Roy Schestowitz

• "In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/radio-apocalypse-survivable-low-frequency-communication-system/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 00:59:39

• "3D Printed Mail" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/13/3d-printed-mail-is-a-modern-solution-to-an-ancient-problem/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:00:05

• A Saliva Test Could Quickly Reveal Your Hidden Risk of Heart Failure ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-saliva-test-could-quickly-reveal-your-hidden-risk-of-heart-failure    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:00:51

• Gustavo Petro, the Rebel Turned President Willing to Take on Convicted Felon ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/world/americas/gustavo-petro-colombia-trump.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:01:33

• Robotics Company Explains Why Its Terminator-Style Robot Features Prominent Bazongas ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robotics-company-terminator-robot-female    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:02:20

• 3 Giant Solar Outbursts Explode Towards Earth, Prompting Aurora Forecast Across US ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/3-giant-solar-outbursts-explode-towards-earth-prompting-aurora-forecast-across-us    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:02:41

• Constant Rain of Tiny Meteoroids Poses 'Silent Threat' to Future Moon Base ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/constant-rain-of-tiny-meteoroids-poses-silent-threat-to-future-moon-base    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:02:55

• Scientists Are Hacking Bacteria to Fight Cancer, Then Self-Destruct ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-are-hacking-bacteria-to-fight-cancer-then-self-destruct    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:03:10

• Brain Scans Reveal Surprising 'Tipping Point' Minutes Before We Fall Asleep ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-scans-reveal-surprising-tipping-point-minutes-before-we-fall-asleep    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:03:25

• World's Top Infectious Killer Claimed 1.23 Million Lives Last Year, WHO Says ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-top-infectious-killer-claimed-1-23-million-lives-last-year-who-says    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:03:35

• Astronomical First: Storm Seen Erupting on Another Sun, And It's a Monster ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomical-first-storm-seen-erupting-on-another-sun-and-its-a-monster    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:03:50

• Food inflation in Latvia higher than other EU countries, economists say ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/12.11.2025-food-inflation-in-latvia-higher-than-other-eu-countries-economists-say.a622234/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:04:06

• Who Pays When Hey Hi (AI) Is Wrong? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/business/media/ai-defamation-libel-slander.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:04:25

• That New Hit Song on Spotify? It Was Made by Hey Hi (AI) ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/that-new-hit-song-on-spotify-it-was-made-by-ai    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:04:44

• AI Pioneer Yann LeCun Shocks Meta With Exit Plan ☞ https://www.datamation.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-ai-chief-exits/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:05:43

• Intel software fixes stamp down privilege escalation vulnerabilities, while microcode updates clean up CPU messes https://www.tomshardware.com/software/intel-software-fixes-stamp-down-privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-while-microcode-updates-clean-up-cpu-messes-chipmaker-has-its-own-patch-tuesday-as-it-stomps-down-30-bugs    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:06:14

• Red Hat's paid-for puff piece ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/12/red-hat-implements-zero-trust-ai-kubeconna/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:09:15

• For the third time this year, Crystal Dynamics is making layoffs: Nearly 30 people are being put out of work 'to optimize the continued development of our flagship Tomb Raider game' https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/for-the-third-time-this-year-crystal-dynamics-is-making-layoffs-nearly-30-people-are-being-put-out-of-work-to-optimize-the-continued-development-of-our-flagship-tomb-raider-game/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:15:42

• Red Hat's paid-for puff piece again ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/12/agentic-ai-strategy-tackles-enterprise-ai-roi-challenges-kubeconna/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:23:50

• AI Is Failing at the Most Hilarious Task Imaginable ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-turing-language-spam    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:24:25

• Billboard’s Top Country Song Is Currently Hey Hi (AI) Slop ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/billboard-top-country-song-ai-slop    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:24:44

• "Should you spend some time around the less scientifically informed parts of the internet" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/2025-component-abuse-challenge-light-an-led-with-nothing/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:25:40

• Michigan defends new pot tax, arguing it doesn’t alter voter-approved law ☞ https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/michigan-defends-new-pot-tax-arguing-it-doesnt-alter-voter-approved-law/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:26:03

• American Oversight Reaches Settlement in Lawsuit Against Georgia State Election Board ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-reaches-settlement-in-lawsuit-against-georgia-state-election-board/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:26:21

• France votes to suspend pension reform law ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/france-votes-to-suspend-pension-reform-law/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:27:52

• "The thing is, US workers don't want to work for corporations anymore. It's not a skilled based issue. The entire corporate structure has become one nasty frat house and the smart Americans aren't willing to play their game any longer." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9yjv6j2    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:29:51

• "", it’s about addressing skill gaps in sectors like semiconductor manufacturing and shipbuilding, fields that have been offshored for decades." Yeah, this ain't software or even high-tech skills. They're jobs that haven't existed in the US for quite a long time. Battery manufacturing too. We'll see how true it winds up being. I don't know how you'd enforce" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9yjv6j2    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:30:30

• "Trump thinks he is the only smart person in the USA and everyone else is a dum--ss. He's perfectly happy bringing in hired talent. If you think he cares about you or your employment - ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 01:30:45

• Even out of China’s hands, mines still rely on its equipment ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/even-out-of-chinas-hands-mines-still-rely-on-its-equipment/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:08:26

• Algeria Pardons Writer Boualem Sansal at Germany’s Request ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/world/africa/algeria-boualem-sansal-pardon.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:08:43

• Australia and Indonesia announce new security treaty ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-and-indonesia-announce-new-security-treaty    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:08:54

• UN officials warn that illegal firearms are deepening insecurity worldwide ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/un-officials-issue-warning-on-deepening-insecurity-worldwide-through-illegal-firearms/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:09:13

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:09:47

• Microsoft Black Duck SPAM sponsored by a Microsoft publisher https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/12/black-duck-introduces-ai-model-scanning-tackle-hidden-obfuscated-ai-components/ see http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/13/Layoffs_Apparently_Impact_Microsoft_Black_Duck_a_Firm_That_Atta.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:09:51

• Sheinbaum celebrates record formal sector employment: Wednesday’s mañanera recapped ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/politics/formal-sector-employment-wednesdays-mananera-recapped/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:10:38

• Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Over 60 Vulnerabilities Patched by defective chip maker Intel ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/chipmaker-patch-tuesday-over-60-vulnerabilities-patched-by-intel/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:10:55

• High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched by Ivanti and Zoom ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-vulnerabilities-patched-by-ivanti-and-zoom/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:11:09

• Ingress NGINX Retirement: What You Need to Know ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/11/11/ingress-nginx-retirement/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:11:44

• Yes, tech stocks have taken a hit. But the real danger lies elsewhere. ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/econographics/yes-tech-stocks-have-taken-a-hit-but-the-real-danger-lies-elsewhere/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:12:38

• So long, pennies! US stops making cents. Michigan customers feel the pinch ☞ https://bridgemi.com/business-watch/so-long-pennies-us-stops-making-cents-michigan-customers-feel-the-pinch/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:12:49

• House passes bill to end record-breaking 43-day US government shutdown ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251113-house-passes-bill-to-end-record-breaking-43-day-us-government-shutdown    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:13:02

• Battling the Sea on the Outer Banks ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/battling-the-sea-on-the-outer-banks    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:13:14

• A grassroots initiative opens digital pathways for nomadic Kashmiri children ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/2025/1112/kashmir-nomadic-children-digital-skills    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:13:29

• Spam or marketing placement disguised as news; JUVE is still at it... ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/ones-to-watch-germany-2025-lara-gwinner/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:14:06

• An Era of No: The USPTO’s New 0% Institution Rate ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/11/usptos-institution-rate.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:14:23

• Last Order Dates for the Holiday Season - 2025 ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/11/last-order-dates-for-christmas-2025    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:16:54

• Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/roma-lister-aradia    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:17:08

• Tails 7.2 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/tails    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:17:28

• Leaked Meta documents predicted 10% of its revenue came from scam ads in 2024 ☞ https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/leaked-meta-documents-predicted-10-of-its-revenue-came-from-scam-ads-in-2024-aAbZ43n3bWRy    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:18:08

• Amazon pins Cisco, Citrix zero-day attacks to APT group ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/amazon-threat-intel-apt-group-cisco-citrix-zero-days/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:18:34

• How Fragmenting Media Can Carve a Path toward a New Journalism ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/how-fragmenting-media-can-carve-a-path-toward-a-new-journalism/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:36:28

• TTABlog Test: Is TRIFOX for Bicycle Forks Confusable With FOX for Bicycle Shock Absorbers? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/11/ttablog-test-is-trifox-for-bicycle.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:37:02

• Microsoft patches backdoored Windows 10 issue that accidentally blocked extended security updates from installing ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-patches-windows-10-issue-that-accidentally-blocked-extended-security-updates-from-installing-latest-update-should-finally-fix-all-the-issues-for-esu-eligible-devices    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:37:21

• PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2026 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-conference-germany-2026-3170/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:37:57

• "GPT-5.1" = LIE, meaningless junk, marketing spam from Microsoft-bribed Web site https://siliconangle.com/2025/11/12/openais-gpt-5-1-model-gets-personality-makeover-superior-reasoning-skills/ why GPT-5.1? Because http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/13/GPT_5_is_Another_Microsoft_Dead_Cat_Trying_to_Bounce.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:38:52

• The PV PI HAT adds 10A true MPPT solar charging to the Raspberry Pi (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/13/the-pv-pi-hat-adds-10a-true-mppt-solar-charging-to-the-raspberry-pi/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:39:42

• Proprietary junk: Qt License Server 3.6 - Flexibility for License Management ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-license-server-3.6-flexibility-for-license-management    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:40:54

• ICS Patch Tuesday: Vulnerabilities Addressed by Siemens, Rockwell, Aveva, Schneider ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/ics-patch-tuesday-vulnerabilities-addressed-by-siemens-rockwell-aveva-schneider/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:41:10

• At least 1 dead as Cambodia, Thailand trade accusations over fresh border clashes ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/cambodia-thailand-trade-accusations-of-fresh-border-clashes    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:41:25

• Hong Kong broadcasters give way to gov’t-organised election forums – reports ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/13/hong-kong-broadcasters-give-way-to-govt-organised-election-forums-reports/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:41:51

• SmartApeSG campaign uses ClickFix page to push NetSupport RAT, (Wed, Nov 12th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32474    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:42:27

• Windows will suffer https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machines-Frame-2026    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:42:43

• Valve Already Upstreams Support For The New Steam Controller To SDL3 ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Steam-Controller-SDL    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:42:50

• Venting Doesn't Reduce Anger, But Something Else Does, Study Discovers ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/venting-doesnt-reduce-anger-but-something-else-does-study-discovers    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:43:04

• "Those are cheap and plentiful, but the Bluetooth software was, unsurprisingly, somewhat lacking. A teardown shows a stock Bluetooth module." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/cheap-multimeter-gets-webified/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:43:41

• Olimex ESP32-C5-Devkit-Lipo – A dual-band WiFi 6, BLE, and 802.15.4 IoT board with battery support, UEXT connector ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/12/olimex-esp32-c5-devkit-lipo-a-dual-band-wifi-6-ble-and-802-15-4-iot-board-with-battery-support-uext-connector/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:44:06

• Going GNU/Linux #473 · Listener Feedback ☞ https://goinglinux.com/episode-473-listener-feedback/index.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:44:58

• Another form of spyware https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/11/11/spotify-android-whatsapp-integration/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:45:35

• Unified Hey Hi (AI) ... more buzzwords and hype https://fossforce.com/2025/11/why-suse-thinks-unified-ai-platforms-will-beat-diy-enterprise-builds/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:47:26

• Make SSH as Easy as FTP with SSH Pilot ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/11/make-ssh-as-easy-as-ftp-with-ssh-pilot/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:47:56

