Roy Schestowitz

• Latvia withdrawal from Istanbul Convention sparks international condemnation ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/rights-group-denounces-latvias-recent-decision-to-withdraw-from-the-istanbul-convention/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:21:07

• China hits out at Japan’s Sanae Takaichi for meeting Taiwan’s officials ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-hits-out-at-japans-sanae-takaichi-for-meeting-taiwans-officials    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:21:23

• Spurned by Convicted Felon, Carney Begins Thawing Canada’s China Connection ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/world/canada/canada-china-carney-xi.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:21:34

• Can South Korea Manage the Competing Needs of the U.S. and China? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/world/asia/south-korea-china-us.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:22:05

• Taiwan’s new opposition leader takes over, warning against risk of China war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwans-new-opposition-leader-takes-over-warning-against-risk-of-china-war    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:23:30

• China’s military says it tracked Philippine patrol in South China Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-military-says-it-tracked-philippine-patrol-in-south-china-sea    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:23:44

• South Korean President Lee seeks Chinese leader Xi’s help to ‘resume dialogue’ with North ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-xi-meets-south-korean-leader-capping-apec-summit    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:23:58

• Nexperia allowed to resume exports from China following Convicted Felon-Xi talks ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/nexperia-allowed-to-resume-exports-from-china-following-trump-xi-talks-companies-may-seek-exemptions-from-the-ministry-of-commerce-to-restart-international-deliveries    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:24:41

• Rights group raises concern over China targeting pro-independence Taiwan citizens ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/rights-group-raises-concern-over-china-targeting-pro-independence-taiwan-citizens/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:25:24

• Rights group raises concern over China targeting pro-independence Taiwan citizens

  Human Rights Watch said Friday that the Chinese government is investigating the Taiwanese legislator Puma Shen Pao-Yang (沈伯洋) for the crime of “separatism,” infringing upon his basic human rights.

   

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:26:00

• China’s Pooh-tin to meet South Korean leader, capping APEC summit ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/01/chinas-xi-to-meet-south-korean-leader-capping-apec-summit/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:26:27

• DIY Pinball Machine Uses Every Skill ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/01/diy-pinball-machine-uses-every-skill/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:32:54

• Solar-Powered Quadcopter ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/01/building-a-pv-solar-powered-quadcopter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:33:09

• This Week in Science: Blue Dogs, Gray Hair, a Mushroom Computer, And More! ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-blue-dogs-gray-hair-a-mushroom-computer-and-more    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:33:34

• Time Itself Could Be a Crucial Element in Preventing Dementia, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/time-itself-could-be-a-crucial-element-in-preventing-dementia-study-finds    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:33:44

• Trillionth-of-a-Second Camera Captures Chaos in Motion ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/trillionth-of-a-second-camera-captures-chaos-in-motion    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:33:52

• Tardigrades Have a Genetic Secret, And It Could Boost Human Resilience ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/tardigrades-have-a-genetic-secret-and-it-could-boost-human-resilience    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:34:04

• Secret Atomic Patterns Have Been Discovered Hidden Inside Metals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/secret-atomic-patterns-have-been-discovered-hidden-inside-metals    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:34:10

• Cannabis Use Is Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Discovered ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/cannabis-use-is-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-scientists-discovered    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:34:21

• This AI-Generated Sitcom Is Actually Unsettling to Watch ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-generated-sitcom    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:35:28

• Mom Says Tesla’s New Built-In Hey Hi (AI) Asked Her 12-Year-Old Something Deeply Inappropriate ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tesla-ai-inappropriate    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:35:49

• An Audio Brick For Your Smart Home ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/01/an-audio-brick-for-your-smart-home/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:36:21

• Z80 CPU ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/01/multitasking-on-the-humble-z80-cpu/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:36:34

• Far Right Targets Similarities Between Zohran Mamdani and Sadiq Khan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/world/europe/nyc-mamdani-london-mayor-sadiq-khan.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:36:50

• Building A Xenon Lamp For Spectroscopy ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/building-a-xenon-lamp-for-spectroscopy/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:37:05

• UN raises concern over human rights violations by Tanzania government ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/un-raises-concern-over-human-rights-violations-by-tanzania-government/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:37:45

• Saudi Prince Plans Ambitious U.S. Visit, but Opening Ties With Israel Is Unlikely ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/world/middleeast/mohammed-bin-salman-us-visit.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:37:55

• Debian to require Rust as of May 2026 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1044496/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:38:49

• Interview with Simon Budig, GIMP developer ☞ https://www.gimp.org/news/2025/11/01/simon-budig-interview-ww2017/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:39:42

• Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/manufacturer-issues-remote-kill-command-to-nuke-smart-vacuum-after-engineer-blocks-it-from-collecting-data-user-revives-it-with-custom-hardware-and-python-scripts-to-run-offline    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:40:31

• Railroads, steamers, and Jewish migration from Lithuania ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2710065/railroads-steamers-and-jewish-migration-from-lithuania    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:41:23

• New Steam Games Playable on the Steam Deck, with The Outer Worlds 2 - 2025-11-01 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-playable-on-the-steam-deck-2025-11-01-edition/index.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:41:36

• Microwave repurposed into slick custom All-in-One PC — door serves as display ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/pc-building/microwave-repurposed-into-slick-custom-all-in-one-pc-door-serves-as-display-motherboard-rotates-on-the-turntable-and-stream-deck-used-for-keypad    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:42:03

• █████ https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds.xml ██████████████████████ Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:04:04 +0000 ███████ Atari 2600+ Pac-Man Edition released at $169 — bright yellow console comes with Pac-Man: Double Feature 2-in-1 game cartridge    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:42:36

• "Atari 2600+ Pac-Man Edition games console released in striking, vivid yellow livery." ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/atari-2600-pac-man-edition-released-at-usd169-bright-yellow-console-comes-with-pac-man-double-feature-2-in-1-game-cartridge    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:42:49

• Mozilla Open Policy & Advocacy Blog: Pathways to a fairer digital world: Mozilla shares views on the EU Digital Fairness Act ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/10/31/pathways-to-a-fairer-digital-world-mozilla-shares-views-on-the-eu-digital-fairness-act/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:43:07

• "For our 2025 Component Abuse Challenge there have been a set of entries which merely use a component for a purpose it wasn’t quite intended, and another which push misuse of a part into definite abuse territory, which damages or fundamentally changes it." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/01/2025-component-abuse-challenge-a-transistor-as-a-voltage-reference/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:43:47

• Junichi Uekawa: Playing Clair Obscur Expedition 33. ☞ http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-Nov-1.html.en#2025-Nov-1-16:46:20    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:44:26

• Opening remarks by Commissioner Hoekstra at the Ministerial on Climate Action ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_2574    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:45:03

• November is Here, Anniversary Party This Coming Friday ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/November_is_Here_Anniversary_Party_This_Coming_Friday.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:45:15

• Why Does German Media Protect the EPO From Accountability for Cocaine? ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Why_Does_German_Media_Protect_the_EPO_From_Accountability_for_C.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:45:21

• Still Catching Up, Daily Links a Top Priority ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Still_Catching_Up_Daily_Links_a_Top_Priority.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:45:29

• News on the Web is Becoming Rare, Shallow, and Difficult to Find ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/News_on_the_Web_is_Becoming_Rare_Shallow_and_Difficult_to_Find.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:45:34

• Oracle's Debt Continues Rising to All-Time Highs, The "Slop Bubble" is a Smokescreen for Larry Ellison ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Oracle_s_Debt_Continues_Rising_to_All_Time_Highs_The_Slop_Bubbl.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:45:40

• Most of This Month Will Deal With EPO Scandals (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Most_of_This_Month_Will_Deal_With_EPO_Scandals.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:45:58

• Facebook's Debt Leaps to Over 51 Billion Dollars (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Facebook_s_Debt_leaps_to_Over_51_Billion_Dollars.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:46:04

• The Cocaine Patent Office - Part III: European Patent Office Officials Cannot Claim False Identification ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/The_Cocaine_Patent_Office_Part_III_European_Patent_Office_Offic.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:46:12

• Kiro 25.11.01.01 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kiro    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:46:21

• HydraPWK 25.03.T1 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/hydrapwk    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:46:42

• MocaccinoOS 25.11 also released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/mocaccinoos    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:46:48

• Former Rīga councilor gets two years for supporting Russian army ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/29.10.2025-former-riga-councilor-gets-two-years-for-supporting-russian-army.a620224/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:47:44

• Ukrainian Man Extradited From Ireland to US Over Conti Ransomware Charges ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ukrainian-man-extradited-from-ireland-to-us-over-conti-ransomware-charges/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:47:54

• Europe finally moves to ban Russian gas but potential loopholes remain ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/europe-finally-moves-to-ban-russian-gas-but-potential-loopholes-remain/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:48:02

• Russia’s advance on Pokrovsk exposes Ukraine’s growing manpower crisis ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/russias-advance-on-pokrovsk-exposes-ukraines-growing-manpower-crisis/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:48:16

• UN report: Russia targets civilians in systematic bid to depopulate Ukraine ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/un-report-russia-targets-civilians-in-systematic-bid-to-depopulate-ukraine/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:48:28

• Ukrainian allegedly involved in Conti ransomware attacks faces up to 25 years in jail ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/ukrainian-oleksii-lytvynenko-conti-ransomware-extradited/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:48:43

• Ukraine hands over Russian soldier accused of war crimes against Lithuanian citizen ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2731176/ukraine-hands-over-russian-soldier-accused-of-war-crimes-against-lithuanian-citizen    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:48:51

• Lithuania to set up Ukraine-like air defence ‘mobile groups’ ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2729105/lithuania-to-set-up-ukraine-like-air-defence-mobile-groups    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:48:59

• Kyiv Accuses Russia Of 'Nuclear Terrorism' With Strikes On Power Substations ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-nuclear-power-russia-iaea-g7/33578607.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:49:12

• Russia Strikes Ukraine's Rail Network, Hits Sumy High-Rise, Injuring Civilians ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-strikes-ukraine-sumy-casualties/33577919.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:49:21

• Russian Strikes Kill Civilians Across Ukraine As Fighting Intensifies In Pokrovsk ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-strikes-kill-civilians-across-ukraine-as-fighting-intensifies-in-pokrovsk/33576955.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:49:33

• Dihydroxyacetone Man, Pooh-tin Agree To Ease Trade Tensions And 'Work Together' On Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-xi-trade-war-talks-busan-south-korea-russia-ukraine/33576746.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:49:44

• US Cuts Troops In Romania Amid Military Posture ‘Adjustments’ ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/33575594.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:49:54

• Zelenskyy Urges Convicted Felon to Pressure Pooh-tin Over China's Support For Russia In Ukraine War ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/zelenskyy-trump-pressure-xi-china-support-russia-ukraine/33572998.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:50:06

• Ukraine Gamifies the War: 40 Points to Destroy a Tank, 12 to Kill a Soldier ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/world/europe/ukraine-war-drone-game.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:50:17

• "Could Russia occupy all of Donbas in a year?" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/31/could-russia-occupy-all-of-donbas-in-a-year-and-what-if-ukraine-s-fortress-belt-falls | Source: Meduza    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:50:40

• He Survived the Invasion. What He Really Wanted Was a Friend. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-mountain-camp.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:50:47

• 13 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Business Intelligence Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/businessintelligence/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:51:24

• coBib – console bibliography ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cobib-console-bibliography/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:51:31

• GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/mini-pcs/apple-mac-pro-and-mac-mini-clones-launch-with-amd-ryzen-cpus-perfect-mini-pcs-for-those-who-love-apples-aesthetics-but-still-need-windows-or-linux    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:51:52

• Linux.com is Becoming Abusive Monopolist Microsoft ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Linux_com_is_Becoming_Microsoft.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:52:03

• Slopwatch: GNU/Linux Journal, Serial Slopper, WebProNews, and More ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Slopwatch_Linux_Journal_Serial_Slopper_WebProNews_and_More.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:52:11

• Debian's APT Will Soon Begin Requiring Rust: Debian Ports Need To Adapt Or Be Sunset ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-Will-Require-Rust    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:53:22

• NuTyX 25.03.1 released ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nutyx    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:56:31

• Kicksecure 18.0.5.8 also released☞ https://distrowatch.com/kicksecure    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:56:38

• Russia Pushes CAR to Choose Africa Corps Over Wagner Mercenaries ☞ https://adf-magazine.com/2025/10/russia-pushes-car-to-choose-africa-corps-over-wagner-mercenaries/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:57:39

• Moldova, Ukraine Crack Down On Wagner Affiliates In Cross-Border War Crimes Investigation ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-moldova-europol-raids-wagner-russia-mercenary-war-crimes/33578168.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:57:50

• "Russia is a superpower of the past" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/10/31/russia-is-a-superpower-of-the-past | Source: Meduza    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:58:12

• Clamshell Writer Deck ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/10/31/building-a-clamshell-writer-deck/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:58:26

• Putin Says Russia Tests New, Nuclear-Capable Remote Torpedo Dubbed 'Doomsday Machine' ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-putin-torpedo-poseidon-burevestnik-missile-nuclear/33575625.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:58:38

• Belarusian balloons pose new threat in Putin’s hybrid war against Europe ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/belarusian-balloons-pose-new-threat-in-putins-hybrid-war-against-europe/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:58:56

• Red Hat Catches CUDA Train at NVIDIA GTC, Adds AI-Ready Security and DPU Support ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/red-hat-catches-cuda-train-at-nvidia-gtc-adds-ai-ready-security-and-dpu-support/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:59:15

• PikaOS 25.11.01 released☞ https://distrowatch.com/pikaos    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:59:25

• Arch 2025.11.01 also released☞ https://distrowatch.com/arch    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 03:59:31

• Today’s the Last Day for Super Early Bird Pricing for ‘All Things AI’ ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/todays-the-last-day-for-super-early-bird-all-things-ai-pricing/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:00:05

• Zorin 0S 18: 100,000+ backdoored Windows 10 Users Can’t Be Wrong ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/zorin-0s-18-100000-windows-10-users-cant-be-wrong/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:00:11

• Shelf Stable Cosmic DE Will Arrive With a Pop! on December 11 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/10/shelf-stable-cosmic-de-will-arrive-with-a-pop-on-december-11/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:00:25

• Character.AI, Accused of Driving Teens to Suicide, Says It Will Ban Minors From Using Its Chatbots ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/character-ai-ban-minors    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:00:54

• ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/ice-and-the-smartphone-panopticon    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:01:18

• "modern" gadgets ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/life/vw-passat-2-0-tdi-second-review.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:01:34

• Latvia collects half as much e-waste as hits its market ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/environment/30.10.2025-latvia-collects-half-as-much-e-waste-as-hits-its-market.a620489/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:02:06

• File management and workflows in terminals or GUIs gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-11/2025-11-02--workflows-and-file-management.txt    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:11:45

