virkeligheden-er-det-meget-simpelt    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:54:39

• "When asked why didn’t President Trump win the Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Committee chair essentially says “We only give the award to people of courage and integrity” - The Zambian Observer" https://zambianobserver.com/when-asked-why-didnt-president-trump-win-the-nobel-peace-prize-nobel-committee-chair-essentially-says-we-only-give-the-award-to-people-of-courage-and-integrity/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:54:58

• "Leprechauns, Effective Tariffs and Inflation" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/leprechauns-effective-tariffs-and    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:55:10

• spam from Microsoft operative inside The Register MS https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/11/who_gets_mac_at_work/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:56:01

• iophk: the reg and msft find a way to blame (pseudo-) FOSS https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/10/microsoft_365_na_outage/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:56:52

• "Nixon Now Looks Restrained" https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/nixon-now-looks-restrained    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:57:00

• ioph: economic draft, in practice https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/us/us-air-force-veteran-who-once-felt-stuck-in-poverty-in-america-now-lives-comfortably-in-vietnam-on-4000-101760186089411.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:57:27

• "John Candy Was Selling Paper from His Car When a Chance Meeting Changed His Life | The Walrus" https://thewalrus.ca/john-candy/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:57:42

• "‘Page one of the authoritarian playbook’: how Trump and allies are exploiting Kirk’s killing" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/11/charlie-kirk-trump-maga-allies    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:57:52

• iophk: microsoft is not fit-for-purpose https://rubenerd.com/outlook-for-mac-fun/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:58:11

• "Tony Blair met with Jeffrey Epstein while he was prime minister" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tony-blair-jeffrey-epstein-peter-mandelson-b2843516.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:58:20

• "45 Fascinating Photos of Roy Rogers Posing With Trigger, the Smartest Horse in the Movies" https://www.vintag.es/2025/10/roy-rogers-trigger.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:58:33

• iophk: misappropriation of funds https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-10-11/trump-says-his-administration-identified-funds-to-pay-troops-during-shutdown    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:58:46

• "NATO aircraft carry out 12-hour flight near Russian border amid rising tensions" https://kyivindependent.com/british-forces-join-nato-in-12-hour-flight-near-russian-border-amid-rising-tensions/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:59:00

• "Fierce Fighting, Deaths Reported Along Pakistan-Afghanistan Border" https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan-afghan-taliban-border-clashes-ttp/33557312.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 12:59:12

• KDE Frameworks 6.19 Is Out, Here’s What’s New ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kde-frameworks-6-19-released/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:05:16

• TT-RSS Shuts Down, but the Project Lives On Under a New Fork ☞ https://linuxiac.com/tt-rss-shuts-down-but-the-project-lives-on-under-a-new-fork/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:06:36

• Pluralistic: The curious, intertwined history of climate and digital rights activism (11 Oct 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/11/cyber-rights-now/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:10:59

• I was wrong about Steven Pinker ☞ https://rubenerd.com/i-was-wrong-about-steven-pinker/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:12:28

• Meanderer trike test assemble front suspension ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/meanderer-trike-test-assemble-front-suspension.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:15:04

• Kevin Fenzi: infra weekly recap: First full week of October 2025 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/10/11/infra-weekly-recap-first-full-week-of-october-2025/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:18:46

• Gutenprint installed ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202510/gutenprint-installed.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:20:41

• Microsoft and Fashion Company Apple Are Rare Topics in Geminispace ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/12/Microsoft_and_Apple_Are_Rare_Topics_in_Geminispace.shtml    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:22:19

• Computer scientist petitions US Supreme Court to reconsider AI-generated copyright monopoly ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/computer-scientist-petitions-us-supreme-court-to-reconsider-ai-generated-copyright/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:23:13

• How To Install Apache JMeter on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-jmeter-fedora-42/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:23:47

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

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:24:07

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

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:24:24

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

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:24:39

• How To Install Nautilus Terminal on GNU/Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-nautilus-terminal-linux-mint-22/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:46:02

• How To Install MERN Stack on Linux Mint 22 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-mern-stack-linux-mint-22/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:46:40

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

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:47:07

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

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:47:46

• "Critical Bug Prevents Flatpak Apps from Installing on Ubuntu 25.10" https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-25-10-flatpak-bug/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:50:21