• Nitrux 5.0.0 ready ☞ https://distrowatch.com/nitrux    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:48:23

• CentOS 10-20251111 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/centos    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:48:33

• Flatcar 4459.2.0 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/flatcar    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:48:40

• Russian blob inside GNU/Linux isn't security ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/kaspersky-linux-antivirus-released    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:49:47

• Linux’s Slickest System Monitor App Gets Updated ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/mission-center-system-monitor-1-1-update    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:50:12

• Pakistan tightens Islamabad security after suicide blast ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/pakistan-tightens-islamabad-security-after-suicide-blast    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:50:48

• Slopwatch: Spam, Scams, and Plagiarised Information Synthesis Systems (LLMs) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/13/Slowatch_Spam_Scams_and_Plagiarised_Information_Synthesis_Syste.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:51:41

• Systemd-Free Nitrux 5.0 Officially Released with Hyprland Desktop, GNU/Linux 6.17 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/systemd-free-nitrux-5-0-officially-released-with-hyprland-desktop-linux-kernel-6-17    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:51:47

• Valve Announces Steam Machines, Steam Controller, and Steam Frame VR Headset ☞ https://9to5linux.com/valve-announces-steam-machines-steam-controller-and-steam-frame-vr-headset    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:51:55

• health @ Savannah: GNU Health HIS server 5.0.3 patchset bundle released ☞ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10830    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:52:31

• "HIS server" is gendered language. Will GNU Health get cancelled?    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:53:06

• For reinforcing the concept of genders?    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:53:42

• Generating accessible color palettes for design systems … inspired by APCA! ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/generating-color-palettes-for-design-systems-inspired-by-apca    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:53:54

• British Army Officer Said Ubuntu Needed to Abandon Sudo for Rust's Imitation of Sudo and You Can Guess What Happened Next... ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/British_Army_Officer_Said_Ubuntu_Needed_to_Abandon_Sudo_for_Rus.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:54:05

• Rust Keeps Breaking Ubuntu in All Sorts of Extraordinary Ways (and All Distros Based on Ubuntu Will Break Also) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Rust_Keeps_Breaking_Ubuntu_in_All_Sorts_of_Extraordinary_Ways_a.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:54:11

• It's very disappointing to see Ji M promoting this Microsoft trap ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/net-10-new-long-term-support/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 02:55:06

• "So do the RA’s are basically from 2nd and 3rd lines ? I want to ask my First line how this happened" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9zh4h2e    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:01:16

• "The manger has been barking in recent months that I will be next on the chopping block, since, I am a highly paid top performer. It was either his useless ass or mine, he preferred to hurt the many, I spent years mentoring for his own benefit. He is a racist useless PoS. That is IBM is a nutshell." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9zh4h2e    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:01:37

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:01:52

• "To a certain extent yes if the selection is intended to be a reduction of head count. Manager will need to make a case to select the low performer against others in similar roles."    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:01:56

• "If anyone is or was a manager and a RA comes in for a specific employee if they disagree with it for example the affected employee is a top performer can he recommend a lower performer or is the die cast and therefore the manager is powerless"    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:02:09

• Dihydroxyacetone Man's rhetoric against Venezuela 'cloaks a regime-change programme', expert says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20251112-trump-s-rhetoric-against-venezuela-cloaks-a-regime-change-programme-expert-says    

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

• Is US 'dramatic show of force' designed to scare military into removing Maduro, send him into exile? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251112-us-dramatic-show-of-force-designed-to-scare-military-into-removing-maduro-or-send-him-into-exile    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:03:26

• Rubio Shrugs Off Allies’ Concerns Over U.S. Drug Strikes ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/world/americas/rubio-g7-caribbean-drug-boat-strikes.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:03:49

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:04:21

• Google promises Discover ‘fix’ as more fake Hey Hi (AI) stories top rankings ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/google-promises-discover-fix-as-more-fake-ai-stories-top-rankings/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:04:58

• Google sues Chinese hacker group it says stole $1 billion from a million victims in 121 countries — 'Lighthouse' platform offers phishing services to crooks for a monthly fee ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/google-sues-chinese-hacker-group-it-says-stole-usd1-billion-from-a-million-victims-in-121-countries-lighthouse-platform-offers-phishing-services-to-crooks-for-a-monthly-fee    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:14:01

• "There’s No Rust On This Ironclad Kernel" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/12/theres-no-rust-on-this-ironclad-kernel/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:14:36

• RA8P1 Titan board features 1 GHz Cortex-M85 MCU for AIoT applications, RT-Thread development ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/12/ra8p1-titan-board-features-1-ghz-cortex-m85-mcu-for-aiot-applications-rt-thread-development/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:15:05

• Linux (kernel) took off for being there at the right time, the right place, with the right licence (GPL) while BSD had legal disputes and HURD didn't run well    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:15:43

• It's not that the engineering of Linux was supremely brilliant. Linux later became a selling point or promotion tool for Git.    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:16:09

• $69 Sipeed SLogic16U3 low-cost logic analyzer supports 3.2 Gbps bandwidth, 150+ protocols ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/11/12/69-sipeed-slogic16u3-low-cost-logic-analyzer-supports-3-2-gbps-bandwidth-150-protocols/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:16:29

• AMD's ancient Bulldozer and Piledriver platforms getting new open source firmwares in 2025 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amds-ancient-bulldozer-and-piledriver-platforms-getting-open-source-firmwares-in-2025-latest-update-delivers-15-second-boot-up-times-with-256gb-memory-setups    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:17:36

• Your IQ May Affect How Well You Can Hear Speech, Study Shows ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/your-iq-may-affect-how-well-you-can-hear-speech-study-shows    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:18:29

• Levin and Rice discuss challenges for universities in ‘era of misinformation’ ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/11/11/condoleezza-rice-and-president-levin-discuss-challenges-for-universities-in-era-of-misinformation/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:18:57

• Valve brings back Steam Machine and Steam Controller — hands-on with Valve's new AMD-based living room gaming hardware ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/valve-brings-back-steam-machine-and-steam-controller-hands-on-with-valves-new-amd-based-living-room-gaming-hardware    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:19:28

• Hands-on with Valve's new Steam Frame headset — Arm-powered, mixed-mode device uses new Fex translation layer for traditional x86 games ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/gaming-headsets/hands-on-with-valves-new-steam-frame-headset-arm-powered-mixed-mode-device-uses-new-fex-translation-layer-for-traditional-x86-games    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:19:37

• Framework Laptop 16 (RTX 5070) review: Yes, you can upgrade the GPU ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/gaming-laptops/framework-laptop-16-2025-rtx-5070-review    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:20:04

• How to Capture the Northern Lights With Just Your Smartphone ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/how-to-photograph-northern-lights-iphone.html    

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

• "cell broadcast test notification" https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/12.11.2025-cell-broadcasting-check-thursday-some-residents-might-get-phone-alerts.a622199/ SPAM basically...    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:22:47

• Just ANOTHER thing to scare or distract you in life...    

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

• Fatigue gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2737    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:24:50

• Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-11-14.gmi    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:25:09

• Reply on Leaving the Web, and More Thoughts on the AI Mess gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/reply-leaving-web-thoughts-ai-mess.md    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:27:16

• Kundalini gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/kundalini    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:28:04

• "My very first roll of film got developed" gemini://koneida.com/unfiltered.gmi    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:29:41

• [FR] A night in nude gemini://txt-vostfr.devloprog.org/log/a_night_in_nude.gmi    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:30:47

• IBM staff running to run Fedora. Haha, "community"... STAFF https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Development/SteeringCommittee/Nominations    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:46:39

• Paid staff looking to recruit UNPAID staff, aka volunteers aka SLAVES    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:47:17

• Like Putin looking for Indiana and Africans gullible enough to join Russia in trench warfare    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:47:55

• "It has been a mistake to build our society around WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, and other non-free software. Stallman was right, as usual. I've been using XMPP for the past month or so and it's quite shocking to realize that we now have E2E encrypted audio and video calls that run on software that's Free and federated." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45916596    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:50:51

• Samsung now puts ads on their fridges https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/1owdtp5/samsung_now_puts_ads_on_their_fridges/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 03:51:22

• 30 Years of Red Hat: From a Durham apartment to IBM https://www.aol.com/timeline-key-dates-red-hat-093000001.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 04:11:07

• Microsoft Tim or Tim Anderson helps Microsoft 'googlebomb' the real Maui (KDE) https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/dotnet_maui_linux_avalonia/?td=rt-3a    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 04:12:03

• "Verizon layoffs: American telecommunications company to cut 15,000 jobs amid restructuring — Who will get affected?"    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 04:39:42

• So wait, some people lose their jobs and the MSM does not blame "HEY HI" (one way or another)? Was it all just a lie all along?    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 04:40:15

• "Amazon slashes nearly 700 jobs in New York alone amid plans of 14,000 job cuts"    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 05:28:04

• CEO pay in USA a reminder that salaries are proportional neither to knowledge nor to value    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 05:29:38

• Sometimes they are proportional to one's capacity to lie, and lie WELL    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 05:30:00

• iophk: get woke, go broke: https://yle.fi/a/7-10088048 this is a national tragedy of sorts, politicians ran another institution into the ground through intentional mismanagement    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 05:55:14

• iophk: back when I walked everywhere, it was for me about 90 minutes give or take https://phys.org/news/2025-11-humanity-average-minutes-day-standards.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:27:14

• 90% Of Windows Games Work On Linux... Sort Of https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=XvANZbDhO3Q    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:39:42

• The Fragmentation Problem Within Linux - Is It Real Or Fake News? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=Tu_pKh51kcM    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:39:53

• Fedora 43 Review — Still the Best GNOME Distro? https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=T3aOV0Y45co    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:40:05

• COSMIC Desktop And PopOS 24.04 Are Almost Here https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=MLT5c_B_Vzc    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:40:17

• 16 cool new (and old) GNOME extensions https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=cgLHvULNjyo    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:40:28

• Someone Faints During a Press Event https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=CbSFw7NTneQ&t=49s    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:41:27

• Which Linux Distros Will Be Relevant In 10 Year https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=YURrFEdceNM    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:41:48

• Fedora 43 overview https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=SumhYGe9xvU    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:42:02

• Linux For Everyone Is BACK! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=MsK60Bj8cQc    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:43:23

• A Quick First Look At Fedora 43 https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=p9dmUn4IeT4    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:43:56

• Wayland is primitive https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=_MS8pSj-DLo    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:44:11

• Debian adds Rust dependency, Ubuntu's desktop plans: Linux Weekly News https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=FJGHove2WhA    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:44:23

• How to install ClassiCube on Kubuntu 24.04 https://www.linuxmadesimple.info/2025/11/how-to-install-classicube-on-kubuntu.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:45:13

• YouTube censorship https://scheerpost.com/2025/11/07/youtube-deletes-hundreds-of-videos-documenting-israeli-war-crimes/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:45:55

• Welcome to the age of viral police body cam footage https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/466006/bodycam-youtube-viral-content-police-transparency-policy    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:46:15

• How to lose votes and alienate people https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/how-to-lose-votes-and-alienate-people-20251109-p5n8th.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:46:54

• Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (45/2025): Maemo Leste Daedalus and Sxmo 1.18 https://linmob.net/weekly-update-45-2025/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:47:58

• by Microsoft Canonical STAFF https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/0232234/rust-is-coming-to-debians-apt-package-manager see http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/06/Microsoft_and_Microsoft_GitHub_and_Rust_Microsoft_GitHub_the_Fu.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:48:34

• Fedora Linux 43 Release Party! https://fedoramagazine.org/join-us-for-the-fedora-linux-43-release-party/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:49:01

• brain atlases https://www.dw.com/en/new-brain-atlases-may-change-fight-against-alzheimer-s-ms/a-74630888    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:55:06

• bear attack ttps://www.dw.com/en/japan-deploys-soldiers-to-deal-with-bear-attacks/a-74622332    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:55:42