• "First one was (the rest of) "Beatrice" by Lina Bengtsdotter, the last installment of the "Charlie Lager" series." gopher://uninformativ.de/0/phlog/2025/2025-10/2025-10-31--october-books.txt    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:12:28

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-11-03.gmi    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:12:53

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1813.jpg    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:13:29

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1463.jpg    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:13:33

• "There was change in the air… ow! It was a penny, maybe the one Beethoven lost. How fast was the penny moving? Here things get complicated. Too little wind (we'll assume it is air, and not some other fluid) and the penny will not move." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/11/03/change.gmi    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:14:17

• Backups incrementale gemini://moribundo.flounder.online/blog/049_tar_backups.gmi    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:16:38

• Windows TCO - Jaguar cyberattack the UK's most expensive to date: study https://www.dw.com/en/jaguar-cyberattack-the-uk-s-most-expensive-to-date-study/a-74459317    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:29:04

• Invasive Asian seaweed https://www.dw.com/en/invasive-asian-seaweed-an-unwanted-traveler-on-international-ships/a-74312926    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:29:37

• imprisoned journalists from Belarus and Georgia https://www.dw.com/en/eu-s-sakharov-prize-goes-to-imprisoned-journalists-from-belarus-and-georgia/a-74450619    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:30:26

• Sakharov Prize for imprisoned journalist https://www.dw.com/en/belarus-sakharov-prize-for-imprisoned-journalist/a-74463712    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:30:53

• Eurostar https://www.dw.com/en/eurostar-plans-double-decker-trains-as-rivals-eye-tunnel/a-74452974    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:31:05

• ‘Newspeak’ Comes to the Department of Energy https://www.truthdig.com/articles/newspeak-comes-to-the-department-of-energy/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:31:44

• "Man bites dog" BS https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-10-22/ai-can-help-the-environment-even-though-it-uses-tremendous-energy-here-are-5-ways-how    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:32:11

• "Vote for those that support canceling h1bs" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k93mbfcc    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 04:45:43

• "Religion has two faces; that's also true when it comes to online piracy, albeit with a twist." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/some-pirates-use-religion-as-an-excuse-for-others-its-a-moral-barrier/ | Source: Torrent Freak    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:53:50

• "The foundations of the [Internet] were set 56 years ago." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/this-week-in-1969-the-internet-was-born-and-immediately-glitched-only-two-of-the-five-letters-in-the-first-computer-to-computer-message-were-received | Source: Tom's Hardware    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:54:04

• "We are not a violent city. This is not a war zone, and I think these guys are terrorizing us and trying to incite us" ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-11-02/were-not-a-violent-city-chicago-locals-take-on-ice-block-by-block | Source: US News And World Report    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:54:21

• "That’s why our union has embarked on our Building Union Power campaign, an effort to engage and activate every single IUPAT member." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/11/unions-labor-trump-power-building-iupat/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:54:32

• "Excuse me. Can you guys please, you know, please wrap this up." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-02/lawyers-say-ice-shot-us-citizen-from-behind-as-he-stopped-to-warn-them-of-childre | Source: Los Angeles Times    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:54:59

• "We have to get over it." ☛ https://www.newsweek.com/bodycam-footage-reveals-new-info-in-charlie-kirk-meme-arrest-case-10968944 | Source: Newsweek    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:56:11

• "conspiracy theories about the moon landing have swirled for nearly 50 years" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-nasa-kardashian-moon-didnt.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:56:39

• "While acknowledging that AI hype is at a peak, Hron said he’s bullish on its long-term potential." ☛ https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/01/thomson-reuters-playbook-ai-everywhere/ | Source: Silicon Angle    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:56:59

• "I am currently employed to work on the build system for the Rust compiler (often called x.py or bootstrap)." ☛ https://jyn.dev/build-system-tradeoffs | Source: JYN    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:57:05

• "The state and the municipalities that own the West Railway venture have finally agreed on financing for the first phase of the high-speed train project." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20191665 | Source: YLE    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:58:45

• "The United States was in the planning stages of building a somewhat smaller but still very large solar farm in Nevada, the Esmeralda 7 solar project." ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-domestic-politics-and-geopolitics | Source: Paul Krugman    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:59:20

• "With 11 battery business bankruptcies and over $15 billion erased in the process in the past year alone" ☛ https://itwire.com/science-news/energy/how-to-overcome-the-hidden-holdup-of-the-battery-revolution.html | Source: IT Wire    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:59:47

• "Bicycle safety is always a concern, but is a particularly big problem in cities where cycling is less common." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/02/improving-bicycle-safety-with-voice-activated-turn-signals/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 05:59:57

• "As geomorphologists who work on river processes and landforms, we are researching the landscape-changing effects of such dam breach floods, but also how topography can amplify the hazard to communities." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-10-disasters-1920s-reservoirs-safer-climate.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:05:54

• "This means the party will formally abandon its previous commitment to net zero emissions by 2050, a long-standing goal of Australian governments across the political spectrum." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/what-is-net-zero-and-why-have-the-nationals-abandoned-it/lgsux43si | Source: SBS    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:06:07

• "She worries about how much longer her well will hold out, and what’s being done to protect the water that feeds it." ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-drought-industrial-water-rates-9.6955740 | Source: CBC    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:06:19

• Overpopulation ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/11/land-finance-georgism-singapore-landlords/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:06:44

• "Hegseth’s stunt can also be read as an attempt by the current administration to project a sense of political control" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/alexander-vindman-the-militarys-obligations | Source: The Next Move    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:07:14

• "I've started accumulating miscellaneous notes on this page regarding usage of Fil-C." ☛ https://cr.yp.to/2025/fil-c.html | Source: Daniel J. Bernstein,    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:07:34

• "Two interesting new papers regarding LLM security and prompt injection came to my attention this weekend." ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/2/new-prompt-injection-papers/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:08:18

• "So I can see why getting out of marketing and into a skilled trade is tempting." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/electrician-is-not-an-ai-proof-job/ | Source: Don Marti    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:08:27

• "I don’t trust OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Facebook, Apple* or any of the companies producing the frontier models." ☛ https://doug.pub/2025/11/02/my-current-thoughts-on-llms.html | Source: Doug Jones    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:08:38

• "Worse, rebooting may alert attackers that they need to hack harder." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/02/cyber_exec_pleads_guilty_to/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:09:04

• "Health-related absences from work continued to track COVID-19 circulation and were 12.9 per cent higher in the post-pandemic period compared with before the pandemic (140,000 monthly absences)." ☛ https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/10/31/Physicist-COVID-Seriously-Enough/?ref=werd.io |    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:09:39

• "It’s an existential threat on many levels. And a long-standing belief that children are comparatively less affected is dead wrong: [...]" ☛ https://werd.io/this-physicist-says-we-dont-take-covid-seriously-enough/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:09:55

• "For the sake of my day job, I should also officially state you should consume Mr Pibb/Pibb Xtra or any other sugar-sweetened beverage in moderation." ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/11/they-call-it-mister-pibb-again.html | Source: Old VCR    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:10:06

• "as the study concluded, this distance is further than you think." ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/calculate-your-perfect-tv/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:10:55

• "Research shows 4K or 8K screens offer no distinguishable benefit over similarly sized 2K screen in average living room" ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/27/ultra-hd-televisions-4k-8k-not-noticeably-better-study | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:11:01

• "Remember a few weeks ago, I wrote about how I had these plans to read a literal ton of books in October?" ☛ https://mtwb.blog/posts/2025/books/overestimating-my-reading-capabilities/ | Source: Matthew Weber    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:11:33

• "Conservatives groused about ideology—in the nineteen-fifties, the public intellectual William F. Buckley, Jr." ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/20/inside-the-trump-administrations-assault-on-higher-education | Source: New Yorker    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:11:39

• "It's kind of fun when conversations and challenges go around in the blogging scene, even some older ones return from time to time, and I wonder which one's next." ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/when-blogging-topics-popup-again/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:12:30

• "Yet the holiday’s beginnings lie far from North America, tied to Celtic customs that later blended with Christian observances, creating a tradition that has shifted over centuries." ☛ https://ticotimes.net/2025/10/31/the-celtic-and-christian-beginnings-of-halloween-explained | Source: Cost Rica    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:13:06

• "Much of the knowledge-management software we use today is modeled after stacks of index cards." ☛ https://ankursethi.com/blog/everything-is-index-cards/ | Source: Ankur Sethi    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:13:16

• "We were escorted in again to get a bag of clothes and gather up laptops and crucial papers (checkbook, passports, etc)." ☛ https://www.philipzucker.com/house_fire/ | Source: Philip Zucker    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:13:28

• "Since he was a technophobe, constantly afraid of losing data, he had a maniacal relathionship with his printer." ☛ https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/trip-to-somewhere/ | Source: Simone Silvestroni    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:13:51

• "Art only happens where there is room for options, where things can be fundamentally otherwise" ☛ https://tracydurnell.com/2025/11/01/decisions-are-the-foundation-of-art/ | Source: Tracy Durnell    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:14:12

• "Redd, Sunderlage, Bradburn and their families built everything for the shop themselves, from shelves and ceiling tiles to the handprinted tiles on the checkout counter." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51397444/how-a-swedish-candy-store-found-success-in-suburban-utah | Source: Deseret Media    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:14:38

• "Knoxville and Keaton each filmed the scene without any tricks. Keaton – who never used stunt doubles for his extremely dangerous action scenes" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-11-02/he-either-has-no-fear-or-he-is-crazy-buster-keaton-how-hollywoods-most-influential-star-was-forgotten-and-rediscovered.html | Source: El País    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:14:56

• "What motivates human behaviour can be captured in the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (source: Wiki)." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/little-useless-useful-r-functions-useless-pyramid-of-r-needs/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:22:50

• [Old] "LISP has survived for 21 years because it is an approximate local optimum in the space of programming languages." ☛ https://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/lisp20th/lisp20th.html |    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:23:21

• [Old] "The key was to cre­ate a min­i­mal demo that exer­cised UART RX inter­rupts for incom­ing con­sole data, along with the nec­es­sary Con­trol and Sta­tus Reg­is­ter (CSR) set­up." ☛ https://blog.adacore.com/open-source-ada-from-gateware-to-application |    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:23:33

• "A dependency is literally something your software depends on: infrastructure such as a filesystem or a database, network, etc." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/choosing-dependency/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:23:44

• "For example: Italy has its ISO code “IT” in its name; “SE” is the ISO code for Sweden, but is not found in its name." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/country-codes/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:24:07

• "Representing a digital elevation model as ridgelines…" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/ridgelines/ | Source: Rlang    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:24:14

• "PyCon US is heading to Long Beach, CA, located in the heart of sunny Southern California, right along the Pacific Ocean." ☛ https://pycon.blogspot.com/2025/10/pycon-us-2026-call-for-proposals-now.html |    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:26:06

• "The deadline for submissions is December 19th 2025. There are two new tracks this year: [...]" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/2/pycon-us-2026/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:26:18

• "If you are doing something interesting with a BSD operating system, please submit a proposal." ☛ https://www.bsdcan.org/2026/papers.html | Source: BSDCan    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:26:32

• "While we were designing and building Aurora DSQL, we spent a lot of time thinking about our experience building and running database-backed systems." ☛ https://brooker.co.za/blog/2025/11/02/thinking-dsql.html | Source: Marc Brooker    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:27:34

• "We chose the native logical replication option." ☛ https://ananthakumaran.in/2025/11/02/moving-tables-across-postgres-instances.html |    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:27:45

• "It’s been almost two years since I published and first wrote about feedi, my personal feed reader." ☛ https://olano.dev/blog/whats-different-about-my-rss-reader/ | Source: Facundo Olano    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:44:19

• "Omar Polo (op@) has announced that OpenSMTPD 7.8.0p0 has been released." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251102104457 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:50:19

• "Brent Cook has announced that LibreSSL 4.1.2 and 4.2.1 have been released." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251102090208 | Source: Undeadly    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:50:26

• "A possibility is to start with the stock (bloated and spyware-infested) firmware, and gradually winnow away at the cruft" ☛ https://kevinboone.me/lineage-vs-package-removal.html | Source: Kevin Boone    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:50:46

• "The answer can go either way: yes or no." ☛ https://embeddeduse.com/2025/11/02/overview-risk-assessment-of-the-essential-product-requirements/ | Source: Burkhard Stubert    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 06:51:07

• "Ubuntu released 25.10 back on October 9. Now that I’ve sent my two books off to production" ☛ https://smist08.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/playing-with-ubuntu-25-10/ | Source: Stephen Smith    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:06:18

• "While Ubuntu may feature in the name, the event does not require talks to be centred on Ubuntu" ☛ https://jnsgr.uk/2025/11/ubuntu-summit-25/ | Source: Jon Seager    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:06:24

• Devuan ☛ https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20251102.123902.df70c1e1.en.html | Source: Dyne    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:20:02

• "[...] Then, in our Questions and Answers column" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20251103 | Source: Distro Watch    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:20:23

• "The weekly team meeting is often packed with discussion points." ☛ https://yordi.me/pick-your-battles-when-to-speak-up-and-when-to-let-go/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:20:32

• "Gaming on Linux has been steadily gaining ground among players worldwide. What was once considered a niche hobby is now a serious option for gamers." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/linux-hits-three-percent-usage-on-valves-steam-gaming-platform/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:23:13

• [Old] "In recent time, with the rise of AI nonsense, I have clearly felt that the criteria I have for a good service are vastly different from commercial providers." ☛ https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/why-i-selfhost-my-email/ |    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:23:55

• [Old] "Spelling it out now, it feels like I should have realized way earlier what was killing my joy. But now I did, so I'll be undoing a lot of this mess." ☛ https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/a-prison-of-my-own-making/ |    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:24:08

• "What I needed was a fresh start. And I managed to find that fresh start in the BSD family of operating systems." ☛ https://jsteuernagel.de/posts/using-freebsd-to-make-self-hosting-fun-again/ |    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:24:16

• "SNAP Shutdown Wasn't a Surprise. Cutting Food Stamps Was GOP's Plan" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/snap-shutdown-cutting-food-stamps-gop-plan-1235457985/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:26:46

• "Trump and the Presidency That Wouldn’t Shut Up" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/how-the-president-talks-to-the-people    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:26:55

• "AI 'Thought Police' are ALREADY Here" https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/ai-'thought-police'-are-already-here:9    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:27:04

• "Inside the Cambridge women’s group taking on gender ideology" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/31/cambridge-womens-group-gender-ideology/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:27:17

• "Sunday thought: Coping with Trump's chaos - Robert Reich" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-coping-with-trumps    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:27:27

• "Trump’s ICE purge and the rise of Border Patrol, explained" https://www.vox.com/politics/466959/trump-ice-border-patrol-purge-leaks-bovino    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:27:36

• Denmark's best and cheapest datamuseum.dk | "Danmarks bedste og billigste datamuseum.dk | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/danmarks-bedste-og-billigste-datamuseumdk    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:28:05