• "The root cause lies with AppArmor, Ubuntu's security policy enforcement tool. According to the bug report, the AppArmor profile for fusermount3 lacks the necessary privileges to function properly in Ubuntu 25.10."    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:51:00

• "Lubuntu 25.10 ships with the latest LXQt 2.2 desktop environment, Xubuntu 25.10 features the latest Xfce 4.20 desktop environment by default, Ubuntu Cinnamon 25.10 comes with the Cinnamon 6.4.12 desktop environment, and Ubuntu MATE 25.10 defaults to the MATE 1.26 desktop." https://9to5linux.com/ubuntu-25-10-official-flavors-are-now-available-for-download-heres-whats-new    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:51:35

• These are the only two Linux distros I'd use for gaming https://www.xda-developers.com/if-youre-choosing-a-linux-distro-for-gaming-try-these-two-first/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:56:26

• CachyOS is the best Arch-based Linux distro out there https://www.xda-developers.com/cachyos-best-arch-based-linux-distro/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:57:04

• Ready to ditch your Windows PC? I found a powerful mini PC that's optimized for Linux https://www.zdnet.com/article/ready-to-ditch-your-windows-pc-i-found-a-powerful-mini-pc-thats-optimized-for-linux/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 13:58:11

• "This release is based on Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” and it features the Cinnamon 6.4.13 desktop environment." https://9to5linux.com/lmde-linux-mint-debian-edition-7-is-now-available-for-download    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 14:03:25

• RSF drone strike kills at least 60 in Sudan displacement camp ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20251011-rsf-drone-strike-kills-at-least-60-sudan-displacement-camp-el-fasher    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 14:25:46

• RMS talk 24 hours from now    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 14:53:40

• Still not even mentioned in https://stallman.org/talks.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 14:53:59

• Brett Wilson LLP, the Firm That Lodged a Frivolous Lawsuit Against Tux Machines (for Talking About Abuses and Hate Crimes Committed Against Tux Machines), Got Sued by Its Very Own Clients http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/12/Brett_Wilson_LLP_the_Firm_That_Lodged_a_Frivolous_Lawsuit_Again.shtml    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 15:34:07

• Dozens Killed in Strikes at Shelter in Besieged Sudanese City ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/world/africa/sudan-shelter-strike-rsf.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 15:34:23

• Dihydroxyacetone Man strikes back at China with a 100% tariff and critical software ban — major escalation retaliates for China's rare earth restrictions ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/trump-strikes-back-at-china-with-a-100-percent-tariff-and-critical-software-ban-major-escalation-retaliates-for-chinas-rare-earth-restrictions    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 15:34:58

• US strikes in southern Caribbean draws UN call for restraint ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/10/us-strikes-near-venezuela-draws-un-call-for-restraint/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 15:35:21

• AI as ‘personal therapist’: Despite risks, Hong Kong teenagers turn to chatbots for counselling ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/10/12/ai-as-personal-therapist-despite-risks-hong-kong-teenagers-turn-to-chatbots-for-counselling/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 15:36:21

• "IBM’s CEO is all about cutting out the things IBM used to be good at in favor pumping up the stock price. It’s a matter of time until he does the same to Red Hat" https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1o40uvk/red_hat_will_begin_to_integrate_even_further_into/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 15:50:12

• "awards, polls, ... are just shown to manipulate the naive; they are not legit anymore" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7b7whws    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 15:51:01

• "How much IBM pay Forbes for that. Lost their credibility long time ago. Just goes to show how corrupt the system is. How every thing is a manipulation and spin. Were folks in India solely polled? If so I can see why IBM was able to crack the top 10"    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 15:51:23

• "It is an epidemic created by the consultant goons in India who believe that more is better for you. That is why Agile methodology was invented but there again, the Indian consultant losers have worked on destroying that philosophy. They believe in bulldozing and overwhelming the clients and employees with so much BS, that sanity will never prevail." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k77r9dqd    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 15:51:52

• On IBM: "Medicare Advantage plans for the most part are trash and good for folks who weren’t forward thinking enough to save to pay for a medigap plan where one can go see any doctor that takes Medicare and not just doctors that take that particular Medicare advantage plan" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k73d54nz    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 15:53:18

• Techrights "[TR] is very much needed, given the lack of ICT and ICT policy coverage in recent decades." -Anon    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 17:00:19