• ‘A literal shoe box’ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-renters-new-condos-9.6968060    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:56:54

• Fedora Man https://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2025-11-09/teen-behind-the-louvre-heist-fedora-man-photo-embraces-his-mystery-moment    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:58:24

• Kurdish musician https://bianet.org/haber/kurdish-musician-hakan-akay-taken-into-custody-upon-arrival-in-turkey-313157    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:58:57

• occult https://bianet.org/haber/dozens-detained-across-turkey-in-occult-fraud-investigation-313231    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 07:59:57

• Saudi Arabia: Migrant Workers in Mecca Arrested for Demanding Unpaid Wages https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/11/06/saudi-arabia-migrant-workers-in-mecca-arrested-for-demanding-unpaid-wages    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:04:20

• media freedom fears https://www.dw.com/en/incoming-czech-government-sparks-media-freedom-fears/a-74631336    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:09:41

• gold rush https://www.dw.com/en/how-ghana-s-gold-rush-threatens-to-fuel-illicit-trade/a-74516647    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:10:08

• immigrant nursing staff https://www.dw.com/en/how-can-germany-make-immigrant-nursing-staff-want-to-stay/a-74613859    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:10:40

• 90% emissions reduction target https://www.dw.com/en/eu-ministers-agree-to-90-emissions-reduction-target/a-74521812    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:11:33

• secretive neo-Nazi event https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/white-supremacist-conference-vancouver-9.6970604    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:12:46

• extortion https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/stellantis-peterson-springs-fca-suppliers-automotive-auto-tariffs-trump-9.6968173    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:13:00

• measles elimination status https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/livestory/canada-measles-elimination-status-9.6973195    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:14:15

• Japanese immigrants fought for Canada during WW I while denied the right to vote https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/japanese-canadians-denied-right-to-vote-fought-first-world-war-9.6972026    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:16:41

• Software dev accidentally leaks Australian govt documents https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/software-dev-accidentally-leaks-australian-govt-documents.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:17:40

• Hack exposes Kansas City, Kansas, Police’s secret officer misconduct list https://www.kcur.org/news/2025-11-03/former-and-current-kansas-city-kansas-police-officers-on-hacked-misconduct-list    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:26:16

• Windows TCO? Nevada Refused to Pay Cyberattack Ransom as Systems Sat Compromised for Months https://www.vegasslotsonline.com/news/2025/11/06/nevada-refused-to-pay-cyberattack-ransom-as-systems-sat-compromised-for-months/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:27:45

• Hackers defraud multiple lawmakers, a Pakistan Senate committee told https://mmnews.tv/hackers-defraud-multiple-lawmakers-senate-committee-told/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:28:44

• Fourth Circuit Weighs in on Standing in Data Breach Class Actions https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/fourth-circuit-weighs-in-on-standing-in-7893916/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:29:41

• Breaking Up With Edtech Is Hard to Do https://www.edsurge.com/news/2025-11-07-breaking-up-with-edtech-is-hard-to-do    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:30:46

• Benworth Capital Partners negotiated with threat actors after more than 25,000 lenders had data stolen https://databreaches.net/2025/11/07/benworth-capital-partners-negotiated-with-threat-actors-after-more-than-25000-lenders-had-data-stolen/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:31:50

• Microsoft back door https://www.maketecheasier.com/microsoft-sync-passkeys-in-cloud/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:32:21

• Marcia Wilbur has begun uploading old RMS videos to CheetoK https://www.tiktok.com/@ch1x0r/video/7572189569525845262    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:34:33

• "Gnu Linux aiot developer, maker, author and advocate" https://www.tiktok.com/@ch1x0r    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:35:24

• Going ad hom when you don't like what he says about Android https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45745150    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:36:41

• "real tech enthusiasts know to stay away from these awful things." https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/1ow6cpu/apparently_my_samsung_fridge_has_ads_now/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:38:06

• "Pretty soon you won't even be able to buy that "cheap ass" white fridge with no screen. Right now every manufacturer's end goal is to turn your device into an ad-delivering data harvester and it makes more money than their margins, by far. TVs have already gotten this bad."    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:39:03

• "The dumb ones cost way more now. In the future if you want to have non-smart devices, you're going to have to make them dumb yourself."    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:39:08

• "And mark my words, they will try to block us from doing that too. There will come a day when you can't even remove these networking components because they'll be inextricably linked to the core functionality of the device. Washers, dryers, fridges, and ovens will stop having physical buttons and everyone will be required to use an app."    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:39:31

• "TVs will start requiring network access just to show an hdmi signal, claiming "DRM" or some bullshit. Or worse, devices may skip home networks entirely and switch to getting their wifi through all the "mesh" devices in the neighborhood. Google and Amazon have been trying hard to make that nightmare a reality and they're not slowing down."    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:40:02

• "I predict a healthy cottage industry popping up full of technicians helping people make their smart devices stupid again. So it might be worth some money to learn how to start doing this now."    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:40:13

• "Yeah there are solutions to keeping them from the internet with most prosumer level hardware, but this is where it gets fucky. I'll get a dumb chest freezer and live out of that before I get a smart fridge, especially if I can't block them from the internet on my own wifi."    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:40:41

• "Ruben Schade is on the latest BSDN!" https://www.bsdnow.tv/637    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:43:01

• iophk: "The radio played some AI slop the other day, I had to turn it off after a few seconds it sounded so bad. However, the DJ had talked it up, which makes me wonder about his f-ing ears." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/13/ai-music-spotify-billboard-charts    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:43:09

• Private Cloud Compute? Private Cloud??? CLOUD means NOT private https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-02/apple-s-nearly-140-billion-quarter-when-ios-26-1-will-be-out-ipad-mini-revamp-mhhpy1ax    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:43:53

• 'Under $1,000' is NOT cheap! https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/apples-cheap-macbook-kill-chromebooks-costs-under-1000what-expect-1753493    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:44:43

• Windows 2000. Probably contains all the NSA back doors nobody targets anymore, unlike the new and deliberate ones. https://www.liberation.fr/checknews/louvre-en-mot-de-passe-logiciels-obsoletes-mises-a-jour-impossibles-dix-ans-de-failles-dans-la-securite-informatique-du-premier-musee-au-monde-20251101_RD5YGV6WMVAXLL6U3SRGVFBIBY/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:48:44

• Something Old and Something New: The False Claims Act and Cybersecurity https://natlawreview.com/article/something-old-and-something-new-false-claims-act-and-cybersecurity    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:49:58

• Linux open source graphics drivers Mesa 25.2.7 released | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-open-source-graphics-drivers-mesa-25-2-7-released/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-open-source-graphics-drivers-mesa-25-2-7-released/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:51:16

• Mesa 25.2.7 Release Notes / 2025-11-12 https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/25.2.7.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:51:53

• Of course dbrand is doing a Steam Machine Companion Cube | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/of-course-dbrand-is-doing-a-steam-machine-companion-cube/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/of-course-dbrand-is-doing-a-steam-machine-companion-cube/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:52:32

• Need a free game ready for the weekend? How about Immortals Fenyx Rising from Ubisoft? Well you can claim it free to keeps right now.   

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:52:48

• You can grab a free copy of Immortals Fenyx Rising from Ubisoft | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/you-can-grab-a-free-copy-of-immortals-fenyx-rising-from-ubisoft/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/you-can-grab-a-free-copy-of-immortals-fenyx-rising-from-ubisoft/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:52:56

• "Sara Sharif’s neighbours feared being called racist if they reported abuse" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/13/sara-sharif-neighbours-report-abuse-fear-racist-woking/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:55:40

• "Wealthy foreigners ‘paid £80k for weekend safaris to kill civilians’ in Sarajevo" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/11/italy-investigation-siege-of-sarajevo-bosnian-war/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:56:01

• "At the World Liberty Congress, Part I - by Jay Nordlinger" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/at-the-world-liberty-congress-part    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:56:34

• "At the World Liberty Congress, Part II - by Jay Nordlinger" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/at-the-world-liberty-congress-part-5d0    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:56:48

• "The Republican Brain Doesn’t Want To Understand Health Care" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-republican-brain-doesnt-want    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:56:59

• "While we’re on the topic of feckless Democratic “leaders”… - Exploding Comma" https://explodingcomma.com/posts/while-were-on-the-topic-of-feckless-democratic-leaders    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:57:13

• iophk: fails to mention the only long term solution: ditch Microsoft https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/microsoft-exchange-under-imminent-threat-act-now    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:57:34

• "Average US Family Is Now Paying $700 More Per Month on Basic Needs Under Trump | Truthout" https://truthout.org/articles/average-us-family-is-now-paying-700-more-per-month-on-basic-needs-under-trump/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:58:19

• "Former USAID Official: Tens of Thousands Have Died Since Trump Shuttered Agency | Truthout" https://truthout.org/video/former-usaid-official-tens-of-thousands-have-died-since-trump-shuttered-agency/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:58:26

• "Fifty Years Ago, the US Staged a Coup in Australia" https://jacobin.com/2025/11/whitlam-coup-us-cia-kerr/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:58:33

• "Jeffrey Epstein emails: What they actually say about Trump, decoded" https://www.vox.com/politics/468502/epstein-emails-trump-hours-house-virginia-giuffre    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:58:42

• "Russian unit targets Ukraine drone pilots" https://www.semafor.com/article/11/13/2025/russian-unit-targets-ukraine-drone-pilots    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:58:51

• Only 20%? https://www.semafor.com/article/11/13/2025/one-in-five-americans-want-to-leave-us-poll-finds    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:59:04

• "At COP30, China’s investment in green tech offers glimmer of hope" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2025/1113/climate-change-china-trump-xi    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:59:13

• "An Arab democracy? Yes, say Iraqis." https://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2025/1112/An-Arab-democracy-Yes-say-Iraqis    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:59:23

• "‘What’s our AI strategy?’ is the wrong question for agency leaders" https://fedscoop.com/federal-agencies-trump-ai-action-plan-how-to-make-it-work/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:59:33

• "US aircraft carrier nears Venezuela in flex of American military power" https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2025/11/13/us-aircraft-carrier-nears-venezuela-in-flex-of-american-military-power/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 08:59:52

• "Marine veteran wins battle for burn pit-related medical retirement" https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2025/11/13/marine-veteran-wins-battle-for-burn-pit-related-medical-retirement/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:00:05

• "Italy probes ‘war tourists’ paid to shoot civilians in 1990's Sarajevo siege | World News" https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/italy-probes-war-tourists-paid-to-shoot-civilians-in-1990s-sarajevo-siege-101763092498466.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:00:17

• "Chat Control 2: Åldersgränser för dataspel online" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/11/13/chat-control-2-aldersgranser-for-dataspel-online/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:00:27

• The EU's democratic shield – the bulwark of democracy or the ministry of truth? | https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/11/12/eus-demokratiskold-demokratins-brostvarn-eller-sanningsministerium/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:04:39

• "The investigation into ‘human safaris’ in Sarajevo: ‘We hope to identify some of those responsible’" https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-12/the-investigation-into-human-safaris-in-sarajevo-we-hope-to-identify-some-of-those-responsible.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:04:50

• The excellent CloverPit has sold over 1 million and gets a Hard Mode update | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-excellent-cloverpit-has-sold-over-1-million-and-gets-a-hard-mode-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:05:30

• The wonderful open-world monster battler Cassette Beasts hit over 1.1 million sold | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/the-wonderful-open-world-monster-battler-cassette-beasts-hit-over-1-1-million-sold/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:05:47

• Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is getting mid-run saves and an endless mode | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/deep-rock-galactic-survivor-is-getting-mid-run-saves-and-an-endless-mode/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:08:17

• Ready for the Steam Frame, Khronos Group announced a new OpenXR "Best Practices Validation Layer" | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/ready-for-the-steam-frame-khronos-group-announced-a-new-openxr-best-practices-validation-layer/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:08:47