• "The ghost of Ronald Reagan has spooked Trump over tariffs" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/02/trump-tariffs-reagan-supreme-court    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:28:14

• United States Of America: GNU/Linux up https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america/#monthly-200902-202511    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:28:54

• SJVN, LF puppet, has disinfo / openwashing https://thenewstack.io/linux-microsoft-wsls-decade-long-journey-to-open-source/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:55:01

• "ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street to Verify Citizenship" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/10/31/1242232    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:55:13

• "Liberalism’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/liberalisms-death-has-been-greatly    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:55:23

• "Libertarianism is Dead - by Mike Brock" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/libertarianism-is-dead    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:55:31

• "Trump Is Making Private Military Contractors Even Richer" https://jacobin.com/2025/11/defense-industry-lobbying-trump-budget/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:55:40

• "Chat Control 1, Chat Control 2… Vad gäller nu?" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/11/03/chat-control-1-chat-control-2-vad-galler-nu/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 07:55:53

• "isn't necessarily free monetary-wise" https://codepen.io/3jaz/full/ObJpNv/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:15:41

• "I don't use nyarch btw" https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPakvjGgRee/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:16:23

• McFly perform across the road from us this week https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=1mUFbdW0XwY    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:35:53

• Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/alleged-jabber-zeus-coder-mricq-in-u-s-custody/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:38:11

• Israel warns of intensifying attacks in Lebanon against Hezbollah ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251102-israel-warns-of-intensifying-attacks-against-hezbollah    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:38:49

• At least seven killed as magnitude-6.3 earthquake strikes Afghanistan ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20251103-magnitude-6-3-earthquake-afghanistan    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:39:01

• Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt (FUD) by LLM Slop ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/02/Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_FUD_by_LLM_Slop.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:39:09

• Statement by Commissioner Várhelyi ahead of One Health Day ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_25_2572    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:39:22

• Guido Günther: Free Software Activities October 2025 ☞ http://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Free_Software_Activities_October_2025.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:40:00

• Ben Hutchings: FOSS activity in October 2025 ☞ https://www.decadent.org.uk/ben/blog/2025/11/02/foss-activity-in-october-2025.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:41:13

• Tomasz Torcz: Backups with btrbk ☞ https://enotty.pipebreaker.pl/posts/2025/11/backups-with-btrbk/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:41:49

• Russell Coker: PCIe Problems ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/11/02/pcie-problems/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:42:57

• Common Drugs Can Rewire Your Gut For Several Years, Study Finds ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/common-drugs-can-rewire-your-gut-for-several-years-study-finds    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:43:47

• A Giant Magnetic Anomaly Over 500 Million Years Ago Can Finally Be Explained ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-giant-magnetic-anomaly-over-500-million-years-ago-can-finally-be-explained    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:43:54

• A Huge Number of Young Athletes Are Taking Creatine. Should They? ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-huge-number-of-young-athletes-are-taking-creatine-should-they    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:44:04

• Elite Athletes Are Only Human, And Scientists Have Found Their Limit ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/elite-athletes-are-only-human-and-scientists-have-found-their-limit    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:44:26

• Men Need to Exercise More Than Women to Lower Heart Disease. Here's Why. ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/men-need-to-exercise-more-than-women-to-lower-heart-disease-heres-why    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:50:07

• Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS's Blue Shine Is Surprising Astronomers ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/interstellar-comet-3i-atlass-blue-shine-is-surprising-astronomers    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:50:14

• 'Junk' DNA Could Be Recruited to Destroy Cancer Cells From Within ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/junk-dna-could-be-recruited-to-destroy-cancer-cells-from-within    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:50:21

• Our Universe Was Twice as Hot 7 Billion Years Ago, Study Reveals ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/our-universe-was-twice-as-hot-7-billion-years-ago-study-reveals    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:50:29

• Tesla in Australia Struck by Mystery Object And It Could Be a World First ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/tesla-in-australia-struck-by-mystery-object-and-it-could-be-a-world-first    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:50:44

• The internet was born this week in 1969, and immediately glitched — only two of the five letters in the first computer-to-computer message were received ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/this-week-in-1969-the-internet-was-born-and-immediately-glitched-only-two-of-the-five-letters-in-the-first-computer-to-computer-message-were-received    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:51:11

• MElon alleges Scam Altman 'stole a non-profit' as Hey Hi (AI) bros spat over cancelled Tesla Roadster order ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-alleges-sam-altman-stole-a-non-profit-as-ai-bros-spat-over-cancelled-tesla-roadster-order    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:52:37

• Jerome Powell Deeply Concerned About AI’s Effects on Job Market ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/powell-ai-job-market    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:52:57

• "Job creation is pretty close to zero" not because of slop; it's a dead economy floated by a bubble of nothing.    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:53:37

• US seeks to reboot military channels with China after Convicted Felon-Xi meet ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/02/us-seeks-to-reboot-military-channels-with-china-after-trump-xi-meet/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:54:03

• Canada prime minister says Pooh-tin talks ‘turning point,’ apologises to Convicted Felon ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/02/canada-prime-minister-says-xi-talks-turning-point-apologises-to-trump/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:54:14

• How To Install FirewallD on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-firewalld-fedora-43/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:55:06

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

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:55:16

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

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:55:27

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

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 08:55:37

• The Long-Coveted Milestone of 3,200 Active Gemini Capsules ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/02/The_Long_Coveted_Milestone_of_3_200_Active_Gemini_Capsules.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:04:59

• Annuity shopping on the rise as rates stay high – how to get the best deal ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/annuity-shopping-on-the-rise-as-rates-stay-high-how-to-get-the-best-deal-aBAIu5E7lXzh    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:05:08

• Country codes ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/country-codes/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:05:32

• Linux Hits 3% Usage on Valve’s Steam Gaming Platform ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linux-hits-three-percent-usage-on-valves-steam-gaming-platform/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:06:18

• Ridgelines ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/ridgelines/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:07:03

• Little useless-useful R functions – Useless Pyramid of R needs ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/11/little-useless-useful-r-functions-useless-pyramid-of-r-needs/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:07:19

• HydraPWK2 Is a GNU/Linux Distribution That Simplifies Pentesting ☞ https://thenewstack.io/hydrapwk2-is-a-linux-distribution-that-simplifies-pentesting/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:12:39

• Sparky news 2025/10 ☞ https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-news-2025-10/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:13:18

• Incus 6.18 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released ☞ https://linuxiac.com/incus-6-18-container-virtual-machine-manager-released/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:13:53

• Nginx WebDAV ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nginx-webdav/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:14:11

• VoiceGen – text to speech converter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/voicegen-text-speech-converter/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:14:25

• Millisecond – optimize your system for low latency audio ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/millisecond-optimize-system-low-latency-audio/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:14:46

• 13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based SSH Frontends ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-ssh-frontends/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:15:15

• Wattage – monitor the health and status of power devices ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/wattage-monitor-health-status-power-devices/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:15:30

• kirc – tiny IRC client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kirc-tiny-irc-client/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:17:18

• 9 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Bible Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/biblesoftware/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:22:10

• AcreetionOS – user-friendly Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/acreetionos-user-friendly-arch-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:22:36

• Linux gamers won't be affected by RX 5000/6000 series driver shift — AMD changes limited to backdoored Windows thanks to separated development ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/linux-gamers-wont-be-affected-by-rx-5000-6000-series-driver-shift-amd-changes-limited-to-windows-thanks-to-separated-development    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:22:52

• This may be LLM slop: AMD Confirms GNU/Linux Gaming Unaffected by RDNA Driver Changes ☞ https://www.ubuntupit.com/amd-confirms-linux-gaming-unaffected-by-rdna-driver-changes/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:23:44

• This Month's Analytics Show Vista 11 Down, GNU/Linux Up ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/02/This_Month_s_Analytics_Show_Vista_11_Down_GNU_Linux_Up.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:24:06

• Garuda 251102 is also ☞ https://distrowatch.com/garuda    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:24:51

• SliTaz 2025-11-02 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/slitaz    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:24:58

• Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 44 (Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2025) ☞ https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-44-oct-27-nov-2-2025/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:25:20

• Russia says PM Mishustin's visit to China 'very important' ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/Russia-says-PM-Mishustins-visit-to-China-very-important    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:28:44

• Prussian Horse Kicks II: Mixed Effects Models ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/10/prussian-horse-kicks-ii-mixed-effects-models/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:29:15

• Ukraine Says It Hits Russian Black Sea Oil Facility, Gets Extra Patriot Systems ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/pokrovsk-syrskiy-ukraine-russia-special-forces/33578922.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:30:27

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Again Plays Down Prospects Of Tomahawk Deliveries To Ukraine ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/tomahawk-missile-trump-ukraine-russia-zelenskyy/33579864.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:30:52

• Russian blitz on Ukraine kills six people, including two children ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251102-two-children-among-dead-in-russian-blitz-on-ukraine    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:31:01

• Russia fires wave of drones and missiles at Ukraine: At least 6 killed ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251102-russia-fires-wave-of-drones-and-missiles-at-ukraine-at-least-6-killed    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:31:09

• Russia’s feminist paradise proved anything but — even before Putin ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/11/02/us-news/russias-feminist-paradise-proved-anything-but-even-before-vladimir-putin/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:31:31

• The Release Schedule for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is Out ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/the-release-schedule-for-ubuntu-26-04-lts-is-out/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:32:28

• Bangladesh’s Internet transformation: From satellite shadows to digital highways ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/11/03/bangladeshs-internet-transformation-from-satellite-shadows-to-digital-highways/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:36:29

• Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc4 ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1044582/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:37:02

• Three stable kernel updates ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1044542/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:37:12

• Microsoft's Debt Has Skyrocketed by More Than 15 Billion Dollars in 6 Months or 8.2 Billion Dollars in the Past 3 Months Alone ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/02/Microsoft_s_Debt_Has_Skyrocketed_by_More_Than_15_Billion_Dollar.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:37:25

• Rumour: I.C.B.M. Layoffs in Canada Starting Tomorrow ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/02/Rumour_IBM_Layoffs_in_Canada_Starting_Tomorrow.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:37:32

• Debunking False/Misleading Statements Made or Told to the High Court ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/02/Debunking_False_Misleading_Statements_Made_or_Told_to_the_High_.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:37:40

• Five More Days Till Techrights Party ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/02/Five_More_Days_Till_Techrights_Party.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:37:54

• Facebook's Debt Leaps to Over 51 Billion Dollars ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Facebook_s_Debt_leaps_to_Over_51_Billion_Dollars.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:43:04

• Most of This Month Will Deal With EPO Scandals ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/01/Most_of_This_Month_Will_Deal_With_EPO_Scandals.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 14:43:11

• Speech of Commissioner Kos at the joint session of the Committees on EU affairs of the French Senate and National Assembly ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_2576    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:06:48

• Framework Laptop 13 Protective Bumper ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2025/11/02/framework-laptop-13-bumper/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:07:19

• Scans for Port 8530/8531 (TCP). Likely related to WSUS Vulnerability CVE-2025-59287, (Sun, Nov 2nd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32440    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:08:24

• Landlords Are Using Hey Hi (AI) to Make Photos of Nasty Apartments Look Clean and Modern ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/landlords-ai-photos-apartments-clean    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:08:47

• China tweets satellite photos of Taiwan's critical Hsinchu chip hub in pressure-ratcheting political stunt — 'where all the world’s advanced foundry IP is created,' highest concentration of chipmaking facilities in the world ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-posts-photo-of-taiwans-chip-hub-in-political-message    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:09:16

• Capitole du Libre 2025 Conferences ☞ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1098/capitole-du-libre-2025-conferences    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:09:33

• Even the real Vista 11 is very malicious and must be avoided. ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/developer-warns-users-that-fake-download-site-is-hosting-windows-11-upgrade-bypass-tool-win-10-upgraders-warned-of-potential-malicious-downloads    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:10:45

• Illinois advocates sue federal authorities over “inhumane” conditions at ICE facility ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/illinois-advocates-sue-federal-authorities-over-inhumane-conditions-at-ice-facility/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:13:25

• The Amount of Money Proprietary Chaffbot Company Lost Last Quarter Will Make You Choke on Your Slurpee ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-money-lost-quarter a joke of a company http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:14:22

• 3D Printering ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/3d-printering-liquid-filled-filament-was-not-on-our-bingo-card/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:14:53

• "3D-Printed Foam" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/does-3d-printed-foam-make-good-custom-tires/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:15:20

• "DIY" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/building-a-diy-ryzen-based-pc/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:15:35

• ‘You can check if there’s a backdoor’: The time when China’s leader joked about espionage ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/you-can-check-if-theres-a-backdoor-the-time-when-chinas-leader-joked-about-espionage    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:15:53

• Dihydroxyacetone Man says China knows ‘consequences’ of any attack on Taiwan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/trump-says-xi-understands-consequences-if-china-invades-taiwan    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:16:07

• China’s Shein pulls child-like sex dolls from sale following French watchdog complaint ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-shein-pulls-child-like-sex-dolls-from-sale-following-french-watchdog-complaint    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:16:29

• China, South Korea leaders discuss cultural ties a decade after ban ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-south-korea-leaders-discuss-cultural-ties-a-decade-after-ban    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:16:46

• Vietnam flood death toll rises to 35: Disaster agency ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-flood-death-toll-rises-to-35-disaster-agency    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:17:12

• "For the rest of us, though, it can be an exceedingly tedious task. For that reason, you might like a Rubik’s Cube that can solve itself, like the one [zeroshot] is trying to build." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/building-a-rubiks-cube-that-solves-itself/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:17:50

• "Not every robot has to be big. Sometimes, you can build something fun that’s better sized for exploring your tabletop rather than the wastelands of Mars." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/pi-zero-powers-a-little-indoor-rover/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:18:12

• Malaysia’s Anwar says $185 million magnet plant to boost rare earth sector: Report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-pm-anwar-says-185-million-magnet-plant-to-boost-rare-earth-sector-state-media-reports    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:18:35

• Malaysian rapper Namewee faces drug charges after October arrest ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-rapper-namewee-faces-drug-charges-after-october-arrest    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:18:48

• Wet market traders in Malaysia put up CCTVs to deter thieves ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/wet-market-traders-in-malaysia-put-up-cctvs-to-deter-thieves    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:19:02

• Malaysian rapper Namewee denies drug use and involvement in Taiwanese influencer’s death ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysian-rapper-namewee-denies-drug-use-and-involvement-in-taiwanese-influencers-death    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:19:21

• Cold snap hits across South Korea, inland areas drop below freezing ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/cold-snap-hits-across-south-korea-inland-areas-drop-below-freezing    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:19:37

• Diplomacy of gifts: Inside South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s symbolic summit strategy ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/diplomacy-of-gifts-inside-south-korean-president-lee-jae-myungs-symbolic-summit-strategy    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:19:51

• Scientists Warn Against Trying to Dim the Sun to Cool the Planet ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/scientists-warn-dim-sun-cool-planet    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:20:08