• About time https://yle.fi/a/7-10086045 Assistant professor: Adults should also receive screen time guidelines – not just children https://yle-fi.translate.goog/a/7-10086045?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 17:02:22

• The issue is the screen, not screen time. Just like the issue is alcohol, not alcohol "units". Poison is poison. But these people are like homeopaths...    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 17:03:49

• "The survey was targeted only to IBMers who drink the Kool-Aid." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7b7whws    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 17:48:31

• It's called "B2B" - that is the term they themselves use. IBM buys ads from Forbes, which then reciprocates with some "work-life balance" puff pieces and some "ladders" which serve as paid endorsements for paying members. It's a rogue business model. Glorified spam. The ads may help sell nothing, but they're just a vehicle for something else. Also see: "consultants" and "analysts". Microsoft, internal document (PDF): http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/comes-3096.pdf    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 17:51:30

• It's called "B2B" - that is the term they themselves use. IBM buys ads from Forbes, which then reciprocates with some "work-life balance" puff pieces and some "ladders" which serve as paid endorsements for paying members. It's a rogue business model. Glorified spam. The ads may help sell nothing, but they're just a vehicle for something else.    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 17:51:42

• Also see: "consultants" and "analysts". Microsoft, internal document (PDF): http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/comes-3096.pdf    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 17:51:56

• Bangladesh: Windows down to 54% in desktops/laptops https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bangladesh/#monthly-200902-202510 25% all form factors together https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/bangladesh/#monthly-200902-202510    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 17:56:06

• Slop infesting Google https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=Sfs5NfTW9VI    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 18:34:34

• Moments ago RMS FINALLY announced tomorrow's talk. https://stallman.org/talks.html    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 19:27:41

• bubi's uptime now getting close to 700 days: 20:55:36 up 668 days, 12:07, 3 users, load average: 9.16, 8.50, 8.26    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 20:57:43

• "IBM is one the best company for liars, cheaters, incompetent engineers. It is the best company for executives with no vision or integrity." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k7b7whws    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:12:22

• Death or euthanasia in action: "Xbox Is Hiring Gaming Finance Personnel To Drive "Transformation With Urgency" & "Harmonization Across Studios""    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:18:46

• "In a couple of days it will be my birthday.It’s a strange day to celebrate — I’ve never really understood what there is to celebrate: birth?" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/tty/33571    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:30:25

• "The Blue Jays played the Yankees in the ALDS and it almost killed me. Despite the often-lopsided scores, the games always felt close. Blame the Yankees' offense, homer-heavy and always dangerous." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/10-11.gmi    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:31:43

• South Korean ‘money mule’ recruiters nabbed for luring student to Cambodia, who was later found dead ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/s-korean-money-mule-recruiters-apprehended-over-involvement-in-late-students-departure-to-cambodia    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:37:47

• New Jersey moneyman behind sick ‘monkey crushing’ videos gets just 4 years in prison ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/10/11/us-news/new-jersey-man-sentenced-for-serving-as-moneyman-in-monkey-torture-ring/    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:38:25

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

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:38:48

• Morocco king urges speedy social reforms following youth-led protests ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251011-morocco-king-urges-speedy-social-reforms-following-youth-led-protests    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:38:59

• Nintendo allegedly hacked by Crimson Collective hacking group — screenshot shows leaked folders, production assets, developer files, and backups ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/nintendo-allegedly-hacked-by-crimson-collective-hacking-group-screenshot-shows-leaked-folders-production-assets-developer-files-and-backups    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:39:33

• Canada Considering Doing Something Unforgivable to its Beluga Whales ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/canada-beluga-whales-marineland    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:40:25

• Committee Unable to Contact Nobel Prize Winner Because He’s Too Chill, Had Phone on Airplane Mode ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/nobel-prize-winner-airplane-mode    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:40:54

• Nanoparticle Treatment Reverses Alzheimer’s in Mice ☞ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/nanoparticle-treatment-reverses-alzheimers-mice    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:41:09

• #KoreaGlowUp: How beauty, anti-ageing industry is powering South Korea’s medical tourism ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/korea-glow-up-how-beauty-anti-ageing-industry-is-powering-south-koreas-medical-tourism    

posted Sunday, October 12, 2025 at 21:41:24