• ARC Raiders is expanding with a new map but first a multi-phase event to unlock it | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/arc-raiders-is-expanding-with-a-new-map-but-first-a-multi-phase-event-to-unlock-it/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:13:28

• Hot on the heels of the Steam Frame announcement, SteamVR Beta 2.14.1 brings more fixes | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/hot-on-the-heels-of-the-steam-frame-announcement-steamvr-beta-2-14-1-brings-more-fixes/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:16:10

• Anti-cheat will still be one of the biggest problems for the new Steam Machine | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/anti-cheat-will-still-be-one-of-the-biggest-problems-for-the-new-steam-machine/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:16:16

• Proton 10.0-3 released bringing lots of improvements for gaming on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Machine | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/proton-10-0-3-released-bringing-lots-of-improvements-for-gaming-on-linux-steamos-steam-machine/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 09:16:51

• "Attempts to combat piracy by reducing ticket prices or increasing the number of movie screenings yielded limited benefits for the industry." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-pirated-quality-ticket-moviegoers-viewing.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:24:21

• "Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and HTML, has expressed support for compelling Apple to allow other browser engines on iOS" ☛ https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/tim-berners-lee-on-apples-browser-engine-ban-and-web-apps/ | Source: Open Web Advocacy    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:26:15

• "The Mini Apps Partner Program gives developers a reduced fee if they adopt tools that manage purchases, register user history, verify ages, and run payments" ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/culture/apple-mini-apps-partner-program | Source: Interesting Engineering    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:26:22

• "Amazon’s Kindle model mimicked that of the iTunes Store by pricing e-books at a flat rate" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/e-book-price-fixing-apps/ | Source: Nick Heer    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:26:32

• Digital Restrictions (DRM) ☛ https://molodtsov.me/2025/11/retro-tech-luxury/ | Source: Yury Molodtsov    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:29:00

• "The FCC’s requirement that DISH put its spectrum holdings into service—meaning" ☛ https://insidetowers.com/can-echostar-dish-invoke-the-force-majeure-clause-to-avoid-paying-contractual-obligations/ | Source: Inside Towers    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:29:27

• "96% of all companies depend on Open Source software. But the most depended upon software is maintained by a relatively small number of people." ☛ https://vlad.website/keystone-maintainers-keep-the-internet-going/ | Source: Vlad-Stefan Harbuz    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:29:38

• "Rothermich's point is that health care isn't a commodity, and to treat it as such always worsens care." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/13/patients-not-customers/#medicine-vs-markets | Source: CoryDoctorow    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:30:10

• "Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants." ☛ https://www.404media.co/ice-plans-to-spend-180-million-on-bounty-hunters-to-stalk-immigrants/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:30:22

• "Caicedo’s quiet deportation contrasted with the drama of his capture during one of the most aggressive and highly publicized immigration raids carried out in a U.S. city in recent history." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-fbi-raids-no-criminal-charges | Source: Pro Publica    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:30:59

• "Ms. Ghaddar saw another way." ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2025/1113/nigeria-gangs-soccer-coach | Source: CS Monitor    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:32:08

• "For months, EDRi has warned of the serious threats that would be posed to people, planet and democracy by the proposed reopening of the EU’s digital rules." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/forthcoming-digital-omnibus-would-mark-point-of-no-return/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:32:18

• "Canonical has significantly expanded the scope of its enterprise offering by extending the Ubuntu Pro Legacy add-on, an extension to the Ubuntu Pro program that provides additional years of security maintenance after the standard LTS and ESM periods end, thereby extending the total lifecycle for Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/canonical-expands-ubuntu-pro-coverage-bringing-lts-support-to-15-years/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:33:33

• "Canonical has significantly expanded the scope of its enterprise offering by extending the Ubuntu Pro Legacy add-on, an extension to the Ubuntu Pro program that provides additional years of security maintenance after the standard LTS and ESM periods end, thereby extending the total lifecycle" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/canonical-expands-ubuntu-pro-coverage-bringing-lts-support-to-15-years/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:33:54

• Ubuntu LTS Releases Now Get 15 Years of Support ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/ubuntu-lts-releases-15-years-of-support    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:34:19

• "This is an unconscionable decision." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/11/china-upholds-harsh-7-year-prison-sentence-for-journalist-dong-yuyu-on-spy-charges/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:35:14

• "We, the undersigned organizations, are writing in support of the recent submissions to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (UNWGAD) filed on behalf of Nika Novak" ☛ https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Civil-society-letter-to-UNWGAD-re-Nika-Novak.pdf | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:35:29

• "The Press Freedom Center at the National Press Club recently filed submissions to the working group requesting an opinion finding that Novak’s continued detention by the Russian government is arbitrary and violates international law." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/11/cpj-partners-call-on-un-working-group-to-issue-opinion-on-imprisoned-russian-journalist/ | Source: CPJ    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:35:43

• "Lai’s case, Gallagher told the senators, represents the decline in freedom of the press and the rule of law in Hong Kong since Beijing imposed a harsh national security law on the territory in 2020." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/world/the-campaign-to-free-jimmy-lai/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:36:00

• "While the BBC sincerely regrets the manner in which the video clip was edited, we strongly disagree there is a basis for a defamation claim." ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251113-bbc-trump-defamation-claim | Source: France24    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:36:23

• "I feel this is an important issue to talk about — censorship, stifling of academic freedom and this real overreach through this legislation." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/indiana-university-professor-white-supremacy-lesson.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:37:30

• "I was asked to teach on structural racism, and as you teach on structural racism in the United States, you cannot not discuss white supremacy as it is the ideology that emboldens racist behavior" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/indiana-professor-removed-maga-racism-b2865102.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:37:40

• "An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it." ☛ https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:42:27

• "Tencent is a sprawling conglomerate whose messaging and e-commerce apps have over a billion monthly users and are ubiquitous parts of modern Chinese life." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/14/tencent_q3_fy2025/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:42:59

• "The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/ubuntu_rust_sudo_hole/ | Source: The Register UK http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/British_Army_Officer_Said_Ubuntu_Needed_to_Abandon_Sudo_for_Rus.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:43:19

• "However, the TEU does not mandate complete exclusion from the scope of EU law. When using AI systems, countries must respect general principles, such as the principle of proportionality." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/the-ai-act-isnt-enough-closing-the-dangerous-loopholes-that-enable-rights-violations/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:43:33

• "The layoffs, affecting about 15% of Verizon's workforce, are set to take place as soon as next week" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/business/verizon-to-cut-about-15000-jobs-as-new-ceo-restructures-1917005 | Source: Deccan Chronicle    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:43:56

• "I refer, of course, to the exploding whale." ☛ https://davebarry.substack.com/p/the-exploding-whale |    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:45:54

• "The comically revolting spectacle, narrated drolly by KATU's Paul Linnman ("the humor of the situation gave way to a run for a survival") lay dormant for many years." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/11/12/happy-exploding-whale-day.html | Source: BoingBoing    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:46:10

• "Dolphins whistle, humpback whales sing and sperm whales click. Now, a new analysis of sperm whale codas — a unique series of clicks — suggests a previously unrecognized acoustic pattern." ☛ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-new-sperm-whale-communication | Source: Science News    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:46:42

• "The University should not delegate the responsibility of elevated prices and environmental degradation on people that will never benefit from research resources the data center project will provide." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/ypsilanti-not-ann-arbor-will-bear-the-cost-of-the-u-m-lanl-data-center/ | Source: University of Michigan    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:47:02

• "Terra (UST) was suppposed to be a "stablecoin", trading very close to $1." ☛ https://blog.dshr.org/2025/11/metastablecoins-are-go.html | Source: David Rosenthal    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:47:42

• "Sussex drivers are bred to be completely oblivious to traffic ordnance of any kind. Traffic light? Never heard of it" ☛ https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/silhouette-2 | Source: Jasper Tandy    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:48:01

• "People travel for many reasons—commuting, as part of their job, or to go shopping—and the time spent traveling differs from day to day, from person to person." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-humanity-average-minutes-day-standards.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:48:14

• "Our present situation consists of a convergence of factors: the growing scientific evidence of accelerating, near-term climate and ecological breakdown" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/climate-fight-left-organzing/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:49:16

• "Global fossil fuel emissions show no sign of slowing, with a new report suggesting they are on track to surpass records this year." ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/11/13/2025/no-clear-peak-for-global-fossil-fuel-emissions | Source: Semafor Inc    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:53:29

• "The International Energy Agency said the surplus in 2026 was likely to be larger than previously forecast," ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/13/oversupply-oil-barrels-energy-watchdog-iea | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:53:45

• "Hwang is one of five South Korean farmers who recently sued the state utility Korea Electric Power Corporation and its power-generating subsidiaries" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/south-korean-seoul-farming-experts-b2865087.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:53:56

• "At least 100 or more Republicans are expected to support the release of the files after a selection of emails sent by the deceased paedophile financier that frequently mention the US president were made public on Wednesday." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/11/13/trump-faces-biggest-republican-rebellion-over-epstein/ | Source: The Telegraph UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:55:40

• "Before this current, hyperpartisan chapter of our history, it was not difficult to find instances of public servants pursuing justice even if it meant punishing members of their own party." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/why-do-the-epstein-files-matter-for | Source: The Next Move    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:55:51

• "What changed? After a summer of increasingly bad Epstein news, Johnson essentially shut down the House and refused to swear in Grijalva to keep the bill from passing." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-files-trump/ | Source: The Nation    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:56:31

• "The two have an exchange about how to hypothetically “craft an answer” for Trump." ☛ https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/11/12/repub/us-house-dems-say-newly-released-epstein-emails-show-trump-knew-about-abuse/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:57:04

• "And though Democrats forced the committee to subpoena the Justice Department for its investigative material, that effort has not borne much fruit." ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/republicans-epstein-trump-house.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:57:40

• "Yet it also seems that Epstein was acting as an informal adviser to people in Trump world; prominent Trump associates such as Thiel and Steve Bannon corresponded with him." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/jeffrey-epstein-emails/684928/ | Source: The Atlantic    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:58:07

• "Jeffrey Epstein suggested Donald Trump knew about his abuse and “spent hours” with a victim at his home" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20251113-emails-epstein-donald-trump | Source: France24    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:58:34

• "The House will vote next week on whether to require the Justice Department to publish all of its unclassified files on Epstein" ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-email-live-updates-b2864731.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:58:55

• "The freshly-released trove of emails has caused renewed scrutiny of Trump’s relationship with Epstein." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-trump-marla-maples-lost-bet-b2864589.html | Source: The Independent UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:59:20

• Sweaty under the neck? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 10:59:44

• "Tehran, home to 10 million people, has started water rationing, and officials warn of possible evacuations if the situation worsens." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-water-crisis-drought-tehran/33588345.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:00:08

• "news agency ANSA" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/italy-probe-bosnian-war-human-safari-snipers-murder/33591128.html | Source: RFERL    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:01:06

• "Republicans Nazi problem" ☛ https://www.vox.com/podcasts/468421/fuentes-tucker-carlson-heritage-nazi-vance-republicans | Source: Vox    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:01:33

• "Democracies don’t do this. They memorialize their heroes only after they’ve died, and only if the public wants them commemorated." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-verdict-of-history | Source: Robert Reich    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:02:01

• "simultaneously removing apps that report the location" ☛ https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/ | Source: 404 Media    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:02:26

• "JD Vance, Mike Johnson, the entire infrastructure of respectable conservatism they’re trying to maintain" ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/there-is-only-one-way-out | Source: Mike Brock    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:02:48

• "Ten years ago today, Ismaël El Iraki was deep in the pit of the Bataclan, reveling in the saturated guitars of an Eagles of Death Metal concert." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bataclan-survivors-mark-10-years-since-deadly-concert-attack-1235455246/ | Source: Rolling Stone    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:03:10