• A humanoid robot strolls through Vilnius: has science fiction arrived to Lithuania? ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2731309/a-humanoid-robot-strolls-through-vilnius-has-science-fiction-arrived-to-lithuania    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:20:38

• "A Piezo Disk Powers A Transmitter" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/02/2025-component-abuse-challenge-a-piezo-disk-powers-a-transmitter/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:21:00

• "Another reason to game on Linux?" https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/linux-gamers-wont-be-affected-by-rx-5000-6000-series-driver-shift-amd-changes-limited-to-windows-thanks-to-separated-development    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:22:41

• "Ready to try Linux but confused by the hundreds of distros out there? Wondering which one will actually suit your needs without wasting days testing and tinkering? I've narrowed down your search to three distinct distros that cover the needs of most new Linux users." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-top-3-linux-distros-i-recommend-to-newcomers/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:23:03

• These fzf tricks will transform how you use the Linux terminal https://www.howtogeek.com/these-fzf-tricks-will-transform-how-you-use-the-linux-terminal/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:23:29

• "My Linux journey started many years ago, and it got off to a really rocky start. I was just beginning to learn how computer hardware went together, and in the process of reviving an old rig that had belonged to my dad, I installed Ubuntu on it." https://www.xda-developers.com/4-hard-linux-lessons-i-learned-early/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:26:51

• "This was another busy week in tech news, with a big change on the way for Google Chrome, the arrival of Fedora Linux 43 and the new Affinity Photo app, more carriage disputes with YouTube TV, and much more. Here are the biggest stories you might have missed." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-new-fedora-linux-chromes-big-changes-and-more-news-roundup/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:27:17

• "Still in beta but there is progress. Manage Proton VPN from the command line on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora." https://news.itsfoss.com/proton-vpn-linux-cli/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:28:30

• This Linux app makes mouse gestures so powerful, you’ll forget about your keyboard https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-app-makes-mouse-gestures-so-powerful-youll-forget-about-your-keyboard/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:29:53

• The (Almost) Perfect Linux Marketplace App for Flatpak Lovers https://itsfoss.com/bazaar-app/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:30:23

• Merz says Europeans fear 'public spaces' due to migration https://www.dw.com/en/merz-says-europeans-fear-public-spaces-due-to-migration/a-74464907    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:31:58

• DFG denounces censorship of Kurdish media content on guerrillas’ withdrawal from Turkey https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/dfg-denounces-censorship-of-kurdish-media-content-on-guerrillas-withdrawal-from-turkey-81937    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:35:15

• Turkey’s prison population has increased sevenfold under AKP rule https://bianet.org/haber/turkeys-prison-population-has-increased-sevenfold-under-akp-rule-312786    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:36:37

• bill https://cpj.org/2025/10/cpj-joins-call-urging-turkey-to-withdraw-anti-lgbtq-bill    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:37:53

• guilty for reporting in Turkey https://cpj.org/2025/10/2-journalists-found-guilty-for-reporting-in-turkey/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:38:14

• culling of 36,000 turkeys https://cphpost.dk/2025-10-23/news/round-up/bird-flu-outbreak-leads-to-culling-of-36000-turkeys/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:38:51

• would criminalize LGBTI+ journalism https://bianet.org/haber/turkeys-new-judicial-package-would-criminalize-lgbti-journalism-press-freedom-groups-warn-312881    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:39:44

• Turkey seizes pro-opposition TV network https://bianet.org/haber/turkey-seizes-pro-opposition-tv-network-after-editor-in-chief-s-arrest-in-espionage-probe-312884    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:40:11

• "About 2.1 trillion photos will be taken this year." https://www.theage.com.au/national/about-2-1-trillion-photos-will-be-taken-this-year-they-way-we-share-them-is-changing-20250922-p5mwzy.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:41:39

• Teachers forced to leave homes as shocking photos show extent of student vandalism https://www.theage.com.au/national/western-australia/teachers-forced-to-leave-homes-as-shocking-photos-show-extent-of-student-vandalism-20251027-p5n5m2.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:42:17

• Transport disrepair damages economy ttps://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-transport-disrepair-damages-economy-report/live-74467513    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:43:17

• Vassal https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-pay-us-military-base-employees-amid-shutdown/a-74477877    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:43:34

• Colorado River dries up https://www.dw.com/en/fight-over-water-intensifies-as-colorado-river-dries-up/a-74468546    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:45:13

• Nexperia chip supply shock https://www.dw.com/en/european-carmakers-face-nexperia-chip-supply-shock/a-74461154    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:46:07

• EU daylight savings debate   

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:46:52

• 🔤SpellBinding — FUMRSTI Wordo: WHENS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-11-03.gmi    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:48:05

• "I recently did some tinkering with my Patched Satellite and my Markdown Gopher to get things working for my 2025 Portugal post." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-11-03-gemini-gopher    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:49:02

• Final break in the year: no-post November gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-11-03-final-break-in-the-year.txt    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:49:55

• Gopher entries, Android gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2025/NOV2025/entry-1 "On Android I use JuiceSSH, which I think I paid for many years ago. The other ssh apps I sometimes use are Termux and ConnectBot."    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:51:26

• What happened to Vox? https://www.vox.com/climate/465482/madagascar-military-coup-fishery-coral-reef-malagasy    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:54:49

• As the Atlantic Ocean Warms, Climate Change Is Fueling Hurricane Melissa's Ferocity https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-27/as-the-atlantic-ocean-warms-climate-change-is-fueling-hurricane-melissas-ferocity    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:55:19

• ExxonMobil Sues California Over Climate Disclosure Laws https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/texas/articles/2025-10-25/exxonmobil-sues-california-over-climate-disclosure-laws    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:55:42

• California Can Lead a Just Climate Transition https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/24/california-can-lead-a-just-climate-transition/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:55:59

• A Breakdown of Current Climate Research https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/22/a-breakdown-of-current-climate-research/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:56:10

• What is methane and what's its role in climate change? https://www.dw.com/en/what-is-methane-and-what-s-its-role-in-climate-change/a-69919651    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:56:27

• EU Leaders Want Option to Weaken New Climate Target in Future, Draft Shows https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-10-22/eu-leaders-want-option-to-weaken-new-climate-target-in-future-draft-shows    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 15:56:39

• SETI's New Rules Spark Free Speech Fears https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3i-atlas-mystery-deepens-alien-contact-government-control-setis-new-rules-spark-free-speech-1749886    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:00:10

• Censoring people, then saying they get censored themselves? https://www.michigandaily.com/news/news-briefs/three-pro-palestine-activists-arrested-for-protesting-speech-given-by-former-israeli-soldiers/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:01:08

• Kangaroo Courts: broad cat antibody patent http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/patentees-own-post-published-data.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:03:01

• Kangaroo Courts: plant and animal patentability http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/10/from-peppers-to-watermelons-navigating.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:03:39

• Slop is not objective, it's just extra buzzwords on old methods https://patentdocs.org/2025/10/26/ai-first-triage-a-path-for-quality-and-pendency-reduction-at-the-uspto/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:04:19

• Shutdown Threatens Benefits https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-10-25/us-food-banks-brace-for-surge-as-shutdown-threatens-benefit    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:04:51

• Censorship? https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/apple-confirms-it-pulled-controversial-dating-apps-tea-and-teaonher-from-the-app-store/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:06:57

• Apple demand fell ttps://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/apple-slashes-iphone-air-production-plans-boosts-other-17-models-sources    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:07:35

• Joe Rosensteel: ‘Creative Neglect: What About the Apps in Apple?’ https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/10/creative-neglect-what-about-the-apps-in-apple/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:08:52

• post-Brexit mix-up https://www.thelocal.se/20251022/british-south-african-in-sweden-faces-deportation-over-post-brexit-mix-up    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:10:08

• Protected health information of 462,000 members of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana involved in Conduent data breach https://www.wvnews.com/news/around_the_web/states/data-breach-puts-medical-info-of-462-000-blue-cross-blue-shield-montana-customers-at/article_8e0f235f-460e-5d8b-b467-bd53a4aafa43.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:14:23

• Hotel and Casino near Las Vegas Strip suffers data breach, documents say https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/hotel-and-casino-near-las-vegas-strip-suffers-data-breach-documents-say/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:14:44

• Bombay High Court Orders Department of Telecommunications to Block Medusa Accounts After Generali Insurance Data Breach https://www.medianama.com/2025/10/223-bombay-hc-dot-hacker-medusa-data-breach/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:16:32

• Some Canadian communities make it mandatory for homeowners to replace lead pipes. Do such bylaws work? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/lead-pipes-thunder-bay-9.6952443    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:17:27

• B.C. man dies weeks after rescuing himself from the jaws of a grizzly bear https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/joe-pendry-grizzly-bear-attack-east-kootenays-9.6954326    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:18:48

• I’m childless by choice. Having my fallopian tubes removed in my 30s helped me trust my gut https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-lynn-paulin-first-person-childless-by-choice-9.6946993    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:19:35

• Not Tim Apple, aka Tim Crook https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canadian-war-museum-tim-cook-dies-9.6954386    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:19:57

• 'surprise encounter' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/humpback-whale-struck-prince-of-whales-9.6953329    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:21:38

• safety and privacy https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-freshco-body-cameras-safety-privacy-9.6947384    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 16:22:10

• Kaufman County’s data breach was their second one in three weeks https://www.inforney.com/texas/letter-from-county-confirms-earlier-101-computer-security-breach-personal-data-possibly-affected/article_32a413f4-85f3-4022-86bb-ff1a729d5dbc.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:00:25

• Hacking Formula 1: Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs https://ian.sh/fia    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:01:18

• Two U.K. teenagers appear in court over Transport of London cyber attack https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj97ekz07ezo    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:01:48

• Toys “R” Us Canada customers notified of breach of personal information https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/23/toys-r-us-canada-data-breach/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:02:16

• ModMed revealed they were victims of a cyberattack in July. Then some data showed up for sale. https://databreaches.net/2025/10/24/modmed-revealed-they-were-victims-of-a-cyberattack-in-july-then-some-data-showed-up-for-sale    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:03:07

• back-to-work legislation https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-teachers-gather-calgary-bow-9.6953749    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:03:46

• Canada's measles outbreak control challenged by disinformation and distrust, doctors say https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/measles-canada251027-9.6952804    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:04:40

• Gatineau gymnastics centre warns members of possible data breach https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/gatineau-gymnastics-centre-warns-members-of-possible-data-breach/ar-AA1P47QG?ocid=Peregrine    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:05:30

• Data breach in 42 Latvian municipalities: DVI imposes 300,000 euro fine on ZZ Dats https://bnn-news.com/data-breach-in-42-latvian-municipalities-dvi-imposes-300000-euro-fine-on-zz-dats-273444    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:05:57

• Windows TCO   

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:06:36

• Montreal Metro sees rise in suicide attempts. What can be done to prevent them? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/suicide-attempts-montreal-metro-9.6950294    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:07:53

• UN Cybercrime Convention to be signed in Hanoi to tackle global offences https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/startups-tech/technology/un-cybercrime-treaty-be-signed-hanoi-tackle-global-offences    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:08:34

• Windows TCO: Uncovering Qilin attack methods exposed through multiple cases https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uncovering-qilin-attack-methods-exposed-through-multiple-cases/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:09:11

• On Reports of an Alleged Data Breach Involving G-Xchange, Inc. (GCash) https://www.gmanetwork.com/lifestyle/news/127227/gcash-refutes-data-breach-allegations-in-new-statement/story    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:10:11

• Gloversville hit by ransomware attack, paid ransom https://wnyt.com/top-stories/gloversville-hit-by-ransomware-attack/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:10:40

• How a hacking gang held Italy’s political elites to ransom https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-milan-hackers-carmine-gallo-enrico-pazzali-samuele-calamucci-equalize-mercury-advisors/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:11:16

• Only 15% of women reported getting screened for breast cancer in Canada in past year: study https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/breast-cancer-screening-mammograms-lower-age-self-referral-uptake-study-9.6951417    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:13:03

• Surge in synthetic drugs and opioids https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-surge-in-synthetic-drugs-and-opioids/live-74484236    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:14:11

• Ethiopia suspends DW correspondents as it tightens grip on media ahead of 2026 vote https://www.dw.com/en/ethiopia-suspends-dw-correspondents-as-it-tightens-grip-on-media-ahead-of-2026-vote/a-73780742    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:14:46

• Why this trade insider thinks a steel and aluminum deal is imminent https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canada-us-trump-trade-steel-aluminum-9.6948919    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:16:07

• Canada's financial crime watchdog https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/cryptomus-fined-177-million-fintrac-9.6948338    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:16:32

• The Great American Oil and Gas Cash Grab https://jacobin.com/2025/10/canada-oil-us-profits-workers/    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:16:51

• Canada Post workers union loses challenge of back-to-work order https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/politics-canada-post-section107-9.6949818    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:17:08

• Redmond-based vaccine company laying off over 70 workers https://mynorthwest.com/local/redmond-based-vaccine-company/4151010    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:18:06

• "Fake numbers. With all the layoffs and chicanery that goes on inside the corner offices at IBM, how can the loser executives even talk about goodwill for the past 10 years ? It is meaningless intangible garbage from Charman Alvind." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k947wkfc    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:19:56

• DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/30/ibm_cloud_experiencing_quantum_computer/ Remember what CEO AK said, quantum is the next "AI"... whatever that means!    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:38:50

• "If, like me, you are a Linux user and have to use M$ Teams because of your $dayjob, you may be confused by the fact that your status keeps changing to Away, even when you're using your computer. Only when you hover your mouse pointer over Teams does it decide to wake up and change your status back to Available." gemini://hakthepla.net/blog/2025-11-03-prevent-teams-away-status.gmi    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:40:28

• "I’ve retraced my step trying to remember how I became such a screentime hater. It started with me not wanting to be on board with Facebook or other proprietary apps." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/unplug-weirdo    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:41:17

• (Bouncer intervened) gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2727    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:41:53

• healing the hollow gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/hollow    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:42:49

• healing the father gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/father    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:43:22

• "I have two devices that are stuck on very old versions of Android. Those are my Tauon PC-1, which runs Nougat, and my second-generation Amazon Fire TV Stick, which runs Lollipop." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202511/20251103-old-android-and-small-shells.gmi    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:44:02

• "That Android app in particular is a game changer. Sorta like YamiPod was back in the day. gopher://1436.ninja:70/0/Phlog/20251103.md    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:45:00

• "Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines is the follow-up to 2022's Grapple Dog. The story picks up where the first game ended, with protagonist Pablo being recruited to save the world using his excellent grappling skills. This time, we meet a new character, Luna, who is playable alongside Pablo." gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/gamelog_cosmic_canines.gmi    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:46:31

• "To summarize, according to Grokipedia three men are identified as "7th emperor of Japan". It is an error akin to stating that John Quincy Adams, and Ulysses S. Grant were both "the 7th U.S. president" in addition to Andrew Jackson." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2025-11/msg00000.html    

posted Monday, November 03, 2025 at 23:56:30

• It says "GPL usage has collapsed from 72% in 2009 to just 15% in 2024—a 57 percentage point freefall." But it does not say where the figures come from. Microsoft GitHub? https://paragraph.com/@holonic-horizons/the-stallman-paradox-how-web3-became-the-ultimate-open-source-theater    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:02:35

• "No source is given for these questionable statistics. It makes me suspect that the entire point of the article is to make people unquestionably accept the statement that GPL usage “has collapsed”. It also speaks about Stallman exclusively in the past tense." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45802600    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:03:48

• "This is crypto spam content"    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:05:11

• children with mobility issues https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/regina-non-profit-trexo-robotic-walker-children-mobility-9.6947787    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:08:44

• Toys 'R' Us Canada notifies customers of breach that may have compromised personal data https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/toys-r-us-data-breach-9.6950584    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:09:11

• s 'difficult decision' to cut management jobs https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/air-canada-management-job-cuts-9.6950749    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:10:03

• Say goodbye to rent control, indefinite leases if Ontario passes housing proposal https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/proposal-rent-control-removal-ontario-9.6952992    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:11:01

• Meet the man who will only travel by train https://www.dw.com/en/forget-planes-meet-the-man-who-will-only-travel-by-train/a-74276312    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:11:41

• Arson attack disrupts train traffic https://www.dw.com/en/france-arson-attack-disrupts-train-traffic/a-74513411    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:12:46

• 500,000 birds culled as flu spreads https://www.dw.com/en/germany-500-000-birds-culled-as-flu-spreads/a-74516613    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:13:54

• Hamburgers https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-hamburgers-are-happiest-germans-study-says/live-74511183    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:14:21

• So try to be more like a Hamburger    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:14:37

• China rare earth dependence https://www.dw.com/en/eu-trying-to-end-china-rare-earth-dependence-von-der-leyen/a-74496790    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:16:23

• Epstein scandal: 'Different rules' for Donald Cheeto Mussolini? https://www.dw.com/en/epstein-scandal-different-rules-for-donald-trump/a-74490884 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:16:52

• rare earth https://www.dw.com/en/can-the-west-break-china-s-grip-on-rare-earths/a-74474562    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:17:14

• UK police arrest wrongly released migrant sex offender https://www.dw.com/en/uk-police-arrest-wrongly-released-migrant-sex-offender/a-74501862    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:18:06

• I Tried Using a Classic Netbook in 2025, and It Didn't Go Well https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-a-netbook-in-2025-and-it-didnt-go-well/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:23:50

• "I replaced the netbook's original hard drive with an SSD a few years ago, and I maxed out the RAM to 2GB. That's still not much memory, though, and most modern desktop operating systems have dropped support for 32-bit processors. Windows 11 and recent versions of Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and Linux Mint require 64-bit CPUs."    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:24:10

• "It's unclear if you get a fun animal name upon completion." https://www.howtogeek.com/you-can-show-off-your-linux-skills-with-an-official-ubuntu-exam-now/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:24:31

• "Less is more, and more is less. Cheating is how the pros win." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-simple-tools-help-you-quickly-learn-the-linux-terminal/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:25:05

• 3 Self-Hosted Alternatives to Google Photos https://www.howtogeek.com/self-hosted-alternatives-to-google-photos/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:25:30

• "Looking for a way to keep your files safe?" https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-october-24/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:26:21

• "Here's everything you ever wanted to know about file systems and the Linux terminal." https://www.howtogeek.com/414634/how-to-mount-and-unmount-storage-devices-from-the-linux-terminal/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:26:45

• 5 Lightweight Services You Can Self-Host on a Raspberry Pi https://www.howtogeek.com/5ightweight-services-you-can-self-host-on-a-raspberry-pi/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:27:20

• How the Steam Deck Kicked Off a PC Gaming Revolution https://www.howtogeek.com/how-the-steam-deck-kicked-off-a-pc-gaming-revolution/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:28:20

• "CLI: Colorful Logo Interface." https://www.howtogeek.com/heres-how-linux-users-get-that-cool-logo-in-their-terminal/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:28:57

• "Who knew one-liners could do so much?" https://www.howtogeek.com/perl-one-liners-to-replace-common-linux-utilities/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:29:14

• "It definitely helped, though." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-breaches-3-percent-steams-userbase-not-all-steamos/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:29:43

• "I don't miss it." https://www.xda-developers.com/deleted-windows-after-using-linux/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:29:59

• I built a home lab with Canonical MicroCloud, and it works better than I expected https://www.xda-developers.com/i-built-a-home-lab-with-canonical-microcloud/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:30:24

• I embraced IPv6 at home, and it went better than I expected https://www.xda-developers.com/i-embraced-ipv6-at-home-and-it-went-better-than-i-expected/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:31:00

• This Proxmox feature changed how I manage my backups https://www.xda-developers.com/this-proxmox-feature-changed-how-i-manage-my-backups/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:31:38

• "Grep is dead. Ripgrep." https://www.howtogeek.com/grep-ripgrep-the-silver-searcher-which-tool-is-best-to-find-text-in-files/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:32:25

• Why Do Some Open-Source Apps Get Multiple Updates Every Day? https://www.howtogeek.com/why-do-some-open-source-apps-get-multiple-updates-every-day/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:33:00

• I switched from Proxmox to XCP-ng for my home lab, but I'd rather go back to PVE https://www.xda-developers.com/i-switched-from-proxmox-to-xcp-ng-for-my-home-lab/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:34:13

• "Learning Linux can be a bumpy road, but it's worth going through a little adversity" https://www.xda-developers.com/4-hard-linux-lessons-i-learned-early/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:34:59

• 5 things I do to protect my home lab from potentially malicious services https://www.xda-developers.com/things-i-do-to-protect-my-home-lab-from-malicious-services/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:35:32

• "I love the smell of a new Linux version." https://www.xda-developers.com/favorite-linux-distro-just-got-brand-new-release/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:36:11

• "Keeping track of Linux server maintenance has never been so easy" https://www.xda-developers.com/patchmon-is-perfect-for-monitoring-your-linux-servers/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:37:03

• "Give your aging Windows 10 laptop a new lease on life with one of these lightweight Linux distros. Find out which system is the perfect fit for your needs and hardware." https://www.xda-developers.com/lightweight-linux-distros-breathe-life-into-old-windows-10-laptops/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:37:23

• "How I'm using Linux to help develop my kids' technical aptitude." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-plan-to-install-one-of-these-distros-on-my-kids-pcs/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:37:50

• "Fedora 43 brings a revamped installer to all spins and GNOME 49 to Workstation. Get the details here." https://www.howtogeek.com/fedora-43-is-now-available/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:38:07

• "Your favorite jams are just a command away." https://www.howtogeek.com/listen-to-music-in-the-linux-terminal-with-these-apps/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:38:36

• Your Steam Deck's USB-C Port Has a Wild Number of Uses https://www.howtogeek.com/your-steam-decks-usb-c-port-has-a-wild-number-of-uses/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:39:07

• "Proprietary operating systems harvest your data; Linux does not. It's your choice." https://www.howtogeek.com/why-the-best-time-ditch-windows-mac-for-linux-is-now/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:39:52

• "The good and the bad of switching to Linux. There's no ugly!" https://www.howtogeek.com/pros-and-cons-of-switching-to-linux-from-windows/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:40:09

• "Ubuntu might not be perfect, but you can make it perfect with extensions." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-fixed-ubuntus-most-annoying-problems-with-these-gnome-extensions/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:40:36

• SPAM? https://www.howtogeek.com/best-vpns-for-linux/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:41:13

• "And it's pretty safe as long as I keep my tinkering antics in moderation" https://www.xda-developers.com/kali-linux-is-my-favorite-linux-distro-to-play-around-with/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:41:50

• "It's just not worth fighting Microsoft anymore." https://www.xda-developers.com/use-local-accounts-switch-to-linux/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:42:06

• I didn't know how to get started with Linux, but these tips helped me out https://www.xda-developers.com/get-started-with-linux-with-these-simple-tricks/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:43:49

• "It's a promising modern successor to Vim and Kakoune" https://www.xda-developers.com/why-switched-helix-linux-editor/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:44:24

• "I set up Timeshift on my Linux machine and discovered it’s the easiest way to protect your system from a sudden crash or unresponsiveness" https://www.xda-developers.com/timeshift-brings-time-machine-to-linux-machine/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:44:45

• "It's here with a rebase to Fedora 43." https://www.howtogeek.com/bazzite-fall-update-is-here/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:45:13

• "Need to benchmark your new Linux build? I've got an app for you." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-october-31/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:45:46

• "You should try at least these three distros before calling it quits on Linux!" https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-top-3-linux-distros-i-recommend-to-newcomers/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:46:14

• "It has all the tools you could ever need for your remote management tasks" https://www.xda-developers.com/syslinuxos-is-great-for-managing-home-labs/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:46:39

• 4 reasons Clonezilla is the perfect tool for cloning and backing up your drives https://www.xda-developers.com/reasons-clonezilla-perfect-for-cloning-and-backing-up-drives/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:47:13

• "It may be rather barebones, but it has all the packages I'll need in a NAS" https://www.xda-developers.com/i-built-an-ultra-light-nas-setup-instead-of-using-truenas-or-proxmox/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:47:43

• My home server goes to sleep when I don't need it, and instantly wakes up when I do https://www.xda-developers.com/home-server-goes-to-sleep-when-i-dont-need-it-instantly-wakes-up/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:48:18

• "Disneyland hit by mass layoffs despite charging record prices for entry"    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:56:19

• Because or despite?    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:56:40

• "Taking inspiration from Richard Stallman's famous dictum that free software was "free as in speech, not as in beer", it was meant as a kind of promotional tool." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cory_Doctorow    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:58:21

• "Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat?" https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/cosmic_1_before_xmas/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 00:58:49

• "Often they are very long, computer generated alphanumeric strings, mixing upper case and lower case." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/entering-wifi-passwords.txt    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 01:01:48

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1464.jpg    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 01:02:07

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1814.jpg    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 01:02:11

• "For those of you who got the call for a meeting tomorrow, If the ax does fall, you will actually be better for your mental health in the long run. I spent 18 years at IBM. Went through many of these. I finally left right before last year’s big cut in October. The years of stress., lies, understaffing, being treated like a number, not a human , really do affect your state of mind. Good luck to you all.."    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 02:51:06

• " There is life after the toxic culture that has become Ibm." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 02:51:21

• "Any canada? Or just us." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 02:52:50

• "There were no new claims filed on the media and communications list last week." https://inforrm.org/2025/11/03/law-and-media-round-up-3-november-2025/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 03:15:16

• "With SW there are only two possibilities: either the users control the program or the program controls the users. If the program controls the users, and the developer controls the program, then the program is an instrument of unjust power. " -- Richard M Stallman (RMS was right)    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 03:18:01

• "US Band 10 F&O notified today. More than half my team will be notified tomorrow - all super stars. Sad for them and everyone else impacted but I am so excited about leaving toxic IBM behind and starting a new chapter in my life! 🎉" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 03:49:16

• "I assume anyone who has a 1:1 scheduled is definitely getting RA’d." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 03:49:29

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-11-04.gmi    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 04:20:42

• "I've come to realize that supporting foward references in a two-pass assembler [1] isn't always easy. The simple case of forward references I support: [...]" gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/11/03.1    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 04:21:25

• "A blocking FIFO has various gotchas. First up the open needs to be done non-blocking so that the process does not wedge at that point, as presumably you want other parts of the daemon to get up and running first: [...]" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/11/04/fifofum.gmi    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 04:22:07

• Many ibm layoffs today and tomorrow. Panic.    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 04:28:05

• IBM. "Anybody in Canada affected got the meeting invite?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 06:22:54

• "Free and open-source software" in Wikipedia: "Stallman argues that it fails to be neutral unlike the similar term; "Free/Libre and Open Source Software" (FLOSS)."    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 06:25:46

• "Like, maybe if Stallman used ChatGPT he could credibly claim he wouldn't have used it if it hadn't marketed its claims around goodness. But I'm deeply sceptical a rando has the same standing." That's like saying, don't criticise car accidents until you get run over? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45754764    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 06:27:23

• Amazon Layoffs Hit Managers, Software Engineers, Scientists And Recruiters https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/amazon-layoffs-hit-managers-software-engineers-scientists-and-recruiters    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 06:28:54

• The call it "the cloud" because it's just smoke (and mirrors)    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 06:29:48

• 10 major companies that just announced massive layoffs https://geekspin.co/10-major-companies-that-just-announced-massive-layoffs/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 06:30:22

• Windows down, GNU/Linux up https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/italy/#monthly-200902-202511    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 07:01:43

• "should we not expect could cost to come down drastically, thank to AI - Why it is goin up instead- profiteering ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k96j0y2y    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 08:53:04

• Wine 10.18 brings OpenGL memory mapping using Vulkan in WoW64 mode | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/wine-10-18-brings-opengl-memory-mapping-using-vulkan-in-wow64-mode/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:18:46

• GE-Proton 10-25 brings fixes for Nioh 2, WoW, Rockstar Launcher and more | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/ge-proton-10-25-brings-fixes-for-nioh-2-wow-rockstar-launcher-and-more/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:24:39

• Chizha Mount Ling Dock for Steam Deck looks premium and it's fully featured but pricey | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/chizha-mount-ling-dock-for-steam-deck-looks-premium-and-its-fully-featured-but-pricey/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:25:03

• "Ubisoft have confirmed that The Crew Motorfest will be bumped up to Steam Deck Verified with the arrival of Season 8 on November 5th." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-crew-motorfest-plans-to-be-steam-deck-verified-for-november-5/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:25:27

• "Police use Flock Cameras to Wrongfully Accuse Woman of Theft" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/police-use-flock-cameras-to-wrongfully:3    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:25:42

• "Trump says he has “no idea” who he just pardoned" https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-binance-changpeng-zhao-pardon/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:25:52

• "Trump’s CZ Pardon Has the [Cryptocurrency] World Bracing for Impact" https://www.wired.com/story/trumps-cz-pardon-has-the-crypto-world-bracing-for-impact/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:26:08

• "Trump claims not to know the [cryptocurrency] king he just pardoned" https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/03/trump-claims-not-know-crypto-king-just-pardoned/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:26:19

• "We’re Number Two! - Paul Krugman" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/were-number-two    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:26:26

• Nexus Mods app improves file conflict management ready for Fallout 4 and Skyrim | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/nexus-mods-app-improves-file-conflict-management-ready-for-fallout-4-and-skyrim/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:27:02

• The Siege Update for Dwarf Fortress has arrived | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-siege-update-for-dwarf-fortress-has-arrived/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-siege-update-for-dwarf-fortress-has-arrived/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:27:27