• "The most important scoop, specifically Article 2 amendments to clarify other articles: [...]" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/digital-omnibus/ | Source: Ava    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:03:52

• "Along with driver's license and vehicle registration records, Nlets carries information such as criminal histories, concealed-weapon permit data, and other law-enforcement files shared between jurisdictions." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/democrats_warn_info_gap_ice_state_data/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:04:08

• "In early October, digital human rights organization Bits of Freedom took Meta to court. The organization demanded that Meta offers its users on in apps such as Instagram and Facebook the option to choose a feed that is not based on profiling." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/judge-grants-meta-limited-postponement-in-bits-of-freedom-lawsuit/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:04:29

• "Article 10 of the Law Enforcement Directive (LED) has a requirement of strict necessity for processing sensitive personal data" ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/climate-justice-action-repression-vs-eu-data-protection-law-the-advocate-generals-opinion/ | Source: EDRI    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:04:47

• Windows TCO: "The updates to an April 2024 advisory about the group’s operations include a new list of tactics and vulnerabilities being exploited in attacks." ☛ https://therecord.media/akira-gang-received-million | Source: The Record    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:05:48

• Windows TCO: "Akira ransomware has claimed more than $244 million in ransomware proceeds as of late September, the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security agency said in the joint advisory." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/akira-ransomware-fbi-cisa-joint-advisory/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:05:57

• Windows TCO: "The 623 ransomware attacks recorded in October were second only to February 2025’s record attacks, when a CL0P MFT campaign drove the total number of ransomware attacks to 854." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ransomware-attacks-october-2025/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:06:05

• Windows TCO: "adding many new Akira tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs), indicators of compromise (IoCs), and vulnerabilities exploited by the group." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/akira-ransomware-group-cisa-warning/ | Source: Cyble Inc    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:06:19

• Windows TCO: "Microsoft Exchange represents a vast attack surface that contains highly sensitive and valuable information, but security problems continue to be well-documented." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/microsoft-exchange-under-imminent-threat-act-now | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:06:41

• Windows TCO: "The CTO said ShinyHunters contacted his company last week, claimed to have stolen data, and demanded a ransom." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/ransomed_cto_refuses_extortion_demand/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:06:55

• Windows TCO: "The actions targeted one of the biggest infostealers (Rhadamanthys), the Remote Access Trojan VenomRAT, and the botnet Elysium, all of which played a key role in international cybercrime." ☛ https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1286649/europol-takes-down-1025-servers-dismantles-global-cybercrime-network/ | Source: Greece    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:07:05

• "There was recently a flurry of attention and dismay over Sarah Kendzior having been suspended from Bluesky by its moderation system." ☛ https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/13/Kendzior-Case-Study | Source: Tim Bray    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:11:06

• "Wen maintains active TikTok and Instagram accounts under the name 'Pyjama Man'." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/who-pyjama-man-ariana-grandes-attacker-serial-harasser-history-targeting-celebrities-1754888 | Source: International Business Times    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:11:59

• "Social media platforms dominate the online “attention market,” where user engagement and personal data are monetised through targeted advertising." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/making-platforms-accountable-empowering-users-and-creating-safety/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:12:16

• "Naturally, I was drawn to it too." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/article/i-dont-allow-myself-to-scroll-and-i-feel-like-a-different-person/3wb5hgujj | Source: SBS    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:12:35

• "This year was no exception; however, I found the most interesting part of the day to be when the results of an anonymous audience survey were shared onstage." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/column/820664/cerebral-valley-conference-ai-anonymous-survey | Source: The Verge    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:13:03

• "Because why would I pay Anthropic when I could do this myself with Qwen3-coder, Ollama, and LiteLLM on NixOS." ☛ https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/using-self-hosting-language-models-so-you-can-evaluate-claude-code/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:16:28

• "Whenever a customer needed notes taken for a meeting, the CTO explained, either he or his co-founder, Krish Ramineni, would dial into the room as “Fred,” masquerading as a Siri-like equivalent." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/fireflies-founder-startup-ai | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:16:42

• "These three songs are part of a flood of AI-generated music that has come to saturate streaming platforms." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/13/ai-music-spotify-billboard-charts | Source: The Guardian UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:16:55

• "Here's an interesting little conundrum for you. Or a philosophical question, if you will." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/using-it-wrong.html | Source: Dedoimedo    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:17:31

• "Cybercriminals have named the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) as one of the victims of the recent data theft and extortion campaign targeting organizations that use Oracle’s E-Business Suite (EBS) enterprise resource planning solutions." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/nhs-investigating-oracle-ebs-hack-claims-as-hackers-name-over-40-alleged-victims/ | Source: Security Week    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:18:54

• "The company was first alerted to the attack and launched an investigation when a “bad actor” contacted the media company Sept. 29 claiming they gained access to the company’s Oracle applications" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/washington-post-oracle-clop-attacks/ | Source: Scoop News Group    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:19:00

• "Adding insult to injury, the team said it subsequently observed the same attackers leveraging the Cisco ISE vulnerability at the same time, prior to it being disclosed and patched in July." ☛ https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/citrixbleed-2-cisco-zero-day-bugs | Source: Dark Reading    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:20:44

• "The Washington Post has confirmed that nearly 10,000 employees and contractors had sensitive personal data stolen in the Clop-linked Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) attacks." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/washington_post_clop/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:20:49

• "My life is so busy at the moment I'm not really living. Merely existing." ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/always-verbing-never-me/ | Source: Greg Morris    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:21:15

• "I do think this generalization of the word has merit, that it was driven by a growing realization that it’s not just sad and overwhelming news that make us feel this bad after scrolling." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/doomscrolling | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:21:54

• "A drawback is that it makes all the color screens in public to be eye-burning magnets that pull my attention into something that’s painful to look at." ☛ https://idiomdrottning.org/bw-screens | Source: Idiomdrottning    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:22:07

• "In this episode of Movement Memos, I talk with organizer and WildSeed Society strategist Aaron Goggans about trauma, dysregulation, burnout, and the myth that we can just push through." ☛ https://organizingmythoughts.org/burnout-is-not-inevitable-building-movements-that-can-hold-us/ | Source: Kelly Hayes    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:22:51

• "still don't understand why overseas folks can't create their own independent company there" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0h0hhd    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:23:31

• "It depends on where "there" is, but let's assume India. What you have to understand is that the big tech centers in India are Potemkin Villages. Go 1 km outside the corporate campus and it's illiterate people cooking over open fires and sh!tt!ng in the middle of the street." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0h0hhd    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:24:06

• "The infrastructure is terrible, the politicians are corrupt and have to be bribed to lift a pinky finger, the main industry outside of subsistence agriculture is running massive scam call centers. The only way out is to get an H1B or other visa. But corruption/scam mindset is so deeply embedded, they bring that culture with them to the West."    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:24:58

• "We’ve plotted out much of this in a lengthy document we call life block planning, which splits our remaining expected lifespan into five-year blocks." ☛ https://rscottjones.com/how-weve-thought-about-where-to-live-in-retirement/ | Source: R Scott Jones    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:25:11

• "They can't really tell you why or how we got RA. But rest assured it was headcount reduction and they find way to make you low performer even if you are not." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9zh4h2e    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:25:50

• "The decision is made way above the level of the 1st line. There is a process for getting someone off the list BUT it is arduous AND it requires that someone else replaces them on the list." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1k9zh4h2e    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:26:08

• "The combination of cycles with fluctuations hints at this feature. Maybe the repeating cycles we perceive are only inevitable up to a certain extent." ☛ https://kedara.eu/cycles-and-fluctuations | Source: Ruben Verweij    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:26:26

• "Importantly, at an individual level, the theoretical risk of developing cancer from a CT scan is thought to be very low, if it exists at all." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/ct-scans-predicted-to-result-in-100000-new-cancers-across-the-us | Source: Science Alert    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:27:04

• "After years of negotiation, James and his team received deidentified clinical data from roughly 90,000 cancer patients in the Massachusetts Cancer Registry alongside financial information from a national credit bureau." ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/11/odds-of-surviving-cancer-drop-drastically-when-credit-score-dips/ | Source: Harvard University    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:27:15

• "Chip giants like Nvidia, Broadcom, and Marvell already have well-established networking bona fides." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/ai-boom-networking-technology-photonics/ | Source: Wired    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:27:53

• "Trim is one of the Dark Arts of SSDs. It’s important if not essential, but it’s not easy to discover whether an SSD is Trimming properly" ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/13/does-that-ssd-trim-and-why-is-it-important/ | Source: Howard Oakley    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:28:14

• "We’ve interviewed over a dozen expert tech bloggers, so it’s not surprising that we’ve seen a range of writing motivations and experiences." ☛ https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/preston-thorpe-on-technical-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:28:38

• "Jim has been gliding on that one day in 1953 for 70 years." ☛ https://www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/james-watson-remembrance-from-dna-pioneer-to-pariah/ | Source: Stat    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:29:30

• "Our findings complement a growing body of genetic and archaeological evidence suggesting that the domestication of dogs was a protracted and regionally varied process." ☛ https://theconversation.com/its-a-myth-that-the-victorians-created-modern-dog-breeds-weve-uncovered-their-prehistoric-roots-269534 | Source: The Conversation    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:29:41

• "devolving into what staffers describe as a “campaign of destruction” from the “highest levels.”" ☛ https://futurism.com/space/nasa-goddard-trump-attack | Source: Futurism    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:31:13

• "For this story, NPR interviewed seven people who work at Goddard and reviewed internal emails and documents." ☛ https://text.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5600066/goddard-space-center-staff-say-theyre-constantly-being-attacked-by-the-white-house | Source: NPR    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:31:35

• "The sneakiest tech isn't obviously controlling. It's the stuff that presents itself as convenience while quietly shaping your behavior." ☛ https://afranca.com.br/when-technology-serves-not-controls | Source: Andre Franca    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:32:05

• "You realise that you don’t need to understand all the details of the works for them to have an impact, to leave you with some feeling." ☛ https://jamesg.blog/2025/11/13/monet | Source: James G    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:32:35

• "I really envy the people who can actually get things done using time-blocking or to-do lists, calendars and all that mumbo jumbo sometimes" ☛ https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/reassess-time-spent-enjoying-luxury/ | Source: Joel Chrono    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:32:52

• "This is one of those things you’d think kids would be taught alongside using restrooms and not belching loudly in public, but it still surprises me how often this basic rule of life is willfully ignored by people who should know better." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/be-kind-to-retail-staff/ | Source: Ruben Schade    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:38:11

• iophk: One can't tell from the screen, the colors are not calibrated correctly ever, but the red paint shown in the photo is CCP red and not Santa Claus red: https://yle.fi/a/74-20194111 It's _*really*_ noticiable on site. It's covering what used to be beautiful, traditional, weathered wood.    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:38:54

• iophk: On the content, tourism is a false economy. It is environmentally unsound and can cease on a whim. It also displaces the locals. It also brings on scams like Uber, Wolt, and AirBnB which siphon all profits out of the country, the money is never to be seen again. So while it may produce an illusion of prosperity, there is a drain on the region and only seasonal, slave like jobs available.    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:39:46

• 12 Best Free and Open Source WebDAV Servers ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-webdav-servers/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:45:36

• pipemixer – TUI volume control software for pipewire ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pipemixer-tui-volume-control-software/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:46:04

• CCodemerge – merges multiple C/C++ source files into a single text file ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ccodemerge-merges-multiple-source-files/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:46:20

• mirro-rs – mirrorlist manager for Arch GNU/Linux systems ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mirro-rs-mirrorlist-manager-arch-linux-systems/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:46:36

• process-mem – display memory used by processes ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/process-mem-display-memory-processes/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:46:54

• Clipvault – clipboard history manager for Wayland ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/clipvault-clipboard-history-manager-wayland/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:47:11