• Anti-grav racer BallisticNG brings new tracks, enhanced online play and more for the final update | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/anti-grav-racer-ballisticng-brings-new-tracks-enhanced-online-play-and-more-for-the-final-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:28:40

• Open source evolution sim Thrive adds graphics improvements and more planet customization | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/open-source-evolution-sim-thrive-adds-graphics-improvements-and-more-planet-customization/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:41:08

• The original Pillars of Eternity is getting a turn-based mode Beta on November 5 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-original-pillars-of-eternity-is-getting-a-turn-based-mode-beta-on-november-5/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:46:44

• "Will Russia invade the E.U.?" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/03/will-russia-invade-the-e-u | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:49:25

• "‘infernal’ atmosphere of 1990s St. Petersburg" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/03/russia-s-city-of-shadows | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:50:06

• "Russian clients living in the E.U. struggle to regain banking access after fintech company Revolut freezes accounts" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/03/russian-clients-living-in-the-e-u-struggle-to-regain-banking-access-after-fintech-company-revolut-freezes-accounts | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:50:33

• "reparations loan." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/04/russia-charges-woman-who-adopted-mariupol-teenager-with-child-trafficking-yes-you-read-that-right | Source: Meduza    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:50:52

• Climate Change ☛ https://therevelator.org/climate-change-bird-declines/ | Source: The Revelator    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:51:44

• "Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor implementation in Rust." ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/arti_1_7_0_released/ | Source: Tor    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:52:26

• "Most of us lose it when the wifi goes out for even 5 minutes. Now imagine what happens when the internet shuts down more permanently, or in a moment of crisis?" ☛ https://blog.torproject.org/state-of-the-onion-2025/ | Source: Tor    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:52:38

• "You could argue this makes sense because, as Voorhees points out, it is not really a “store” so much as it is a catalogue: [...]" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/web-app-store/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:55:32

• "Sure, you can always share an app to yourself on a device where you can buy it." ☛ https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-recreated-the-app-store-on-the-web-with-no-way-to-download-or-buy-apps/ | Source: MacStories Inc    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 09:57:57

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pulled-the-plug-on-nest-thermostats-but-this-project-revives-them/ | Source: Android Police    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 11:35:19

• "The Report and Order adopts new rules to streamline submarine cable application review" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/new-submarine-cable-rules-effective-this-month/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 11:35:35

• "I am passing it on hoping it helps you as well." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/11/in-praise-of-librarians-in-dangerous.html | Source: Becky Spratford    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 11:36:13

• "And we’re seeing it again today." ☛ https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-librarians-in-dangerous-times/ | Source: Literary Hub    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 11:36:21

• 3% of Steam Users Play on Linux, a Third of Them on SteamOS https://www.techpowerup.com/342552/3-of-steam-users-play-on-linux-a-third-of-them-on-steamos    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 11:37:23

• "It's the start of another month, which means Valve has released the results of its latest Steam survey. October was a good period for AMD and Linux, both of which reached record highs, while the three top GPUs constantly fighting for the number one spot switched places again." https://www.techspot.com/news/110106-amd-cpus-linux-hit-record-highs-latest-steam.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 11:38:43

• "Grokpedia positions itself as the future of reference media by promising instant answers synthesized by proprietary models." ☛ https://machaddr.com/blog/articles/2025-11-03-grokpedia-ai-encyclopedia/ | Source: André Machado    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 11:39:19

• "While three percent may sound modest, it signals the steady rise of Linux-based gaming led by the Steam Deck and a growing number of handheld PCs and mini PCs that ship with open-source operating systems" https://www.notebookcheck.net/Linux-gaming-growth-SteamOS-share-exceeds-three-percent-on-Steam-as-hardware-makers-take-notice.1154553.0.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 11:40:26

• EPO Cocaine Chronicles: Our Aim Will be to Ensure This Becomes a Mainstream Media Topic, Not a Suppressed Scandal (Which the German State Deems Embarrassing and Detrimental to Its Pan-European Patent Franchise) http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/04/EPO_Cocaine_Chronicles_Our_Aim_Will_be_to_Ensure_This_Becomes_a.shtml    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:01:21

• Selling a scam using buzzwords https://www.itweb.co.za/article/altron-to-grow-ai-staff-amid-worldwide-job-cuts/Kjlyr7wB6YBvk6am    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:03:17

• "Superstars ? Do you mean that a lot of Joann Wright's talentless, overpaid and underworked bootlickers are being shown the door ? What a surprise. IBM F&O is out of date and out of touch. AI reality is catching up fast. Krabanaugh and Wright need to be shown the door also." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:04:19

• "AI isn't taking over anything at IBM unless by AI you mean All Indians in which case it is taking over." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k8kzxz6m    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:04:49

• "Best way to know when layoffs are imminent at IBM is to check the month that you're in. If it's a month with a vowel in the name, layoffs are imminent." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95atr1d    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:05:21

• "Again, I can’t point out the reason why, I mean, the more I think about it, I think it’s 75% boredom and 25% ecosystem lock-in." ☛ https://gabz.blog/posts/it-doesnt-matter-how-i-slice-it | Source: Gabriel    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:50:08

• "Zerodha created FLOSS/fund to support free and open source software projects" ☛ https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/floss-fund/ | Source: Krita    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:50:25

• "I have a GPS bike computer primarily for following pre-planned routes, because it became a better supported option than our old paper cue sheets." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/GPSBikeComputerLessDistraction | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:51:50

• "The following excerpt from Abrahim Ladha's comment on Lance's post about AI and intro theory caught my attention: [...]" ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2025/11/did-euclid-exist-is-it-okay-to-quote.html | Source: Computational Complexity    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:51:57

• "shitshow" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-faction-they-could-no-longer | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:56:05

• "The company, named for an Elvish video conferencing system hacked by the evil Sauron in The Lord of the Rings" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/palantir_ceo_celebrates_one_culture/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:56:29

• "backdoors in Xiaomi smartphones" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/chinas_president_xi_jinping_jokes/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:56:46

• "Anubis doesn’t work." ☛ https://fxgn.dev/blog/anubis/ |    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:57:43

• "Safe Security — the customer for this paper — have spent since April touting the paper around as solid science from MIT you can totally rely on. It turns out the paper’s got a few problems." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/03/mit-releases-then-quietly-removes-nonsense-ai-cybersecurity-paper/ | Source: Pivot to AI    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:58:10

• "In July of this year, MIT NANDA released a report called The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025." ☛ https://www.seangoedecke.com/why-do-ai-enterprise-projects-fail/ | Source: Sean Goedecke    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:58:36

• "another indication that the historic company is taking back control over how people buy its film." ☛ https://www.404media.co/kodak-quietly-begins-directly-selling-kodak-gold-and-ultramax-film-again/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:58:57

• "Because of an onslaught of AI-generated research [sic], specifically in the computer science (CS) section, arXiv is going to limit which papers can be published." ☛ https://www.404media.co/arxiv-changes-rules-after-getting-spammed-with-ai-generated-research-papers/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:59:27

• "On each of the last two Fridays, Google has suspended SSLMate's Google Cloud access without notification, having previously suspended it in 2024 without notification." ☛ https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/google_suspended_sslmates_cloud_account_again | Source: Ayer    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 12:59:51

• "The problem · Well, I mean, Google is definitely Part Of The Problem in advertising, surveillance, and Internet search." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/01/Blog-Search-Pagefind | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:00:06

• "I connect the locks to various smart home platforms and test integrations through automations and routines.I assess all control methods offered — physical keys, codes, biometrics, Home Key, and auto-lock/unlock — checking for speed and reliability." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/23393163/best-smart-door-lock | Source: The Verge    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:00:24

• "I have mostly been of the opinion that I do not really care all that much about it being dark in the morning" ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/the-few-days-a-year-when-anyone-cares-about-the-changing-of-the-clocks | Source: Pete Brown    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:01:02

• "offline mindset" ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/unplug-weirdo | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:01:10

• "As amazing as these miniatures are, I might not have made the visit just to see them." ☛ https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/11/02/release-the-kraken/ | Source: Jon Udell    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:01:30

• "We’ll be co-exhibiting at booth #5061 with Edge Impulse and Foundries.io, our “sister companies” within the Qualcomm Technologies family." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/03/arduino-heads-to-embedded-world-north-america-2025-join-us-at-booth-5061/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:01:56

• "The experiment was a success. Not because it reduced his case-load and allowed a tech company to profit from misery." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/political-experiments/ | Source: Terence Eden    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:07:45

• "If you just memorize and obey the rules of the system — any system — you’re not running the system. The system’s running you." ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/whos-in-charge-here-anyway | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:11:38

• "It's been a while since I've shared some behind-the-scenes updates here, and today I have an important one." ☛ https://afranca.com.br/same-blog-new-domain |    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:11:48

• "I wanted to respond to some of that feedback, both the supportive and the critical. That said, I don't plan to spend nearly as much time editing this as I normally would, so you an expect a more casual tone." ☛ https://cryptography.dog/blog/algorithmic-sabotage-debrief/ | Source: Cryptography.doc OÜ    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:11:59

• "But I’m not writing about cities here. It’s a useful metaphor for software, online networks and the tools we use to do our jobs and live our digital lives." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/11/living-in-ghost-cities/ | Source: Seth Godin    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:12:09

• "SPAs broke the browser’s most fundamental contract: refresh should restore, not destroy." ☛ https://robertgreiner.com/how-we-forgot-the-url/ | Source: Robert Greiner    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:12:48

• "Malcolm, who shared with the openSUSE community how his setup is helping to track aviation through the Mississippi Delta with FlightRadar24 and OpenSky Network" ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/11/03/leap-fuels-hands-on-learning/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:16:33

• Vitalinux – Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/vitalinux-ubuntu-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:18:56

• PCLinuxOS Screenshot Showcase https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202511/page16.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:28:07

• "If you want more hours of sunlight, get yo’ assets out of bed earlier … like when the sun comes up. If you sleep in, the wasted hours of daylight are solely on YOU. You snooze, you lose! It’s really that simple." https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202511/editorial.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:29:06

• GIMP Tutorial: Create A Gold Paint Effect https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202511/page08.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:29:45

• Tip Top Tips: My IP Address https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202511/page12.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:30:10

• Wiki Pick: Backup & Restore Using Timeshift https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202511/page10.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:30:34

• Flock's Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening For Human Voices https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/flocks-gunshot-detection-microphones-will-start-listening-human-voices    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:31:22

• They do not tackle the UNDERLYING issue: iot (internet of s---t) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/tiles-lack-encryption-danger-users-everywhere    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:32:23

• EFF protecting slop again https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/protecting-access-law-and-beneficial-uses-ai https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/31/Google_Bribes_EFF_EFF_Promotes_LLM_Slop_as_Fair_Use_To_GAFAM_It.shtml    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:33:23

• Windows TCO: Asahi Group Holdings has reported a cyberattack on its domestic operations in Japan https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202511/page01.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:34:13

• DOSBOX Pure: Run Your Old DOS Games On PCLinuxOS https://pclosmag.com/html/Issues/202511/page03.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:38:29

• It Still Must Be Stopped https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/chat-control-back-menu-eu-it-still-must-be-stopped-0    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:38:50

• LLM Slop / Plagiarism https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/when-ai-and-secure-chat-meet-users-deserve-strong-controls-over-how-they-interact    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:39:23

• FSF Blogs: October GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring nine new GNU releases: GNUnet, Marst, and more! ☞ http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2025-october-gnu-spotlight    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:40:09

• FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, November 7, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-11-07-irc    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:40:26

• Voyager 26.04-alpha is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/voyager    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:40:52

• Ubuntu 25.10 Offers x86-64-v3 Architecture Variant Packages ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/ubuntu-amd64v3-x86-64-v3-support    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:41:21

• "Kitty, one of the most feature-rich, GPU-accelerated, and highly efficient cross-platform terminal emulators, has just unveiled its latest update—version 0.44" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kitty-terminal-0-44-released-with-unicode-17-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:41:56

• "This book is a journey through the design space and history of programming languages from the perspective of control structures: the language mechanisms that enable programs to control their execution flows." ☛ https://xavierleroy.org/control-structures/ |    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:42:36

• "Maybe it should define "boring technology", beyond its association with the emotion of boredom. A boring technology is one that has had enough time to have been well tested." ☛ https://itwont.work/blog/prefer-boring-technology |    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:42:51

• "What other options did you test? Just because your design worked, doesn’t mean it’s the best!" ☛ https://adamsilver.io/blog/why-i-dont-test-different-designs-at-the-same-time/ | Source: Adam Silver    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:43:08

• "This is a load of garbage. Why keep repeating the words of this useless intellectually incompetent." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k96jtj7s    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:44:43

• "Three decades after its enactment, much ADA litigation has nothing to do with accessibility, but rather has become characterized by abusive lawsuits run by a small group of lawyers and law firms" ☛ https://www.shopify.com/news/accessibility-lawsuits |    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:44:54

• "Shopify is legitimately angry at drive-by ADA lawsuits, as outlined in its recent post The small business shakedown: Why thousands of entrepreneurs are getting buried in lawsuits." ☛ https://adrianroselli.com/2025/11/shopify-needs-a-mirrorfy.html | Source: Adrian Roselli    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:45:02

• "I've come to realize that supporting foward references in a two-pass assembler isn't always easy. The simple case of forward references I support: [...]" ☛ https://boston.conman.org/2025/11/03.1 | Source: Sean Conner    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:45:18

• A Dave Ramsey Caller Is Losing His High-Paying Job In December, Yet He's In A Position Most People Dream Of. 'This Is Just An Inconvenience' https://www.inkl.com/news/a-dave-ramsey-caller-is-losing-his-high-paying-job-in-december-yet-he-s-in-a-position-most-people-dream-of-this-is-just-an-inconvenience    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:58:21

• Just Cause Creator Doesn’t Think There Will Be a Fifth Game in the Series https://wccftech.com/just-cause-creator-doesnt-think-there-will-be-fifth-game-series/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 13:59:38

• "The state is important." ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/3/absurd-workflows/ | Source: Armin Ronacher    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:01:34

• "Alexander put serious effort into making the smart paddle useful for real players and real training, so it has proper balance and rebound." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/04/this-electronic-paddle-improves-table-tennis-training/ | Source: Arduino    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:02:13

• "Kids kept coming and we were running so low on candy we had like 6 pieces left and a few larger king sizes." ☛ https://connortumbleson.com/2025/11/03/halloween-candy-wheel/ | Source: Connor Tumbleson    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:02:24

• "LibreELEC has just released version 12.2.1 as the first maintenance update in the 12.2 series of its lightweight, Kodi-based media center OS" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/libreelec-12-2-1-media-center-arrives-with-kodi-21-3-omega/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:03:10

• "This tutorial will take you through updating a server managed by ISPConfig from Debian 11 (bullseye) to Debian 12 (bookworm)." ☛ https://www.howtoforge.com/update-the-ispconfig-perfect-server-from-debian-11-to-debian-12/ | Source: HowTo Forge    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:03:24