• KSudoku – popular numeric puzzle game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ksudoku-popular-numeric-puzzle-game/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:47:27

• Easy Effects 8.0.0 Switched from GTK4 to Qt & KDE Framework ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/easy-effects-8-0-0-switched-from-gtk4-to-qt-kde-framework/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:49:15

• GNUnet News: GNUnet 0.26.0 ☞ https://gnunet.org/en/news/2025-11-0.26.0.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:50:19

• Seems clear that enemies of techrights hired liars, spent nearly a million bucks on those liars, getting them to rush to prevent the mention of simple but very embarrassing facts about their clients, who are incredibly incredulous and spent time in prison. Is this a badge of honour for techrights?    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:53:58

• "PDF/A is a specific version of PDF designed for long term archival of electronic data." ☛ https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/11/creating-valid-pdfa-4-with-capypdf.html | Source: Jussi Pakkanen    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:54:31

• "As is par for the course, I checked out his blog, quickly found we have a lot in common, and our love of email is one of them." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/blog/email-is-amazing-but-people-try-their-best-to-ruin-it/ | Source: Kev Quirk    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:54:43

• "Documentation is pretty sparse, so I’ve had to work it out as best I can: [...]" ☛ https://scruss.com/blog/2025/11/12/mz2synth-make-sounds-from-images/ | Source: Stewart C Russell    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:55:45

• "moteus_tool has long served as the primary interface to moteus controllers from the command line for provisioning and diagnostics" ☛ https://blog.mjbots.com/2025/11/13/moteus_tool--read/ | Source: Robotic Systems LLC    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:56:09

• "Activating a Python virtual environment mostly means making sure that its 'bin' directory is first on your $PATH" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/MyVenvActivationScript | Source: University of Toronto    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:56:16

• "Today Kotlin only supports positional destructuring with the well-known syntax: val (x, y) = expr." ☛ https://curiouslab.dev/0001-name-based-destructuring.html | Source: Michail Zarečenskij    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:56:52

• "Many stories have been written as examples of how to apply agile values in practice." ☛ https://james.belchamber.com/articles/agility-in-cupcake-engineering/ | Source: James Belchamber    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:57:05

• "In the standard libc API set there are multiple functions provided that do ASCII numbers to integer conversions." ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/11/13/parsing-integers-in-c/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:57:17

• "Here's a little thing that's obvious once you see it but isn't obvious initially (or at least it wasn't to me)." ☛ https://notes.hella.cheap/one-weird-hashing-trick.html |    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 11:58:19

• [Old] "So, you want to design your own language? Of course you do. Or perhaps you are taking a class and are being forced to create a programming language under penalty of a bad grade. What kinds of things do you need to know?" ☛ https://cs.lmu.edu/~ray/notes/languagedesignnotes/ |    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:00:14

• "This persistent reliance on COBOL highlights a simple truth: the systems that move our money, insure our lives, and manage our hospitals cannot afford experiments — they need modernization grounded in proof, not hope." ☛ https://marcoeg.medium.com/from-cobol-to-kotlin-795920b1f371 |    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:00:30

• "Accessibility can fail in far too many ways to count." ☛ https://alice.boxhall.au/articles/a-threat-model-for-accessibility-on-the-web/ |    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:00:38

• "After the last week’s Gitea attack debacle, moving all things Git off the VPS became a top priority." ☛ https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/11/migrating-from-gitea-to-codeberg/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:00:51

• "Key economic data may never be released, making it difficult for policy-makers" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/us-shutdown-economy-tariffs-9.6976669 | Source: CBC    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:01:11

• "Nobody was hurt, but the incident raised an uncomfortable question: who pays when a private company's space hardware crashes into your property?" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-11-space-junk-home.html | Source: Omicron Limited    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:01:38

• "Unlike other libel or slander suits" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/business/media/ai-defamation-libel-slander.html | Source: New York Times    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:02:07

• "Now, does the thing I just described technically meet “open source” criteria promoted by Debian, OSI or others?" ☛ https://joeldueck.com/how-i-license.html | Source: Joel Dueck    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:03:00

• "Change-tracking reliability has also been strengthened" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/libreoffice-25-8-3-released-with-70-bug-fixes/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:03:22

• "Eight years ago, PostgreSQL introduced scram-sha-256 hashes for passwords" ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2025/11/13/postgresql-md5-password-support-is-deprecated-updating-the-user-passwords/ | Source: Dan Langille    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:04:19

• "Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/firefox_adds_ai_window/ | Source: The Register UK    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:05:13

• "Launched in 2004, Firefox now finds itself at a crossroads." ☛ https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/how-firefox-is-trying-to-ride-the | Source: Jérôme Marin    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:05:22

• "synced-tabs experience allows users to open complete tab structures—including full windows, Tab Stacks, and Workspaces" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/vivaldi-browser-7-7-arrives-with-unified-start-page-and-smarter-tab-syncing/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:06:23

• "This post isn't about that. This post is about fighting back." ☛ https://herman.bearblog.dev/messing-with-bots/ |    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:07:09

• [Old] "It's more dangerous than ever to self-host, since simple mistakes in configurations will likely be found and exploited." ☛ https://herman.bearblog.dev/agressive-bots/ |    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:07:16

• "Today, I’d like to announce Homebrew 5.0.0." ☛ https://brew.sh/2025/11/12/homebrew-5.0.0/ |    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:08:05

• "To install Agda and its standard library, add this to your config: [...]" ☛ https://borretti.me/article/agda-on-nixos | Source: Fernando Borretti    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:08:14

• "One of the most notable additions is that the app now supports Exchange Web Services natively." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-145-brings-microsoft-exchange-support/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:08:51

• Thunderbird 145 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1046375/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:16:12

• FOSS Weekly #25.46: sudo-rs Issues, Kaspersky on Linux, Flathub Troubles, Homelab Starter and More GNU/Linux Stuff ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-46/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:16:33

• Tails 7.2 Released with Tor Browser 15.0 and GNU/Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS ☞ https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-2-released-with-tor-browser-15-0-and-linux-kernel-6-12-lts/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:17:53

• "We’ve just hit an exciting milestone: the first press reviews for the new Framework Laptop 16 are live" ☛ https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/press-reviews-for-the-new-framework-laptop-16-are-live | Source: Framework Computer BV    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:18:33

• "When the sound card arrived, I tested it on my computer, saw that it worked fine, and disassembled it." ☛ https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-converted-a-rotary-phone-into-a-meeting-handset/ |    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:18:42

• "Cheer up, as of yesterday Agent Orange (Trump) is talking about bringing back the H1B visas again. Someone put the pressure back on him." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0h0hhd    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:21:33

• "it's all about corruption and not willing to spend their own money on investing in a company. They would rather use foreign investors to provide the money and resources that they will squander and spend." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0h0hhd    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:21:38

• Hours ago, Malo Leroy: "Today is the final day of my quantum computing internship with IBM in Germany 🇩🇪" (internship....but http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/13/IBM_Layoffs_Seem_to_Have_Reached_Europe.shtml )    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:24:06

• "The update’s highlight is the upgrade to Tor Browser 15.0.1, introducing a trio of interface improvements inherited from Firefox 140." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/tails-7-2-released-with-tor-browser-15-0-and-linux-kernel-6-12-lts/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:24:52

• "Well, you’ve come to the right place. In the lines below, I’ll try to explain everything clearly and straightforwardly." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/how-to-handle-pacnew-files-in-arch-linux/ | Source: Linuxiac    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:25:41

• "The cards I've spent the most time with so far are: [...]" ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/all-intel-gpus-run-on-raspberry-pi-and-risc-v | Source: Jeff Geerling    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:26:40

• "Make sure your Hammer cleanup cleans up" ☛ https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/11/13/make-sure-your-hammer-cleanup-cleans-up/ | Source: DragonFly BSD Digest    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:27:02

• "Time to update our /etc/hosts file..." ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/637 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:36:51

• "I have decided to start my own business and technology podcast (with video) to help balance this dreadful imbalance." ☛ https://anniemueller.com/posts/my-new-business-tech-podcast | Source: Annie Mueller    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:37:31

• Phishing ☛ https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/11/google-sues-to-disrupt-chinese-sms-phishing-triad/ | Source: Krebs On Security    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:39:28

• "Discover how the Astro Pi Challenge helps young people send their code into space and debunks myths about space science." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/astro-pi-debunking-myths-space-science-impact-24-25/ | Source: Raspberry Pi    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:39:53

• "addressing a full spectrum of modern software security challenges, including the emerging complexities of AI-powered applications." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/securing-modern-software-supply-chain-ai-models-container-images | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:43:17

• IBM Red Hat just can't help mentioning stupid and misused buzzwords    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:43:40

• "The forum focused on what learners value most from Red Hat Learning Subscription, the challenges they face, and how Red Hat can better support technical skill development at scale." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/listening-learning-and-leading-how-customer-feedback-shapes-future-red-hat-learning-subscription | Source: Red Hat Official    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:43:48

• So many buzzwords!! https://www.redhat.com/en/about/red-hat-kubecon-newsroom    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:44:45

• IBM Red Hat seems to think it is in a buzzwords contest https://fastforward.boldstart.vc/red-hats-cto-sees-ai-as-next-step-for-companys-open-approach/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/13/Under_IBM_Red_Hat_Isn_t_a_Linux_Company_It_s_Sold_to_Clients_as.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:45:58

• Sponsored nonsense about buzzwords, no real substance to this https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366634397/Northrop-Grumman-Ford-prep-AI-infrastructure-with-OpenShift    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:46:34

• Sponsored nonsense again https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/CW-Developer-Network/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-101-and-97-An-evolving-foundation-for-the-stack    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:46:58

• "Red Hat's new offering comes in response to a broader trend sweeping Europe." https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-even-a-us-tech-giant-is-launching-sovereign-support-for-europe-now/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 12:47:26

• "This follows the trend started by MicroOS of adopting boot loaders that are compatible with the boot loader specification." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/11/13/tw-grub2-bls/ | Source: OpenSUSE    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 13:13:24

• "The system is built around Espressif’s ESP32-C6 microcontroller, a single-core 32-bit RISC-V processor running at up to 160 MHz" ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/arduino-nesso-n1-debuts-as-a-compact-risc-v-iot-controller-with-wi-fi-6-thread-and-lora-connectivity/ | Source: Linux Gizmos    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 13:14:47

• Rust won't last that long! ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-expands-total-coverage-for-ubuntu-lts-releases-to-15-years-with-legacy-add-on | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 13:15:28

• "Guillaume Nevicato, Sylva Technical Steering Committee co-chair and Orange Telco Cloud Product Manager, recognized the importance of this contribution: [...]" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-kubernetes-officially-included-in-sylva-1-5 | Source: Ubuntu    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 13:17:26

• Mozilla's suicide note: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-window/ | Source: Mozilla http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/14/Mozilla_Handed_Over_Control_Over_Firefox_to_Microsoft_Now_Firef.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 13:19:35

• What does this have to do with Firefox? ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/jacque-aye/ | Source: Mozilla    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 13:20:24

• "Illegitimi non carborundum is a mock-Latin aphorism, often translated as "Don't let the bastards grind you down". The phrase itself has no meaning in Latin and can only be mock-translated." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegitimi_non_carborundum    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:10:39

• Firefox 145 and Chrome 142 Patch High-Severity Flaws in Latest Releases ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/firefox-145-and-chrome-142-patch-high-severity-flaws-in-latest-releases/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:13:11

• "modern Web" = "the Web" executes YOU! It runs untrusted code on your even lesser-trusted browser (not yours, either, you just install it or it comes with the OS)    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:13:59

• Original Web (timBL): the web transmits some ASCII "stuff"... you render if using a small browser you can audit or friends can FEASIBLY audit "for you"    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:14:39