• How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Ubuntu 22.04 - 24.04 ☞ https://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig-php-ubuntu/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:04:24

• How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Debian 11 to 12 ☞ https://www.howtoforge.com/ispconfig-php-debian/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:04:38

• How To Install Fastfetch on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-fastfetch-fedora-43/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:05:36

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

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:05:58

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

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:06:10

• Techrights is lining up future epo articles    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:14:04

• How To Install Wine on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-wine-fedora-43/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:14:15

• Debian Adding "Hard Dependency" on Rust, May Abandon Some PC Architectures ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/debian-adding-hard-dependency-on    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:14:35

• Deploy an LLM inference service on OpenShift Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/03/deploy-llm-inference-service-openshift-ai    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:15:03

• Frontex to expand with new regulation, establishes regional commands for armed units ☞ https://digit.site36.net/2025/11/03/frontex-to-expand-with-new-regulation-establishes-regional-commands-for-armed-units/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:15:21

• TTAB Finds PALAPA to be Merely Descriptive of Event Venue Services ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ttab-finds-palapa-to-be-merely.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:17:15

• Using eBPF to attribute packet drops to netfilter rules ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/03/using-ebpf-attribute-packet-drops-netfilter-rules    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:17:46

• Melissa Wen: Kworkflow at Kernel Recipes 2025 ☞ https://melissawen.github.io/blog/2025/11/03/kworkflow-talk-at-kernel-recipes-2025    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:18:33

• Python steering council accepts lazy imports ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1044844/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:19:22

• "Why leave voluntarily ? You are solving IBM problem. Let the incompetent crowd running IBM make the decision to let you go. Hoping, they make a mistake that allow to make IBM pay big. Like some kind of discrimination." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k96xp4jh    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:24:35

• Hong Kong court rejects Tiananmen activist Chow Hang-tung’s bid to have subversion charge quashed ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/03/hong-kong-court-rejects-tiananmen-activist-chow-hang-tungs-bid-to-have-subversion-charge-quashed/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:28:13

• "[Dhananjay Gadre] happened across a useful little trick the other day. Take any old 1N4148 or 1N914 glass-package signal diode and wire it up right, and you’ve got yourself a nifty little IR detector." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/regular-old-diodes-can-be-more-photosensitive-than-you-think/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:28:48

• "The main highlight is that a merged-/usr filesystem is now mandatory, following Debian’s policy. In light of this, users upgrading from Devuan 5 “Daedalus” must ensure they have installed the usrmerge package before proceeding." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/devuan-6-excalibur-arrives-with-debian-13-trixie-base/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:29:42

• "This document includes technical notes relevant to Devuan 6 Excalibur." ☛ https://files.devuan.org/devuan_excalibur/Release_notes.txt |    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:29:50

• "Why BSD? I guess I’d have to admit that I have an affinity for oddball setups - but I also wondered if it’d be simpler than a Linux solution." ☛ https://www.blog.montgomerie.net/posts/2025-10-11-setting-up-a-very-simple-but-ipv6-capable-home-router-with-openbsd-7.7/ |    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:30:07

• "During zfs: setting compression and adding new vdevs I replace 2x 1TB drives with 2x 4TB drives." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/11/03/what-will-i-do-with-those-2-x-1tb-drives/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:30:55

• "Whether you're disabling JavaScript for security or performance reasons or are visiting using a tool that does not support it" ☛ https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/no-javascript-necessary | Source: Cory Dransfeldt    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:31:02

• "I have an unusual X desktop environment that has evolved over a long period" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MyDesktopURLHandling | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:31:44

• "This shift presents a unique challenge for IT managers and business leaders." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/navigating-industrial-edge-how-platform-approach-unlocks-business-value | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:32:09

• Floss.fund supports Krita ☞ https://krita.org/en/posts/2025/floss-fund/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:33:00

• Mozilla Localization (L10N): L10n Report: November Edition 2025 ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2025/11/03/l10n-report-november-edition-2025/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:33:11

• Windows TCO: Chinese APT Uses ‘Airstalk’ Malware in Supply Chain Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-apt-uses-airstalk-malware-in-supply-chain-attacks/ "PowerShell and .NET"    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:33:40

• Cyber firm warns that hackers are teaming up with crime rings to hijack cargo — phishing emails and social engineering deployed to steal physical shipments ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/cyber-firm-warns-hackers-are-teaming-up-with-crime-rings-to-hijack-cargo    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:33:56

• Windows below 20% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/turkey/#monthly-200902-202511    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:41:00

• Vista 11 down this month https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200902-202511    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:42:28

• "I thought we were done with RAs for the year ... Talk about being a naive id--t." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k97mg4b3 "This is the Halloween surprise! I think we’ll have a new year party too"    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:43:47

• Latvian student's doctoral thesis wins international acclaim ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/03.11.2025-latvian-students-doctoral-thesis-wins-international-acclaim.a620885/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:49:58

• When life gives you trauma, make a career ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/11/02/when-life-gives-you-trauma-make-a-career/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:50:16

• HRW report condemns obstetric violence in Sierra Leone ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/hrw-report-condemns-obstetric-violence-in-sierra-leone/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:50:38

• To protect angel sharks, a Libyan biologist collaborates with fishing communities ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2025/1103/mediterranean-angel-sharks-libya    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:51:02

• Lithuania rules out using Šiauliai Airport for passenger flights despite disruptions ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2734162/lithuania-rules-out-using-siauliai-airport-for-passenger-flights-despite-disruptions    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:51:34

• Belarus bans Lithuanian, Polish trucks in retaliation for border closures ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2734242/belarus-bans-lithuanian-polish-trucks-in-retaliation-for-border-closures    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:51:42

• Halloween Becomes Another Target of the Kremlin’s Culture Wars ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/world/europe/halloween-party-canceled-russia.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:51:58

• Lithuania and Russia in talks to extend gas transit deal for Kaliningrad ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2734071/lithuania-and-russia-in-talks-to-extend-gas-transit-deal-for-kaliningrad    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:52:13

• Latvian citizen detained on suspicion of spying for Russia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/crime/03.11.2025-latvian-citizen-detained-on-suspicion-of-spying-for-russia.a620893/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:52:23

• A Massacre Unfolding in Sudan ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/world/darfur-sudan-ukraine-jamaica-japan.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:52:36

• A Celebrated French Writer Loved Russia. War Forced a Reckoning. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/world/europe/emmanuel-carrere-russia-ukraine.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:52:47

• Dihydroxyacetone Man Again Plays Down Prospects Of Tomahawk Deliveries To Ukraine, For Now ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/tomahawk-missile-trump-ukraine-russia-zelenskyy/33579864.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:52:58

• Russia Targets Pokrovsk With Air Strikes, Ukraine Says Civilian Infrastructure Hit ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-pokrovsk-air-strikes-ukraine-civilian-targets-hit/33579986.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:53:21

• EU Report Slams Georgia For Democratic Backsliding, Highlights Progress In Other Candidates ☞ https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-report-slams-georgia-democratic-backsliding-progress-candidates/33580249.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:53:36

• Russia says its forces advance in ruins of Pokrovsk, Ukraine says defenders hold on ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251103-russia-says-its-forces-advance-in-ruins-of-pokrovsk-ukraine-says-defenders-hold-on    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:53:46

• Ukrainian Extradited to US Faces Charges in Jabber Zeus Cybercrime Case ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ukrainian-extradited-to-us-faces-charges-in-jabber-zeus-cybercrime-case/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:54:21

• Latvian ambulance drivers are on rotation in Ukraine ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/latvians-abroad/03.11.2025-latvian-ambulance-drivers-are-on-rotation-in-ukraine.a620878/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:54:29

• Sending Tomahawks to Kyiv won’t ignite World War III — they’ll ignite peace talks ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/11/03/opinion/sending-tomahawks-to-kyiv-wont-ignite-world-war-iii-theyll-ignite-peace-talks/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:55:01

• Christian Hergert: Status Week 44 ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/chergert/2025/11/03/status-week-44/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:55:55

• Colourful Spotify Controller (+ More) for GNOME Shell ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/gspotify-gnome-extension    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:56:17

• Defeating KASLR by Doing Nothing at All (Project Zero) ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1044867/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:57:45

• I did a thing, and exit excuses ☞ https://rubenerd.com/i-did-a-thing/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:58:21

• Helping friends can boost your mood ☞ https://rubenerd.com/helping-friends-can-boost-your-mood/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:58:45

• Is Hey Hi (AI) the re-Democratization of the Web? ☞ https://heathermeeker.com/2025/11/03/is-ai-the-re-democratization-of-the-web/ haha, how foolish    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:59:12

• The (Almost) Perfect GNU/Linux Marketplace App for Flatpak Lovers ☞ https://itsfoss.com/bazaar-app/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:59:29

• I Used Instagram from the GNU/Linux Terminal. It’s Cool Until It’s Not. ☞ https://itsfoss.com/instagram-cli/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 14:59:50

• 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 2nd, 2025 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-november-2nd-2025    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:00:13

• Systemd-Free Devuan GNU/Linux 6.0 Distro Is Out Based on Debian 13 “Trixie” ☞ https://9to5linux.com/systemd-free-devuan-gnu-linux-6-0-distro-is-out-based-on-debian-13-trixie    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:00:36

• Linux App Release Roundup (October 2025) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/linux-app-release-roundup-october-2025    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:04:26

• Devuan 6.0.0 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/devuan    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:04:48

• Dihydroxyacetone Man threatens Nigeria with U.S. military action amid claims of Christian persecution ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/eye-on-africa/20251103-trump-threatens-nigeria-with-u-s-military-action-amid-claims-of-christian-persecution    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:05:10

• Israel warns of intensifying attacks against Hezbollah ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251103-israel-warns-of-intensifying-attacks-against-hezbollah    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:05:16

• Google Pays $100,000 in Rewards for Two Chrome Vulnerabilities ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/google-pays-100000-in-rewards-for-two-chrome-vulnerabilities/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:05:34

• Chris H-C: Ten-Year Moziversary ☞ https://chuttenblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/ten-year-moziversary/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:05:58

• Reduce bootc system update size ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/03/reduce-bootc-system-update-size    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:07:43

• LibreELEC 12.2.1 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/libreelec    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:08:07

• Omarchy 3.1.5 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/omarchy    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:08:13

• 10 Things to do After Installing Fedora 43 (Workstation) ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/10-things-to-do-fedora-43-after-install/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:09:24

• Linux Now Runs Most backdoored Windows Games ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Now-Runs-Most-Windows-Games    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:10:06

• Slopwatch: Brian Fagioli and LinuxSecurity ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/03/Slopwatch_Brian_Fagioli_and_LinuxSecurity.shtml    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:11:25

• GNU/Linux as a Boarding Pass ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/03/GNU_Linux_as_a_Boarding_Pass.shtml    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:11:33

• Holiday season could delay Linux 6.19, Torvalds warns after smooth GNU/Linux 6.18-rc4 ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/holiday-season-could-delay-linux-619-torvalds-warns-after-smooth-linux-618-rc4/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:13:04

• jet – Just Edit Text ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/jet-just-edit-text/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:14:29

• Pineapple Steam Recording Exporter ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pineapple-steam-recording-exporter/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:15:02

• Rosalie’s Mupen GUI – frontend to play Nintendo 64 games ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rosalies-mupen-gui-frontend-play-nintendo-64-games/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:15:10

• insomnia – frontend for the hii IRC client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/insomnia-frontend-hii-irc-client/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:15:18

• Kiro – minimal, flexible, and customizable Arch-based GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/kiro-minimal-flexible-customizable-arch-based-linux-distribution/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:15:26

• Useful Ubuntu Touch Apps – Radio ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-ubuntu-touch-apps-radio/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:15:32

• Noctalia – minimal desktop shell for Wayland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/noctalia-minimal-desktop-shell-wayland/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:15:39

• Meet the SIG leaders elected at APNIC 60 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/11/03/meet-the-sig-leaders-elected-at-apnic-60/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:17:24

• XWiki SolrSearch Exploit Attempts (CVE-2025-24893) with link to Chicago Gangs/Rappers, (Mon, Nov 3rd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32444    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:18:00

• "There are many incredible open-source robotic arm projects out there, but there’s a dearth of affordable, stable, and mobile robotic platforms with arms." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/dual-arm-mobile-bot-built-on-ikea-cart-costs-hundreds-not-thousands/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:21:32

• Your Questions Answered: How to Vote Amid Convicted Felon's Attacks on Elections ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/voting-rights/your-questions-answered-how-to-vote-amid-trumps-attacks-on-elections    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:22:13

• Did they say that? ☞ https://rubenerd.com/did-they-say-that/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:23:08

• Openwashing nonsense and proprietary festival ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/state-of-the-source-at-ato-2025-sustaining-the-open-source-ecosystem https://techrights.org/n/2025/10/11/All_Things_Open_is_Proprietary.shtml    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:24:07

• Birger Schacht: Status update, October 2025 ☞ https://bisco.org/notes/status-update-october-2025/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:24:44

• Defeating KASLR by Doing Nothing at All ☞ https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/11/defeating-kaslr-by-doing-nothing-at-all.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:26:02

• UMG v. Udio Voluntary Dismissal Officially Signed, Sealed, Delivered to NY District Court Docket ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/03/umg-v-udio-dismissal-signed-sealed-delivered/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:26:40

• TTAB Posts November 2025 Hearing Schedule ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ttab-posts-november-2025-hearing.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:27:01

• Kentaro Hayashi: Migrating from hugo-theme-learn to alternative theme ☞ https://kenhys.hatenablog.jp/entry/2025/11/03/190428    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:27:30

• The Mess Machine | LINUX Unplugged 639 ☞ https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/639/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:29:31

• Destination Linux 441: COSMIC Desktop Launches Into Beta ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/441    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:29:38

• Late Night Linux – Episode 358 ☞ https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-358/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:29:45

• Linux User Space Episode 6:03: Boot Slide N' Boogie ☞ https://www.linuxuserspace.show/603    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:30:12

• The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 248: Mark Surman on Why Canada’s Hey Hi (AI) Strategy Should Prioritize Public Hey Hi (AI) Models ☞ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/11/the-law-bytes-podcast-episode-248-mark-surman-on-why-canadas-ai-strategy-should-prioritize-a-public-ai-model/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:30:57

• SUSE 16 Puts Agentic Hey Hi (AI) in the Cockpit ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/11/suse-16-puts-agentic-ai-in-the-cockpit/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:31:35

• FOSS Force’s Top Ten for October ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/11/foss-forces-top-ten-for-october/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:32:32

• Ikey Doherty’s Gone Missing Again ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/11/ikey-dohertys-gone-missing-again/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:32:52

• Israel says arrested ex-military prosecutor after leaked abuse video ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251103-israel-says-arrested-ex-military-prosecutor-after-leaked-abuse-video    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:33:48

• Chinese, South Korean leaders trade jokes about phone spying in gift swap ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/03/chinese-south-korean-leaders-trade-jokes-about-phone-spying-in-gift-swap/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:34:11

• $200 SpecFive Spectre Pro Android 12 smartphone integrates LoRa Mesh connectivity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/04/200-specfive-spectre-pro-android-12-smartphone-integrates-lora-mesh-connectivity/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:34:26

• Security updates for Monday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1044763/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:34:51

• ""Let...IBM make the decision to let you go." Been doing this since Oct 2024 layoff. IBM keeps insisting on sending paychecks, so they get cashed. Consider this 12 months of severance pay so far and counting. Way better than what others are receiving (3 months severance)." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k96xp4jh    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:39:10

• "I got notified today via text message - Not trying to spin this too much but in a weird way it’s a relief - I don’t have to tie my stomach in knots anymore - And to be honest I’m going to continue to perform like I always do until the last day - I don’t have Alvinds and Krabanaughs perk packages but I’ll always be a better man than those 2 ever will be" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k97mg4b3    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:39:55

• "Something very heartless about laying people off before Christmas. Here I'm thinking about the impact on families.... Merry Christmas from IBM."    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:40:45

• "One year, IBM Management even did an RA the day before Thanksgiving in the US. You can imagine how horrible that was as it was a large RA. That is the sort of soul destroying inhuman experience that Comrade Alvind and his bloodthirsty Pipmunk executives want the IBM employees to experience."    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:40:50

• "They waited until the employee engagement survey was done."    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:40:53

• "I had a call with my Manager at 9:30 AM, Tuesday, 11/4/25, and told that my last date is Dec 4. I'm Band 9. I worked for 6 years and have a good rare skill sets, but that doesn't matter to IBM, what mattered is my band and pay. I should have not joined IBM at first place." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:41:36

• "so sorry to hear that. Which department us or canada?" ]...] "anyone from Client Engineering? US or Canada?"    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:41:59

• "Well it happened. Band 9 US cloud. Big bad blue spinning the corporate buzzwords…. Oh well. Here’s to brighter days ahead."    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:42:18

• "it was 3 months of severance from IBM for over 20 years of service for layoffs done in 2024. IBM is very cheap, particularity when it comes to jettisoning employees."    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:42:55

• "And meanwhile, as the RAs go down, Alvind and Krabanaugh are enjoying a nice round of drinks on the deckchairs of the IBM Titanic. Alvind will no doubt be asking for his golden handshake in addition to his undeserved and oversized bonus in early 2026."    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 15:43:00

• A preview of this year’s federal employee health benefits open season ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/open-season/2025/11/a-preview-of-this-years-federal-employee-health-benefits-open-season/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:03:56

• Free hepatitis C testing throughout Latvia on 12 November ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/03.11.2025-free-hepatitis-c-testing-throughout-latvia-on-12-november.a620918/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:04:10

• Hegseth visits DMZ ahead of talks on US troops in South Korea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/pete-hegseth-visits-south-korea-for-talks-on-us-troops-tour-of-dmz-border    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:05:11

• South Korea says pursuit of nuclear-powered submarines not intended to fuel arms race ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-says-pursuit-of-nuclear-powered-submarines-not-intended-to-fuel-arms-race    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:05:27

• Japan has conveyed hope to North Korea to hold summit: PM Takaichi ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-has-conveyed-hope-to-north-korea-to-hold-summit-pm-takaichi    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:05:38

• Tropical mosquito species found in Korean Peninsula for first time ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/tropical-mosquito-species-found-in-korean-peninsula-for-first-time    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:05:55

• The same ASRock B850 motherboard kills three Ryzen 7 9700X CPUs worth $1,000 one by one in South Korea ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/the-same-asrock-b850-motherboard-kills-three-ryzen-7-9700x-cpus-worth-usd1-000-one-by-one-in-south-korea-victim-used-updated-bios-and-never-overclocked-but-still-lost-all-their-processors    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:06:38

• Bemyfriends Takes Majority Stake in Dreamus, Sets Sights on Building ‘An Unprecedented Music Fandom Experience in the Global Market’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/03/bemyfriends-dreamus-deal/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:07:15

• Malaysia’s Anwar says $186 million magnet plant to boost rare earth sector: Report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-pm-anwar-says-185-million-magnet-plant-to-boost-rare-earth-sector-state-media-reports    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:07:35

• Roblox faces scrutiny in Malaysia after child stabbing case ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/roblox-faces-scrutiny-in-malaysia-after-child-stabbing-case    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:07:48

• That Time Pooh-tin Jinping Joked About Espionage ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-south-korea-spying.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:08:16

• Starbucks to Sell 60% of Its China Business to a Private Equity Firm ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/business/starbucks-china-boyu-capital.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:08:29

• Dihydroxyacetone Man’s China Trade and Tariff Policy Is a Hot Mess ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/opinion/trump-china-trade-tariffs.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:08:52

• China Started Separating Its Economy From the West Years Ago ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/business/china-five-year-plan.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:08:59

• Taiwan rebuffs China’s protest about Japan PM meeting at Apec ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-rebuffs-chinas-protest-about-japan-pm-meeting-at-apec    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:09:22

• Hong Kong court rejects bid to terminate trial against Tiananmen vigil group ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-court-rejects-bid-to-terminate-trial    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:09:39

• China’s military build-up demands response, Australia defence minister says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/chinas-military-build-up-demands-response-australia-defence-minister-says    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:09:55

• Chinese involvement in SA defence infrastructure compared to projects Kgala and Thusano ☞ https://defenceweb.co.za/sa-defence-sa-defence/chinese-involvement-in-sa-defence-infrastructure-compared-to-projects-kgala-and-thusano/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:10:16

• IBM "Confirmed RA. Band 7 in Tech Sales - 30 day runway Either find position within IBM or leave. 3 months severance and other benefits. Should I stay or should I go" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:14:02

• "Do you have to stay the 30 days or can you just take the 3 months severance and start a full-time job search now?"    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:14:24

• "I haven't read the paper work yet. Pretty sure staying the 30 days is required to get the severance package. Why would you leave before 30 days? You literally get 4-months of pay by letting the RA get fulfilled. You should start job hunting TODAY, but don't leave your IBM position. That is a disservice to you. Let IBM do the hard work of RA'ing you. Don't make it easy for them."    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:15:02

• Many IBM layoffs today, all that the "media" says about it is mindless stuff, parroting AK on "AI" https://www.slashgear.com/2016679/ibm-lays-off-8000-workers-amidst-ai-revolution-harsh-reality/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:17:38

• The Forrest Dump Administration Plans to Offer Only Partial Food Stamp Benefits ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/briefing/food-stamps-tylenol-maker-margaret-atwood.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:18:36

• With Acquisition, Kimberly-Clark Bets That Tylenol Can Weather the Storm ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/health/tylenol-autism-kimberly-clark-kenvue.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:19:10

• Tyler Lemons Confesses Kash Patel’s FBI Was Reading Previously Seized Material without a Renewed Warrant ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/03/tyler-lemons-confesses-kash-patels-fbi-was-reading-previously-seized-material-without-a-renewed-warrant/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:20:14

• Design competition launched as UK journalists’ memorial secures £300k funding ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/design-competition-launched-as-uk-journalists-memorial-secures-300k-funding/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:20:43

• Times journalists urged to make ‘basic’ checks after two ‘humiliating’ hoaxes ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/times-journalists-urged-to-make-basic-checks-after-two-humiliating-hoaxes/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:21:03

• Being a ‘shock jock’ doesn’t excuse you from impartiality rules, Ofcom tells Talk ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/kevin-o-sullivan-ofcom-talk-shock-jock-local-elections/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:21:15

• There's One Predator in The Ocean Instilling Terror in Great White Sharks ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-one-predator-in-the-ocean-instilling-terror-in-great-white-sharks    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:22:00

• US Obesity Rates Have Dropped, And GLP-1 Drugs May Explain Why ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/us-obesity-rates-have-dropped-and-glp-1-drugs-may-explain-why    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:22:14

• "Just got a note of this ilk from a colleague recently and this was foremost in my mind. There's something incredibly gross about being forced to write a note saying you've "decided to retire" when in fact you're being pushed out and they want to keep it on the DL." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k96xp4jh    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:36:28

• "I hope they make it worth their while to make those statements. Otherwise, just fire my a-s and save me the humiliation of telling white lies to cover for your stealth layoffs." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k96xp4jh    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:36:33

• Not a single news site speaks about this week's IBM layoffs https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/04/Corporate_Media_That_Fails_to_Report_Cocaine_at_EPO_is_Totally_.shtml    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:38:47

• choreographed departures from IBM are pure evil    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:41:35

• One Dietary Supplement Was Shown to Reduce Aggression by Up to 28% ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/one-dietary-supplement-was-shown-to-reduce-aggression-by-up-to-28    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:43:41

• Baldness Breakthrough: Fat Cells Could Be The Secret to Rapid Hair Regrowth ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/baldness-breakthrough-fat-cells-could-be-the-secret-to-rapid-hair-regrowth    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:47:06

• Alzheimer's Disease Could Be Slowed by Taking as Few as 5,000 Steps a Day ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-disease-could-be-slowed-by-taking-as-few-as-5000-steps-a-day    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:47:13

• The Economic Crisis in Egypt Raises Another Dilemma: Tipping ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/world/middleeast/the-economic-crisis-in-egypt-raises-another-dilemma-tipping.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:47:40

• Turkey’s inflation rises to 32.87% in October ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/turkeys-inflation-rises-to-32-87-in-october-313174    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:47:55

• How much does a wheelbarrow (for the money) cost in today's banknotes?    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:48:35

• Dirk Eddelbuettel: duckdb-mlpack 0.0.3: macOS binaries, unit tests, more outputs ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/11/03#duckdb-mlpack_0.0.3    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:48:53

• The Battle Over an Activist Who Protested Stephen Miller Near His Virginia Home ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/us/politics/stephen-miller-activist-battle-free-speech.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:49:37

• Lecture by Commissioner Dombrovskis on Bulgaria's accession to the euro area at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_2581    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 16:49:54

• iophk: That's about it. Turkey's a big problem because it is bordering Europe and the neo-Ottomans have been grabbing power for years. And while it is technicall in NATO, the president there is personally aligned with Putin.    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:04:21

• Comparing Data Serialization Formats: Code, Size, and Performance ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/comparing-data-serialization-formats    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:04:44

• Like It Or Not, Rust Is Coming To Debian's APT Package Manager ☞ https://news.itsfoss.com/rust-integration-for-apt/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:05:12

• Devuan 6.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1044823/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:05:27

• Facebook Dating Has Become a Surprise Hit for the Social Network ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/technology/facebook-dating-surprise-hit.html    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:06:22

• Arduino heads to Embedded World North America 2025 – join us at booth #5061 ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/03/arduino-heads-to-embedded-world-north-america-2025-join-us-at-booth-5061/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:06:58

• Improving bicycle safety with voice-activated turn signals ☞ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/11/02/improving-bicycle-safety-with-voice-activated-turn-signals/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:07:05

• A Pi Cluster That Fits in the Palm of Your Hand – The Sipeed Nanocluster ☞ https://www.the-diy-life.com/a-pi-cluster-that-fits-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-the-sipeed-nanocluster/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:07:18

• "The news sites don't care any more about layoffs which have become so common that no one even raises an eyebrow (any more) when IBM lays of a few thousand (or even tens of thousands) of US employees. IBM is no longer a big name to reckon with either." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k97vrbhj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:09:15

• "After all, AI and Trump are putting lots of people out of work all over the US. The economy is not growing strong except for a few areas and that will likely continue for a while." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k97vrbhj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:09:19

• "Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat?" https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/cosmic_1_before_xmas/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:11:08

• "The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/canonical_jon_seager_qa/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:11:29

• "Despite criticism, major open source projects keep adopting it. The Linux kernel and Ubuntu have already made significant progress on this front. Now, Debian's APT package manager is set to join that growing list." https://news.itsfoss.com/rust-integration-for-apt/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:11:52

• Repurposing Dodgy Android TV Boxes As Linux Boxes https://hackaday.com/2025/11/03/repurposing-dodgy-android-tv-boxes-as-linux-boxes/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:14:39

• Torvalds expects delay for Linux 6.19 https://www.techzine.eu/news/applications/135971/torvalds-expects-delay-for-linux-6-19/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:14:53

• "It is time to talk about the most important love-hate relationship that has ever been. It is Instagram and... you." https://itsfoss.com/instagram-cli/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:15:50

• is-out-based-on-debian-13-trixie    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:16:07

• "This release restores support for /run/utmp for registering sessions and reduces support for the i386 architecture." https://9to5linux.com/systemd-free-devuan-gnu-linux-6-0-distro-is-out-based-on-debian-13-trixie    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:16:14

• "Big hitters included Mozilla Firefox 144, Thunderbird 144, ONLYOFFICE 9.1, Ghostty 1.2, GIMP 3.0.6 and the all-new Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0. Plus, a big virtualisation update in VMWare Workstation 25H2 and a more confusing one in VirtualBox 7.2.4." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/linux-app-release-roundup-october-2025    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:16:29

• Linux breaches 3% of Steam's userbase for the first time, and no, it's not all SteamOS's doing https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-breaches-3-percent-steams-userbase-not-all-steamos/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:16:42

• "Looking for Flatpak recommendations that go beyond the usual LibreOffice and GIMP suggestions? Want to know which apps a Linux enthusiast actually uses every single day? Here are my seven must-have Flatpaks that I install on all my Linux systems!" https://www.howtogeek.com/i-always-install-these-flatpak-apps-on-my-linux-pcs/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:17:01

• Steam on Linux exceeds 3% share for the first time, with nearly 1/3 running SteamOS https://videocardz.com/newz/steam-on-linux-exceeds-3-share-for-the-first-time-with-nearly-1-3-running-steamos    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:17:17

• "According to posts on The Layoff, some individuals have allegedly been offered “3 months [of] severance and other benefits”" https://stlawyers.ca/blog-news/ibm-job-cuts-november-2025/    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:19:23

• "Too early to report yet other than some unknown number of people getting the axe. Give it a day or two." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k97vrbhj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:22:03

• "i just had an hour ago, its about 1 month work from today n 3 months in lumpsum at base pay" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:22:40

• "Any first or second line managers get the call to join the unemployment lines ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95fj0qj    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:22:43

• IBM. "just got RA'ed after 9 years" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k97mg4b3    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:23:06

• "i have friends at ibm that said to me they got laid off today so idk" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k95atr1d    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:37:45

• "Merry Christmas right ! Not surprised. Truly heartless company ." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k97mg4b3    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:52:26

• 🖼️ xkcd: Repair Video #3163 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3163.gmi    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:53:30

• 🔤SpellBinding: BDEHXTI Wordo: COMAS gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-11-04.gmi    

posted Tuesday, November 04, 2025 at 17:53:59