• (*render it)    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:14:56

• The Web isn't the Web anymore, except "in name". Hello, SPDY.    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:15:16

• And Web browsers are acting more like sandboxes akin to VMs    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:15:45

• Meanwhile, much software became "apps" or "containers", i.e. whose systems which are very bloated, full of more holes than you can patch, and still present themselves as "software"    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:16:30

• And your so-called "phone" needs many cores to keep up... while the master (Gulag) denies you "sideloading" all the "naughty" stuff (i.e. stuff that Gulag does not fancy)    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:17:31

• "simultaneously removing apps that report the location" ☛ https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-effort/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:18:42

• Opposing fascism is "sideloading" and "piracy"    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:19:06

• Google, born from a man who had been born in Moscow (literally)    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:19:25

• GAFAM = "Google Summer of Code" = bribe or hush money. STFU or we take your monies away. In Debian's case, they can take the whole INFRA away, as it was "donated" to Debian by GAFAM.    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:20:15

• "No, someone with a 26 year career with IBM. And this all makes no sense since the 'perpetrator' works for a black man." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0gxw0h    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:26:46

• "Exactly the kind of place that Trump and his henchmen are trying to create in the USA." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ka0h0hhd    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:27:30

• Be kind to retail staff ☞ https://rubenerd.com/be-kind-to-retail-staff/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:29:51

• Miracle-WM 0.8 Adds More Features For This Mir-Powered Wayland Compositor ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.8    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:30:01

• Andy Wingo: the last couple years in v8's garbage collector ☞ https://wingolog.org/archives/2025/11/13/the-last-couple-years-in-v8s-garbage-collector    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:30:32

• Youtube dominance is mirroring what Surveillance Giant Google and Facebook (Farcebook) did to publishers ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/youtube-dominance-is-mirroring-what-google-and-facebook-did-to-publishers/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:31:01

• Two new stable kernels ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1046410/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:32:01

• Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Upstreaming cPython patches, ansible-core autopkgtest robustness and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-10-2025/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:33:25

• NetBeans 28 added Java SE 26 and Multiple LSP Servers Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/11/netbeans-28-added-java-se-26-and-multiple-lsp-servers-support/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:38:46

• Firefox is Getting a New Hey Hi (AI) Browsing Mode ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/firefox-ai-window-browsing-mode-coming http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/14/Mozilla_Handed_Over_Control_Over_Firefox_to_Microsoft_Now_Firef.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:39:11

• Miracle-WM Adds Accessibility, Touchpad & Animation Options ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/miracle-wm-adds-accessibility-touchpad-configuration    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:40:54

• Qt Champions 2025 ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-champions-2025    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 14:41:58

• Bird Flu Ravaged the World’s Largest Elephant Seal Population, Study Finds ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/science/bird-flu-h5n1-elephant-seals.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 15:11:27

• How can Michigan improve schools? Mississippi’s ex-superintendent has ideas ☞ https://bridgemi.com/talent-education/how-can-michigan-improve-schools-mississippis-ex-superintendent-has-ideas/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 15:11:48

• Ministry of Defence signs agreements with Latvian universities, funds NGOs ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/12.11.2025-ministry-of-defence-signs-agreements-with-latvian-universities-funds-ngos.a621904/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 15:11:57

• Infant Formula Company Tied to Botulism Outbreak Had Known Problems ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/health/infant-formula-botulism.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:06:07

• House Dems’ Problem Children Who Ended the Shutdown ☞ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/11/13/house-dems-problem-children-who-ended-the-shutdown/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:06:44

• When the neurologist works from home ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/11/12/when-the-neurologist-works-from-home/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:07:29

• Bangkok hit by severe PM2.5 pollution, with air quality exceeding safety limits ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bangkok-hit-by-severe-pm2-5-pollution-with-levels-exceeding-safety-limits    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:07:35

• Some South Korean workers return to Georgia factory after US reissues visas ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/some-south-korean-workers-return-to-georgia-factory-after-us-reissues-visas    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:13:41

• Some South Korean Workers Return to Georgia Factory After U.S. Reissues Visas ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/south-korea-workers-factory-return-georgia.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:13:51

• Fake Bomb Threats Baffle the Police Across Asia ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/world/asia/bomb-threats-fake-south-korea-japan.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:14:12

• South Korea halts flights for college entry exam ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-halts-flights-for-college-entry-exam    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:14:51

• As South Korean youth exit restaurant jobs, foreign students step in ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/as-south-korean-youth-exit-restaurant-jobs-foreign-students-step-in    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:15:16

• North Korea’s foreign minister opposes G-7 push for denuclearisation: KCNA ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-koreas-foreign-minister-opposes-g7-push-for-denuclearisation-kcna-says    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:16:01

• Malaysian government to conduct in-depth study next year on abolishing death penalty ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-government-to-conduct-in-depth-study-on-abolishing-death-penalty-starting-january-2026    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:16:15

• Influencer Iris Hsieh’s death: Malaysian rapper Namewee freed pending post-mortem report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/influencer-iris-hsiehs-death-malaysian-rapper-namewee-to-be-freed-pending-post-mortem-report    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:16:27

• Rohingya deaths off Malaysia’s Langkawi raise fears of renewed perilous journeys across Andaman Sea ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/rohingya-deaths-off-malaysias-langkawi-raise-fears-of-renewed-perilous-crossings-in-andaman-sea    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:16:40

• ‘Gardening keeps me on my toes’: KL’s urban farmers grow vegetables to keep fit, share skills ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/green-savings-urban-farms-sprout-up-across-malaysia-as-a-buffer-against-rising-costs    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:17:07

• Man Accused of Running Southeast Asia Scam Compound Is Extradited to China ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/world/asia/scam-center-she-zhijiang-extradited-china.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:17:30

• Dihydroxyacetone Man sees a ‘con’ in climate change. Pooh-tin sees cash. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2025/1113/climate-change-china-trump-xi    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:17:54

• India inaugurates new military airbase close to China border, source says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/india-inaugurates-new-military-airbase-close-to-china-border-source-says    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:18:08

• China issues wanted notice for two Taiwanese influencers for 'separatism' ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-issues-wanted-notice-for-two-taiwanese-influencers-for-separatism    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:18:54

• China urges Japan PM Sanae Takaichi to retract ‘egregious’ remarks on Taiwan ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-urges-japan-pm-to-retract-egregious-remarks-on-taiwan    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:19:19

• Japan trying to revive wartime militarism with its Taiwan comments, China’s top paper says ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-trying-to-revive-wartime-militarism-with-its-taiwan-comments-chinas-top-paper-says    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:19:30

• China says summons Japan ambassador over PM Takaichi’s Taiwan comments ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-says-summons-japan-ambassador-over-pm-takaichis-taiwan-comments    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:19:46

• China court rejects appeal by journalist jailed for espionage, family says ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/11/13/china-court-rejects-appeal-by-journalist-jailed-for-espionage-family-says/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:20:37

• China tightens exports of fentanyl precursor chemicals to Mexico ☞ https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/china-fentanyl-precursor-chemicals-mexico/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:21:17

• Face Recognition and the ‘Dihydroxyacetone Man Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell ☞ https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-face-recognition    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:22:08

• Good NGOs speak out against bad policies and practices no matter who the dictator du jour happens to be; while privacy is a political issue, it must be bipartisan, just like human rights in general    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:23:35

• Tiny386 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/11/13/tiny386-on-an-espressif-esp32-s3/ | Source: Hackaday    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:23:54

• Building checksec without boundaries with Checksec Anywhere ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/11/13/building-checksec-without-boundaries-with-checksec-anywhere/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:24:17

• Next attack target ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1046397/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:25:23

• Mozilla Handed Over Control Over Firefox to Microsoft, Now Firefox is Preloaded With Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Spyware and It's Proprietary ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/14/Mozilla_Handed_Over_Control_Over_Firefox_to_Microsoft_Now_Firef.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:25:46

• Contagious Interview Actors Now Utilize JSON Storage Services for Malware Delivery ☞ https://blog.nviso.eu/2025/11/13/contagious-interview-actors-now-utilize-json-storage-services-for-malware-delivery/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:26:17

• Operation Endgame targets malware networks in global crackdown ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/operation-endgame-disrupts-global-malware-networks-rhadamanthys-venomrat-elysium/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:26:31

• Formbook Delivered Through Multiple Scripts, (Thu, Nov 13th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32480    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:27:22

• Thunderbird 145 Enables Support for DNS over HTTPS, Drops 32-Bit GNU/Linux Binaries ☞ https://9to5linux.com/thunderbird-145-enables-support-for-dns-over-https-drops-32-bit-linux-binaries    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:28:24

• LibreOffice 25.8.3 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 70 Bug Fixes ☞ https://9to5linux.com/libreoffice-25-8-3-office-suite-is-now-available-for-download-with-70-bug-fixes    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:28:32

• Debian-Based Tails 7.2 Released with Tor Browser 15 Anonymous Web Browser ☞ https://9to5linux.com/debian-based-tails-7-2-released-with-tor-browser-15-anonymous-web-browser    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:28:39

• openSUSE Tumbleweed Now Defaults to GRUB2-BLS Bootloader for New UEFI Installs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-tumbleweed-now-defaults-to-grub2-bls-bootloader-for-uefi-installs    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:28:47

• Linuxfx 11.25.11 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/linuxfx    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:29:15

• XIVA Studio 2025-11-13 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/xivastudio    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:29:23

• SmartOS 20251113 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/smartos    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:36:00

• KDE neon 20251113 is also out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kdeneon    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:36:08

• Linux Looks To Remove SHA1 Support For Signing Kernel Modules ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Patch-Drop-SHA1-Mod-Sign    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:36:21

• Under IBM, Red Bait Isn't a GNU/Linux Company, It's Sold to Clients as "AI Company" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/13/Under_IBM_Red_Hat_Isn_t_a_Linux_Company_It_s_Sold_to_Clients_as.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:36:43

• Tails 7.2 released with upgraded GNU/Linux kernel, Tor Browser, and more ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/tails-72-released-with-upgraded-linux-kernel-tor-browser-and-more/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:37:10

• Taiwan to up defense spending and develop Iron Dome-inspired missile protection ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/taiwan-to-up-defense-spending-and-develop-iron-dome-inspired-missile-protection-expert-warns-one-well-placed-chinese-missile-could-make-it-impossible-to-get-a-new-iphone-for-three-years    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:39:48

• Brussels court convicts Belgian jihadist presumed dead of Yazidi genocide ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251113-brussels-court-convicts-belgian-jihadist-presumed-dead-of-yazidi-genocide    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:39:59

• Beyond BASH: A Guide to 8 GNU/Linux Shell Alternatives ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/beyond-bash-a-guide-to-8-linux-shell-alternatives.57145/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:40:32

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

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:41:01

• How To Install Docker Compose on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-docker-compose-fedora-43/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:41:13

• How To Install Docker Swarm on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-docker-swarm-fedora-43/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:42:41

• How To Install Docker Desktop on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-docker-desktop-fedora-43/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:43:07

• How To Install Express.Js on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-express-js-fedora-43/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:43:28

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

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:43:48

• Minsk in Moscow’s grip: How Russia subjugated Belarus without annexation ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/russia-tomorrow/minsk-in-moscows-grip-how-russia-subjugated-belarus-without-annexation/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:51:16

• Russia’s First Humanoid Robot Just Failed So Spectacularly During It’s Debut That We’re Suspicious the Entire Thing Was an Elaborate Joke ☞ https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/russia-humanoid-robot-falls-face-stage    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:51:32

• Lithuania blacklists Russian rapper Morgenshtern ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2744108/lithuania-blacklists-russian-rapper-morgenshtern    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:51:49

• Russia enters Phase 0 of aggression against Europe – analyst ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2743400/russia-enters-phase-0-of-aggression-against-europe-analyst    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:52:08

• Banned Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky rolls out new products — basic plan for GNU/Linux starts at $59.99 a year ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/antivirus/banned-russian-antivirus-maker-kaspersky-rolls-out-new-products-basic-plan-for-linux-starts-at-usd59-99-a-year    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:52:27

• US federal employees go back to work after longest shutdown in history ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/business/20251113-us-federal-employees-go-back-to-work-after-longest-shutdown-in-history    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:52:42

• "There’s no evidence they work." ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/13/north-korea-plans-to-sell-its-cure-all-drugs-in-russia-there-s-no-evidence-they-work | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:54:00

• "Russia feels the heat from Washington’s latest oil sanctions" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/13/top-buyers-spooked-and-lukoil-in-crisis-russia-feels-the-heat-from-washington-s-latest-oil-sanctions | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:54:13

• Latvia, Estonia ready to ‘show solidarity’ in Lithuania’s border row with Belarus – PM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2744278/latvia-estonia-ready-to-show-solidarity-in-lithuania-s-border-row-with-belarus-pm    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:54:25

• Vilnius ‘not in talks’ with Minsk but ‘all diplomatic channels’ working – Lithuanian PM ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2744321/vilnius-not-in-talks-with-minsk-but-all-diplomatic-channels-working-lithuanian-pm    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:54:37

• "capacity to blunt Ukrainian drone damage" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/11/14/russia-s-refineries-are-leveraging-spare-capacity-to-blunt-ukrainian-drone-damage-reuters | Source: Meduza    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:54:54

• Explosions rock Kyiv as mayor reports ‘massive’ Russian strikes across the capital ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251114-ukraine-capital-massive-attack-kyiv-russia    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:55:03

• What Our Photographer Saw as a Safe City Became a Blood Bath ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/world/europe/ukraine-russia-pokrovsk.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:55:18

• Ukraine’s Dilemma as Pokrovsk Teeters: Save Lives or Keep Holding On ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/world/europe/ukraine-pokrovsk-russia-battle.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:55:29

• The Government Reopened ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/briefing/the-government-reopened.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:55:41

• From army to Zelensky, Ukraine's corruption scandal rocks country ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2744201/from-army-to-zelensky-ukraine-s-corruption-scandal-rocks-country    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:55:59

• Nordic, Baltic nations to fund €430m military aid package for Ukraine ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2744367/nordic-baltic-nations-to-fund-eur430m-military-aid-package-for-ukraine    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:56:10

• Merz asks Zelensky to 'ensure' fewer young Ukrainian men come to Germany ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251113-merz-asks-zelensky-to-ensure-fewer-young-ukrainian-men-come-to-germany    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:56:22

• New study: Ukrainian-American businesses generate billions for US economy ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/new-study-ukrainian-american-businesses-generate-billions-for-us-economy/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:56:53

• What’s next for Aurorae? ☞ https://blog.vladzahorodnii.com/2025/11/13/whats-next-for-aurorae/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:58:50

• It's Patently False That Fashion Company Apple Has Avoided Layoffs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/13/It_s_Patently_False_That_Apple_Has_Avoided_Layoffs.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 16:59:57

• Prominent German Media Dares Not Mention Cocaine at the European Patent Office, Germany's "Cash Cow" (Seller of Monopolies for the Whole of Europe) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/13/Prominent_German_Media_Dares_Not_Mention_Cocaine_at_the_Europea.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:00:03

• phoronix paid to sell Microsoft and its partners https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-azure-hbv2-hbv5    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:00:34

• Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.3 ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/11/13/announcement-of-libreoffice-25-8-3/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:03:02

• Michael Meeks: 2025-11-11 Tuesday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-11-11.html Michael Meeks: 2025-11-12 Wednesday ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-11-12.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:04:18

• AMD users flag heavy SSD write activity tied to chipset driver — incessant log file writes observed every time a window is moved or resized ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/amd-users-flag-heavy-ssd-write-activity-tied-to-chipset-driver-incessant-log-file-writes-observed-every-time-a-window-is-moved-or-resized    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:07:15

• They had too stable a Debian ripoff job. They had to 'fix' it by making it unstable. https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/ubuntu_rust_sudo_hole/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/12/British_Army_Officer_Said_Ubuntu_Needed_to_Abandon_Sudo_for_Rus.shtml    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:14:37

• Rust has been around for only a decade. It's unlikely it can last 25. https://www.hackster.io/news/canonical-boosts-ubuntu-long-term-support-longevity-with-five-year-ubuntu-pro-legacy-expansion-0ce334456f28    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:15:26

• "macOS has long been known for its sleek, consistent, and visually refined interface. Everything from its smooth animations to its careful typography creates an experience that feels polished and deliberate." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distributions-look-gorgeous-macos/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:15:49

• "gorgeous" is subjective. To a snake, another snake is "gorgeous"...    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:16:13

• The original bible has a cautionary tale about Rust, except the human turned into salt    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:17:36

• The lesson of the story was, don't look back at people who sodomise other people to get ahead    

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

• "MX Linux 25 "Infinity" is now available, and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices having become pre-install decisions." https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/13/mx_linux_25_infinity_released/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:20:50

• "The latest set of open source graphics drivers for Linux have released, with the bug fix Mesa version 25.2.7 now available. The last expected bug fix for this series is 25.2.8 due November 26th." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/11/linux-open-source-graphics-drivers-mesa-25-2-7-released/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:21:22

• Two ways to remove a directory in Linux - plus a bonus method for extra security https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-ways-to-remove-a-directory-in-linux-plus-a-bonus-method-for-extra-security/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:22:17

• "The Tor Project just dropped a massive update for its operating system, Tails 7.2. This release brings a ton of upgrades and a couple of major quality-of-life improvements that users who rely on it for anonymity will definitely appreciate." https://www.howtogeek.com/tor-released-tails-linux-72-heres-whats-new/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:23:07

• Valve's Steam Machine can't run some of the most popular multiplayer games https://www.tweaktown.com/news/108859/valves-steam-machine-cant-run-some-of-the-most-popular-multiplayer-games/index.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:23:25

• There is an orc in every kernel? https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/kaspersky-linux-antivirus-released    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:25:19

• Valve’s new Steam Machine is a gut punch to Microsoft, Xbox, and Windows https://overclock3d.net/news/systems/valves-new-steam-machine-is-a-gut-punch-to-microsoft-xbox-and-windows/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:25:52

• "I merged the two portals into one. Now, you just have to log into one portal to enjoy your membership benefits. I hope it simplifies things for you, specially if you are a Plus member." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-46/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:26:13

• "The Debian-based distro goes all-in on Hyprland, immutability, and intentional design." https://itsfoss.com/news/nitrux-5-release/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:26:30

• Sprout: Open-source bootloader built for speed and security https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/11/13/sprout-open-source-bootloader/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:26:54

• SteamVR Beta 2.14.1 Patch: Stability Boosts, AMD Link Fixes, and Linux Memory Leak Resolved https://twistedvoxel.com/steamvr-beta-2-14-1-patch-stability-boosts-amd-link-fixes-and-linux-memory-leak-resolved/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:27:27

• Rostelecom acquires minority stake in Linux developer Bazalt SPO https://www.telecompaper.com/news/rostelecom-acquires-minority-stake-in-linux-developer-bazalt-spo--1554080    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:28:36

• "Russian national operator Rostelecom has acquired a 5 percent stake in the software developer Bazalt SPO. This company develops software on the basis of Linux. Rostelecom has acquired the stake with its joint venture Consol, founded in cooperation with the Minsitry of Digitsation. By the end of this year, Consol will gradually raise its stake to 25 percent."    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:28:52

• Valve’s New Steam Machine Runs on Linux — So Don’t Expect To Play Fortnite, CoD, or Battlefield 6 on It https://tech4gamers.com/steam-machine-linux-anti-cheat-problem/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:29:19

• Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out https://www.howtogeek.com/does-linux-really-run-faster-than-windows-i-tested-both-to-find-out/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:30:32

• Say goodbye to Microsoft Windows 11 and hello to Nitrux Linux 5 https://betanews.com/2025/11/12/say-goodbye-to-microsoft-windows-11-and-hello-to-nitrux-linux-5/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:30:47

• Soutenez Ploum, achetez un livre ! gemini://ploum.net/2025-11-14-soutien-bikepunk.gmi    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:34:20

• "And again some time has passed since my last entry in this phlog" gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/131125.txt    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:36:13

• "I run Arch... ehm... Artix by the way!"    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:36:31

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1474.jpg    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:37:03

• [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1824.jpg    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:37:08

• 🔤SpellBinding: LNOYSUR Wordo: WEBBY gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-11-14.gmi    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:37:52

• "No. I don't think Britain should be importing American customs. The last quarter of every calendar year sprouts these ridiculous frenzies of Halloween with "trick or treating", Thanksgiving, "Black Friday", Christmas music in October, etc, etc. There are still skeletons hanging in my local cafe and it's mid November." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-11-14_november-2025-five-questions.gmi    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:38:44

• PMBOK 8: What changed since its draft? gemini://nader.pm/pmbok-8-what-changed-since-the-draft/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:39:29

• "Have you ever felt half-full, half-hungry? Some folks for whom hunger is a more binary switch might not relate to that, but then perhaps they can think of something else, like how much you groan when you see that the elevator’s out or how different things can make you differently happy." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/twenty-percent-cooler    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:40:15

• "I heard fourth hand with citations long forgotten that too much boredom can be dangerous, cause depression etc (and some sprawlbrained people like me are extra sensitive to that) but too little boredom is also unhealthy and is much more common." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/boredom    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:40:56

• Nina.chat ICQ Not Dead Yet gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/nina-chat-icq-not-dead.md    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:43:05

• Jim Avila, Former ABC News Correspondent, Dies at 70 ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/business/media/jim-avila-abc-news-dead.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:48:52

• DOJ joins California race-based redistricting lawsuit ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/11/doj-joins-california-race-based-redistricting-lawsuit/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:49:19

• ‘Historic’ Indonesia-Australia security treaty boosts ties, highlights concerns over China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/historic-indonesia-australia-security-treaty-boosts-ties-highlights-concerns-over-china    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:49:40

• Lithuanian lawmakers raise alarm over security ‘risks’ of growing migrant workforce ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2744182/lithuanian-lawmakers-raise-alarm-over-security-risks-of-growing-migrant-workforce    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:49:53

• Several MPs propose limiting Lithuania’s defence spending to 5%, fund domestic security ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2744207/several-mps-propose-limiting-lithuania-s-defence-spending-to-5-fund-domestic-security    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:50:02

• EDRi-gram, 13 November 2025 ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-13-november-2025/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:50:42

• Family of Fisherman Killed in U.S. Military Strike Says It Wants Justice ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/world/americas/trump-drug-boat-strikes-colombian-fisherman.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:50:57

• U.S. Strike Kills 4 on Boat Convicted Felon Says Was Smuggling Drugs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/trump-drug-boat-strike-caribbean.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:51:05

• Justice Dept. Memo Blessing Boat Strikes Is Said to Rely on Convicted Felon’s Claims About Cartels ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/us/politics/boat-strikes-doj-memo-trump.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:51:16

• US ‘strike force’ to combat scam centres in South-east Asia ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/us-strike-force-to-combat-scam-centres-in-south-east-asia    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:51:30

• Japan PM Takaichi says she sleeps only 2-4 hours a night ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-pm-takaichi-says-she-sleeps-only-2-4-hours-a-night    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:51:49

• SpaceMan – treemap disk usage analyzer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/spaceman-treemap-disk-usage-analyzer/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:52:20

• Planeta Tecno OS – Debian-based distro ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/planeta-tecno-os-debian-based-distro/    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:52:39

• Cockpit Project: Cockpit 351 ☞ https://cockpit-project.org//blog/cockpit-351.html    

posted Friday, November 14, 2025 at 17:52:56